The Lives We Lost in 2019

From Paul Volcker and John Bogle to T. Boone Pickens and Toni Morrison, an honor roll of the year’s notable deaths.

Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman

Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman

Photographer: Diana Walker/The LIFE Images Collection

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, auto visionary Lee Iacocca, corporate raider T. Boone Pickens and former French President Jacques Chirac were among newsmakers in finance, business and government who died in 2019.

The business world lost H. Ross Perot, a billionaire who twice ran for U.S. president; David Koch, industrialist and libertarian who tried to reshape the U.S. political landscape; Herb Kelleher, who co-founded trend-setter Southwest Airlines; and Mark Hurd, co-chief executive officer at Oracle Corp.