Did you know about Juan Ponce Enrile
Juan Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr., also referred to by his initials JPE, was a Filipino politician and lawyer, who served as 26th President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 until his resignation in 2013.
Notable Deaths on November 13
November 13 has 104 recorded notable deaths across history, from 867 to 2025. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
2025 — Juan Ponce Enrile
Filipino politician and lawyer (born 1924)
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867 – 2025
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Major events on November 13
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- 2001 War on terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. Source
- 1996 As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number, Source
Did you know about Cecilie Thoresen Krog
Cecilie Thoresen Krog became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in 1882, after an Act amendment had taken place.
Did you know about J. Marion Sims
J. Marion Sims's most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth.
Did you know about Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists.
Did you know about Vine Deloria
Vine Deloria is widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement.
More major people who died on November 13
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1911
Cecilie Thoresen Krog
Norwegian women's rights pioneer (born 1858)
Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog was a Norwegian women's rights pioneer and Liberal Party politician, and the first female university student in Norway. She became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in 1882, after an Act amendment had taken place. She was the first president of the women's rights association Skuld and a co-founder and vice president of its successor, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. She was also a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. She was active in the Liberal Party and her liberal views also colored her involvement in the women's rights movement. She was elected a deputy representative in Christiania City Council for the Liberal Party in 1901, as one of the first women elected to a political office in Norway.
1883
J. Marion Sims
American physician and gynecologist (born 1813)
James Marion Sims was an American medical doctor in the field of surgery. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. He developed this technique via non-consensual and unanesthetized surgeries on enslaved black women Anarcha Westcott, Lucy and Betsey and impoverished Irish women. He is also remembered for inventing the Sims speculum, the Sims sigmoid catheter, and Sims' position. Against significant opposition, he established, in New York, the first hospital in the United States specifically for women. He was forced out of the hospital he founded because he insisted on treating cancer patients; he played a small role in the creation of the nation's first cancer hospital, which opened after his death.
1994
Motoo Kimura
Japanese biologist and geneticist (born 1924)
Motoo Kimura was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles. Combining theoretical population genetics with molecular evolution data, he also developed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in which genetic drift is the main force changing allele frequencies. James Franklin Crow, himself a renowned population geneticist, considered Kimura to be one of the two greatest evolutionary geneticists, along with Gustave Malécot, after the great trio of the modern synthesis, Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright.
2005
Vine Deloria
Jr., American historian, theologian, and author (born 1933)
Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights. He is widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement. From 1964 to 1967, he served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, increasing its membership of tribes from 19 to 156. Beginning in 1977, he was a board member of the National Museum of the American Indian, which now has buildings in both New York City and in Washington, DC, on the Mall.
2010
Luis García Berlanga
Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1921)
Luis García-Berlanga Martí was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under the Francoist dictatorship. These include Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953), which won the International Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, Plácido (1961), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1962, and The Executioner (1963), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 24th Venice International Film Festival He kept a long-time collaboration with screenwriter Rafael Azcona, with whom he co-wrote the scripts for seven of his films between 1961 and 1987.
2020
Peter Sutcliffe
English serial killer (born 1946)
Peter William Sutcliffe, also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and girls, and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. Press reports dubbed him the "Yorkshire Ripper", an allusion to the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. Sutcliffe was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. Two of his murders took place in Manchester; all the others took place in West Yorkshire. Criminal psychologist David Holmes characterised Sutcliffe as being an "extremely callous, sexually sadistic serial killer".
2014
Alvin Dark
American baseball player and manager (born 1922)
Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "the Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New York Giants (1950–1956), the St. Louis Cardinals (1956–1958), the Chicago Cubs (1958–59), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1960). Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants (1961–1964), the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, the Cleveland Indians (1968–1971), and the San Diego Padres (1977). He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player (1954) and once as a manager (1974).
2016
Leon Russell
American singer-songwriter (born 1942)
Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa sound. His recordings earned six gold records and he received two Grammy Awards from seven nominations. In 1973 Billboard named Russell the "Top Concert Attraction in the World". In 2011, he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1955
Bernard DeVoto
American historian and author (born 1897)
Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper's Magazine. DeVoto also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described DeVoto as "flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull."
