List of Famous people who died in 2019

Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir was the kunya used by the official spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from 5 December 2016 until 27 October 2019, when he was killed in a U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria. He was a Saudi national.

Kim Woo-Choong was a South Korean businessman who was the founder and chairman of Daewoo Group until its collapse in 1999.

Dejan Čurović was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a striker.

Bernard Muna was a Cameroonian lawyer, magistrate and politician. He served as Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 1997 to 2002. He was a candidate for the 2011 Presidential elections in Cameroon.

Dieter Danzberg was a German professional footballer who played as a defender.

Dezső Tandori was a Hungarian writer, poet and literary translator. He was a founding member of the Digital Literature Academy. He won the Attila József Prize in 1978 and was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1998. He was born in Budapest.

Nie Yuanzi was a Chinese academic administrator at Peking University, known for writing a big-character poster criticising the university for being controlled by the bourgeoisie, which is considered to have been the opening shot of the Cultural Revolution. She became a top leader of the Red Guards in Beijing, and was sentenced to 17 years in prison after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Dianne Foster was a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent.

María Concepción Paredes Tamayo was a Spanish athlete who specialised in the triple jump. She represented her country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as three outdoor and four indoor World Championships.

Pedro Antonio Nikken Bellshaw, was a Venezuelan lawyer and jurist.