Notable Deaths on August 19

Q: Who died on August 19?

Notable people who died on August 19 include: Duke Ling of Jin, Augustus, Credan, Abu Yazid, Fujiwara no Sukemasa.

Q: What is Linus Pauling known for?

Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)

90 people 607 BC – 2024

August 19 has seen 90 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 607 BC – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1994 — Linus Pauling

American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)

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Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.

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Scientific American called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time

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For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954

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For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962

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He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics

Duke Ling of Jin

Chinese monarch

Duke Ling of Jin, personal name Ji Yigao, was from 620 to 607 BC the duke of the Jin state. He ascended the throne with the support of his regent, Zhao Dun.

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Augustus

Roman emperor (born 63 BC)

AD 14 (XIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Appuleius. The denomination AD 14 for this year has been used since the…

Credan

English abbot and saint

Saint Credan of Evesham is a saint in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is also known in Latin as Credus or Credanus.

780

Abu Yazid

Kharijite rebel leader (born 873)

Abū Yazīd Makhlad ibn Kaydād, was a member of the Ibadi sect. He opposed the Ismaili Shia rule of the Fatimids in North Africa and sought to restore Ibadi dominance in the region. Known as the Man on the Donkey due to…

947

Fujiwara no Sukemasa

Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher (born 944)

Fujiwara no Sukemasa or Sari was a Japanese noble, statesman, and renowned calligrapher of the middle Heian period. Grandson and adopted son of the daijō-daijin Fujiwara no Saneyori and son of major general of the…

998

Hawise

Duchess of Brittany (born 1037)

Hawise of Rennes was Duchess of Brittany from 1066 until her death.

1072

Al-Juwayni

Muslim scholar and imam (born 1028)

Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī was a Iranian Sunni scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time. His name is commonly…

1085

Geoffrey II

Duke of Brittany (born 1158)

Geoffrey II was Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond between 1181 and 1186, through his marriage to Constance, Duchess of Brittany. Geoffrey was the fourth of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

1186

Ramon Berenguer IV

Count of Provence (born 1195)

Ramon Berenguer IV or V was a member of the House of Barcelona who ruled as count of Provence and Forcalquier. He was the first count of Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years. During the minority…

1245

Alphonso

Earl of Chester (born 1273)

Alphonso or Alfonso, also called Alphonsus and Alphonse and styled Earl of Chester, was an heir apparent to the English throne who never became king.

1284

Louis of Toulouse

French bishop and saint (born 1274)

Saint Louis of Toulouse, also known as Louis of Anjou, was a Neapolitan prince of the Capetian House of Anjou and a Catholic bishop.

1297

Andrea del Castagno

Italian painter (born 1421)

Andrea del Castagno or Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla was an Italian Renaissance painter in Florence, influenced chiefly by Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone. His works include frescoes in Sant'Apollonia in Florence and the…

1457

Richard Olivier de Longueil

French cardinal (born 1406)

Richard Olivier de Longueil (1406–1470) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

1470

Frederick III

Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)

Frederick III was Holy Roman emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome. He was the fourth king of the Romans and the first…

1493

King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)

Alexander Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV Jagiellon and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Alexander was…

1506

Vincenzo Cappello

Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1469)

Vincenzo Cappello was a Venetian nobleman and statesman, best known as the admiral of the Venetian navy in the Battle of Preveza.

1541

Andrea Palladio

Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (born 1508)

Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential…

1580

Alexander Henderson

Scottish theologian and academic (born 1583)

Alexander Henderson was a Scottish theologian, and an important ecclesiastical statesman of his period. He is considered the second founder of the Reformed Church in Scotland. He was one of the most eminent ministers of…

1646

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Bohemian rabbi (born 1579)

Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller, was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosefet Yom-Tov (1614–1617). Heller was one of the major…

1654

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1623)

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

1662

Jean Eudes

French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (born 1601)

John Eudes, CIM was a French Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as the Eudists, in 1643. He was also a professed member of the…

1680

Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha

Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1637)

Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1689 to 1691, when the Empire was engaged in a war against the Holy League countries in the Great Turkish War. He was the son of Ayşe…

1691

Anthony Grey

11th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1645)

Anthony Grey was Earl of Kent from 1651 to his death.

1702

Johann Balthasar Neumann

German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (born 1687)

Johann Balthasar Neumann, usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military engineer and one of the most important designers of late Baroque architecture in Central Europe. He developed a…

1753

Fredrik Henrik af Chapman

Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (born 1721)

Vice-Admiral Fredrik Henrik af Chapman was a Swedish Navy officer, shipwright and scientist. Serving as the manager of the Karlskrona shipyard from 1782 to 1793, Chapman has been credited as the first person to apply…

1808

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre

French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)

Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author of well-known books on the history of…

1822

Jeremiah S. Black

American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (born 1810)

Jeremiah Sullivan Black was an American statesman and lawyer. He served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1851–1857) and as the Court's Chief Justice (1851–1854). He also served in the Cabinet of…

1883

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

French author, poet, and playwright (born 1838)

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste when…

1889

John Wesley Hardin

American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (born 1853)

John Wesley Hardin was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, lawyer and controversial folk icon. Hardin often got into trouble with the law from an early age. He killed his first man at the age of 15, claiming he did…

1895

Jean-Baptiste Accolay

Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1833)

Jean-Baptiste Accolay was a Belgian violin teacher, violinist, conductor, and composer of the romantic period. His best-known composition is his one-movement student concerto in A minor. It was written in 1868,…

1900

Franz Xavier Wernz

German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1844)

Franz Xavier Wernz, SJ was a German Catholic priest who served as the twenty-fifth superior general of the Society of Jesus from 1906 to 1914.

