Notable people who died on May 13 include: Emperor Ling of Han, Ulric II, Matthias I, Robert de Ros, Theobald II.

Notable Deaths on May 13

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102 people 189 – 2025

May 13 has seen 102 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 189 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2012 — Donald "Duck" Dunn

American bass player, songwriter, and producer (born 1941)

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Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter

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Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T

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In 1992, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T

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In 2017, he was ranked 40th on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time".

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& the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records

Emperor Ling of Han

Chinese emperor (born 156)

Emperor Ling of Han, personal name Liu Hong, was the 12th emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty. He was also the last Eastern Han emperor to exercise effective power during his reign. Born the son of a lesser marquis who…

189

Ulric II

Margrave of Carniola

Ulric II was the Margrave of Istria from 1098 until circa 1107 and Carniola from 1098 until his death. He was the second son of Ulric I and Sophia, a daughter of Bela I of Hungary.

1112

Matthias I

Duke of Lorraine (born 1119)

Matthias I was the duke of Lorraine from 1138 to his death as the eldest son and successor of Simon I and Adelaide. Like his forefathers going back to Theodoric II and even to Adalbert, he was a stern supporter of the…

1176

Robert de Ros

1st Baron de Ros

Sir Robert de Ros was an English nobleman.

1285

Theobald II

Duke of Lorraine (born 1263)

Theobald II was the Duke of Lorraine from 1303 until his death in 1312. He was the son and successor of Frederick III and Margaret, daughter of King Theobald I of Navarre of the Royal House of Blois.

1312

Takeda Shingen

Japanese daimyō (born 1521)

Takeda Shingen was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the Sengoku period. Known as the "Tiger of Kai", he was one of the most powerful daimyō of the late Sengoku period and was credited with exceptional military…

1573

Sasaki Kojirō

Japanese master swordsman (born 1575)

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.…

1612

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Dutch politician (born 1547)

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613), was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain.

1619

Louis Bourdaloue

French preacher and author (born 1632)

Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.

1704

Francesco Antonio Pistocchi

Italian singer (born 1659)

Francesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi, nicknamed Pistocchino, was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.

1726

Daniel Solander

Swedish-English botanist and phycologist (born 1736)

Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.

1782

Eliphalet Dyer

American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1721)

Eliphalet Dyer was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Windham, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to many sessions of the Continental Congress, where he signed the 1774 Continental Association.

1807

Beilby Porteus

English bishop (born 1731)

Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and of London, was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the…

1809

Georges Cuvier

French zoologist and academic (born 1769)

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences…

1832

John Nash

English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (born 1752)

John Nash was a British architect of the Georgian and Regency eras. He was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London. His designs were financed by the…

1835

John Littlejohn

American sheriff and Methodist preacher (born 1756)

John Littlejohn was an English-born American tradesman, Methodist preacher and politician. Born in Penrith, Cumberland, he briefly attended trade school in London before returning to Penrith. When Littlejohn was around…

1836

Nikolai Brashman

Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (born 1796)

Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russian mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov.

1866

Joseph Henry

American physicist and academic (born 1797)

Joseph Henry was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the…

1878

Cyrus McCormick

American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (born 1809)

Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. Originally from the Blue Ridge…

1884

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (born 1809)

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the…

1885

Apolinario Mabini

Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (born 1864)

Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime…

1903

Sholem Aleichem

Ukrainian-American author and playwright (born 1859)

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States. The 1964 musical Fiddler…

1916

Jean Aicard

French author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)

Jean François Victor Aicard was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist.

1921

Libert H. Boeynaems

Belgian-American bishop (born 1857)

Libert H. Boeynaems, formally Libert Hubert John Louis Boeynaems was a Belgian Catholic priest who served as the fourth vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands – now the Roman Catholic Diocese…

1926

Arthur Scherbius

German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (born 1878)

Arthur Scherbius was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma.

1929

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat, a humanitarian, and the co-founder of…

1930

Charles Édouard Guillaume

Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)

Charles-Édouard Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel…

1938

Frederick Christian

English cricketer (born 1877)

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

1941

Ōnishiki Uichirō

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (born 1891)

Ōnishiki Uichirō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 26th yokozuna. On 2 November 1922, he became the first yokozuna to perform the yokozuna dohyō-iri at the Meiji Shrine.

1941

Tubby Hall

American drummer (born 1895)

Alfred "Tubby" Hall was an American jazz drummer.

1945

Zara DuPont

American suffragist (born 1869)

Zara "Zadie" DuPont (1869–1946) was an American suffragist, serving as the first Vice President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.

1946

Sukanta Bhattacharya

Indian poet and playwright (born 1926)

Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet. He was called "Young Nazrul" and Kishore Bidrohi Kobi, a reference to Kazi Nazrul Islam, for his similar rebellious stance against the British Raj and the social elites through…

1947

Kathleen Cavendish

Marchioness of Hartington (born 1920)

Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, also known as "Kick" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, a sister of U.S. President John F.…

1948

Michael Fekete

Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1886)

Michael (Mihály) Fekete was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.

1957

Gary Cooper

American actor (born 1901)

Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an Academy…

1961

Henry Trendley Dean

American dentist (born 1893)

Henry Trendley Dean was the first director of the United States National Institute of Dental Research and a pioneer investigator of water fluoridation in the prevention of tooth decay.

1962

Franz Kline

American painter and academic (born 1910)

Franz Kline was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell,…

1962

Alois Hudal

Austrian-Italian bishop (born 1885)

Alois Karl Hudal was an Austrian bishop of the Catholic Church based in Rome. For thirty years, he was the head of the Austrian-German congregation of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome and, until 1937, an influential…

1963

Dan Blocker

American actor (born 1928)

Bobby Dan Davis Blocker was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza.

1972

Jaime Torres Bodet

Mexican poet and diplomat (born 1902)

Jaime Mario Emilio Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. He was the second Director-General of the United Nations Educational,…

1974

Arthur J. Burks

American colonel and author (born 1898)

Arthur Josephus Burks was an American Marine officer and fiction writer.

1974

Marguerite Perey

French physicist (born 1909)

Marguerite Catherine Perey was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the first woman…

1975

Bob Wills

American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1905)

James Robert Wills was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing. He was also noted for…

1975

Mickey Spillane

American mobster (born 1934)

Michael J. Spillane was an Irish-American mobster who controlled Hell's Kitchen in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Spillane, the so-called “Gentleman Gangster", was a marked contrast to the violent Westies mob members…

1977

Leatrice Joy

American actress (born 1893)

Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.

1985

Richard Ellmann

American literary critic and biographer (born 1918)

Richard David Ellmann, FBA, was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce…

1985

Chet Baker

American singer and trumpet player (born 1929)

Chesney Henry Baker Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".

1988

F. E. McWilliam

Irish sculptor (born 1909)

Frederick Edward McWilliam, was a Northern Irish surrealist sculptor. He worked chiefly in stone, wood and bronze.

1992

Duncan Hamilton

Irish-English race car driver (born 1920)

James Duncan Hamilton was a British racing driver. He was known for his colourful and extroverted personality. After fighting in the Second World War, he took up motorsport. Although adept in single-seaters, he was more…

1994

John Swainson

Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (born 1925)

John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist who served as the 42nd governor of Michigan from 1961 to 1963.

1994

Hao Wang

Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (born 1921)

Hao Wang was a Chinese-American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and commentator on Kurt Gödel.

1995

Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz

Saudi Arabian scholar and academic (born 1910)

Abdulaziz ibn Abdullah Al Baz, simply known as Ibn Baz, was a Saudi Islamic scholar who served as the second Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1993 until his death in 1999.

1999

Gene Sarazen

American golfer and journalist (born 1902)

Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of seven major championships. He is one of six players to win each of the four majors at least…

1999

Paul Bartel

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)

Paul Bartel was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he co-wrote, starred in and directed.