2007
Wahab Akbar
Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1960)
Ustadz Wahab M. Akbar was a Filipino politician who served three terms as governor of Basilan, during which time he was known for his "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" policy for dealing with kidnappers and terrorists in the province. He was later elected as congressman for the lone district of Basilan in the House of Representatives, but was one of 4 people killed in a bomb attack at the Batasang Pambansa. Police publicly suspected the attack was directed at him by political opponents.
1983
Henry Jamison Handy
American swimmer and water polo player (born 1886)
Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms, trade shows, industrial theater and multimedia training aids. Credited as the first person to imagine distance learning, Handy made his first film in 1910 and presided over a company that produced an estimated 7,000 motion pictures and perhaps as many as 100,000 slidefilms before it was dissolved in 1983.
1969
Iskander Mirza
Indian-Pakistani general and politician, 1st President of Pakistan (born 1899)
Iskander Ali Mirza was a Pakistani politician and military general who served as the fourth and last governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and as the first president of Pakistan from promulgation of the constitution in 1956 till his overthrow in a coup d'état in 1958. Declaring martial law and unilaterally abrogating the constitution on 7 October 1958, he appointed Ayub Khan as Chief Martial Law Administrator who later overthrew Mirza on 27 October 1958 and assumed the presidency.
1770
George Grenville
English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1712)
George Grenville was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, during the early reign of the young King George III. He served for only two years (1763–1765), and attempted to solve the problem of the massive debt resulting from the Seven Years' War. He instituted a series of measures to increase revenue to the crown, including new taxes and enforcement of collection, and sought to bring the North American colonies under tighter crown control.
2005
Eddie Guerrero
American wrestler (born 1967)
Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), along with his appearances in Mexico and Japan. A prominent member of the Guerrero wrestling family, he was the son of first-generation wrestler Gory Guerrero, the brother of Chavo Guerrero, Mando Guerrero, and Héctor Guerrero, the uncle of Chavo Guerrero Jr., and the father of Shaul Guerrero.
2017
Bobby Doerr
American baseball player and manager (born 1918)
Robert Pershing Doerr was an American professional baseball second baseman and coach. He played his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Boston Red Sox (1937–1951). A nine-time MLB All-Star, Doerr batted over .300 three times, drove in more than 100 runs six times, and set Red Sox team records in several statistical categories despite missing one season due to military service during World War II. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986.
2014
Alexander Grothendieck
German-French mathematician and theorist (born 1928)
Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French, was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century.
2002
Juan Alberto Schiaffino
Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1925)
Juan Alberto "Pepe" Schiaffino Villalba was a Uruguayan football player who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. A highly skilful and creative playmaker, at club level, he played for Peñarol in Uruguay, and for AC Milan, and Roma in Italy. At international level, he won the 1950 FIFA World Cup with the Uruguay national team, and also took part at the 1954 FIFA World Cup; he later also represented the Italy national football team.
1440
Joan Beaufort
Countess of Westmoreland
Joan Beaufort was the youngest of the four legitimised children and only daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by his mistress, later third wife, Katherine Swynford. Joan married Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and in her widowhood became a powerful landowner in the north of England, as countess of Westmorland. Through her daughter Cecily, Joan was grandmother to kings Edward IV and Richard III, and great-great-grandmother to Henry VIII.
2024
Theodore Olson
American lawyer (born 1940)
Theodore Bevry Olson was an American lawyer who served as the 42nd solicitor general of the United States from 2001 to 2004 in the administration of President George W. Bush. He previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1981 to 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, and he was also a longtime partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn.
1868
Gioachino Rossini
Italian pianist and composer (born 1792)
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer and conductor of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While he gained most of his fame for his 39 operas, he also wrote many pieces of chamber music, piano, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.
