List of Famous people who died in 2019
Ken Rothman
Kenneth Joel Rothman was an American lawyer and politician from Missouri. He served as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 1981 to 1985.
Ib Nørholm
Ib Nørholm was a Danish composer and organist.
Pancracio Celdrán
Pancracio Celdrán Gomáriz was a Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist whose specialties were the history and literature of antiquity and the medieval period.
Stewart Adams
Stewart Sanders Adams was an English pharmacist, and bioengineer who was part of a team from Boots which developed the painkiller ibuprofen in 1961. Ibuprofen is now on the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines and is one of the world's best-selling drugs.
Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe
Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe, was a British aristocrat.
Nilcéia Freire
Nilcéa Freire was a Brazilian academic and politician. After a career as a medical researcher and professor, Freire moved into university administration. She oversaw graduate studies and budgetary concerns before being promoted as dean of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 she became a government minister, as the Special Secretariat of Policies for Women. She served from 2005 to 2007 as the President of the Inter-American Commission of Women. At the end of her term, she became the Brazilian representative for the Ford Foundation and oversaw their programs to promote opportunity and justice for underrepresented minorities.
Conrado San Martín
Conrado San Martín Prieto was a Spanish actor with a long and prolific career. He made his film debut in 1941 and was particularly popular during the 1950s.
Nina Fyodorova
Nina Viktorovna Baldycheva was a Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1970 to 1980. She won three medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in the 4 × 5 km relay (1976), a silver in the 4 × 5 km relay (1980), and a bronze in the 5 km (1976). In the relay in 1976, she injured her left hand in a fall at the start, but completed the race.
Eduardo Martín Toval
Eduardo Martín Toval was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served as a Deputy between 1977 and 1980, and again between 1982 and 1995 and as a member of the Catalan Parliament between 1980 and 1982.
Hans Kornberg
Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS was a British-American biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1982 to 1995.