July 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 574 – Pope John III (birth year unknown)
• 678 – Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad (birth year unknown)
• 939 – Pope Leo VII (birth year unknown)
• 1024 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
• 1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony, English-born daughter of Henry II of England and wife of Henry the Lion Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1156)
• 1205 – Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England (b. c. 1160)
• 1357 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
• 1399 – Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
• 1402 – Zhu Yunwen, Emperor of China (b. 1377)
• 1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
• 1621 – Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
• 1626 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
• 1628 – Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
• 1629 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
• 1645 – Tsar Michael of Russia (b. 1596)
• 1683 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
• 1693 – Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
• 1705 – Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
• 1755 – Edward Braddock, British general (b. 1695)
• 1760 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
• 1761 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
• 1762 – James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
• 1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
• 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
• 1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italy-born Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
• 1882 – Johnny Ringo, American gunfighter (b. 1850)
• 1889 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
• 1890 – John C. Frémont, American Army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
• 1896 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
• 1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
• 1922 – Martin Dies, Sr., American politician (b. 1870)
• 1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
• 1955 – Ruth Ellis, British murderer, last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom (b. 1926)
• 1960 – Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
• 1965 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1967 – Tommy Lucchese, Sicilian-American mobster (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, English GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1884)
• 1976 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS) (b. 1915)
• 1979 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Seretse Khama, Botswana statesman, the first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
• 1983 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
• 1996 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban trova guitarist and singer (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Arthur Kane, American bassist (New York Dolls) (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Michael Busselle, English photographer and writer (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Michael Reardon, American free climber (b. 1965)
• 2008 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and part of R.D. Burman's band (b. 1931)
• 2010 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees (b. 1930)