Deaths
- January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort (born 1855), meteorologist.
- February 20 - Robert von Lieben (born 1878), physicist.
- April 14 - Carl Hagenbeck (born 1844), zoologist.
- May 28 - John Lubbock (born 1834), naturalist and archaeologist.
- September 29 - Rudolf Diesel (born 1858), mechanical engineer (lost overboard this night).
- November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace (born 1823), biologist.
Read more about this topic: 1913 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)