The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2019.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
February 2019 1 Kinryū Arimoto, 78, Japanese voice actor (City Hunter, Gasaraki, One Piece), esophageal cancer.声優・有本欽隆さん 食道がんで死去「ワンピース」白ひげ役など Conway Berners-Lee, 97, English mathematician and computer scientist.News bulletin from the Parish of SS Alban & Stephen D. J. Conway, 79, American occult writer. John J. Duffy Jr., 85, American criminal defense attorney. Alice Dye, 91, American amateur golfer and golf course designer (TPC at Sawgrass). Tim Elkington, 98, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot, member of The Few, fall. Jeremy Hardy, 57, English comedian, radio host and panelist (The News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation), cancer. Glen Ray Hines, 75, American football player (Arkansas Razorbacks, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints). Ursula Karusseit, 79, German actress (Ways across the Country, KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra).Schauspielerin Ursula Karusseit ist mit 79 Jahren gestorben Andrew McGahan, 52, Australian author (Praise, The White Earth, Wonders of a Godless World), pancreatic cancer. Ayub Ogada, 63, Kenyan musician. Edit Perényi-Weckinger, 95, Hungarian gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (1948, 1952).Elhunyt London és Helsinki ezüstérmes tornásza, Weckinger Edit Mel Pickings, 92, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1978–1988). Ehsan-ul-Haq Piracha, Pakistani politician, Minister of Finance (1988–1990). Raymond Ratzlaff, 87, Canadian politician. Lisa Seagram, 82, American actress (A House Is Not a Home, Caprice, The Beverly Hillbillies), dementia. Rex Sorensen, 73, American media executive.Sorensen Media Group mourns death of founder, President Rex Sorensen Yosef Sorinov, 72, Israeli footballer (Maccabi Netanya, Beitar Jerusalem, national team).שוער העבר יוסף "יוז'י" סורינוב הלך לעולמו הבוקר בגיל 73 Clive Swift, 82, English actor (The National Health, Keeping Up Appearances, A Passage to India) and songwriter.Clive Swift obituary Les Thornton, 84, British professional wrestler (Stampede, NWA, WWF).Les Thornton dead at 84 Thuppettan, 89, Indian Malayalam playwright. William Vogel, 87, Canadian politician. Neville Watt, 88, Australian rugby league player (Balmain Tigers). Doug Wendt, 91, Australian footballer.Douglas James. Wendt Wade Wilson, 60, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders) and coach (Chicago Bears), heart attack.
2 Catherine Burns, 73, American actress (Last Summer, Me, Natalie, Red Sky at Morning), complications from a fall and cirrhosis. Arunendu Das, 81, Indian musician. William Davis, 85, German-born British journalist (BBC). Walter James Edyvean, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (2001–2014). Carol Emshwiller, 97, American author (The Mount). Michael Ferguson, 60, Canadian civil servant, Auditor General (since 2011), cancer.Auditor General of Canada Mike Ferguson has died Michelle King, 57, American educator, cancer. Libby Komaiko, 69, American dancer, pneumonia. Arman Loni, 35, Pakistani politician, PTM leader, blunt force trauma.پشتون تحفظ موومنٹ کے رہنما ارمان لونی پولیس گرفتاری کی کوشش کے دوران ہلاک Alaa Mashzoub, 50, Iraqi novelist and writer, expert on the History of the Jews in Iraq, shot. Slobodan Peladić, 57, Serbian artist.Preminuo Slobodan Peladić Carrie Richerson, 66, American science fiction fan and bookseller.Carrie Richerson (1952-2019) Irene Krugman Rudnick, 89, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1972–1976, 1981–1984, 1987–1994). Clarence Servold, 91, Canadian cross-country skier. Bill Sims, 69, American blues pianist. William Slater, 78, Canadian Olympic swimmer. Special Tiara, 11, Irish racehorse, euthanized. Jacoba Wijnands, 94, Dutch Olympic gymnast.
