List of Famous people who died in 2019

Ding Shisun was a Chinese mathematician, academic administrator, and politician. He served as President of Peking University during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and was forced to resign afterwards. He later served as Chairman of the China Democratic League from 1996 to 2005 and Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress.

Nathan Glazer was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University. He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal The Public Interest.

Josef Kadraba was a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, playing 17 matches and scoring 9 goals.

Denis Sire was a French cartoonist.

Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz was an Austrian-born professor of German language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was a Holocaust survivor. Her memoir, Protective Custody: Prisoner 34042, was published in 2005.

Tohru Eguchi was a Japanese theoretical physicist.

Dmitri Andreyevich Vasilenko was an Olympic gymnast who competed for Russia in the 1996 Olympic Games. He won gold medal in the team competition. He was an alternate to the 2000 Olympic team.

Gerlind Reinshagen was a German writer.

Michael G. Rossmann was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level. He also discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif. His most well recognised contribution to structural biology is the development of a phasing technique named molecular replacement, which has led to about three quarters of depositions in the Protein Data Bank.

Dawid Kostecki was a Polish professional boxer who fought at light heavyweight.