1914

Tevfik Fikret

Turkish poet and educator (born 1867)

Tevfik Fikret was the pseudonym of Mehmed Tevfik, an Ottoman educator and poet, who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry.

1915

Vilfredo Pareto

Italian sociologist and economist (born 1845)

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made several important contributions to economics,…

1923

Stefanos Skouloudis

Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1838)

Stefanos Skouloudis was a Greek banker, diplomat and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1915 to 1916.

1928

Sergei Diaghilev

Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (born 1872)

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

1929

Louis Anquetin

French painter (born 1861)

Louis Émile Anquetin was a French painter.

1932

Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group…

1936

Harald Kaarmann

Estonian footballer (born 1901)

Harald Kaarmann was an Estonian footballer and bandy player.

1942

Heinrich Rauchinger

Kraków-born painter (born 1858)

Heinrich Rauchinger (Polish name Henryk, pronounced /xɛnrɨk/, 1858–1942) was a Kraków-born history painter and portrait painter.

1942

Henry Wood

English conductor (born 1869)

Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of…

1944

Tomás Burgos

Chilean philanthropist (born 1875)

Tomás Burgos Sotomayor was a Chilean philanthropist, one of the strongest supporters of the "mutualist movement" and the founder of "Villa Lo Burgos", the present city of Purranque.

1945

Giovanni Giorgi

Italian physicist and engineer (born 1871)

Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI).

1950

Alcide De Gasperi

Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1881)

Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953.

1954

David Bomberg

English soldier and painter (born 1890)

David Garshen Bomberg was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys.

1957

Hugo Gernsback

Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (born 1884)

Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant…

1967

Isaac Deutscher

Polish-English journalist and historian (born 1907)

Isaac Deutscher was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and…

1967

George Gamow

Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (born 1904)

George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha…

1968

Paweł Jasienica

Polish soldier and historian (born 1909)

Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar, a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier.

1970

Mark Donohue

American race car driver and engineer (born 1937)

Mark Neary Donohue Jr., nicknamed "Captain Nice", was an American race car driver and engineer known for his ability to develop and set up his race car as well as driving it, often to victory.

1975

Alastair Sim

Scottish-English actor (born 1900)

Alastair George Bell Sim was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. Starting in 1935,…

1976

Ken Wadsworth

New Zealand cricketer (born 1946)

Kenneth John Wadsworth was a New Zealand cricketer who played 33 Tests and 13 One Day Internationals for New Zealand as a wicket-keeper. Wadsworth played domestically for Central Districts and Canterbury and for Nelson…

1976

Aleksander Kreek

Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1914)

Aleksander Kreek was an Estonian track and field athlete who specialised in the shot put. He was the 1938 European champion in the shot put – one of only two Estonian men to achieve the feat, alongside Arnold Viiding.…

1977

Groucho Marx

American comedian and actor (born 1890)

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one…

1977

Otto Frank

German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (born 1889)

Otto Heinrich Frank was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and…

1980

Jessie Matthews

English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1907)

Jessie Margaret Matthews was an English actress, dancer and singer who rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s, with her career continuing into the post-war period.

1981

August Neo

Estonian wrestler (born 1908)

August "Ago" Neo was an Estonian wrestler who won two medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics: a silver medal in the freestyle wrestling and a bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling. His achievements were underscored by teammate…

1982

Hermione Baddeley

English actress (born 1906)

Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley was an English actress of theatre, film, and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy". She found her milieu in revue,…

1986

Viv Thicknesse

Australian rugby player (born 1910)

Viv Thicknesse (1910–1986) was an Australian dual-code rugby half-back, a state representative in both rugby league and rugby union. His rugby league career was spent with the champion Eastern Suburbs sides of the 1930s…

1986

Utpal Dutt

Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (born 1929)

Utpal Dutt was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in…

1993

Pierre Schaeffer

French composer and musicologist (born 1910)

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the…

1995

Bineshwar Brahma

Indian poet, author, and educator (born 1948)

Bineshwar Brahma was the president of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Assam, India. He was born in a small village of Bhatarmari in Kokrajhar. He was the son of Late Taramoni Brahma and Late Sanathi Brahma.

