January 13 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
  • 533 – Saint Remigius, bishop of Reims (b. 437)
  • 614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
  • 703 – Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
  • 858 – Ethelwulf, king of Wessex (b. 795)
  • 888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
  • 1138 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
  • 1151 – Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
  • 1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
  • 1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
  • 1363 – Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
  • 1599 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
  • 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
  • 1630 – Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
  • 1658 – Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
  • 1691 – George Fox, English founder of Quakerism (b. 1624)
  • 1717 – Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator (b. 1647)
  • 1766 – King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
  • 1775 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
  • 1790 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
  • 1796 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
  • 1797 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
  • 1832 – Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founder of Lord's cricket ground (b. 1755)
  • 1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
  • 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
  • 1853 – Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)
  • 1860 – William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
  • 1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)
  • 1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
  • 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b. 1823)
  • 1889 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
  • 1894 – Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
  • 1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
  • 1906 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
  • 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
  • 1923 – Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
  • 1924 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
  • 1928 – Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902)
  • 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)
  • 1929 – H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
  • 1932 – Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
  • 1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
  • 1937 – Antoine Védrenne, French rower (b. 1878)
  • 1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
  • 1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
  • 1956 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and caricaturist (b. 1871)
  • 1958 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)
  • 1961 – Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
  • 1962 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
  • 1967 – Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • 1971 – Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
  • 1974 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
  • 1974 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
  • 1976 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
  • 1977 – Henri Langlois, French film archivist, and a co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
  • 1978 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
  • 1978 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)
  • 1979 – Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
  • 1979 – Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
  • 1980 – André Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
  • 1982 – Marcel Camus, French director (b. 1912)
  • 1982 – Arland D. Williams, Jr., hero of Air Florida Flight 90 (b. 1935)
  • 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
  • 1993 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
  • 1995 – Max Harris, Australian poet, columnist and publisher (b. 1921)
  • 2001 – Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (2ge+her) (b. 1985)
  • 2002 – Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
  • 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, Ernest Hemingway's first mate (b. 1897)
  • 2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
  • 2003 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
  • 2004 – Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)
  • 2004 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
  • 2004 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
  • 2005 – Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
  • 2006 – Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
  • 2007 – Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
  • 2007 – Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (b. 1911)
  • 2008 – Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
  • 2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
  • 2009 – Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
  • 2009 – Dai Llewellyn Welsh socialite
  • 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 2009 – Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
  • 2009 – Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
  • 2009 – William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
  • 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes) (b. 1950)
  • 2010 – Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (The Reatards and Lost Sounds) (b. 1980)
  • 2010 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist (b. 1930)
  • 2011 – Albert Heijn, a Dutch entrepreneur, major stock holder and founder and chairman of the board of Ahold (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Rauf Denktaş, Turkish Cypriot politician, founder and first president of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Turkish footballer (b. 1925)


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    There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
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