2019

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Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video gaming

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Establishments – Disestablishments

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2019 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2019 MMXIX
Ab urbe condita	2772
Armenian calendar	1468 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6769
Bahá'í calendar	175–176
Balinese saka calendar	1940–1941
Bengali calendar	1426
Berber calendar	2969
British Regnal year	67 Eliz. 2 – 68 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2563
Burmese calendar	1381
Byzantine calendar	7527–7528
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4715 or 4655     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4716 or 4656
Coptic calendar	1735–1736
Discordian calendar	3185
Ethiopian calendar	2011–2012
Hebrew calendar	5779–5780
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2075–2076
- Shaka Samvat	1940–1941
- Kali Yuga	5119–5120
Holocene calendar	12019
Igbo calendar	1019–1020
Iranian calendar	1397–1398
Islamic calendar	1440–1441
Japanese calendar	Heisei 31 / Reiwa 1 (令和元年)
Javanese calendar	1952–1953
Juche calendar	108
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4352
Minguo calendar	ROC 108 民國108年
Nanakshahi calendar	551
Thai solar calendar	2562
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 2145 or 1764 or 992     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2146 or 1765 or 993
Unix time	1546300800 – 1577836799

2019 (MMXIX) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium, the 19th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.

2019 has been assigned as International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the United Nations General Assembly given that it coincides with the 150th anniversary of its creation by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.

Events

January

• January 1
  • All works published in 1923 except sound recordings (see 2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
  • Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
  • Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 2014 MU₆₉ at 05:33 UTC.
  • Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
  • Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria.
• January 3 – Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
• January 5 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople issues a formal decree granting independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Orthodox Church.
• January 6 – Muhammad V of Kelantan abdicates the federal throne as the 15th monarch of Malaysia, making him the first Malaysian monarch to do so.
• January 7 – A faction of the Armed Forces of Gabon announces a coup d'état. Gabon's government later declares that it has reasserted control.
• January 10 – Venezuela enters a constitutional crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate" and start the process of attempting to remove him.
• January 17 – A vehicle-bound suicide bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, kills 22 people and injures 68 others, making it the deadliest attack on the Colombian capital since 2003.
• January 18 – Fuel thieves rupture a pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, and a subsequent explosion kills at least 124 people and injures 22 others.
• January 19 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Tongoy, Coquimbo Region in Chile, causing two deaths and as many as 200,000 people left without power. Despite its moderate magnitude, since it was an intraplate earthquake, it caused some serious damage in La Serena and nearby cities.
• January 21 – 2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu crash: An aircraft carrying new Cardiff City F.C. footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson en route from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, Wales, goes missing over the English Channel. Sala's body is recovered on February 7.
• January 23 – 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President Juan Guaidó. Several people are killed, and President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with the United States.
• January 25 – A mine tailings dam breaks in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais. At least 134 people are killed, with almost 200 missing.
• January 27 – Two bombs at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo, Philippines, kill at least 20 people and leave more than 100 others injured.
• January 28 – The U.S. Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising U.S.–China tensions.

February

• February 1 – U.S. President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987. The next day, Russia follows suit with suspension of its obligations to the treaty.
• February 3 – Pope Francis arrives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, becoming the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
• February 5 – The Taliban kills at least 47 people in attacks while Afghan–Taliban peace talks are taking place in Moscow. 12 others are injured.
• February 7 – 2019 Haitian protests: Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse begin in several cities across the country.
• February 12 – The Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia, ending a decades-old dispute with Greece, paving the way for its integration into NATO and the European Union.
• February 13 – A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle kills at least 27 Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran. It is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Iran in years.
• February 14 – A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle convoy kills at least 40 Indian security personnel, making it the deadliest attack on India's security personnel in Kashmir in three decades.
• February 20 – A major fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh kills at least 78 people.
• February 21 – SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.
• February 23
  • 2019 Nigerian general election, for the President; all 360 seats in the House of Representatives and all 110 seats in the Senate.
  • 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with Colombia as humanitarian aid attempts to enter the country across the border.
• February 26–27 – The Indian Air Force launches airstrikes on purported militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan; according to Indian claims, "a very large number of ... terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis" were killed, although Pakistan denied the claims and a number of neutral sources suggest that this was not the case. The following day, Pakistan retaliated, leading to the shooting down of an Indian MiG-21 fighter, whose pilot was repatriated on March 1. The incidents led to the 2019 India–Pakistan standoff.
• February 27–28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.