3 Shukri Abrahams, 50, South African cricketer (Eastern Province). Julie Adams, 92, American actress (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bend of the River, Murder, She Wrote). Renato Giuseppe Bosisio, 88–89, Italian-born Canadian academic.Bosisio, Renato G. ing. Novak Bošković, 29, Serbian handball player, suicide by gunshot. Glenn Brady, 83, American football coach (Chadron State Eagles, Milwaukee Panthers, Sacramento State Hornets). Irv Brown, 83, American basketball referee and sportscaster. Jeetendra Singh Bundela, 60, Indian politician.पूर्व सांसद एवं भाजपा जिलाध्यक्ष जितेंद्र सिंह बुंदेला का निधन Wallace Chafe, 91, American linguist.In Memoriam: Wallace (Wally) Chafe Detsl, 35, Russian hip hop artist, heart attack.Агент назвал причину смерти Децла Carmen Duncan, 76, Australian actress (Harlequin, Another World, Turkey Shoot), cancer. Bob Friend, 88, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, New York Yankees). Richard Lacey, 78, British microbiologist. Irving Lavin, 91, American art historian.Irving Lavin (1927–2019) Emily Levine, 73, American humorist, lung cancer. Tapan Mitra, 70, Indian-born American economist. Stephen Negoesco, 93, Romanian-American Hall of Fame soccer player and manager. Jüri Pihl, 64, Estonian politician, Minister of the Interior (2007–2009).Suri Jüri Pihl Peter Posa, 77, New Zealand guitarist. Ruan Xueyu, 86, Chinese engineer.中国工程院院士阮雪榆在沪逝世 享年86岁 John Sinclair, 79, Australian conservationist. Barbra Casbar Siperstein, 76, American lawyer and LGBT activist. Kristoff St. John, 52, American actor (The Young and the Restless, The Champ, Generations), hypertrophic heart disease. Joe P. Tolson, 77, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1997–2014), respiratory failure. Danny Williams, 94, English football player (Rotherham United) and manager (Swindon Town, Sheffield Wednesday). Zhang Yumao, 83, Chinese literary scholar and politician, Vice Mayor of Shenyang, Vice Chairman of the China Democratic League.被誉为“萧军研究领军人物”的辽宁省政协原副主席张毓茂逝世
4 Giampiero Artegiani, 63, Italian singer-songwriter.Morto Giampiero Artegiani, vinse il Festival di Sanremo con «Perdere l'amore» Michel Balinski, 85, American-French applied mathematician and economist. Colin Barker, 79, British sociologist and historian. Ramesh Bhatkar, 70, Indian actor (Maherchi Sadi), cancer. Nita Bieber, 92, American actress (Rhythm and Weep, Millie's Daughter, The Prince Who Was a Thief). Yuri Bosco, 88, Russian artist.Ушел из жизни известный художник Юрий Боско Matt Brazier, 42, English footballer (QPR, Cardiff City, Leyton Orient), non-Hodgkin follicular lymphoma. Bunny Brown, 60s, Jamaican reggae musician, bone cancer. Isacio Calleja, 82, Spanish footballer (Atlético de Madrid, national team).Muere Isacio Calleja, una de las grandes leyendas del Atlético de Madrid Awlad Hossain Chakladar, 68, Bangladeshi film producer and director.Filmmaker Awlad Hossian Chaklader passes away Sandrine Doucet, 59, French politician, Deputy (2012–2017), cancer.Gironde : l’ex députée PS Sandrine Doucet est décédée Kermit Eady, 79, American community activist. Fang Fukang, 83, Chinese physicist, President of Beijing Normal University (1989–1995).北师大原校长、系统科学学科奠基人方福康逝世，享年83岁 Guranda Gabunia, 80, Georgian actress (Day Is Longer Than Night).გარდაიცვალა მსახიობი გურანდა გაბუნია Naji Keyrouz, 58, Lebanese Olympic judoka (1980). Gary LaPierre, 76, American radio journalist (WBZ), leukemia.Renowned WBZ radio anchor Gary LaPierre dies at 76 Bernard Lietaer, 76, Belgian engineer and economist. John Otho Marsh Jr., 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 7th district (1963–1971), Secretary of the Army (1981–1989), heart failure.John "Jack" O. Marsh, Jr. Leu Mazurkevich, 79, Belarusian football player and manager (BATE Borisov).