List of Famous people who died in 2019

Walter Lübcke was a German local politician in Hesse and a member of the Christian Democratic Union. On 2 June 2019, he was assassinated at his home by a neo-Nazi extremist. Stephan Ernst was arrested on 15 June 2019, and confessed to the crime on 25 June 2019. The Federal Prosecutor's Office classified the murder as a political assassination.

Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II was a Maltese-American literary scholar and translator. He served as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in 2017, when he was named professor emeritus. Buttigieg cotranslated and coedited the three-volume English edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

Maxim Kaibkhanovich Dadashev was a Russian boxer who competed in the light-welterweight division. A participant of the 2015 European Games, Dadashev was a Russian amateur champion. Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, he was of Lezgin descent.

Tatsuo Umemiya was a Japanese actor, tarento, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and tarento Anna Umemiya.

Ferdinand Karl Piëch was an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of Volkswagen Group in 1993–2002 and the chairman of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender) of Volkswagen Group in 2002–2015.

Pua Magasiva was a New Zealand actor of Samoan descent, best known for his roles as Shane Clarke, the Red Ranger from Power Rangers Ninja Storm, and Vinnie Kruse in the soap opera Shortland Street. He was also one of the co-hosts of radio station Flava.

Wiglaf Droste was an award-winning German novelist, writer, songwriter, publicist, author and singer who was best known as a satirist.

Jeremy James Hardy was an English comedian.

Galina Borisovna Volchek was a Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher.

David Cloud Berman was an American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist best known for his work founding and fronting the indie-rock band the Silver Jews. Although the band primarily existed as a recording project for most of its existence, the Silver Jews toured regularly from 2005 until 2009. In January 2009, Berman announced his retirement from music in hopes of finding a meaningful way of undoing the damage that his estranged father Richard Berman, a lobbyist and public relations executive for the alcohol and tobacco industries among others, had brought upon society.