2000

Donald Woods

South African journalist and activist (born 1933)

Donald James Woods was a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist. As editor of the Daily Dispatch, he was known for befriending fellow activist Steve Biko, who was killed by police after being detained by…

2001

Carlos Roberto Reina

Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (born 1926)

Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez was a Honduran politician, lawyer and diplomat who served as the President of Honduras from 1994 to 1998. He was a member of the Honduran Liberal Party.

2003

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Brazilian diplomat (born 1948)

Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira de Mello…

2003

Mo Mowlam

English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1949)

Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam was a British Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister…

2005

Levy Mwanawasa

Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (born 1948)

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was a Zambian politician who served as the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. Mwanawasa is credited with having initiated a…

2008

Don Hewitt

American television producer, created 60 Minutes (born 1922)

Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longest-running…

2009

Raúl Ruiz

Chilean director and producer (born 1941)

Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.

2011

Donal Henahan

American journalist and critic (born 1921)

Donal Henahan was an American music critic and journalist who had lengthy associations with the Chicago Daily News and The New York Times. With the Times he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1986; he had…

2012

Ivar Iversen

Norwegian canoe racer (born 1914)

Ivar Iversen was a Norwegian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in London.

2012

Tony Scott

English-American director and producer (born 1944)

Anthony David Leighton Scott was an English film director and producer. He made his theatrical film debut with The Hunger (1983) and went on to direct highly successful action and thriller films such as Top Gun (1986),…

2012

Edmund Skellings

American poet and academic (born 1932)

Edmund Skellings was an American poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Florida from 1980 to 2012, and was succeeded by Peter Meinke.

2012

Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Saudi Arabian prince (born 1923)

Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was the twelfth son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia. He was a businessman and the father of Faisal bin Musaid, the assassin of his half-brother King Faisal.

2013

Russell S. Doughten

American director and producer (born 1927)

Russell S. Doughten Jr. was an American filmmaker and a producer of numerous short and feature-length films. His film work is credited under numerous variations of his name: with or without the "Jr." suffix or middle…

2013

Abdul Rahim Hatif

Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (born 1926)

Abdul Rahim Hatif was a politician in Afghanistan. He served as one of the vice presidents during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

2013

Donna Hightower

American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

Donna Lubertha Hightower was an American R&B, soul and jazz singer and songwriter, who recorded and released albums for the Decca and Capitol labels. Later in her career she was based in Europe, where she had a hit in…

2013

Samih al-Qasim

Palestinian poet and journalist (born 1939)

Samīħ al-Qāsim al Kaissy was a Palestinian poet with Israeli citizenship whose work is well known throughout the Arab world. He was born in Transjordan and later lived in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Before the…

2014

Simin Behbahani

Iranian poet and activist (born 1927)

Simin Behbahani was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and activist. Renowned for her mastery of the ghazal, a traditional poetic form, she became an icon of modern Persian poetry. The Iranian intelligentsia and literati…

2014

James Foley

American photographer and journalist (born 1973)

James Wright Foley was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in north-western Syria. He was murdered…

2014

Candida Lycett Green

Anglo-Irish journalist and author (born 1942)

Candida Rose Lycett Green was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television…

2014

George Houser

American minister and activist (born 1916)

George Mills Houser was an American Methodist minister, civil rights activist, and activist for the independence of African nations. He served on the staff of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (1940s–1950s).

2015

Sanat Mehta

Indian activist and politician (born 1935)

Sanat Mehta was an Indian politician and social activist from Gujarat, India. He was associated with Indian National Congress. He served as labour and finance minister of the state. Mehta was elected to Lok Sabha from…

2015

Jack Riley

American actor and voice artist (born 1935)

John Albert Riley Jr. was an American actor, comedian and writer, best known for his comedic roles. He is known for playing Elliot Carlin, a chronic psychology client of Bob Newhart's character on The Bob Newhart Show,…

2016

Dick Gregory

American comedian, author and activist (born 1932)

Richard Claxton Gregory was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic. Gregory became popular among the African-American communities in the southern United States with his "no-holds-barred" sets,…

2017

Lars Larsen

Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (born 1948)

Lars Kristinus Larsen was a Danish businessman, owner and founder of the Jysk retail chain.

2019

Sonny Chiba

Japanese actor (born 1939)

Shinichi Chiba IPA: [tɕiꜜba ɕiɰ̃itɕi], known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in…

2021

Tekla Juniewicz

Polish supercentenarian (born 1906)

Tekla Juniewicz was a Polish supercentenarian who, living to the age of 116 years and 70 days, was the oldest living Polish person from 20 July 2017 until her death on 19 August 2022, and remains the oldest validated…

2022

Václav Patejdl

Slovak musician (born 1954)

Vašo Patejdl was a Slovak musician and composer. He was best known for being a co-founder and long-term member of the pop-rock band Elán. He wrote songs for other musicians, including the Richard Müller single "Po…

2023

Maria Branyas

American-Spanish supercentenarian (born 1907)

Maria Branyas Morera was an American-born Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17…

2024

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Linus Pauling — American scientist and activist (1901–1994)

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Known forHe published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics

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Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. Wikipedia →

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The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar. Wikipedia →

2010

Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. Wikipedia →

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