On this day: 13 October
Events, births and deaths on 13 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Drew Struzan
- Events · 2025 Gaza peace summit
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Deaths · Dario Fo
- Deaths · Jim Prentice
100 years ago1926
- