2019
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2019 is the 19th year of the 3rd millennium, the 19th year of the 21st century, and the 10th year of the 2010s decade.
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Events
Arts and culture
Literature
Fiction
- Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
Non-fiction
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray.
In the public domain
Major names include (life + 70 years):
- Kurt Schwitters, German artist (b. 1887)
- Karl Valentin, German actor (b. 1882)
- Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898)
- Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896)
- Arshile Gorky, Soviet-born painter (b. 1904)
- D. W. Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875)
- Paul Wegener, German actor, film director, and screenwriter; one of the pioneers of German Expressionism (b. 1874)
- Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
- Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915)
Film
- Joker by Todd Phillips
- The Golden Glove by Fatih Akin
- Parasite by Bong Joon-ho
Documentary
- Planet of the Humans by Jeff Gibbs
Music
Deaths
- Clive James, 80, Australian author (Cultural Amnesia) and critic, leukemia.
- Harold Bloom, 89, American literary critic and writer (The Anxiety of Influence, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages).
- Luigi Colani, 91, German industrial designer.
- Pedro Bell, 69, American artist and illustrator (Parliament-Funkadelic).
- Agnès Varda, 90, French film director (La Pointe Courte, Cléo from 5 to 7, Black Panthers), cancer.
- Scott Walker, 76, American-born British singer-songwriter (The Walker Brothers), composer and record producer.
- Larry Cohen, 77, American film director (It's Alive, The Stuff) and screenwriter (Phone Booth).
- Ken Nordine, 98, American voice-over and recording artist (Word Jazz, Son of Word Jazz, Love Words).
- Tomi Ungerer, 87, French illustrator (Fornicon).
- Dick Miller, 90, American actor (Gremlins, The Little Shop of Horrors, Death Race 2000).
- Dušan Makavejev, 86, Serbian film director (Man Is Not a Bird, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, Sweet Movie).
- Jonas Mekas, 96, Lithuanian-born American film director and poet.
- Edwin Birdsong ("Rapper Dapper Snapper"), 77, American funk keyboardist.
- Francine du Plessix Gray, 88, Polish-born American author and critic (At Home With the Marquis de Sade: A Life).
See also
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