List of Famous people who died in 2019

Masashi Ishibashi was a Japanese politician and chairman of the Japan Socialist Party.

Beatriz Alfonso Nogue was a Spanish female chess player, a WFM, Woman FIDE Master. She was the national champion in 1990 in Benasque, Huesca. She was born in Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

Mohamed Ofei Sylla was a Guinean professional football midfielder.

André Jourdain was a French politician.

Bogaletch "Boge" Gebre was an Ethiopian scientist and activist. In 2010, The Independent characterized her as "the woman who began the rebellion of Ethiopian women." Along with her sister Fikirte Gebre, Gebre founded KMG Ethiopia, formerly called Kembatti Mentti Gezzima-Tope. The charity works to serve women in many areas, including preventing female genital mutilation and bridal abductions, the practice of kidnapping and raping young women to force them into marriage. According to the National Committee on Traditional Practices of Ethiopia, such practices were the basis of 69% of marriages in the country as of 2003.

Frederico Nobre Rosa, known simply as Frederico, was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Charles, Knight Vandenhove was one of the leading Belgian architects of the 20th century. His company Charles Vandenhove et associés is based in Liège, Belgium. He is mostly known for his work in Belgium, the Netherlands and Paris ranging from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Richard Allen Askey was an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey–Wilson polynomials are on the top level of the Askey scheme, which organizes orthogonal polynomials of hypergeometric type into a hierarchy. The Askey–Gasper inequality for Jacobi polynomials is essential in de Brange's famous proof of the Bieberbach conjecture.

Pierre Ndaye Mulamba was a football midfielder from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. He was nicknamed "Mutumbula" ("assassin") and "Volvo".