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Bell's past shows from 1994 to 2002 are repeated on Premiere Networks on Saturday evenings.
Notable Deaths on April 13
2018 — Art Bell
American radio host (born 1945)
April 13 has 115 recorded notable deaths across history, from 548 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
115 source records
548 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on April 13
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- 1960 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. Source
- 1849 Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly. Source
- 1943 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. Source
- 1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. Source
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In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist.
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Grey Owl has been called one of the first persons to engage in Indigenous identity fraud in Canada.
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Initially a student of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, he became a radical rationalist critic of the Bible and Christianity, and a prominent member of the Young Hegelians.
More major people who died on April 13
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2025
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician.
2008
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist and academic (born 1911)
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II.
1938
Grey Owl
English-Canadian environmentalist and author (born 1888)
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular Canadian writer, public speaker and conservationist.
1882
Bruno Bauer
German historian and philosopher (born 1809)
Bruno Bauer was a German philosopher, theologian, and historian.
1942
Henk Sneevliet
Dutch politician (born 1883)
Hendricus Josephus Franciscus Marie Sneevliet, known as Henk Sneevliet or by the pseudonym "Maring", was a Dutch communist politician who was active in both the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies.
1635
Fakhr-al-Din II
Ottoman prince (born 1572)
Fakhr al-Din Ma'n, commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II, was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of…
1954
Angus Lewis Macdonald
Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1890)
Angus Lewis Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer, law professor and politician from Nova Scotia.
1962
Culbert Olson
American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (born 1876)
Culbert Levy Olson was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943.
2022
Michel Bouquet
French stage and film actor (born 1925)
Michel François Pierre Bouquet was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020.
585
Hermenegild
Visigothic prince and saint
Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild, was the son of King Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year.
1716
Arthur Herbert
1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (born 1648)
Admiral Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington was an English naval officer and politician.
2022
Gloria Parker
American musician and bandleader (born 1921)
Gloria Parker was an American musician and bandleader who had a radio show during the big band era. The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC.
1918
Lavr Kornilov
Russian general (born 1870)
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I.
1941
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer and academic (born 1863)
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C.
1793
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
French botanist, lawyer, and politician (born 1763)
Pierre Gaspard Anaxagore Chaumette was a French politician of the Revolutionary period who served as the president of the Paris Commune and played a leading role in the establishment of the Reign of Terror.
1956
Emil Nolde
Danish-German painter and educator (born 1867)
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color.
1612
Sasaki Kojirō
Japanese samurai (born 1585)
Sasaki Kojirō was a Japanese swordsman who may have lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods and is known primarily for the story of his duel with Miyamoto Musashi in 1612, where Sasaki was killed.
1961
John A. Bennett
American soldier (born 1936)
John Arthur Bennett was a U.S. Army soldier who remains the last person to be executed after a court-martial by the United States Armed Forces.
1966
Georges Duhamel
French soldier and author (born 1884)
Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army.