Famous Deaths In April - 19

1854  Death of Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774) on this day in history.   

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

1867  Robert Smirke, British architect, dies on April - 19.   

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

1874  On April - 19 owen Jones, architect, dies   

1876  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies   

1882  Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73 on April - 19.   

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

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

1893  On April - 19 john Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies   

1895  On April - 19 george Scharf, critic, dies   

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

1906  Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies on April - 19.   

1914  Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies on this day in history.   

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  Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 on April - 19.   

1930  Death of Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827) on April - 19.   

1932  Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1937  William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 on April - 19.   

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

1941  Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 on April - 19.   

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

1944  Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1945  On April - 19 death of j P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed   

1949  Death of Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) on April - 19.   

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

1956  On this day in history ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70   

1957  On April - 19 charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76   

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

1965  On April - 19 george Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75   

1967  On this day in history conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91   

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

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1320  On April - 19 birth of pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)   

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

1605  On this day in history birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

1658  Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716) was born on April - 19.   

1660  On this day in history birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

1665  On April - 19 birth of jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)   

1686  On this day in history birth of vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)   

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