Deaths in History on March 19

Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406)

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

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, dies at 66
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
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 João da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
1900 John Bingham, American politician and lawyer, dies at 85
1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American editor and writer (The Story of a Bad Boy), dies at 70
1914 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1915 Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 82
1916 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1918 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73

Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)

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

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 and ornithologist, dies at 86
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, American author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1950 Sir Walter Norman Haworth, British chemist (Nobel Prize, 1937), dies of a heart attack on his 67th birthday [1]
1962 Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist, dies at 89
1967 Alfred Judson Force Moody, US Army Brigadier General, WWII veteran dies of a heart attack at 49; 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
1971 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
1971 Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 Anne Klein, American fashion designer (Anne Klein II), dies at 50
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, dies of cancer at 56
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 Louis Victor de Broglie, French quantum physicist (studied electrons, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1929), dies at 94
1987 Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
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, Scottish mountaineer and 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, dies at 76
2004 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

English sci-fi author (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End), dies of post-polio syndrome at 90

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