Famous Deaths on 13 Feb

Famous Deaths on 13 Feb

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. 1525)
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 - RuÄ'er BoÅ¡ković, 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)
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. 1885)
1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1906 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
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)
1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
1958 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
1964 - Werner Heyde, German psyhiatrist (b. 1902)
1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
1975 - André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
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)
1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920),Jessica Browne,singer and dancer
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 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
2005 - Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (b. 1907)
2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
2006 - Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
2006 - Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
2007 - Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
2007 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
2008 - Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
858 - Kenneth I of Scotland