Deaths in History on September 13

Titus (39-81 AD)

Emperor of Rome (79-81) who captured Jerusalem and completed the Colosseum, dies of a fever at about 42

1409 Isabella of Valois, former queen consort of Richard II of England, dies in childbirth at 19
1506 Andrea Mantegna, Italian Renaissance painter (painting in ducal palace in Mantua) (b. 1431)
1557 John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1596 Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, Dutch astronomer and navigator (Java)

Philip II of Spain (1527-1598)

King of Spain (1556-98) and Portugal (1580-98), dies of cancer at 71

1632 Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, dies at 45
1650 Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72
1657 Jacob van Campen, Dutch painter and architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62

James Wolfe (1727-1759)

British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, dies in battle at 32

1766 Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar, dies at 62
1803 John Barry, 1st American commodore of the US Navy, dies at 58
1806 Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 Saverio Bettinelli, Italian Jesuit writer, dies at 90
1813 Hezqeyas, Emperor of Ethiopia (1789-94), dies
1847 Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal, dies at 81
1848 María Isabella of Spain, Queen of the Two Sicilies (1825-30), dies at 59
1872 Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68

Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881)

American soldier, industrialist and politician (Governor of Rhode Island, 1866-69) who popularized sideburns, dies of a heart attack at 57

1904 Kartini, Indonesian activist for women's rights and national heroine, dies at 25
1905 René Goblet, French politician (41st Prime Minister of France), dies at 76
1912 Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1915 Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1921 Louis of Battenberg [Mountbatten], Austrian-born British admiral (WWI), dies at 67
1928 Italo Svevo [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (La Coscienza di Zeno), dies at 66

Lili Elbe (1882-1931)

Danish transgender woman, former painter, and 1st identifiable recipient of sex reassignment surgery (autobiography: Man into Woman), dies from complications involving a uterus transplant at 48

1932 Paul Gorguloff, Russian murderer of French President Paul Doumer, beheaded at 37
1937 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs), dies at 67
1938 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
1939 Eugene Foss, American politician (45th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 80
1944 Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and Special Operations Executive agent in WWII posthumously awarded the George Cross, executed at Dachau at 30

Amon Göth (1908-1946)

Austrian SS commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp, executed by hanging at after being convicted of war crimes at 37

1946 Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist, dies at 71

August Krogh (1874-1949)

Danish zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel 1920), dies at 75

1959 Gilbert Adrian, American costume designer (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 56
1965 Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (TAC, the Architects' Collaborative), dies of cancer at 50
1967 Russell L. Rogers, American electrical engineer and astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 39
1967 Varian Fry, American journalist and recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations", dies at 59
1969 Charles Foulkes, Canada general and honorary citizen of Wageningen (accepted WWII German surrender in the Netherlands), dies at 66
1971 Lin Biao, Chinese Communist Marshal during the Civil War and party leader, dies in a plane crash at 63, possibly while fleeing from a botched coup against Mao
1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1989 Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82
1990 Samuel S. Stratton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 73
1992 Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
1995 Francesco Messina, Italian sculptor, dies at 94
1995 Walter Goetz, German-British illustrator, cartoonist and painter (Colonel Up and Mr. Down), dies at 83
1996 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, American historian, dies at 68
1996 Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies at 78

George Wallace (1919-1998)

American politician (Gov-D-Ala) and presidential candidate, dies of septic shock at 79

1999 Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2002 Douglas Black, Scottish physician and medical scientist (played a key role in the development of the National Health Service), dies at 89
2003 Frank O'Bannon, American politician (Governor of Indiana, 1997-2003), dies of a stroke at 73(
2004 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 Ann Richards, American politician (46th Governor of Texas 1991-95), dies at 73
2007 Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2011 Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)
2012 Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Alberta), dies at 84
2017 Pete Domenici, American politician, U.S. Senator from New Mexico (1973-2009), dies at 85