Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

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

1862  Death of Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns on April - 19.   

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

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

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

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

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  On April - 19 death of alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded   

1944  On April - 19 tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44   

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

1949  On this day in history 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  Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76 on April - 19.   

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 April - 19.   

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

1968  On April - 19 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 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  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 April - 19.   

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

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