List of Famous people who died in 2019

Yu Xuntan, known by his pen name Liu Shahe, was a Chinese writer and poet. The son of a Sichuan landowner who was executed in the Land Reform Movement, he began publishing in 1948 and became a professional writer in 1952. He co-founded the poetry magazine Stars in 1956, but was denounced as a "filial descendant of the landlord class" when the Anti-Rightist Campaign began in 1957. For the next two decades he performed hard labour and was exiled to the countryside until the end of the Cultural Revolution. He resumed publishing in 1978, and his collection, Poems of Liu Shahe (1982), won the National Prize for Poetry.

Turíbio Ruiz was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, television presenter, and radio presenter. His career as an actor and broadcaster spanned from the late 1940s to the early 2010s.

William A. Gabor was an American professional basketball player.

Pascal Gnazzo was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1947 Tour de France.

Rik Kuypers was a Belgian film director. He directed 29 films between 1947 and 1981. He co-directed the film Seagulls Die in the Harbour, which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Lothar Geisler was a retired German footballer.

Ramón Héctor Ponce was an Argentine professional footballer who played in Argentina, Chile and Canada.

João Paulo dos Reis Veloso was a Brazilian economist and politician who served as Minister of Planning between 1969 and 1979, and also as President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research.

Fahrudin Jusufi was a Yugoslav footballer who most notably played for Partizan, Eintracht Frankfurt and the Yugoslav national team.

Thomas Oppermann was a German legal academic and university administrator.