Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 13 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 13
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 13
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 558 | Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496) |
| 769 | Du Hongjian, Chinese politician (b. 709) |
| 838 | Pepin I of Aquitaine (b. 797) |
| 859 | Angilbert II, archbishop of Milan |
| 1124 | Pope Callixtus II (b. 1065) |
| 1126 | Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1075) |
| 1204 | Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135) |
| 1250 | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194) |
| 1272 | Bertold of Regensburg, German preacher |
| 1404 | Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336) |
| 1466 | Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1386) |
| 1516 | Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462) |
| 1521 | Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469) |
| 1557 | Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499) |
| 1565 | Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1516) |
| 1621 | Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535) |
| 1671 | Antonio Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic priest(b. 1592) |
| 1716 | Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640) |
| 1721 | Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676) |
| 1729 | Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (b. 1676) |
| 1754 | Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696) |
| 1758 | Noël Doiron, Canadian Acadia leader (b. 1684) |
| 1769 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715) |
| 1783 | Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717) |
| 1784 | Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709) |
| 1814 | Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735) |
| 1849 | Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766) |
| 1862 | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1823) |
| 1863 | Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813) |
| 1868 | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794) |
| 1881 | August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838) |
| 1883 | Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812) |
| 1893 | Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816) |
| 1895 | Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800) |
| 1908 | Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825) |
| 1919 | Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850) |
| 1922 | Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857) |
| 1924 | Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850) |
| 1927 | Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856) |
| 1929 | Rosina Heikel, Finnish physician (b. 1842) |
| 1930 | Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) |
| 1931 | Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840) |
| 1932 | Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853) |
| 1935 | Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) |
| 1942 | Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866) |
| 1944 | Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866) |
| 1945 | Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923) |
| 1947 | Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879) |
| 1950 | Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902) |
| 1954 | John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879) |
| 1955 | Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) |
| 1960 | Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882) |
| 1961 | Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860) |
| 1962 | Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905) |
| 1969 | Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1886) |
| 1973 | Henry Green, English author (b. 1905) |
| 1974 | Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1889) |
| 1975 | Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889) |
| 1977 | Oguz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (b. 1934) |
| 1979 | Jon Hall, American actor and director (b. 1915) |
| 1983 | Alexander Schmemann, Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921) |
| 1986 | Heather Angel, British-American actress (b. 1909) |
| 1992 | K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899) |
| 1993 | Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972) |
| 1995 | Ann Nolan Clark, American author and educator (b. 1896) |
| 1996 | Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920) |
| 1997 | Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920) |
| 1998 | Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906) |
| 2004 | David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) |
| 2005 | Alan Shields, American painter and ferryboat captain (b. 1944) |
| 2006 | Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (b. 1932) |
| 2016 | Alan Thicke, Canadian actor, songwriter, game and talk-show host (b. 1947) |
| 2018 | Noah Klieger, Holocaust survivor who became an award-winning Israeli journalist (b. 1926) |
| 2022 | Stephen "tWitch" Boss, American dancer and media personality (b. 1982) |
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