On this day: 13 August
Events, births and deaths on 13 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tomo Sakurai
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Kenny Baker
- Deaths · Pramukh Swami
100 years ago1926
- Births · Fidel Castro
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 985 · Births · Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
- 981 · Deaths · Gyeongjong
Events · 16
- 1704Battle of Blenheim — 1704 major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession
- 1814Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 — 1814 treaty
- 18681868 Arica earthquake — 1868 earthquake and tsunami centered near Arica, Peru (now Chile)
- 1898Battle of Manila — mock battle in 1898 during the Spanish–American War
- 1905Norwegian union dissolution referendum — referendum ratifying Norway's separation from Sweden
- 1937Battle of Shanghai — 1937 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1940Adlertag — 1940 first day of German military operations to destroy the British air force
- 1944Razing of Anogeia — razing of Greek village and massacre of civilians by Nazi Germans, 1944
- 1961Berlin Wall — barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, enclosing West Berlin (1961–1989)
- 1973Aviaco Flight 118 — Fatal crash in 1973
- 1977Battle of Lewisham — 1977 clash between fascist demonstrators and counter-protesters in London, UK
- 1997
- 20042004 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, in Athens, Greece
- 2008occupation of Gori — 2008 military occupation
- 20142014 Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ crash — aircraft accident in Brazil
- 20152015 Baghdad truck bombing — 2015 terror attack in Sadr City, Iraq
Births · 60
- 985(Julian date)Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah — 6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam
- 1311(Julian date)Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon — King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1312 to 1350
- 1567(Julian date)Samuel de Champlain — 16/17th-century French explorer of North America
- 1625Rasmus Bartholin — Danish scientist, physician and grammarian (1625-1698)
- 1743Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria — princess (1743-1808)
- 1756James Gillray — British caricaturist and printmaker (1756-1815)
- 1792Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen — Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
- 1804Vladimir Odoevsky — Russian writer and philosopher (1803–1869)
- 1814Anders Jonas Ångström — Swedish physicist
- 1818Lucy Stone — American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- 1819Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet — Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
- 1860Annie Oakley — American exhibition sharpshooter (1860–1926)
- 1866Giovanni Agnelli — Italian entrepreneur (1866–1945)
- 1871Karl Liebknecht — German socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)
- 1872Richard Willstätter — German chemist (1872–1942)
- 1888John Logie Baird — Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
- 1890Li Tsung-jen — Chinese warlord, politician, and general (1890–1969)
- 1898Jean Borotra — French tennis player
- 1899Alfred Hitchcock — British filmmaker (1899–1980)
- 1902Felix Wankel — German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine (1902-1988)
- 1907Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — German industrialist (1907–1967)
- 1912Salvador Luria — Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
- 1912Ben Hogan — American golfer (1912–1997)
- 1913Makarios III — Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus (1913–1977)
- 1918Frederick Sanger — British biochemist (1918–2013)
Deaths · 60
- 587(Julian date)Radegund — Frankish queen consort
- 604(Julian date)Emperor Wen of Sui — founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty (541-604)
- 612Fabia Eudokia — Byzantine empress, the first empress-consort of Heraclius
- 662(Julian date)Maximus the Confessor — Christian monk, theologian, scholar and saint (c. 580 - 662)
- 900(Julian date)
- 981(Julian date)Gyeongjong — the 5th king of Goryeo (955–981, r. 975–981)
- 1134(Julian date)Irene of Hungary — Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1134)
- 1311Pietro Gradenigo — doge of Venice
- 1382(Julian date)Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile — Queen consort of Castile
- 1447(Julian date)Filippo Maria Visconti — Duke of Milan
- 1523(Julian date)Gerard David — early Netherlandish painter (c. 1460–1523)
- 1608Giambologna — Flemish sculptor (1529–1608)
- 1667Jeremy Taylor — English clergyman (1613–1667)
- 1795Ahilyabai Holkar — queen of Indore
- 1822Jean-Robert Argand — Swiss mathematician (1768-1822)
- 1826René Laennec — French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)
- 1863Eugène Delacroix — French painter (1798–1863)
- 1865Ignaz Semmelweis — Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
- 1896John Everett Millais — British painter and illustrator (1829–1896)
- 1907Hermann Carl Vogel — German astronomer (1841-1907)
- 1910Florence Nightingale — English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
- 1912Jules Massenet — French composer (1842–1912)
- 1917Eduard Buchner — German chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
- 1934Mary Hunter Austin — Memoirist, novelist, poet, essayist, critic, playwright (1868–1934)
- 1937Sigizmund Levanevsky — Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1902–1937)
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