February 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 858 – Kenneth I of Scotland
• 1130 – Pope Honorius II
• 1141 – Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
• 1219 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
• 1332 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
• 1539 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
• 1542 – Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b.c. 1521)
• 1542 – Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess of Rochford, lady-in-waiting of the above (b.c. 1505)
• 1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
• 1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
• 1592 – Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
• 1600 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
• 1602 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
• 1608 – Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
• 1624 – Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
• 1657 – Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
• 1660 – King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
• 1662 – Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596)
• 1727 – William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
• 1728 – Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
• 1732 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
• 1787 – Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
• 1787 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
• 1813 – Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
• 1818 – George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
• 1826 – Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
• 1831 – Edward Berry Royal Navy admiral (b.1768)
• 1837 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809)
• 1845 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
• 1883 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• 1888 – Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
• 1889 – João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815)
• 1905 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1906 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• 1934 – József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864)
• 1942 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865)
• 1950 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
• 1951 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
• 1952 – Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
• 1956 – Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1912)
• 1975 – André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
• 1976 – Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
• 1980 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Ron Pickering, athletics coach and BBC sports commentator and presenter (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Robert Klark Graham, American businessman and eugenecist (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
• 2000 – James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
• 2006 – Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Edward Upward, British novelist and short-story writer (b. 1903)
• 2010 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (b. 1936)
• 2010 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1916)