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In 1847, he proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had thrice the mortality of midwives' wards.
Notable Deaths on August 13
1865 — Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician and obstetrician (born 1818)
August 13 has 105 recorded notable deaths across history, from 587 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
By thisDay.info Editorial Team · — Wikipedia
Notable Deaths
105 source records
587 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on August 13
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon. Source
- 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Source
- 1898 Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. Source
- 1960 The Central African Republic declares independence from France. Source
Did you know
A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in radio, animation, film, and video games.
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Jim Neidhart also won titles in Stampede Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Mid-South Wrestling, Memphis Championship Wrestling and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation.
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In 2002, he briefly tried a career in boxing until retiring due to back and shoulder injuries.
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Collis Potter Huntington was one of the Big Four tycoons of western railroading who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.
More major people who died on August 13
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2006
Tony Jay
English actor and singer (born 1933)
Tony Jay was a British actor. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in radio, animation, film, and video games.
2018
Jim Neidhart
American wrestler (born 1955)
James Henry Neidhart was an American professional wrestler known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, where he was a two-time WWF Tag Team Champion…
2007
Brian Adams
American wrestler (born 1964)
Brian Keith Adams was an American professional wrestler. Adams is known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), under the name Crush, and for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under his real name Brian…
1900
Collis Potter Huntington
American railway magnate (born 1821)
Collis Potter Huntington was an American industrialist and railway magnate.
2012
Johnny Pesky
American baseball player and manager (born 1919)
John Michael Pesky, nicknamed "the Needle" and "Mr. Red Sox", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB).
2014
Eduardo Campos
Brazilian politician, 14th Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology (born 1965)
Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos was a Brazilian congressman and governor. Born and raised in Recife, in the Northeast Brazil, he graduated in Economics from the Recife's Federal University of Pernambuco.
908
Al-Muktafi
Abbasid caliph
Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Muktafī bi'Llāh, better known by his regnal name al-Muktafī bi-Llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 902 to 908.
1998
Julien Green
American author (born 1900)
Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote primarily in French, although he also wrote some works in English.
2001
Jim Hughes
American baseball player and manager (born 1923)
James Robert Hughes was an American professional baseball player.
2024
Sergio Donati
Italian screenwriter (born 1933)
Sergio Donati was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for more than 70 films beginning in 1952. He was born in Rome, Italy. He started as a writer and had some of his books optioned for film.
1986
Helen Mack
American actress (born 1913)
Helen Mack was an American actress. She started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving to Broadway plays and touring one of the vaudeville circuits.
1996
António de Spínola
Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (born 1910)
António Sebastião Ribeiro de Spínola was a Portuguese military officer, author and conservative politician.
1826
René Laennec
French physician, invented the stethoscope (born 1781)
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was a French medical doctor and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker.
1971
W. O. Bentley
English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (born 1888)
Walter Owen Bentley, was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man.
2015
Bob Fillion
Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1920)
Joseph Louis Robert Edgar Fillion was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played seven seasons for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1943 and 1950.
1958
Francis J. McCormick
American football, basketball player, and coach (born 1903)
Francis J. "Mickey" McCormick was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at St.
2021
Nanci Griffith
American singer-songwriter (born 1953)
Nanci Caroline Griffith was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She often appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits, starting in 1985 during season 10.
1523
Gerard David
Flemish painter (born 1460)
Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known.
2011
Mishuk Munier
Bangladeshi journalist and cinematographer (born 1959)
Ashfaque Munier was a Bangladeshi media specialist and broadcast journalist. He was known for his photography direction and for being the cofounder of the global news channel The Real News Network.