Notable Deaths on December 19

Q: Who died on December 19?

Notable people who died on December 19 include: Pope Anastasius I, Sancho I, Adelaide of Susa, Al-Ghazali, Saint Berardo.

Q: What is Bernabò Visconti known for?

Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (born 1319)

91 people 401 – 2024

December 19 has seen 91 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 401 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1385 — Bernabò Visconti

Lord of Milan (born 1319)

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Later in 1355, he and Galeazzo II were rumored to have murdered their brother Matteo since he endangered the regime

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On 6 May 1385, his nephew Gian Galeazzo deposed him

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Bernabò or Barnabò Visconti was an Italian soldier and statesman who was Lord of Milan

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Along with his brothers Matteo and Galeazzo II, he inherited the lordship of Milan from his uncle Giovanni

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When Galeazzo II died, he shared Milan's lordship with his nephew Gian Galeazzo

Pope Anastasius I

Pope Anastasius I was the bishop of Rome from 27 November 399 to his death on 19 December 401.

401

Sancho I

king of León

Sancho I of León, nicknamed Sancho the Fat was a king of León twice. He was succeeded in 958 by Ordoño IV and, on his death, by his son Ramiro.

966

Adelaide of Susa

margravine of Turin

Adelaide of Susa was the countess of part of the March of Ivrea and the Marchioness of Turin in Northwestern Italy from 1034 to her death. She was the last of the Arduinici. She is sometimes compared to her second…

1091

Al-Ghazali

Persian jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic (born 1058)

Al-Ghazali, (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد غزالی توسی, romanized: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī Ṭūsi, Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Persian scholar and polymath. He is known as one of…

1111

Saint Berardo

Italian bishop and saint

Berardo is an Italian saint, patron saint of the city and diocese of Teramo.

1123

Agnes of France

Duchess of Burgundy (born 1260)

Agnes of France was Duchess of Burgundy by marriage to Robert II, Duke of Burgundy. She served as regent of Burgundy during the minority of her son's reign in 1306–1311.

1327

Pope Urban V (born 1310)

Pope Urban V was head of the Catholic Church from 28 September 1362 until his death on 19 December 1370. He was a member of the Order of Saint Benedict and the only Avignon pope to be beatified.

1370

Elizabeth of Luxembourg (born 1409)

Elizabeth of Luxembourg was queen consort of Hungary, queen consort of Germany and Bohemia.

1442

Cornelius Grapheus

Flemish writer (born 1482)

Cornelius Grapheus, Latinized from Cornelis De Schrijver, was a secretary to the city of Antwerp and writer.

1558

Christina of Lorraine

Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (born 1565)

Christina of Lorraine was a noblewoman of the House of Lorraine who became a Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage. She served as Regent of Tuscany jointly with her daughter-in-law during the minority of her grandson…

1637

Vitus Bering

Danish-born Russian explorer (born 1681)

Vitus Jonassen Bering, also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish-born Russian cartographer, explorer, and officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, the First Kamchatka…

1741

Jean-Baptiste van Loo

French painter (born 1684)

Jean-Baptiste van Loo was a French portrait painter.

1745

Francesco Antonio Bonporti

Italian priest and composer (born 1672)

Francesco Antonio Bonporti was an Italian priest and amateur composer.

1749

Friedrich Melchior

Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (born 1723)

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. In 1765 Grimm…

1807

James McGill

Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (born 1744)

James McGill was a Scottish-born businessman, politician, slaveholder, and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower…

1813

Thomas Fremantle

English admiral and politician (born 1765)

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Fremantle, was a Royal Navy officer whose accolades include three separate fleet actions, a close friendship with Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and being…

1819

Emily Brontë

English novelist and poet (born 1818)

Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

1848

Joseph Mallord William Turner

English painter (born 1775)

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often…

1851

Bayard Taylor

American author and poet (born 1825)

Bayard Taylor was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that…

1878

Henry Ware Lawton

American general (born 1843)

