May 13 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
  • 1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
  • 1573 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
  • 1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
  • 1704 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
  • 1742 – Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
  • 1807 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
  • 1809 – Beilby Porteus, Anglican reformer and abolitionist, Bishop of London(b. 1731)
  • 1832 – Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
  • 1835 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
  • 1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
  • 1871 – Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
  • 1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (b. 1797)
  • 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor, founded International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
  • 1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
  • 1901 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist and critic (b. 1851)
  • 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino philosopher and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
  • 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
  • 1921 – Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
  • 1925 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
  • 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
  • 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1861)
  • 1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, Russian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
  • 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
  • 1941 – Frederick Christian, English cricket player (b. 1877)
  • 1941 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
  • 1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (b. 1895)
  • 1947 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian-Bengali poet (b. 1926)
  • 1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
  • 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
  • 1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
  • 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (b. 1885)
  • 1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
  • 1974 – Arthur J. Burks, American writer (b. 1898)
  • 1975 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and bandleader (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1905)
  • 1977 – Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (b. 1934)
  • 1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
  • 1988 – Chet Baker, American singer and musician (b. 1929)
  • 1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
  • 1994 – Duncan Hamilton, English race car driver (b. 1920)
  • 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
  • 2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
  • 2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
  • 2001 – Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
  • 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
  • 2002 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
  • 2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
  • 2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
  • 2006 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (b. 1949)
  • 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti political leader, emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
  • 2008 – Ron Stone, American reporter (b. 1936)
  • 2009 – Frank Aletter, American actor (b. 1926)
  • 2009 – Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian Rabbi, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis (b. 1934)
  • 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (b. 1914)
  • 2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
  • 2011 – Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods (b. 1930)
  • 2011 – Bruce Ricker, American documentarian (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Alain Voss, Brazilian-French comics artist (b. 1946)
  • 2012 – Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, member of the Afghan High Peace Council
  • 2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, producer, and actor (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Blues Brothers, and The Mar-Keys) (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American activist, theologian, and educator (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – Les Leston, English race car driver (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, English nurse, member of the House of Lords (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Lee Richardson, English motorcycle rider (b. 1979)
  • 2012 – Don Ritchie, Australian humanitarian (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “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)