Deaths on March 19
1263 : Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
1556 : Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1635 : Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies
1638 : Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1644 : Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1687 : Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Fren explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43
1702 : Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1721 : Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71
1782 : Adrien Trudo Sale, composer, dies at 59
1782 : Louis-Henry Paisible, composer, dies at 33
1796 : Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33
1797 : Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58
1811 : Frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65
1845 : George Augustus Kollmann, composer, dies at 56
1850 : Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer, dies at 87
1862 : F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1866 : Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57
1869 : Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64
1876 : Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75
1884 : Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54
1893 : Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69
1897 : Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1898 : Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
1905 : Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
1907 : Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
1913 : John Thomas, composer, dies at 87
1918 : Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
1924 : Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1930 : Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1934 : Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
1936 : John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
1937 : Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58
1940 : Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1943 : Vicente Ripolles, composer, dies at 75
1945 : Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1946 : Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
1947 : Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
1950 : Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1951 : H Zur Mhlen, writer, dies
1954 : Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71
1958 : Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
1961 : Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68
1969 : Theodor Schaefer, composer, dies at 65
1971 : Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
1971 : Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 : Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51
1974 : Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
1974 : Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1975 : John A DeMott, dies at 63
1976 : George Sklavos, composer, dies at 87
1976 : Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
1979 : Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65
1979 : Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
1982 : Randy Rhoads, heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25
1987 : Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
1987 : Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
1987 : Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1987 : Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
1991 : John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 : Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
1991 : Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
1992 : Cesare Danova, actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas), dies at 66
1993 : Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
1993 : Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1994 : Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
1994 : Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
1995 : Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1995 : Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
1995 : Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
1996 : Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65
1996 : William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
1997 : Willem De Kooning, artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92