March

• March 3
  • An unmanned demonstration flight of the new crew capable version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, intended to carry American astronauts into space, achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.
  • The 2019 Estonian parliamentary election takes place, for all 101 seats in the Riigikogu.
• March 5 – A second case of sustained remission from HIV is reported, ten years after the Berlin Patient.
• March 6 – 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuela expels German ambassador Daniel Kriener for his alleged meddling in internal affairs.
• March 10 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 models were subsequently grounded worldwide.
• March 12 – Cargo ship Grande America sinks after it caught fire on March 10 in the Bay of Biscay, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of France, causing a 2,200-tonne oil spill.
• March 13
  • March 2019 North American blizzard: A winter storm completes its explosive intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, which began the day before, becoming a powerful "bomb cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States.
  • Australian Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.
• March 15
  • 50 people are killed and 50 others injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the deadliest mass shooting in modern New Zealand's history. Subsequently Facebook announced they had disabled 1.5 million videos of the gunman's rampage.
  • Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as causing mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
• March 19 – Nursultan Nazarbayev resigns as President of Kazakhstan after 29 years in office and appoints Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as acting president. Astana is renamed Nur-Sultan the following day in his honor.
• March 20 – Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union.
• March 21 – A major explosion at a chemical plant in Xiangshui, Jiangsu, China, kills at least 78 people and injures more than 600 others. Its powerful impact registered as an artificial earthquake.
• March 23
  • The final territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, located in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, Syria, is liberated.
  • An estimated 400,000 people march in central London in protest against Brexit.
• March 24
  • The 2019 Thai general election takes place, for all 500 seats in the House of Representatives.
  • A four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign is published by the U.S. Attorney General William Barr. It concludes that there was no collusion with Russia – the basis of the investigation – but on the issue of obstruction of justice states: "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him".
• March 26 – The European Parliament votes by 348 to 278 in favour of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which expands legal liability for websites and includes the controversial Article 13.
• March 31 – Taiwan scrambles its fighter aircraft after two Chinese jets crossed a maritime border between the two nations. Just the day before, Japan had similarly scrambled its jets when the Chinese flew between two Japanese islands, Miyako and Okinawa.

April

• April 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns as President of Algeria amid widespread protests, after nearly two decades in office.
• April 4 – Second Libyan Civil War: The Libyan National Army (LNA) launches a surprise offensive in western Libya, moving units towards the Government of National Accord-held capital Tripoli and capturing Gharyan. The LNA says that the operation, ordered by General Khalifa Haftar, is aimed at "cleansing the western zone from terrorist groups".
• April 9 – The 2019 Israeli legislative election takes place, for all 120 seats in the Knesset.
• April 10
  • Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, located in the centre of the M87 galaxy.
  • Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of humans. The species is named after the island where it was discovered, Luzon.
• April 11
  • WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.
  • Amid mass protests, Omar al-Bashir is deposed as President of Sudan in a coup d'état, after nearly 30 years in office.
  • The 2019 Indian general election begins, along with elections in six states. Counting is due to take place on 23 May.
• April 15 – During Holy Week, a major fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, resulting in the roof and main spire collapsing.
• April 17
  • The 2019 Indonesian general election takes place; for the President, 575 seats in the People's Representative Council, and 136 seats in the Regional Representative Council.
  • At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
• April 18
  • The full 448-page report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States Presidential Election (the Mueller Report) is released in redacted form.
  • NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's first ever research satellite to be sent into space.
• April 21
  • A series of bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, on Easter Sunday, leaving at least 253 people dead and over 500 injured. This is the first major terrorist attack in the country since the Sri Lankan Civil War ended in 2009.
  • Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine in a runoff election. Zelensky previously portrayed a fictional Ukrainian president in the television series Servant of the People.
• April 25 – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits Russia to hold a series of summits with Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin.
• April 28
  • The 2019 Spanish general election takes place, for all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of the 266) seats in the Senate. The PSOE, under Pedro Sánchez, wins the most seats, but not an outright majority.
  • Victor Vescovo achieves the deepest dive of any human in history, as he reaches Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft).
• April 29 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State terrorist organization, appears in undated footage released by the group, his first appearance on video since 2014.
• April 30
  • Emperor Akihito of Japan abdicates from his throne, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the Heisei era of Japan and ushers in the Reiwa era with new emperor Naruhito ascending the throne on 1 May.
  • 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuelan opposition leader and disputed interim President Juan Guaidó leads an attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro.

