From Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison to iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe, here are some of the notable deaths of 2019:
January
21: Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, 28, was killed when the plane he was flying in crashed into the Channel.
26: French film composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and scored such classics as “Yentl” (1983), died aged 86.
February
7: Veteran British actor Albert Finney, winner of three Golden Globes, passed away aged 82.
16: Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor best known for his role as Adolf Hitler in “Downfall” (2004), died from cancer aged 77.
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19: Haute couture legend Karl Lagerfeld, long-running artistic director of Chanel, died aged 85.
21: Stanley Donen, US director of such beloved Hollywood classic as “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952), was 94 when he died.
28: US-German composer and conductor Andre Previn, winner of 10 Grammys and four Oscars, died aged 89.
March
4: US actor Luke Perry died after a stroke at the age of 52.
4: Frontman of British rave band The Prodigy, Keith Flint, was found dead aged 49.
29: Pioneering female French film director Agnes Varda passed away aged 90.
April
17: Ex-Peruvian president Alan Garcia, 69, killed himself as the police were about to arrest him on bribery charges that he denied.
May
13: Hollywood legend Doris Day died aged 97.
16: Ieoh Ming Pei, Chinese-American architect of iconic modern structures such as the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, was 102 years old when he passed away.
20: Austria’s three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda died aged 70, eight months after a lung transplant.
22: British children’s author and illustrator Judith Kerr died aged 95.
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June
1: Star Spanish football striker Jose Antonio Reyes, 35, was killed in a car crash.
15: Italian film-maker and opera director Franco Zeffirelli died aged 96.
17: Islamist Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, ousted in 2013 after one year of divisive rule, died in prison aged 67.
17: American heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt passed away aged 95.
July
6: Brazilian musician and songwriter Joao Gilberto, a pioneer of bossa nova, died aged 88.
16: South African singer Johnny Clegg died at 66 years old from cancer.
17: Andrea Camilleri, the Italian novelist who created Sicilian detective Montalbano, passed away aged 93.
22: Former Chinese premier Li Peng, a hardliner in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, died at 90.
25: The world’s oldest president, Tunisian Beji Caid Essebsi, died aged 92, just ahead of the end of his first mandate.
August
5: Author Toni Morrison, the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died aged 88.
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10: US financier Jeffrey Epstein, 66, was found dead in jail from an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking girls for sex.
12: Ivory Coast singer DJ Arafat died in a motorbike crash aged 33.
16: US actor Peter Fonda, best known for “Easy Rider” (1969), died from lung cancer aged 79.
September
3: German photographer Peter Lindbergh, credited with launching the careers of supermodels like Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford, died aged 74.
6: Zimbabwe’s autocratic leader Robert Mugabe, ousted by the military in 2017 after 37 years in power, died aged 95.
9: Pioneering Swiss-born documentary photographer Robert Frank passed away at 94.
19: Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the first leader to be toppled in the 2011 Arab Spring, died in exile in Saudi Arabia aged 83.
26: Jacques Chirac, French president from 1995 to 2007, died aged 86.
30: Celebrated American opera singer Jessye Norman died in hospital aged 74.
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October
17: Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballet legend who taught well into her 90s, passed away at the age of 98.
17: US Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings died at 68 and was the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol building.
22: Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort, suffering from a degenerative muscle disease, ended her life through euthanasia aged 40.
26: Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in his late 40s, blew himself up during a raid by US special forces in Syria.
November
24: Clive James, the Australian broadcaster, writer, critic and poet, died aged 80 after a long battle with leukemia.
30: One of the leading conductors to emerge from the former Soviet Union, Latvian Mariss Jansons, 76, died of cardiac arrest at his home in Saint Petersburg.
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December
8: Former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker passed away aged 92.
14: Danish-French actress Anna Karina, muse of New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, died of cancer aged 79.
21: French fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro, died aged 86.
23: Algeria’s military chief, General Ahmed Gaid Salah, died from a heart attack aged 79.
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