List of Famous people who died in 2019
Farouk Al-Fishawy
Farouk al-Fishawy was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was known for Al-Mashbouh (1981).
Russi Taylor
Russell "Russi" Taylor was an American voice actress. She is best remembered as the voice of Minnie Mouse for 33 years, and was married to voice actor Wayne Allwine until his death on May 18, 2009. She also voiced several characters in The Simpsons.
Mariss Jansons
Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons was a Latvian conductor. During his lifetime, Jansons was often cited as one of the world's top living conductors. He was best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich.
busbee
Michael James Ryan Busbee, known professionally as busbee, was an American songwriter, record producer, publisher, record label executive, and multi-instrumentalist.
Nicky Henson
Nicholas Victor Leslie Henson was a British actor.
Freddie Jones
Frederick Charles Jones was an English actor who had an extensive career in television, theatre and cinema productions for almost sixty years. In theatre, he was best known for originating the role of Sir in The Dresser; in film, he was best known for his role as the showman Bytes in The Elephant Man (1980); and in television, he was best known for playing Sandy Thomas in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 to 2018.
Junior Agogo
Manuel "Junior" Agogo was a Ghanaian professional footballer who played as a striker. He was born in Ghana but spent most of his childhood in the UK. He then moved back to Ghana during his years in secondary school. He began his youth career at Sheffield Wednesday in 1995, moving up to the senior squad in 1997. He played for fifteen different clubs over the next fifteen years, before retiring from professional football in 2012. He spent most of his playing career in England, with additional spells in the US, Egypt, Cyprus and Scotland. His longest spell was at Bristol Rovers (2003–2006), where he made 140 appearances before moving to Nottingham Forest.
Dianne Oxberry
Diane Clare Oxberry was an English broadcaster and meteorologist, best known as a long-serving TV and radio presenter for BBC North West.
Alain Barrière
Alain Barrière was a French singer, who was active from the 1950s until his death and was known for participating in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was an English actor. He became best known for playing Kerr Avon in the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7 between 1978 and 1981. His many television roles included two appearances in another BBC science fiction series, Doctor Who, playing Captain Hawkins in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) and Tekker in Timelash (1985). He was also the voice of "Jack" on independent radio stations JACKfm and Union JACK, whose lines included dry-witted comments pertaining to current events.