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Deaths in January 2019
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

Field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The men's field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the eighth edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics. It was contested from 23 November to 6 December, with twelve participating teams.  Only men competed in field hockey at these Games.

India won the gold medal for the sixth successive Games, not allowing a single goal against in the entire tournament.  Pakistan won the silver medal, and Germany won the bronze.
Wakeley (name)
Wakeley is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

Amanda Wakeley (born 1962), British fashion designer

Cecil Wakeley (1892–1979), English surgeon

Eleazer Wakeley (1822–1912), American politician and jurist

Kitt Wakeley (born 1979), American musician

Solmous Wakeley (1794–1867), American politician

Given name:

Wakeley Gage (born 1958), English footballer

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus (1856–1921), American educator, pastor, and humanitarian

Eleazer Wakeley
Eleazer Wakeley (June 25, 1822 – November 21, 1912) was an American lawyer, politician, judge, and pioneer of Wisconsin and Nebraska.  He was a Nebraska District Court Judge, a justice of the Nebraska Territory's Supreme Court, and a delegate to Nebraska's constitutional convention.  In Wisconsin, he served two terms in the Wisconsin State Senate and one in the Wisconsin State Assembly, he also served in the last sessions of the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory.
Tol (surname)
Tol is a Dutch surname. Its origin may be patronymic or occupational (from "tollenaar", a tax or toll collector). It is very common in the town of Volendam in North Holland Notable people with this name include:

Anthony Tol (1943–2014), Dutch philosopher and archivist

Dick Tol (1934–1973), Dutch football striker

Kees Tol (born 1987), Dutch football striker, nephew of Pier

Leon Tol (born 1987), Dutch football defender

Nick Tol (born 1989), Dutch football midfielder, son of Pier

Pier Tol (born 1958), Dutch football forward

Richard Tol (born 1969), Dutch climate economist

Sonja Tol (born 1972), Dutch épée fencer

Richard Tol
Richard S. J. Tol (born 2 December 1969, Hoorn, the Netherlands) is a professor of economics at the University of Sussex. He is also professor of the economics of climate change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.
Feay Inn
Feay Inn is a historic inn located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.  It was built about 1811, and is a 2+1⁄2-story I house-style fieldstone building.  It was built to take advantage of the traffic using the National Road.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

Ohio County, West Virginia
Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,425. Its county seat is Wheeling. The county was formed in 1776 from the District of West Augusta, Virginia. It was named for the Ohio River, which forms its western boundary with the state of Ohio. West Liberty (formerly Black's Cabin) was designated as the county seat in 1777, serving to 1797.
Tilted Axis Press
Tilted Axis Press is a non-profit British publishing house specializing in the publication of contemporary Asian literature. Founded by Deborah Smith in 2015 following the success of her translation of Han Kang's The Vegetarian, the organization has gone on to publish 42 books and several chapbooks translated from 18 languages. Tilted Axis became known as the original translator and English language publisher of Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu, which went on to receive critical acclaim as both a book and translation. Their profile rose higher in 2022, when Tomb of Sand, written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize, marking the first novel written in Hindi to take the award.

Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree (Hindi pronunciation: [giːt̪ãːˈd͡ʒəlɪ ʃɾiː]; born 12 June 1957), also known as Geetanjali Pandey, is an Indian Hindi-language novelist and short-story writer based in New Delhi, India. She is the author of several short stories and five novels. Her 2000 novel Mai was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2001, while its English translation by Nita Kumar was published by Niyogi Books in 2017. In 2022, her novel Ret Samadhi (2018), translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize.  Aside from fiction, she has written critical works on Premchand.
Denmark at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Denmark competed at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 6 to 22 February 2026.

Hockey player Jesper Jensen Aabo and curler Denise Dupont were the country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony. Meanwhile, speed skater Viktor Hald Thorup and biathlete Anne de Besche were the country's flagbearer during the closing ceremony.

Viktor Hald Thorup won Denmark's first Winter Olympics medal since 1998, first Winter Olympics medal in an individual discipline, and only second ever Winter Olympics medal in the nation's history.

2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics took place on 6 February 2026. It started at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC) and concluded at 23:29. It was held primarily at San Siro in Milan, but also included Livigno, Predazzo, and the streets of Cortina, Italy. This was the first opening ceremony of the Olympics which took place across four locations in the host country.
As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings included an artistic program showcasing the culture of the host country and city, with harmony being a central theme, concluding with the parade of athletes and the lighting of the Olympic cauldrons.

