Deaths on 13 May
2000s
Kit Bond
2025
American politician (1939–2025)
Danny Lendich
2025
New Zealand businessman (1944–2025)
José Mujica
2025
President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015
Alice Munro
2024
Canadian short story writer (1931–2024)
Cyril Wecht
2024
American forensic pathologist (1931–2024)
Samm-Art Williams
2024
American playwright and screenwriter (1946–2024)
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
2022
President of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022
Doris Day
2019
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
Unita Blackwell
2019
American civil rights activist (1933–2019)
Murray A. Straus
2016
American professor of sociology (1926–2016)
Earl Averill Jr.
2015
American baseball player (1931–2015)
Robert Drasnin
2015
American composer and clarinet player (1927–2015)
Nina Otkalenko
2015
Soviet distance runner
David Sackett
2015
American-Canadian physician
Gainan Saidkhuzhin
2015
Soviet cyclist
David Malet Armstrong
2014
Australian philosopher (1926–2014)
Malik Bendjelloul
2014
Swedish film and documentary director
J. F. Coleman
2014
United States Marine Corps officer
Ron Stevens
2014
Canadian politician
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart
2014
American writer and Neopagan priestess (1948–2014)
Joyce Brothers
2013
American psychologist and columnist (1927–2013)
Otto Herrigel
2013
Namibian businessman and politician (1937–2013)
Jagdish Mali
2013
Indian fashion photographer
Chuck Muncie
2013
American football player (1953–2013)
Fyodor Tuvin
2013
Russian footballer
Lynne Woolstencroft
2013
Canadian politician
Arsala Rahmani Daulat
2012
Donald "Duck" Dunn
2012
American bass guitarist (1941–2012)
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
2012
American Roman Catholic theologian and academic
Lee Richardson (speedway rider)
2012
British motorcycle speedway rider
Don Ritchie
2012
Australian humanitarian and suicide preventionist (1926–2012)
Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện
2012
Roman Catholic Bishop
Derek Boogaard
2011
Canadian ice hockey player (1982–2011)
Stephen De Staebler
2011
American sculptor, printmaker, and educator (1933 - 2011)
Wallace McCain
2011
Canadian businessman
Bruce Ricker
2011
American filmmaker
Frank Aletter
2009
American actor (1926–2009)
Meir Brandsdorfer
2009
Israeli rabbi (1934–2009)
Achille Compagnoni
2009
Italian mountaineer and skier (1914–2009)
Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah
2008
Emir of Kuwait in 2006
Ron Stone (reporter)
2008
American journalist
Jaroslav Pelikan
2006
American Christian scholar (1923–2006)
Johnnie Wilder Jr.
2006
Musical artist
Eddie Barclay
2005
French music producer (1921–2005)
George Dantzig
2005
American mathematician (1914–2005)
Valeriy Lobanovskyi
2002
Ukrainian football manager (1939–2002)
Jason Miller (playwright)
2001
American actor and playwright (1939–2001)
Paul Bartel
2000
American actor and director (1938–2000)
Jumbo Tsuruta
2000
Japanese professional wrestler
1900s
Ibn Baz
1999
Saudi Islamic scholar (1912–1999)
Gene Sarazen
1999
American professional golfer (1902–1999)
Hao Wang (academic)
1995
Chinese-American professor (1921–1995)
Duncan Hamilton (racing driver)
1994
British racing driver (1920-1994)
John Swainson
1994
American politician
F. E. McWilliam
1992
Northern Irish artist
Chet Baker
1988
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929–1988)
Leatrice Joy
1985
American actress (1893–1985)
Richard Ellmann
1985
American writer and literary critic
Mickey Spillane (mobster)
1977
American mobster (1933-1977)
Marguerite Perey
1975
20th-century French physicist
Bob Wills
1975
American musician, co-founder of Western swing (1905–1975)
Jaime Torres Bodet
1974
Mexican politician and writer (1902–1974)
Arthur J. Burks
1974
American novelist (1898-1974)
Dan Blocker
1972
American actor (1928–1972)
Alois Hudal
1963
Catholic bishop and Nazi supporter
H. Trendley Dean
1962
American dentist (1893–1962)
Franz Kline
1962
American painter (1910–1962)
Gary Cooper
1961
American actor (1901–1961)
Michael Fekete
1957
Israeli-Hungarian mathematician (1886–1957)
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
1948
American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (1920–1948)
Sukanta Bhattacharya
1947
Bengali poet (1926–1947)
Zara DuPont
1946
American suffragist
Tubby Hall
1945
American jazz drummer (1895–1945)
Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics
1941
Ōnishiki Uichirō
1941
Japanese sumo wrestler
Charles-Édouard Guillaume
1938
Swiss physicist (1861–1938)
Fridtjof Nansen
1930
Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930)
Arthur Scherbius
1929
German electrical engineer (1878–1929)
Libert H. Boeynaems
1926
Belgian Catholic bishop
Jean Aicard
1921
French poet, dramatist and novelist (1848–1921)
Sholem Aleichem
1916
Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916)
Apolinario Mabini
1903
1st Prime Minister of the Philippines in 1898
1800s
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
1885
German physician (1809–1885)
Cyrus McCormick
1884
American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)
Joseph Henry
1878
American physicist and inventor (1797–1878)
Nikolai Brashman
1866
Russian mathematician (1796–1866)
John Littlejohn (preacher)
1836
American tradesman, preacher, and politician (1756–1836)
John Nash (architect)
1835
British architect (1752–1835)
Georges Cuvier
1832
French paleontologist (1769–1832)
Beilby Porteus
1809
Anglican bishop (1731–1809)
Eliphalet Dyer
1807
American judge
Before 1800
Daniel Solander
1782
Swedish botanist (1733–1782)
Francesco Antonio Pistocchi
1726
Italian singer, composer and librettist (1659–1726)
Louis Bourdaloue
1704
French Jesuit and preacher (1632–1704)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
1619
Dutch statesman and revolutionary (1547–1619)
Sasaki Kojirō
1612
16/17th-century Japanese swordsman; killed in a duel against Miyamoto Musashi
Takeda Shingen
1573
Japanese daimyo (1521–1573)
Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine
1312
Duke of Lorraine from 1303 to 1312
Robert de Ros (died 1285)
1285
English nobleman, died 1285
Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
1176
Duke of Lorraine from 1138 to 1176
Ulric II, Margrave of Carniola
1112
Emperor Ling of Han
189
Emperor of the Han dynasty from 168 to 189