Deaths in History on March 19

  • 1238 Henry the Bearded, High Duke of Poland (1232-38), dies
  • 1263 Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
  • 1279 Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
  • 1286 King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
  • 1330 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)

Person of interestIbn Khaldūn

1406 Ibn Khaldūn, North African Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian (Muqaddimah), dies at 73

Islamic Scholar, Philosopher and Historian Ibn Khaldūn
Islamic Scholar, Philosopher and Historian
Ibn Khaldūn
  • 1556 Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
  • 1623 Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
  • 1635 Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies
  • 1637 Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
  • 1638 Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
  • 1649 Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
  • 1683 Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
  • 1687 René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, French explorer (Louisiana), killed by his men at 43
  • 1702 William III, William of Orange, King of England and Scotland (1689-1702) and Stadtholder, dies at 51 [O.S. 8 March]
  • 1711 Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
  • 1717 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
  • 1721 Clement XI [Giovanni F Albani], Italian pope (ruled 1700-21), dies at 71
  • 1796 Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
  • 1816 Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
  • 1862 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
  • 1869 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium), dies at 64
  • 1871 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
  • 1897 Antoine T. d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
  • 1898 Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
  • 1900 John Bingham, American politician and lawyer, dies at 85
  • 1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
  • 1914 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
  • 1916 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
  • 1918 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73

Person of interestArthur Balfour

1930 Arthur Balfour, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), dies of unremitting circulatory trouble at 81

British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour
British Prime Minister
Arthur Balfour
  • 1934 Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
  • 1937 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), commits suicide at 58
  • 1939 Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
  • 1940 Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
  • 1942 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
  • 1943 Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
  • 1944 William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
  • 1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
  • 1946 Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
  • 1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
  • 1962 Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist, dies at 89
  • 1971 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
  • 1971 Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79
  • 1974 Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51
  • 1974 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
  • 1975 John A DeMott, dies at 63
  • 1978 Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
  • 1984 Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
  • 1987 Arch Oboler, American director, screen and radio writer, and producer (Lights Out, Bwana Devil), dies at 77
  • 1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
  • 1987 Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
  • 1987 Louis Victor de Broglie, French quantum physicist (studied electrons, Nobel Prize 1929), dies at 94
  • 1991 Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
  • 1993 Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
  • 1994 Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
  • 1994 Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
  • 1995 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
  • 1995 Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
  • 1996 William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
  • 1997 Willem De Kooning, Dutch artist (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92
  • 1999 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
  • 1999 Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
  • 2001 Charles K. Johnson, American President of the Flat Earth Society, dies at 76
  • 2003 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
  • 2004 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
  • 2005 John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)

Person of interestArthur C. Clarke

2008 Arthur C. Clarke, English sci-fi author (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End), dies at 90

Sci-Fi Author Arthur C. Clarke
Sci-Fi Author
Arthur C. Clarke
  • 2008 Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (Cool Lover, Sugar), dies at 78
  • 2012 William Charette, American navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 79
  • 2017 Jimmy Breslin, American author and columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday), dies at 88
  • 2017 Mary Maples Dunn, American college president (Smith College), dies at 85