Timeline Sunday 19 May 1935

Events on Sunday 19 May 1935 2

• 1888 – 1935 T. E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia, 1888–1935 Archaeologist, intelligence officer, guerrilla leader and, for the last thirteen years of his life, a serving airman under assumed names. Lawrence helped lead the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans, wrote one of the strangest books in English, spent the rest of his life trying to escape his own fame, and died in a motorcycle crash whose consequences outlived him.
• 1935 Lawrence dies Bovington, United Kingdom He never regained consciousness and died six days after the crash, aged 46. Churchill wept at the funeral; the neurosurgeon who had attended him spent the next six years thinking about why he died.