March 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1271 – Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
• 1395 – John Barbour, Scottish poet
• 1417 – Crown Prince Minyekyawswa of Ava (b. 1391)
• 1516 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• 1569 – Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530)
• 1573 – Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1507)
• 1604 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
• 1619 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
• 1711 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
• 1719 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist (b. 1682)
• 1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI (b.1731)
• 1773 – Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
• 1778 – Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
• 1803 – William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
• 1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
• 1842 – Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
• 1854 – Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)
• 1873 – David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (b. 1808)
• 1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
• 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
• 1884 – Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
• 1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
• 1911 – John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
• 1918 – César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
• 1925 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
• 1938 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
• 1941 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
• 1943 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
• 1949 – Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
• 1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
• 1960 – Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b. 1874)
• 1963 – Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
• 1964 – Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
• 1965 – Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1972 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
• 1983 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
• 1988 – John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
• 1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Odette, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
• 1998 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
• 2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
• 2004 – Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923)
• 2010 – He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (b. 1988)