May

• May 1
  • King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard Suthida Tidjai – a commoner – in a surprise ceremony, making her queen consort of Thailand.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a controversial "sovereign internet" bill that allows Russian authorities to better monitor internet routing and to steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers. Proponents of the bill say it ensures Russian internet security and decreases dependence on foreign servers while critics argue it gives new censorship powers to the government and is a part of a global trend of cyber-balkanization.
• May 3 – The number of deaths from the Kivu Ebola outbreak exceeds 1,000. It is the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, only surpassed by the West African Ebola virus epidemic of 2013–2016.
• May 3–6 – May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes: The Gaza–Israel conflict escalates after the Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza killing more than 20 palestinians including a pregnant woman and a toddler following the injury of two soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.
• May 4–6 – Coronation of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.
• May 5 – Aeroflot Flight 1492 crash-lands and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, killing 41 of the 78 people on board.
• May 6
  • In its first report since 2005, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that biodiversity loss is "accelerating", with over a million species now threatened with extinction; the decline of the natural living world is "unprecedented" and largely a result of human actions, according to the report.
  • Syrian Civil War: The Syrian Army launches a major ground offensive against one of the last rebel strongholds in the country.
• May 8 – A British teenager, Isabelle Holdaway, 17, is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.
• May 10 – Amid ongoing negotiations, the United States' 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations in the ongoing China–United States trade war.
• May 12 – 2019 Fujairah incident: Four commercial ships, including two Saudi Aramco oil tankers, are damaged near the port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman. The United Arab Emirates claims the incident was a "sabotage attack", while an early United States assessment reportedly blames Iran for the attack. The incident occurs during a time of regional tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with the U.S. just weeks prior deploying strategic bombers, a carrier strike group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf following intelligence reports of an alleged plot by Iran to attack U.S. forces in the region.
• May 13
  • The 2019 Philippine general election takes place, for all 297 seats in the House of Representatives and 12 seats in the Senate.
  • Prosecutors in Sweden reopen the rape allegation investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Swedish prosecutors mention their intent to seek extradition of Assange from the United Kingdom after he has served his 50-week prison sentence for skipping bail.
• May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is won by Dutch entrant Duncan Laurence with the song "Arcade".
• May 17
  • Taiwan's parliament becomes the first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
  • Ibiza affair: A corruption scandal involving the Vice-Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache and deputy leader of the Freedom Party Johann Gudenus offering to fix state contracts with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch at a 2017 meeting in Spain leads to the collapse of the coalition government and calls for snap elections.
• May 18 – The 2019 Australian federal election takes place, for all 151 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the Senate.
• May 19 – Eleven people are killed in a shooting at a bar in Belém, Brazil.
• May 20 – The redefinition of the SI system of measurement adopted by the majority of countries in the world takes effect.

