13 October Deaths

October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 79 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

AD 54 – Claudius, Roman emperor (b. 10 BC)
807 – Simpert, bishop of Augsburg
1093 – Robert I, Count of Flanders (b. 1035)
1100 – Count Guy I, Count of Ponthieu
1195 – Gualdim Pais, Great Master of the Templars in Portugal (b. 1118)
1240 – Razia Sultana of Delhi (b. 1205)
1282 – Nichiren, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism
1382 – King Peter II of Cyprus
1415 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1381)
1435 – Hermann II of Celje, Ban of Croatia
1562 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer (b. 1495)
1605 – Theodore Beza, French theologian and scholar (b. 1519)
1673 – Christoffer Gabel, German-Danish accountant and politician (b. 1617)
1687 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and lens maker (b. 1633)
1694 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German historian, economist, and jurist (b. 1632)
1706 – Iyasu I of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
1715 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (b. 1638)
1759 – John Henley, English clergyman and author (b. 1692)
1788 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish poet and politician (b. 1702)
1812 – Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1769)
1815 – Joachim Murat, French general (b. 1767)
1822 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (b. 1757)
1825 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (b. 1756)
1841 – Patrick Campbell, Scottish admiral (b. 1773)
1869 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French poet, author, and critic (b. 1804)
1882 – Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
1890 – Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
1904 – Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
1905 – Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
1909 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
1911 – Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
1917 – Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
1919 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
1926 – Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)
1930 – T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and educator (b. 1853)
1931 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
1938 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (b. 1894)
1945 – Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (b. 1857)
1950 – Ernest Haycox, American soldier and author (b. 1899)
1955 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican general and politician, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)
1956 – Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (b. 1910)
1961 – Prince Louis Rwagasore, Burundi politician, Prime Minister of Burundi (b. 1932)
1966 – Clifton Webb, American actor and dancer (b. 1889)
1968 – Bea Benaderet, American actress and voice artist (b. 1906)
1973 – Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, Turkish ethnographer and author (b. 1886)
1973 – Albert Mandler, Austrian-Israeli general (b. 1929)
1974 – Otto Binder, American author (b. 1911)
1974 – Ed Sullivan, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1901)
1979 – Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1905)
1981 – Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (b. 1886)
1985 – Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director (b. 1928)
1987 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1987 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (b. 1929)
1987 – Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet and author (b. 1958)
1990 – Hans Namuth, German-American photographer (b. 1915)
1990 – Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1992 – James Marshall, American author and illustrator (b. 1942)
1996 – Beryl Reid, English actress (b. 1919)
1998 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian businessman and politician (b. 1944)
2000 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
2001 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
2002 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian and author (b. 1936)
2003 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2004 – Enrique Fernando, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1915)
2004 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh author (b. 1928)
2005 – Vivian Malone Jones, American activist (b. 1942)
2006 – Wang Guangmei, Chinese philanthropist and politician, 2nd Spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1921)
2007 – Bob Denard, French soldier and academic (b. 1929)
2008 – Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
2009 – Stephen Barnett, American scholar and academic (b. 1935)
2010 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)
2011 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1907)
2012 – Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2012 – Gary Collins, American actor (b. 1938)
2012 – Tomonobu Imamichi, Japanese philosopher and academic (b. 1922)
2013 – Martin Drewes, German soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
2013 – Joe Meriweather, American basketball player and coach (b. 1953)
2013 – Tommy Whittle, Scottish-English saxophonist (b. 1926)
2013 – Takashi Yanase, Japanese poet and illustrator, created Anpanman (b. 1919)
2014 – John Bradfield, English biologist and businessman, founded Cambridge Science Park (b. 1925)
2014 – Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1922)
2014 – Margaret Hillert, American author and poet (b. 1920)
2014 – Mohammad Sarengat, Indonesian sprinter (b. 1939)
2014 – Pontus Segerström, Swedish footballer (b. 1981)
2015 – Rosalyn Baxandall, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1939)
2015 – Bruce Hyde, American academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Michael J. H. Walsh, English general (b. 1927)
2016 – Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), King of Thailand (b. 1927)
2016 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2016 – Jim Prentice, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (b. 1956)

Source: wikipedia