The Games were formally opened by the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella. This was the first Winter Olympics and first Olympic Games opening ceremony under the IOC presidency of Kirsty Coventry.
Vaddukoddai North
Vaddu North is a Grama Niladhari Division (GN Division) of the Valikamam West Divisional Secretariat of Vaddukoddai, Jaffna District of Northern Province, Sri Lanka. It has Grama Niladhari Division Code J/158.

List of settlements in Northern Province (Sri Lanka)

Northern Province, Sri Lanka
The Northern Province (Tamil: வட மாகாணம் Vaṭa Mākāṇam; Sinhala: උතුරු පළාත Uturu Paḷāta) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 8,884 km2, making it the 3rd largest province by area, and a population of 1,150,148 making it the least populated province. Jaffna is the capital city of the province.

Between 1988 and 2006, the province was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province into one province, the North Eastern Province. Due to its large Tamil population, the Northern Province is sometimes referred to as "Sri Lanka's Tamil country". The majority of the fighting in the Sri Lankan Civil War took place in the Northern province.
Yekaterina Bakunina
Yekaterina Mikhailovna Bakunina (Russian: Екатери́на Миха́йловна Баку́нина; September 13 [O.S. September 1] 1810 – May 18 [O.S. May 6] 1894) was a Russian nurse during the Crimean War, who contributed to the foundation of nursing in Russia with her colleague Nikolay Pirogov.

Bakunina became a nurse and traveled to Crimea after a call for volunteers by Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and is remembered for her care of wounded soldiers, and leadership among the volunteer nurses of the Russian army.

She is often compared to Florence Nightingale, who was also a volunteer nurse in the Crimean War for the British army, because of her similar contributions to the profession of nursing, earning her the nickname "Russian Nightingale".

Nikolay Pirogov
Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Пирого́в; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1810 – 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1881) was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most widely recognized Russian physicians. Considered to be the founder of field surgery, he was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847) and one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He is credited with the invention of various kinds of surgical operations and developing his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.
Thrakomakedones
Thrakomakedones (Greek: Θρακομακεδόνες from Thrace and Macedonia), is a town in the regional unit East Attica, in Attica region, Greece. It is a northern suburb of Athens. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Acharnes, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 3.550 km2.

Attica (region)
Attica (/ˈætɪkə/ AT-ih-kə; Greek: Περιφέρεια Αττικής, romanized: Periféria Attikís, [periˈferi.a atiˈcis]) is an administrative region of Greece that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, the core city of which is the country's capital and largest city, Athens. The region is coextensive with the former Attica Prefecture of Central Greece and covers a greater area than the historical region of Attica.
Tladi Bokako
Tladi Bokako (born 21 April 1993) is a South African cricketer. He was included in the Eastern Province cricket team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. In June 2018, he was named in the squad for the Cape Cobras team for the 2018–19 season.

In September 2018, he was named in South Western Districts' squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. The following month, he was named in Durban Heat's squad for the first edition of the Mzansi Super League T20 tournament. In April 2021, he was named in Gauteng's squad, ahead of the 2021–22 cricket season in South Africa.

Durban Heat
Durban Heat were a franchise team of the South African Mzansi Super League (MSL) Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team were based at the Kingsmead Cricket Ground in Durban.

Durban Heat played in the first two editions of the MLS in 2018 and 2019, before COVID-19 delayed the competition in 2020. The franchise was dissolved in 2021 in response to the reform of the domestic structure of South African cricket. All six of the original city-based franchise teams in the Mzansi Super League were to have been replaced by eight new teams based around the new South African domestic structure, but the league itself was later cancelled and replaced by a new franchise competition, the SA20, beginning in the 2022/23 season.
MCW Women's Championship
The MCW Women's Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the MCW Pro Wrestling promotion. The title was created and debuted on October 3, 2014 at a MCW live event.

The inaugural champion was Renee Michelle, who defeated Amber Rodriguez in the finals of a tournament to win the championship on October 3, 2014 at an MCW live event.

The current champion is Tina San Antonio, who is in her first reign.

Professional wrestling championship
In professional wrestling, a championship or title is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations. Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in predetermined rivalries; these narratives create feuds between the various competitors, which usually cast them as either faces (heroes), heels (villains), or more rarely tweeners (morally ambiguous). The bookers in a company, who decide the winners and where the storyline goes, will place the title on the most accomplished performer or the one they believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and television viewership.
Amman (surname)
Amman is a surname of German origin. It is an occupational surname for an Ammann, an administrative position in Medieval and early modern German-speaking countries. Notable people with the surname include:

Johann Amman (1707–1741), Swiss-Russian botanist

Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss artist

Mir Amman, Urdu writer

Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist

Members of the D'Amman family, a patrician family from the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Mir Amman
Mir Amman (1748–1806) was an employee of Fort William College at Calcutta, variously also known as Mir Amman of Delhi, Mir Amman of Dilhi, Mir Amman Dihlavi, and Meer Ummun.

