October 19 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 727 – Frithuswith, English saint (b. 650)
  • 1216 – John, King of England (b. 1167)
  • 1432 – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
  • 1608 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian (b. 1551)
  • 1636 – Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician (b. 1566)
  • 1682 – Thomas Browne, English author (b. 1605)
  • 1723 – Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (b. 1646)
  • 1745 – Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
  • 1790 – Lyman Hall, American physician and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
  • 1796 – Michel de Beaupuy, French general (b. 1755)
  • 1813 – Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (b. 1763)
  • 1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician (b. 1755)
  • 1842 – Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
  • 1851 – Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Madame Royale of France (b. 1778)
  • 1856 – William Sprague, American politician (b. 1799)
  • 1889 – Luís I of Portugal (b. 1838)
  • 1893 – Lucy Stone, American activist (b. 1818)
  • 1897 – George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (b. 1831)
  • 1901 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman and philanthropist, founded GN Store Nord (b. 1829)
  • 1904 – Galen Spencer, American archer (b. 1840)
  • 1916 – Ioannis Frangoudis, Greek general (b. 1863)
  • 1918 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
  • 1936 – Lu Xun, Chinese author (b. 1881)
  • 1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
  • 1943 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
  • 1945 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877)
  • 1950 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (b. 1892)
  • 1956 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)
  • 1960 – George Wallace, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1895)
  • 1964 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (b. 1885)
  • 1969 – Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (b. 1881)
  • 1970 – Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican politician, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)
  • 1978 – Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
  • 1984 – Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest (b. 1947)
  • 1985 – Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
  • 1986 – Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded Newswatch Magazine (b. 1947)
  • 1986 – Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
  • 1987 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
  • 1987 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
  • 1988 – Son House, American singer and guitarist (b. 1902)
  • 1994 – Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
  • 1995 – Don Cherry, American trumpet player (Codona, New York Contemporary Five, and Old and New Dreams) (b. 1936)
  • 1997 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
  • 1999 – James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
  • 1999 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-French lawyer and author (b. 1900)
  • 2000 – Hortense Ellis, Jamaican singer (b. 1941)
  • 2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932)
  • 2003 – Road Warrior Hawk, American wrestler (b. 1960)
  • 2003 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak lawyer, author, and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
  • 2003 – Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author (b. 1902)
  • 2005 – Ryan Dallas Cook, American trombonist (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
  • 2006 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
  • 2007 – Randall Forsberg, American activist and author (b. 1943)
  • 2007 – Michael Maidens, English footballer (b. 1987)
  • 2007 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. 1925)
  • 2008 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic (b. 1922)
  • 2008 – Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
  • 2009 – Howard Unruh, American murderer (b. 1921)
  • 2009 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
  • 2010 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 2011 – Kakkanadan, Indian author (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Wissam al-Hassan, Lebanese general (b. 1965)
  • 2012 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Lincoln Alexander, Canadian politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Raymond Dumais, Canadian bishop (b. 1950)
  • 2012 – Mike Graham, American wrestler (b. 1951)
  • 2012 – Walter Harrison, English politician (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Johann Kniewasser, Austrian skier (b. 1951)
  • 2012 – Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Raúl Valencia, Spanish footballer (b. 1976)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “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)