1942
Daniel J. Callaghan
American admiral (born 1890)
Daniel Judson Callaghan was a United States Navy officer who served his country in two wars, in a three-decades-long career. Callaghan served on several ships during his first 20 years of service, including escort duties during World War I, and also filled some shore-based administrative roles. He later came to the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed Callaghan as his naval aide in 1938.
2004
Ol' Dirty Bastard
American rapper and producer (born 1968)
Russell Tyrone Jones, known professionally as Ol' Dirty Bastard, was an American rapper who was one of the founding members of the New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan, formed in 1992. Jones also released music as a solo artist beginning with Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995). He was noted for his "outrageously profane, free-associative rhymes delivered in a distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style".
1952
Margaret Wise Brown
American author (born 1910)
Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for her achievements. Besides her real name, she also used the noms-de-plume Golden MacDonald for Doubleday and Company, Timothy Hay for Harper & Brothers and Juniper Sage for William R. Scott, Inc.
1970
Bessie Braddock
British politician (born 1899)
Elizabeth Margaret Braddock was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liverpool Exchange division from 1945 to 1970. She was a member of Liverpool County Borough Council from 1930 to 1961. Although she never held office in government, she won a national reputation for her forthright campaigns in connection with housing, public health and other social issues.
1998
Red Holzman
American basketball player and coach (born 1920)
William "Red" Holzman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1967 to 1977, and again from 1978 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986.
2024
Shuntarō Tanikawa
Japanese poet and translator (born 1931)
Shuntarō Tanikawa was a Japanese poet, translator, children's author, and screenwriter. He was considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad. The English translation of his poetry volume Floating the River in Melancholy, translated by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura and illustrated by Yōko Sano, won the American Book Award in 1989.
1903
Camille Pissarro
Virgin Islander-French painter (born 1830)
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
1937
Mrs. Leslie Carter
American actress (born 1857)
Caroline Louise Dudley, known professionally as Mrs. Leslie Carter, was an American silent film and stage actress who found fame on Broadway through collaborations with impresario David Belasco. She was a beautiful and vivacious performer with strikingly red hair, known as "The American Sarah Bernhardt". She acted under her married name, Mrs. Leslie Carter, which she continued to use even after her divorce.
1369
Thomas de Beauchamp
11th Earl of Warwick
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, KG, sometimes styled as Lord Warwick, was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. His reputation as a military leader was so formidable that he was nicknamed "the devil Warwick" by the French. In 1348 he became one of the founders and the third Knight of the Order of the Garter.
1996
Bill Doggett
American pianist and composer (born 1916)
William Ballard Doggett was an American pianist and organist. He began his career playing swing music before transitioning into rhythm and blues. Best known for his instrumental compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy", Doggett was a pioneer of rock and roll. He worked with the Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan.
2001
Cornelius Warmerdam
American pole vaulter (born 1915)
Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974.
2024
Daim Zainuddin
Malaysian politician (born 1938)
Che Abdul Daim bin Zainuddin was a Malaysian politician and businessman who served as the Minister of Finance from 1984 to 1991 and again from 1999 to 2001, both times under Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He also served as a Senator from 1980 to 1982 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 to 2004.
867
Pope Nicholas I (born 800)
Pope Nicholas I, also known as Nicholas the Great, was the bishop of Rome and leader of the Papal States from 24 April 858 until his death on 13 November 867. He is the last of the three popes listed in the Annuario Pontificio with the title "the Great", alongside Leo I and Gregory I.
1726
Sophia Dorothea of Celle
Electoral Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Ahlden (born 1666)
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain. The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.
1619
Ludovico Carracci
Italian painter and illustrator (born 1555)
Ludovico Carracci was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism. He died in Bologna in 1619.
1954
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
German field marshal (born 1881)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and commanded a cavalry squadron during World War I. Kleist joined the Reichswehr of inter-war Germany before being discharged in 1938.
1963
Margaret Murray
Indian-English anthropologist and author (born 1863)
Margaret Alice Murray was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She was president of the Folklore Society from 1953 to 1955, and published widely.
