June 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1760 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
• 1784 – Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• 1881 – Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
• 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (b. 1878) (murdered)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
• 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Italian musician (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
• 1982 – King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese hairdresser and musician (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
• 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933)