Notable Deaths on April 19

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Notable people who died on April 19 include: Judith of Bavaria, Ælfheah of Canterbury, Hisham II, Gothelo I, Leo IX.

1044 — Gothelo I

duke of Lorraine

April 19 has seen 89 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 843 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 89 people 843 – 2026

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On his father's death, he received the march of Antwerp and became a vassal of his brother, Godfrey II, who became duke of Lower Lorraine in 1012

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Gothelo was the youngest son of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, and Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony

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Gothelo, called the Great, was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 and of Upper Lorraine from 1033

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He was also the margrave of Antwerp from 1005 and count of Verdun

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Gothelo succeeded his brother in 1023 with the support of the Emperor Henry II, but was opposed until Conrad II forced the rebels to submit in 1025

Judith of Bavaria

Frankish empress

Judith of Bavaria was the Carolingian empress as the second wife of Louis the Pious. Marriage to Louis marked the beginning of her rise as an influential figure in the Carolingian court. She had two children with Louis,…

843

Ælfheah of Canterbury

English archbishop and saint (born 954)

Ælfheah, more commonly known today as Alphege, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury from 1006 to 1012. He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey. His reputation…

1012

Hisham II

Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (born 966)

Hisham II or Abu'l-Walid Hisham II al-Mu'ayyad bi-llah was the third Umayyad Caliph of Spain, in Al-Andalus from 976 to 1009, and from 1010 to 1013.

1013

Leo IX

pope of the Catholic Church (born 1002)

Pope Leo IX was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054. Leo IX is considered to be one of the most historically significant popes of the Middle Ages; he was…

1054

Gerasimus I

patriarch of Constantinople

Gerasimus I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1320 to 1321.

1321

Robert II

king of Scotland (born 1316)

Robert II was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, he was named Robert Stewart. Upon the death of his…

1390

Thomas West

1st Baron West, English nobleman (born 1335)

Thomas West, 1st Baron West was an English nobleman and member of parliament.

1405

Adolph III

count of Waldeck (born 1362)

Adolph III, Count of Waldeck was Count of Waldeck-Landau from 1397 until his death. He was the founder of the elder Waldeck-Landau line.

1431

Philip Melanchthon

German theologian and reformer (born 1497)

Philipp Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential…

1560

Michael Stifel

German monk and mathematician (born 1487)

Michael Stifel or Styfel was a German monk, Protestant reformer and mathematician. He was an Augustinian who became an early supporter of Martin Luther. He was later appointed professor of mathematics at Jena University.

1567

Uesugi Kenshin

Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1530)

Nagao Kagetora , later known as Uesugi Kenshin , was a Japanese daimyō (magnate). He was born in Nagao clan, and after adoption into the Uesugi clan, ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period of Japan. He was one of…

1578

Paolo Veronese

Italian painter (born 1528)

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the…

1588

Thomas Sackville

1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1536)

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer.

1608

Thomas Bastard

English priest and author (born 1566)

The Reverend Thomas Bastard was an English clergyman famed for his published English language epigrams.

1618

Jagat Gosain

Mughal empress (born 1573)

Manavati Bai, also spelled as Manvati Bai,, better known by her title, Jagat Gosain, was the second wife and the empress consort of the fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir and the mother of his successor, Shah Jahan.

1619

Sigismondo d'India

Italian composer (born 1582)

Sigismondo d'India was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more famous…

1629

Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra

Spanish historian and playwright (born 1610)

Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra was a Spanish dramatist and historian. His work includes drama, poetry, and prose, and he has been considered one of the last great writers of Spanish Baroque literature.

1686

Christina

queen of Sweden (born 1626)

Christina, a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.

1689

Elizabeth Hamilton

countess of Orkney (born 1657)

Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney was an English courtier from the Villiers family and the reputed mistress of William III, King of England and Scotland, from 1680 until 1695. She was a lady-in-waiting to his wife…

1733

Nicholas Saunderson

English mathematician and academic (born 1682)

Nicholas Saunderson was a blind English scientist and mathematician. According to one historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes' theorem. He worked as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics…

1739

Canaletto

Italian painter and etcher (born 1697)

Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

1768

Jacob Emden

German rabbi and author (born 1697)

Jacob Emden, also known as the Yaʿavetz, was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed traditional Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbateans. He was widely acclaimed for his extensive…

1776

Richard Price

Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (born 1723)

Richard Price was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and…

1791

Benjamin Rush

American physician and educator (born 1745)

Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social…

1813

Lord Byron

English-Scottish poet and playwright (born 1788)

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy…

1824

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger

German astronomer and mathematician (born 1765)

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger was a German astronomer born at Simmozheim, Württemberg. He studied at the University of Tübingen. In 1798, he was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at the…

1831

James Gambier

1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1756)

Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator. After seeing action at the capture of Charleston during the American Revolutionary War, he saw action again, as…

1833

Jean-Jacques Lartigue

Canadian bishop (born 1777)

Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal.