Henry Ware Lawton was a U.S. Army officer who served with distinction in the Civil War, the Apache Wars, and the Spanish–American War. He received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the American Civil War. He was the…

1899

Alois Alzheimer

German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)

Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as…

1915

Thibaw Min

Burmese king (born 1859)

Thibaw Min, also Thebaw, was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) and also the last Burmese monarch in the country's history. His reign ended when the Royal Burmese armed forces were defeated by the…

1916

Ashfaqulla Khan

Indian activist (born 1900)

Ashfaqulla Khan was a freedom fighter and martyr in the Indian independence movement against British rule, and the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association, later to become the Hindustan Socialist Republican…

1927

Ram Prasad Bismil

Indian poet and activist (born 1897)

Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary Rajput who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925. He composed in Urdu and Hindi…

1927

Yun Bong-gil

South Korean activist (born 1908)

Yun Bong-gil was a Korean independence activist. His art name is Maeheon (매헌). He is most notable for his role in the Hongkou Park Incident, in which he set off a bomb that killed two Japanese colonial government and…

1932

George Jackson Churchward

English engineer and businessman (born 1857)

George Jackson Churchward was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.

1933

Stephen Warfield Gambrill

American lawyer and politician (born 1873)

Stephen Warfield Gambrill was an American politician.

1938

Kyösti Kallio

Finnish politician, the 4th President of Finland (born 1873)

Kyösti Kallio was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1937 to 1940. His presidency included leading the country through the Winter War; while he relinquished the post of commander-in-chief…

1940

Abbas II of Egypt (born 1874)

Abbas Helmy II was the last Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan, ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914, after the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in World War I, the nationalist Khedive was removed…

1944

Rudolph Karstadt

German businessman (born 1856)

Rudolph Karstadt was a German entrepreneur.

1944

Paul Langevin

French physicist and academic (born 1872)

Paul Langevin was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created…

1946

Robert Andrews Millikan

American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)

Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."

1953

Norman Thomas

American minister and politician (born 1884)

Norman Mattoon Thomas was an American Presbyterian minister, political activist, and perennial candidate for president. He achieved fame as a socialist and pacifist, and was the Socialist Party of America's candidate…

1968

Ahmet Emin Yalman

Turkish journalist, author, and academic (born 1888)

Ahmet Emin Yalman was a Turkish journalist, publisher, professor and influential policy-advisor in the Republic of Turkey. He was a liberal and opposed the spread of the Nazi ideology in his home country.

1972

Giuseppe Caselli

Italian painter (born 1893)

Giuseppe Ugo Caselli was an Italian painter.

1976

Dwight Macdonald

American philosopher, author, and critic (born 1906)

Dwight Macdonald was an American writer, critic, philosopher, and activist. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist magazine Partisan Review for six years. He also contributed to…

1982

Joy Ridderhof

American missionary (born 1903)

Joy F. Ridderhof was an American missionary.

1984

V. C. Andrews

American author (born 1923)

Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as Virginia C. Andrews or V. C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was best known for her 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, which inspired two movie adaptations and four sequels.…

1986

Werner Dankwort

Russian-German colonel and diplomat (born 1895)

Carl Werner Dankwort born in Gumbinnen, East Prussia, was a German diplomat who served a major role in bringing Germany into the League of Nations in 1926 prior to representing the German contingent in the Organisation…

1986

August Mälk

Estonian author, playwright, and politician (born 1900)

August Mälk was an Estonian writer and politician.

1987

Robert Bernstein

American author and playwright (born 1919)

Robert Bernstein, sometimes credited as R. Berns, was an American comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, notable as the founder of the Island Concert Hall recital series which ran for 15 years on Long…

1988

Win Maw Oo

Burmese student activist (born 1971)

Win Maw Oo was a Burmese student activist who was killed during the 8888 Uprising in Burma (Myanmar). She is considered one of the most prominent heroes of Burma's pro-democracy movement.

