April 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 548 – Ly Nam De, emperor of Vietnam (b. 503)
• 799 – Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (b. c. 720)
• 814 – Krum, ruler (Khan) of Bulgaria
• 1093 – Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
• 1605 – Boris Godunov Tsar of Russia (b. c. 1551)
• 1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
• 1635 – Fakhr-al-Din II (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 politician (b. 1763)
• 1794 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
• 1826 – Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
• 1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
• 1853 – James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
• 1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
• 1868 – Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
• 1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
• 1882 – Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
• 1886 – John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (b. 1811)
• 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)
• 1925 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor (b. 1875)
• 1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866)
• 1936 – Milton Brown, American bandleader and vocalist (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1903)
• 1936 – Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and writer (b. 1888)
• 1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
• 1941 – William Twaits, Canadian football player (b. 1879)
• 1942 – Henk Sneevliet, Dutch communist (b. 1883)
• 1942 – Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
• 1945 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Samuel Jones, American athlete (b. 1880)
• 1954 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
• 1956 – Emil Nolde, German painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
• 1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
• 1961 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (b. 1935)
• 1962 – Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
• 1966 – Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Nicole Berger, French actress (b. 1934)
• 1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian hockey player (b. 1949)
• 1971 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
• 1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1975 – François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931)
• 1980 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1981 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (b. 1887)
• 1983 – Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
• 1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist, and harpsichordist (b. 1911)
• 1984 – Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
• 1986 – Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)
• 1988 – Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, businessman and politician (b. 1923)
• 1993 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
• 1996 – James Burke, American gangster (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Leila Mackinlay, British writer (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Bryant Bowles, American white supremacist (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
• 1997 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver, skysurfer, and BASE jumper (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, created the ZIP Code (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Caron Keating, British-Irish 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-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Don Selwyn, New Zealand actor and director (b. c. 1936)
• 2008 – John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani human rights activist and pilot (b.1942)