Famous Deaths Happened In December - 13
Thursday, 18 September 2025
0838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies on this day in history.
1048 On December - 13 al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74
1124 Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies on December - 13.
1126 Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies on December - 13.
1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 on December - 13.
1250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55 on December - 13.
1404 On December - 13 albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74
1466 On this day in history death of donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
1516 On December - 13 death of johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
1521 On December - 13 manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52
1557 On December - 13 niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies
1565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49 on December - 13.
1574 On this day in history selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50
1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 on this day in history.
1621 Death of Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535) on December - 13.
1622 Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.
1672 Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 on December - 13.
1693 Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies on December - 13.
1716 On December - 13 death of charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 On December - 13 death of alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
1729 On December - 13 anthony Collins, Engl philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies at 53
1738 Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59 on December - 13.
1769 C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54 on December - 13.
1774 On this day in history susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50
1783 Death of Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717) on December - 13.
1784 Death of Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709) on this day in history.
1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63 on December - 13.
1812 Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68 on December - 13.
1814 Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belg fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79 on this day in history.
1835 Death of John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760) on December - 13.
1837 Death of Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756) on this day in history.
1862 Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 49 on this day in history.
1863 On this day in history friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50
1868 Death of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794) on December - 13.
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