List of Famous people who died in 2019

Anna Manel·la or Anna Manel·la i Llinàs was a Spanish and Catalan sculptor and painter. She was known for her figures representing lost childhood.

Anne Grete Preus was a Norwegian rock singer in Norway in the 1980s and 1990s, first as member of the bands Veslefrikk and Can Can and later as a solo act. She released nine solo albums and won the Spellemannprisen multiple times. In 2008 she appeared as a narrator in an Arts Alliance production, id - Identity of the Soul. She contracted liver cancer in 2007. In early 2019 she had to cancel the planned concerts for the summer due to illness.

Helmut Berding was a German historian.

Kao Chun-ming was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT). He graduated from Tainan Theological College and Seminary, and then studied at Selly Oak Colleges in England. He was the General Secretary of the PCT from 1970 to 1989, during which period he became a political prisoner for assisting participants in the Kaohsiung Incident (1979), in particular Shih Ming-teh. For this he was sentenced for seven years in prison, and served his sentence from 1980 to 1984. While he was in prison, his wife Ruth Kao organized groups to help him and raised awareness in the worldwide Church about the human rights situation in Taiwan. After Chen Shui-bian was elected President in 2000, Kao Chun-ming was appointed a Senior Advisor to the Office of the President. In 2006 he supported the then-president Chen against his former comrade Shih, who led a movement for a forced resignation of Chen called ‘Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go’.

Aytaç Arman was a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1971 and 2019. He starred in the 1979 film The Enemy, which won an Honourable Mention at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.

Amédée Grab was a Swiss Roman Catholic bishop.

Viktor Viktorovich Manakov was a Russian cyclist. He won the Gold Medal in the Men's team pursuit at the 1980 Summer Olympics. At the 1983 Summer Universiade he won gold in the men's points race and silver in the men's individual pursuit.

Barrie Colin Keeffe was a British dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for the 1980 film The Long Good Friday.

Eddie Jones was an American actor. He was known for playing Clark Kent's father Jonathan Kent in the ABC television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Charles Borden, head of The Agency, in the sci-fi television series The Invisible Man.

François Doubin was a French politician and cabinet minister. He was a member and leader of the Radical Party of the Left.