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Deaths on April 13

1952 : [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1973 : Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
1997 : Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
1941 : Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77
1993 : Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
1992 : Brian Oulton, dies at 84
1949 : C V France, dies at 80
1873 : Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90
1944 : Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86
1722 : Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
1984 : Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1936 : Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
1996 : Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71
1903 : Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
1994 : Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
1959 : Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1995 : Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
1831 : Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80
1826 : Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62
1822 : Gaetano Valeri, composer, dies at 61
1996 : George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74
1997 : George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80
1742 : Giovanni Veneziano, composer, dies at 59
1942 : Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1993 : Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1638 : Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gi‚, French hugenot leader, dies at 58
1996 : James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64
1695 : Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies
1806 : Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82
1728 : Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63
1864 : Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74
1756 : Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29
1932 : Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
1825 : Josef Gelinek, composer, dies at 66
1886 : Karoly Thern, composer, dies at 68
1975 : Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1995 : Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87
1928 : Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
1967 : Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
1990 : Luis Trenker, dies at 97
1475 : Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt… di Vita), dies at 69
1993 : Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1975 : N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies
1994 : Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 : Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
1994 : P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1944 : Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
1978 : Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1959 : Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38
1994 : Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, MandŠl), dies at 56
1990 : Ronald Ibbs, dies
1994 : Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1794 : S‚bastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, Fr playwright, commits suicide at 53
1974 : Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
1986 : Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1994 : Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1868 : Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1517 : Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1904 : Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1992 : Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 : Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
1946 : William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72
1910 : William Orchardson, British painter, dies

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