In the year 1919

158 Notable deaths

George Eyser

Gymnast.

Born August 31st, 1870 in Kiel.

Died March 6th, 1919 at 48 years old in Denver.

Amado Nervo

Mexican poet (1870-1919).

Born August 27th, 1870 in Tepic, Nayarit. [ref]

Died May 24th, 1919 at 48 years old in Montevideo. [ref]

Emil Fischer

German chemist (1852-1919).

Born October 9th, 1852 in Euskirchen. [ref]

Died July 15th, 1919 at 66 years old in Berlin. [ref]

Friedrich Naumann

German politician, editor (1860-1919).

Born March 25th, 1860 in Störmthal. [ref]

Died August 24th, 1919 at 59 years old in Travemünde. [ref]

Henning von Holtzendorff

German admiral (1853-1919).

Born January 9th, 1853 in Berlin.

Died June 7th, 1919 at 66 years old in Prenzlau.

Robert Bacon

American diplomat (1860-1919).

Born July 5th, 1860 in Jamaica Plain.

Died May 29th, 1919 at 58 years old in New York City (sepsis).

Mikhail Tsvet

Russian-italian botanist (1872-1919).

Born May 14th, 1872 in Asti. [ref]

Died June 26th, 1919 at 47 years old in Voronezh. [ref]

Johannes Rydberg

Swedish physicist.

Born November 8th, 1854 in Halmstad. [ref]

Died December 28th, 1919 at 65 years old in Lund. [ref]

Aaron Aaronsohn

Jewish agronomist, botanist, and zionist activist (1876-1919).

Born May 21st, 1876 in Bacău. [ref]

Died May 15th, 1919 at 42 years old in Zikhron Ya'akov (aviation accident). [ref]

Aram Manukian

Armenian revolutionary, politician and general who managed and led the van resistance and instrumented the founding of the first republic of armenia.

Born March 19th, 1879 in David Bek.

Died January 29th, 1919 at 39 years old in Yerevan (disease).

Deaths 41 to 50 of 158

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