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  Death of Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy on December - 19.  

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

1614  Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1737  On December - 19 death of james Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)  

1741  On this day in history vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies  

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on December - 19.  

1751  Death of Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724) on December - 19.  

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

1800  Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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

1807  On this day in history death of friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)  

1810  On December - 19 johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68  

1813  On this day in history death of james McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)  

1814  Death of Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump on this day in history.  

1815  On this day in history michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65  

1819  Death of Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765) on this day in history.  

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  J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76 on this day in history.  

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

1878  On this day in history death of bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)  

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  On this day in history jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44  

1930  On December - 19 death of johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns  

1932  Death of Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908) on this day in history.  

1933  On December - 19 death of george Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857)  

1938  On December - 19 death of stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (b. 1873)  

1939  Eric Fogg, composer, dies at 36 on December - 19.  

1941  On this day in history l M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle  

1944  On December - 19 death of rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)  

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

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1036  On December - 19 birth of su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher  

1498  On December - 19 birth of andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist  

1554  On this day in history birth of philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)  

1676  On this day in history birth of louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist  

1683  On December - 19 birth of philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)  

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 December - 19.