Famous Deaths on October 19

• 727 Saint Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford, England
• 1187 Pope Urban III [Uberto Crivelli](1185-87)

• 1268 Conradin of Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem, publicly beheaded after his defeat at the Battle of Tagliacozzo at 16
• 1335 Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen consort of Bohemia and Poland, dies at 47
• 1354 Yusuf I [al-Muayyad billah], ruler of Granada (1333-54), assassinated while praying in the Great Mosque of Granada at 36
• 1432 John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
• 1547 Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46
• 1553 Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano [de’ Pitati], Italian painter, dies
• 1587 Francesco I de’ Medici, 2nd Grand Duke of Tuscany (1574-87), dies at 46
• 1597 Ashikaga Yoshiaki, 15th and last Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1568-73), dies at 59
• 1608 Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist, dies at 57
• 1609 Jacobus Arminius [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49
• 1636 Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
• 1682 Thomas Browne, English philosopher and writer (Garden of Cyrus), dies at 77

• 1758 Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist, dies
• 1786 Pietro Alessandro Pavona, Italian composer, dies at 58
• 1790 Lyman Hall, American physician and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 66
• 1793 Francesc Morera i Cots, Valencian composer, dies at 62

• 1810 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (ballet d’action), dies at 83
• 1810 Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist working in London as librarian of the Royal Society, dies at 62
• 1813 Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general and marshal of France, dies in battle at 50
• 1834 Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant and poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69
• 1835 Henry Doeff, Dutch trader in Japan and translator who wrote a Dutch-Japanese dictionary, dies at 57
• 1842 Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
• 1851 Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, dies of pneumonia at 72
• 1856 William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44), dies at 56
• 1864 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brigadier general, dies in battle at 45
• 1875 Charles Wheatstone, English scientist (sound transmission), and inventor (English concertina; stereoscope; Playfair cipher), dies at 75
• 1888 Amaat Vyncke, Belgian missionary to the Upper Congo (Flemish Wind), dies of swamp fever and liver disease at 38
• 1889 Luís I, King of Portugal (1861-89), dies at 50
• 1894 James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (translations of the Avesta, the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism), dies at 45
• 1897 George Pullman, American industrialist and inventor (railway sleeping car), dies at 66
• 1897 John Lorimar Worden, American naval officer for the Union, commandeered USS Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads, dies at 79 [1]
• 1901 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
• 1902 Jim Younger, American outlaw and member of the James-Younger Gang, commits suicide at 54
• 1909 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and criminologist, dies at 73
• 1912 E. B. Dwyer, Austalian-born cricketer (Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies at 36
• 1918 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), dies from the flu at 31
• 1918 Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WWI), dies at 34
• 1920 John Reed, American journalist and communist activist (reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions – “Ten Days that Shook the World”), dies of typhus at 32
• 1921 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
• 1926 Victor Babeş, Romanian physician and bacteriologist, dies at 72
• 1932 Arthur Friedheim, Russian composer, dies at 72
• 1932 Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer and 46th U.S. Secretary of War (1913-16), dies at 67
• 1936 Lu Xun, Chinese writer of modern Chinese literature, dies at 55
• 1937 Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies

