Notable Deaths - 1919
1919 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 |
Jan 1 |
Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881) |
Jan 1 |
R.G. Knowles, R.G. Knowles the Comedian Making Progress Up Pyramid |
Jan 2 |
Luray Huntley, Cards |
Jan 4 |
Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843) |
Jan 5 |
Sumako Matsui, Katyusha no uta |
Jan 6 |
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), dies in NY at 60 |
Jan 6 |
Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865) |
Jan 6 |
Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt |
Jan 7 |
Captain Bates, Freaks Uncensored! |
Jan 8 |
Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59 |
Jan 8 |
J. Franklin Bell, Brigadier-General Franklin Bell and Staff |
Jan 10 |
Stanley Murphy, Spring Fever |
Jan 10 |
Heinrich Lautensack, Zweimal gelebt |
Jan 12 |
John Mason, Moral Suicide |
Jan 12 |
Charles Wyndham, David Garrick |
Jan 14 |
Shelly Hull, Sapho |
Jan 15 |
Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47 |
Jan 15 |
Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered |
Jan 15 |
Karl Liebknecht, |
Jan 15 |
Rosa Luxemburg, Valitsen rohkeuden |
Jan 16 |
Jaroslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 19 |
Jan 16 |
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848) |
Jan 18 |
John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13 |
Jan 20 |
Herman Whitaker, 3 Bad Men |
Jan 21 |
Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852) |
Jan 27 |
Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877) |
Jan 27 |
Endre Ady, A bor lelke |
Jan 27 |
Charles McCarron, Blue Jasmine |
Jan 30 |
Ermete Novelli, Re Lear |
Jan 31 |
Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79 |
Jan 31 |
Nat C. Goodwin, Oliver Twist |
Jan 31 |
Paul Lindau, Der Andere |
Feb 2 |
Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer, dies at 55 |
Feb 5 |
Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62 |
Feb 6 |
Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81 |
Feb 7 |
William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841) |
Feb 11 |
Kathryn Browne-Decker, The Beloved Vagabond |
Feb 15 |
Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66 |
Feb 16 |
Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893) |
Feb 17 |
Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the New South Wales Lancers |
Feb 17 |
Vera Kholodnaya, Her Sister's Rival |
Feb 21 |
Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77 |
Feb 21 |
Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46 |
Feb 21 |
Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies |
Feb 21 |
Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51 |
Feb 21 |
Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and feminist, only woman awarded Medal of Honor (US Civil War) dies aged 86 |
Feb 21 |
Elfriede Heisler, Das Buch Esther |
Feb 21 |
Kurt Eisner, |
Feb 24 |
Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41 |
Feb 25 |
Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879) |
Mar 2 |
Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812) |
Mar 2 |
Charles E. van Loan, Buck Parvin in the Movies |
Mar 5 |
Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67 |
Mar 8 |
Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88 |
Mar 11 |
Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36 |
Mar 13 |
Harry Wilson Lyon, The Weavers of Life |
Mar 16 |
Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 39 |
Mar 16 |
Sigurd Von Koch, Minlotsen |
Mar 16 |
Gerald Griffin, A Pair of Cupids |
Mar 17 |
Constance Crawley, Just Her Luck |
Mar 23 |
Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45 |
Mar 23 |
Henry Martyn Blossom, The Red Mill |
Mar 28 |
Heinrich Vollrath Schumacher, Lady Hamilton |
Apr 3 |
Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62 |
Apr 4 |
William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 |
Apr 6 |
Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63 |
Apr 8 |
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848) |
Apr 9 |
Sidney Drew, A Florida Enchantment |
Apr 10 |
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39 |
Apr 10 |
Emiliano Zapata, |
Apr 17 |
Svetozar Corovic, Stojan Mutikasa |
Apr 18 |
Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35 |
Apr 21 |
Jules Védrines, Max dans les airs |
Apr 24 |
Nella Bergen, The Summer Girl |
Apr 30 |
Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies |
May 2 |
Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies |
May 2 |
George Gebhardt, An Awful Moment |
May 3 |
Daniel Gilfether, Zollenstein |
May 4 |
Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880) |
May 6 |
Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62 |
May 6 |
L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz |
May 14 |
Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 74 |
May 17 |
Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80 |
May 17 |
Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848) |
May 20 |
Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies |
May 21 |
Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies |
May 21 |
Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853) |
May 21 |
Lamar Johnstone, The Return of James Jerome |
May 24 |
Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican poet, dies at 48 |
May 25 |
Madame C. J. Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51 |
May 26 |
Pál Gozsdu, Köd |
May 27 |
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848) |
May 28 |
Dan Albert, No Place Like Jail |
May 29 |
Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860) |
May 31 |
Péter Andorffy, Casanova |
Jun 1 |
Manuel Klein, The Jungle |
Jun 8 |
Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78 |
Jun 8 |
