Deaths in 2019  

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This page features the deaths in 2019.

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• Reinhold Aman, 82, publisher of Maledicta.
• Caravelli, 88, French conductor and composer (And Satan Calls the Turns).
• Syd Mead, 86, American concept artist (Blade Runner, Aliens, Tron), lymphoma.
• Neil Innes, 75, English comedian (Monty Python), musician (The Rutles, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) and writer.
• Garrett List, 76, American trombonist, vocalist and composer.
• Alasdair Gray, 85, Scottish artist and author (Lanark).
• Allee Willis, 72, American songwriter ("I'll Be There for You", "September", "Boogie Wonderland"), cardiac arrest.
• Peter Wollen, 81, British film theorist and filmmaker.
• Jules Deelder, 75, Dutch poet.
• Gershon Kingsley, 97, German-American composer and electronic musician ("Popcorn").
• Panamarenko, 79, Belgian sculptor.
• Anna Karina, 79, Danish-born French actress (My Life to Live, A Woman Is a Woman, Alphaville), cancer.
• Roger Cardinal, 79, British art historian (Outsider Art).
• Irving Burgie, 95, American songwriter ("Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jamaica Farewell").
• Jaegwon Kim, 85, South Korean-American philosopher.
• Sir Jonathan Miller, 85, English theatre director (Beyond the Fringe), opera director and doctor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Clive James, 80, Australian author (Cultural Amnesia) and critic, leukemia.
• Gahan Wilson, 89, American cartoonist (Is Nothing Sacred?).
• Noel Ignatiev, 78, American author and historian, intestinal infarction.
• Juliaan Lampens, 93, Belgian architect (Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Kapel van Kerselare in Edelare ).
• Fred Bongusto, 84, Italian singer-songwriter (Shake Per Un Divorzio).
• Marie Laforêt, 80, French-Swiss singer ("Mon amour, mon ami") and actress (Male Hunt, Who Wants to Kill Sara?).
• Florence Giorgetti, 75, French actress (La Grande Bouffe, The Lacemaker, Pepe Carvalho).
• Vladimir Bukovsky, 76, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident, heart attack.
• Nick Tosches, 69, American journalist, music critic and writer (Country, The Devil and Sonny Liston, The Last Opium Den).
• Charles Jencks, 80, American architect, cultural theorist (The New Paradigm in Architecture).
• Harold Bloom, 89, American literary critic and writer (The Anxiety of Influence, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages).
• John Giorno, 82, American poet and performance artist.
• Ginger Baker, 80, English Hall of Fame drummer (Cream, Fela Kuti).
• Vlasta Chramostová, 92, Czech actress (The Cremator).
• Glen Brown, 75, Jamaican reggae musician and record producer.
• Napoleon Chagnon, 81, American anthropologist.
• Sid Haig, 80, American actor (Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, THX 1138).
• Wim Crouwel, 90, Dutch graphic and type designer (New Alphabet).
• Ric Ocasek, 75, American musician (The Cars), singer-songwriter ("Just What I Needed") and record producer, cardiovascular disease.
• Luigi Colani, 91, German industrial designer.
• György Konrád, 86, Hungarian novelist and political dissident, President of PEN International (1990–1993).
• Daniel Johnston, 58, American singer-songwriter (Songs of Pain) and visual artist, heart attack.
• Robert Frank, 94, Swiss-American photographer (The Americans) and documentary filmmaker (Cocksucker Blues).
• Peter Lindbergh, 74, German fashion photographer (Stern, Vogue, Rolling Stone) and film director.
• Immanuel Wallerstein, 88, American sociologist, developer of world-systems theory.
• Bert Verhoye, 74, Belgian satirist.
• Pedro Bell, 69, American artist and illustrator (Parliament-Funkadelic).
• Nancy Holloway, 86, American singer and actress.
• Larry Taylor, 77, American bass guitarist (Canned Heat).
• Peter Fonda, 79, American actor and screenwriter (The Trip, Easy Rider, The Hired Hand), lung cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Mocky, 86, French film director (Les Dragueurs, The Miracle), screenwriter and actor (The Abandoned).
• Toni Morrison, 88, American author (The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved), Nobel laureate (1993), Pulitzer Prize winner (1988).
• Henri Belolo, 82, French music producer (The Ritchie Family, Village People) and songwriter.
• D. A. Pennebaker, 94, American documentary filmmaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars).
• Bryan Magee, 89, British philosopher and politician, MP (1974–1983).
• Rutger Hauer, 75, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Nighthawks, The Hitcher).
• Paul Krassner, 87, American author and political activist.
• Rip Torn, 88, American actor (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show, Men in Black).
• João Gilberto, 88, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style.
• Artur Brauner, 100, Polish-born German film producer (The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, The Good Soldier Schweik, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Vampyros Lesbos).
