List of Famous people who died in 2019

George Rosenkranz was a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry, who used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials. He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerland and emigrated to the Americas to escape the Nazis, eventually settling in Mexico.

Tadashi Nakamura was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He was attached to the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society.

Gustav Deutsch was an Austrian multidisciplinary artist, art director, and film director.

Mohamed Negm was an Egyptian actor and comedian.

Johannes Schaaf was a German film, theatre and opera director and actor. Several of his films have been internationally recognized. His focus shifted to opera in the 1980s and he worked with many of the leading international opera houses within Europe, and was invited to direct at several renowned opera houses in the United States and Asia.

Danièle Heymann was a French journalist and film critic. She was the former head of the Culture Department at Le Monde, a film critic for Marianne and L'Express, and was a participant in the show Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter. She was a recipient of the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Officer of the National Order of Merit.

Sidney Nathan Ramin was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer.

María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas was a Mexican politician who was the first woman to be elected president of a Mexican political party.

Marta Harnecker was a Chilean journalist, author, psychologist, sociologist and Marxist intellectual. She worked in the analysis of the labor movement and elaborated a lot of formative documentation. She was also an advisor to the socialist Marxist government of Cuba, as well as a collaborator with left-wing political movements in Latin America. She was active in the government of Salvador Allende between 1970 and 1973, and a counselor of Hugo Chávez between 2004 and 2011.

Hermann Ludwig Gremliza was a German radical left journalist.