Famous Deaths on 13 Apr

Famous Deaths on 13 Apr

1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1279 - Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke
1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (born c. 1551)
1612 - Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
1635 - Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
1641 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)
1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1826 - Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
1868 - Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
1890 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1909 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910 - William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)
1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1936 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1938 - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
1944 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1959 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
1961 - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1966 - Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1971 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
1975 - Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
1980 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1981 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1983 - Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
1984 - Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1984 - Richard Hurndall. British actor (b. 1910)
1986 - Stephen Stucker. American actor (b. 1947)
1993 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
1997 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
1998 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 - Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2001 - Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
2002 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
2003 - Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956
2004 - Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
2005 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2005 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
2005 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2005 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
2006 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 - Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
2008 - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
799 - Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (born c. 720)
814 - Krum of Bulgaria