page_title: 2019 deaths in the United States
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 deaths in the United States / May
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Peggy Lipton from the television program The Mod Squad.
context_page_description: Deaths in the year 2019 in the United States.
context_section_description: May 1
  Mary Doakes, educator (b. 1936)
  Kurt Lang, German-born social scientist (b. 1924)
  May 2
  Susan Beschta, 67, punk rock musician, lawyer, and judge.
  Larry Dick, 64, football player.
  Frank Ivancie, 94, businessman and politician
  Chris Reccardi, 54, animator, storyboard artist, cartoon director and musician
  Gloria Schiff, 90, fashion editor and model.
  John Starling, 79, bluegrass musician
  Warren W. Wiersbe, 89, biblical scholar and pastor.
  May 3
  Richard Brown, 86, lawyer
  Bill Gompers, 91, football player
  Andy Jick, 66, sports announcer
  Chuck Kinder, 76, novelist, heart failure.
  Bob Zeman, 82, football player and coach
  May 4
  J. R. Cobb, 75, musician
  Rachel Held Evans, 37, Christian columnist, blogger and author (b. 1981)
  Thomas Hynes, 80, politician and lawyer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
  Jumpin Jackie Jackson, 79, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).
  MacArthur Lane, 77, football player
  Ray Peters, 72, baseball player
  Ruth Anna Putnam, 91, philosopher.
  Tyrone Thompson, 51, politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2013).
  May 5
  Frank Brilando, racing cyclist (b. 1925)
  Lewis A. Fidler, politician (b. 1956)
  Norma Miller, dancer, actress and author (b. 1919)
  Barbara Perry, actress and singer (b. 1921)
  May 6
  Dan Cordtz, business correspondent (b. 1926)
  John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (b. 1924)
  Jimmy Satterfield, football coach (b. 1939)
  George O. Zimmerman, Polish-American physicist (b. 1934)
  May 7
  Kendrick Castillo, 18, student, intervened during STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, shot.
  Larry Hanley, 62, union leader
  Robert Pear, 69, journalist
  Roberta L. Raymond, 80, actress and open housing activist
  May 8
  Jim Fowler, 89, zoologist and television host
  Luther Jennings, 86, singer (Jackson Southernaires).
  Robert McEliece, mathematician and engineering professor (b. 1942)
  David Montgomery, baseball executive (b. 1946)
  Wendell Nedderman, academic administrator (b. 1921)
  May 9
  Daniel H. Bays, historian (b. 1941)
  Martin Canin, pianist (b. 1930)
  Preston Epps, musician (b. 1930)
  Clement von Franckenstein, actor (b. 1944)
  Allene Roberts, actress (b. 1928)
  Mark Rubinstein, financial engineer (b. 1944)
  Alvin Sargent, screenwriter (b. 1927)
  May 10
  Fleming Begaye Sr., WWII Navajo code talker (b. 1921)
  Bert Cooper, boxer (b. 1965)
  Wiley Young Daniel, senior judge (b. 1946)
  Warren H. Phillips, journalist and publisher (b. 1926)
  Dick Tomey, football coach (b. 1938)
  James Tuck, archaeologist (b. 1939)
  May 11
  Peggy Lipton, actress and model (b. 1946)
  Robert D. Maxwell, combat soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1920)
  Thomas Silverstein, convicted murderer, Aryan Nations leader (b. 1952)
  Sol Yaged, jazz clarinetist (b. 1922)
  May 12
  Elsa Patton, 84, reality television personality
  Gene Romero, 71, motorcycle racer
  Bill K. Williams, 75, politician
  Bill Workman, 78, politician
  May 13
  Unita Blackwell, civil rights activist (b. 1933)
  Jerome Callet, music teacher and instrument designer (b. 1929)
  Doris Day, actress and singer (b. 1922)
  Stanton T. Friedman, American-Canadian nuclear physicist and ufologist (b. 1934)
  May 14
  Lutz Bacher, artist (b. 1943)
  Tim Conway, actor and comedian (b. 1933)
  Grumpy Cat, internet celebrity cat (b. 2012)
  Robert Bruce Propst, senior judge (b. 1931)
  Leon Rausch, singer (b. 1927)
  Alice Rivlin, politician (b. 1931)
  Michael Rossmann, German-American physicist and microbiologist (b. 1930)
  Mike Wilhelm, musician (b. 1941)
  May 15
  Rob Babcock, 66, basketball executive
  Chuck Barksdale, 84, singer (The Dells).
  Bobby Diamond, 75, actor and attorney
  Georgie Anne Geyer, 84, syndicated newspaper columnist.
  George L. Kelling, 83, criminologist and professor
  Charles Kittel, physicist (b. 1916)
  Frank F. Ledford Jr., 85, military doctor, Surgeon General of the United States Army (1988–1992).
  Rod Tam, 65, politician
  May 16
  Steve Duemig, golfer and sports media personality (b. 1954)
  Ashley Massaro, professional wrestler, television personality, and model (b. 1979)
  I.M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917)
  Bob Schloredt, football player and coach (b. 1939)
  May 17
  John Warlick McDonald, dip
caption: Peggy Lipton
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