List of Famous people who died in 2019
Sven-David Sandström
Sven-David Sandström was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.
Hari Sabarno
Hari Sabarno was an Indonesian army officer and former Minister of Home Affairs.
Pierrette Fleutiaux
Pierrette Fleutiaux was a French writer. Her awards include the 1985 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Métamorphoses de la reine, and winner of the 1990 Prix Femina for Nous sommes éternels.
Martin Belinga Eboutou
Martin Belinga Eboutou was a Cameroonian political figure and diplomat who was the Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of Cameroon from 2009 to March 2018. He previously held the same post from 1996 to 1997 and was Cameroon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from March 1998 to December 2007. Belinga died on 8 May 2019 in Switzerland, aged 79.
Martin Feldstein
Martin Stuart Feldstein was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the NBER from 1978 through 2008. From 1982 to 1984, Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. He was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003.
Georgette Elgey
Georgette Elgey was a French journalist and historian. She was the author of Histoire de la IVe République, published in 6 volumes from 1965 to 2012.
Jaime Rosenthal
Jaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva was a Honduran politician, and leader of one of Liberal Party of Honduras's (PLH) wings, and was a perennial candidate for President. On March 20, 1974 he founded the Banco Continental. On October 7, 2015, Rosenthal was labeled a "specially designated narcotics trafficker" under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.
Vitaliy Logvinovsky
Vitaly Stepanovich Logvinovsky PAR was a Soviet and later Russian stage and film actor.
Roy Cheetham
Roy Alexander Cheetham was an English footballer who played for Manchester City, Detroit Cougars, Charlton Athletic and Chester.
Jean-Louis Chrétien
Jean-Louis Chrétien was a French philosopher in the tradition of phenomenology, as well as a poet and religious thinker. Author of over thirty books, he was the 2012 winner of the Cardinal Lustiger Prize for his life’s work in philosophy. At his death, he was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne.