Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19
Monday, 03 November 2025
1854 On April - 19 death of robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774) 

1862 On this day in history 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 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies on this day in history. 

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 this day in history. 

1892 Death of Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821) on this day in history. 

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

1895 George Scharf, critic, dies on this day in history. 

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

1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies on April - 19. 

1914 Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies on this day in history. 

1916 Death of Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) on this day in history. 

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

1926 Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 on April - 19. 

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 April - 19. 

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

1941 On April - 19 johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 

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 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 Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 on April - 19. 

1956 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 on this day in history. 

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

1964 On April - 19 cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies 

1965 On this day in history george Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 

1967 On this day in history conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 

1968 On April - 19 tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 

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