List of Famous people who died in 1919
Rees Llewellyn
Rees Llewellyn was an industrialist and public figure in Aberdare, South Wales and a prominent figure in the industrial history of the South Wales Coalfield.
Antonin Carlès
Jean-Antonin Carles was a French sculptor.
Campbell Hulton
Campbell Arthur Grey Hulton was an English cricketer active from 1869 to 1882 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Manchester and died in Marylebone. He appeared in eight first-class matches as a righthanded batsman, scoring 80 runs with a highest score of 19 and held six catches.
Louis T. Leonowens
Louis Thomas Gunnis Leonowens was a British subject who grew up and worked in Siam (Thailand). He was the son of Anna Leonowens, famous as the English teacher hired by King Mongkut to teach his children. Leonowens later served as an officer with the Siamese Royal Cavalry and founded a Thai trading company that still bears his name, Louis T. Leonowens Ltd. He was the basis of a major character in the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam, as well as other fictional works based on it.
Carl Larsson
Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot, a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.
Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud
Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud was a French sculptor. He created several notable works in France and in England, where he lived for 15 years.
Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring was a German communist historian and revolutionary socialist politician who was a senior member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his opera Pagliacci (1892) that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success.
Maria Margaret Pollen
Maria Margaret La Primaudaye Pollen, known as Minnie, was a decorative arts collector. As Mrs John Hungerford Pollen, she became known during the early-twentieth century as an authority on the history of textiles, publishing Seven Centuries of Lace in 1908.
Konstantin Arsenyev
Konstantin Konstantinovich Arsenyev was a Russian journalist, essayist, lawyer, historian and, in his later years, a liberal politician.