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  On this day in history owen Jones, architect, dies   

1876  On April - 19 samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65   

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 April - 19.   

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

1893  John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies on April - 19.   

1895  On April - 19 george Scharf, critic, dies   

1901  On April - 19 death of alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)   

1906  On April - 19 pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies   

1914  On this day in history charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies   

1916  Death of Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) on this day in history.   

1923  Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1926  On April - 19 squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84   

1930  On April - 19 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 this day in history.   

1944  Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 on April - 19.   

1945  Death of J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed on this day in history.   

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

1950  On this day in history tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66   

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

1957  Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76 on April - 19.   

1964  On this day in history cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies   

1965  On this day in history george Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75   

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

1968  On this day in history tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61   

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1320  Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67) was born on April - 19.   

1603  On April - 19 birth of michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)   

1605  On April - 19 birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

1658  On this day in history 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  On April - 19 birth of vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)   

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