Predicted and scheduled events

• May 23–26 – The European Union will hold elections to the European Parliament.
• May 30 – July 14 – The 2019 Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be held in England and Wales, with matches at 10 venues in nine cities. The opening match and final will be in London, with the final at Lord's.
• June 5 – 2019 Danish general election, for all 179 seats in the Folketing.
• June 7 – July 7 – The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be held in France, with matches in nine cities. The opening match will be in Paris, and the final in the Lyon suburb of Décines-Charpieu.
• July 2 – A total solar eclipse will be visible from South America. It will be the 58th solar eclipse from Saros cycle 127.
• July 22 – August 2 – The 24th World Scout Jamboree will occur in West Virginia.
• July 26 – August 11 – The 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held in Lima, Peru.
• September 20 – November 2 – The 2019 Rugby Union World Cup is scheduled to be held in Japan, with matches in 12 cities. The opening match will be in the Tokyo district of Chōfu, and the final in Yokohama.
• September 28 – 2019 Afghan presidential election, for the next President. This was first rescheduled from April 20, then from July 20, to improve polling.
• October – November – The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets, is expected to be launched.
• October 6 – 2019 Portuguese legislative election, for all 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic.
• October 21 – 2019 Canadian federal election, for all 338 seats in the Parliament of Canada.
• October 26 – Climbing Uluru will be permanently banned.
• October 31 – Latest possible date for implementation of Article 50 by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union, as agreed on by the European Union. Subject to change after the review in June.
• November 5 – The 2019 United States elections will choose 3 state governors and various state and local officials.
• November 11 – Transit of Mercury occurs.
• December 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from South Asia.

Date unknown

• The European Spallation Source is expected to go into operation in Lund, Sweden.
• The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is expected to complete the process of eliminating tariffs on sensitive products, thus establishing a single market throughout most of South America.
• SpaceX expects to perform suborbital hop tests of their Starship prototype.
• Sometime in June the European Union will review the United Kingdom’s progress with Brexit and will determine a more suitable leave date if needed.

Births

• May 6 – Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and seventh in the line of succession to the British throne

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2019

Further information: Category:2019 deaths

January

Pegi Young

Bob Einstein

Harold Brown

Carol Channing

Henry Sy

Tibor Baranski

George Fernandes

• January 1
  • Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1935)
  • Joan Guinjoan, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1931)
  • Pegi Young, American singer-songwriter, educator, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
• January 2
  • Paulien van Deutekom, Dutch world champion speed skater (b. 1981)
  • Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942)
  • Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
  • Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (b. 1942)
• January 3 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (b. 1931)
• January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
• January 5
  • Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (b. 1928)
  • Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
• January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)
• January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
• January 9 – Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938)
• January 10 – Theo Adam, German opera singer (b. 1926)
• January 11
  • Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (b. 1929)
  • Fernando Luján, Mexican actor (b. 1939)
• January 12
  • Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
  • Jaime Rosenthal, Honduran politician (b. 1936)
• January 13 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
• January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (b. 1965)
• January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921)
• January 16 – John C. Bogle, American investor (b. 1929)
• January 17
  • Babiker Awadalla, 8th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1917)
  • Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (b. 1930)
  • Mary Oliver, American poet (b. 1935)
  • Reggie Young, American musician (b. 1936)
• January 19
  • Nathan Glazer, American sociologist (b. 1923)
  • Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (b. 1924)
• January 20
  • Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (b. 1922)
  • Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (b. 1944)
• January 21
  • Kaye Ballard, American actress (b. 1925)
  • Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (b. 1933)
  • Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (b. 1990)
  • Harris Wofford, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1926)
• January 23
  • Diana Athill, British literary editor, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1917)
  • Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b. 1922)
  • Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
  • Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (b. 1990)
• January 24
  • Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
  • Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American naval aviator (b. 1953)
• January 25
  • Florence Knoll, American architect and furniture designer (b. 1917)
  • Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director (b. 1932)
  • Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (b. 1925)
• January 26
  • Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (b. 1930)
  • Michel Legrand, French composer (b. 1932)
• January 27 – Yvonne Clark, American engineer (b. 1929)
• January 28
  • Humberto Akʼabal, Guatemalan K'iche' Maya poet (b. 1952)
  • Susan Hiller, American artist (b. 1940)
• January 29
  • George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
  • James Ingram, American R&B musician (b. 1952)
  • Jan Wahl, American children's writer (b. 1931)
• January 30 – Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)

