June 13 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584)
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1760 – Antoine Court, French minister (b. 1696)
• 1784 – Henry Middleton, American politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• 1881 – Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, English race car driver (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Henry Blogg, English fisherman and lifeboatman (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, English actor (b. 1956)
• 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and musician (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Peter Maivia, American-Samoan wrestler (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, British sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Sam T. Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, Brazilian bishop (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani singer and composer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Erica Kennedy, American author and journalist (b. 1970)