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Deaths on August 19

xxxx : BC : Caesar August, [Octavianus], 1st emperor of Rome, dies at 76
xxxx : Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies
xxxx : Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
1493 : Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1580 : Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1601 : Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
1650 : Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55
1654 : Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies
1691 : Mustafa K”prl, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1699 : Jos‚ Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
1719 : Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
1744 : Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
1753 : [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66
1780 : Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
1795 : Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
1812 : Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
1813 : Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
1813 : Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
1822 : Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
1851 : Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
1872 : Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
1876 : George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
1881 : Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
1888 : Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
1889 : Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
1891 : Gestur P lsson, Icelandic writer (Verdandi, Ritsafn), dies at 38
1892 : Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
1909 : Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1912 : Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
1922 : Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
1929 : Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1936 : Federico Garc¡a Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
1944 : Gnther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944 : Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
1947 : Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
1954 : Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
1955 : G‚za R‚v‚sz, Hungary/Dutch psychologist (Talent & genius), dies at 76
1958 : Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63
1959 : Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1962 : Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1967 : Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84
1967 : Isaac Deutscher, Polish/Eng historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60
1968 : Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
1971 : Walther Victor, writer, dies
1974 : ... Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
1976 : Alastair Sim, actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger), dies at 75
1976 : Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
1976 : Ken Wadsworth, cricketer (Exciting NZ keeper), dies of cancer at 29
1977 : Groucho Martin, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
1979 : Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1981 : Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
1986 : Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
1986 : Jacob A W Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81
1986 : Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1987 : Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies
1990 : Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
1992 : Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
1993 : Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
1993 : Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
1994 : John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59
1994 : Ladislav Fuks, Czech author (Th‚odore Mundstock), dies at 70
1994 : Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1994 : Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994 : Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64
1994 : Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
1995 : Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995 : Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85

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