Deaths on 13 April
2000s
Richard Armitage (government official)
2025
American diplomat and government official (1945–2025)
Mario Vargas Llosa
2025
Peruvian novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Jean Marsh
2025
English actress (1934–2025)
Faith Ringgold
2024
American artist (1930–2024)
Michel Bouquet
2022
French actor (1925–2022)
Gloria Parker
2022
American musician and bandleader (1921–2022)
Dan M. Rooney
2017
American football executive/owner, philanthropist and diplomat (1932–2017)
Eduardo Galeano
2015
Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)
Günter Grass
2015
German author and artist (1927–2015)
Herb Trimpe
2015
American comics creator (1939–2015)
Ernesto Laclau
2014
Argentine philosopher and political theorist
Michael Ruppert
2014
American writer and investigative journalist
Stephen Dodgson
2013
British composer and broadcaster (1924–2013)
Cecil Chaudhry
2012
Pakistani fighter pilot, academic and activist
Shūichi Higurashi
2012
Japanese manga artist
John Archibald Wheeler
2008
American theoretical physicist (1911–2008)
Muriel Spark
2006
Scottish author (1918–2006)
Johnnie Johnson (musician)
2005
American jazz, blues, and rock and roll pianist (1924–2005)
Philip Pavia
2005
American artist
Caron Keating
2004
British television presenter (1962–2004)
Giorgio Bassani
2000
Italian writer
Frenchy Bordagaray
2000
American baseball player (1910–2000)
1900s
Ortvin Sarapu
1999
Estonian-New Zealand chess player (1924–1999)
Willi Stoph
1999
German politician (1914–1999)
Patrick de Gayardon
1998
French skydiver (1960–1998)
Bryant Bowles
1997
American white supremacist
Alan Cooley
1997
Dorothy Frooks
1997
American journalist
Voldemar Väli
1997
Estonian wrestler (1903–1997)
Leila Mackinlay
1996
Wallace Stegner
1993
American historian, writer, and environmentalist
Maurice Sauvé
1992
Canadian politician
Feza Gürsey
1992
Turkish mathematician and physicist
Daniel Pollock
1992
Australian actor (1968–1992)
Jean Gascon
1988
Canadian opera director, actor, and administrator
Ralph Kirkpatrick
1984
American harpsichordist and musicologist (1911–1984)
Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
1984
Greek actor and comedian
Gerry Hitchens
1983
English footballer
Theodore Stephanides
1983
Greek-British doctor and biologist (1896–1983)
Markus Höttinger
1980
Austrian racing driver (1956–1980)
Jack Chambers (artist)
1978
Canadian artist and filmmaker
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
1978
Nigerian activist (1900–1978)
Larry Parks
1975
American actor (1914–1975)
François Tombalbaye
1975
President of Chad from 1960 to 1975
Henry Darger
1973
American artist and writer (1892–1973)
Michel Brière
1971
Canadian ice hockey player (1949–1971)
Juhan Smuul
1971
Estonian writer
Ambrogio Gianotti
1969
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priest and resistance member (1901–1969)
Alfred Karindi
1969
Estonian organist and composer
Nicole Berger
1967
French actress (1934–1967)
Abdul Salam Arif
1966
President of Iraq from 8 February 1963 to 13 April 1966
Carlo Carrà
1966
Italian painter (1881–1966)
Georges Duhamel (author)
1966
French writer (1884–1966)
Kristian Krefting
1964
Norwegian footballer, military officer, chemical engineer and company owner
Culbert Olson
1962
American politician (1876–1962)
John A. Bennett
1961
American convicted of rape and attempted murder (1936–1961)
Eduard van Beinum
1959
Dutch conductor (1900–1959)
Emil Nolde
1956
German painter
Samuel Jones (athlete)
1954
American high jumper (1880–1954)
Angus L. Macdonald
1954
Premier of Nova Scotia from 1933 to 1940
Ernst Cassirer
1945
German philosopher (1874–1945)
Cécile Chaminade
1944
French composer and pianist (1857–1944)
Henk Sneevliet
1942
20th-century Dutch communist politician
Anton Uesson
1942
Estonian politician and engineer
Annie Jump Cannon
1941
American astronomer (1863–1941)
William Twaits (soccer)
1941
Canadian soccer player
Grey Owl
1938
Canadian writer, lecturer and conservationist (1888–1938)
Konstantinos Demertzis
1936
Greek politician (1876–1936)
Georg Voigt (politician)
1927
German politician (1866–1927)
Sabás Reyes Salazar
1927
Mexican priest and Catholic saint
Stefanos Streit
1920
Greek jurist, banker and politician
Lavr Kornilov
1918
Imperial Russian Army general (1870–1918)
Diamond Jim Brady
1917
American businessman
Takuboku Ishikawa
1912
Japanese poet
John McLane
1911
American politician
George Washington Glick
1911
American politician
William Quiller Orchardson
1910
Scottish painter (1832–1910)
Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar)
1909
Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar
1800s
Samuel J. Randall
1890
American politician (1828–1890)
John Humphrey Noyes
1886
American utopian community founder (1811–1886)
Bruno Bauer
1882
German philosopher and theologian (1809–1882)
Robert Fortune
1880
Scottish botanist, plant hunter and traveller
Bezalel HaKohen
1878
Russian rabbi (1820–1878)
Tewodros II
1868
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1855 to 1868
Henry De la Beche
1855
English geologist and palaeontologist (1796–1855)
Leopold Gmelin
1853
German chemist (1788–1853)
James Iredell Jr.
1853
American politician (1788–1853)
Franz Danzi
1826
German conductor and composer (1763–1826)
Before 1800
Nicolas Chamfort
1794
French writer
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
1793
18th-century French politician
Charles Leslie (nonjuror)
1722
Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington
1716
English naval officer and politician (1648–1716)
Jean de La Fontaine
1695
French fabulist and poet (1621–1695)
Richard Montagu
1641
English cleric and prelate (1577–1641)
Henri, Duke of Rohan
1638
Breton-French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots
Fakhr al-Din II
1635
Druze emir of Mount Lebanon (6 August 1572–13 April 1635)
Sasaki Kojirō
1612
16/17th-century Japanese swordsman; killed in a duel against Miyamoto Musashi
Boris Godunov
1605
Tsar of Russia from 1598 to 1605
Bartolomeo Ammannati
1592
Italian architect and sculptor
John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot
1367
English nobleman
Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester
1275
13th-century English princess and countess
Guy of Thouars
1213
Duke of Brittany from 1199 to 1201
Simon I, Duke of Lorraine
1138
Duke of Lorraine from 1115 to 1139
Ida of Lorraine
1113
French noblewoman and saint (c. 1040–1113)
Vsevolod I of Kiev
1093
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1078 to 1093
Herbert I, Count of Maine
1035
French noble
Bardas Phokas the Younger
989
10th-century Byzantine general
Domnall mac Ailpín
862
King of the Picts from 858 to 862
Krum
814
Khan of Bulgaria from 803 to 814
Paul the Deacon
799
8th-century Benedictine monk, scribe and historian
Hermenegild
585
Visigothic prince and Catholic martyr
Lý Nam Đế
548
Emperor of Vạn Xuân from 544 to 548