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

1874  On April - 19 owen Jones, architect, dies  

1876  On this day in history samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65  

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

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

1889  On April - 19 warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies  

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

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

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

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

1916  Death of Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) on April - 19.  

1923  Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 on April - 19.  

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

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  On this day in history johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63  

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  On April - 19 death of ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)  

1950  On April - 19 tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66  

1956  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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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 April - 19.  

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

1658  On this day in history birth of johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)  

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

1665  On this day in history birth of jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)  

1686  On April - 19 birth of vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)  

1700  On April - 19 birth of georg Abraham Schneider, composer