March 13 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1271 – Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
  • 1395 – John Barbour, Scottish poet
  • 1417 – Crown Prince Minyekyawswa of Ava (b. 1391)
  • 1516 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
  • 1569 – Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530)
  • 1573 – Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1507)
  • 1604 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
  • 1619 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
  • 1711 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
  • 1719 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist (b. 1682)
  • 1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI (b.1731)
  • 1773 – Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
  • 1778 – Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
  • 1803 – William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
  • 1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
  • 1842 – Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
  • 1854 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)
  • 1873 – David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (b. 1808)
  • 1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
  • 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
  • 1884 – Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
  • 1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
  • 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
  • 1911 – John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
  • 1912 – Eugène-Étienne Taché, French Canadian civil engineer and architect (b. 1836)
  • 1914 – Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Muslim scholar and 1st Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam.
  • 1918 – César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
  • 1925 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
  • 1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
  • 1938 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
  • 1941 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
  • 1943 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
  • 1949 – Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
  • 1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
  • 1960 – Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b. 1874)
  • 1963 – Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
  • 1964 – Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
  • 1965 – Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
  • 1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
  • 1965 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
  • 1972 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
  • 1975 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
  • 1983 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
  • 1983 – Paul Citroen, Dutch artist (b. 1896)
  • 1988 – John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
  • 1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
  • 1990 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
  • 1995 – Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
  • 1995 – Odette Sansom Hallowes, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
  • 1996 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
  • 1998 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
  • 1998 – Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
  • 1999 – Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
  • 1999 – Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
  • 1999 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
  • 2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
  • 2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
  • 2004 – Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
  • 2006 – Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
  • 2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
  • 2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
  • 2006 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host (b. 1942)
  • 2007 – Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
  • 2009 – Betsy Blair, American actress (b. 1923)
  • 2009 – Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
  • 2010 – Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter (b. 1930)
  • 2010 – He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (b. 1988)
  • 2011 – Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1951)
  • 2011 – Owsley Stanley, Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (b. 1935)

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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)