On this day: 13 January
Events, births and deaths on 13 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Oliviero Toscani
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Giorgio Gomelsky
- Deaths · Brian Bedford
100 years ago1926
- Births · Michael Bond
- Births · Melba Liston
- Births · Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1001 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Teishi
- 927 · Deaths · Berno of Cluny
Events · 23
- 1750Treaty of Madrid — signed by Spain and Portugal on 1750, concerning their empires and status of their territories of what is now Brazil
- 1797Action of 13 January 1797 — 1797 naval battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1847Treaty of Cahuenga — 1847 agreement that ended the Conquest of California
- 1849Battle of Chillianwala — 1849 battle of the Second Anglo-Sikh War
- 1895Battle of Coatit — 1895 battle between Italy and Ethiopian proxies
- 19151915 Avezzano earthquake — earthquake struck near the city of Avezzano, Abruzzo, Italy on January 13, 1915
- 1916First Feminist Congress of Yucatán — First Feminist Congress in Yucatán, Mexico
- 1920massacre in front of the Reichstag on 13 January 1920 — German event in January 1920
- 1935Saar status referendum, 1935 — referendum on territorial status was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin on 13 January 1935
- 1939Black Friday — part of the 1938–1939 bushfire season in Australia
- 1951Battle of Vinh Yen — 1951 major engagement of the First Indochina War
- 19631963 Togolese coup d'état — 1963 coup in Togo
- 1977Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045 — plane crash
- 1982Air Florida Flight 90 — flight that crashed in 1982 near Washington (D.C.) National Airport
- 1985Awash rail disaster — 1985 Ethiopian rail disaster
- 1991January Events — 1991 protest in Lithuania
- 1993Chemical Weapons Convention — international treaty banning chemical weapons
- 20002000 Marsa Brega Short 360 crash — 2000 aviation incident involving a Short 360
- 2001January 2001 El Salvador earthquake — First Major Earthquake of El Salvador in 2001
- 2004Uzbekistan Airways Flight 1154 — 2004 aviation accident
- 2012Costa Concordia disaster — disaster in which the cruise ship 'Costa Concordia' capsized and sank on 13 January 2012
- 20182018 Hawaii false missile alert — false public emergency alert incident in 2018
- 2021second impeachment of Donald Trump — 2021 United States presidential impeachment
Births · 60
- 101(Julian date)Lucius Aelius Caesar — heir of the Roman Empire as the adopted son of Emperor Hadrian, and father of emperor Lucius Verus
- 915(Julian date)Al-Hakam II — Caliph of Córdoba from 961 to 976
- 1334(Julian date)Henry II of Castile — King of Castile
- 1505(Julian date)Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg — Elector of Brandenburg (1505-1571)
- 1596Jan van Goyen — Dutch landscape painter (1596-1656)
- 1610Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria — Electress of Bavaria by marriage (1610-1665)
- 1808Salmon P. Chase — American politician and lawyer (1808–1873)
- 1810Ernestine Rose — American feminist activist (1810–1892)
- 1831(Julian date)Ivan Shishkin — Russian landscape painter (1832-1898)
- 1832Horatio Alger — American novelist (1832–1899)
- 1859Kostis Palamas — Greek poet
- 1864Wilhelm Wien — German physicist (1864-1928)
- 1869Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta — Italian general (1869–1931)
- 1886Sophie Tucker — Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress and radio personality
- 1890Jüri Uluots — Estonian prime minister (1890-1945)
- 1893Chaïm Soutine — Belarusian-French painter (1893–1943)
- 1893Clark Ashton Smith — American author (1893-1961)
- 1905Kay Francis — American actress (1905–1968)
- 1906Zhou Youguang — Chinese linguist, sinologist (1906–2017)
- 1919Robert Stack — American actor (1919–2003)
- 1924Paul Feyerabend — Austrian-born philosopher of science
- 1926Michael Bond — British writer (1926–2017)
- 1927Sydney Brenner — South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 (1927–2019)
- 1930Frances Sternhagen — American actress (1930–2023)
- 1932Joseph Zen — Bishop of Hong Kong
Deaths · 60
- 86 BCE(Julian date)Gaius Marius — Roman general, statesman and military reformer (157-86 BC)
- 533(Julian date)Saint Remigius — French archbishop and saint
- 614(Julian date)Saint Mungo — apostle of the British Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late 6th century
- 703(Julian date)Jitō — Empress of Japan (645-703)
- 858(Julian date)Æthelwulf — King of Wessex
- 888Charles the Fat — Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)
- 1001(Julian date)Fujiwara no Teishi — Japanese empress consort of Emperor Ichijō
- 1151(Julian date)Abbot Suger — French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)
- 1177(Julian date)Henry II — Duke of Austria from 1156 to 1177
- 1330(Julian date)Frederick the Fair — Austrian duke
- 1363(Julian date)Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol — Duke of Upper Bavaria
- 1599(Julian date)Edmund Spenser — English poet (c. 1552 – 1599)
- 1625Jan Brueghel the Elder — Flemish painter (1568–1625)
- 1691George Fox — English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
- 1717Maria Sibylla Merian — German-Dutch entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist (1647-1717)
- 1735Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg — Sardinian queen
- 1838Ferdinand Ries — German composer
- 1864Stephen Foster — American songwriter (1826-1864)
- 1872Kawakami Gensai — Japanese samurai of the late Edo period (1834-1872)
- 1882Juraj Dobrila — Croatian Roman Catholic bishop and benefactor (1812-1882)
- 1885Schuyler Colfax — Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (1823–1885)
- 1895Jacques Pucheran — French scientist (1817–1895)
- 1907Jakob Hurt — Estonian ethnologist, folklorist and linguist (1839-1907)
- 1908Hashimoto Gahō — Japanese artist (1835-1908)
- 1916Victoriano Huerta — Mexican military officer and 35th President of Mexico (1850-1916)
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