13 March Deaths

March 13 is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Deaths
601 – Leander of Seville, Spanish bishop and saint (b. 534)
731 – Gerald of Mayo, Anglo-Saxon abbot
1164 – Fujiwara no Tadamichi, Japanese regent (b. 1097)
1202 – Mieszko III the Old, king of Poland (b. c. 1121)
1271 – Henry of Almain (b. 1235)
1332 – Theodore Metochita, Byzantine Empire statesman and author (b. 1270)
1395 – John Barbour, Scottish priest and poet (b. 1320)
1447 – Shahrukh Mirza, Persian ruler (b. 1377)
1490 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1468)
1516 – Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1530)
1573 – Michel de l'Hôpital, French politician (b. 1507)
1604 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1537)
1619 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
1711 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1719 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German chemist and potter (b. 1682)
1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (b. 1731)
1773 – Philibert Commerson, French historian and explorer (b. 1727)
1800 – Nana Fadnavis, Indian minister and politician (b. 1742)
1808 – Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1833 – William Bradley, English lieutenant and cartographer (b. 1757)
1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English general (b. 1761)
1854 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
1873 – David Swinson Maynard, American physician, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1808)
1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German mathematician and chess player (b. 1818)
1881 – Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
1884 – Leland Stanford, Jr., American son of Leland Stanford (b. 1868)
1889 – Felice Varesi, French-born Italian baritone (b. 1813)
1901 – Benjamin Harrison, American general and politician, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American activist (b. 1820)
1911 – John J. Toffey, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1844)
1912 – Eugène-Étienne Taché, Canadian engineer and architect, designed the Parliament Building (b. 1836)
1912 – Hugo Treffner, German educator, founded the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium (b. 1845)
1914 – Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Pakistani physician and scholar (b. 1841)
1918 – César Cui, Russian composer and critic (b. 1835)
1921 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (b. 1835)
1936 – Francis Bell, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
1938 – Cevat Çobanlı, Turkish general (b. 1870)
1938 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and author (b. 1857)
1941 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (b. 1881)
1943 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1898)
1965 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and statistician (b. 1884)
1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1965 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
1971 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
1972 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
1975 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1983 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
1983 – Paul Citroen, German-Dutch illustrator and educator (b. 1896)
1989 – Fahrettin Özdilek, Turkish general and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1898)
1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
1990 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor and composer (b. 1915)
1995 – Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1995 – Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)
1996 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
1998 – Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
1998 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
1999 – Lee Falk, American cartoonist, director, and producer (b. 1911)
1999 – Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
1999 – Anton Raadik, Estonian-American boxer (b. 1917)
1999 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b. 1902)
2001 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer (b. 1934)
2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)
2001 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (b. 1936)
2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar (b. 1900)
2004 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (b. 1928)
2004 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal (b. 1905)
2006 – Robert C. Baker, American chef and educator, invented the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2007 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager (b. 1925)
2008 – Elizabeth Gilels, Russian violinist (b. 1919)
2009 – Betsy Blair, American actress (b. 1923)
2009 – Alan W. Livingston, American businessman (b. 1917)
2010 – Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
2011 – Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1951)
2012 – Michael P. Barnett, English chemist and computer scientist (b. 1929)
2013 – Richard Davey, Australian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1938)
2013 – Cartha DeLoach, American FBI agent and author (b. 1920)
2013 – Ducky Detweiler, American baseball player and manager (b. 1919)
2013 – Perween Rahman, Bangladeshi-Pakistani activist (b. 1957)
2013 – Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 – Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1928)
2014 – Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American businessman (b. 1926)
2014 – Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1944)
2014 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
2014 – Icchokas Meras, Lithuanian-Israeli author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2015 – Irwin Hasen, American cartoonist (b. 1918)
2015 – Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2016 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist (b. 1926)
2016 – Martin Olav Sabo, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)

Source: Wikipedia