February 19th
198 Notable deaths
Edmund Landau
German jewish mathematician (1877-1938).
Born February 14th, 1877 in Berlin.
Died February 19th, 1938 at 61 years old in Berlin.
Samuel Willenberg
Polish-born sculptor and holocaust survivor, participant at the revolt and escape at treblinka extermination cap (1923-2016).
Born February 16th, 1923 in Częstochowa.
Died February 19th, 2016 at 93 years old in Tel Aviv, Jaffa (stroke). [ref]
John Grierson
Scottish documentary pioneer.
Born April 26th, 1898 in Deanston.
Died February 19th, 1972 at 73 years old in Bath. [ref]
Alice White
Actress (1904-1983).
Born August 24th, 1904 in Paterson.
Died February 19th, 1983 at 78 years old in Los Angeles (stroke).
al-Tayyib Salih
Sudanese writer.
Born July 12th, 1929 in Sudan, Al Dabbah. [ref]
Died February 19th, 2009 at 79 years old in London (kidney failure). [ref]
Percy Hobart
British army general.
Born June 14th, 1885 in Nainital.
Died February 19th, 1957 at 71 years old in Farnham.
José Mojica Marins
Brazilian filmmaker (1936-2020).
Born March 13th, 1936 in São Paulo.
Died February 19th, 2020 at 83 years old in São Paulo (bronchopneumonia).
Igor Shafarevich
Soviet and russian mathematician (1923-2017).
Born June 3rd, 1923 in Zhytomyr.
Died February 19th, 2017 at 93 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Greg Foster
American hurdler.
Born August 4th, 1958 in Chicago.
Died February 19th, 2023 at 64 years old in Maywood. [ref]
Ivan T. Sanderson
British biologist (1911–1973).
Born January 30th, 1911 in Edinburgh.
Died February 19th, 1973 at 62 years old in New Jersey (brain cancer).
Deaths 51 to 60 of 198
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. Samuel Butler