Famous Deaths on 13 Sep

Famous Deaths on 13 Sep

1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
1438 - Duarte, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (b. 1526)
1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1928 - Italo Svevo, Italian author (b. 1861)
1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1946 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1973 - Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (b. 1900)
1991 - Joe Pasternak, American film director (b. 1901)
1991 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1996 - Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)
1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
81 - Titus, Roman emperor (b. 39)