List of Famous people who died in 2019

Farouk Al-Fishawy

محمد فاروق فهيم الفيشاوي
First Name Farouk
Last Name Al-Fishawy
Born on February 5, 1952
Died on July 25, 2019 (aged 67)
Born in Egypt

Farouk al-Fishawy was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was known for Al-Mashbouh (1981).

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Russi Taylor

Russell Taylor
First Name Russi
Last Name Taylor
Born on May 4, 1944
Died on July 26, 2019 (aged 75)

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.

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Mariss Jansons

Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons
First Name Mariss
Born on January 14, 1943
Died on December 1, 2019 (aged 76)
Born in Latvia

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.

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busbee

Michael James Ryan Busbee
Born on June 18, 1976
Died on September 29, 2019 (aged 43)

Michael James Ryan Busbee, known professionally as busbee, was an American songwriter, record producer, publisher, record label executive, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Nicky Henson

First Name Nicky
Born on May 12, 1945
Died on December 15, 2019 (aged 74)

Nicholas Victor Leslie Henson was a British actor.

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Freddie Jones

Frederick Charles Jones
First Name Freddie
Born on September 12, 1927
Died on July 9, 2019 (aged 91)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

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.

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Junior Agogo

Manuel Agogo
First Name Junior
Last Name Agogo
Born on August 1, 1979
Died on August 22, 2019 (aged 40)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

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.

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Dianne Oxberry

First Name Dianne
Died on January 10, 2019 (aged 49)

Diane Clare Oxberry was an English broadcaster and meteorologist, best known as a long-serving TV and radio presenter for BBC North West.

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Alain Barrière

Louis Alain Bellec
First Name Alain
Born on November 18, 1935
Died on December 18, 2019 (aged 84)
Born in France, Brittany

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.

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Paul Darrow

Paul Birkby
First Name Paul
Last Name Darrow
Born on May 2, 1941
Died on June 3, 2019 (aged 78)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

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.

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