Famous Deaths In April - 19

1854  On April - 19 death of robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)   

1862  On April - 19 death of louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns   

1867  Robert Smirke, British architect, dies on this day in history.   

1870  On April - 19 andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83   

1874  Owen Jones, architect, dies on this day in history.   

1876  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 on April - 19.   

1881  On April - 19 benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies   

1882  On April - 19 charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73   

1889  Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies on this day in history.   

1892  Death of Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821) on April - 19.   

1893  On this day in history john Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies   

1895  George Scharf, critic, dies on this day in history.   

1901  Death of Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839) on April - 19.   

1906  On this day in history pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies   

1914  On April - 19 charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies   

1916  On this day in history death of ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)   

1923  On April - 19 thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75   

1926  Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1930  On this day in history death of georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)   

1932  On April - 19 wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77   

1937  On this day in history william M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81   

1938  Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1941  On April - 19 johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63   

1943  Death of Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded on April - 19.   

1944  On this day in history tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44   

1945  Death of J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed on April - 19.   

1949  Death of Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) on this day in history.   

1950  Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 on April - 19.   

1956  On April - 19 ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70   

1957  On this day in history charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76   

1964  Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies on April - 19.   

1965  George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1967  Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1968  Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

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1320  Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67) was born on this day in history.   

1603  Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685) was born on this day in history.   

1605  Orazio Benevoli, composer was born on this day in history.   

1658  On April - 19 birth of johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)   

1660  Sebastian Duron, composer was born on April - 19.   

1665  Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721) was born on this day in history.   

1686  Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) was born on April - 19.   

1700  Georg Abraham Schneider, composer was born on this day in history.