2019 Deaths: Part 1

Deaths 2019: Part 1

January:

1st: Ludwig W. Adamec, 94, Austrian-born American historian.

1st: Yuri Artsutanov, 89, Russian engineer. Helped pioneer the Space Elevator.

1st: Ke Hua, 103, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Guinea, Ghana, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.

1st: Raymond Ramazani Baya, 75, Congolese politician, Foreign Minister (2004–2007) and Ambassador to France (1990–1996).

3rd: Theodore E. Gildred, 83, American diplomat, Ambassador to Argentina (1986–1989).

3rd: Herb Kelleher, 87, American businessman, co-founder of Southwest Airlines.

4th: Harold Brown, 91, American government official and nuclear physicist, Secretary of Defense (1977–1981), pancreatic cancer.

6th: Gebhardt von Moltke, 80, German diplomat, Ambassador to the UK (1997–1999).

7th: Moshe Arens, 93, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer and politician, Minister of Defense (1983–1984, 1990–1992, 1999) and Foreign Affairs (1988–1990).

7th: Guy Charmot, 104, French resistance fighter.

9th: Don Reynolds, 81, American child actor (Song of Arizona, The Fighting Redhead, Beyond the Purple Hills).

11th: Marge Callaghan, 97, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

12th: Joe M. Jackson, 95, American Air Force officer, Medal of Honor recipient.

12th: Taw Phaya, 94, Burmese prince, Head of the Royal House of Konbaung (since 1956).

13th: Alfred K. Newman, 94, American Navajo code talker.

13th: Francis W. Nye, 100, American major general in the U.S. Air Force.

14th: Paweł Adamowicz, 53, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdańsk (since 1998), stabbed.

14th: Milton Bluehouse Sr., 82, American politician, President of the Navajo Nation (1998–1999).

15th: Bradley Bolke, 93, American voice actor (The New Casper Cartoon Show, Underdog, The Year Without a Santa Claus).

15th: Carol Channing, 97, American actress (Hello, Dolly!, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Thoroughly Modern Millie), singer and dancer, Tony winner (1964).

16th: Shannon M. Kent, 35, American Navy chief cryptologic technician, bombing.

16th: Hugh Lewin, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist and writer.

17th: Mary Oliver, 83, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (1984), lymphoma.

17th: Mary Jane Osborn, 91, American biochemist and molecular biologist.

17th: Helen Smith, 97, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

19th: Tony Mendez, 78, American intelligence officer (CIA), subject of Argo, complications from Parkinson's disease.

19th: Muriel Pavlow, 97, English actress (Malta Story, Doctor in the House, Reach for the Sky).

19th: Margaret Wigiser, 94, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).

20th: Tibor Baranski, 96, Hungarian-born American Righteous Among the Nations.

20th: Dumisani Kumalo, 71, South African politician and diplomat, UN ambassador (1999–2009).

21st: Charles Kettles, 89, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient.

30th: Stewart Adams, 95, British chemist, developer of ibuprofen.

30th: Dame Felicity Hill, 103, British Royal Air Force officer, Director of WRAF (1966–1969).

30th: Dick Miller, 90, American actor (Gremlins, The Little Shop of Horrors, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm).

31st: Ron Joyce, 88, Canadian businessman, co-founder of Tim Hortons.

February:

1st: Tim Elkington, 98, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot, member of The Few, fall.

2nd: Alaa Mashzoub, 50, Iraqi novelist and writer, expert on the History of the Jews in Iraq, shot.

3rd: Julie Adams, 92, American actress (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bend of the River, Murder, She Wrote).

3rd: Wallace Chafe, 91, American linguist.

4th: Ward Thomas, 95, British television executive and World War II fighter pilot.

5th: Vano Zodelava, 61, Georgian politician, Mayor of Tbilisi (1998–2004), injuries from a traffic collision.

6th: Yechiel Eckstein, 67, Israeli-American rabbi, founder of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, heart attack.

10th: Carmen Argenziano, 75, American actor (Stargate SG-1, Booker, Angels & Demons).

10th: Michael Wilson, 81, Canadian politician and diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (2006–2009), cancer.

11th: Alix, Princess of Ligne, 89, Luxembourg royal.

15th: Terry Charman, 68, English military historian and museum curator (Imperial War Museum), cancer.

16th: Richard N. Gardner, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Italy (1977–1981) and Spain and Andorra (1993–1997).

18th: Wallace Smith Broecker, 87, American geophysicist, coined the term "global warming".

