Famous Deaths In April - 19

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

1862  Death of Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns on April - 19.   

1867  On this day in history robert Smirke, British architect, dies   

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

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

1876  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1881  On April - 19 benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies   

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

1889  Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies on this day in history.   

1892  Death of Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821) on April - 19.   

1893  On this day in history john Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies   

1895  On this day in history george Scharf, critic, dies   

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

1930  On April - 19 death of georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)   

1932  On this day in history wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77   

1937  William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 on April - 19.   

1938  On April - 19 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  On April - 19 death of alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded   

1944  Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 on April - 19.   

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 this day in history tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66   

1956  On April - 19 ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70   

1957  Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76 on April - 19.   

1964  On this day in history cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies   

1965  On April - 19 george Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75   

1967  On April - 19 conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91   

1968  Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 on April - 19.   

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1320  Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67) was born on April - 19.   

1603  On April - 19 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  On April - 19 birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

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

1686  On April - 19 birth of vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)   

1700  On April - 19 birth of georg Abraham Schneider, composer