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History Deaths on February 13


Isabella d'Este
Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman (b. 1474)

#Isabella_d'Este

Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)

#Jean-Baptiste_Lamy

Costache Caragiale
Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (b. 1815)

#Costache_Caragiale

Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (b. 1875)

#Rafael_Sabatini

Faith Bandler
Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (b. 1918)

#Faith_Bandler

Paulino Alcántara
Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1896)

#Paulino_Alcántara

K? no Morofuyu
K? no Morofuyu, Japanese general

#K?_no_Morofuyu

Wayne Hays
Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1911)

#Wayne_Hays

Agnes Macphail
Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1890)

#Agnes_Macphail

Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (b. 1928)

#Ralph_Waite

Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)

#Waylon_Jennings

Albert Gottschalk
Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)

#Albert_Gottschalk

Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia
Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia

#Vratislaus_I,_Duke_of_Bohemia

Yoshisuke Aikawa
Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (b. 1880)

#Yoshisuke_Aikawa

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (b. 1834)

#Ignacio_Manuel_Altamirano

Russell Arms
Russell Arms, American actor and singer (b. 1920)

#Russell_Arms

Richard Møller Nielsen
Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1937)

#Richard_Møller_Nielsen

Alexander Nowell
Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (b. 1507)

#Alexander_Nowell

Pieter Kooijmans
Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (b. 1933)

#Pieter_Kooijmans

Johann Caspar Kerll
Johann Caspar Kerll, German organist and composer (b. 1627)

#Johann_Caspar_Kerll

David Janssen
David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)

#David_Janssen

Marinus Jan Granpré Molière
Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (b. 1883)

#Marinus_Jan_Granpré_Molière

Otakar Batli?ka
Otakar Batli?ka, Czech journalist (b. 1895)

#Otakar_Batli?ka

Roger Joseph Boscovich
Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1711)

#Roger_Joseph_Boscovich

Charlie Norwood
Charlie Norwood, American captain and politician (b. 1941)

#Charlie_Norwood

Stefan Nemanja
Stefan Nemanja, Serbian grand prince (b. 1113)

#Stefan_Nemanja

Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1500)

#Benvenuto_Cellini

Charles-René d'Hozier
Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian and author (b. 1640)

#Charles-René_d'Hozier

Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard, English wife of Henry VIII of England (executed; b. 1521)

#Catherine_Howard

Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1936)

#Antonin_Scalia

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1952)

#Zelimkhan_Yandarbiyev

Chilperic II
Chilperic II, Frankish king (b. 672)

#Chilperic_II

Provo Wallis
Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)

#Provo_Wallis

Kenneth MacAlpin
Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (probable; b. 810)

#Kenneth_MacAlpin

Yuko Tojo
Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (b. 1939)

#Yuko_Tojo

Kon Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)

#Kon_Ichikawa

Balu Mahendra
Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)

#Balu_Mahendra

Epitácio Pessoa
Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865)

#Epitácio_Pessoa

Adalbert Atto of Canossa
Adalbert Atto, Lombard nobleman

#Adalbert_Atto_of_Canossa

Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)

#Martin_Balsam

Edward Berry
Edward Berry, English admiral (b. 1768)

#Edward_Berry

Miles J. Jones
Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (b. 1952)

#Miles_J._Jones

Alfonso Salmeron
Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (b. 1515)

#Alfonso_Salmeron

Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather, American minister and author (b. 1663)

#Cotton_Mather

Seijun Suzuki
Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1923)

#Seijun_Suzuki

Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (b. 1596)

#Elizabeth_Stuart,_Queen_of_Bohemia

Andronikos II Palaiologos
Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1259)

#Andronikos_II_Palaiologos

Jan ?ukasiewicz
Jan ?ukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)

#Jan_?ukasiewicz

Christabel Pankhurst
Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (b. 1880)

#Christabel_Pankhurst

Charles X Gustav of Sweden
Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (b. 1622)

#Charles_X_Gustav_of_Sweden

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (b. 1717)

#Charles_Gravier,_comte_de_Vergennes

Lily Pons
Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (b. 1904)

#Lily_Pons

Abelardo L. Rodríguez
Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889)

#Abelardo_L._Rodríguez

Henrik Steffens
Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (b. 1773)

#Henrik_Steffens

Mariano José de Larra
Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1809)

#Mariano_José_de_Larra

Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen
Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (b. 1745)

#Peter_Ludwig_von_der_Pahlen

Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)

#Richard_Wagner

James Cooke Brown
James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (b. 1921)

#James_Cooke_Brown

O. N. V. Kurup
O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (b. 1931)

#O._N._V._Kurup

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 985)

#Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah

Johann Joseph Fux
Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (b. 1660)

#Johann_Joseph_Fux

Edward Upward
Edward Upward, English author and educator (b. 1903)

#Edward_Upward

Mae Marsh
Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)

#Mae_Marsh

Nelson Briles
Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1943)

#Nelson_Briles

Arno Breker
Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (b. 1900)

#Arno_Breker

Konstantin Savitsky
Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)

#Konstantin_Savitsky

George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark, American general (b. 1752)

#George_Rogers_Clark

Walt Whitman Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1916)

#Walt_Whitman_Rostow

Béla II of Hungary
Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1110)

#Béla_II_of_Hungary

Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (b. 1871)

#Georges_Rouault

Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (b. 1934)
E-Dubble, American rapper (b. 1982)
Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (b. 1971)
Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (b. 1926)
Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician, Vice President (1990-1992) (b. 1933)
Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (b. 1923)
Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (b. 1916)
Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (b. 1928)
Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
Lucille Clifton, American poet and academic (b. 1936)
Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (b. 1922)
Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (b. 1923)
P. F. Strawson, English philosopher and author (b. 1919)
Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (b. 1907)
François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1942)
Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (b. 1926)
John Leake, English soldier (b. 1950)
Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1914)
Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (b. 1906)
Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (b. 1888)
Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (b. 1938)
André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1902)
Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (b. 1896)
Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (b. 1877)
József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (b. 1666)
Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese sh?gun (b. 1192)
Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1060)
Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid emir and regent
Xiao Wen, empress of the Liao Dynasty
Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty (b. AD 79)