What happened on April 19 ?

1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)

1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)

1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)

1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)

1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)

1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter

1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)

1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)

1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer

1632 - King Sigismund I of Sweden (b. 1561)

1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)

1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)

1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England

1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682/3)

1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)

1768 - Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)

1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)

1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)

1824 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)

1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)

1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)

1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)

1892 - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)

1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)

1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)

1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)

1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)

1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)

1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)

1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)

1967 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)

1971 - Russ Hodges, American sports broadcaster (b. 1910)

1971 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895)

1973 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881)

1974 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)

1975 - Percy L. Julian, American chemist (b. 1899)

1987 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (b. 1910)

1987 - Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (b. 1901)

1989 - Daphne du Maurier, English author (b. 1907)

1992 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian and actor (b. 1917)

1993 - David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)

1997 - Eldon Hoke also known as El Duce, American musician (b. 1958)

1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee whose death led to Navy's withdrawal from Puerto Rico

2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (b. 1967)

2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)

2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)

2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)

2005 - Bryan Ottoson, American musician (b. 1978)

2005 - Niels-Henning ÿrsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)

2005 - Blade Icewood, American rapper (b. 1977)

2006 - Scott Crossfield, First man to fly at Mach 2, killed in airplane crash.

2006 - Zola Levitt, messianic Jew of Zola Levitt Ministries Inc. and "Levitt Letter" news.