On this day: 13 June
Events, births and deaths on 13 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · Twelve-Day War
- Events · Operation True Promise III
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jérôme Lejeune
- Births · Paul Lynde
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1036 · Deaths · Ali az-Zahir
- 976 · Deaths · Mansur I
Events · 19
- 1740Siege of St. Augustine — 1740 siege during the War of Jenkin's Ear
- 1878congress of Berlin — meeting of representatives of the major European powers in 1878
- 1886Great Vancouver Fire — fire that burned down most of Vancouver, BC
- 1916Battle of Mont Sorrel — 1916 conflict of World War I
- 1944Battle of Villers-Bocage — 1944 battle in occupied France
- 1944Battle of Bloody Gulch — 1944 battle on the Western Front of World War II
- 19561956 European Cup Final — association football match
- 1982Battle of Mount Tumbledown — 1982 engagement in the Falklands War
- 1990June 1990 Mineriad — Protest in Bucharest, Romania
- 1996Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 — 1996 aviation accident in Japan
- 20002000 inter-Korean summit — first meeting between the North and South Korean leaders
- 20072007 al-Askari mosque bombing — unclaimed attack on a Shia Islamic mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra
- 2011June 2011 Christchurch earthquake — June 2011 earthquake in New Zealand
- 2013BTS — South Korean musical group; boy band
- 2021thirty-sixth government of Israel — Israeli coalition government formed in 2021 and dissolved in December 2022
- 20212021 Shiyan pipeline explosion — 13 June 2021 explosion in Shiyan, Hubei, China
- 20232023 Nottingham attacks — attacks
- 2025Twelve-Day War — 2025 armed conflict in the Middle East
- 2025Operation True Promise III — Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel in June 2025
Births · 60
- 40(Julian date)Gnaeus Julius Agricola — Roman governor and general, AD 40-93 (40-93)
- 823(Julian date)Charles the Bald — King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877
- 1367Taejong of Joseon — 3rd King of Joseon Dynasty in Korea
- 1580(Julian date)Willebrord Snellius — Dutch astronomer and mathematician
- 1752Frances Burney — English satirical novelist, diarist, playwright (1752-1840)
- 1773Thomas Young — English polymath (1773-1829)
- 1786Winfield Scott — United States Army general (1786–1866)
- 1790José Antonio Páez — president of Venezuela (1790-1873)
- 1831James Clerk Maxwell — Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
- 1854Charles Algernon Parsons — inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)
- 1865William Butler Yeats — Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
- 1870Jules Bordet — Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (1870-1961)
- 1884Anton Drexler — German politician (1884-1942)
- 1884Étienne Gilson — French historian and philosopher (1884-1978)
- 1888Fernando Pessoa — Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
- 1892Basil Rathbone — English actor (1892–1967)
- 1893Dorothy L. Sayers — English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
- 1897Paavo Nurmi — Finnish middle and long distance runner (1897–1973)
- 1901Tage Erlander — Swedish 20th century prime minister (1901-1985)
- 1911Luis Walter Alvarez — American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
- 1915Don Budge — American tennis player (1915-2000)
- 1917Augusto Roa Bastos — Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)
- 1918Ben Johnson — American film actor (1918–1996)
- 1928John Forbes Nash — American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
- 1931Irvin Yalom — American psychotherapist and writer
Deaths · 60
- 220(Julian date)Xiahou Dun — Chinese Han dynasty general (died 220)
- 976Mansur I — the seventh king of Samanid dynasty (961–976)
- 1036Ali az-Zahir — Fatimid dynasty caliph from 1021 to 1036
- 1231(Julian date)Anthony of Padua — Franciscan saint, Doctor of the Church (1195–1231)
- 1256(Julian date)Tankei — Japanese sculptor (1173-1256)
- 1550(Julian date)Veronica Gambara — Italian poet and stateswoman
- 1665Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer — Dutch admiral
- 1762Dorothea Christiane Erxleben — physician (1715–1762)
- 1784Henry Middleton — Plantation owner and public official from South Carolina (1717–1784)
- 1846Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès — French Slave trader, geographer and translator (1767-1846)
- 1861Henry Gray — British anatomist (1827–1861)
- 1881Joseph Škoda — Czech surgeon, internist, pathologist and university educator (1805–1881)
- 1886Ludwig II of Bavaria — King of Bavaria (1845–1886)
- 1898Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau — Canadian politician (1840-1898)
- 1904Nikiforos Lytras — Greek painter (1832–1904)
- 1918Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia — Grand Duke of Russia (1878–1918); youngest son of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
- 1930Henry Segrave — racecar driver (1896–1930)
- 1931Kitasato Shibasaburō — Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist
- 1932William C. Redfield — American politician (1858-1932)
- 1943Kočo Racin — Macedonian and Yugoslav writer, poet and communist (1908–1943)
- 1943Sava Kovačević — Yugoslav Partisan commander (1905–1943)
- 1948Osamu Dazai — Japanese author
- 1951Ben Chifley — Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945 to 1949)
- 1957Irving Baxter — American athletics competitor (born 1876)
- 1965Martin Buber — German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
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