List of Famous people who died in 2019
Nicole de Buron
Nicole de Buron was a French writer.
Mustafa Mujezinović
Mustafa Mujezinović was a Bosnian politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 2009 to 2011. In Sarajevo, he finished elementary school in 1970, and high school in 1974. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo in 1978.
George Ferguson
George Stephen Ferguson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 797 career National Hockey League games for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Minnesota North Stars. He was selected in the first round of the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft from the Toronto Marlboros. Ferguson coached the Trenton Sting, a junior A level hockey team based in his hometown of Trenton, Ontario. He died in 2019 at the age of 67.
Celil Oker
Celil Oker was a Turkish crime fiction writer.
John Giorno
John Giorno was an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1964). He was also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Robert K. Massie
Robert Kinloch Massie III was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Massie was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. He also received awards for his book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011).
Juan Orrego-Salas
Juan Antonio Orrego Salas was a Chilean composer.
Walter Horak
Walter Horak was an Austrian football player.
Denis Lalanne
Denis Lalanne was a French sports journalist who specialized in tennis, rugby union, and golf.
John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity. In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people.