1988

Stella Gibbons

English journalist, author, and poet (born 1902)

Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a…

1989

Kirill Mazurov

Belarusian Soviet politician (born 1914)

Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov was a Soviet partisan, politician, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the…

1989

Michael Clarke

American drummer (born 1946)

Michael Clarke was an American musician, best known as the drummer for rock group the Byrds from 1964 to 1968. Clarke was later an original for country rock group The Flying Burrito Brothers (1969–1971) and rock group…

1993

Marcello Mastroianni

Italian-French actor and singer (born 1924)

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of the country's top directors,…

1996

Sara Northrup Hollister

American occultist (born 1924)

Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister was an American occultist and second wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement…

1997

Masaru Ibuka

Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (born 1908)

Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.

1997

Jimmy Rogers

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1924)

Jay or James Arthur "Jimmy" Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s. He also had a solo career and…

1997

Mel Fisher

American treasure hunter (born 1922)

Mel Fisher was an American treasure hunter who spent decades treasure hunting in the Florida Keys and is best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the 1970s.

1998

Desmond Llewelyn

Welsh soldier and actor (born 1914)

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.

1999

Rob Buck

American guitarist and songwriter (born 1958)

Robert Norman Buck was an American guitarist and founding member of the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. Buck co-wrote some of the most successful songs recorded by 10,000 Maniacs, including "What's the Matter…

2000

Milt Hinton

American bassist and photographer (born 1910)

Milton John Hinton was an American double bassist and photographer.

2000

John Lindsay

American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (born 1921)

John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City, and a candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of…

2000

Will Hoy

English race car driver (born 1952)

William Ewing Hoy was a British racing driver and the 1991 British Touring Car Champion, the highlight of a 20-year career in motor racing.

2002

Arthur Rowley

English footballer and manager (born 1926)

George Arthur Rowley Jr., nicknamed "The Gunner" because of his explosive left-foot shot, was an English football player and cricketer. He holds the record for the most goals in the history of English league football,…

2002

George Weller

American author, playwright, and journalist (born 1907)

George Anthony Weller was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News. He won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize as a Daily News war correspondent.

2002

Peter Carter-Ruck

English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (born 1914)

Peter Frederick Carter-Ruck was an English solicitor, specialising in libel cases. The firm he founded, Carter-Ruck, is still practising.

2003

Hope Lange

American actress (born 1933)

Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of…

2003

Herbert C. Brown

English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

Herbert Charles Brown was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.

2004

Renata Tebaldi

Italian soprano and actress (born 1922)

Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala, San Carlo and, especially, the Metropolitan Opera. Often considered among the…

2004

Vincent Gigante

American mobster (born 1927)

Vincent Louis Gigante, also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City between 1981 and 2005.

2005

James Bevel

American minister and activist (born 1936)

James Luther Bevel was an American minister and a leader and major strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and then as its director of direct…

2008

Carol Chomsky

American linguist and educator (born 1930)

Carol Doris Chomsky was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children.

2008

Michael Connell

American political consultant (born 1963)

Michael Louis Connell was a high-level Republican consultant who was subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with the 2004 U.S. presidential election and a case involving thousands of missing emails pertaining…

2008

Dock Ellis

American baseball player and coach (born 1945)

Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won…

2008

Kim Peek

American megasavant (born 1951)

Laurence Kim Peek was an American savant. Known as a "megasavant", he had an exceptional memory and exceptional intelligence, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental…

2009

Anthony Howard

English journalist and author (born 1934)

Anthony Michell Howard, CBE was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was the editor of the New Statesman and The Listener and the deputy editor of The Observer. He selected the passages used in The Crossman…

2010

Robert Bork

American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (born 1927)

Robert Heron "Bob" Bork was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A law professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General from 1973 to…

2012

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (born 1944)

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak was an Israeli military officer and politician. He served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, as a Member of the Knesset, and as Minister of Transportation and Minister of Tourism.