He was best known for his translation of Amir Khusro's classic epic Qissa Chahar Dervish (The Tale of the Four Dervishes). His translation is considered classic literature itself for its use of contemporary Urdu, and was done on the request of John Borthwick Gilchrist, an English scholar of literature of those days. It in turn was widely translated into English during the 19th century and even Malay in the 1840s.
Black Roots (band)
Black Roots are a roots reggae band from the St. Paul's area of Bristol, England, formed in 1979. They toured extensively in the UK and Europe in the 1980s and early 1990s releasing several albums and singles during that time before disappearing from the music scene for about ten years.  Their comeback began when Soundicate/Makasound, a record label in France, released an album in 2004 and followed it up with another in 2007 (both were compilations made up from their extensive back catalogue).  In December 2010 they performed their first live show for some twenty years at the Trinity Hall in Bristol and since then they have been active once again, playing live dates and releasing a new album.

St Pauls, Bristol
St Pauls (also written St Paul's) is an inner suburb of Bristol, England, lying just northeast of the city centre and west of the M32. It is bounded by the A38 (Stokes Croft), the B4051 (Ashley Road), the A4032 (Newfoundland Way) and the A4044 (Newfoundland Street), although the River Frome was traditionally the eastern boundary before the A4032 was constructed. St Pauls was laid out in the early 18th century as one of Bristol's first suburbs.
Hala Strana
Hala Strana (translated from the Old Bulgarian which mean "salted shore") is the name of a recording project of American musician Steven R. Smith. Smith began recording under the name in 2002 as an outlet which allowed him to explore the traditional music of Eastern Europe more fully than possible with his solo work.  Although numerous musicians have contributed to the project, including Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chasse, and Darren Ankenman, most Hala Strana recordings are solo productions. His recordings have included such diverse instruments as hurdy-gurdy, bouzouki, harmonium, spike fiddles, bulbul tarang, the optigan keyboard, xaphoon, and field recordings. Hala Strana's releases have featured arrangements of traditional music from Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Albania, Ukraine and Bulgaria as well as original music influenced by the music of these areas. Hala Strana has recorded for a number of independent labels such as Soft Abuse, Last Visible Dog, Jewelled Antler, and Emperor Jones.

Glenn Donaldson
Glenn David Donaldson (born January 28, 1972) is an American musician most notable for his band The Reds, Pinks and Purples. The band's fourth release, Summer at Land's End, was Bandcamp's album of the day on January 28, 2022.
The Flames Lie
The Flames Lie (German: Die Flammen lügen) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Ruth Weyher and Henny Porten. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Franz Schroedter. It was made by UFA and released under the Parufamet agreement.

Parufamet
Parufamet was the name of a distribution company established by the American film studios Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the German UFA GmbH in 1925.

The company's founding was part of a loan contract between the studios. Paramount and MGM had loaned $4 Million to UFA, which was in a severe financial crisis, in December 1925; in return, UFA had to produce 40 films per year and reserve 75 percent of the capacities of its foreign cinemas for productions by the American partners. Paramount and MGM agreed to screen UFA productions in their cinema chains, but in reality, only a few UFA productions were ever shown in the US, while at the same time, were being blocked from wide distribution on the domestic market.

In 1927, the conditions of the contract were revised, the production of UFA films was reduced from 40 to 20 per year, and the share of Paramount and MGM productions screened in UFA's cinemas reduced from 75 to 33 percent. In 1932, the contract was dissolved.
Tetraethoxymethane
Tetraethoxymethane is a chemical compound which is formally formed by complete ethylation of the hypothetical orthocarbonic acid C(OH)4 (orthocarbonic acid violates the Erlenmeyer rule and is unstable in the free state).

Emil Erlenmeyer
Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer (28 June 1825 – 22 January 1909), known simply as Emil Erlenmeyer, was a German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of chemical structure and formulating the Erlenmeyer rule. He also designed the Erlenmeyer flask, a specialized apparatus ubiquitous in chemistry laboratories, which is named after him.
The Ferris Wheel (film)
The Ferris Wheel (Swedish: Pariserhjulet) is a 1993 Swedish drama film directed by Clas Lindberg. Lindberg won the award for Best Director at the 29th Guldbagge Awards. It was also nominated for Best Film and Helena Bergström won the award for Best Actress.

