Just a few more hours and it will be 2020, which means that the work of a new batch of artists will pass into the public domain in countries of the death-70 regime.
Umberto Brunelleschi illustration 
E. J. Bellocq photo 
Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring by James Ensor
In Europe this means that this will become public domain:
- Axel Munthe, Swedish psychiatrist (The Story of San Michele)
- Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian artist
- Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer
- Tod Robbins, American author (“Spurs“)
- E. J. Bellocq, an American photographer
- George Gurdjieff, Soviet spiritual teacher
- James Ensor, Belgian painter
- Richard Connell, American author and journalist, best known for his short story “The Most Dangerous Game“
- Lead Belly, African-American blues musician
- Hervey Allen, American author (Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe)