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  On April - 19 robert Smirke, British architect, dies   

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

1874  Owen Jones, architect, dies on April - 19.   

1876  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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

1882  On this day in history charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 April - 19 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 this day in history.   

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

1945  Death of J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed on April - 19.   

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  Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76   

1964  On this day in history cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies   

1965  On April - 19 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  On this day in history birth of pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)   

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

1605  On April - 19 birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

1658  Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716) was born on April - 19.   

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

1665  On April - 19 birth of jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)   

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

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