Notable Deaths on May 19

114 people 804 – 2024

May 19 has seen 114 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 804 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Ronald Colman

1958 — Ronald Colman

English actor (born 1891)

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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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Colman received Oscar nominations for Bulldog Drummond (1929), Condemned (1929) and Random Harvest (1942)

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He starred in several classic films, including A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Lost Horizon (1937) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

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Colman also played the starring role in the Technicolor classic Kismet (1944), with Marlene Dietrich

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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


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. At…
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804
Robert
archbishop of Trier
Robert, also spelled Ruotbert or Rotbert, was the archbishop of Trier from 931 until his death. He played a leading role in the politics of both Germany and France, and especially of the Lotharingian territory in…
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956
Dunstan
English archbishop and saint (born 909)
Dunstan was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. His work restored monastic life in…
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988
Stephen
Count of Blois (born 1045)
Stephen Henry was the count of Blois and Chartres. He led an army during the First Crusade, was at the surrender of the city of Nicaea, and directed the siege of Antioch. Returning home without fulfilling his crusader…
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1102
Vladimir II Monomakh
Grand Prince of Kiev
Vladimir II Monomakh was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1113 to 1125. Prince Monomakh distinguished himself in 83 large-scale campaigns into Polovtsian lands (Cumania), which made Polovtsians (Cumans) and their Khans fear…
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1125
Saint Bashnouna
Egyptian saint and martyr
Bashnouna was a Coptic saint and martyr.
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1164
Otto IV
Holy Roman Emperor
Otto IV was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218.
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1218
Pope Celestine V (born 1215)
Pope Celestine V, born Pietro Angelerio, also known as Pietro da Morrone, Peter of Morrone, and Peter Celestine, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States for five months from 5 July to 13 December…
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1296
Saint Ivo of Kermartin
French canon lawyer (born 1253)
Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives, was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the patron of Brittany, lawyers, and…
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1303
Louis
Count of Évreux (born 1276)
Louis of Évreux was a Capetian prince and count of Évreux. He was the only son of King Philip III of France and his second wife Marie of Brabant, and thus a half-brother of King Philip IV.
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1319
Dmitry Donskoy
Grand Prince of Muscovy (born 1350)
Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy was Prince of Moscow from 1359 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1363 until his death. He was the heir of Ivan II.
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1389
John I of Aragon (born 1350)
John I, called by posterity the Hunter or the Lover of Elegance, or the Abandoned in his lifetime, was the King of Aragon from 1387 until his death.
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1396
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (born 1464)
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara was the 104th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from November 16, 1500, to May 19, 1526. His personal name was Katsuhito (勝仁). His reign marked the…
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1526
Jan Łaski
Polish archbishop and diplomat (born 1456)
Jan Łaski was a Polish nobleman, Grand Chancellor of the Crown (1503–10), diplomat, from 1490 secretary to Poland's King Casimir IV Jagiellon and from 1508 coadjutor to the Archbishop of Lwów.
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1531
Anne Boleyn
Queen of England (1533–1536); second wife of Henry VIII of England
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious…
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1536
Costanzo Porta
Italian composer (born 1528)
Costanzo Porta was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher, and had a…
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1601
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". Belonging to an influential family of Spanish…
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1609
Spanish priest and theologian (born 1550)
Tomás Sánchez was a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit and famous casuist.
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1610
Mariam-uz-Zamani
Empress of the Mughal Empire (born 1542)
Mariam-uz-Zamani, commonly known by the misnomer Jodha Bai, was the chief consort, principal wife and the favourite wife of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. She was also the longest-serving Hindu empress of the Mughal…
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1623
Dutch scientist and philosopher (born 1588)
Isaac Beeckman was a Dutch philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have "virtually given birth to modern atomism".
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1637
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Notable deaths

Who died on May 19?

Ronald Colman — British and American actor (1891–1958)

Death year1958
Known forColman starred in silent films and successfully transitioned to sound, aided by his distinctive, pleasing voice
Deaths on this date114 (804 – 2024)

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