21st: Stanley Donen, 94, American film director (Singin' in the Rain, On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), heart failure.

21st: Peter Tork, 77, American musician and actor (The Monkees), complications of adenoid cystic carcinoma.

22nd: Morgan Woodward, 93, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dallas), cancer.

23rd: Douglas, 51, Brazilian-born Swedish scarlet macaw actor (Pippi in the South Seas).

23rd: Katherine Helmond, 89, American actress (Soap, Who's the Boss?, Brazil), Golden Globe winner (1980, 1988), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

24th: T. Jack Lee, 83, American engineer, director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (1989–1994), pancreatic cancer.

24th: Herbert Stuart, 95, British Anglican priest, RAF Chaplain-in-Chief (1980–1983).

27th: France-Albert René, 83, Seychellois politician, President (1977–2004) and Prime Minister (1976–1977), respiratory failure.

March:

2nd: Ogden Reid, 93, American publisher, diplomat, and politician, Ambassador to Israel (1959–1961) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1975).

2nd: Mike Oliver, 74, British disability rights activist.

4th: Luke Perry, 52, American actor (Beverly Hills, 90210, Riverdale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), complications from a stroke.

7th: Joseph H. Boardman, 70, American railroad executive, president and CEO of Amtrak (2008–2016), complications from a stroke.

8th: Ian Lawrence, 82, Australian-born New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington (1983−1986), bowel cancer.

8th: Mesrob II Mutafyan of Constantinople, 62, Turkish religious leader, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (1998–2016), dementia.

9th: Jed Allan, 84, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Santa Barbara, Lassie).

9th: Vladimir Etush, 96, Russian actor (Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, The Twelve Chairs, 31 June), People's Artist of the USSR (1984), heart failure.

10th: Anton Buteyko, 71, Ukrainian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1998–1999) and Romania (2000–2003).

13th: Harry Hughes, 92, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1979–1987), member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1955–1959) and Senate (1959–1971).

15th: Sara Payne Hayden, 99, American WWII WASP pilot.

16th: Dick Dale, 81, American guitarist and surf music pioneer ("Let's Go Trippin'", "Misirlou"), heart failure.

16th: Tom Hatten, 92, American actor (The Secret of NIMH, Spies Like Us) and media personality (KTLA).

22nd: June Harding, 81, American actress (The Trouble with Angels, The Richard Boone Show, Matt Lincoln).

23rd: Howard V. Lee, 85, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

26th: Michel Bacos, 95, French pilot (Air France Flight 139 related to Operation Entebbe in 1976.)

27th: Valery Bykovsky, 84, Russian cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31).

29th: Ed Westcott, 97, American photographer (Manhattan Project).

30th: Virginia Uribe, 85, American educator and LGBT advocate.

April:

5th: Nina Lagergren, 98, Swedish activist, co-founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy.

5th: Ly Tong, 73, Vietnamese-American anti-communist activist, lung failure.

6th: Romus Burgin, 96, American World War II veteran and author.

9th: Richard E. Cole, 103, American air force officer, last surviving member of the Doolittle Raid.

9th: Charles Van Doren, 93, American academic, writer and television quiz contestant, part of the 1950s quiz show scandals.

12th: Georgia Engel, 70, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Open Season, Everybody Loves Raymond).

12th: John McEnery, 75, British actor (Romeo and Juliet, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Land That Time Forgot).

13th: Neus Català, 103, Spanish Resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor and political activist.

13th: Paul Greengard, 93, American neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (2000).

17th: Ya'akov Nehoshtan, 93, Israeli politician and diplomat, member of the Knesset (1969–1974), ambassador to the Netherlands (1982–1985).

19th: William Krehm, 105, Canadian Trotskyist activist and Spanish Civil War veteran.

19th: Rodolfo Severino Jr., 82, Filipino diplomat, Secretary-General of the ASEAN (1998–2002), Ambassador to Malaysia (1989–1992), complications from Parkinson's disease.

19th: Verena Wagner Lafferentz, 98, German Wagner family member and associate of Adolf Hitler.

21st: Geoffrey Servante, 99, British veteran of the Spanish Civil War.

23rd: Jean, 98, Luxembourgish royal, Grand Duke (1964–2000), pulmonary infection.

26th: Elina Bystritskaya, 91, Russian actress (Unfinished Story, And Quiet Flows the Don, All Remains to People), People's Artist of the USSR (1978).

26th: Povl Falk-Jensen, 98, Danish resistance member during World War II.

