Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

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 this day in history.   

1870  Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

1876  On this day in history samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65   

1881  On this day in history benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies   

1882  Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies   

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 this day in history death of ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)   

1923  Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77   

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

1938  On this day in history henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75   

1941  Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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  On April - 19 death of j P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed   

1949  On this day in history death of ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)   

1950  On April - 19 tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66   

1956  Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 on April - 19.   

1957  Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1964  Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies on this day in history.   

1965  George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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

1968  On this day in history tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61   

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1320  On April - 19 birth of pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)   

1603  On this day in history birth of michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)   

1605  Orazio Benevoli, composer was born on April - 19.   

1658  Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716) was born on this day in history.   

1660  On this day in history birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

1665  On this day in history birth of jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)   

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

1700  Georg Abraham Schneider, composer was born on April - 19.