Famous Deaths for 19th March 2026

1816 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician, philosopher, and friend of Thomas Jefferson, dies at 85
1900 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer and piano pedagogue (The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises), dies at 80
1916 – Vasily Surikov, Russian history painter (The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak Timofeyevich), dies at 68
1940 – Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1969 – Theodor Schaefer, Czech composer, dies at 65
1974 – Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist politician (daughter of Otto Ville Kuusinen), dies at 70
1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
1999 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes), dies at 72
2007 – Luther Ingram, American RandB singer-songwriter (“(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right”; “I’ll Be Your Shelter”), dies of diabetes related heart failure at 69
2018 – Irwin Hoffman, American conductor, dies at 93

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