List of Famous people who died in 2019
Nicolás Dueñas
Nicolás Dueñas Navarro was a Spanish actor. He shot to fame with the theatre play 'Toc Toc'. Later, he became a regular actor in Spanish films and appeared in films like El crimen de Cuenca' (1980), 'Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos...' (1981), 'Divinas palabras' (1987) and 'Tu nombre envenena mis sueños' (1996). He also acted in a Television series named 'Aquí no hay quien viva'.
Alexander Kuznetsov
Alexander Konstantinovich Kuznetsov was a Russian American actor.
Marlen Khutsiev
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.
Usman Khan
Usman Khan, also known as Abu Saif, was a British terrorist who was convicted of plotting a terrorist attack in 2012 and who was shot dead by City of London Police after being restrained by members of the public whilst committing a knife attack near London Bridge on 29 November 2019, during which he killed two people and injured three others.
Natalia Fileva
Natalia Valerievna Fileva was a Russian businesswoman and chairman of the board of directors of S7 Airlines. In 2018, Forbes listed her as the 4th richest woman in Russia, with a worth estimated at US$600 million .
Ted Lindsay
Ted Lindsay was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played as a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lindsay scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times. Often referred to as "Terrible Ted", Lindsay helped to organize the first attempt at a Players' Association in the late 1950s, an action which led to his trade to Chicago. In 2017, Lindsay was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.
Eduard Punset
Eduard Punset i Casals was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer.
Sheila Mercier
Sheila Betty Mercier was an English actress, of stage and television, best known for playing Annie Sugden in the soap opera Emmerdale for over 20 years, from the programme's first episode in 1972 until the mid-1990s, with a guest return in 2009.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who was the second President of Tunisia from 1987 until his fall in 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987. He assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent. Ben Ali was subsequently reelected with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote; his final re-election coming on 25 October 2009. Ben Ali was the penultimate surviving leader deposed in the Arab Spring who was survived by Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the latter dying in February 2020.
Sean Stephenson
Sean Clinch Stephenson was an American therapist, self-help author and motivational speaker. Because he was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, Stephenson stood three feet tall, had fragile bones, and used a wheelchair.