Famous Deaths In April - 19

1854  On this day in history death of robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)   

1862  On April - 19 death of louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns   

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

1870  On April - 19 andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83   

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 April - 19.   

1882  Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73 on April - 19.   

1889  On April - 19 warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies   

1892  On this day in history 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  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  On April - 19 charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies   

1916  On April - 19 death of ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)   

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

1926  Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1930  Death of Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827) on April - 19.   

1932  Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1937  William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1938  On April - 19 henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75   

1941  Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 on April - 19.   

1943  Death of Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded on this day in history.   

1944  Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1945  Death of J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed on April - 19.   

1949  On April - 19 death of ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)   

1950  Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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 April - 19.   

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  Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67) was born on this day in history.   

1603  Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685) was born on April - 19.   

1605  On this day in history birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

1658  On this day in history birth of johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)   

1660  On April - 19 birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

1665  Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721) was born on this day in history.   

1686  On this day in history birth of vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)   

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