May 19 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 804 – Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. c.735)
  • 988 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
  • 1102 – Stephen II, Count of Blois (b. c.1045)
  • 1125 – Vladimir II Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
  • 1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
  • 1319 – Louis, Count of Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
  • 1389 – Dmitry Donskoy, Russian prince (b. 1350)
  • 1526 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
  • 1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
  • 1536 – Anne Boleyn, English second wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501 or 1507)
  • 1601 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528 or 1529)
  • 1610 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
  • 1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
  • 1715 – Charles Montagu, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
  • 1786 – John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
  • 1795 – Josiah Bartlett, American physician and statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
  • 1795 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
  • 1798 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman and duelist (b. 1722)
  • 1821 – Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
  • 1825 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher (b. 1760)
  • 1831 – Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Baltic German biologist (b. 1793)
  • 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
  • 1865 – Sengge Rinchen, Mongol nobleman and general (b. 1811)
  • 1876 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
  • 1885 – Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
  • 1895 – José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853)
  • 1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
  • 1901 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (b. 1819)
  • 1903 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856)
  • 1904 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
  • 1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
  • 1912 – Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
  • 1915 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Australian soldier (b. 1892)
  • 1918 – Raoul Lufbery, French-American pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
  • 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888)
  • 1940 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
  • 1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
  • 1945 – Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (b. 1889)
  • 1946 – Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
  • 1954 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
  • 1958 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
  • 1958 – Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
  • 1963 – Walter Russell, American artist (b. 1871)
  • 1965 – Tu'i Malila, Malagasy turtle, the world's oldest tortoise (b. 1777)
  • 1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist (b. 1901)
  • 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
  • 1975 – Li Tobler, Swiss actress (b. 1948)
  • 1980 – Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906)
  • 1983 – Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
  • 1984 – John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)
  • 1986 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophone player (b. 1931)
  • 1987 – James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
  • 1989 – C. L. R. James, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
  • 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American editor and First Lady of the United States, wife of John F. Kennedy (b. 1929)
  • 1994 – Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
  • 1998 – Sōsuke Uno, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
  • 1999 – James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
  • 1999 – Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
  • 2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
  • 2002 – John Gorton, Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
  • 2002 – Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
  • 2003 – Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981)
  • 2004 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
  • 2005 – Henry Corden, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 2006 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
  • 2007 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
  • 2008 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928)
  • 2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
  • 2009 – Nicholas Maw, English composer (b. 1935)
  • 2009 – Clint Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
  • 2009 – Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
  • 2011 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Bob Boozer, American basketball player (b. 1937)
  • 2012 – Phil Lamason, New Zealand pilot (b. 1918)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “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)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)