June 19 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1027 – Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
  • 1205 – Roman the Great, Swedish prince (b. 1151)
  • 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, English wife of Llywelyn the Last (b. 1252)
  • 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English nobleman (b. 1284)
  • 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (b. 1482)
  • 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
  • 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
  • 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
  • 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
  • 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
  • 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
  • 1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Sr., American politician (b. 1690)
  • 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American military commander (b. 1742)
  • 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, French daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette (b. 1786)
  • 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
  • 1820 – Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
  • 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
  • 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman (b. 1800)
  • 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (b.1810)
  • 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
  • 1902 – Albert of Saxony (b. 1828)
  • 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English archbishop (b. 1832)
  • 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (b. 1888)
  • 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
  • 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African intellectual, writer, and activist (b. 1876)
  • 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
  • 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
  • 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
  • 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
  • 1952 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
  • 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1915)
  • 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American convicted spy (b. 1918)
  • 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
  • 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor (b. 1886)
  • 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
  • 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mobster (b. 1908)
  • 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, English wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (b. 1889)
  • 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
  • 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
  • 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
  • 1986 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
  • 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
  • 1987 – Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
  • 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
  • 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American politician (b. 1918)
  • 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
  • 1993 – William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 1995 – Peter Townsend, English military officer (b. 1914)
  • 1996 – G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
  • 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot, French actress (b. 1944)
  • 1997 – Bobby Helms, American singer (b. 1933)
  • 2001 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
  • 2001 – Steve Sheppard-Brodie, American voice actor
  • 2003 – Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
  • 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1937)
  • 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
  • 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
  • 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
  • 2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
  • 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and super-centenarian (b. 1895)
  • 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
  • 2010 – Anthony Quinton, English philosopher (b. 1925)
  • 2011 – Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Anthony Bate, English actor (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Gerry Bron, English English record producer and band manager (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor (b. 1936)
  • 2012 – Michael Palliser, English diplomat (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Aloysio José Leal Penna, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan writer and journalist (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)