1359
Ivan II of Moscow (born 1326)
Ivan II Ivanovich the Fair was Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1353 to 1359. Until that date, he had ruled the towns of Ruza and Zvenigorod. He was the second son of Ivan Kalita, and succeeded his brother Simeon the Proud, who died of the Black Death.
1460
Prince Henry the Navigator
Portuguese patron of exploration (born 1394)
Prince Henry the Navigator, was a Portuguese prince, a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and often credited as one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz.
1319
Eric VI of Denmark (born 1274)
Eric VI Menved was King of Denmark (1286–1319). A son of King Eric V and Agnes of Brandenburg, he became king in 1286 at age 12, when his father was murdered on 22 November by unknown assailants. On account of his age, his mother ruled for him until 1294.
1961
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle
Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (born 1897)
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to several countries between the 1930s and 1961. He served in the United States Army during World Wars I and II, continuing after the war and rising from an enlisted Private to a commissioned major general.
1955
Moshe Pesach
Greek rabbi (born 1869)
Moshe Pesach was a Greek rabbi who was the rabbi of Volos from 1892 until his death, and chief rabbi of Greece from 1946. Through his efforts, and with the assistance of the Greek authorities, the majority of the city's Jewish community was saved during the Holocaust.
1143
Fulk
King of Jerusalem (born 1089)
Fulk was the count of Anjou from 1109 until 1129 and the king of Jerusalem from 1131 until 1143. He was a vigorous and assertive ruler who defeated numerous rebellions as both count and king and left both states more secure than he had found them.
1929
Princess Viktoria of Prussia (born 1866)
Princess Viktoria of Prussia was the second daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor and his wife Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. Born a member of the Prussian royal house of Hohenzollern, she became Princess Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe following her first marriage in 1890.
1986
Franco Cortese
Italian race car driver (born 1903)
Franco Cortese was an Italian racing driver. He entered 156 races between 1927 and 1958, of which one was a Formula 1 Grand Prix and three were Formula 2 Grands Prix. Cortese holds the record of most finishes in a Mille Miglia race: fourteen.
1994
Jack Baker
American actor and screenwriter (born 1947)
John Anthony Bailey was an American actor and pornographic film actor. He appeared in mainstream film and television productions during the 1970s, most notably as C.C. McNamara on Wonderbug (1976–78), before later transitioning into an adult film career under the stage name Jack Baker.
1989
Rohana Wijeweera
Sri Lankan rebel and politician (born 1943)
Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera, better known as Rohana Wijeweera, was a Sri Lankan Marxist–Leninist political activist, revolutionary, and founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 until his assassination.
1991
Paul-Émile Léger
Canadian cardinal (born 1904)
Paul-Émile Léger was a Canadian Catholic prelate, educator, missionary, and humanitarian. A member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice, he served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1950 to 1967 and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
1154
Iziaslav II of Kiev
Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (born c. 1097)
Iziaslav II Mstislavich was Grand Prince of Kiev (1146–1154). He was also Prince of Pereyaslavl, Prince of Turov (1132–1134), Prince of Rostov (1134–), and Prince of Volhynia (1134–1142). He is the founder of the Iziaslavichi branch of Rurikid princes in Volhynia.
1998
Valerie Hobson
Irish-born English actress (born 1917)
Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963.
1975
Olga Bergholz
Russian poet and playwright (born 1910)
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's siege, when she became the symbol of the city's resilience.
1974
Karen Silkwood
American technician and activist (born 1946)
Karen Gay Silkwood was an American laboratory technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety at Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site, a nuclear facility, in Crescent, Oklahoma.
2004
Thomas M. Foglietta
American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to Italy (born 1928)
Thomas Michael Foglietta was an American politician and diplomat. He represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives from 1981 to 1997, and later served as United States Ambassador to Italy from December 1997 to October 2001.
2010
Allan Sandage
American astronomer and cosmologist (born 1926)
Allan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
1872
Margaret Sarah Carpenter
English painter (born 1793)
Margaret Sarah Carpenter was an English painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington.
