Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

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

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

1874  On April - 19 owen Jones, architect, dies   

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

1881  Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies on this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies at 73   

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

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

1893  John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies on this day in history.   

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

1901  On this day in history death of alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)   

1906  Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies on April - 19.   

1914  Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies on this day in history.   

1916  Death of Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) on this day in history.   

1923  On April - 19 thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75   

1926  On this day in history squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84   

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

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

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

1943  On this day in history death of alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded   

1944  On April - 19 tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44   

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

1949  Death of Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) on April - 19.   

1950  On this day in history tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66   

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

1957  On April - 19 charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76   

1964  Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies on April - 19.   

1965  George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 on April - 19.   

1967  Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 on this day in history.   

1968  Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

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1320  Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67) was born on this day in history.   

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

1605  On April - 19 birth of orazio Benevoli, composer   

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  On this day in history birth of georg Abraham Schneider, composer