Deaths on 13 October
2000s
Mayra Gómez Kemp
2024
Cuban-Spanish television host and actress (1948–2024)
Donal Murray (bishop)
2024
Irish Catholic bishop (1940–2024)
Louise Glück
2023
American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Annapurna Devi
2018
Indian musician (1927–2018)
Albert Zafy
2017
President of Madagascar from 1993 to 1996
Bhumibol Adulyadej
2016
King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016
Dario Fo
2016
Italian playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, director, and politician
Jim Prentice
2016
Premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015
Rosalyn Baxandall
2015
American historian (1939–2015)
Bruce Hyde (ontologist)
2015
American actor
Michael Walsh (British Army officer)
2015
John Bradfield (biologist)
2014
British biologist and entrepreneur
Antonio Cafiero
2014
Argentine politician
Margaret Hillert
2014
American writer
Mohammad Sarengat
2014
Indonesian sprinter
Pontus Segerström
2014
Swedish footballer
Martin Drewes
2013
German World War II fighter pilot
Joe C. Meriweather
2013
American basketball player
Tommy Whittle
2013
British jazz saxophonist (1926–2013)
Takashi Yanase
2013
Japanese manga artist (1919–2013)
Stuart Bell
2012
British Labour Party politician (1938–2012)
Gary Collins (actor)
2012
American actor and TV host (1938–2012)
Tomonobu Imamichi
2012
Japanese philosopher
Barbara Kent
2011
Canadian-American actress (1907–2011)
Vernon Biever
2010
American photographer
Stephen Barnett
2009
American lawyer (1935–2009)
Alexei Cherepanov
2008
Russian ice hockey player (1989–2008)
Bob Denard
2007
French mercenary (1929–2007)
Wang Guangmei
2006
Chinese politician (1921–2006)
Vivian Malone Jones
2005
American civil rights advocate (1942–2005)
Enrique Fernando
2004
Chief Justice of the Philippines from 1979 to 1985
Bernice Rubens
2004
Welsh novelist (1923–2004)
Bertram Brockhouse
2003
Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (1918–2003)
Stephen E. Ambrose
2002
American historian and writer (1936–2002)
Keene Curtis
2002
American actor (1923–2002)
Peter Doyle (singer)
2001
Musical artist
Jean Peters
2000
American actress (1926–2000)
1900s
Michael Hartnett
1999
Irish poet, known for work in English and Irish languages
Dmitry Filippov (politician)
1998
Soviet-Russian politician and businessman (1944–1998)
Beryl Reid
1996
British actress (1919–1996)
Otmar Gutmann
1993
Television producer, animator and director
James Marshall (author)
1992
American children's books author and illustrator (1942–1992)
Hans Namuth
1990
American photographer (1915–1990)
Lê Đức Thọ
1990
Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician (1911–1990)
Walter Brattain
1987
American solid-state physicist (1902–1987)
Kishore Kumar
1987
Indian singer and actor (1929–1987)
Nilgün Marmara
1987
Turkish poet (1958-1987)
Tage Danielsson
1985
Swedish author, actor, comedian, poet and film director
Antonio Berni
1981
Argentine figurative artist (1905–1981)
Rebecca Clarke (composer)
1979
English composer and violist (1886–1979)
Otto Binder
1974
American writer (1911–1974)
Anatoli Kozhemyakin
1974
Soviet footballer
Ed Sullivan
1974
American host and columnist (1901–1974)
Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı
1973
Cretan Turkish author, essayist, ethnographer and travel writer (1890–1973)
Albert Mandler
1973
Israeli general (1929–1973)
Bea Benaderet
1968
American actress (1906–1968)
Clifton Webb
1966
American actor, singer, dancer (1889–1966)
Louis Rwagasore
1961
Burundian prince and politician (1932–1961)
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
1956
Turkish poet and author from Türkiye (1910–1956)
Manuel Ávila Camacho
1955
President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946
Ernest Haycox
1950
American novelist
Milton S. Hershey
1945
American chocolatier (1857–1945)
E. C. Segar
1938
American cartoonist (1894–1938)
Ernst Didring
1931
Swedish author
T. Alexander Harrison
1930
American painter (1853–1930)
Hans E. Kinck
1926
Norwegian author and philologist
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1919
Danish writer
Florence La Badie
1917
American actress
Sister Nivedita
1911
Irish social activist and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
Francisco Ferrer
1909
19th and 20th-century Catalan anarchist and educationist
Henry Irving
1905
English stage actor of the Victorian era (1838–1905)
Pavlos Melas
1904
Hellenic Army officer
1800s
Samuel Freeman Miller
1890
US Supreme Court justice from 1862 to 1890
Arthur de Gobineau
1882
French diplomat and writer (1816–1882)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
1869
French literary critic (1804–1869)
Patrick Campbell (Royal Navy officer)
1841
British Royal Navy officer
Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
1825
King of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825
Antonio Canova
1822
Italian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822)
Joachim Murat
1815
French military officer and statesman (1767–1815)
Isaac Brock
1812
British Army officer and colonial administrator (1769–1812)
Before 1800
William B. Whiting
1796
New York politician (1731–1796)
Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent
1788
Anglo-Irish politician and poet (1709–1788)
John Henley (preacher)
1759
English clergyman
Nicolas Malebranche
1715
French priest and rationalist philosopher (1638–1715)
Iyasu I
1706
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1682 to 1706
Samuel von Pufendorf
1694
German jurist and philosopher (1632–1694)
Geminiano Montanari
1687
Italian astronomer (1633–1687)
Christoffer Gabel
1673
Danish statesman
Theodore Beza
1605
French Calvinist theologian, reformer and scholar (1519–1605)
Claudin de Sermisy
1562
French composer (c. 1490 – 1562)
Hermann II, Count of Celje
1435
Styrian prince and magnate
Thomas Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel
1415
English noble who took part in the deposition of Richard II
Peter II of Cyprus
1382
King of Cyprus
Nichiren
1282
Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher (1222–1282)
Gualdim Pais
1195
Portuguese crusader (1118–1195)
Guy I, Count of Ponthieu
1100
11th-century French noble
Robert I, Count of Flanders
1093
Count of Flanders from 1071 to 1093
Emperor Jingzong of Liao
982
Liao dynasty emperor from 969 to 982
Simpert
807
Bishop of Augsburg from 778 to 807
AD 54
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