List of Famous people who died in 2019
Harald Nickel
Harald Nickel was a German former footballer.
Davo Karničar
Davorin "Davo" Karničar was a Slovene alpinist and extreme skier.
Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese was an Italian actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973).
Werner Müller
Wilhelm Werner Müller was a German businessman and politician. He served as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 1998 to 2002. He then became CEO of RAG AG from 2003, of which Evonik was derived in 2007. His management of a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way won him the Manager of the Year award in Germany in 2008. He was chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn.
Bob Kuechenberg
Robert John Kuechenberg was a National Football League guard for the Miami Dolphins for 14 seasons between 1970 and 1983, spending the 1984 season on injured reserve. He was a mainstay in a line that included Hall of Famers Jim Langer, Larry Little, and Dwight Stephenson and played in six Pro Bowls in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was selected as one of the top 15 finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame from 2002–2006, and one of the top 17 finalists from 2007–2009, but missed the cut every year. He was inducted into the Miami Dolphin's Honor Roll on December 15, 1995. He was the brother of the retired Chicago Bears linebacker Rudy Kuechenberg.
Martin Böttcher
Martin Böttcher was a German composer, arranger and conductor.
Silvina Bosco
Silvina Bosco was an Argentine actress.
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards.
Lucho Avilés
Lucho Avilés was a Uruguayan-born Argentine journalist and television presenter.
Karen Pendleton
Karen Anita Pendleton was an original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer on the ABC television series from 1955–1959. She was one of only nine Mouseketeers who were on the show during its entire original run.