Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

1854  Death of Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774) on April - 19.   

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  On April - 19 andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83   

1874  On April - 19 owen Jones, architect, dies   

1876  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 on April - 19.   

1881  Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies on April - 19.   

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  On April - 19 john Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies   

1895  George Scharf, critic, dies on April - 19.   

1901  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)   

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 this day in history.   

1937  William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 on April - 19.   

1938  Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75 on April - 19.   

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 April - 19.   

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 this day in history tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66   

1956  On April - 19 ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70   

1957  On April - 19 charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76   

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 April - 19.   

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 this day in history.   

1603  Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685) was born on April - 19.   

1605  On this day in history birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

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

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

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  Georg Abraham Schneider, composer was born on this day in history.