• 1945 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary and president (1924-28), dies at 68
• 1950 Edna St Vincent Millay, American poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize), dies at 58
• 1954 Hugh Duffy, American Baseball HOF outfielder (Triple Crown & MLB record .440 batting average, single season 1894 Boston Beaneaters), dies from heart failure at 87
• 1955 Carlos Dávila, President of Government Junta of Chile (1932), dies at 68
• 1955 John Hodiak, American actor (Battleground, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat), dies from coronary thrombosis at 41
• 1956 Isham Jones, American saxophonist, bandleader (“Star Dust”) and songwriter (“It Had To Be You”; “I’ll See You in My Dreams”), dies of cancer at 62
• 1957 V. Gordon Childe, Australian-British archaeologist and prehistorian, excavated Skara Brae, dies at 65
• 1959 Stanley Bate, English composer, dies at 45
• 1960 Günter Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
• 1961 Benjamin Merkelbach, Dutch architect and city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60
• 1961 John Fernström, Swedish violinist, conductor (Nordic Youth Orchestra), and composer (Concertino for Flute, Women’s Choir and Chamber Orchestra), dies at 63
• 1961 Sergio Osmeña, Philippine politician, 4th President of the Philippines (1944-46), dies at 83
• 1964 Maurice Gosfield, American actor (Private Doberman in “The Phil Silvers Show”), dies at 51
• 1964 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Henry Handel Richardson: A Study), dies at 79
• 1966 Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies
• 1970 Unica Zürn, German writer and artist, dies at 54
• 1971 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist, dies at 89
• 1971 Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss), dies after brief illness at 64
• 1972 Dr. Fredrick Arthur Willius, American cardiologist and medical historian, dies from bladder cancer at 83
• 1973 Margaret C. Anderson, American publisher, editor and founder of art and literary magazine ‘The Little Review’, dies from emphysema at 86
• 1978 Gig Young [Byron Elsworth Barr], American actor (They Shoot Horses Don’t They), kills his bride of 3 weeks and commits suicide at 64
• 1981 Paul Snoek [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies in a car accident at 47
• 1982 Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show “Dallas”
• 1983 Carel Willink, Dutch ‘imaginary realism’ painter, dies at 83
• 1983 Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup
• 1984 Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and writer (Miserable Miracle), dies at 85
• 1984 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped & murdered
• 1985 Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (Desjardins Group), dies at 70
• 1986 Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, editor, and founder of Newswatch magazine, is assassinated by a mail bomb at 39
• 1986 Moses Asch, Polish-American recording engineer (founder of Folkways Records), dies at 81 [1]
• 1987 Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1987 Jacqueline du Pré, British concert cellist (Edward Elgar concerto), dies from complications of multiple sclerosis at 42
• 1988 Edward “Son” House, American delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (“Walking Blues”; “Preachin’ The Blues”), dies of larynx cancer at 86
• 1988 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish economist and narrative author, dies at 77
• 1989 Alan Murphy, British rock session guitarist (Kate Bush), dies of pneumonia at 36
• 1990 Lew Worsham, American golfer (US Open 1947; Ryder Cup 1947), dies at 73
• 1992 Gert Bastian, German military officer and politician, found dead apparent perpetrator of murder suicide at 69
• 1992 Maurice Le Roux, French conductor and film score composer (Kamouraska), dies at 69
• 1992 Petra Kelly, German politician found dead, apparent victim in murder-suicide at 44
• 1993 Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48
• 1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
• 1993 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
• 1994 Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], American actress (Waikiki Wedding, Martha Raye Show), dies after illness at 78
• 1994 Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
• 1994 Stanislaw Brunstein, Polish-British artist who specialized in images of the lost world of Jewish Poland, dies at 79
• 1995 Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (Ornette Coleman), dies from liver cancer at 58
• 1996 Neville Robinson, English physicist, dies at 71
• 1996 Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84
• 1997 Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Alice Cooper) and composer, dies at 49
• 1997 Harold French, British director and actor (The Cavalier of the Streets, Trio, Quartet), dies at 97
• 1997 Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and director (Wether, Beltenebros), dies at 57
• 1999 James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
• 1999 Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], French writer (Childhood; Portrait of a Man Unknown; The Golden Fruits), dies at 99
• 1999 Ray Katt, American MLB baseball catcher, 1952-59 (World Series Champion – New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), and collegiate coach, 1971-93, dies of lymphoma at 72
• 2000 Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (“Right On the Tip of My Tongue”), dies from a stomach infection at 59
