Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

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

1862  On this day in history death of louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns   

1867  Robert Smirke, British architect, dies on this day in history.   

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

1874  Owen Jones, architect, dies on this day in history.   

1876  On April - 19 samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65   

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

1882  On April - 19 charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73   

1889  On April - 19 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 this day in history.   

1893  On April - 19 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 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  On April - 19 wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77   

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

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 this day in history death of alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded   

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 this day in history.   

1949  Death of Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) on this day in history.   

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 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 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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)   

1605  On April - 19 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 this day in history.   

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

1686  Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) was born on this day in history.   

1700  On this day in history birth of georg Abraham Schneider, composer