Died on This Day (19-Apr)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Verena Wagner Lafferentz | Verena Wagner Lafferentz was the fourth child and younger daughter of Winifred and Siegfried Wagner, and the youngest granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner. | Granddaughter of Richard Wagner | 98 | 1 | |
Estelle Balet | Estelle Balet was a Swiss freeride snowboarder and two-time world champion in 2015 and 2016 at the Freeride World Tour. | Swiss freeride snowboarder | 21 | 4 | |
François Jacob | François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. | French scientist | 92 | 7 | |
Elisabeth Sladen | Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen was an English actress. | English actress | 65 | 9 | |
Ruth Hussey | Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story. | American actress | 93 | 15 | |
Louis Applebaum | Louis Applebaum CC OOnt FRCMT was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor. | Canadian film score composer | 82 | 20 | |
Jack Broome | Captain John Egerton Broome DSC , also known as Jackie Broome, was a Royal Navy officer who served in both World Wars. | Royal Navy officer | 84 | 35 | |
Imtiaz Ali Taj | Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj was a Pakistani dramatist who wrote in the Urdu language. | Pakistani (Urdu) dramatist | 69 | 50 | |
Jean Baffier | Jean Baffier , was a French sculptor. | French artist | 68 | 100 | |
Andreas Schelfhout | Andreas Schelfhout was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, known for his landscape paintings. | Dutch painter | 83 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Aaron Hernandez | Aaron Josef Hernandez was an American football tight end. | American football tight end | 27 | 3 | |
Frits Thors | Alexander Frederik Paul "Frits" Thors was a Dutch journalist and news anchor. | Dutch television presenter | 104 | 6 | |
Levon Helm | Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. | American musician and actor | 71 | 8 | |
Guru (rapper) | Keith Edward Elam , better known by his stage name Guru , was an American rapper and record producer. | American rapper | 48 | 10 | |
Norris McWhirter | Norris Dewar McWhirter CBE was a British writer, political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television presenter. | Guinness Book of Records | 78 | 16 | |
Iqbal Masih | Child labourer | Child labourer | 12 | 25 | |
Oleksandr Udovychenko | Oleksandr Ivanovych Udovychenko was a general of the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic and a military administrator. | Ukrainian general | 88 | 45 | |
Charles Delestraint | Charles Delestraint was a French Army lieutenant general and member of the French Resistance during World War II. | French general | 66 | 75 | |
George Scharf | Sir George Scharf KCB was a British art critic, illustrator, and director of the National Portrait Gallery. | British artist | 74 | 125 | |
Esprit Antoine Blanchard | Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard was a French baroque composer, a contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, and regarded as a representative composer of religious music in eighteenth-century France. | French baroque composer | 74 | 250 |