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The star born in France plays for Gabon, the fatherland of their father, and they missed a place after finishing third in the group behind the qualifiers Mali and Burundi.
Gabon could have doubled by winning a final round match in Bujumbura, but it only drew 1-1, while the 29-year-old was scored close.
Although disappointing with Gabon, Aubameyang shared last season in the English Premier League with fellow African, Egypt's Mohamed Salah and Senegal's Sadio Mane.
They scored 22 goals each, one more than Argentine Sergio Aguero of Manchester City, two consecutive champions.
Here, AFP Sport features five stars, teams and a major referee who will not be part of the biennial show of African football.
Aubameyang
He often seemed uninterested in Gabon's fate during the six-round qualifying program and refused to travel to South Sudan, claiming that the charter plane was not seaworthy.
More recently, Aubameyang has criticized the Gabonese government and football officials for appointing his national coach, the sick father, without checking his availability for a post that he refused.
Burkina Faso
Bronze medalists in Gabon two years ago, the Stallions placed third behind Angola and Mauritania in qualifying.
The cheapest form was very expensive for the Burkinabe, who had only one point out of a possible nine on the road after losing to Luanda and Nouakchott and drawing in Francistown, Botswana.
Grisha
Widely regarded as one of the best African referees, Egypt's Gehad Grisha was dropped from the tentative list of the 2019 tournament after a six-month suspension.
The ban stems from what the CAF called "bad performance" in the CAF Champions League final-go match, while many thought it correctly qualified two difficult decisions in terms of VAR.
The king
Seventy-year-old French coach Claude le Roy – adored by the media for outspokenness – had the rare experience of not qualifying when Togo came last in a group.
It allowed Cameroon to win the 1988 Nations Cup title in Morocco, after leading it to second place two years ago, and resulted in Ghana, host of 2008, in third place.
Zambia
The Chipolopolo (copper balls) failed to consolidate their impressive triumph in penalty kicks against Ivory Coast in the final of the 2012 Nations Cup.
They came out in the first round of the following two tournaments and did not even qualify for the 2017 and 2019 editions, finishing in the last row of a section won by Guinea-Bissau.
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