Famous Deaths In May - 13

0384  Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+ on May - 13.  

1162  Death of Géza II of Hungary on May - 13.  

1176  On this day in history death of matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)  

1312  On this day in history death of theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)  

1381  On May - 13 john of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies  

1390  On this day in history robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies  

1573  Death of Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521) on May - 13.  

1619  Death of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded on May - 13.  

1704  Death of Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632) on this day in history.  

1732  Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72 on May - 13.  

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1742  Death of Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

1776  Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71 on May - 13.  

1787  Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38 on this day in history.  

1793  Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72 on May - 13.  

1807  On this day in history death of eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)  

1812  On May - 13 johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62  

1831  On this day in history christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74  

1832  On this day in history death of georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)  

1835  John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies on this day in history.  

1839  On May - 13 israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies  

1864  On May - 13 junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35  

1866  Death of Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796) on May - 13.  

1873  Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1882  On this day in history death of jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35  

1884  Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies on this day in history.  

1885  Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies on this day in history.  

1892  On May - 13 jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63  

1896  Nora Perry, writer, dies on this day in history.  

1901  On this day in history death of leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)  

1904  Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies on this day in history.  

1914  On this day in history r E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies  

1916  Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies on this day in history.  

1921  Death of Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848) on May - 13.  

1925  On this day in history boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies  

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1024  On this day in history birth of hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)  

1254  Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321) was born on May - 13.  

1314  Sergius of Radonesh, Russian saint was born on this day in history.  

1588  Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654) was born on this day in history.  

1592  John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist was born on May - 13.  

1638  On this day in history birth of richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)  

1655  On May - 13 birth of innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24)  

1699  On this day in history birth of marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)