Deaths in History on July 13

1683 Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1693 Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
1705 Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator, dies at 55
1755 Edward Braddock, British General, dies of his wounds from the Battle of Fort Duquesne (near present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), during French & Indian War at 60
1760 Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans, dies at 63
1761 Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)

James Bradley (1693-1762)

English astronomer, 3rd Royal, discovered Earth's nutation motion, dies at 69

1777 Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
1785 Stephen Hopkins, American politician who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 78
1789 Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist, dies at 73

Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793)

French journalist and revolutionary (Friend of the People periodical), is murdered by Charlotte Corday in a bath at 50

1807 Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1854 José María Vargas, Venezuelan doctor, botanist and 2nd President of Venezuela (1835-36), dies at 68
1859 Rufus Choate, American lawyer (Hall of Fame), dies at 59
1860 John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
1861 Robert Selden Garnett, US Confederate Brigadier General, dies at 41
1863 John S. Bowen, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1877 Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German politician and bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
1882 Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1889 Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
1890 John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer of the American West and presidential candidate, dies at 77
1896 August Kekule von Stradonitz, German chemist who discovered structure of benzene ring, dies at 66
1922 Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1924 Alfred Marshall, English economist (Principles of Economics), dies at 81
1925 Gerben Postma [Ids], Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare), dies
1927 James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies

Kate Sheppard (1847-1934)

New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, dies at 87

1936 Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43
1937 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
1943 Kurt Huber, German philosopher and resistance fighter, beheaded at 50

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

American photographer and art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Mexican painter who explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender and race in Mexican society, dies of a pulmonary embolism at 47

1954 Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37), dies from a stroke at 73
1954 Irving Pichel, dies at 63
1955 Beulah Ecton Woodard, African-American sculptor, dies at 59
1955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
1960 Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life & Death), dies at 55
1960 Joy Davidman, American poet, writer and wife of C. S. Lewis, dies at 45
1960 Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
1965 Photis Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer, dies at 69
1966 Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 82
1967 Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51
1969 Madiba Thembekile, Nelson Mandela's son, dies in a car accident at 24

Leslie Groves (1896-1970)

American army engineer who directed the Manhattan Project and construction of the Pentagon, dies of a heart attack at 73

1974 Patrick Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948 - nuclear reaction), dies at 76
1976 Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1976 Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1979 Corine Griffith, dies at 84
1980 Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (1966-80), dies of pancreatic cancer at 59
1982 Michael Blankfort, American writer, producer and director, dies at 74
1983 Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian author (The Tin Flute, Street of Riches), dies at 73
1987 Patience Collier, dies
1988 Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51
1988 Samuel L Mendel, oldest US war veteran, dies at 104
1989 Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered
1989 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed
1990 Lois Moran Young, dies of cancer at 81
1991 Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies
1993 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31
1994 Bob Payton, American pizza magnate (The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory), dies at 50
1995 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group), dies at 75
1996 Walter Hassan, British automotive engineer, dies at 91
1997 Michael Jaffe, English professor and museum director (Fitzwilliam Museum), dies at 74
1997 Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2002 Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2008 Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
2014 Nadine Gordimer, South African author & Nobel laureate, dies at 90
2014 Thomas Berger, American novelist, dies at 89
2015 Gerhard Zwerenz, German writer and politician, dies at 90
2016 Bernardo Provenzano, Mafia Boss (Cosa Nostra), dies in a prison hospital at 83

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017)

Chinese writer and human rights activist, dies from liver cancer at 61

2018 Nancy Barbato Sinatra, first wife and life-long friend of Frank Sinatra, dies at 101
2020 Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster, dies of a brain aneurysm at 49
2020 [Zindziswa] Zindzi Mandela, South African politician and poet, dies at 59