Famous Deaths for 13th December 2025

1124 – Callistus/Callixtus II [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
1793 – Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, German literary translator, dies at 63
1862 – Maxcy Gregg, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 48
1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer, dies at 74
1894 – Sarah Parker Remond, African-American abolitionist, dies at 68
1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French-American photographer and antiquitarian, dies at 83
1934 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell in inventing the telephone, dies at 80
1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist (Nobel 1912 – development of the Grignard reaction), dies at 64
1945 – Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard known as the “Hyena of Auschwitz”, and convicted war criminal, executed by hanging at 22
1963 – Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79

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