Famous Deaths Happened In May - 13
Friday, 21 February 2025
0384 Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+ on this day in history.
1162 Death of Géza II of Hungary on May - 13.
1176 Death of Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119) on May - 13.
1312 On May - 13 death of theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1381 On May - 13 john of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
1390 On this day in history robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies
1573 Death of Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521) on this day in history.
1619 Death of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded on May - 13.
1704 Death of Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632) on May - 13.
1732 Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1742 Death of Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719) on May - 13.
1776 Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71 on May - 13.
1787 On May - 13 johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38
1793 On May - 13 martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
1807 Death of Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721) on this day in history.
1812 Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62 on May - 13.
1831 Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74 on this day in history.
1832 On May - 13 death of georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies on May - 13.
1839 On May - 13 israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1864 On May - 13 junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1866 On May - 13 death of nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1873 Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79 on May - 13.
1882 Death of Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35 on May - 13.
1884 On May - 13 cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1885 On May - 13 juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
1892 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.
1896 Nora Perry, writer, dies on this day in history.
1901 On May - 13 death of leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "ClarÃn", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
1904 On May - 13 jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
1914 R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies on May - 13.
1916 Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies on May - 13.
1921 On May - 13 death of jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies on this day in history.
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