Famous Deaths In December - 19

0401  Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies on December - 19.   

1075  On December - 19 death of edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England   

1327  On December - 19 death of agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy   

1370  Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies on this day in history.   

1614  On December - 19 melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67   

1737  Death of James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) on December - 19.   

1741  On December - 19 vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies   

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1751  On this day in history death of louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)   

1798  Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1800  On December - 19 georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66   

1804  On December - 19 mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies   

1807  On December - 19 death of friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)   

1810  Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68 on December - 19.   

1813  On December - 19 death of james McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)   

1814  On December - 19 death of joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump   

1815  Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65 on December - 19.   

1819  Death of Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765) on December - 19.   

1823  On December - 19 nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67   

1848  Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77 on December - 19.   

1851  On December - 19 j M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76   

1867  Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57 on December - 19.   

1878  Death of Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825) on December - 19.   

1914  On this day in history johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87   

1915  Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1925  Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1930  Death of Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns on December - 19.   

1932  Death of Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908) on December - 19.   

1933  Death of George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857) on December - 19.   

1938  Death of Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (b. 1873) on December - 19.   

1939  On December - 19 eric Fogg, composer, dies at 36   

1941  L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle on December - 19.   

1944  Death of Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856) on December - 19.   

1946  Death of Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872) on this day in history.   

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1036  On this day in history birth of su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher   

1498  On this day in history birth of andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist   

1554  Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) was born on December - 19.   

1676  Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist was born on December - 19.   

1683  Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) was born on December - 19.   

1699  On this day in history birth of william Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)   

1714  John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779) was born on December - 19.   

1723  Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother was born on this day in history.