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  Owen Jones, architect, dies on April - 19.   

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 this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history 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 April - 19.   

1893  John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies on this day in history.   

1895  On this day in history george Scharf, critic, dies   

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

1906  On this day in history pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies   

1914  On April - 19 charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies   

1916  On April - 19 death of ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)   

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

1926  Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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 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  On this day in history 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 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 April - 19.   

1968  On this day in history 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 April - 19.   

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

1605  On April - 19 birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

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

1660  On April - 19 birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

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  Georg Abraham Schneider, composer was born on April - 19.