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In 1969 art historian Kenneth Clark wrote of Turner: "He was a genius of the first order—far the greatest painter that England has ever produced ...
Notable Deaths on December 19
1851 — Joseph Mallord William Turner
English painter (born 1775)
December 19 has 91 recorded notable deaths across history, from 401 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
91 source records
401 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on December 19
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 2012 Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea. Source
- 1828 Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. Source
- 1929 The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India). Source
- 1606 The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. Source
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Sally Ann Howes was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance in Brigadoon in 1963, and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead in 2000.
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Ellis also played for the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers and New York Mets.
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Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925.
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As the latter became sultan of Egypt, the deposition of Abbas II marked the de jure end of the nearly four-century long era of Ottoman Egypt, which had started with Ottoman conquest in 1517.
More major people who died on December 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2021
Sally Ann Howes
English-American singer and actress (born 1930)
Sally Ann Howes was an English actress and singer, whose career on screen, stage and television spanned six decades. She was best known as a leading lady of musical theatre, both on the West End and on Broadway.
2008
Dock Ellis
American baseball player and coach (born 1945)
Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. was an American professional baseball player.
1927
Ram Prasad Bismil
Indian poet and activist (born 1897)
Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925.
1944
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.
2008
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.
1946
Paul Langevin
French physicist and academic (born 1872)
Paul Langevin was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation.
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.
1385
Bernabò Visconti
Lord of Milan (born 1319)
Bernabò or Barnabò Visconti was an Italian soldier and statesman who was Lord of Milan. Along with his brothers Matteo and Galeazzo II, he inherited the lordship of Milan from his uncle Giovanni.
1813
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.
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.
1899
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.
1986
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.
1807
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.
1940
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.
2012
Robert Bork
American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (born 1927)
Robert Heron Bork was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977.
1741
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.
1989
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.
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.
2003
Hope Lange
American actress (born 1933)
Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress.