Notable people who died on June 13 include: Xiahou Dun, Mansur I, Fujiwara no Michikane, Ali az-Zahir, Anthony of Padua.

Notable Deaths on June 13

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Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)

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American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)

June 13 has seen 84 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 220 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 84 people 220 – 2024

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Starting in 1934, he directed and played in a number of bands that toured the southern United States and drew nationally known performers to Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Abadie—of “My Baton Rouge,” which in 1998 was declared the city's official song.

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John Landry “Buddy” Boudreaux was an American big band and jazz musician

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The State-Times newspaper called him "the city’s sound of big band"

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His bands backed such artists as Andy Williams, Bernadette Peters, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, Bob Hope, George Burns and Joan Rivers

Xiahou Dun

Chinese general

Xiahou Dun, courtesy name Yuanrang, was a Chinese military general and politician serving under the warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He served for a few months under Cao Cao's successor, Cao…

220

Mansur I

Samanid emir

Abu Salih Mansur, better known as Mansur I (منصور) was amir of the Samanids from 961 to 976. The son of Nuh I, his reign was characterized by weak rule and perpetual financial troubles. Mansur was notably the first…

976

Fujiwara no Michikane

Japanese nobleman (born 961)

Fujiwara no Michikane, was a Japanese statesman of the Heian period.

995

Ali az-Zahir

Fatimid caliph (born 1005)

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥākim, better known with his regnal name al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, was the seventh caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (1021–1036). Al-Zahir assumed the caliphate after the disappearance of his…

1036

Anthony of Padua

Portuguese priest and saint (born 1195)

Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

1231

Tankei

Japanese sculptor (born 1173)

Tankei was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He was the student of and eldest son of the master sculptor Unkei. He was also the teacher, and uncle of the sculptor Kōen, who…

1256

Juan Manuel

Spanish prince (born 1282)

Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord,…

1348

Uko Fockena

Frisian chieftain (born c. 1408)

Uko Fockena was an East Frisian chieftain of Moormerland and Emsigerland.

1432

Veronica Gambara

Italian poet (born 1485)

Veronica Gambara was an Italian poet and politician. She was the ruler of the County of Correggio from 1518 until 1550.

1550

George Gordon

1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (born 1562)

George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, 6th Earl of Huntly was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, and around the time of the Union of the…

1636

Miyamoto Musashi

Japanese samurai (born 1584)

Miyamoto Musashi was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels. Musashi is considered a…

1645

Henry Carey

2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician (born 1595)

Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, KB, known as Sir Henry Carey between 1616 and 1626 and as Lord Leppington between 1626 and 1639, was an English nobleman and translator.

1661

Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer

Dutch admiral (born 1604)

Egbert Bartholomeuszoon Kortenaer or Egbert Meussen Cortenaer was an admiral of the United Provinces of the Netherlands who was killed in the Battle of Lowestoft.

1665

Dorothea Erxleben

first German female doctor (born 1715)

Dorothea Christiane Erxleben was a German medical doctor who became the first female doctor of medicine in Germany.

1762

Henry Middleton

American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (born 1717)

Henry Middleton was an American politician and planter from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental Congress and served as that body's…

1784

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès

French geographer and author (born 1767)

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana, published anonymously in 1812, which…

1846

Henry Gray

English anatomist and surgeon (born 1827)

Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25.

1861

Joseph Škoda

Czech medical doctor and dermatologist (born 1805)

Joseph Škoda was a Czech-born Austrian physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna.

1881

Ludwig II

king of Bavaria (born 1845)

Ludwig II, also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King, was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia and Duke in…

1886

John Cox Bray

Australian politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (born 1842)

Sir John Cox Bray was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia (1881–1884).

1894

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)

Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.

1898

Nikiforos Lytras

Greek painter and educator (born 1832)

Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a…

1904

Louis-Philippe Hébert

Canadian sculptor (born 1850)

Louis-Philippe Hébert was a Canadian sculptor. He is considered one of the best sculptors of his generation.

1917

Michael Alexandrovich

Russian Grand Duke (born 1878)

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II. He was designated Emperor of Russia after his brother abdicated in…

1918

Henry Segrave

American-English racing driver (born 1896)

Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the…

1930

Kitasato Shibasaburō

Japanese medical doctor and bacteriologist (born 1851)

Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously…

1931

Arthur Coningham

Australian cricketer (born 1863)

Arthur Coningham was an Australian cricketer who played in one Ashes Test match at Melbourne in 1894 in which he took a wicket with his very first ball. He took 2 for 17 in England's first innings but failed to add to…

1939

Kočo Racin

Macedonian author and activist (born 1908)

Kosta Apostolov Solev, primarily known by his pen name Kočo Racin, was a Macedonian poet, writer and communist who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature. He is also regarded as a founder of modern…

1943

Sava Kovačević

Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (born 1905)

Sava Kovačević was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement.

1943

Osamu Dazai

Japanese author (born 1909)

Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are considered modern classics.

1948

Ben Chifley

Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1885)

Joseph Benedict Chifley was an Australian politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was notable for defining…

1951

Irving Baxter

American high jumper and pole vaulter (born 1876)

Irving Knott Baxter was an American athlete, who won the gold medal in both the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France.

1957

Edwin Keppel Bennett

English poet and academic (born 1887)

Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948…

1958

Martin Buber

Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (born 1878)

Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.

1965

David Drummond

Australian farmer and politician (born 1890)

David Henry Drummond was an Australian politician and farmer. He was a member of the Country Party and served in both the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1920–1949) and the Australian House of Representatives…

1965

Pralhad Keshav Atre

Indian journalist, director and producer (born 1898)

Pralhad Keshav Atre, popularly known as Āchārya Atre, was a prominent Marathi writer, poet, educationist, founder–editor of Maratha, and above all a noted orator.

1969

Georg von Békésy

Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.

1972

Stephanie von Hohenlohe

Austrian-German spy (born 1891)

Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe was an Austrian princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a member of the noble Hohenlohe family. She was born a commoner,…

1972

Demetrio Stratos

Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)

Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian…

1979

Walter Rodney

Guyanese historian and activist (born 1942)

Walter Anthony Rodney was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. He was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1980.

1980

Olivério Pinto

Brazilian zoologist and medical doctor (born 1896)

Olivério Mário de Oliveira Pinto was a Brazilian zoologist and physician.

1981

António Variações

Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1944)

António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, using the stage name of António Variações, he became one of…

1984

Benny Goodman

American clarinet player, songwriter and bandleader (born 1909)

Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".

1986

Geraldine Page

American actress (born 1924)

Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. With a career that spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film…

1987

Fran Allison

American television personality and puppeteer (born 1907)

Frances Helen Allison was an American television and radio comedienne, personality, and singer.

1989

Gérard Côté

Canadian runner (born 1913)

Gérard Côté, was a Canadian marathon runner and a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.

1993

Deke Slayton

American soldier, pilot and astronaut (born 1924)

Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first chief of the Astronaut Office and…

1993

Nadia Gray

Romanian-French actress (born 1923)

Nadia Gray was a Romanian film actress.

1994

Nguyen Manh Tuong

Vietnamese lawyer and academic (born 1909)

Nguyễn Mạnh Tường (1909–1997) was a Vietnamese lawyer and intellectual. He was known to be one of the active participators in the Nhân Văn affair in the mid-1950s which saw many intellectuals demanding freedom and…

1997

Alfred Gerrard

English sculptor and academic (born 1899)

Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught…

1998

Birger Ruud

Norwegian ski jumper (born 1911)

Birger Johannes Ruud was a Norwegian ski jumper and alpine skier.

1998

Reg Smythe

English cartoonist (born 1917)

Reginald Smyth was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running Andy Capp comic strip.

1998

John Hope

American navigator and meteorologist (born 1919)

John Raymond Hope was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel.

2002

Maia Wojciechowska

Polish-American author (born 1927)

Maia Teresa Wojciechowska was a Polish-American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Her first book and two books for adults were published under her married name Maia Rodman.

2002

Malik Meraj Khalid

Pakistani lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1916)

Malik Meraj Khalid was a Pakistani barrister, politician and Marxist philosopher who served as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 1996 to 1997. He also served as the chief minister of Punjab from 1972 to…

2003

Ralph Wiley

American journalist and author (born 1952)

Ralph Heygood Wiley Jr. was an American sports journalist who wrote for Sports Illustrated and ESPN's Page 2. He was well known for his distinctive literary tone and his writings on race in America.

2004

Álvaro Cunhal

Portuguese academic and politician (born 1913)

Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal was a Portuguese communist revolutionary and politician. He was one of the major opponents of the corporatist regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese…

2005

David Diamond

American pianist and composer (born 1915)

David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal or modal. His early compositions are typically…

2005

Charles Haughey

Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1925)

Charles James Haughey was an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach three times between 1979 and 1992, when he was leader of Fianna Fáil. Over a forty-year career, Haughey was the most complex and divisive figure in…

2006

Walid Eido

Lebanese judge and politician (born 1942)

Walid Eido was a member of the Future Movement, Lebanese political movement and a member of the Lebanese Parliament. He was also a member of the March 14 Coalition.

2007

Tim Russert

American journalist and lawyer (born 1950)

Timothy John Russert was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News and…

2008

Mitsuharu Misawa

Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)

Mitsuharu Misawa was a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter. Regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, he is primarily known both his 18-year stint with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and his…

2009

Fathi Yakan

Lebanese scholar and politician (born 1933)

Fathi Yakan, February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was an Islamic cleric who held a seat in the parliament of Lebanon in 1992. He was born in Tripoli.

2009

Jimmy Dean

American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)

Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV commercials, and his likeness and voice…

2010

Sam Beddingfield

American pilot and engineer (born 1933)

Samuel T. Beddingfield was an American test pilot and a pioneering aerospace engineer and who had a long career with NASA during its crewed space programs.

2012

Graeme Bell

Australian pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1914)

Graeme Emerson Bell, AO, MBE was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. According to The Age, his "band's music was hailed for its distinctive Australian edge, which he describes…

2012

Roger Garaudy

French philosopher and author (born 1913)

Roger Garaudy was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted for several years and fined for Holocaust denial under French law for…

2012

Jože Humer

Slovenian composer and translator (born 1934)

Jože Humer was a Slovenian composer, choirmaster, lyricist, translator, and cultural organiser. He was born in Maribor, attended a local classical gymnasium, and then studied and graduated from law. He established the…

2012

Mehdi Hassan

Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (born 1927)

Mehdi Hassan Khan, known as Mehdi Hassan, was a Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer of great renown. Known as Shahenshah-e-Ghazal, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the…

2012

David Deutsch

American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (born 1929)

David Deutsch was an American advertising executive and artist. He founded David Deutsch Associates, now known as Deutsch Inc., in 1969. He served as the agency's CEO from 1969 until 1989, when he handed control of the…

2013

Sam Most

American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)

Samuel Most was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather.

2013

Albert White Hat

American educator and activist (born 1938)

Albert White Hat was a teacher of the Lakota language, and an activist for Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta traditional culture. He translated the Lakota language for Hollywood movies, including the 1990 movie Dances with Wolves, and…

2013

Mahdi Elmandjra

Moroccan economist and sociologist (born 1933)

Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of…

2014

Gyula Grosics

Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1926)

Gyula Grosics was a Hungarian football goalkeeper who played 86 times for the Hungary national football team and was part of the "Golden Team" of the 1950s. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he…

2014

Jim Keays

Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

James Keays was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career. He also…

2014

Chuck Noll

American football player and coach (born 1932)

Charles Henry Noll was an American professional football player and head coach. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, his sole head coaching position was for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National…

2014

Robert Peters

American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)

Robert Louis Peters was an American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor. He held a PhD in Victorian literature. Born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924, his poetry career began…

2014

Sergio Renán

Argentinian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1933)

Sergio Renán was an Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.

2015

Mike Shrimpton

New Zealand cricketer and coach (born 1940)

Michael John Froud Shrimpton was a New Zealand cricketer and coach. A middle-order batsman and leg-spinner, he played 10 Test matches for New Zealand between 1963 and 1974, but was never able to establish himself in the…

2015

Ned Beatty

American actor (born 1937)

Ned Thomas Beatty was an American actor. In a career that spanned five decades, he appeared in more than 160 film and television roles. Throughout his career, Beatty gained a reputation for being "the busiest actor in…

2021

Cormac McCarthy

American author (born 1933)

Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic…

2023

Angela Bofill

American R&B singer (born 1954)

Angela Tomasa Bofill was an American singer, songwriter and composer. A New York native, she began her professional career in the mid-1970s and is most known for singles such as "This Time I'll Be Sweeter", "Angel of…

2024