2019 deaths

President of France from 1995 to 2007

2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)

President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013

American actress and singer (1922–2019)

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

American physicist (1929–2019)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

Tunisian politician

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)

German fashion designer (1933–2019)

Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)

3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)

Austrian former Formula 1 driver (1949–2019)

President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)

Japanese politician (1918–2019)

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)

Tunisian politician Tunisian of Italian origin

British physicist (1934–2019)

American biochemist (1944–2019)

Dutch actor (1944–2019)

German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)

American physicist (1931-2019)

British actor (1936–2019)

Soviet and Georgian composer (1935-2019)

Russian politician (1936–2019)

Swiss actor (1941–2019)

French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)

Indian politician

Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (1929-2019)

Italian director and politician (1923-2019)

American actor and comedian (1933–2019)

American actor (1966–2019)

English association football player (1937–2019)

Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019)

4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (1928–2019)

French film score composer (1932–2019)

American neuroscientist (1925-2019)

former Regent of Thailand (1920-2019)

British mathematician

Mayor of Gdańsk (1998-2019)

Finnish ski jumper (1963–2019)

Danish-French actress (1940–2019)

president of Argentina from 1999 to 2001

American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)

British-American actor

Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette (1958–2019)

American actor (1931–2019)

East German cosmonaut (1937–2019)

American comedian, actor (1942–2019)

Czech singer and actor (1939–2019)

American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)

American actress (1921–2019)

Monarch of Luxembourg (1964-2000)

American businessman and politician (1930–2019)

French-Swiss singer and actress

American actor

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

American writer (1915-2019)