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Deaths on May 13

1381 : John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
1390 : Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies
1619 : Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1732 : Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72
1776 : Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71
1787 : Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38
1793 : Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
1812 : Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62
1831 : Christian G K”rner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1832 : Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La RŠgne Animal), dies at 62
1835 : John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1839 : Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1839 : Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1864 : Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1873 : Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
1882 : Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35
1884 : Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1885 : Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
1892 : Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63
1896 : Nora Perry, writer, dies
1904 : Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
1914 : R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies
1916 : Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
1925 : Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
1930 : Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies
1930 : Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
1931 : Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79
1933 : Paul Ernst, writer, dies at 67
1942 : Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
1951 : Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
1956 : Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54
1961 : Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
1962 : Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60
1962 : Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
1962 : H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)
1966 : Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1967 : Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
1971 : Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67
1972 : Dan Blocker, actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 41
1975 : Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69
1978 : Albert Roberts, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 7 wickets), dies
1979 : Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65
1981 : Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76
1982 : Irmgard Keun, W-German writer (Blhende Neurosen), dies at 72
1982 : Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64
1982 : Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
1985 : Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC at 91
1985 : Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
1988 : Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1990 : Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
1991 : Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83
1992 : Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
1992 : Gisela Elsner, writer, dies at 55
1993 : Borolas, [Joaquin Garcia], Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
1993 : Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
1993 : Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71
1994 : Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77
1994 : Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74
1994 : Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
1995 : Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
1996 : John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57

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