1921
Ignác Goldziher
Hungarian scholar of Islam (born 1850)
Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern academic hadith studies.
1093
Malcolm III of Scotland (born 1031)
Malcolm III was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1058 to 1093. He was later nicknamed "Canmore". Malcolm's long reign of 35 years preceded the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age.
1983
Junior Samples
American comedian and actor (born 1926)
Alvin Monroe Samples Jr., better known as Junior Samples, was an American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the television show Hee Haw.
2024
Shel Talmy
American record producer, songwriter and arranger (born 1937)
Sheldon Talmy was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger, most notable for his work in England in the 1960s with the Who, the Kinks, and many other artists.
1990
Helen Dettweiler
American golfer (born 1914)
Elizabeth Helen Dettweiler was an American professional golfer. She was one of the co-founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. She won the Women's Western Open in 1939.
1004
Abbo of Fleury
French monk and saint (born 945)
Abbo or Abbon of Fleury, also known as Saint Abbo or Abbon, was a monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey in present-day Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire near Orléans, France.
1175
Henry of France
Archbishop of Reims (born c.1121)
Henry of France, bishop of Beauvais (1149–1161), then archbishop of Reims (1161–1175), was the third son of King Louis VI of France and Adelaide of Maurienne.
1932
Francisco Lagos Cházaro
acting president of Mexico (1915) (born 1878)
Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero was the acting President of Mexico designated by the Convention of Aguascalientes from 9 June to 10 October 1915.
2004
John Balance
English singer-songwriter (born 1962)
Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton, better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet.
2014
Kakha Bendukidze
Georgian economist and politician, Georgian Minister of Economy (born 1956)
Kakha Bendukidze was a Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities.
2012
Erazm Ciołek
Polish photographer and author (born 1937)
Erazm Ciołek was a Polish photojournalist, author of many exhibitions and laureate of various awards. He is considered as the main photographer of the Solidarity movement.
1002
Pallig
Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire
Pallig was a Danish chieftain who joined the service of King Æthelred the Unready of England but deserted to join a Viking raid. He was said to have been the husband of Gunhilde, the sister of Sweyn Forkbeard, and to have been killed along with her in the St Brice's Day massacre in 1002.
1993
Rufus R. Jones
American wrestler (born 1933)
Carey L. Lloyd, also known by his ring name Rufus R. "Freight Train" Jones, was an American professional wrestler. He competed in the Central States, St. Louis and Mid-Atlantic regional promotions of the National Wrestling Alliance as well as the American Wrestling Association and All Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1970s and 1980s.
2012
John Sheridan
English rugby player and coach (born 1933)
John Sheridan was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Lock Lane ARLFC, and Castleford (captain), as a centre, or loose forward, and coached at club level for Castleford, Leeds and Doncaster.
1996
Bobbie Vaile
Australian astrophysicist and academic (born 1959)
Dr Roberta Anne 'Bobbie' Vaile was an Australian astrophysicist and senior lecturer in physics at the Faculty of Business and Technology at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur. She was involved with Project Phoenix and influential in the establishment of the SETI Australia Centre, created at the university in 1995.
1002
Gunhilde
wife of Pallig, Danish chieftain
Gunhild Haraldsdatter is said to have been the sister of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, and the daughter of Harald Bluetooth. She is said to have been the wife of Pallig, a Dane who served the King of England, Æthelred the Unready, as ealdorman of Devonshire.
1955
Dida Dederding
Danish doctor and academic (born 1889)
Dida Dagmar Mary Dederding was a Danish doctor and academic who specialised in inner ear pathology and women's sexual health. She was also known for her work on Ménière's disease, and her theory that it was caused by a water imbalance.
2014
María José Alvarado
Honduran model, Señorita Honduras 2014 (born 1995)
María José Alvarado Muñoz was a Honduran model, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Honduras 2014. She was supposed to represent Honduras at Miss World 2014 held in London, but was murdered prior to the event.
1989
Dorothea Krook-Gilead
Latvian-South African author, translator and scholar (born 1920)
Dorothea Krook-Gilead was an Israeli literary scholar, translator, and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University.