1840

Robert Jameson

Scottish mineralogist and academic (born 1774)

Robert Jameson FRS FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.

1854

Benjamin Disraeli

English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1804)

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern…

1881

Charles Darwin

English biologist and theorist (born 1809)

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is…

1882

Martin Körber

Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (born 1817)

Martin Georg Emil Körber was a Baltic German pastor, composer, writer and choir leader.

1893

Alfred Horatio Belo

American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (born 1839)

Alfred Horatio Belo was the founder of The Dallas Morning News newspaper in Dallas, Texas, along with business partner George Bannerman Dealey. The company A. H. Belo Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, was…

1901

Oliver Mowat

Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1820)

Sir Oliver Mowat was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Ontario and one of the…

1903

Pierre Curie

French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)

Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, for their work on radioactivity. With…

1906

Spencer Gore

English tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)

Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874–1875).

1906

Signe Rink

Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)

Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline Rink was a Danish writer and ethnologist. Together with her husband Hinrich, she founded Greenland's first newspaper, Atuagagdliutit, in 1861. She is credited as being the first woman…

1909

Charles Sanders Peirce

American mathematician and philosopher (born 1839)

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most…

1914

Thomas Playford

English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (born 1837)

Thomas Playford was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia. He subsequently entered federal politics, serving as a Senator for South Australia from 1901 to 1906 and as Minister for…

1915

Ephraim Shay

American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (born 1839)

Ephraim Shay was an American merchant, entrepreneur and self-taught railroad engineer who worked in the state of Michigan. He designed the Shay locomotive and patented the type. He licensed it for manufacture through…

1916

Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov

Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)

Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov or Tschuprov was a Russian statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography.

1926

Georges-Casimir Dessaulles

Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)

Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, was a Canadian businessman, statesman and senator. Dessaulles was one of the oldest serving politicians ever, only surpassed by Giovanni Battista Borea d'Olmo. Appointed to the Senate of…

1930

Martin Conway

1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (born 1856)

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington,, known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in…

1937

William Morton Wheeler

American entomologist and zoologist (born 1865)

William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and professor at Harvard University.

1937

Jack McNeela

Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike

Jack McNeela was an Irish republican and a senior member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Ballycroy, County Mayo, Ireland. McNeela was one of 22 Irish republicans who died on hunger-strike. As a young man,…

1940

Johanna Müller-Hermann

Austrian composer (born 1878)

Johanna Müller-Hermann was an Austrian composer and pedagogue.

1941

Ulrich Salchow

Danish-Swedish figure skater (born 1877)

Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Danish-born Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century.

1949

Ernst Robert Curtius

French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)

Ernst Robert Curtius was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance languages literary critic, best known for his 1948 study Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, translated in English as European…

1950

Steve Conway

British singer (born 1921)

Steve Conway was a British singer who rose to fame in the 1940s, following the end of the Second World War. Known for romantic ballads, he made dozens of recordings for EMI's Columbia label, appeared regularly on BBC…

1952

Jim Corbett

British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (born 1875)

Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of…

1955

Beardsley Ruml

American economist and statistician (born 1894)

Beardsley Ruml was an American statistician, economist, philanthropist, planner, businessman and man of affairs in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

1960

Max Hainle

German swimmer (born 1882)

Max Otto Hainle was a German swimmer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dortmund. As a member of the German swimming team he won the gold medal at the Paris Games. He also competed in the 1000…

1961

Väinö Tanner

Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1881)

Väinö Alfred Tanner was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader of the cooperative movement in Finland. He was Prime Minister of Finland in 1926–1927.

1966

Konrad Adenauer

German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1876)

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman and politician who served as the first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union…

1967

Luigi Piotti

Italian race car driver (born 1913)

Luigi Piotti was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in nine Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points.

1971

Percy Lavon Julian

American chemist and academic (born 1899)

Percy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. Julian was the first person to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in…

1975

Kwon Ki-ok

Korean pilot (born 1901)

Kwon Ki-ok was a Korean aviator. She is the first Korean female pilot and one of the first female pilots to fly in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu. Kwon went into exile in China during the Japanese occupation of…

1988

Daphne du Maurier

English novelist and playwright (born 1907)

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier…

1989

Stanley Hawes

English-Australian director and producer (born 1905)

Stanley Gilbert Hawes MBE, was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and…

1991

Frankie Howerd

English actor and screenwriter (born 1917)

Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English actor and comedian.

