What happened on July 13 ?

939 - Pope Leo VII

1189 - Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)

1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England

1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)

1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)

1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)

1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat

1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)

1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)

1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer

1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)

1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)

1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)

1705 - Titus Oates, English protestant conspirator (b. 1649)

1755 - Edward Braddock, British general

1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)

1762 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)

1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)

1793 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary (murdered) (b. 1743)

1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)

1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)

1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)

1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)

1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)

1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)

1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (exhaustion) (b. 1937)

1974 - Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)

1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)

1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)

1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)

2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)

2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1907)

2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (New York Dolls) (leukemia) (b. 1951)

2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)