NSTworld 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
- 21: Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, 28, was killed when the plane he was flying in crashed into the English Channel.
- 28: US-German composer and conductor Andre Previn, winner of 10 Grammys and four Oscars, died aged 89.- 4: Frontman of British rave band The Prodigy, Keith Flint, was found dead aged 49.- 17: Ex-Peruvian president Alan Garcia, 69, killed himself as the police were about to arrest him on bribery charges that he denied.- 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.
- 25: The world’s oldest president, Tunisian Beji Caid Essebsi, died aged 92, just ahead of the end of his first mandate.- 5: Author Toni Morrison, the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died aged 88.
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