27th: Negasso Gidada, 75, Ethiopian politician, President (1995–2001).

28th: Menachem Mendel Taub, 96, Israeli Hasidic rebbe and Holocaust survivor.

30th: Carlos Serrate, 86, Bolivian diplomat and politician, Minister of Education (1964) and of Mining and Metallurgy (1971), Ambassador to the USSR (1977–1980), heart attack.

May:

1st: Kurt Lang, 95, German-born American sociologist, respiratory failure.

2nd: Max Arthur, 80, British military historian and actor (Doctor Who).

2nd: Rafael Hernández Colón, 82, Puerto Rican politician, Governor (1973–1977, 1985–1993), leukemia.

2nd: Chris Reccardi, 54, American animator, storyboard artist, cartoon director (The Ren & Stimpy Show, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls) and musician, heart attack.

3rd: Kjell Grandhagen, 64, Norwegian military officer, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (2010–2015), multiple myeloma.

5th: Barbara Perry, 97, American actress (The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Hathaways).

7th: Te Wharehuia Milroy, 81, New Zealand Māori language academic.

8th: Sprent Dabwido, 46, Nauruan politician, President (2011–2013), throat cancer.

8th: Jim Fowler, 89, American zoologist and television host (Wild Kingdom).

9th: Vasili Blagov, 64, Russian Olympic pair skater (1972), Soviet champion (1972).

9th: Clement von Franckenstein, 74, American actor (Lionheart, The American President, Death Becomes Her), hypoxia.

9th: B. Mitchell Simpson, 87, American lawyer and naval historian.

10th: Fleming Begaye Sr., 97, American WWII Navajo code talker.

10th: Frederick Brownell, 79, South African vexillographer, designer of the South African and Namibian flag.

11th: Sir Hector Busby, 86, New Zealand Māori navigator and traditional waka builder.

11th: Peggy Lipton, 72, American actress (The Mod Squad, Twin Peaks, The Postman) and model, Golden Globe winner (1970), colon cancer.

11th: Robert D. Maxwell, 98, American combat soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor.

11th: Nan Winton, 93, British broadcaster, first female BBC newsreader, fall.

12th: Machiko Kyō, 95, Japanese actress (Rashomon, Ugetsu, The Teahouse of the August Moon), heart failure.

13th: Unita Blackwell, 86, American politician and civil rights activist, mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi (1976–2001), complications of dementia.

13th: Doris Day, 97, American actress (Pillow Talk, Calamity Jane), singer ("Que Sera, Sera") and animal welfare activist, Golden Globe winner (1958, 1960, 1963, 1989), pneumonia.

13th: Velma Demerson, 98, Canadian human rights activist. She was imprisoned in 1939 in Ontario for being in a relationship with a Chinese immigrant. She won an apology and compensation from the government when she was in her eighties.

14th: Sir Thomas Baird, 94, British Royal Navy Vice Admiral.

14th: Tim Conway, 85, American actor and comedian (McHale's Navy, The Carol Burnett Show, SpongeBob SquarePants), complications from normal pressure hydrocephalus.

15th: Bobby Diamond, 75, American actor (Fury, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) and attorney, cancer.

15th: George L. Kelling, 83, American criminologist and professor (Harvard University, Rutgers University–Newark, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research), cancer.

15th: Frank F. Ledford Jr., 85, American military doctor, Surgeon General of the United States Army (1988–1992).

15th: Eduardo A. Roca, 97, Argentine diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1968–1970).

15th: Michael Zampelas, 82, Cypriot politician, mayor of Nicosia (2002–2006).

16th: Nikolai Baturin, 82, Estonian novelist and playwright.

16th: Bob Hawke, 89, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1983–1991), President of the ACTU (1969–1980).

17th: John Warlick McDonald, 97, American diplomat.

17th: Herman Wouk, 103, American author (The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance), Pulitzer Prize winner (1952).

18th: Austin Eubanks, 37, American motivational speaker, survivor of the Columbine High School massacre, heroin overdose.

19th: Bengt Rösiö, 92, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1974–1977), Pakistan (1977–1979), Czechoslovakia (1979–1981), Malaysia (1981–1985), and Zaire (1990–1992).

21st: Ernest Graves Jr., 94, American Army lieutenant general.

22nd: Ahmad Shah of Pahang, 88, Malaysian royal, Sultan of Pahang (1974–2019) and Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1979–1984).

22nd: Theresa Burroughs, 89, American civil rights activist.

22nd: Beverly Lunsford, 74, American actress (Leave It to Beaver, The Intruder, The Crawling Hand).

