Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

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

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

1867  On this day in history robert Smirke, British architect, dies   

1870  On this day in history andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83   

1874  On April - 19 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  Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73 on April - 19.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1916  On this day in history death of ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)   

1923  On this day in history thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75   

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 this day in history.   

1937  On April - 19 william M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81   

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 this day in history.   

1943  On April - 19 death of alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded   

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 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 this day in history.   

1964  Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies on April - 19.   

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

1605  On April - 19 birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

1658  On April - 19 birth of johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)   

1660  On April - 19 birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

1665  Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721) was born on April - 19.   

1686  Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) was born on April - 19.   

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