Famous Deaths on 13th May

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384 - Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+
1162 - Géza II of Hungary
1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1381 - John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
1390 - Robert II the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90), dies
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
1732 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72
1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1776 - Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71
1787 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38
1793 - Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1812 - Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 - John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1839 - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1839 - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1864 - Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1873 - Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
1882 - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35
1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1885 - Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1892 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63
1896 - Nora Perry, writer, dies
1901 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
1904 - Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
1914 - R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies
1916 - Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
1921 - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 - Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
Arctic explorer/Nobel Laureate Fridtjof Nansen (1930) 1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies at 68
1930 - Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
1931 - Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79
1933 - Paul Ernst, writer, dies at 67
1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1942 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1951 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
1956 - Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54
1961 - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
1962 - Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60
1962 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
1962 - H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)
1963 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1966 - Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1967 - Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
1971 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67
1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
1975 - Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69
1978 - Albert Roberts, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 7 wickets), dies
1979 - Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65
1981 - Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76
1982 - Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
1985 - Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC at 91
1985 - Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1990 - Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83
1992 - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
1992 - Gisela Elsner, writer, dies at 55
1992 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1993 - Borolas, [Joaquin Garcia], Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
1993 - Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
1993 - Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71
1994 - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77
1994 - Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74
1994 - Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
1995 - Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
1996 - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
2002 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2002 - Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
2005 - Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
2008 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2008 - Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
2009 - Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem
2009 - Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
2011 - Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 - Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)
2012 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70