Famous Deaths on November 13

1726 Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle, repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain, and mother of George II, dies at 60

George Grenville (1712-1770)

British Prime Minister (1763-65) who introduced the Stamp Act (1st international tax to the colonies in America), dies at 58

1771 Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor and theatre director (Die Oberpfalz), dies at 61
1779 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61
1829 Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1841 Caroline of Baden, Queen of Bavaria, dies at 65
1849 William Etty, English painter best known for paintings of nudes, dies at 62
1861 Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, dies at 42
1862 Ludwig Uhland, German writer, dies at 75
1863 Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general, dies after being wounded in the Battle of Bristoe Station at 45
1867 Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist, dies at 61

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Italian composer (Barber of Seville, William Tell), dies at 76

1869 Iskandar Ali Mirza, Bengali-Pakistani general and 1st President of Pakistan (1956-58), dies of a hear tattack at 70
1877 Pietro Antonio Coppola, Italian composer, dies at 83
1893 Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 78
1896 Antonio Peña y Goñi, Spanish composer, dies at 50
1902 Evander McNair, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 82

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Danish Antillean and French Impressionist painter, dies at 73

1903 Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies
1909 Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70
1916 Frederik Septimus Kelly, Australian-British composer and rower (Summer Olympic gold 1908), dies at 35
1917 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies at 59
1928 Mark Lidzbarski, Polish-German philologist, dies at 60
1937 Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress and writer (Rocky Mountain Mystery, The Heart of Maryland), dies at 75
1939 George Nicholls Jr, actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1939 Lois Weber, American film director who became the first American woman to direct a full feature-length film (The Merchant of Venice) and the first to own her own studio, dies of a stomach ulcer at 60
1942 Daniel J. Callaghan, US Admiral (Medal of Honor), dies during the Battle of Guadalcanal at 52
1942 Douglas H Fox, US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
1942 Norman Scott, US admiral (at Guadalcanal), dies
1944 Paul Graener, German Romantic composer, dies at 72
1944 Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (21st Premier of the Republic of China 1932-35), dies at61
1951 Hugo Leichtentritt, German Jewish composer and musicologist, dies at 77
1951 Nikolai Karlovich Metner, composer, dies at 71
1951 Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (Skazi), dies at 71
1954 Fay Baker, actress (Sorority Girl), dies at 60
1954 Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German general (led the "blitzkrieg", 1st Panzer Group on Eastern Front), dies in a Russian prison at 73
1957 Antonin Zapotocky, Czech communist politician (President of Czechoslovakia 1953-57), dies in office at 72
1958 Bart van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style), dies at 81
1961 Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1897)
1961 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63
1961 Wally Brown, American actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1963 Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1967 Harriet Cohen, British pianist, dies at 71
1967 Pierre Moulaert, Belgian composer, dies at 60
1973 Bruno Maderna, Italian conductor, and avant garde composer (Quadrivium; Satyricon), dies of lung cancer at 53

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973)

