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Deaths on January 13

1049 : Derrick IV, Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle
1177 : Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg, Duke of Austria, dies
1307 : Arnoud van Foreest, Dom deacon of Utrecht, dies
1330 : Frederick (III), the Handsome, duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies
1488 : Hermann Vischer, "the Old", buried
1599 : Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1625 : Pieter Bruegel "the Older", (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies
1651 : Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86
1682 : Simon van Leeuwen, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 55
1691 : George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66
1702 : Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41
1762 : Leonhard Trautsch, composer, dies at 68
1795 : Fran‡ois-Joseph Krafft, composer, dies at 73
1797 : Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81
1828 : Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer, dies at 80
1838 : Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53
1864 : Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
1879 : WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58
1892 : Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62
1901 : Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66
1913 : Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44
1914 : Bernardus H Heldt, Dutch MP, dies at 72
1914 : Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76
1924 : Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
1928 : Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57
1929 : Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
1930 : C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66
1934 : Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier/explorer (Sudan), dies at 70
1937 : Walter Brearley, cricketer (17 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1905-12), dies
1939 : Jacob Ruppert, CEO (NY Yankees, 1915-39), dies
1941 : James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zrich Switzerland, at 58
1943 : Sophie Taeuber/T„uber-Arp, Swiss sculptor, dies at 53
1947 : Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
1954 : Roland Diggle, composer, dies at 69
1958 : Edna Purviance, actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61
1958 : John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75
1960 : Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Ital poet (Una Donna), dies at 83
1962 : Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42
1963 : Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 76
1968 : Bill Masterson, (Minn Northstars), checked into the boards & killed
1969 : Fred Price, cricket wicket-keep (Engld, v Aust Headingley 1938), dies
1969 : Wilton Graff, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65
1971 : Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding, Germ SS-gen/contractor (Tulle), dies at 65
1971 : Henri Tomasi, French composer (Don Juan de Ma¤ara), dies at 69
1971 : Robert Still, composer, dies at 60
1976 : Margaret Leighton, Brit actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53
1978 : Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn
1978 : Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
1979 : Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33
1980 : Andr‚ Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies at 78
1981 : Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83
1982 : Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
1983 : Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74
1983 : D Mack Reynolds, US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies
1983 : Doodles Weaver, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 71
1983 : John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at 69
1985 : Carol Wayne, Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies at 42
1986 : Abdel Fattah Ismail, president of South-Yemen (19??-80), murdered
1987 : E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/co-founder (Trouw, Loyal), dies
1988 : Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69
1989 : Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
1992 : Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies
1992 : Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
1993 : Rene Pleven, PM of France (1950-51, 51-52), dies
1994 : Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist, dies at 79
1994 : Johan J Holst, Norwegian min of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56
1995 : Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
1995 : Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop, dies at 81
1995 : Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73
1995 : Ruby Starr, vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44
1996 : Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], actress (Julietta), dies at 99
1996 : Willian Myuon Bany Guerrilla leader, dies
1997 : William Mills, painter, dies at 74

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