2000

Jumbo Tsuruta

Japanese wrestler (born 1951)

Tomomi "Tommy" Tsuruta , better known by his ring name Jumbo Tsuruta , was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) for most of his career, and is well known for being the first…

2000

Jason Miller

American actor and playwright (born 1939)

Jason Miller was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for his play That Championship Season, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting…

2001

Valeriy Lobanovskyi

Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1939)

Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi was а Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager. He was Master of Sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the USSR, and a laureate of the UEFA Order of Merit in Ruby (2002) and…

2002

Eddie Barclay

French record producer, founded Barclay Records (born 1921)

Édouard Ruault, better known as Eddie Barclay, was a French record producer whose singers included Jacques Brel, Dalida and Charles Aznavour. He founded record label Barclay.

2005

George Dantzig

American mathematician and academic (born 1914)

George Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics and statistics.

2005

Jaroslav Pelikan

American historian and scholar (born 1923)

Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.

2006

Johnnie Wilder

Jr., American singer (born 1949)

Johnnie James Wilder Jr. was an American musician, co-founder and vocalist of the R&B/funk group Heatwave. The group were popular during the late 1970s with hits such as "Boogie Nights", "Mind Blowing Decisions",…

2006

Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah

Kuwaiti ruler, Emir of Kuwait (born 1930)

Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah was the Emir of Kuwait from 15 January 2006, succeeding Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, until abdicating nine days later on 24 January. Prior to that he had been Prime…

2008

Ron Stone

American journalist and author (born 1936)

Ron Stone was an American news anchor at KPRC-TV in Houston for 20 years from 1973 to 1992. He was called "the most popular and revered news anchor the city has ever known" by the Houston Chronicle. He was president of…

2008

Frank Aletter

American actor (born 1926)

Frank George Aletter was an American actor.

2009

Meir Brandsdorfer

Belgian rabbi (born 1934)

Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer was a member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, the Haredi Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, and was in charge of their Kashrut operations, especially matters of Shechita.

2009

Achille Compagnoni

Italian skier and mountaineer (born 1914)

Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli on 31 July 1954 he was in the first party to reach the summit of K2.

2009

Derek Boogaard

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)

Derek Leendert Boogaard was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL).

2011

Stephen De Staebler

American sculptor and educator (born 1933)

Stephen De Staebler was an American sculptor, printmaker, and educator, he was best recognized for his work in clay and bronze. Totemic and fragmented in form, De Staebler's figurative sculptures call forth the many…

2011

Wallace McCain

Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (born 1930)

George Wallace Ferguson McCain was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of McCain Foods. With an estimated net worth of $US 4.15 billion, McCain was ranked by Forbes as the 13th wealthiest Canadian and 512th in the…

2011

Bruce Ricker

American director and producer (born 1942)

Bruce Ricker was a jazz and blues documentarian. He is best known for his collaboration with Clint Eastwood on films about jazz and blues legends.

2011

Arsala Rahmani Daulat

Afghan politician (born 1937)

Arsala Rahmani Daulat was selected to serve in the Meshrano Jirga, the upper house of Afghanistan's national assembly, in 2005 and 2010. He was appointed a Deputy Minister for Higher Education under the Taliban, in…

2012

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz

Cuban-American theologian, author, and academic (born 1943)

Ada María Isasi-Díaz was a Cuban-American theologian who served as professor emerita of ethics and theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. As a Hispanic theologian, she was an innovator of Hispanic theology…

2012

Lee Richardson

English speedway rider (born 1979)

Lee Stewart Richardson was a British international motorcycle speedway rider.

2012

Don Ritchie

Australian humanitarian (born 1925)

Donald Taylor Ritchie was an Australian who intervened in many suicide attempts. He officially rescued at least 180 people but his family says he helped save up to 500 people who had intended to attempt suicide at The…

2012

Nguyễn Văn Thiện

Vietnamese bishop (born 1906)

Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop and the oldest of the Catholic Church at 106 years of age. He was also one of the last living bishops to have served in South Vietnam.

2012

Joyce Brothers

American psychologist, author, and actress (born 1927)

Joyce Diane Bauer Brothers was an American psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer.

2013

Otto Herrigel

Namibian lawyer and politician (born 1937)

Otto Herrigel was a Namibian businessman, and politician. He served as Namibia's first Minister of Finance between 1990 and 1992.

