Famous Deaths on 13 Mar

Famous Deaths on 13 Mar

1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
1569 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530)
1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1854 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)
1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
1906 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1918 - César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
1988 - John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1995 - Odette, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)