13 October Deaths

October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 

Deaths

AD 54 – Claudius, Roman emperor (b. 10 BC)
807 – Simpert, bishop of Augsburg
982 – Jing Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b. 948)
1093 – Robert I, count of Flanders (b. 1035)
1100 – Guy I, count of Ponthieu
1195 – Gualdim Pais, Portuguese crusader (b. 1118)
1240 – Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (b. 1205)
1282 – Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest (b. 1222)
1382 – Peter II, king of Cyprus
1415 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1381)
1435 – Hermann II, count 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, emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1654)
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, king 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 – Anatoli Kozhemyakin, Soviet footballer (b. 1953)
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)
1999 – Michael Hartnett, Irish poet (b. 1941)
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)
2013 – Paul Maynard, London Insurance market guru and CII examiner (b. 1953)
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)
2017 – Albert Zafy, Malagasy politician (b. 1927)

Source: wikipedia