List of Famous people who died in 2019
Turk Schonert
Turk Leroy Schonert was a quarterback, quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator in the National Football League. Schonert was the head coach of the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions in 2012.
John Clarke
John Clarke was an American actor. Clarke is recognized for originating and portraying Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the program in 1965, until his retirement in 2004.
Jon Gittens
Jonathan Antoni Gittens was an English professional footballer who played for Swindon Town as well as for Southampton, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth, Torquay United and Exeter City.
Yusuf Motala
Muhammad Yusuf ibn Suleman ibn Qasim Motala was a British Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, founder of Darul Uloom Bury and one of the disciples of Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi.
William Powers Jr.
William Charles Powers Jr. was an American attorney, academic, and university administrator who served as the 28th president of the University of Texas at Austin, becoming the second-longest serving president in the university's history. He held the position from February 1, 2006, to July 2, 2015, when he was succeeded by Gregory L. Fenves. Before his death, Powers held the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair at the University of Texas School of Law.
María Auxiliadora Delgado
María Auxiliadora Delgado San Martín was an Uruguayan civil servant, health advocate, and wife of President Tabaré Vázquez. She served as First Lady of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010. She regained the position on 1 March 2015, when Vázquez was sworn in for a second non-consecutive term.
Makhmut Gareyev
Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareyev was a Russian General of the Army and an author of several books on the history of the Second World War. He served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Until his death, he was the president of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman
Basil Samuel Feldman, Baron Feldman was a British businessman who was a Conservative member of the House of Lords. He sat in the House from 1996 until his retirement in 2017.
James W. Montgomery
James Winchester Montgomery was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in Chicago, serving from 1971 to 1987.
Nobuhiko Higashikuni
Nobuhiko Higashikuni was a Japanese aristocrat and former Imperial prince. The first grandchild of Emperor Hirohito, he was the eldest son of Shigeko, Princess Teru, the Emperor's eldest child. He was thus a maternal nephew of the Emperor Emeritus Akihito. His father was Morihiro Higashikuni, a grandson of Emperor Meiji.