2012

Larry Morris

American football player (born 1933)

Larry Cleo Morris was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Chicago Bears. The 1950 graduate of Decatur High School became an…

2012

Peter Struck

German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (born 1943)

Peter Struck was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. A lawyer, Struck was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

2012

Winton Dean

English musicologist and author (born 1916)

Winton Basil Dean was an English musicologist of the 20th century, most famous for his research on the life and works—in particular the operas and oratorios—of George Frideric Handel, as detailed in his book Handel's…

2013

Al Goldstein

American publisher and pornographer (born 1936)

Alvin Goldstein was an American pornographer best known for publishing the sex newspaper Screw and normalizing hardcore pornography in the United States.

2013

Ned Vizzini

American author and screenwriter (born 1981)

Edison Price Vizzini was an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and…

2013

S. Balasubramanian

Indian journalist and director (born 1936)

S. Balasubramanian, better known as S. S. Balan, was an Indian journalist, filmmaker, political analyst, and media executive. He was also involved in aviculture and agriculture.

2014

Philip Bradbourn

English lawyer and politician (born 1951)

Philip Charles Bradbourn, was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 1999 to 2014.

2014

Arthur Gardner

American actor and producer (born 1910)

Arthur Gardner was an American actor and film producer. He was known for his television western, The Rifleman. He was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

2014

Igor Rodionov

Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (born 1936)

Igor Nikolayevich Rodionov was a Russian general and Duma deputy. He is best known as a hardline politician, and for his service heading the Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation.

2014

Dick Thornton

American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1939)

Richard Quincy "Tricky Dick" Thornton was an American professional football player who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a defensive back and wide receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto…

2014

Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin)

British writer, artist and TV producer (born 1926).

Roberta Leigh was an assumed name for Rita Lewin who was a British author, artist, composer and television producer. She wrote romance fiction and children's stories under the pseudonyms Roberta Leigh, Rachel Lindsay,…

2014

Jimmy Hill

English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (born 1928)

James William Thomas Hill, OBE was an English footballer and later a television personality. His career included almost every role in the sport, including player, trade union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman,…

2015

Greville Janner

Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (born 1928)

Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, was a British politician, barrister and writer. He became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general election as a last-minute candidate,…

2015

Karin Söder

Swedish educator and politician, 33rd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

Karin Ann-Marie Söder was a Swedish Centre politician. She was the first woman in Sweden to be elected the leader of a major political party. She headed the Swedish Centre Party from 1985 to 1987. She was also one of…

2015

Andrei Karlov

Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (born 1954)

Andrei Gennadyevich Karlov was a Russian diplomat who served as the Russian ambassador to Turkey and earlier as the Russian ambassador to North Korea.

2016

Rosalind Knight

English actress (born 1933)

Rosalind Marie Elliott was an English actress. Her career spanned 70 years on stage, screen, and television. Her film appearances include Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957), Carry On Nurse (1959), Carry On Teacher…

2020

Sally Ann Howes

English-American singer and actress (born 1930)

Sally Ann Howes was an English and American actress and singer. Her career on screen, stage and television spanned six decades. She is best known for the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty…

2021

Johnny Isakson

American politician (born 1944)

John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 until his resignation in 2019 following health concerns. A member of the Republican Party, he…

2021

Michael Leunig

Australian cartoonist (born 1945)

Michael Leunig, typically referred to by his pen name Leunig, was an Australian cartoonist, poet and artist. He was best known for his work for Melbourne's The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

2024

Wincey Willis

British broadcaster (born 1948)

Wincey Willis was a British television and radio broadcaster who achieved national fame in the 1980s. She was perhaps best known for being part of the line up at TV-am, the UK's first national operator of a commercial…

2024

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Bernabò Visconti — Medieval Italian statesman (1323–1385)

FeaturedBernabò Visconti

Death year1385

Known forAlong with his brothers Matteo and Galeazzo II, he inherited the lordship of Milan from his uncle Giovanni

Deaths on this date91 (401 – 2024)

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Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard. Wikipedia →

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