Deaths December 19 | History by KabAstro

1810 Johann Heinrich Egli, Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68
1813 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, dies at 69
1815 Michel Woldemar, French violinist and composer, dies at 65
1815 Robert Hudson, British tenor, organist, and composer, dies at 83
1819 Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer, dies at 54
1823 Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel, Alsatian composer, dies at 67

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

English novelist (Wuthering Heights), dies of tuberculosis at 30

1848 Frans Adam van der Duyn van Maasdam, Dutch governor (South Holland), dies at 77

J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)

English landscape painter (Shipwreck, Rain, Steam & Speed), dies of cholera at 76

1867 Jean-Georges Kastner, French composer, dies at 57
1878 Bayard Taylor, American poet, travel author and diplomat, dies at 53
1911 John Bigelow, American statesman and author, dies at 94
1914 Johann Friedrich von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer, dies at 87

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)

German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51

1925 José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto-Rican composer (El coquí; Requiem por Angel Mislán), dies at 44
1929 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 36
1930 Johnny Douglas, English cricket all-rounder, captain (23 Tests, 1 x 100, 45 wickets; Essex CCC) and boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1908), dies by drowning at 48
1932 Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
1933 George Jackson Churchward, British engineer who was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (1902-22), struck and killed by a Paddington to Fishguard express train at 76
1938 Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), dies at 65
1939 Eric Fogg, English composer, dies under a train at 36
1939 Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70
1939 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57
1940 Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra), dies at 82
1941 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1944 Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1951 Barton Yarborough, American radio and screen actor (One Man's Family; Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 51
1952 Harry Makepeace, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 117; Lancashire CCC) and soccer midfielder (4 caps; FA Cup 1906 Everton), dies at 71

Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953)

American physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923), dies at 85

1953 Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies

John Van Druten (1901-1957)

English playwright (I Remember Mama, I am a Camera) and theater director, dies at 56

1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1966 Ehm Welk [Thomas Trimm], German writer, dies at 82
1967 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78
1968 Norman Thomas, American socialist, pacifist and presidential candidate (1928-48), dies at 84
1977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, American educator, politician, 1st woman to serve as a governor (Wyoming, 1925-27), and administrator (Director of US Mint, 1933-53), dies at 101
1982 Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)

Frederick Terman (1900-1982)

American professor of engineering at Stanford University known as the "father of Silicon Valley", dies at 82

1982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist and composer, dies at 71
1982 Lawrance Collingwood, English composer, dies at 95
1984 Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
1984 Michel Magne, French experimental music and film score composer (Gigot; Barbarella), and recording studio owner (Château d'Hérouville). takes his own life at 54
1986 V. C. Andrews, American author (Flowers in the Attic), dies of breast cancer at 63
1989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist and author (Cold Comfort Farm), dies at 87
1990 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
1990 Massimo Amfiteatrof [Maksim Amfiteatrov], Russian-Italian classical musician, known as 'the Cellists' Caruso', dies at 83
1991 Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
1991 Joe Cole, American roadie (Black Flag, Rollins Band), shot and killed at 30
1991 Paul Maxwell, Canadian actor (Aliens, City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47
1993 Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP asst sect of Education (1973-75), dies at 77
1993 Michael Clarke, American rock drummer (The Byrds, 1964-67 - "Turn! Turn! Turn!"; Flying Burrito Brothers, 1969-71; Firefall, 1974-80), dies of liver failure at 47
1994 Noel Pointer, American jazz violinist and record producer, dies of a stoke at 39
1995 Harold Watkinson, British politician/businessman, dies at 85
1995 Janet Wilder, stuntwoman, dies at 29
1995 Ruth Nita Barrow, 1st female Governor-General of Barbados (1990-95), dies at 79
1996 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (8½; La Dolce Vita; Dark Eyes; The Pizza Triangle), dies of pancreatic cancer at 72
1996 Ronald Howard, British actor (Naked Edge; Come September; Murder She Said), dies at 78
1996 Yuli Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and "chief nuclear weapon designer" for the Soviet Union, dies at 92
1997 David Schramm, American astrophysicist (pioneer in establishing particle astrophysics as a vibrant research field), dies at 52
1997 Jimmy Rogers, American blues musician (Muddy Waters' Band), dies at 73

Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997)

