December 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 558 – Childebert I, king of the Franks (b. c. 496)
• 1048 – Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
• 1124 – Pope Callixtus II
• 1126 – Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
• 1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
• 1250 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
• 1404 – Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
• 1466 – Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
• 1516 – Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
• 1521 – Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
• 1557 – Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician
• 1565 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
• 1603 – Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540)
• 1621 – Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
• 1716 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
• 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
• 1729 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
• 1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
• 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
• 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
• 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
• 1814 – Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
• 1835 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
• 1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
• 1863 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813)
• 1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
• 1881 – August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838)
• 1883 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
• 1893 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician (b. 1816)
• 1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
• 1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (b. 1825)
• 1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
• 1922 – Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
• 1924 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (b. 1850)
• 1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-born Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
• 1931 – Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
• 1932 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
• 1934 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
• 1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)
• 1940 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
• 1940 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1857)
• 1940 – George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
• 1942 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Austrian-born Polish religious figure (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
• 1945 – Irma Grese, German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1923)
• 1945 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1945 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-born German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1947 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
• 1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
• 1954 – John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879)
• 1955 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Dora Marsden, British editor, writer (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
• 1962 – Harry Barris, American popular singer (b. 1905)
• 1969 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886)
• 1969 – Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
• 1973 – Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1981 – Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Alexander Schmemann, Estonian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
• 1983 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933)
• 1986 – Heather Angel, British actress (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (b, 1903)
• 1986 – Smita Patil, Indian Actress (b.1955)
• 1992 – K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
• 1992 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972)
• 1994 – Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (b. 1934)
• 1994 – Michalis Nikolinakos, Greek actor (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Ann Nolan Clark, American children's author (b. 1896)
• 1996 – Edward Blishen, English author (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (b. 1967)
• 2002 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1944)
• 2003 – William V. Roth, Jr., American politician (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
• 2005 – Stanley Tookie Williams, American convicted murderer (b. 1953)
• 2006 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2007 – Mark Partridge, Rhodesian politician (b. 1922)
• 2008 – John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1959)
• 2008 – Kathy Staff, British actress (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi National Professor (b. 1923)