List of Famous people who died in 2019

Teresa Ha is a former Chinese television and film actress from Hong Kong.

Makoto Ogino was a Japanese manga artist. His best-known work is the Spirit Warrior manga series.

María Concepción Hidalgo, was a Spanish actress, better known in TV series like Aída, La que se avecina, El internado, Hospital Central, Águila Roja and the awarded films Goya's Ghosts, Matador, Voyage to Nowhere.

Samvel Mnatsyan was a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for Barys Astana, HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk and Admiral Vladivostok.

Albert Fritz was a German racing cyclist. He rode in the 1971 Tour de France.

Pal Benko was a Hungarian-American chess player, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.

María Luisa Aguilar Hurtado, was the first professional astronomer of Peru. She studied at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. She graduated as an astronomer from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. In 1981, motivated to develop astronomy at a professional level, she founded and served as director of the "Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar", nowadays called "Permanent Astronomy and Space Sciences Seminar" of the National University of San Marcos.

Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb was a correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, a senior Defense and State Department official, and later the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Luciano De Crescenzo was an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer.

Hidekichi Miyazaki was a Japanese centenarian masters athlete in sprinting, affectionally nicknamed Golden Bolt, a name play on former Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. He was a former official holder of the world record in the M100 100 metres.