29th Guldbagge Awards
The 29th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 1993, and took place on 31 January 1994. The Slingshot directed by Åke Sandgren was presented with the award for Best Film.
Geraldine Ponce
María Geraldine Ponce Méndez (born 4 April 1994) is a Mexican politician serving as mayor of Tepic, Nayarit, since 2021. From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing Nayarit's 2nd district. In 2015, she won the Nuestra Belleza Nayarit beauty contest. In 2016, she represented Mexico at Miss International.

Tepic Municipality
The Municipality of Tepic is one of the 20 municipalities dividing the Mexican state of Nayarit, being the most populous and most densely populated municipality in Nayarit; its head city (the seat of the municipal government), the city of Tepic, is also the capital of the state.
Ras Al Khaimah International Airport
Ras Al Khaimah International Airport (IATA: RKT, ICAO: OMRK) (Arabic: مطار رأس الخيمة الدولي) is an international airport located in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. The airport has two passenger terminal buildings as well as cargo, aircraft maintenance, and aviation training facilities.

RAK Airways
RAK Airways (Arabic: طيران رأس الخيمة) was an airline based in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. It was established in 2006 but briefly suspended operations in 2009 and relaunched in 2010 with a new livery and under new management. On 1 January 2014, the airline ceased operations.
Alpine skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's super-G
The women's super-G competition of the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on Thursday, 12 February, at Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Federica Brignone of Italy won the event, Romane Miradoli of France was second and Cornelia Hütter of Austria third. For Brignone this was the first Olympic gold, whereas Miradoli and Hütter won their first Olympic medals.

Super-G
Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event during the 1983 season and was added to the official schedule of the World Championships in 1987 and the Winter Olympics in 1988.

Much like downhill, a super-G course consists of widely set gates that racers must pass through. The course is set so that skiers must turn more than in downhill, though the speeds are still much higher than in giant slalom (hence the name). Each athlete only has one run to clock the best time. In the Olympics, super-G courses are usually set on the same slopes as the downhill, but with a lower starting point.
Ma al-'Aynayn
Muḥammad al-Muṣṭafā al-Qalqamī (Arabic: محمد المصطفى القلقمي; c. 10 February 1830 – 1910) also known as Māʾ al-ʿAynayn (Arabic: ماء العينين, lit. 'water of two eyes') was a Saharan Moorish religious and political leader who fought French and Spanish colonization in North Africa. He was the son of Mohammed Fadil Mamin (founder of the Fadiliyya, a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood), and the elder brother of Shaykh Saad Bouh, a prominent marabout (religious leader) in Mauritania.

Tiznit
Tiznit or Tiznet (Arabic: تزنيت, romanized: Tiznīt) is a town in the west coast of the Moroccan region of Souss-Massa, founded in 1881 by Alawi Sultan Hassan I. It is the capital of Tiznit Province and recorded a population of 74,699 in the 2014 Moroccan census. The name means ‘Basket’ in Berber.
Helena Jungwirth
Helena Jungwirth (21 March 1945 — 27 January 2023) was a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. While training at the Music and Drama School in Stockholm, in 1969 she married the tenor Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö. In 1972, she made her debut at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte. The following year, together with her husband she was engaged by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich where she went on to perform with success in a wide repertoire. In 1987, at the Berlin State Opera she sang the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola. She was honoured with the title of Bavarian Kammersängerin in 1996.

University College of Opera
The University College of Opera (Swedish: Operahögskolan i Stockholm) was until 2014 a Swedish institution in Stockholm offering higher education in the field of opera music and related arts. Since 1 January 2014, it has been fully integrated as part of the Stockholm University of the Arts, and the previous name is no longer in use. It was tasked with educating singers, répétiteurs, and opera directors and had an enrollment of approximately 40 students, including 36 singers.
Alexander Duncan (doctor)
Dr. Alexander Duncan MBE is a British General practitioner who spent six years in a village high up in the Wakhan Corridor of north-eastern Afghanistan. In December 2007 Alastair Leithead on BBC News 24 presented a half-hour feature about the corridor, focusing particularly on the work of expatriate Duncan, which provided a significant piece of extended media reporting from this inaccessible area.

In January 2010 Duncan and his wife Eleanor were both awarded the MBE for their work in Afghanistan. He was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He now lives in England with his four children and wife.

Alastair Leithead
Alastair Malcolm Leithead (/ˈliːθhɛd/; born 1972) is an English journalist working as a foreign correspondent for the BBC. Leithead was based in Nairobi from 2015 to 2019. He works across all BBC News outlets.