Скончался бывший главный тренер БАТЭ Лев Мазуркевич Harold Mendelsohn, 95, American sociologist. Bruno Messerli, 87, Swiss geographer.Trauerfall Messerli-Ruedin Bruno Matti Nykänen, 55, Finnish singer and ski jumper, Olympic champion (1984, 1988), pancreatitis and pneumonia.Omaiset paljastavat nyt ensimmäistä kertaa Matti Nykäsen kuolinsyyn Leonie Ossowski, 93, German writer (Zwei Mütter).Leonie Ossowski ist tot Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, 82, Russian composer.Умер Вячеслав Овчинников Karen Randers-Pehrson, 86, Norwegian actress (Barn av solen).Anmeldte dødsfall John Rone, 69, American stage actor and director. Véronique Schiltz, 76, French historian.Véronique Schiltz Obituary Ove Kristian Sundberg, 86, Norwegian church musician, composer and musicologist.Ove Kristian Sundberg Mohamed Ofei Sylla, 44, Guinean footballer (Gaziantepspor, Denizlispor, national team). Zbigniew Szczepkowski, 66, Polish Olympic cyclist (1976).Nie żyje Zbigniew Szczepkowski Ward Thomas, 95, British television executive and World War II fighter pilot. Joe Thornton, 102, American Cherokee archer. Izzy Young, 90, American-Swedish folklorist and author.
5 André Boudrias, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars). Audrey Cleary, 88, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives (1999–2002).Audrey Cleary John S. Driscoll, 84, American journalist and newspaper editor (The Boston Globe). Joe Fascione, 74, Scottish footballer (Chelsea, Dundee United). Kathleen Fraser, 83, American poet. Eddy Giles, 80, American R&B and blues singer-songwriter and musician. Jean Herskovits, 83, American historian. Fumiko Hori, 100, Japanese painter.堀文子について Peter Hughes, 96, English actor (The Great Muppet Caper, Hope and Glory, Evita), pneumonia. Christine Kay, 54, American journalist and editor (The New York Times, Newsday, Pittsburgh Press), breast cancer. Syed Badr-ul Hasan Khan Bahadur, Indian actor (The Sword of Tipu Sultan, Mann, Jodhaa Akbar) and dancer. Garr King, 83, American judge, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon (since 2009). George Klein, 83, American disc jockey (WLFP) and TV host (Talent Party), complications from dementia. Tapio Lehto, 88, Finnish Olympic triple jumper.Tapio Lehto on kuollut – perintö elää suomalaisessa golfvalmennuksessa Ian McDonald, 95, Australian cricketer (Victoria). Andy Nisbet, 65, Scottish climber, fall. Pericles Panagopoulos, 83, Greek shipping magnate. Joe Presko, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers). Manasa Qoro, 54, Fijian rugby union player (national team).Flying Fijian Rugby Great Manasa Qoro Dies Miriam Rivera, 38, Mexican reality show personality (There's Something About Miriam, Big Brother Australia 2004). Arik Rudich, 65, Israeli film score composer (Drifting, Bar 51), heart attack.המוזיקאי הישראלי אריק רודיך הלך לעולמו בגיל 65 (in Hebrew) Anne Firor Scott, 97, American historian. Edward H. Simpson, 96, British statistician and civil servant. Ladu Kishore Swain, 71, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (since 2014), kidney disease. Doc Thompson, 49, American radio personality, hit by train.Tributes pour in for former WLW host Michael 'Doc' Thompson Mel Tomlinson, 65, American dancer and choreographer.The Rev. Dr. Mel Tomlinson Václav Vorlíček, 88, Czech film director (Who Wants to Kill Jessie?, The End of Agent W4C, The Girl on the Broomstick).Zemřel Václav Vorlíček, režisér Tří oříšků pro Popelku Guy Webster, 79, American celebrity photographer (The Doors, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones), complications from diabetes and liver cancer. Ken Yanz, 89, Australian rugby union player. Vano Zodelava, 61, Georgian politician, Mayor of Tbilisi (1998–2004), injuries from a traffic collision.
6 Rudi Assauer, 74, German football player (Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen) and manager (Schalke 04), complications from Alzheimer's disease.Rudi Assauer ist tot