page_title: 2019
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Indian Minister of Defense George Fernandes at a press conference outside South Block in New Delhi, India, on June 12, 2002.
context_page_description: 2019 was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the 2010s.
context_section_description: January 1
  Pegi Young, American singer-songwriter, educator, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
  January 2
  Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942)
  Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
  January 3 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (b. 1931)
  January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
  January 5
  Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (b. 1928)
  January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)
  January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
  January 10 – Theo Adam, German opera singer (b. 1926)
  January 11
  Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (b. 1929)
  Fernando Luján, Mexican actor (b. 1939)
  January 12
  Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
  Jaime Rosenthal, Honduran politician (b. 1936)
  January 13 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
  January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (b. 1965)
  January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921)
  January 17
  Babiker Awadalla, 8th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1917)
  Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (b. 1930)
  Mary Oliver, American poet (b. 1935)
  January 19
  Nathan Glazer, American sociologist (b. 1923)
  Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (b. 1924)
  January 20
  Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (b. 1922)
  Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (b. 1944)
  January 21
  Kaye Ballard, American actress (b. 1925)
  Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (b. 1933)
  Harris Wofford, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1926)
  January 23
  Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b. 1922)
  Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
  January 24
  Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
  Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American naval aviator (b. 1953)
  January 25
  Florence Knoll, American architect and furniture designer (b. 1917)
  Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director (b. 1932)
  Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (b. 1925)
  January 26
  Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (b. 1930)
  Michel Legrand, French composer (b. 1932)
  January 27 – Yvonne Clark, American engineer (b. 1929)
  January 28
  Humberto Akʼabal, Guatemalan K'iche' Maya poet (b. 1952)
  Susan Hiller, American artist (b. 1940)
  January 29
  George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
  James Ingram, American R&B musician (b. 1952)
caption: George Fernandes
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