Jerzy Andrzejewski, Lord Byron, Christina of Sweden
Died: Jerzy Andrzejewski (1983), Lord Byron (1824), Christina of Sweden (1689)
Died on this day
19AprDied 198343rd anniversary of death
Jerzy Andrzejewski
A novelist of moral choices and desire, Jerzy Andrzejewski moved from Catholic writing and communist commitment to organised opposition.
19AprDied 1824202nd anniversary of deathLord Byron
Romanticism’s most famous poet loved women and young men – and died fighting for Greek independence.
19AprDied 1689337th anniversary of deathChristina of Sweden
She relinquished Sweden’s crown, converted to Catholicism and built a new life as a patron of the arts in Rome.