May 13 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1162 – Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
  • 1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
  • 1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
  • 1573 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
  • 1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
  • 1704 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
  • 1742 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
  • 1807 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
  • 1809 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London (b. 1731)
  • 1832 – Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
  • 1835 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
  • 1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
  • 1871 – Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
  • 1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (b. 1797)
  • 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
  • 1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
  • 1901 – Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
  • 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
  • 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
  • 1921 – Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
  • 1925 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
  • 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
  • 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1861)
  • 1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, Georgian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
  • 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
  • 1941 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
  • 1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (b. 1895)
  • 1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
  • 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
  • 1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
  • 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian-born Catholic bishop who assisted Nazi war criminals in escaping (b. 1885)
  • 1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
  • 1975 – Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
  • 1977 – Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (b. 1934)
  • 1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
  • 1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
  • 1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
  • 1994 – Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (b. 1920)
  • 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
  • 2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
  • 2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
  • 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
  • 2001 – Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
  • 2002 – Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
  • 2002 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
  • 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
  • 2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
  • 2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
  • 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
  • 2008 – Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
  • 2009 – Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
  • 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer, one of the first to summit K2 (b. 1914)
  • 2009 – Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian-born member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem (b. 1934)

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