What happened on September 13 ?

Deaths

81 - Roman Emperor Titus (b. 39)

1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)

1438 - King Duarte of Portugal (b. 1391)

1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter

1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)

1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)

1598 - King Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)

1632 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)

1759 - James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)

1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)

1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)

1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)

1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)

1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)

1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)

1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)

1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)

1905 - RenÃ© Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)

1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)

1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)

1928 - Italo Svevo, Italian author (b. 1861)

1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)

1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)

1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)

1973 - Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)

1977 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)

1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (b. 1900)

1996 - Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)

1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)

1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)

2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)

2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)

2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill (b. 1925

2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian soccer and American football player (b. 1945)