Notable Deaths on February 13

Q: Who died on February 13?

Notable people who died on February 13 include: Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty (born AD 79), Chilperic II, Kenneth MacAlpin, Vratislaus I, Xiao Wen.

Q: What is Seijun Suzuki known for?

Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)

2017 — Seijun Suzuki

Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)

February 13 has seen 115 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 106 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · February 13 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 115 people 106 – 2025

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He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre

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As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991).

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Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that

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Seijun Suzuki , born Seitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter

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His films are known for their florid visual style, absurd humour, and a playful rejection of traditional film grammar

Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty (born AD 79)

Year 106 (CVI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Civica. The denomination 106 for this year has been used since the…

106

Chilperic II

Frankish king (born 672)

Chilperic II was King of the Franks from 715 until his death.

721

Kenneth MacAlpin

Scottish king (probable; b. 810)

Kenneth MacAlpin or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of Dál Riada from his father Alpín…

858

Vratislaus I

duke of Bohemia

Vratislaus I, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 915 until his death in 921.

921

Xiao Wen

empress of the Liao dynasty

Xiao Wen, probably née Shulü Wen (述律溫), was an empress consort of the Khitan-led Chinese Liao dynasty. She was the wife of Emperor Taizong and the mother of Emperor Muzong. In 935, she was accorded the posthumous name…

936

Muhammad ibn Ra'iq

Abbasid emir and regent

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, usually simply known as Ibn Ra'iq, was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate, who exploited the caliphal government's weakness to become the first amir al-umara of the Caliphate in 936.…

942

Adalbert Atto

Lombard nobleman

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988

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

Fatimid caliph (born 985)

Abu Ali al-Mansur, better known by his regnal name al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996–1021). Al-Hakim is an important figure in a number of Shia Ismaili sects, such as the…

1021

Honorius II

pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060)

Pope Honorius II, born Lamberto Scannabecchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 December 1124 to his death in 1130.

1130

Béla II

king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1110)

Béla II the Blind was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1131 to 1141. He was blinded along with his rebellious father Álmos on the order of Álmos's brother, King Coloman of Hungary. Béla grew up in monasteries during the…

1141

Stefan Nemanja

Serbian grand prince (born 1113)

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1199

Minamoto no Sanetomo

Japanese shōgun (born 1192)

Minamoto no Sanetomo was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the third shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate. He was the second son of the Kamakura shogunate founder, Minamoto no Yoritomo. His mother was Hōjō Masako and his…

1219

Andronikos II Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor (born 1259)

Andronikos II Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored empire's final decline. The Turks conquered most…

1332

Kō no Morofuyu

Japanese general

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1351

Isabella d'Este

Italian noblewoman (born 1474)

Isabella d'Este was the Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.

1539

Catherine Howard

English wife of Henry VIII of England (executed; b. 1521)

Catherine Howard was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn, and the niece…

1542

Benvenuto Cellini

Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500)

Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the Cellini Salt Cellar, the sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, and his autobiography, which has been…

1571

Alfonso Salmeron

Spanish priest and scholar (born 1515)

Alfonso (Alphonsus) Salmerón, SJ was a Spanish biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, and one of the first Jesuits.

1585

Alexander Nowell

English clergyman and theologian (born 1507)

Alexander Nowell, also known as Alexander Noel, was an Anglican priest and theologian who served as Dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign, and is now remembered for his catechisms, written in Latin.

1602

Charles X Gustav

king of Sweden (born 1622)

Charles X Gustav, also Carl X Gustav, was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death in 1660. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine (Pfalzgraf) of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, and Catherine of Sweden. After his father's…

1660

Elizabeth Stuart

queen of Bohemia (born 1596)

Elizabeth Stuart was Electress of the Palatinate and briefly Queen of Bohemia as the wife of Frederick V of the Palatinate. The couple's selection for the crown by the nobles of Bohemia was part of the political and…

1662

Johann Caspar Kerll

German organist and composer (born 1627)

Johann Caspar Kerll was a German Baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle.

1693

William Wotton

English linguist and scholar (born 1666)

William Wotton was an English theologian, classical scholar and linguist. He is chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages and for his involvement in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the…

1727

Cotton Mather

American minister and author (born 1663)

Cotton Mather was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase…

1728

Charles-René d'Hozier

French historian and author (born 1640)

Charles-René d'Hozier was a French historical commentator. The younger son of Pierre d'Hozier, he was the true successor of his father.

1732

Johann Joseph Fux

Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660)

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which has…

1741

Roger Joseph Boscovich

Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711)

Roger Joseph Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy and France where he…

1787

Charles Gravier

comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (born 1717)

Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes was a French statesman and diplomat. He served as Foreign Minister from 1774 to 1787 during the reign of Louis XVI, notably during the American War of Independence.

1787

George (Konissky)

Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (born 1717)

George, secular name Grigori Osipovich Konissky was an Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian.

1795

Samuel Ashe

American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (born 1725)

Samuel Ashe was the ninth governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He was also one of the first three judges of the North Carolina Superior Court in 1787.

1813

George Rogers Clark

American general (born 1752)

George Rogers Clark was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of…

1818

Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen

Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1745)

Peter Ludwig Graf von der Pahlen was a Russian courtier and general of Baltic German stock, who played a pivotal role in the assassination of Emperor Paul I of Russia in 1801. He became a general in the Imperial Russian…

1826

Edward Berry

English admiral (born 1768)

Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Edward Berry, 1st Baronet, KCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his role as flag captain of Horatio Nelson at the…

1831

Mariano José de Larra

Spanish journalist and author (born 1809)

Mariano José de Larra y Sánchez de Castro was a Spanish romantic writer and journalist best known for his numerous essays and his infamous suicide. His works were often satirical and critical of the 19th-century Spanish…

1837

Henrik Steffens

Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (born 1773)

Henrik Steffens, was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, and poet.

1845

Eliza Acton

English food writer and poet (born 1799)

Eliza Acton was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader, Modern Cookery for Private Families. The book introduced the now-universal practice of…

1859

Costache Caragiale

Romanian actor and manager (born 1815)

Costache Caragiale was a Romanian actor and theatre manager who had an important role in the development of the Romanian theatre.

1877

Richard Wagner

German composer (born 1813)

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote…

1883

Jean-Baptiste Lamy

French-American archbishop (born 1814)

Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career, as is Paul…

1888

Provo Wallis

Canadian-English admiral (born 1791)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, following the capture of USS Chesapeake by the frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812, the wounding of HMS…

1892

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Mexican intellectual and journalist (born 1834)

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio was a Mexican radical liberal writer, journalist, teacher and politician. He wrote Clemencia (1869), which is often considered to be the first modern Mexican novel.

1893

Konstantin Savitsky

Russian painter (born 1844)

Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky was a Russian painter in the Realist style, active during Tsars Alexander II through Nicholas II's reigns, primarily known for his genre pictures.

1905

Albert Gottschalk

Danish painter (born 1866)

Albert Gottschalk was a Danish painter. He had a close connection, personally and artistically, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen.

1906

József Pusztai

Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1864)

József Pusztai was a Slovene writer, poet, journalist, teacher, and cantor in Hungary. He was also known under the pen name Tibor Andorhegyi.

1934

Otakar Batlička

Czech journalist (born 1895)

Otakar Batlička was a Czech adventurer, journalist, ham (amateur) radio operator, and member of the Czech-based Nazi resistance group Obrana Národa during World War II.

1942

Epitácio Pessoa

Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (born 1865)

Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist who served as the 11th president of Brazil between 1919 and 1922, when Rodrigues Alves was unable to take office due to illness, after being…

1942

Rafael Sabatini

Italian-English novelist and short story writer (born 1875)

Rafael Sabatini was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels.

1950

Lloyd C. Douglas

American minister and author (born 1877)

Lloyd Cassel Douglas was an American minister and author. Although Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, he did not write his first novel until the age of 50.

1951

Josephine Tey

Scottish author and playwright (born 1896)

Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. She is known for her Inspector Alan Grant series, which started with The Man in the Queue (1929). Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time,…

1952

Agnes Macphail

Canadian educator and politician (born 1890)

Agnes Campbell Macphail was a Canadian politician and the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1940; from 1943 to 1945 and again from 1948 to 1951, she…

1954

Jan Łukasiewicz

Polish mathematician and philosopher (born 1878)

Jan Łukasiewicz was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He thought…

1956

Christabel Pankhurst

English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (born 1880)

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she…

1958

Georges Rouault

French painter and illustrator (born 1871)

Georges-Henri Rouault was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.

1958

Paulino Alcántara

Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1896)

Paulino Alcántara Riestrá was a Spanish and Filipino professional footballer and manager who played as a forward. Born in the Philippines, he played for Catalonia, Philippines and Spain national teams.

1964

Werner Heyde

German psychiatrist and academic (born 1902)

Werner Heyde was a German psychiatrist. He was one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 euthanasia program.

