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April 19th
166 Notable deaths
Pavel Batov
Soviet military commander.
Born June 1st, 1897 in Filisovo, Yaroslavl Oblast.
Died April 19th, 1985 at 87 years old in Moscow.
Kenneth Appel
American mathematician.
Born October 8th, 1932 in Brooklyn.
Died April 19th, 2013 at 80 years old in Dover (esophageal cancer).
G. Venkatasubbaiah
Indian lexicographer.
Born August 23rd, 1913 in Mysore.
Died April 19th, 2021 at 107 years old in Bengaluru (kidney disease). [ref]
Rikichi Andō
Japanese general (1884-1946).
Born April 3rd, 1884 in Sendai.
Died April 19th, 1946 at 62 years old in Shanghai (intoxication).
William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery
Royal navy admiral of the fleet (1873-1967).
Born November 30th, 1873 in Farnham.
Died April 19th, 1967 at 93 years old in London.
Clémentine Delait
French bearded lady.
Born March 5th, 1865 in Chaumousey.
Died April 19th, 1939 at 74 years old in Épinal.
Xiao Yang
Chief justice of the supreme people's court of china (1938-2019).
Born August 1st, 1938 in Heyuan.
Died April 19th, 2019 at 80 years old in Beijing. [ref]
Ernst Robert Curtius
German philologist and literary scholar.
Born April 14th, 1886 in Thann. [ref]
Died April 19th, 1956 at 70 years old in Rome. [ref]
George Hardwick
English association football player and manager (1920-2004).
Born February 2nd, 1920 in Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
Died April 19th, 2004 at 84 years old in Stockton-on-Tees.
William Morton Wheeler
U.s. entomologist, myrmecologist and harvard professor (1865–1937).
Born March 19th, 1865 in Milwaukee.
Died April 19th, 1937 at 72 years old in Cambridge.
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