Famous Deaths on 13 Jun

Famous Deaths on 13 Jun

1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
1760 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1904 - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)
1930 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1982 - Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
1989 - Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
1993 - Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
2008 - Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
2008 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)