• Ben Barenholtz, 83, Ukrainian-born American film producer (Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Requiem for a Dream).
• Édith Scob, 81, French actress (Eyes Without a Face, Summer Hours, Holy Motors).
• Isabel Sarli, 83, Argentine actress and glamour model.
• Maurice Bénichou, 76, French actor (Animal, Amélie, Time of the Wolf).
• Franco Zeffirelli, 96, Italian film director (Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth, The Taming of the Shrew).
• Sylvia Miles, 94, American actress (Midnight Cowboy, Heat, Denise Calls Up).
• Peter Whitehead, 82, English writer and filmmaker (Wholly Communion, Charlie Is My Darling, Tonite Let's All Make Love in London).
• Dr. John, 77, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("I Walk on Guilded Splinters", "Right Place, Wrong Time"), heart attack.
• Roky Erickson, 71, American singer-songwriter (The 13th Floor Elevators).
• I. M. Pei, 102, Chinese-born American architect (Everson Museum of Art, Dallas City Hall, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Louvre Pyramid).
• Dominique Lawalrée, 64, Belgian composer and keyboard player.
• Tim Conway, 85, American actor and comedian (Dentist Sketch).
• Doris Day, 97, American actress (Pillow Talk, Calamity Jane), singer ("Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)") and animal welfare activist, pneumonia.
• Anémone, 68, French actress (Santa Claus Is a Stinker, The Grand Highway).
• Bruce Bickford, 72, American animator (Baby Snakes, The Dub Room Special, The Amazing Mr. Bickford).
• Jean-Pierre Marielle, 87, French actor (Cookies, Without Apparent Motive, Coup de Torchon).
• Dave Samuels, 70, American percussionist (Spyro Gyra).
• Ryszard Kaja, 57, Polish graphic artist.
• Les Reed, 83, English songwriter ("It's Not Unusual", "Delilah", "The Last Waltz").
• Gene Wolfe, 87, American science fiction and fantasy writer (The Shadow of the Torturer, heart disease.
• John McEnery, 75, British actor (Bartleby).
• Bibi Andersson, 83, Swedish actress (Persona, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries), complications from a stroke.
• Seymour Cassel, 84, American actor (Faces, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dick Tracy), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Agnès Varda, 90, French film director (La Pointe Courte, Cléo from 5 to 7, Black Panthers), cancer.
• Scott Walker, 76, American-born British singer-songwriter (The Walker Brothers), composer and record producer.
• Larry Cohen, 77, American film director (It's Alive, The Stuff) and screenwriter (Phone Booth).
• Andre Williams, 82, American R&B singer and songwriter ("Shake a Tail Feather"), colon cancer.
• Dick Dale, 81, American guitarist and surf music pioneer ("Misirlou"), heart failure.
• Okwui Enwezor, 55, Nigerian art critic and writer, cancer.
• Raymond Donnez, 76, French music producer and conductor ("Standing in the Rain").
• Hal Blaine, 90, American Hall of Fame drummer (Psychedelic Percussion).
• Carolee Schneemann, 79, American artist.
• Keith Flint, 49, English singer (The Prodigy), suicide.
• André Previn, 89, German-born American composer (My Fair Lady, "Executive Party").
• Carol Lynley, 77, American actress (The Cat and the Canary), heart attack.
• Gillian Freeman, 89, British author (The Undergrowth of Literature).
• Mark Hollis, 64, English singer-songwriter (Talk Talk).
• Stanley Donen, 94, American film director (Singin' in the Rain, Bedazzled), heart failure.
• Alessandro Mendini, 87, Italian architect and designer (Proust Armchair).
• Lonnie Simmons, American record producer ("Don't Stop the Music").
• Karl Lagerfeld, 85, German fashion designer (Chanel).
• Ken Nordine, 98, American voice-over and recording artist (Word Jazz, Son of Word Jazz, Love Words).
• Bruno Ganz, 77, Swiss actor (Nosferatu the Vampyre), colorectal cancer.
• Tomi Ungerer, 87, French illustrator (Fornicon).
• Albert Finney, 82, English actor (Tom Jones, Erin Brockovich, Murder on the Orient Express), chest infection.
• Marcel Azzola, 91, French accordionist (Jacques Brel).
• Dick Miller, 90, American actor (Gremlins, The Little Shop of Horrors, Death Race 2000).
• James Ingram, 66, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Yah Mo B There"), brain cancer.
• Michel Legrand, 86, French composer ("The Windmills of Your Mind"), conductor and jazz pianist.
• Florence Knoll, 101, American architect and furniture designer.
• Dušan Makavejev, 86, Serbian film director (Man Is Not a Bird, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, Sweet Movie).
• Jonas Mekas, 96, Lithuanian-born American film director and poet.
• Edwin Birdsong ("Rapper Dapper Snapper"), 77, American funk keyboardist.
• Nathan Glazer, 95, American sociologist.
• Reggie Young, 82, American musician (The Memphis Boys).
• Francine du Plessix Gray, 88, Polish-born American author and critic (At Home With the Marquis de Sade: A Life).

See also

• Deaths in 2018
• Deaths in 2017
• Deaths in 2016
• Deaths in 2015
• Deaths in 2014
• Deaths in 2013
• Deaths in 2012
• Deaths in 2011
• Deaths in 2010
• Deaths in 2009
• Deaths in 2008