Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

1854  On this day in history death of robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)   

1862  Death of Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns on this day in history.   

1867  On April - 19 robert Smirke, British architect, dies   

1870  Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83 on April - 19.   

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

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

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

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

1889  On this day in history warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies   

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 this day in history.   

1895  On April - 19 george Scharf, critic, dies   

1901  Death of Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839) on this day in history.   

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 April - 19.   

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

1926  On this day in history squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84   

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

1932  Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77 on April - 19.   

1937  William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of j P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed   

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 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 April - 19 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  Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 on April - 19.   

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

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

1605  Orazio Benevoli, composer was born on April - 19.   

1658  Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1686  Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) was born on this day in history.   

1700  On this day in history birth of georg Abraham Schneider, composer