1992

David Koresh

American cult leader (born 1959)

David Koresh was an American cult leader and preacher who played a central role in the Waco siege of 1993. As the head of the Branch Davidians, a religious sect, Koresh claimed to be its final prophet. His apocalyptic…

1993

George S. Mickelson

American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (born 1941)

George Speaker Mickelson was an American politician and Vietnam War veteran who served as the 28th governor of South Dakota from 1987 until his death in 1993 in a plane crash near Zwingle, Iowa.

1993

Octavio Paz

Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature,…

1998

Hermine Braunsteiner

Austrian-German SS officer (born 1919)

Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was an Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps. She was the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in…

1999

Louis Applebaum

Canadian composer and conductor (born 1918)

Louis Applebaum was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor.

2000

Reginald Rose

American writer (born 1920)

Reginald Rose was an American playwright and screenwriter. He wrote about controversial social and political issues. His realistic approach was particularly influential in the anthology programs of the 1950s.

2002

Norris McWhirter

English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (born 1925)

Norris Dewar McWhirter was a British writer, right-wing political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television presenter. He and his twin brother Ross were known internationally for founding the…

2004

John Maynard Smith

English biologist and geneticist (born 1920)

John Maynard Smith was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the…

2004

Jenny Pike

Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (born 1922)

Jenny Pike was a Canadian photographer and servicewoman. She worked in London during WWII, and was the only female photographer to help develop the first photos of the D-Day landings. After the war, she worked as a…

2004

Albert Scott Crossfield

American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (born 1921)

Albert Scott Crossfield was an American naval officer and test pilot. In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound. Crossfield was the first of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an…

2006

Jean-Pierre Cassel

French actor (born 1932)

Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic actor, and accrued over 200 film and…

2007

J. G. Ballard

English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1930)

James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and…

2009

Elisabeth Sladen

English actress (born 1946)

Elisabeth Clara Miller, known professionally as Elisabeth Sladen, was an English actress. She was best known for her recurring role as Sarah Jane Smith in the BBC series Doctor Who from 1973 to 1976, alongside Jon…

2011

Levon Helm

American musician and actor (born 1940)

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Helm was known…

2012

François Jacob

French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)

François Jacob was a French biologist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis." He and…

2013

Al Neuharth

American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)

Allen Harold "Al" Neuharth was an American businessman, author, and columnist born in Eureka, South Dakota. He was the founder of USA Today, The Freedom Forum, and the Freedom Forum's Newseum.

2013

Raymond Carr

English historian and academic (born 1919)

Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. From 1968 to 1987, he was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford.

2015

Roy Mason

English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (born 1924)

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley,, was a British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

2015

Patricio Aylwin

Chilean politician (born 1918)

Patricio Aylwin Azócar was a Chilean politician, lawyer, author, professor and former senator who was the 30th president of Chile from 1990 to 1994. He was the first president to be elected after the end of Augusto…

2016

Lu Chao-Hsuan

Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (born 1929)

Lu Chao-Hsuan Chinese: 吕昭炫; pinyin: Lǚ Zhāoxuàn was a guitar composer, performer and educator. He was born in Guishan District, Taoyuan and attended the 21st International Guitarist Symposium in Japan in 1962, where he…

2017

Ian Whitcomb

English singer-songwriter (born 1941)

Ian Timothy Whitcomb was an English entertainer, singer-songwriter, record producer, writer, broadcaster and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song "You Turn Me On" reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot…

2020

Walter Mondale

American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (born 1928)

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale was an American politician who was the 42nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented…

2021

Jim Steinman

American composer, lyricist (born 1947)

James Richard Steinman was an American composer, lyricist and record producer. He also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work included songs in the adult contemporary, rock, dance, pop, musical theater,…

2021

Kane Tanaka

Japanese supercentenarian (born 1903)

Kane Tanaka was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years, 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. She is the oldest…

2022

Moonbin

South Korean singer and actor (born 1998)

Moon Bin, also known professionally as Moonbin, was a South Korean singer, actor, and dancer under the label Fantagio. He was a member of the South Korean boy group Astro and its sub-unit Moonbin & Sanha.

2023

Ron Hamilton

American musician (born 1950)

Ronald Allen Hamilton, also known as "Patch the Pirate", was an American Christian musician, composer, preacher, and radio personality. He was president and owner of Majesty Music, a Christian music publisher, and the…

2023

Daniel Dennett

American philosopher and author (born 1942)

Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to…

2024

George Ariyoshi

American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii (born 1926)

George Ryoichi Ariyoshi was an American lawyer and politician who served as the third governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986. A Democrat, he was Hawaii's longest-serving governor and the first American of Asian descent to…

2026

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Gothelo I — Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 to 1044

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Known forHe was also the margrave of Antwerp from 1005 and count of Verdun

Deaths on this date89 (843 – 2026)

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