1964

Yoshisuke Aikawa

entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (born 1880)

Yoshisuke Aikawa was a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, noteworthy as the founder and first president of the Nissan zaibatsu, one of Japan's most powerful business conglomerates around the time of…

1967

Abelardo L. Rodríguez

substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889)

Abelardo Rodríguez Luján, commonly known as Abelardo L. Rodríguez was a Mexican military officer, businessman and politician who served as Substitute President of Mexico from 1932 to 1934. He completed the term of…

1967

Mae Marsh

American actress (born 1895)

Mae Marsh was an American film actress whose career spanned over 50 years. She was a film star during the silent era and known for her work with D. W. Griffith, including on his films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and…

1968

Portia White

Canadian opera singer (born 1911)

Portia May White was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, White…

1968

Marinus Jan Granpré Molière

Dutch architect and educator (born 1883)

Marinus Jan Granpré Molière was a Dutch architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

1973

André Beaufre

French general (born 1902)

André Beaufre was a French Army officer and military strategist who attained the rank of général d'armée before his retirement in 1961. He was made a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1973.

1975

Murtala Mohammed

Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (born 1938)

Murtala Ramat Muhammed was a Nigerian military officer and the fourth head of state of Nigeria. He led the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup in overthrowing the military regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi and featured prominently…

1976

Lily Pons

French-American soprano and actress (born 1904)

Alice Joséphine Pons, known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic lyric coloratura soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer, she…

1976

David Janssen

American actor (born 1931)

David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other…

1980

Cheong Eak Chong

Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1888)

Cheong Eak Chong was a Chinese businessman of She ethnicity. He was born in Anxi County in Fujian in 1888, but left China in 1921 for Singapore. He began his business career there as a goldsmith, later diversifying into…

1984

Yuri Ivask

Russian-American poet and critic (born 1907)

George Ivask was a Russian poet and literary critic; in his later years he was an American scholar of Russian literature. Ivask was born to a family of an Estonian-German father and Russian mother and he identified…

1986

Wayne Hays

American lieutenant and politician (born 1911)

Wayne Levere Hays was an American World War II veteran and politician who served 14 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1949 to 1976. A Democrat, he resigned from Congress after a much-publicized sex scandal.

1989

Arno Breker

German sculptor and illustrator (born 1900)

Arno Breker was a German sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where he was endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official state sculptor and exempted…

1991

Nikolay Bogolyubov

Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1909)

Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his significant contributions to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of…

1992

Martin Balsam

American actor (born 1919)

Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television. An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New York stage, winning a…

1996

Robert Klark Graham

American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906)

Robert Klark Graham was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses, in…

1997

Mark Krasnosel'skii

Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1920)

Mark Aleksandrovich Krasnoselsky or Mark Alexsandrovich Krasnoselskii was a Soviet and Russian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications.

1997

Anders Aalborg

Canadian educator and politician (born 1914)

Anders Olav Aalborg was a teacher and a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1948 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit caucus, and served in the cabinets of Premier…

2000

James Cooke Brown

American sociologist and author (born 1921)

James Cooke Brown was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the constructed language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers.

2000

John Leake

English soldier (born 1949)

John Steven Leake was an English recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal whilst working for the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), one of only twelve to be issued to the British forces during the…

2000

Waylon Jennings

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music.

2002

Kid Gavilán

Cuban-American boxer (born 1926)

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2003

Walt Whitman Rostow

American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (born 1916)

Walt Whitman Rostow was an American economist, professor and political theorist who served as national security advisor to president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969.

2003

François Tavenas

Canadian engineer and academic (born 1942)

François Tavenas, was a Canadian engineer and academic.

2004

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev

Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1952)

Zelimkhan Abdulmuslimovich Yandarbiyev was a Chechen writer and politician who was the second president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria between 1996 and 1997. In 2004, Yandarbiyev was assassinated while he was on a…

2004

Nelson Briles

American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1943)

Nelson Kelley Briles was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. A hard thrower whose best pitch was a slider, he exhibited excellent control. Briles batted and threw right-handed. He was a starting pitcher on World…

2005

Lúcia Santos

Portuguese nun (born 1907)

Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, OCD, also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Maria Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart, was a Discalced Carmelite from Portugal. Sister Lúcia and her cousins…

2005

P. F. Strawson

English philosopher and author (born 1919)

Sir Peter Frederick Strawson was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987.…

2006

Elizabeth Jolley

English-Australian author and academic (born 1923)

Monica Elizabeth Jolley was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she…

2007

Charlie Norwood

American captain and politician (born 1941)

Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death in 2007. At the time of his death, Norwood was the…

2007

Richard Gordon Wakeford

English air marshal (born 1922)

Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford, was an officer in the Royal Air Force for 36 years, from 1941 to 1977. Beginning as a pilot of flying boats with Coastal Command, he became a flying instructor, and commanded the…

2007

Kon Ichikawa

Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)

Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo…

2008

Edward Upward

English author and educator (born 1903)

Edward Falaise Upward, FRSL was a British novelist and short story writer who, prior to his death, was believed to be the UK's oldest living author. Initially gaining recognition amongst the Auden Group as a highly…

2009

Lucille Clifton

American poet and academic (born 1936)

Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

2010

Dale Hawkins

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)

Delmar Allen "Dale" Hawkins was a pioneer American rock singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who was often called the architect of swamp rock boogie.