Italian fashion designer, dies at 77

1973 Lila Lee, American actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand), dies of stroke at 68
1974 Karen Silkwood, American nuclear lab technician and labor union activist killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances at 28
1974 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Bicycle Thieves, Sciuscià), dies at 73
1975 Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
1975 R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey's End), dies at 79
1977 Ingrid Schubert, German terrorist (b. 1944)
1978 George Hearne, South African cricket batsman (3 Tests; Western Province), dies at 90
1979 Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright (b. 1907)
1982 Babette Deutsch, American poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87
1982 Chesney Allen, English actor (Flanagan and Allen), dies at 88
1982 Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies
1982 Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1983 Alvin "Junior" Samples, American comedian and country singer (Hee Haw), dies of a heart attack at 57
1984 Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
1984 Mauk de Braauw, Dutch minister (DS'70) and Minister of Wetenschapsbeleid, dies at 59
1985 G. Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (Edison Laboratories; Armed Forces Radio Service; Nuremberg Trials; National Voice Library), dies at 87
1986 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
1986 Rudolf Schock, German opera tenor, dies at 71
1986 Thierry Le Luron, French humorist, dies at 34
1988 Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor (Minneapolis Symphony, 1949-1960), dies at 82
1988 Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (Beer Barrel Polka), dies at 86
1989 Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89), dies at 83
1989 Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
1990 Charlie Carpenter, dies at 77
1991 Cyril Poitier, actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80
1991 Hanson Baldwin, US military historian, dies at 88
1992 Alan Balsam, US movie editor (Divine Madness), dies
1992 Bobby McClure, American gospel (The Soul Stirrers) and soul singer ("Don't Mess Up A Good Thing"), dies from a stroke at 50
1992 Gregory Markopoulos, German/American director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies at 61
1992 Lucrecia Perez, Dominicans in Spain (Racist Murder), dies at 33
1992 Maurice Ohana, French classical pianist and composer, dies at 79
1992 Ronnie Bond, British drummer (Troggs - "Wild Thing"; "Love Is All Around"), dies at 52
1993 Jose Toirkens, journalist (Slogan, NRC), dies at 48
1993 Rufus "Freight Train" Jones [Carey Lloyd], American professional wrestler, dies from a heart attack at 60
1994 Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67
1994 Joseph H. Hazen, US Lawyer/producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
1994 Lewis Bingham Keeble, British-born town planner, dies at 79
1994 Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist, dies at 70
1995 Ralph Hunsecker Blane, American songwriter (with HughMartin - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"; "The Trolley Song"), dies at 81
1995 Sir Robert Stephens, British actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust, Chaplin, QB VII, Cleopatra), dies from complications of surgery at 64
1996 Bill Doggett, American jazz and blues Hammond B-3 organist ("Honky Tonk"; "Funky Whistler"), pianist and arranger (The Inkspots; Ella Fitzgerald), dies of a heart attack at 80
1996 Kenneth Watkins, British woodland conservationist and founder (The Woodland Trust), dies at 86
1996 Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)
1997 André Boucourechliev, Bulgarian-French composer, dies at 72
1997 Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
1997 John Elwyn, British painter, dies at 80
1998 Doug Wright, English cricket spin bowler (34 Tests, 108 wickets; Kent), dies at 84
1998 Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
1998 Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
1998 Valerie Hobson, British actress (Great Expectations), dies at 81
1998 William "Red" Holzman, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach (New York Knicks 14 seasons), dies leukemia at 78
1999 Don "Sugarcane" Harris, American rock guitarist and electric violin pioneer (Don & Dewey; Frank Zappa), dies of pulmonary disease at 61 [1]
1999 Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 84
1999 Jaswick Taylor, West Indian cricket fast bowler (3 Tests; 5/109 in Test debut 1958), dies at 67
2001 Margaret "Peggy" Mount, British actress (Oliver!, Panic in the Parlor), dies following a stroke at 86
2001 Marius Flothuis, Dutch composer, (Kleine Suite for 12 Harps; Espressioni Cordiali), artistic director (Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1955–74), musicologist (Mozart), and music critic, dies at 87
2001 Raphaël Sommer, Czech cellist, and educator, dies of an aortic aneurysm at 64 [1]
2002 Michael “Mike” Stewart, American music producer and guitarist (We Five - Let's Get Together), commits suicide at 57
2002 Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese politician and writer (b. 1925)
2003 Kellie Waymire, American actress (Six Feet Under), dies at 36
2004 John Balance [Geoffrey Rushton], British poet and industrial rock musician (Coil; Psychic TV), falls to his death from a second floor balcony at 42
2004 Ol' Dirty Bastard [Russell Jones], American rapper (Wu Tang Clan), dies of a drug overdose at 35
2004 Thomas Foglietta, American politician and diplomat (US Representative for Pennsylvania, 1981-97; Ambassador to Italy, 1997-2001), dies from surgery complications at 75
2005 Eddie Guerrero, Mexican pro wrestler (WWE Championship 2004; WWE Tag Team C'ship x 4), dies of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at 38
2005 Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist (b. 1933)
2007 John Doherty, English footballer (b. 1935)
2007 Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 Montague "Monty" Westmore, American 3rd generation make-up artist (Westmore family), dies of prostate cancer at 84
2007 Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician and Congressman, dies at 47
2010 Allan Sandage, American astronomer (b. 1926)
2010 Ken Iman, American football player (b. 1939)
2010 Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1921)
2013 Barbara Lawrence, American model, actress, and real estate agent (Oklahoma!, A Letter to Three Wives), dies of kidney failure at 83
2013 Carlena Williams, American session and touring vocalist (Ike & Tina Turner Revue; Humble Pie; Pink Floyd; The Carpenters; Donna Summer), dies at 71
2013 Hans-Jürgen Heise, German writer, dies at 83
2013 Todd Christensen, NFL player (Oakland) and sportscaster, dies from complications during liver transplant surgery at 57
2014 Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 92
2016 Enzo Maiorca, Italian freediver (17 world records), dies at 85
2016 Leon Russell, American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), dies at 74

Bobby Doerr (1918-2017)

American Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (9 x MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox), dies at 99

2017 Janet Lupo, American model, dies at 67
2020 Jan Konopásek, Czech-American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator, dies at 88
2020 Jim Pace, American auto racer (24 Hours of Daytona 1996), dies from COVID-19 at 59
2020 Paul Hornung, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1956, Notre Dame; Pro Bowl 1959, 60; Green Bay Packers), dies from dementia complications at 84

Peter Sutcliffe (1946-2020)

English murderer of 13 women "The Yorkshire Ripper", dies in prison of COVID-29 complications at 74 [1]

2020 Viden Apostolov, Bulgarian soccer defender (22 caps; PFC Botev Plovdiv 429 games), dies at 79
2021 Ernie Michie, Scottish rugby union lock (15 caps; 2 caps British & Irish Lions; Barbarians FC; London Scottish RUFC, Leicester Tigers RUFC), dies at 88
2021 Sam Huff, American College / Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker (5 x Pro Bowl; First-team All-Pro 1958, 59; NY Giants, Washington Redskins), dies from dementia complications at 87
2021 Wilbur Smith, British-South African novelist (When the Lion Feeds, War Cry, River God), dies at 88
2022 Frederick Swann, American church and concert pipe organist (Riverside Church, NYC, 1952-82; Robert Shuller's Crystal Cathedral Hour of Power), dies of cancer at 91
2022 Jerry Holland, Irish rugby union lock (3 Tests; Munster RUFC) and coach (Munster RUFC 1994-97), dies at 66
2022 Kevin Beardmore, English rugby league hooker (14 caps GB, 1 England; Castleford RLFC 247 games), dies at 62