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Deaths on December 19

xxxx : Antasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
1370 : Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies
1614 : Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67
1741 : Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies
1749 : Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76
1798 : Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62
1800 : Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66
1804 : Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies
1810 : Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68
1815 : Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65
1815 : Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83
1823 : Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67
1848 : Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77
1851 : J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76
1867 : Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57
1914 : Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87
1915 : Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51
1925 : Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44
1930 : Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns
1939 : Eric Fogg, composer, dies at 36
1939 : Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70
1939 : Willem Benoy, Flemish actor/director (The White), dies at 57
1941 : L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1951 : Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
1952 : Harry Makepeace, cricketer (cricket & soccer intl for England), dies
1953 : Robert A Millikan, US physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
1953 : Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies
1957 : John W Van Druten, US stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56
1959 : Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1966 : Ehm Welk, writer, dies at 82
1967 : Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78
1968 : Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1977 : Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101
1982 : Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71
1982 : Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95
1984 : Michel Magne, composer, dies at 54
1989 : Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87
1990 : Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
1991 : Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
1991 : Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
1993 : Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47
1993 : Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP asst sect of Education (1973-75), dies at 77
1993 : Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49
1994 : Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39
1995 : Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79
1995 : Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85
1995 : Janet Wilder, stuntwoman, dies at 29
1996 : Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8«, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72
1996 : Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78
1996 : Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82
1997 : David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52
1997 : Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89

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