Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 19

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

1862  On this day in history death of louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns   

1867  On April - 19 robert Smirke, British architect, dies   

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

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

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

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

1901  On April - 19 death of alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)   

1906  On April - 19 pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies   

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

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  Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 on April - 19.   

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

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

1941  On April - 19 johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63   

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 this day in history death of j P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed   

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

1950  Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 on April - 19.   

1956  On this day in history ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70   

1957  On this day in history charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76   

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

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

1967  Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 on April - 19.   

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

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1320  On this day in history birth of pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)   

1603  On April - 19 birth of michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)   

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 this day in history birth of sebastian Duron, composer   

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

1686  Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) was born on this day in history.   

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