Historical Deaths Today: 13 October

Deaths

• 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)


• 1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders


• 1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)


• 1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)


• 1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)


• 1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)


• 1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)


• 1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)


• 1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)


• 1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)


• 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)


• 1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)


• 1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)


• 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)


• 1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)


• 1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)


• 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)


• 1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)


• 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)


• 1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)


• 1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)


• 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)


• 1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress


• 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)


• 1926 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)


• 1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)


• 1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)


• 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)


• 1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)


• 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)


• 1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)


• 1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)


• 1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)


• 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)


• 1979 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)


• 1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)


• 1987 - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)


• 1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey (b. 1945)


• 1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)


• 1992 - Dantrell Davis, victim of gang crossfire in Cabrini-Green (b. 1985)


• 1995 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter


• 2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)


• 2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)


• 2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)


• 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)


• 2004 - Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915)


• 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)


• 2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)


• 2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)