January 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
• 614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
• 703 – Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
• 858 – King Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
• 888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
• 1138 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
• 1151 – Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
• 1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
• 1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
• 1363 – Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
• 1599 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
• 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
• 1630 – Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
• 1658 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
• 1691 – George Fox, English founder of Quakerism (b. 1624)
• 1766 – King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
• 1775 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
• 1790 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
• 1796 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
• 1797 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
• 1832 – Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founder of Lord's cricket ground (b. 1755)
• 1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
• 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
• 1853 – Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)
• 1860 – William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
• 1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)
• 1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
• 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b. 1823)
• 1889 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
• 1894 – Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
• 1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1906 – Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
• 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
• 1923 – Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
• 1928 – Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902}
• 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)
• 1929 – H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
• 1932 – Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
• 1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
• 1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
• 1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
• 1958 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
• 1967 – Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1971 – Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
• 1974 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1977 – Henri Langlois, French film archivist, and a co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
• 1978 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 1978 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
• 1979 – Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Marcel Camus, French director (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Max Harris, Australian poet, columnist and publisher (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
• 2002 – Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
• 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, Ernest Hemingway's first mate (b. 1897)
• 2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (b. 1911)
• 2008 – Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
• 2009 – Dai Llewellyn Welsh socialite
• 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
• 2009 – William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)
• 2010 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist (b. 1930)