January 13
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January 13 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining after January 13 until the end of the year (353 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
- 1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
- 1610 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
- 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1820)
- 1805 – Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
- 1808 – Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
- 1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
- 1845 – Felix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896)
- 1855 – Otto Lehmann, German physicist (d. 1922)
- 1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
- 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (d. 1928)
- 1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
- 1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
- 1890 – Juri Uluots, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945)
- 1898 – Kaj Munk, Danish pastor, poet and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
- 1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
- 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1984)
- 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Michael Bond, British writer
- 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South Arican biologist
- 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Pascual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician
- 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor
- 1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Polish politician and Krakow Mayor
- 1947 – Carles Rexach, Catalan-Spanish footballer
- 1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut
- 1951 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (d. 2003)
- 1955 – Huh Jung-Moo, South Korean footballer
- 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer
- 1961 – Suggs, British singer
- 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
- 1963 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (d. 2011)
- 1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian
- 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
- 1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
- 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
- 1968 – Chara, Japanese singer and actress
- 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
- 1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer
- 1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, British actor
- 1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
- 1980 – Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
- 1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
- 1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Lee Seung Gi, Korean actor
[change] Deaths
- 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
- 614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
- 858 – Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
- 888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
- 1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
- 1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
- 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
- 1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
- 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German-Russian explorer (b. 1778)
- 1853 – Theophilus Kairis, Greek revolutionary (b. 1783)
- 1864 – Stephen Foster, American musician (b. 1826)
- 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
- 1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
- 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
- 1916 – Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1850)
- 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848)
- 1932 – Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1870)
- 1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
- 1949 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894)
- 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (b. 1902)
- 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 1982 – Marcel Camus, French director (b. 1912)
- 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
- 2004 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
- 2011 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
[change] Events
- 1328 – Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault.
- 1733 – James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1822 – The design of the Flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
- 1840 – The Steamship Lexington burns and sinks 4 miles off Long Island, New York, killing 139 people.
- 1893 – The independent British Labour Party holds its first meeting.
- 1930 – An expedition led by Douglas Mawson discovers the Aagaard Islands off Antarctica.
- 1935 – Most voters in Saarland decide to become part of Germany.
- 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is chosen as the President of Yugoslavia.
- 1963 – A coup in Togo kills the country's first President, Sylvanus Olympio.
- 1964 – An Anti-Muslim riot in Calcutta leaves 100 people dead.
- 1964 – Karol Woityla, later Pope John Paul II, becomes archbishop of Krakow.
- 1972 – A coup occurs in Ghana.
- 1985 – Africa's worst rail disaster occurs in Ethiopia, when a train plunges into a ravine, killing 428 people.
- 1986 – Voyager 2 discovers three moons of Uranus: Desdemona, Belinda and Rosalind.
- 1990 – The US' first elected African American state Governor, L. Douglas Wilder takes office in Virginia.
- 1991 – Soviet troops crush a pro-independence demonstration in Vilnius, Lithuania, killing 14 people, and wounding over 1,000.
- 1993 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off, as STS-54 launches from Cape Canaveral.
- 1993 – Erich Honecker and his wife Margot go into exile in Chile.
- 2001 – An earthquake that was 7.6 on the Richter scale hits all of El Salvador, killing over 800 people.
- 2012 – The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. These are the first Winter Youth Olympics.
