Famous Deaths for 19th August 2023

1245 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1493 – Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1922 – Felipe Pedrell, Spanish guitarist, composer (Excelsior; La Celestina), and musical scholar, dies at 81
1939 – Johannes Marinus Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 70
1957 – David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66
1959 – Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (Adam, Jacob and the Angel), dies at 78
1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist (Big Bang Theory, DNA), dies at 64
1976 – Jenö Kenessey, Hungarian conductor and composer, dies at 70
1996 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (Berkshire Symphonies; Les Cloches des Clochards), dies at 70
2013 – Cedar Walton, American hard bop jazz pianist (Jazztet; Art Blakey), and composer (“Mosaic”), dies at 79

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