2013

Jagdish Mali

Indian photographer (born 1954)

Jagdish Mali was an Indian fashion and film photographer. He was the father of Bollywood actress Antara Mali. In his career he took images of celebrities like Rekha, Anupam Kher, Irrfan Khan, Manisha Koirala, Shabana…

2013

Chuck Muncie

American football player (born 1953)

Harry Vance "Chuck" Muncie was an American professional football player who was a running back for the New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers in the National Football League (NFL) from 1976 to 1984. He was selected…

2013

Fyodor Tuvin

Russian footballer (born 1973)

Fyodor Vladimirovich Tuvin was a Russian football midfielder.

2013

Lynne Woolstencroft

Canadian politician (born 1943)

Lynne Elizabeth Woolstencroft was a Canadian politician and former mayor of Waterloo, Ontario.

2013

David Malet Armstrong

Australian philosopher and author (born 1926)

David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory…

2014

Malik Bendjelloul

Swedish director and producer (born 1977)

Malik Bendjelloul was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and actor. He directed the 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, which won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

2014

J. F. Coleman

American soldier and pilot (born 1918)

James Francis Coleman, nicknamed "Skeets", was an American military fighter and test pilot.

2014

Ron Stevens

Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1949)

Ronald Gordon "Ron" Stevens was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May…

2014

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart

American occultist and author (born 1948)

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was an American community leader, writer, and lecturer in Neopaganism, as…

2014

Earl Averill

Jr., American baseball player (born 1931)

Earl Douglas Averill was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher and outfielder in the Major Leagues in 1956 and from 1958 to 1963 for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Los…

2015

Robert Drasnin

American clarinet player and composer (born 1927)

Robert Jackson Drasnin was an American composer and clarinet player.

2015

Nina Otkalenko

Russian runner (born 1928)

Nina Grigoryevna Otkalenko, née Pletnyova, was a Soviet middle-distance runner. She won a European title in the 800 m at the inaugural 1954 European Athletics Championships and set multiple world records in this event…

2015

David Sackett

American-Canadian physician and academic (born 1934)

David Lawrence Sackett was an American-Canadian physician and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He is known as one of the fathers of Evidence-Based Medicine. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology…

2015

Gainan Saidkhuzhin

Russian cyclist (born 1937)

Gainan Rakhmatovich Saidkhuzhin was a Russian Tatar cyclist and ten-time cycling champion of the Soviet Union. He competed in the road race at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and finished in 34th and 41st places,…

2015

Murray A. Straus

American sociologist and academic (born 1926)

Murray Arnold Straus was an American professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is best known for creating the conflict tactics scale, the "most widely used instrument in research on family violence".

2016

Doris Day

American singer and actress (born 1922)

Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a…

2019

Unita Blackwell

American civil rights activist and politician (born 1933)

Unita Zelma Blackwell was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent…

2019

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

2nd President of the United Arab Emirates (born 1948)

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the second president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi from 2004 until his death in 2022.

2022

Alice Munro

Canadian short story writer (born 1931)

Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.

2024

Cyril Wecht

American forensic pathologist (born 1931)

Cyril Harrison Wecht was an American forensic pathologist. He was president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the American…

2024

Samm-Art Williams

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1946)

Samuel Arthur Williams was an American playwright, screenwriter, and television producer.

2024

Kit Bond

American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri (born 1939)

Christopher Samuel Bond was an American attorney and politician from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. senator from 1987 to 2011, following two non-consecutive terms as the governor of…

2025

Danny Lendich

New Zealand businessperson (born 1944)

Danilo Stanislav Lendich was a New Zealand businessman. Based in Auckland, he started his career at the age of 12, eventually founding and operating an earthmoving and hauling company, Lendich Construction. In 1988,…

2025

José Mujica

Uruguayan politician, 40th President of Uruguay (born 1935)

José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano was a Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and…

2025

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An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners. Wikipedia →

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American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges. Wikipedia →

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Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. Wikipedia →

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