13 June Deaths
Publish | 13 Jun 2016, 18:01
June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.
Deaths
220 – Xiahou Dun, Chinese general
1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (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 samurai (b. 1584)
1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
1760 – Antoine Court, French minister and historian (b. 1696)
1784 – Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (b. 1767)
1881 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)
1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1904 – Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter and educator (b. 1832)
1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)
1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
1930 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (b. 1896)
1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)
1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1954 – Henry Blogg, English lifeboat man (b. 1876)
1957 – Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
1965 – David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
1971 – Ernő Verebes, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1902)
1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (Billy Ward and his Dominoes and The Drifters) (b. 1932)
1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
1977 – Matthew Garber, British actor (b. 1956)
1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
1981 – Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)
1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
1989 – Fran Allison, American television personality and puppeteer (b. 1907)
1991 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1929)
1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1993 – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1924)
1994 – Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer and academic (b. 1909)
1998 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (b. 1899)
1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
2002 – John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (b. 1919)
2002 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (b. 1927)
2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (b. 1952)
2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor and singer (b. 1931)
2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese academic and politician (b. 1913)
2005 – David Diamond, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)
2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese scholar and politician (b. 1933)
2010 – Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)
2012 – Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Indian-Pakistani singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. 1934)
2012 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (b. 1970)
2013 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1971)
2013 – David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)
2013 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
2013 – Edmund Pellegrino, American ethicist and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938)
2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)
2014 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
2014 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Masters Apprentices and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1946)
2014 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2014 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)
2014 – Richard Rockefeller, American physician (b. 1949)
2015 – Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1917)
2015 – Drs. P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1919)
2015 – Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2015 – Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1940)