James Lackaye, An Old Man's Love Story |
Jun 11 |
John C. Spooner, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
Jun 14 |
Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody: The Domestic Jottings of a City Clerk |
Jun 23 |
Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, dies |
Jun 27 |
K.E. Ståhlberg, Margaretaa ajetaan takaa |
Jun 29 |
José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864) |
Jun 30 |
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76 |
Jul 1 |
Stella Lind, The Flying Circus |
Jul 2 |
Anna Howard Shaw, Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play |
Jul 7 |
Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies |
Jul 8 |
John Fox Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine |
Jul 10 |
Edward Abeles, Brewster's Millions |
Jul 12 |
Charles Rock, A Christmas Carol |
Jul 15 |
Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, commits suicide at 66 |
Jul 21 |
James B. Orman, Christian Endeavor Greeting |
Jul 25 |
Nat Gould, The Rank Outsider |
Jul 25 |
Otto Conradsen, The Isle of the Dead |
Jul 26 |
Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) |
Jul 31 |
R G Barlow, cricketer (591 runs/34 wickets/17 Tests for England), dies |
Aug 4 |
D[ave] W Gregory, cricketer (brother of Ned, uncle of Syd), dies |
Aug 7 |
William Nathaniel Harben, Love Never Dies |
Aug 9 |
Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85 |
Aug 9 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62 |
Aug 9 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo, The Untouchables |
Aug 9 |
Ernst Haeckel, Messengers |
Aug 11 |
Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83 |
Aug 11 |
Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie |
Aug 18 |
Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841) |
Aug 20 |
Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies |
Aug 20 |
Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869) |
Aug 24 |
Amado Nervo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz entre el cielo y la razón |
Aug 25 |
Gustav Schönwald, Das Karnickel |
Aug 27 |
Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies at 56 |
Aug 30 |
Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies |
Sep 2 |
Dee Lampton, Skinny's False Alarm |
Sep 6 |
Worm Pander, sculptor |
Sep 11 |
Géza Csáth, Opium: Diary of a Madwoman |
Sep 12 |
Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48 |
Sep 12 |
Leonid Andreyev, He Who Gets Slapped |
Sep 23 |
Ignjat Borstnik, Brisem i sudim |
Sep 24 |
Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies |
Sep 27 |
Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76 |
Sep 27 |
Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies |
Sep 28 |
William Parsons, He Did and He Didn't |
Oct 2 |
Ernest Halliwell, cricketer (South African wicketkeeper 1892-1904), dies |
Oct 3 |
Daniel Brink Towner, composer, dies at 69 |
Oct 5 |
Jean Louis Nicode, composer, dies at 66 |
Oct 7 |
Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856) |
Oct 8 |
Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies |
Oct 11 |
Karl Gjellerup, Kvarnen |
Oct 13 |
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857) |
Oct 14 |
Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies |
Oct 14 |
Angel Gregorio Villoldo, Scent of a Woman |
Oct 16 |
Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday |
Oct 17 |
H.B. Irving, The Lyons Mail |
Oct 21 |
Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77 |
Oct 22 |
Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30 |
Oct 27 |
John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Aust one Test 1895, one catch), dies |
Oct 27 |
Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08), dies |
Oct 28 |
Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies |
Oct 29 |
Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60 |
Oct 29 |
A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843) |
Oct 30 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Belle of the Season |
Nov 1 |
Cajus Bruun, The Gambler's Penalty |
Nov 4 |
Giacinta Pezzana, Teresa Raquin |
Nov 6 |
Martin Dessau, Direktør Ivar Knudsen til prøvesejlads om bord paa et dieselskib, omgivet af repræsentanter for handel og industri, hvoriblandt admiral A. de Richelieu, etatsraad Martin Dessau, gehejmeetatsraad Julius Larsen, baron Blixen-Finecke og flere |
Nov 7 |
Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 |
Nov 9 |
Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848) |
Nov 15 |
Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies |
Nov 15 |
Mohammad Farid, an influential Egyptian political figure. |
Nov 18 |
Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies |
Nov 21 |
Georg Queri, Mattheis bricht's Eis |
Nov 22 |
Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852) |
Nov 24 |
William Stowell, Fighting Mad |
Nov 25 |
Lavinia Warren, The Lilliputians' Courtship |
Nov 29 |
Christian Hansen, Peder Tordenskjold |
Dec 2 |
Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69 |
Dec 3 |
Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78 |
Dec 3 |
Auguste Renoir, Escalier C |
Dec 11 |
Mrs. E.M. Kimball, The Feast of Life |
Dec 13 |
Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74 |
Dec 13 |
Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850) |
Dec 16 |
Luigi Illica, Quantum of Solace |
Dec 18 |
Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56 |
Dec 18 |
John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 |
Dec 27 |
Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73 |
Dec 27 |
Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68 |
Dec 28 |
Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) |
Dec 29 |
Pauline Hall, The Governor's Boss |
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