Deaths on 13 January
2000s
Scott Adams
2026
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
David Webb (Hong Kong activist)
2026
Hong Kong activist investor (1965–2026)
Oliviero Toscani
2025
Italian photographer (1942–2025)
Joyce Randolph
2024
American actress (1924–2024)
Bryan Monroe
2020
American journalist (1965–2021)
Philip Tartaglia
2020
Catholic archbishop of Glasgow (1951–2021)
Phil Masinga
2019
South African soccer player and manager (1969–2019)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
2017
British photographer and filmmaker (1930–2017)
Dick Gautier
2017
American actor (1931–2017)
Magic Alex
2017
Greek electronics engineer (1942–2017)
Brian Bedford
2016
English actor (1935–2016)
Giorgio Gomelsky
2016
Georgian musician (1934–2016)
Lawrence Phillips
2016
American gridiron football player (1975–2016)
Mark Juddery
2015
Australian author and journalist (1971–2015)
Robert E. White
2015
American diplomat (1926–2015)
Bobby Collins (footballer)
2014
Scottish footballer (1931–2024)
Randal Tye Thomas
2014
American politician (1978–2014)
Waldemar von Gazen
2014
Officer in the German Wehrmacht
Diogenes Allen
2013
American philosopher and theologian
Rodney Mims Cook Sr.
2013
American politician (1924–2013)
Chia-Chiao Lin
2013
Chinese-born American mathematician
Rauf Denktaş
2012
Founder and first president of Northern Cyprus (served 1983–2005)
Guido Dessauer
2012
German physicist (1915–2012)
Miljan Miljanić
2012
Serbian footballer
Albert Heijn Jr.
2011
Dutch supermarket tycoon (1927–2011)
Teddy Pendergrass
2010
American soul and R&B singer-songwriter (1950–2010)
Dai Llewellyn
2009
Welsh socialite (1946–2009)
Patrick McGoohan
2009
Irish American actor (1928–2009)
Mansour Rahbani
2009
Lebanese composer
W. D. Snodgrass
2009
American poet (1926–2009)
Nancy Bird Walton
2009
Australian pioneering aviator
Johnny Podres
2008
American baseball player (1932–2008)
Michael Brecker
2007
American jazz saxophonist and composer (1949–2007)
Danny Oakes
2007
Frank Fixaris
2006
American sportscaster (1934–2006)
Marc Potvin
2006
Canadian ice hockey player (1967–2006)
Earl Cameron (broadcaster)
2005
Canadian broadcaster (1915–2005)
Nell Rankin
2005
American opera singer (1924–2005)
Arne Næss Jr.
2004
Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (1937–2004)
Norman Panama
2003
American film director
Frank Shuster
2002
Canadian comedian (1916–2002)
1900s
Max Harris (poet)
1995
Australian writer
Camargo Guarnieri
1993
Brazilian composer
Chiang Ching-kuo
1988
President of Taiwan from 1978 to 1988
Abdul Fattah Ismail
1986
President of South Yemen from 1969 to 1980
Kevin Longbottom
1986
Australian rugby league player (1940–1986)
René Bonnet (businessman)
1983
French engineer and businessman (1904–1983)
Marcel Camus
1982
French film director (1912–1982)
Andre Kostelanetz
1980
Russian-American conductor (1901–1980)
Donny Hathaway
1979
American singer-songwriter (1945–1979)
Marjorie Lawrence
1979
Australian soprano singer (1907–1979)
Hubert Humphrey
1978
Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969
Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)
1978
American baseball manager (1887–1978)
Henri Langlois
1977
French film archivist (1914–1977)
Margaret Leighton
1976
British actress (1922–1976)
Raoul Jobin
1974
Canadian opera singer
Salvador Novo
1974
Mexican writer (1904–1974)
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu
1973
Turkish writer, essayist, translator and film producer (1908-1973)
Robert Still
1971
English composer (1910-1971)
Anatole de Grunwald
1967
Russian British film producer and screenwriter (1910–1967)
Sylvanus Olympio
1963
President of Togo from 1960 to 1963
Ernie Kovacs
1962
American comedian (1919–1962)
Jesse L. Lasky
1958
American film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures (1880–1958)
Edna Purviance
1958
American actress (1895–1958)
A. E. Coppard
1957
English writer
Lyonel Feininger
1956
German-American painter
Aino Aalto
1949
Finnish architect and designer (1894–1949)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
1943
Swiss artist (1889–1943)
James Joyce
1941
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
Paul Ulrich Villard
1934
French chemist and physicist (1860–1934)
Wyatt Earp
1929
American lawman (1848–1929)
H. B. Higgins
1929
Australian politician and judge (1851–1929)
Earle Nelson
1928
American serial killer (1897–1928)
Georg Hermann Quincke
1924
German physicist (1834–1924)
Alexandre Ribot
1923
French politician (1842–1923)
Victoriano Huerta
1916
President and Dictator of Mexico from 1913 to 1914
Mary Slessor
1915
Scottish Presbyterian missionary (1848–1915)
Jakob Hurt
1907
Estonian ethnologist, folklorist and linguist
Aleksandr Popov (physicist)
1906
Russian physicist (1859–1906)
1800s
Solomon Bundy
1889
American politician
Schuyler Colfax
1885
American politician (1823–1885)
Juraj Dobrila
1882
Croatian Roman Catholic bishop and benefactor (1812–1882)
Wilhelm Mauser
1882
German weapon designer (1834–1882)
William Scamp
1872
English architect and engineer
Stephen Foster
1864
American composer and songwriter (1826–1864)
William Mason (New York politician)
1860
U.S. politician
Ferdinand Ries
1838
German composer (1784–1838)
Thomas Lord
1832
English cricketer
Before 1800
John Anderson (natural philosopher)
1796
Scottish natural philosopher (1726–1796)
Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen
1790
French Navy officer
Johann Georg Walch
1775
German Lutheran theologian (1693-1775)
Maria Sibylla Merian
1717
German naturalist, artist (1647–1717)
George Fox
1691
English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
1684
English nobleman and politician
Jan Brueghel the Elder
1625
Flemish painter (1568–1625)
Jane Dormer
1612
English lady-in-waiting to Mary I
Edmund Spenser
1599
English poet (c. 1552–1599)
Thomas Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
1400
English noble
Meinhard, Duke of Upper Bavaria
1363
Frederick the Fair
1330
King of Germany from 1314 to 1330
Bonacossa Borri
1321
Milanese noblewoman (1254–1321)
Henry II, Duke of Austria
1177
Margrave/Duke of Austria
Suger
1151
12th-century French abbot, statesman and historian
Robert de Craon
1147
Second Grand Master of the Knights Templar
Fujiwara no Teishi
1001
Empress consort of Japan
Berno of Cluny
927
French Roman Catholic saint
AD 888
888
Calendar year
Æthelwulf, King of Wessex
858
King of Wessex from 839 to 858
Empress Jitō
703
Empress of Japan from 686 to 697
Saint Mungo
614
Missionary in the British Kingdom of Strathclyde (518–614)
Saint Remigius
533
Bishop of Reims (437–533)
Gaius Marius
-86
Roman general and statesman (c. 157–86 BC)