List of Famous people who died in 2019
André Goosse
André Goosse was a Belgian grammarian. The son-in-law of Maurice Grevisse, he took over editing and updating Grevisse's last book, Le Bon Usage. In 1988, he married the Belgian writer France Bastia. Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, he was also the president of the Conseil international de la langue française.
Gabriel Montcharmont
Gabriel Montcharmont was a French politician.
Jean Namotte
Jean Namotte was a Belgian politician for the Socialist Party (PS), who was a member of the Parliament of Wallonia, representing Liège from 1995 to 2004.
Mahfuzur Rahman Khan
Mahfuzur Rahman Khan, aka, Mahfoozur Rahman Khan is upheld as Bangladesh's most beloved and prolific cinematographer having received the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Cinematography a record breaking ten times during his career. Though he was also a film director, actor and producer, he is most famously remembered for working behind the camera in films directed by Humayun Ahmed and other legendary film makers including Shibli Sadik and Alamgir Kumkum.
Leonard Dinnerstein
Leonard Dinnerstein was an American historian and author. He was a professor at the University of Arizona.
André Boudrias
André Gerard Boudrias was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 12 seasons in the National Hockey League as well as two more years in the World Hockey Association between 1963 and 1978. He is best remembered for his time with the Vancouver Canucks, where he was the first offensive star in the team's history. He was most recently a scout for the New Jersey Devils.
Emilio Ybarra
Charlie Cole
Charlie Cole was an American photojournalist, one of the five photographers who captured the iconic image of the Tank Man during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Albert Rohan
Albert Rohan was an Austrian diplomat. He served as Secretary General (Generalsekretär) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry from 1996 to 2001.
Baha Abu al-Ata
Baha Abu al-Ata was a leader of Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ). On 12 November 2019, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed Abu al-Ata and his wife in a targeted killing, four of their children and a neighbour were also reportedly injured. The killings triggered clashes between Israelis and Palestinians. Khalil Bathani became the new leader of PIJ.