Did you know
William Ewart Gladstone's four non-consecutive terms — the most of any British prime minister — took place between 1868 and 1894.
Notable Deaths on May 19
1898 — William Ewart Gladstone
English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
May 19 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 804 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
114 source records
804 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on May 19
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1848 Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million. Source
- 1963 The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Source
- 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte and his expedition force leave France to invade Egypt. Source
- 1828 U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, sparking outrage in the South and leading to the Nullification crisis. Source
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In 1947, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film A Double Life.
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Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence".
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While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
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Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España.
More major people who died on May 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1958
Ronald Colman
English actor (born 1891)
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States, where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career.
1895
José Martí
Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (born 1853)
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his…
1969
Coleman Hawkins
American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1901)
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E.
1994
Luis Ocaña
Spanish cyclist (born 1945)
Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España.
804
Alcuin
English monk and scholar (born 735)
Alcuin of York, also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York.
1936
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
British Islamic scholar (born 1875)
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran.
1715
Charles Montagu
1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1661)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax was a British politician and poet.
2011
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
American artist (born 1944)
Jeffrey Catherine Jones was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s.
2012
Phil Lamason
New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1918)
Phillip John Lamason, was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration…
1903
Arthur Shrewsbury
English cricketer (born 1856)
Arthur Shrewsbury was an English cricketer and rugby football administrator. He was widely rated as competing with W. G.
2014
Vincent Harding
American historian and scholar (born 1931)
Vincent Gordon Harding was an African-American pastor, historian, and scholar of various topics with a focus on American religion and society.
1994
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (born 1929)
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.
2008
Vijay Tendulkar
Indian playwright and screenwriter (born 1928)
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was an Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marathi.
2016
Alan Young
English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919)
Alan Young was a British actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland…
2024
Christian Malanga
Congolese politician, businessman and military officer (born 1983)
Christian Malanga Musumari was a Congolese-American-French politician, businessman, and military officer.
2017
Stanislav Petrov
Lt. Colonel in Soviet Air Defence Forces (born 1939)
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a Russian lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
1609
García Hurtado de Mendoza
5th Marquis of Cañete (born 1535)
García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete was a Spanish Governor of Chile, and later Viceroy of Peru. He is often known simply as "Marquis of Cañete".
2011
Garret FitzGerald
Irish lawyer and politician, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1926)
Garret Desmond FitzGerald was an Irish Fine Gael politician, economist, and barrister who served twice as Taoiseach, serving from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987.
1777
Button Gwinnett
British-born American politician and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1735)
Button Gwinnett was a British-born American Founding Father who, as a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress, was one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence.