On this day: 13 July
Events, births and deaths on 13 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Muhammadu Buhari
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Robert Fano
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1934 · Births · Wole Soyinka
- 1921 · Deaths · Gabriel Lippmann
- 1930 · Events · 1930 FIFA World Cup
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 939 · Deaths · Leo VII
- 1024 · Deaths · Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1105 · Deaths · Rashi
Events · 21
- 1260Battle of Durbe — battle in Latvia, 1260
- 1558(Julian date)Battle of Gravelines — 1558 battle of the Italian War of 1551-59
- 1643Battle of Roundway Down — 1643 battle
- 1794Battle of the Vosges — 1794 battle
- 1798Battle of Shubra Khit — 1798 battle during the French Invasion of Egypt
- 1814Carabinieri — police branch of Italy's military
- 1841London Straits Convention — International treaty 1841
- 1878Treaty of Berlin of 1878 — 1878 territorial settlement by the Congress of Berlin following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78
- 19131913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak — Cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War
- 19301930 FIFA World Cup — 1st FIFA World Cup, held in Uruguay
- 1941Uprising in Montenegro — conflict
- 1943Operation Fustian — 1943 an airborne forces operation undertaken during the Allied invasion of Sicily
- 1963Aeroflot Flight 12 — aviation accident
- 1977New York City blackout of 1977 — major electricity blackout
- 1985Live Aid — Global concert raised massive funds for famine and had Queen's Iconic performance
- 1992Operation Tiger — 1992 Croatian Army (HV) offensive in areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina near Dubrovnik during the Croatian War of Independence
- 2008Battle of Wanat — 2008 battle of the War in Afghanistan
- 20112011 Mumbai bombings — suicide attack
- 2011Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 — 2011 aviation accident
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup Final — 2014 FIFA World Cup match
- 2024attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania — 2024 shooting of Donald Trump and other victims in Butler County, Pennsylvania
Births · 60
- 1527(Julian date)John Dee — 16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
- 1590Clement X — pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 (1590-1676)
- 1607Wenceslaus Hollar — Czech cartographer, painter of nature, portrait painter and engraver (1607-1677)
- 1608Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor — Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657)
- 1756Thomas Rowlandson — English artist and caricaturist (1757–1827)
- 1793John Clare — English poet (1793-1864)
- 1798Alexandra Feodorovna — empress consort of Russia from 1825 to 1855 (1798–1860)
- 1821Nathan Bedford Forrest — Confederate States Army general (1821–1877)
- 1841Otto Wagner — Austrian architect (1841-1918)
- 1859Sidney Webb — English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)
- 1863Margaret Murray — Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
- 1864John Jacob Astor IV — American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)
- 1894Isaak Babel — Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
- 1898Julius Schreck — Nazi officer, First commander of the SS (1898-1936)
- 1903Kenneth Clark — English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903–1983)
- 1909Souphanouvong — Laotian politician
- 1918Alberto Ascari — Italian racing driver (1918–1955)
- 1922Anker Jørgensen — Danish politician (1922–2016)
- 1927Simone Veil — French politician (1927–2017)
- 1930Naomi Shemer — Israeli poet and songwriter
- 1932Hubert Reeves — Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
- 1932Per Norgård — Danish composer (1932–2025)
- 1933David Storey — British writer (1933–2017)
- 1933Piero Manzoni — Italian artist (1933-1963)
- 1934Wole Soyinka — Nigerian writer (born 1934)
Deaths · 60
- 574(Julian date)John III — pope
- 716(Julian date)Emperor Ruizong of Tang — emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 939(Julian date)Leo VII — pope
- 1024(Julian date)Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to 1024
- 1105(Julian date)Rashi — French rabbi and commentator (1040–1105)
- 1380(Julian date)Bertrand du Guesclin — Constable of France
- 1399Peter Parler — German-Czech architect (1330–1399)
- 1491(Julian date)Afonso, Prince of Portugal — Prince heir apparent, son of John II of Portugal
- 1611Sanada Masayuki — daimyo
- 1621Albert VII, Archduke of Austria — Austrian cardinal and governor of the Netherlands (1559-1621)
- 1629Caspar Bartholin the Elder — Danish polymath (1585-1629)
- 1755Edward Braddock — army general from Great Britain (1695–1755)
- 1761Tokugawa Ieshige — Tokugawa shogun (1712-1761)
- 1762James Bradley — English astronomer; Astronomer Royal
- 1789Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau — French physiocrat economist (1715–1789)
- 1793Jean-Paul Marat — politician and journalist during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
- 1807Henry Benedict Stuart — Catholic cardinal
- 1881John C. Pemberton — Confederate Army officer (1814–1881)
- 1889Robert Hamerling — Austrian poet (1830–1889)
- 1890John C. Frémont — American politician, explorer and military officer (1813–1890)
- 1890Johann Voldemar Jannsen — Estonian journalist and cultural activist (1819–1890)
- 1896August Kekulé — German organic chemist (1829–1896)
- 1921Gabriel Lippmann — Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)
- 1934Kate Sheppard — prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1848–1934)
- 1937Mykhaylo Boychuk — Ukrainian painter (1882-1937)
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