Historical Deaths for Tomorrow

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - December 13, 2025

1919 Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74

1217 Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53

1911 Reg Duff, cricketer (23 Tests for Australia 1902-05, 1317 runs), dies

1881 August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43

1944 Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34

1983 Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit), dies at 60

1995 Evangeline Bruce, hostess, dies at 81

1958 Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66

1944 Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78

1862 Maxcy Gregg, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48

1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed

1996 Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76

0838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies

1942 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78

1982 Jack Badcock, cricketer (7 Tests, 1 century but inconsistent), dies

1994 Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60

1994 Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US librarian/Yale-curator, dies at 83

1994 Antoine Pinay, PM of France (1952-53), dies

1935 John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies

1812 Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68

1557 Niccolў Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies

1974 Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66

1738 Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59

1565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49

1521 Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52

1774 Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50

1250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55

1924 Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74

1862 Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 49

1996 Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61

1958 Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70

1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 [OS 11/30]

1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63

1872 W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut

1975 Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88

1975 Hendrik Kruls, Dutch gen/chief milt authority (1944-46), dies at 73

1872 Helena Beeloo, Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut

1124 Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies

1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78

1969 Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83

1894 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68

1996 Cao Yu, dramatist, dies at 86

1929 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42

1981 Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75

1997 Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70

1976 Eduard Claudius, writer, dies

1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63

1693 Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82

1997 Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at 83

1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94

1048 Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74

1863 Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50

1993 Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88

1996 Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89

1898 George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72

1993 Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87

1945 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83

1961 Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101

1940 George Macaulay, cricketer (took 24 wkts in 8 Tests, Eng 22-33), dies

1769 C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54

1979 Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66

1951 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73

1921 Frederick Martin, cricketer (14 wkts in 2 Tests for Eng 1890-92), dies

1672 Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63

1966 Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer

1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed

1814 Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belg fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79

1980 Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73

1862 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39

1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide

1622 Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50

1986 Heather Angel, actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77

1968 Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52

1995 Nancy LaMott, singer, dies at 43

1574 SelЊm II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50

1971 Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88

1991 Andr‚ Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82

1693 Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies

1126 Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies

1963 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79

1992 Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orch leader (duivelswiel), dies

1404 Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74

1983 Leora Dana, actress (Sylvie Kosloff-Another World), dies

1940 Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies

1729 Anthony Collins, Engl philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies at 53

1990 Friedrich DЃrrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69

1958 Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed

1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69

1990 Alice Marble, Calif, tennis star, dies at 77

1981 Cornelius Cardew, composer, dies at 45

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