page_title: 2019
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: 2016 Nobel Reception at the United States Embassy Sweden, Stockholm. 2016 Nobel laureate in Physics Professor David J. Thouless with the United States Ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji.
context_page_description: 2019 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium, the 19th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.
  2019 was designated as International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the United Nations General Assembly given that it coincides with the 150th anniversary of its creation by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.
context_section_description: April 1
  Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
  Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
  April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
  April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
  April 5
  Anandavally, Indian actress (b. 1952)
  Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (b. 1927)
  Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
  April 6 – David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (b. 1934)
  April 7
  Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
  Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
  April 9
  Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (b. 1940)
  Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (b. 1926)
  April 10
  Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
  Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician and First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)
  April 12
  Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
  Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
  April 13
  Tony Buzan, English author and educational consultant (b. 1942)
  Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
  Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1925)
  Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
  Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (b. 1929)
  April 14
  Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
  Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1942)
  Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1931)
  April 16 – Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
  April 17 – Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
  April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
  April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
  April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
  April 21 – Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
  April 22
  Lê Đức Anh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
  Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1940)
  April 23 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)
  April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
  April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
  April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
  April 27 – Negasso Gidada, Ethiopian politician, 4th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
  April 28 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1968)
  April 29
  Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
  Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990)
  April 30
  Anémone, French actress (b. 1950)
  Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1946)
  Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)
caption: David J. Thouless
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