February

Julie Adams

Albert Finney

Frank Robinson

Hilde Zadek

Karl Lagerfeld

Peter Tork

André Previn

• February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (b. 1921)
• February 3
  • Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926)
  • Detsl, Russian musician (b. 1983)
  • Kristoff St. John, American actor (b. 1966)
• February 4
  • John Otho Marsh Jr., 14th United States Secretary of the Army (b. 1926)
  • Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963)
  • Leonie Ossowski, German writer (b. 1925)
  • Izzy Young, American-Swedish folklorist and author (b. 1928)
• February 6
  • Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927)
  • Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (b. 1924)
• February 7
  • John Dingell, American politician (b. 1926)
  • Albert Finney, English actor (b. 1936)
  • Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1930)
  • Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1935)
• February 8 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer (b. 1917)
• February 9
  • Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress (b. 1968)
  • Maximilian Reinelt, German rower and doctor (b. 1988)
  • Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator (b. 1931)
  • Patricia Nell Warren, American novelist, poet, and journalist (b. 1936)
• February 10
  • Carmen Argenziano, American actor (b. 1943)
  • Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1944)
• February 11
  • Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician (b. 1925)
  • Armida Siguion-Reyna, Filipino actress, singer and television host (b. 1930)
• February 12
  • Betty Ballantine, British-born American book publisher (b. 1919)
  • Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1937)
  • Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922)
  • Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler (b. 1942)
• February 13 – Idriz Ajeti, Kosovar Albanologist (b. 1917)
• February 14 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (b. 1956)
• February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
• February 16
  • Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
  • Li Rui, Chinese politician, historian and dissident (b. 1917)
• February 18
  • Wallace Smith Broecker, American geophysicist (b. 1931)
  • O'Neal Compton, American actor (b. 1951)
  • Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer (b. 1931)
  • Bob Van Der Veken, Belgian actor (b. 1928)
  • Peter Wells, New Zealand writer and filmmaker (b. 1950)
• February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
• February 20
  • Dominick Argento, American composer (b. 1927)
  • Francisco Mañosa, Filipino architect (b. 1931)
• February 21
  • Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924)
  • Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
  • Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (b. 1917)
• February 22
  • Kodi Ramakrishna, Indian film director (b. 1949)
  • Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
  • Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925)
• February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
• February 24
  • Antoine Gizenga, 21st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
  • Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (b. 1922)
• February 25 – Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
• February 26
  • Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (b. 1959)
  • Charles McCarry, American novelist (b. 1930)
• February 27 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)
• February 28 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1929)

