What happened on August 13 ?

586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I

900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)

1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus

1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)

1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter

1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)

1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)

1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)

1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)

1749 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719)

1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684)

1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)

1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)

1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)

1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)

1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)

1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)

1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)

1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868)

1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)

1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929).

1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)

1994 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

1995 - Jan K?esadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)

1995 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b. 1931)

1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)

1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)

2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)

2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)

2005 - David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)