February 13 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 858 – Kenneth I of Scotland
  • 942 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, amir al-umara
  • 1130 – Pope Honorius II
  • 1141 – Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
  • 1199 – Stefan Nemanja, Serbian Grand Prince (b. 1113)
  • 1219 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
  • 1332 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
  • 1539 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
  • 1542 – Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b.c. 1521)
  • 1542 – Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess of Rochford, lady-in-waiting of the above (b.c. 1505)
  • 1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
  • 1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
  • 1592 – Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
  • 1600 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
  • 1602 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
  • 1608 – Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
  • 1624 – Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
  • 1657 – Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
  • 1660 – King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
  • 1662 – Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596)
  • 1727 – William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
  • 1728 – Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
  • 1732 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
  • 1787 – Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
  • 1787 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
  • 1813 – Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
  • 1818 – George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
  • 1826 – Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
  • 1831 – Edward Berry Royal Navy admiral (b.1768)
  • 1837 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809)
  • 1845 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
  • 1883 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
  • 1888 – Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
  • 1889 – João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815)
  • 1905 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
  • 1906 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
  • 1908 – David Hesser, American water polo player (b. 1884)
  • 1934 – József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (b. 1864)
  • 1942 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865)
  • 1950 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
  • 1951 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
  • 1952 – Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
  • 1954 – Agnes Macphail, First Canadian female MP (b. 1890)
  • 1956 – Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
  • 1958 – Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1880)
  • 1958 – Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
  • 1960 – Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
  • 1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902)
  • 1968 – Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
  • 1973 – Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect (b. 1883)
  • 1974 – Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1912)
  • 1975 – André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
  • 1975 – Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
  • 1976 – Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
  • 1976 – Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
  • 1980 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
  • 1982 – Zeng Jinlian, tallest woman ever, at 8 ft. 1.75 in. (b. 1964)
  • 1984 – Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
  • 1989 – Dave Tarras, klezmer clarinetist (b. 1897)
  • 1989 – Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
  • 1991 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
  • 1991 – Ron Pickering, athletics coach and BBC sports commentator and presenter (b. 1930)
  • 1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
  • 1996 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
  • 1997 – Robert Klark Graham, American businessman and eugenecist (b. 1906)
  • 1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
  • 2000 – James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
  • 2000 – John Leake, British recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal (b. 1950)
  • 2002 – Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
  • 2003 – Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
  • 2003 – Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
  • 2003 – Dennis McDermott, Canadian trade unionist (b. 1922)
  • 2003 – Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
  • 2004 – François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1942)
  • 2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
  • 2005 – Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
  • 2005 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
  • 2005 – Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (b. 1907)
  • 2005 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
  • 2005 – Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
  • 2006 – Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
  • 2006 – Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
  • 2007 – Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
  • 2007 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
  • 2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
  • 2008 – Henri Salvador, French singer and musician (b. 1917)
  • 2008 – Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
  • 2009 – Edward Upward, British novelist and short-story writer (b. 1903)
  • 2010 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (b. 1936)
  • 2010 – Cy Grant, Guyanese actor, singer, writer and poet (b. 1919)
  • 2010 – Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
  • 2010 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1916)
  • 2012 – Freddie Solomon, American wide receiver (b. 1953)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

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