2010

Russell Arms

American actor and singer (born 1920)

Russell Lee Arms was an American actor and singer.

2012

Louise Cochrane

American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1918)

Louise Cochrane was an American-born writer and television producer best known for creating the BBC Children's TV programme Rag, Tag and Bobtail in the early 1950s. She also wrote a series of career guidance books for…

2012

Daniel C. Gerould

American playwright and academic (born 1928)

Daniel Charles Gerould was the Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of Publications of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. A scholar,…

2012

Gerry Day

American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)

Gerry Day was an American screenwriter. She was also a newspaper reporter for the Hollywood Citizen News in the mid-1940s.

2013

Miles J. Jones

American pathologist and physician (born 1952)

Miles James Alfred Jones, Jr., M.D. was a forensic pathologist who became one of the most notorious physician-abusers of internet-mediated services. He was also cited for contempt of the U.S. Congress for failure to…

2013

Pieter Kooijmans

Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)

Pieter Hendrik "Peter" Kooijmans was a Dutch politician, jurist, and diplomat. He was a member of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), which later merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. From…

2013

Andrée Malebranche

Haitian artist (born 1916)

Andrée Malebranche was an Afro-Haitian painter and art instructor. She has works included in the collections of the Musée d'Art Haïtien and was recognized by the Haitian government for her contributions to the…

2013

Yuko Tojo

Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)

Yuko Tojo was a Japanese ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and brief political aspirant. She was the granddaughter of convicted war criminal Hideki Tojo.

2013

Balu Mahendra

Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran, commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was a Sri Lankan Tamil cinematographer, director, screenwriter, actor and film editor who worked in various Indian film industries, primarily in Tamil and…

2014

Richard Møller Nielsen

Danish footballer and manager (born 1937)

Richard Møller Nielsen was a Danish football player and manager. He played as a defender and spent his entire senior playing career with Odense BK, making 175 appearances between 1955 and 1962. At international level,…

2014

Ralph Waite

American actor and activist (born 1928)

Ralph Waite was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson…

2014

Laura Motta

Brazilian catholic nun (born 1919)

Laura Motta, better known as "Irmã Laura", was a Brazilian catholic nun member of the Sisters of Saint Marcelina.

2014

Faith Bandler

Australian activist and author (born 1918)

Faith Bandler was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander and Scottish-Indian heritage. A campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders, she was best known for her…

2015

Stan Chambers

American journalist and actor (born 1923)

Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.

2015

O. N. V. Kurup

Indian poet and academic (born 1931)

Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup was a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and…

2016

Antonin Scalia

American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)

Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the…

2016

Ricardo Arias Calderón

Panamanian politician (born 1933)

Ricardo Arias Calderón was a Panamanian politician who served as First Vice President from 1989 to 1992. A Catholic who studied at Yale and the Sorbonne, Arias returned to Panama in the 1960s to work for political…

2017

Aileen Hernandez

American union organizer and activist (born 1926)

Aileen Hernandez was an African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist. She served as the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) between 1970 and 1971, and was the…

2017

Kim Jong-nam

North Korean politician (born 1971)

Kim Jong-nam was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir apparent to his father. He was thought to have fallen out of favor after embarrassing the regime…

2017

E-Dubble

American rapper (born 1982)

Evan Sewell Wallace best known by his stage name E-Dubble, often stylized e-dubble, or shortened to e-dub, was an American rapper. He was best known for his Freestyle Friday series in which he released a new song each…

2017

Henrik

Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934)

Prince Henrik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat was the husband of Margrethe II of Denmark. He served as her royal consort from Margrethe's accession on 14 January 1972 until his death in 2018.

2018

Callistus Ndlovu

Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)

Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu was a Zimbabwean academic, diplomat, and politician. He joined the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in 1963 as a teacher in Matabeleland, and went on to serve as its representative to…

2019

Kadir Topbaş

Turkish politician (born 1945)

Kadir Topbaş was a Turkish architect, businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Istanbul from 2004 to 2017.

2021

Jim Guy Tucker

American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (born 1943)

James Guy Tucker Jr. was an American politician, businessman and attorney who served as the 43rd governor of Arkansas from 1992 until his resignation in 1996 after his conviction for fraud during the Whitewater affair.…

2025

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Seijun Suzuki — Japanese film director (1923–2017)

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Known forHis films are known for their florid visual style, absurd humour, and a playful rejection of traditional film grammar

Deaths on this date115 (106 – 2025)

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. Wikipedia →

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Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Wikipedia →

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