List of Famous people who died in 2019

Kim Seong-hwan was a South Korean artist and cartoonist, notable for having created and perpetuated the longest-running comic strip in Korea. Kim is also known by his pen name, which is Gobau. The pseudonym dates from the summer of 1950 when he was trying to avoid getting into trouble with North Korea troops in Seoul.

André Gaumond was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop.

Maïmouna Kane was a Senegalese jurist and politician.

Manfred Schneckenburger was a German art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art. He was the curator of the documenta art exhibition twice, documenta 6 in 1977 and documenta 8 in 1987. He was the only person outside of the exhibition’s founder, Arnold Bode to have led documenta twice.

John MacLennan Buchanan was a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th premier of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1990 and as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 2006.

Meir Shamgar was the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 to 1995.

Jean Piqué was a French Rugby union player who played in the 1950s and 1960s.

Nikolaos "Nikos" Milas was a Greek basketball player and coach. He was born in Athens.

Count Philippe de Lannoy was a Belgian noble and provincial councillor of Hainaut. He was the alderman of finance for Frasnes-lez-Anvaing. He was the father of Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. His full name was Philippe Marie Ernest Albert; his title in French was comte de Lannoy et du Saint-Empire.

Ioannes "Giannis" Spanos, also transliterated as Yannis Spanos, was a Greek music composer and lyricist. In his early days as a musician he was also a piano accompanist. Spanos won the music prize at the 1971 Thessaloniki Film Festival for composing the score of the film Ekeino to kalokairi.