April 13
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April 13 is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1519 – Catherine of Medici, Queen of France (d. 1589)
- 1570 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
- 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish engineer (d. 1833)
- 1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889)
- 1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
- 1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
- 1872 – Jan Szczepanik, Polish chemist and inventor (d. 1926)
- 1891 – Robert Scholl, German politician (d. 1973)
- 1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
- 1894 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (d. 1993)
- 1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Gabriel Ramanantsoa, President of Madagascar (d. 1979)
- 1919 – Howard Keel, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
- 1920 – Liam Cosgrave, Irish Taoiseach
- 1922 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Don Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
- 1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer
- 1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor
- 1940 – J. M. G. Le Clezio, French writer
- 1940 – Max Mosley, English racing executive
- 1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist
- 1946 – Al Green, American singer
- 1949 – Christopher Hitchens, British journalist, author and critic (d. 2011)
- 1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
- 1951 – Peter Davison, British actor
- 1951 – Joachim Streich, East German footballer
- 1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer
- 1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician
- 1960 – Rudi Voeller, German footballer
- 1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
- 1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
- 1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
- 1964 – Andy Goram, Scottish footballer
- 1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
- 1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
- 1974 – David Zdrilic, Australian footballer
- 1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish-Catalan footballer
- 1979 – Meghann Shaugnessy, American tennis player
- 1983 – Nicole Cooke, Welsh road racing cyclist
- 1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
- 1988 – Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 1093 – Prince Vsevolod of Kiev (b. 1030)
- 1605 – Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. 1551)
- 1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
- 1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
- 1904 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (b. 1842)
- 1904 – Stepan Makarov, Russian naval commander (b. 1849)
- 1912 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
- 1918 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
- 1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866)
- 1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
- 1956 – Emil Nolde, German painter (b. 1867)
- 1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
- 1972 – Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Icelandic painter (b. 1885)
- 1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
- 1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
- 1999 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racing driver (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Mark Speight, British children's television presenter (b. 1965) (body found on this date)
- 2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
- 2011 – Buster Martin, French-British marathon runner (b. 1906 or 1913)
Events [change]
- 1111 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
- 1204 – Constantinople falls to the crusaders of the 4th Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1598 – Henry V of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing religious freedom for Huguenots. The edict is repealed in 1685.
- 1829 – Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom are granted the right to vote and are allowed to sit in parliament.
- 1849 – Hungary becomes a Republic.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter, South Carolina, surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1904 – The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk of the Russian Pacific Fleet hits a Japanese mine and sinks. The painter Vasily Vereshchagin is among those who are killed in the incident.
- 1934 – While still under construction, the railway bridge in Saratov, Russia, collapses, killing 150 people.
- 1941 – The USSR and Japan sign a pact of neutrality.
- 1943 – The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
- 1944 – The USSR and New Zealand establish diplomatic relations.
- 1964 – Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar.
- 1970 – Houston, we've had a problem: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, causing major damage, and putting the crew at risk. They safely return to Earth.
- 1975 – At least 17 people are killed in a gun battle between Palestinian Guerrillas and Christian militants in Beirut.
- 1984 – India annexes territory beyond the Line of Control.
- 1986 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit a Jewish place of worship when he visits a Synagogue in Rome.
- 1987 – Portugal agrees to return Macau to China's control in 1999.
- 1992 – In the United Kingdom, the leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, announces his resignation.
- 1992 – Chicago is flooded.
- 1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the US Masters tournament.
- 2002 – Armenian anti-government protests are violently crushed.
- 2003 – The National Library in Baghdad is set on fire, with many historical documents being lost.
Observances [change]
- Songkan (Laos)
- Songkran (Thailand)
- Cambodian New Year
- Thomas Jefferson's birthday (United States)