March

Zhores Alferov

Keith Flint

Luke Perry

Vladimir Etush

Dick Dale

Scott Walker

Agnès Varda

Nipsey Hussle

• March 1
  • Zhores Alferov, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1930)
  • Kumar Bhattacharyya, British-Indian engineer, educator, and government advisor (b. 1940)
  • Eusebio Pedroza, Panamanian boxer (b. 1956)
  • Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect (b. 1922)
• March 2
  • Yannis Behrakis, Greek photojournalist (b. 1960)
  • Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
  • Werner Schneyder, Austrian writer, director, and actor (b. 1937)
• March 4
  • King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
  • Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer (b. 1934)
  • Keith Flint, English musician, singer, and dancer (b. 1969)
  • Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
  • Ted Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1925)
  • Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
  • Sidney Verba, American political scientist, librarian, and library administrator (b. 1932)
• March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
• March 6
  • John Habgood, British Anglican bishop, academic, and life peer (b. 1927)
  • José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish politician and diplomat (b. 1940)
  • Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (b. 1939)
• March 7
  • Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1949)
  • Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
• March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
• March 9
  • Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist and playwright (b. 1916)
  • Vladimir Etush, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1922)
• March 10
  • İrsen Küçük, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1940)
  • Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
    • Pius Adesanmi, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer (b. 1972)
    • Sebastiano Tusa, Italian archaeologist and politician (b. 1952)
• March 11
  • Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
  • Desmond Ford, Australian theologian (b. 1929)
• March 14
  • Birch Bayh, American politician (b. 1928)
  • Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (b. 1933)
  • Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (b. 1952)
• March 15
  • W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
  • Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 3rd Head of State of Mauritania (b. 1943)
• March 16
  • Dick Dale, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (b. 1937)
  • Richard Erdman, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (b. 1939)
  • Alan Krueger, American economist (b. 1960)
• March 17
  • Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
  • Tunku Puan Zanariah, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong (b. 1940)
• March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker (b. 1925)
• March 20
  • Donald Kalpokas, 2nd Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1943)
  • Mary Warnock, British philosopher (b. 1924)
• March 22
  • Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (b. 1929)
  • Scott Walker, American-born British singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• March 23
  • Larry Cohen, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
  • Rafi Eitan, Israeli intelligence officer and politician (b. 1926)
• March 24
  • Nancy Gates, American actress (b. 1926)
  • Fred Malek, American business executive, political advisor and philanthropist (b. 1936)
• March 27
  • Valery Bykovsky, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
  • Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer (b. 1947)
• March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French filmmaker (b. 1928)
• March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (b. 1985)

April

David J. Thouless

Bibi Andersson

Alan García

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Jean-Pierre Marielle

Peter Mayhew

• April 1
  • Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
  • Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
• April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
• April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• April 5
  • Anandavally, Indian actress (b. 1952)
  • Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (b. 1927)
  • Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
• April 6 – David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (b. 1934)
• April 7
  • Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
  • Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
• April 9 – Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (b. 1926)
• April 10
  • Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
  • Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician and First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)
• April 12
  • Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
  • Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
• April 13
  • Tony Buzan, English author and educational consultant (b. 1942)
  • Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
  • Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1925)
  • Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
• April 14
  • Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
  • Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1942)
  • Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1931)
• April 15 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (b. 1930)
• April 16
  • Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
  • The Howse Peak avalanche:
    • Hansjörg Auer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1984)
    • David Lama, Austrian sports climber and mountaineer (b. 1990)
    • Jess Roskelley, American mountaineer (b. 1982)
• April 17 – Alan García, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
• April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
• April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
• April 21 – Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
• April 22
  • Lê Đức Anh, 4th President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
  • Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1940)
• April 23
  • Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)
  • David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (b. 1939)
• April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
• April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
• April 27 – Negasso Gidada, 7th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
• April 28
  • Richard Lugar, American politician (b. 1932)
  • John Singleton, American film director (b. 1968)
• April 29
  • Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
  • Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990)
• April 30
  • Anémone, French actress (b. 1950)
  • Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1946)
  • Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)

May

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Doris Day

Bob Hawke

Niki Lauda

• May 2
  • Red Kelly, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1927)
  • Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
• May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)
• May 5 – Norma Miller, American dancer, actress and author (b. 1919)
• May 6
  • John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (b. 1924)
  • Seymour Nurse, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1933)
• May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher (b. 1928)
• May 8
  • Sprent Dabwido, 13th President of Nauru (b. 1972)
  • Yevgeny Krylatov, Soviet and Russian film composer (b. 1934)
• May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
• May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
• May 11
  • Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
  • Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1968)
• May 12
  • Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
  • Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (b. 1920)
• May 13
  • Unita Blackwell, American civil rights leader (b. 1933)
  • Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• May 14
  • Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
  • Grumpy Cat, American internet celebrity cat (b. 2012)
  • Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
• May 16
  • Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929)
  • Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (b. 1979)
  • I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917)
• May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
• May 18 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (b. 1931)
• May 19
  • Carlos Altamirano, Chilean politician (b. 1922)
  • Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (b. 1936)
• May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
• May 22 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal (b. 1930)

In fiction

• 21st century in fiction

See also

See also: the categories 2019-related timelines, 2019-related lists, 2019 by country, and 2019 by continent.