List of Famous people who died in 2019

Egon Balas

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First Name Egon
Born on June 7, 1922
Died on March 18, 2019 (aged 96)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Egon Balas was an applied mathematician and a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and did fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming.

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Robbert de Greef

First Name Robbert
Born on August 27, 1991
Died on April 26, 2019 (aged 27)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Robbert de Greef was a Dutch cyclist, who rode for Alecto Cycling Team. On 1 April 2019, de Greef suffered a cardiac arrest during the Omloop van de Braakman race. He died on 25 April 2019.

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Harry Joseph Flynn

First Name Harry
Last Name Flynn
Born on May 2, 1933
Died on September 22, 2019 (aged 86)

Harry Joseph Flynn was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, where he served from September 8, 1995 to May 2, 2008, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI. Previously, Archbishop Flynn was the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in south-central Louisiana.

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Mike Watterson

First Name Mike
Last Name Watterson
Born on August 26, 1942
Died on March 8, 2019 (aged 76)

George Michael Edwin Watterson was an English professional snooker player, businessman, entrepreneur and television commentator. He won a National Amateur Championship, and was an England Amateur international for two years before turning professional in January 1981.

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Masazō Nonaka

First Name Masazō
Born on July 25, 1905
Died on January 20, 2019 (aged 113)
Born in Japan, Hokkaido

Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 318 Japanese supercentenarians, most of them women. According to the Gerontology Research Group, the oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka, born 2 January 1903, aged 118 years, 52 days. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897-2013), who lived to age 116 years, 54 days.

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Ciaran Carson

First Name Ciaran
Born on October 9, 1948
Died on October 6, 2019 (aged 70)

Ciaran Gerard Carson was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.

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W. E. B. Griffin

First Name W.
Last Name Griffin
Born on November 10, 1929
Died on February 12, 2019 (aged 89)

William Edmund Butterworth III, better known by his pen name W. E. B. Griffin, was an American writer of military and detective fiction with 59 novels in seven series published under that name. 21 of those books were co-written with his son, William E Butterworth IV. He also published under 11 other pseudonyms and three versions of his real name.

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Michael Roth

First Name Michael
Last Name Roth
Born on June 18, 1936
Died on July 23, 2019 (aged 83)

Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Michael Roth (Kybernetiker); see its history for attribution.

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Anthony de Jasay

First Name Anthony
Last Name Jasay
Born on October 15, 1925
Died on January 23, 2019 (aged 93)

Anthony de Jasay was a Hungarian writer, economist, and philosopher. He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, and obtained a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm.

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Heinz Winbeck

First Name Heinz
Last Name Winbeck
Born on February 11, 1946
Died on March 26, 2019 (aged 73)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Heinz Winbeck was a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. He is known for five large-scale symphonies, which he programmatically subtitled, such as "Tu Solus" and "De Profundis". As a composition teacher in Würzburg, he shaped a generation of students.

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