October 13
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October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 79 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1162 – Leonora of England, Queen of Castile (d. 1214)
- 1453 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (d. 1471)
- 1499 – Claude of France (d. 1524)
- 1613 – Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, Queen of Portugal (d. 1666)
- 1680 – Catherine Opalinska, Queen of Poland (d. 1747)
- 1713 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
- 1768 – Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
- 1820 – John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
- 1821 – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist and politician (d. 1902)
- 1844 – Ernest Myers, English poet (d. 1921)
- 1853 – Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929)
- 1862 – Mary Kingsley, British explorer (d. 1900)
- 1867 – Ramon Maximiliano Valdes, 7th President of Panama (d. 1918)
- 1870 – Albert Jay Nock, American writer (d. 1945)
- 1872 – Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician (d. 1934)
- 1874 – Jozsef Klekl, Slovenian politician in Hungary (d. 1948)
- 1876 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
- 1877 – Theodore G. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
- 1887 – Jozef Tiso, Slovakian politician (d. 1947)
- 1890 – Conrad Richter, American writer (d. 1968)
- 1895 – Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- 1905 – Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Yves Allegret, French movie director (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Steinn Steinarr, Icelandic poet (d. 1958)
- 1909 – Art Tatum, American jazz musician (d. 1956)
- 1911 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
- 1911 – Migjeni, Albanian poet (d. 1938)
- 1915 – Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
- 1915 – Wesley Powell, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1981)
- 1917 – George Osmond, patriarch of the Osmonds (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Yves Montand, French actor and singer (d. 1991)
- 1923 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Terry Gibbs, American jazz musician
- 1925 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966)
- 1925 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Turgut Ozal, 8th President of Turkey (d. 1993)
- 1931 – Raymond Kopa, French footballer
- 1933 – Narriman Sadek, Egyptian royal
- 1934 – Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
- 1939 – Melinda Dillon, American actress
- 1940 – Pharaoh Sanders, American saxophonist
- 1941 – Paul Simon, American musician and songwriter
- 1943 – Edmund Daukoru, OPEC Secretary-General
- 1945 – Desi Bouterse, President of Suriname
- 1946 – Edwina Currie, British politician
- 1947 – Sammy Hagar, American singer
- 1950 – Rolf Ruessmann, German footballer (d. 2009)
- 1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
- 1959 – Marie Osmond, American entertainer
- 1960 – Joey Belladonna, American musician
- 1960 – Eric Joyce, Scottish politician
- 1963 – Thomas Doerflein, German zookeeper (d. 2008)
- 1964 – Christopher Judge, American actor
- 1967 – Trevor Hoffman, American baseball player
- 1967 – Javier Sotomayor, Cuban athlete
- 1967 – Kate Walsh, American actress
- 1968 – Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
- 1968 – Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress
- 1969 – Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
- 1970 – Mel Jackson, American actor and musician
- 1971 – Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian
- 1977 – Antonio Di Natale, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Wes Brown, English footballer
- 1978 – Markus Heikkinen, Finnish footballer
- 1980 – Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
- 1980 – David Haye, English boxer
- 1980 – Scott Parker, English footballer
- 1980 – Ashanti, American singer and actress
- 1982 – Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
- 1986 – Gabriel Agbonlahor, English footballer
- 1986 – Sergio Perez Moya, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Ashley Newbrough, American actress
- 1988 – Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 54 – Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)
- 1093 – Robert I, Count of Flanders
- 1687 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
- 1706 – Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
- 1715 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
- 1812 – Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
- 1822 – Antonio Canova, Venetian sculptor (b. 1757)
- 1825 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (b. 1756)
- 1869 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
- 1882 – Arthur Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
- 1890 – Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1816)
- 1904 – Pavlos Melas, Greek military officer (b. 1870)
- 1905 – Henry Irving, British actor (b. 1838)
- 1909 – Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)
- 1917 – Florence La Badie, pioneer actress (b. 1888)
- 1919 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (born 1857)
- 1928 – Dagmar of Denmark, Empress of Russia (b. 1847)
- 1931 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (b. 1868)
- 1938 – E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
- 1945 – Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
- 1955 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
- 1966 – Clifton Webb, actor (b. 1889)
- 1968 – Bea Benaderet, actress (b. 1906)
- 1974 – Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist (b. 1886)
- 1987 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer (b. 1929)
- 1989 – Merab Kostava, Georgian political activist (b. 1939)
- 1990 – Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Dmitry Filippov, Russian politician (b. 1944)
- 2002 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
- 2008 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971)
- 2009 – Al Martino, American musician (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Gary Collins, American actor and television host (b. 1938)
Events [change]
- 54 – Roman Empire emperor Claudius I dies after being poisoned by his wife Agrippina.
- 1307 – All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
- 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1644 – A Swedish-Dutch fleet defeats the Danes and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
- 1773 – Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy.
- 1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
- 1792 – In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
- 1803 – The first European settlement in Victoria, Australia, is started at Sullivan Bay, Victoria.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – On the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaerof are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
- 1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
- 1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
- 1884 – Greenwich, London is decided as the place that the 0 degree longitude line will pass through.
- 1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded of Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1898 – British passenger ship Mohegan crashes into a reef, sinking within 12 minutes, killing 106 people.
- 1917 – "Miracle of the Sun" is said to have been seen by 70,000 people in Fatima, Portugal.
- 1918 – Talaat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
- 1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as capital city of Turkey.
- 1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
- 1944 – World War II: Riga, Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
- 1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- 1958 – Debut of Paddington Bear fictional character, created by Michael Bond.
- 1960 – 1960 World Series: Baseball player Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run.
- 1962 – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.
- 1967 – The first game of the American Basketball Association is played in Oakland, California, as the Oakland Oaks defeat the Anaheim Amigos 134-129.
- 1970 – Fiji joins the UN.
- 1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176
- 1972 – Andes flight disaster: Fairchild passenger plane transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive, as chronicled in the 1993 movie Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.
- 1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children killed on the ground)
- 1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
- 1977 – Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
- 1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War: Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon, removing Michel Aoun from the Presidential Palace.
- 1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.
- 1999 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
- 2003 – The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open-access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.
- 2006 – Ban Ki-moon is chosen to succeed Kofi Annan as UN Secretary-General.
- 2010 – Miracle of Copiapo: 33 miners, who survived for a record 69 days, trapped underground in the San Jose mine in Chile, are rescued, in a rescue operation that was followed by people around the world.
