What happened on June 13 ?

323 BC - Alexander the Great, conqueror, emperor, commander (b. 356 BC)

1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)

1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)

1256 ? Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)

1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)

1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)

1760 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. March 27, 1696)

1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)

1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)

1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)

1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)

1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)

1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)

1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)

1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)

1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)

1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)

1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)

1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)

1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)

1993 - Deke Slayton, Astronaut (b. 1924)

1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (b. 1911)

2002 - John Hope, Meteorologist (b. 1919)

2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)

2004 - Ralph Wiley, American Journalist and Writer (b. 1952)

2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)

2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)

2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)

2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)

2006 - Charles Haughey, President of Ireland (b. 1925)