Japanese electronics industrialist (Sony Corp), dies at 89

1998 Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (over 3,000 bullfights), dies of liver cancer at 66
1998 Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 Bal Dani, Indian cricket all-rounder (1 Test, 1 wicket; Maharashtra, Services), dies at 66
1999 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (James Bond films, 1963-99), WWII army veteran and POW, dies in a car crash at 85
2000 (Roebuck) "Pops" Staples, American gospel singer (The Staple Singers), dies at 85
2000 John Lindsay, American politician (Mayor of New York 1966-73, Rep-D-NY 1959-65), dies at 79
2000 Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (Cab Calloway) and session musician, dies at 90
2000 Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs), dies at 42
2001 Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic (Secret Diary), dies at 80
2001 Marcel Mule, French classical saxophonist, composer, and teacher, dies at 100
2002 Arthur Rowley, English soccer forward (most goals in English league football, 434 from 619 games; Leicester City, Shrewsbury Town), dies at 76
2002 Will Hoy, English auto racer (British Touring Car C'ship 1991), dies from a brain tumour at 50
2003 Hope Lange, American actress (Peyton Place, The Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies at 70
2003 Lester "Les" Tremayne, British radio, film and television actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds), dies of heart failure at 90
2003 Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn, British politician (L), dies at 78
2004 Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2004 Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano, dies at 82
2005 Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
2005 Vincent Gigante, Italian-American mafioso, dies at 77
2008 Carol Chomsky, American linguist and education specialist (b. 1930)
2008 Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star, World Series 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates; pitched no-hitter 1971), dies of liver issues at 63

James Bevel (1936-2008)

American civil rights activist (Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Direct Action), dies of cancer at 72

2008 Kenny Cox, American jazz pianist dies of lung cancer at 68
2009 Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah (b. 1922)
2009 Kim Peek, American prodigious savant and inspiration for the 1988 film Rain Man, dies of a heart attack at 58
2010 Anthony Howard, English Journalist (b. 1934)
2010 Harold Blanchard, American jazz pianist and jazz and classical composer (New Earth Sonata), dies at 80
2010 Trudy Pitts, American jazz Hammond B-3 organist, pianist, and vocalist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 78
2012 Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader, dies from cancer at 68
2012 Larry Morris, American College Football HOF iinebacker (NCAA C'ship 1952 Georgia Tech; NFL C'ship 1963 Chicago Bears), dies at 79
2012 Robert Bork, American lawyer, government official (US Solicitor General, 1973-77), jurist (US Court of Appeals, 1982-88), rejected Supreme Court nominee (1987), and professor (Yale),dies from heart disease at 85
2012 Sir Lawrence "Lawrie" Barratt, British businessman and housing developer (Barratt Developments), dies at 85
2015 Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (Rope, Waterfront), dies at 95
2015 Kurt Masur, German conductor (Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, 1970-96; New York Philharmonic, 1991-2002; London Philharmonic, 2000-07), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 88
2017 Clifford Irving, American novelist and investigative reporter (hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes), dies of pancreatic cancer at 87
2017 Leo "Bud" Welch, American gospel and Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("You Can't Hurry God"; "Cadillac Baby"), dies at 85
2017 Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, American baseball pitcher (1st female pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues), dies from heart complications at 82
2019 Saoul Mamby, American boxer (WBC super lightweight title 1980-82), dies at 72
2019 Shahdon Winchester, Trinidadian soccer winger (27 caps; Murciélagos), dies in a traffic collision at 27
2020 Maria Piątkowska, Polish athlete (WR 4 x 100m relay 1964), dies at 89
2020 Pelle Alsing, Swedish drummer (Roxette - "Listen to Your Heart"), dies at 60
2020 Rosalind Knight, British stage and screen actress (Friday Night Dinner - "Horrible Grandma"), dies at 87
2021 Carlos Marín, Spanish pop-opera baritone (Il Divo), dies of COVID-19 at 53
2021 Ed van Thijn, Dutch politician (House of Representatives, 1977-82; Mayor of Amsterdam, 1983-94; Member of Senate, 1999-2007), dies at 87

Sally Ann Howes (1930-2021)

British-American stage and screen actress and singer (Brigadoon; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - "Truly Scrumptious"), dies at 91

2022 Ali Ahmed Aslam, Pakistani-Scottish restaurateur (credited with creation of Chicken Tikki Masala), dies at 77
2022 Aonghas MacNeacail [Angus Nicolson], Scottish poet Gaelic activist, dies at 80 [1]
2022 Steve Smoger, American boxing referee (200+ title bouts; International Boxing HOF), dies at 72
2022 Tom Browning, American baseball pitcher (perfect game 1988; MLB All Star 1991; World Series 1990 Cincinnati Reds), dies at 62
2023 Boro Jovanović, Croatian tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 1962 runner-up [Nikola Pilić]), dies at 84
2023 Ed Budde, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1970, 71; Super Bowl IV KC Chiefs; 5 × AFL All-Star; First-team All-AFL 1966, 69), dies at 83