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April 19 Deaths in History - April 19 Birthdays - April 19 Events
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April 19, 2004 Norris McWhirter, Guinness World Records curator/commentator, dies at 78 April 19, 2004 John Maynard Smith, English Scientist April 19, 2004 Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman April 19, 1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 April 19, 1996 Bernard Edwards, bass player, dies at 44 April 19, 1996 Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72 April 19, 1995 "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax, dies at 66 April 19, 1995 Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64 April 19, 1995 J Peter Grace Jr, CEO (W R Grace), dies at 81 April 19, 1995 Joseph Peter Grace, businessman, dies at 61 April 19, 1995 Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70 April 19, 1994 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81 April 19, 1994 Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57 April 19, 1994 Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87 April 19, 1994 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67 April 19, 1994 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43 April 19, 1993 David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide April 19, 1993 George Mickelson, Gov of, South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash April 19, 1992 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51 April 19, 1992 Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70 April 19, 1992 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51 April 19, 1992 Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash April 19, 1992 Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash April 19, 1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52 April 19, 1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82 April 19, 1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77 April 19, 1987 Maxwell D Taylor, U.S. commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85 April 19, 1986 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78 April 19, 1986 Dag Ivar Wiren, composer, dies at 80 April 19, 1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 73 April 19, 1983 Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74 April 19, 1981 Ernst Levy, composer, dies at 85 April 19, 1980 Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 April 19, 1980 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51 April 19, 1978 Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70 April 19, 1972 Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82 April 19, 1969 Casper Howeler, music critic, dies at 71 April 19, 1968 Tommy Bridges, U.S. baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 April 19, 1967 Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 April 19, 1967 Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman April 19, 1966 Vaino A Tanner, Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85 April 19, 1965 George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 April 19, 1957 Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk and Wagnalls), dies at 76 April 19, 1957 Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79 April 19, 1956 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 April 19, 1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47 April 19, 1956 Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head milt intelligence Neth-Indies, dies at 52 April 19, 1954 Joe Laurie Jr, comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 61 April 19, 1950 Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 April 19, 1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed April 19, 1944 Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 April 19, 1943 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded April 19, 1943 Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76 April 19, 1943 Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded April 19, 1943 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded April 19, 1941 Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 April 19, 1938 Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75 April 19, 1938 Marie-Clementine "Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model, dies at 72 April 19, 1938 Henry Newbolt, English Author April 19, 1937 William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 April 19, 1932 Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77 April 19, 1926 Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 April 19, 1923 Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 April 19, 1914 Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies April 19, 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies April 19, 1900 Ivan K Aivazovski, Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies at 82 April 19, 1895 George Scharf, critic, dies April 19, 1895 Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Netherlands engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70 April 19, 1893 John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies April 19, 1889 Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies April 19, 1882 Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies April 19, 1882 Charles Darwin, English Scientist April 19, 1881 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies April 19, 1881 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53 April 19, 1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 April 19, 1874 Owen Jones, architect, dies April 19, 1870 Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83 April 19, 1870 Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59 April 19, 1870 William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77 April 19, 1867 Robert Smirke, British architect, dies April 19, 1862 Louis Powell Harvey, U.S. governor of Wisconsin, drowns April 19, 1862 Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies April 19, 1852 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 April 19, 1824 George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36 April 19, 1824 Lord Byron, British Poet April 19, 1824 George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet April 19, 1813 Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67 April 19, 1799 Pieter Hellendaal, violinist, organist and composer (Glees), dies at 78 April 19, 1791 Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies April 19, 1776 Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78 April 19, 1773 Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43 April 19, 1772 Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66 April 19, 1770 Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74 April 19, 1768 Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70 April 19, 1739 Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies April 19, 1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies April 19, 1689 Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies April 19, 1658 Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, Engl Lord High Admiral, dies at ñ70 April 19, 1645 Anton van Diemen, Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at about 51 April 19, 1645 William Smith, composer, dies at 42 April 19, 1608 Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies April 19, 1588 Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies April 19, 1567 Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 April 19, 1560 Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63 April 19, 1560 Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian April 19, 1529 John Cuspinianus, [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55 April 19, 1390 Robert II, King of Scotland, dies April 19, 1054 Leo IX, [Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54), dies at 51 April 19, 1044 Gothelo, duke of Neth-Lotharingen, dies April 19, 843 Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies |