List of Famous people who died in 2019

Jean Beaudin was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure won best Actress awards at the 1977 Canadian Film Awards. He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction in 1986, 1992 and 2003 for his films The Alley Cat , Being at Home with Claude and The Collector , respectively.

Albert Alexeyevich Razin was an Udmurt language rights activist and Neopaganist who committed traditional self-immolation (tipshar) in the centre of Izhevsk as an act of protest against the language policy of the Russian federal government and the russification of the Udmurt people.

Purificación "Purita" Campos Sánchez was a Spanish cartoonist, illustrator and painter.

Yves Bot was a French magistrate who served until his death as Advocate General at the European Court of Justice.

Jan Stráský was a Czech politician, who served as the last Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia in 1992.

José Manuel Moreiras was an Argentine footballer. He played for several clubs. His last team was Sport Huancayo of the Primera División in Peru. He was born in Rosario, Argentina.

Raymond Ramazani Baya was a Congolese politician. He served as the foreign minister of that country under the transitional government following his appointment to that post on July 23, 2004, by vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was allowed to appoint the foreign minister.

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, was a writer of weird fiction and horror fiction based in Seattle, Washington. His works typically were published as W. H. Pugmire and his fiction often paid homage to the lore of Lovecraftian horror. Lovecraft scholar, biographer, and literary executor S. T. Joshi described Pugmire in 2011 as "the prose-poet of the horror/fantasy field; he may be the best prose-poet we have," and "perhaps the leading Lovecraftian author writing today."

Jacques Boyon was a French politician.

Jean-Pierre Marie Jacques Grafé was a Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Social Party (PSC), and then the Human Democratic Centre.