List of Famous people who died in 2019

Pierre Riché was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000.

Fabrizio Saccomanni was an Italian economist, civil servant and the former deputy governor of the Bank of Italy. He served as Italy's minister of economy and finances between April 2013 and February 2014. From 13 April 2018 until his death, Saccomanni was the chairman of UniCredit.

Bertrand Landrieu was a French politician and prefect.

José Antonio Pujante Diekmann was a Spanish politician and philosophy professor. Pujante, a regional coordinator for the United Left–Greens of the Region of Murcia, served as a deputy of the Regional Assembly of Murcia from 2007 until his death in office in 2019.

Ray Kappe was an American architect and educator. In 1972, he resigned his position as Founding Chair of the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and along with a group of faculty, students and his wife, Shelly Kappe, started what eventually came to be known as the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In 2003, Kappe began working with LivingHomes to design modular homes.)

Valentin Ivanovich Bliznyuk was a Soviet and later Russian aircraft designer who worked chiefly with the Tupolev design bureau over a career spanning almost seventy years.

Bernard Lavigne was a French rugby union player who played at wing.

Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. She was installed on October 23, 2014. She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of New Brunswick.

Alfonso de Salas was a Spanish editor, founder of Cambio 16, and co-founder of the newspapers El Mundo and El Economista.

Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, usually referred to as Altair, was a football defender and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1962 World Cup.