• 2001 Jagernath Lachmon, Surinamese politician, dies at 85
• 2002 Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican pioneering artistic photographer, dies at 100 [1]
• 2003 Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian politician and 1st President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990-2000), dies of heart disease complicated by injuries from a fall at 78
• 2003 Hawk [Michael Hegstrand], American professional wrestler (ECW/WCW/WWF/AWA, Legion of Doom), dies at 46
• 2003 Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
• 2004 Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist who developed APL, dies at 83
• 2004 Paul Nitze, American government official, Deputy Secretary of Defence, Secretary of the Navy and policy advisor on the USSR, dies at 97
• 2005 Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
• 2005 Dallas Cook, American ska-funk trombonist (Suburban Legends), killed in a motorcycle accident at 23
• 2006 James Glennon, American cinematographer, dies at 64
• 2006 Phyllis Kirk [Kirkegaard], American actress (Thin Man, Red Button’s Show), dies at 79
• 2007 Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor and novelist (Turks fruit (Turkish Delight); Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut)), dies at 81
• 2007 Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate, dies at 64
• 2007 Yolanda “LaLa” Brown, American R&B singer, shot and killed by an unknown gunman at a Milwaukee recording studio at 21
• 2008 Doreen Wilber, American archer (Olympic gold individual 1972), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 78
• 2008 Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic, dies at 86
• 2008 Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
• 2009 Howard Unruh, American mass murderer – shot 13 people in country’s 1st mass shooting, dies in prison at 88 [1]
• 2009 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables), dies at 91
• 2010 Graham Crowden, Scottish stage, screen, and radio actor (O Lucky Man!; A Very Peculiar Practice), dies at 87
• 2010 Tom Bosley, American actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote, Fiorello!), dies at 83
• 2012 Fiorenzo Magni, Italian road cyclist (Giro d’Italia 1948, 51, 55; Tour of Flanders 1949, 50, 51), dies from an aneurysm at 91
• 2013 Noel Harrison, British singer and actor, dies of a heart attack at 79
• 2013 Ronald Shannon Jackson, American avant-garde jazz and funk drummer, and composer (Cecil Taylor; Last Exit; Decoding Society), dies of leukemia at 73
• 2013 Roy Elihu Travis, American composer (Passion of Oedipus), dies at 91
• 2014 Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress, dies from colon cancer at 66
• 2014 Raphael Ravenscroft, British session saxophone player (Gerry Rafferty – “Baker Street”; Maxine Nightingale; Roger Waters), dies at 60
• 2014 Stephen Paulus, American composer (To Be Certain of the Dawn) and co-founder of the American Composers Forum, dies of stroke complications at 65
• 2016 Joe Shea, American journalist and activist, plaintiff in landmark First Amendment case Shea v Reno, dies at 69
• 2016 Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (Paris Opera Ballet, 1930-56), actress, and dance teacher, dies at 99 [1]
• 2020 Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer (Asakusa Portraits), dies of lymphoma at 75
• 2020 Spencer Davis [Davies], English guitarist (Spencer Davis Group – “Gimme Some Lovin'”), dies of pneumonia at 81 [1] [2]
• 2020 Tony Lewis, British rock singer-songwriter and bass player (The Outfield – “Your Love”), dies at 62
• 2021 Fred Goodall, New Zealand cricket umpire (24 Tests, 15 one-day internationals 1965-88), dies at 83
• 2021 Leslie Bricusse, British stage and film composer and lyricist (Doctor Dolittle; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; “Goldfinger”; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – “The Candy Man”; “Pure Imagination”), dies at 90
• 2021 Pierre Kerkhoffs, Dutch soccer striker (5 caps; SC Enschede, PSV, Lausanne Sport), dies at 85
• 2022 Charley Trippi, American College-Pro Football HOF halfback (Uni of Georgia; NFL C’ship 1947; First-team All-Pro 1948; Pro Bowl 1952, 53; Chicago Cardinals), dies at 100
• 2022 Dave Herman, American football offensive guard (Super Bowl 1969; AFL All-Star 1968, 69; All-AFL 1967, 68, 69; New York Jets), dies of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at 81
• 2022 Joanna Simon, American mezzo-soprano (1962-86), and Emmy Award-winning arts journalist (PBS, 1986-92), dies of thyroid cancer at 85 [1]
• 2022 Omar Borrás, Uruguayan soccer manager (Uruguay 1977, 82-87; Saudi Arabia), dies from kidney problems at 93
• 2023 Anfisa Reztsova, Russian biathlete (Olympic gold 7.5k sprint 1992, 4×7.5k relay 1994) and cross-country skier (Olympic gold 4×5k relay 1988; World C’ship gold 4×5k relay 1985, 87, 99), dies at 58
• 2023 Atsushi Sakurai, Japanese rock vocalist and songwriter (Buck-Tick), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 57
• 2023 Heinrich Messner, Austrian downhill skier (winner 1st World Cup slalom – 1967; Olympic bronze – 1968 & 1972), dies at 84
• 2024 John Kinsel Sr., American Navajo Marine code talker during WWII, dies at 107 [1]
• 2024 Thelma Mothershed Wair, American civil rights activist (one of the Little Rock Nine, 1957), school teacher, and guidance counselor, dies of complications of multiple sclerosis at 83 [1]

October 19 Highlights