Famous Deaths for 25th December 2019

1513 – Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
1676 – Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
1824 – Barbara Juliane, baroness von Krüdener, Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian, dies at 60
1848 – Johan Erik Nordblom, Swedish composer, dies at 60
1930 – Harvey Worthington Loomis, American composer (Lyrics of the Red Man), dies at 65
1950 – Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
1976 – Frankie Darro [Frank Johnson], American actor (Radio Ranch, Wild Boys of the Road, Valley of Wanted Men), dies of a heart attack at 58
1993 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
2007 – Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)
2014 – Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident, dies at 80

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