Famous Deaths on May 19

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)

Italian politician and activist (1930-2016)

Jordanian politician, officer and diplomat

Georgian archaeologist (1930–2002)

Spanish general and politician (1873-1953)

Polish-German botanist (1844–1912)

Polish novelist (1847–1912)

Swedish poet, diplomat and numismatist (1841-1903)

Finnish politician and journalist

Belgian-born French harpist, composer and pedagogue

German artist (1891-1968)

Norwegian writer (1891–1976)

Norwegian zoologist (1835-1913)

British Army general and Canadian politician

British artist (1848-1922)

Argentine linguist

Austrian artist (1871-1956)

Italian-Brazilian photographer and wandering projectionist

American politician (1796–1868)

British painter and art dealer (1746–1813)

Finnish-Swedish officer, cartographer, drawer and painter (1787–1830)

Lithuanian poet

American physician and judge, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1729–1795)

Army leader, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Bohemia and Burgrave of Meissen (1510-1554)

German Carthusian monk and humanist scholar (c.1467–1525)

Head of the Catholic Church from 955 to 964

Pope