List of Famous people who died in 2019
Stephanie Niznik
Stephanie Lynne Niznik was an American film, television, and theatre actress, most famous for her role as Nina Feeney on Everwood.
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for Winter Solstice.
Earl Thomas Conley
Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky, pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
Asunción Balaguer
María Asunción Balaguer Golobart was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than 100 films and television shows from 1952 to 2016. In 1983, she played El barón, by Leandro Fernández de Moratín. In 1984, she played La cena del rey Baltasar, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Matti Nykänen
Matti Ensio Nykänen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. Widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, he won five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals, and 22 Finnish Championship medals. Most notably, he won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most medaled athlete that winter.
Arturo Fernández
Arturo Fernández Rodríguez was a Spanish actor who appeared in numerous films since making his debut in 1954.
Jake Phelps
James Kendall "Jake" Phelps was an American skateboarder and magazine editor. Phelps led the magazine Thrasher as editor-in-chief for 27 years.
Patrick Day
Patrick Day was an American professional boxer. He died from brain trauma sustained in a knockout loss against Charles Conwell.
Clive Swift
Clive Walter Swift was an English actor and songwriter. He was best known for his role as Richard Bucket, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances, but played many other film and television roles.