On this day: 13 February
Events, births and deaths on 13 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jim Guy Tucker
- Events · Taichung Shin Kong Mitsukoshi gas explosion
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Antonin Scalia
- Deaths · Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup
100 years ago1926
- Births · Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1021 · Deaths · Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
- 988 · Deaths · Adalbert Atto of Canossa
Events · 18
- 1352(Julian date)Battle of the Bosporus — 1352 naval battle
- 1503Challenge of Barletta — 1503 battle of the Third Italian War
- 1692massacre of Glencoe — 1692 massacre which took place in Glen Coe, in the Highlands of Scotland
- 1726Mapuche uprising of 1723 — rebellion against the Spanish Empire in colonial Chile
- 1755Treaty of Giyanti — treaties that ended the third javanese succession war
- 19181918 Shantou earthquake — Earthquake in Guangdong, China
- 1945Bombing of Dresden — 1945 British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden
- 1951Battle of Chipyong-ni — 1951 battle of the Korean War
- 1955Sabena Flight 503 — 1955 aviation accident
- 1960Gerboise bleue — French nuclear test, #1
- 1978Sydney Hilton bombing — Terror attack in 1978 in Sydney, Australia
- 1981Louisville sewer explosions — series of explosions that destroyed more than two miles (3 km) of streets in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on February 13, 1981
- 1983Cinema Statuto fire — 1983 movie theatre fire in Turin, Italy
- 1991Amiriyah shelter bombing — military aerial bombing in Iraq
- 1996Nepalese Civil War — civil war in Nepal between 1996 and 2006
- 20102010 Pune bombing — terrorist attack in Maharashtra, India
- 2017assassination of Kim Jong-nam — 2017 murder in Malaysia
- 2025Taichung Shin Kong Mitsukoshi gas explosion — 2025 Disaster at a department store in central Taiwan
Births · 60
- 711 BCE(Julian date)Jimmu — legendary first emperor of Japan
- 1457(Julian date)Mary of Burgundy — duchess of Burgundy and wife of emperor Maximilian I (1457-1482)
- 1599Alexander VII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
- 1728John Hunter — Scottish surgeon (1728-1793)
- 1766Thomas Robert Malthus — British political economist (1766–1834)
- 1768Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier — French diplomat (1768-1835)
- 1769Ivan Krylov — Russian writer (1769–1844)
- 1805Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet — German mathematician (1805–1859)
- 1811François Achille Bazaine — French general (1811-1888)
- 1835Mirza Ghulam Ahmad — Indian religious leader (1835–1908)
- 1849Lord Randolph Churchill — British politician, father of Winston Churchill (1849-1895)
- 1855Paul Deschanel — 11th President of the French Republic (1855–1922)
- 1879Sarojini Naidu — Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from1947 to 1949
- 1881Eleanor Farjeon — English children's writer
- 1885Bess Truman — First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953
- 1888Georgios Papandreou — Prime minister of Greece (1888–1968)
- 1891Grant Wood — American painter (1891–1942)
- 1892Robert H. Jackson — US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 (1892–1954)
- 1902Harold Lasswell — American political scientist (1902-1978)
- 1903Georges Simenon — Belgian writer (1903–1986)
- 1910William Shockley — American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
- 1911Faiz Ahmad Faiz — Pakistani Urdu poet and author (1911–1984)
- 1915Aung San — Burmese revolutionary leader (1915-1947)
- 1923Chuck Yeager — American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923–2020)
- 1929Omar Torrijos — Panamanian military leader and de facto ruler (1929–1981)
Deaths · 60
- 106(Julian date)Emperor He of Han — emperor of the Han Dynasty
- 721(Julian date)Chilperic II — King of Neustria
- 921(Julian date)Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia
- 1021Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah — 6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam
- 1141(Julian date)Béla II of Hungary — Hungarian king (1108-1141)
- 1199Stefan Nemanja — Grand Prince of Serbia, founder of the Nemanjić dynasty
- 1219(Julian date)Minamoto no Sanetomo — 3rd shogun of Kamakura shogunate and poet
- 1332Andronikos II Palaiologos — Byzantine Emperor from 1282 to 1328
- 1539(Julian date)Isabella d'Este — Italian noble (1474-1539)
- 1542(Julian date)Catherine Howard — fifth wife of Henry VIII of England
- 1571(Julian date)Benvenuto Cellini — Florentine sculptor and goldsmith (1500–1571)
- 1660Charles X Gustav of Sweden — King of Sweden (1622-1660)
- 1662Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia — Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662)
- 1728Cotton Mather — American religious minister and scientific writer (1663–1728)
- 1741Johann Joseph Fux — Austrian composer
- 1787Ruđer Josip Bošković — Croat physicist (1711–1787)
- 1787Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes — French diplomat (1719-1787)
- 1818George Rogers Clark — American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752–1818)
- 1837Mariano José de Larra — Spanish romantic writer (1809-1837)
- 1845Henrik Steffens — German philosopher, theologian, scientist and poet (1773-1845)
- 1859Eliza Acton — British food writer and poet (1799–1859)
- 1883Richard Wagner — German composer (1813–1883)
- 1893Ignacio Manuel Altamirano — Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician (1834-1893)
- 1905Konstantin Savitsky — Russian artist (1844-1905)
- 1935Herbert Giles — British sinologist and diplomat (1845–1935)
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