On this day: 13 May
Events, births and deaths on 13 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · José Mujica
- Deaths · Mohammed Sinwar
- Deaths · Kit Bond
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1930 · Deaths · Fridtjof Nansen
- 1916 · Deaths · Sholem Aleichem
- 1922 · Births · Bea Arthur
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1024 · Births · Hugh of Cluny
- 1112 · Deaths · Ulric II, Margrave of Carniola
Events · 25
- 1344(Julian date)Battle of Pallene — 1344 battle
- 1568(Julian date)Battle of Langside — 1568 opening battle of the Marian civil war in Scotland
- 1779Treaty of Teschen — 1779 peace treaty ending the War of the Bavarian Succession
- 1830Ecuador — sovereign state in South America
- 19091909 Giro d'Italia — cycling race
- 1917Our Lady of Fátima — title for the Virgin Mary due to her alleged apparitions to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal
- 1940blood, toil, tears, and sweat — political catchphrase
- 1947Menglianggu Campaign — 1947 battle
- 1948Kfar Etzion massacre — event in the Israeli War of Independence
- 19501950 British Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1950
- 1951Estadio Universidad San Marcos — multi-use stadium in Lima, Peru
- 1958May 1958 crisis in France — insurrectionary context in France linked to government instability and the Algerian war leading to the return to power of General de Gaulle
- 1958attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade — attack on the motorcade of US Vice President Richard Nixon in Caracas, Venezuela while he was visiting in 1958
- 1972Sennichi Department Store Building fire — 1972 building fire in Osaka, Japan
- 1972Battle at Springmartin — series of shootouts in Northern Ireland in 1972
- 19801980 Kalamazoo tornado — 1980 windstorm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- 1981attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II — May 1981 shooting by Mehmet Ali Ağca in St. Peter's Square
- 19851985 MOVE bombing — deaths of 11 people at the hands of police in Philadelphia, USA
- 1990Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot — 1990 football riot at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, SR Croatia
- 2000Enschede fireworks disaster — 2000 fireworks explosion
- 2005Andijan massacre — violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan
- 20112011 Charsadda bombing — suicide bombing by Islamist militants in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- 2012Cadereyta Jiménez massacre — Massacre in Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- 2014Soma mine disaster — 2014 mine fire in Turkey
- 2017Eurovision Song Contest 2017 — 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest
Births · 60
- 1220(Julian date)Alexander Nevsky — political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
- 1254Marie of Brabant, Queen of France — Queen consort of France
- 1655Innocent XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1721 to 1724
- 1699Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal — Portuguese noble and diplomat (1699–1782)
- 1713Alexis Clairaut — French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
- 1717Maria Theresa of Austria — ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
- 1730Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham — British Prime Minister (1730-1782)
- 1742Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen — Duchess of Teschen
- 1753Lazare Carnot — French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
- 1767John VI of Portugal — King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825
- 1792Pius IX — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878
- 1822Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz — King consort of Spain from 1846 to 1868
- 1840Alphonse Daudet — French novelist, playwright, and poet (1840–1897)
- 1842Arthur Sullivan — English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo (1842-1900)
- 1857Ronald Ross — British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
- 1882Georges Braque — French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)
- 1883Georgios Papanikolaou — Greek pathologist (1883-1962)
- 1888Inge Lehmann — Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993)
- 1894Ásgeir Ásgeirsson — Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (1894-1972) Governor of Surtsey (1963-1968)
- 1905Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed — politician, fifth President of India (1905-1977)
- 1907Daphne du Maurier — British writer (1907–1989)
- 1913William Richard Tolbert — President of Liberia 1971–1980 (1913–1980)
- 1914Joe Louis — American boxer (1914-1981)
- 1922Bea Arthur — American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)
- 1928Enrique Bolaños — President of Nicaragua from 2002 to 2007
Deaths · 60
- 189(Julian date)Emperor Ling of Han — Emperor of the Han dynasty from 168 to 189
- 1176(Julian date)Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine from 1138 to 1176
- 1312Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine
- 1573(Julian date)Takeda Shingen — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- 1619Johan van Oldenbarnevelt — Dutch statesman and revolutionary (1547-1619)
- 1704Louis Bourdaloue — French sermon writer
- 1782Daniel Solander — Swedish botanist (1733–1782)
- 1832Georges Cuvier — French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
- 1835John Nash — British architect (1752–1835)
- 1866(Julian date)Nikolai Brashman — Russian mathematician (1796-1866)
- 1878Joseph Henry — American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)
- 1884Cyrus McCormick — American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)
- 1885Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle — German physician (1809–1885)
- 1903Apolinario Mabini — Prime Minister of the Philippines in 1899
- 1916Sholem Aleichem — Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
- 1921Jean Aicard — French poet, dramatist and novelist (1848-1921)
- 1929Arthur Scherbius — German cryptographer (1878–1929)
- 1930Fridtjof Nansen — Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930)
- 1930Katai Tayama — Japanese novelist (1872-1930)
- 1938Charles Édouard Guillaume — Swiss physicist (1861-1938)
- 1948Kathleen Cavendish — American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (1920–1948)
- 1961Gary Cooper — American actor (1901–1961)
- 1963Alois Hudal — Roman Catholic Bishop, Nazi supporter and anti-Semite of Austrian descent
- 1972Dan Blocker — American actor (1928–1972)
- 1974Jaime Torres Bodet — Mexican politician (1902-1974)
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