1989
Victor Davis
Canadian swimmer (born 1964)
Victor Davis, CM was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly.
1072
Adalbero III of Luxembourg (born c. 1010)
Adalbero III of Luxembourg was a German nobleman. He was a titular Count of Luxembourg and Bishop of Metz.
1299
Oliver Sutton
Bishop of Lincoln
Oliver Sutton was a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, in England.
1345
Constance of Peñafiel
queen of Pedro I of Portugal (born 1323)
Constanza Manuel of Villena, was a Castilian noblewoman who by her two marriages was Queen consort of Castile and León and Infanta of Portugal.
1432
Anne of Burgundy
duchess of Bedford (born 1404)
Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford was a daughter of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1371–1419), and his wife Margaret of Bavaria (1363–1423).
1502
Annio da Viterbo
Italian friar, historian, and scholar (born 1432)
Annius of Viterbo was an Italian Dominican friar, scholar, and historian, born Giovanni Nanni in Viterbo. He is now remembered primarily for his fabrications.
1606
Girolamo Mercuriale
Italian physician and philologist (born 1530)
Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.
1650
Thomas May
English poet and historian (born 1595)
Thomas May was an English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance era.
1771
Konrad Ernst Ackermann
German actor (born 1712)
Konrad Ernst Ackermann was a German actor.
1777
William Bowyer
English printer and author (born 1699)
William Bowyer was an English printer known as "the learned printer".
1862
Ludwig Uhland
German poet, philologist, and historian (born 1787)
Johann Ludwig Uhland was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician.
1863
Ignacio Comonfort
Mexican soldier and politician. President 1855–1858 (born 1812)
Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Ríos, also known as Ignacio Comonfort, was a Mexican politician and soldier who was also president during La Reforma.
1867
Adolphe Napoléon Didron
French archaeologist and historian (born 1806)
Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1806–1867) was a French art historian and archaeologist.
1973
Bruno Maderna
Italian-German conductor and composer (born 1920)
Bruno Maderna was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
1973
Lila Lee
American actress (born 1901)
Lila Lee was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras.
1974
Vittorio De Sica
Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1901)
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
1979
Dimitris Psathas
Greek playwright and academic (born 1907)
Dimitris Psathas was a modern Greek satirist and playwright. He was born in Trabzon of Pontos, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1907.
1982
Hugues Lapointe
Canadian lawyer and politician, 15th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1911)
Hugues Lapointe was a Canadian lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978.
1988
Antal Doráti
Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1906)
Antal Doráti was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.
1988
Jaromír Vejvoda
Czech composer (born 1902)
Jaromír Vejvoda was a Czech composer. He is best known as the author of the "Beer Barrel Polka".
1989
Franz Joseph II
Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1906)
Franz Joseph II was the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein from 25 July 1938 until his death in November 1989.
1997
André Boucourechliev
Bulgarian-French pianist and composer (born 1925)
André Boucourechliev was a French composer of Bulgarian origin.
1998
Edwige Feuillère
French actress (born 1907)
Edwige Feuillère was a French stage and film actress.
2002
Rishikesh Shaha
Nepalese academic and politician (born 1925)
Rishikesh Shah was a Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist.
2007
John Doherty
English footballer and manager (born 1935)
John Peter Doherty was an English footballer. His regular position was at inside right.
2007
Kazuhisa Inao
Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1937)
Kazuhisa Inao was a Japanese pitcher and manager in Nippon Professional Baseball. He played all of his professional seasons for the Nishitetsu Lions.
2012
Manuel Peña Escontrela
Spanish footballer (born 1965)
Manuel "Manolo" Peña Escontrela was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a forward.
2013
Chieko Aioi
Japanese actress and voice actress (born 1934)
Reiko Komatsu , professionally known as Chieko Aioi , was a Japanese actress and voice actress.
2013
Hans-Jürgen Heise
German author and poet (born 1930)
Hans-Jürgen Heise was a German author and poet.