Famous Deaths for 13th June 2026

1810 – Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer (Spaziergang nach Syrakus), dies at 47
1881 – Joseph Škoda, Bohemian physician, dies at 75
1899 – [Robert] Lawson Tait, Scottish-born pioneering surgeon performed first salpingectomy for ectopic pregnancy, dies at 54
1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (Built in Jerusalem’s Wall: A Book in praise of Jerusalem), dies at 70
1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician, dies at 75
1972 – Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian-American physician and physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 – work on the inner ear), dies at 73
1993 – (Donald) “Deke” Slayton, American US Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut (Mercury Seven; Apollo–Soyuz Test Project), dies of brain cancer at 69
2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2007 – Oskar Morawetz, Czech-Canadian composer (From the Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 90
2008 – Tim Russert, American television journalist and host of NBC’s Meet the Press, dies at 58

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