List of Famous people who died in 2019

Dina Ugorskaja was a German pianist of Russian provenance.

Georges Sarre was a French politician and leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement.

France-Albert René was a Seychellois politician who served as the second President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He was nicknamed by Seychellois government officials and fellow party members as "the Boss". His name is often given as simply Albert René or F.A. René; he was also nicknamed Ti France.

Eva Kleinitz was a German opera director whose productions were seen in the opera houses of Austria, Germany, Belgium and France.

Lev Alexandrovich Anninsky was a Soviet and Russian literary critic, historian, publicist, essayist and author of more than 30 books. He was also a scriptwriter, and as such the three times TEFI laureate.

John Mendelsohn was a president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was an internationally recognized leader in cancer research.

Sven Oskar Lindqvist was a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction, whose works include Exterminate All the Brutes and A History of Bombing.

Ivan Averill Cooper was a politician from Northern Ireland who was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and a founding member of the SDLP. He is best known for leading an anti-internment march which developed into the Bloody Sunday massacre on 30 January 1972, in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, after British soldiers opened fire on the crowd.

Erika Simon was a German scholar of classical archaeology and professor emeritus of the University of Würzburg. Simon died in February 2019 at the age of 91.

Rafael Ramón Acosta Arévalo was a Venezuelan military officer with the rank of corvette captain of the Armed Forces. Acosta Arévalo was victim of forced disappearance and tortured by agents of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) during his detention after being accused by the government of Nicolás Maduro of "conspiring to carry out an attempted coup d'état". Acosta Arévalo died as a result of injuries suffered while in detention in the Military Hospital of the Army Dr. Vicente Salias Sanoja. The news of his death caused great impact in the media and the condemnation of both national and international authorities.