24th: Murray Gell-Mann, 89, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1969).

24th: Oleg Golovanov, 84, Russian rower, Olympic champion (1960).

24th: Edmund Morris, 78, Kenyan-born British-American writer and biographer (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan), Pulitzer Prize winner (1980), stroke.

24th: John Pinto, 94, American Navajo code talker and politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (since 1977).

25th: Karel Masopust, 76, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist (1968).

27th: Robert L. Bernstein, 96, American publisher (Random House) and human rights activist (Helsinki Watch).

27th: Jocelyne Blouin, 68, Canadian meteorologist and weather presenter, cancer.

28th: Carmine Caridi, 85, American actor (The Godfather Part II, Bugsy, Summer Rental), pneumonia.

28th: Jean Juventin, 91, French politician, Deputy (1978–1986, 1993–1997), President of the Assembly of French Polynesia (1988–1991, 1992–1995) and Mayor of Papeete (1977–1995).

28th: Levi Oakes, 94, Canadian-born American soldier, last living WWII Mohawk code talker.

28th: Edward Seaga, 89, Jamaican politician, Prime Minister (1980–1989), cancer.

29th: Jiří Stránský, 87, Czech author, translator and political prisoner.

30th: Milan Blažeković, 78, Croatian animator (The Elm-Chanted Forest, The Magician's Hat, Lapitch the Little Shoemaker).

June

1st: Nikola Dinev, 65, Bulgarian wrestler, world champion (1977, 1982).

2nd: Alistair Browning, 65, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings, Vertical Limit, Power Rangers Dino Charge), cancer.

2nd: Pavel Fried , 88, Czech engineer and businessman, Holocaust survivor.

3rd: William Tully Brown, 96, American WWII Navajo code talker.

3rd: Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, 100, German royal.

3rd: Simjon Rosenfeld, 96, Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor. He was the last Sobibor Death Camp Uprising survivor to pass away.

3rd: Stanley Tigerman, 88, American architect (Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

5th: Albert Rohan, 83, Austrian diplomat, Permanent Secretary of the Austrian Foreign Minister (1996–2001).

6th: John Gunther Dean, 93, American diplomat. US Ambassador to: Khmer Republic (1974-1975), Denmark (1975-1978), Lebanon (1978-1981), Thailand (1981-1985) and India (1985-1988.)

10th: Lee Hee-ho, 96, South Korean women's rights and peace activist, First Lady (1998–2003), liver cancer.

11th: Billy McKee, 97, Irish republican, founding member and leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

15th: Franco Zeffirelli, 96, Italian film and stage director (Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth, The Taming of the Shrew) and Senator (1994–2001).

16th: Frederick Andermann, 88, Ukrainian-born Canadian neurologist and epileptologist.

16th: Zappy Max, 97, French broadcaster (Radio Luxembourg) and actor.

16th: Francine Shapiro, 71, American psychologist, developer of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.

17th: Philipp Bobkov, 93, Russian intelligence officer (KGB). He was widely regarded the chief KGB ideologist or "KGB brain".

18th: Pavel Chihaia, 97, Romanian novelist and political dissident.

18th: Jeanne O'Laughlin, 90, American Roman Catholic nun and educator, president of Barry University (1981–2004), legal advocate for Elián González.

19th: Leonid Zamyatin, 97, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to the UK (1986–1991), Director General of TASS (1970–1978).

21st: Demetris Christofias, 72, Cypriot politician, President (2008–2013), respiratory failure.

21st: Robert J. Friend, 99, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airmen), sepsis.

22nd: Jerry Carrigan, 75, American rock drummer (Elvis Presley, John Denver, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section).

23rd: Dave Bartholomew, 100, American Hall of Fame musician, bandleader and songwriter ("Ain't That a Shame", "I Hear You Knocking", "I'm Walkin'"), heart failure.

24th: Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, 93, Russian military doctor. Hero of the Soviet Union (1990.)

26th: Andrey Sakharov, 89, Russian and Soviet historian.

26th: Max Wright, 75, American actor (ALF, Reds, All That Jazz), lymphoma.

26th: Ivan Cooper, 75, Northern Irish politician, MP (1969–1974), co-founder of the SDLP.

26th: David Pentreath, 86, British Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Falklands War while commanding HMS Plymouth and took the surrender of Argentine forces on South Georgia in 1982.

30th: Momir Bulatović, 62, Montenegrin politician, President of the Republic of Montenegro (1990–1998) and Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1998–2000), heart attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2019