Deaths in History on April 19

Roger Williams (1603-1684)

English theologian and colonist, dies at 80

1686 Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
1689 Christina, Queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic (1644-54), dies at 62
1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War), dies at 83
1733 Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
1739 Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies
1751 Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
1768 Giovanni Antonio Canal [Canaletto], Italian painter and printmaker (Rialto), dies at 70
1776 Jacob Israel Emden [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78
1791 Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies
1813 Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 67

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

British romantic poet (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), dies at 36

1831 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician, dies at 65
1840 Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1852 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian folk poet and translator (Homerus), dies at 69
1854 Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1862 Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
1862 Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies
1867 Robert Smirke, British architect, dies
1870 Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83
1874 Owen Jones, architect, dies

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80) and writer, dies of bronchitis at 76

1881 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection, dies of heart failure at 73

1889 Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
1892 Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
1893 John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer (Probs in Greek Ethics), dies at 52
1895 George Scharf, critic, dies
1895 Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
1901 Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1903) and husband of Marie Curie, dies in a cart accident at 46
1914 Charles Peirce, American scientist and philosopher known as "the father of pragmatism", dies at 74
1916 Ephraim Shay, American inventor of Shay type of geared steam locomotive, dies at 76
1926 Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 Charles Scribner II, American magazine and book publisher, dies at 75
1930 Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1937 William Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English historian and explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
1938 Henry John Newbolt, English poet and author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
1943 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1944 Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44
1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
1949 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, dies at 75
1956 Ernst Robert Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
1956 Leon Junschlaeger, Dutch sailor, soldier, and head of military intelligence in Dutch Indonesia, dies after a series of strokes while on trial fighting charges of subversion at 52
1957 Charles Earle Funk, American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
1957 Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79

Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)

Chancellor of West Germany (CDU: 1949-63), dies at 91

1972 Adolf Bach, German language professor and sociologist, dies at 82

Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)

African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, dies at 76

1977 Günter Bruno Fuchs, German writer, poet and artist, dies at 48
1978 Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
1979 Rogers Morton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), dies at 64
1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 73
1987 Maxwell D. Taylor, American army general, (WWII Commander 101st airborne), Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1962-64), dies at 85
1988 Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 52
1992 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
1993 David Koresh [Vernon Howell], American cult leader (Davidians), dies shot at 33
1993 George Mickelson, Gov of SD, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
1994 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
1994 Louis Simmonds, British bookseller, dies at 87
1995 Igor Hajek, Czech translator and writer, dies at 64
1995 J. Peter Grace, American businessman and industrialist,, dies from cancer at 81
1995 Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70
1996 Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
1998 Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 David Sanes, US Navy employee
1999 Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, dies at 79
2004 John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2004 Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
2005 Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2006 Ellen Kuzwayo, South African member of parliament (ANC) and noted writer ("Call me Woman"), dies at 91
2006 Ian Morrow, British company director, best known for saving Rolls Royce, dies at 93
2006 Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2008 Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 72
2008 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
2009 J.G. Ballard, British novelist (Empire of the Sun; Crash), dies of prostate cancer at 78
2010 Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
2013 François Jacob, French biologist and bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), dies at 92
2013 Patrick Garland, British director (Doll House), dies at 78
2015 Roy Mason [Baron Mason of Barnsley], British defense secretary and Labour MP, dies at 91
2016 Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer, politician and President of Chile (1990-94), dies at 97
2016 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), dies at 93