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)

Australian writer

Spanish general and politician (1873-1953)

Polish-German botanist (1844–1912)

Polish novelist (1847–1912)

Swedish poet, diplomat and numismatist (1841-1903)

British writer (1871-1928)

Finnish politician and journalist

British Army general and writer (1871–1951)

German artist (1891-1968)

Belgian-born French harpist, composer and pedagogue

Norwegian writer (1891–1976)

Norwegian zoologist (1835-1913)

British Army general and Canadian politician

British artist (1848-1922)

Australian army officer (1892-1968)

Argentine linguist

Austrian artist (1871-1956)

Italian-Brazilian photographer and wandering projectionist

Prince of Siam (1900-1946)

American politician (1796–1868)

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

British painter and art dealer (1746–1813)

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