List of Famous people who died in 2019

Joseph Gourmelon was a French politician who served as a Deputy.

Jean-Paul Benzécri was a French mathematician and statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and has been professor at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris. He is most famous for the development of the Correspondence analysis, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency tables. It is widely used in sociological studies of categorical data. Benzécri was also one of the inventors of the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.

Maurice Hardouin was a French professional footballer who played as a striker.

Jean-Maurice Rouquette was a French historian, specializing in ancient and Romanesque Provence, and curator at the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques.

Tarania Caresh Clarke was a Jamaican footballer who played as a midfielder for Waterhouse F.C. and the Jamaica women's national team. She also represented Jamaica on the under-17 and under-20 national teams.

Jocelyne Saab was a Lebanese journalist and film director. She is recognized as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema. A reporter, photographer, scriptwriter, producer, director, artist and founder of the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon, Saab focused on the deprived and disadvantaged – from displaced peoples to exiled fighters, cities at war and a Fourth World without a voice. Her work is grounded in historic violence, and in an awareness of the actions and images required to document, reflect on and counteract it.

Michael Yeung Ming-cheung was the eighth Roman Catholic bishop of Hong Kong. He was consecrated on 30 August 2014.

Joseph A. Rouleau, was a French Canadian bass opera singer, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoires.

Javier Aguirre Fernández was a Spanish film director, writer and producer.

Joan Guinjoan i Gispert was a Catalan composer and pianist.