# 2019 in Spain

Events of 2019 in Spain.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Felipe VI
* Prime Minister: Pedro Sánchez

### Regional presidents

* Andalusia: Susana Diaz (until 18 January), Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (starting 18 January)
* Aragón: Javier Lambán
* Asturias: Javier Fernandez (until 18 July), Adrián Barbón (starting 18 July)
* Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol
* Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu
* Canary Islands: Fernando Clavijo Batlle (until 11 July), Ángel Víctor Torres (starting 11 July)
* Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
* Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page
* Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera (until 11 July), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (starting 11 July)
* Catalonia: Quim Torra
* Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
* Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
* La Rioja: José Ignacio Ceniceros (until 29 August), Concha Andreu (starting 29 August)
* Community of Madrid:
** until 17 April: Ángel Garrido
** 17 April–17 August: Pedro Rollán (acting)
** starting 19 August: Isabel Díaz Ayuso
* Region of Murcia: Fernando López Miras
* Navarre: Uxue Barkos (until 6 August), María Chivite (starting 6 August)
* Valencian Community: Ximo Puig
* Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
* Melilla: Juan José Imbroda (until 15 June), Eduardo de Castro (starting 15 June)

## Events

* 16 February - Prime Minister Sánchez announced a snap election for 28 April 2019, After the 2019 General State Budget was voted down by the Congress of Deputies on 13 February 2019.
* 14 October - Supreme Court makes public the sentence of the trial of Catalonia independence leaders.
* 24 October - Former dictator Francisco Franco is exhumed from Valle de los Caídos.

## Deaths
### January

* January 1
** Joan Guinjoan, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1931)
** José Antonio Pujante, Spanish politician (b. 1964)
* January 3 – José Vida Soria, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1937)
* January 4 – Francisco Olivencia, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
* January 17
** Vicente Álvarez Areces, 75, President of Asturias (1999-2011), Senator (since 2011) and Mayor of Gijón (1987-1999)
** Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, 72, President of the European Court of Justice (1994–2003).
* January 20 – Lolo Rico, 83, television director and journalist
* January 24
** Elio Berhanyer, 89, fashion designer
** Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
* January 25 – Jaume Traserra Cunillera, 84, Bishop of Solsona (2001-2010)

### February

* February 4 – Isacio Calleja, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
* February 28 – Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish lawyer and academic (b. 1932)

### March

* March 3
** Martí Galindo, Spanish actor (b. 1937)
** José García Ladrón de Guevara, Spanish politician (b. 1929)
* March 8 – Jaume Muxart, Spanish painter (b. 1922)
* March 11 – Martín Chirino, Spanish sculptor (b. 1925)
* March 15 – Juan Manuel Arza Muñuzuri, Spanish politician and lawyer (b. 1932)
* March 24 – Pancracio Celdrán, Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist (b. 1942)
* March 29 – Josep Esteve i Soler, Spanish pharmaceutical executive (b. 1930)
* March 30 – Paloma Cela, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
* March 31 – José Antonio Gurriarán, Spanish journalist (b. 1938)

### April

* April 13 – Neus Català, Spanish Holocaust survivor, anti-Franco militant and member of the French Resistance (b. 1915)
* April 24 – Conrado San Martín, Spanish actor (b. 1921)
* April 25 – Paloma Tortajada, Spanish broadcaster and journalist (b. 1965)

### May

* May 9 – Manuel Giner Miralles, Spanish politician (b. 1926)
* May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
* May 18 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (b. 1931)
* May 24 – Manuel Pazos, Spanish footballer (b. 1930)

### June

* June 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983
* June 4 – Antoni Roig Muntaner, Spanish chemist and politician (b. 1931)
* June 19 – Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
* June 22 – Concepción Paredes, Spanish athlete (b. 1970)
* June 30 – Armando Salas, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1946)

### July

* July 2 – José Luis Merino, Spanish film writer and director (b. 1927)
* July 4
** Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
** Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
* July 5 – José Muñoz Sánchez, Spanish politician (b. 1962)
* July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)