October 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 54 – Claudius, Roman emperor (b. 10 BC)
• 1093 – Robert I, Count of Flanders (b. 1035)
• 1282 – Nichiren Japanese monk (b. 1222)
• 1415 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military officer (b. 1381)
• 1508 – Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
• 1605 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
• 1673 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
• 1687 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
• 1694 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1632)
• 1706 – Iyasu I of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
• 1715 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
• 1759 – John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
• 1788 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
• 1812 – Isaac Brock, English general (b. 1769)
• 1815 – Joachim Murat, French military officer (b. 1767)
• 1822 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (b. 1757)
• 1825 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (b. 1756)
• 1841 – Patrick Campbell, Scottish navy officer (b. 1773)
• 1869 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 – Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
• 1890 – Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 – Pavlos Melas, Greek military officer (b. 1870)
• 1905 – Henry Irving, English actor (b. 1838)
• 1909 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher (b. 1849)
• 1911 – Sister Nivedita, Irish social worker, author, and teacher (b. 1867)
• 1917 – Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 – Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)
• 1931 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
• 1938 – E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1945 – Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (b. 1857)
• 1946 – Ole Sæther, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1870)
• 1950 – Ernest Haycox, American author (b. 1899)
• 1955 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican politician, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1961 – Prince Louis Rwagasore, Burundi politician, Prime Minister of Burundi (b. 1932)
• 1966 – Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1968 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Stafford Smythe, Canadian businessman (b. 1921)
• 1973 – Albert Mandler, Israeli general (b. 1929)
• 1974 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Antonio Berni, Argentine painter, illustrator and engraver (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Rebecca Clarke, English violist and composer (b. 1886)
• 1987 – Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, actor, and producer (b. 1929)
• 1988 – Mike Venezia, American jockey (b. 1945)
• 1990 – Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Dantrell Davis, American gang shooting victim (b. 1985)
• 1993 – Wade Flemons, American singer-songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Beryl Reid, English actress (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian-Soviet politician (b.1944)
• 2000 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
• 2002 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Vivian Malone Jones, American activist (b. 1942)
• 2006 – Wang Guangmei, Chinese wife of Liu Shaoqi (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Bob Denard, French soldier (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
• 2008 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971)
• 2009 – Stephen Barnett, American scholar (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Grietje Jansen-Anker, Dutch super-centenarian (b. 1897)
• 2009 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
• 2012 – Stuart Bell, English politician (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Paul Brown, American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Gary Collins, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Harihar Swain, Indian politician (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Manuel Torres Félix, alleged Mexican drug trafficker (b. 1954)