List of Famous people who died in 2019

Jean Starobinski was a Swiss literary critic.

Max Berliner was a Polish-born actor, author, film director and theater director who developed his whole career in Argentina.

Ágnes Heller was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She lived, wrote and lectured in Budapest.

Rui Manuel Trindade Jordão was a Portuguese footballer.

Réal Giguère was a Canadian television host and broadcaster.

José Mário Branco was a Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer.

Heráclito Gomes Pizano, better known by the stage name Kito Junqueira, was a Brazilian actor and politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo.

Simjon Rosenfeld a survivor of the Sobibor death camp and a participant in the prisoner revolt which took place in that camp. Born in Baranowicze, Poland, in 1940 he was recruited to the Red Army. In 1941, the Germans captured him and sent him to build a labor camp in Minsk. On 20 September 1943 he was transferred to Sobibor. The Germans separated the Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers but refrained from killing the Jews as they had war prisoner status. On October 14, 1943, Rosenfeld participated in the uprising that resulted in his escape. Acting commander SS Untersturmfuehrer Niemann entered the tailor shop in which Rosenfeld worked. While Isaac Lichtman held Niemann's leg tight – seemingly in an effort to pull off his boots – Rosenfeld and Arcady Wajspaper came out of the back room and split his skull with an axe. After the war, he moved to Ukraine and then to Israel in the 1980s. Rosenfeld had two sons and five grandchildren at the time of his passing. He received a eulogy from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla, was a Cuban-born Mexican boxer and a World Welterweight Champion. He is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His record of the most wins in unified championship bouts in boxing history, shared with Muhammad Ali, was unbeaten for 40 years. After debuting professionally in Cuba, he fought out of Mexico and became a Mexican citizen.

Rosemarie Springer was a German equestrian. Born in Danzig, she was the daughter of Werner Lorenz, who would later become an SS member and head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in Nazi Germany. She first rode a horse at the age of two, sitting on her father's lap, and took up equestrianism at a young age. Her career was interrupted by World War II, however, and she served as a nurse during the conflict. She did not resume riding until 1950 but, soon after, her talents were spotted at a Berlin horse show. Among other international appearances, she participated in the individual dressage event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where she finished seventh in a field of seventeen competitors. She retired from active competition in the late 1970s, having been the German national champion in women's dressage seven times.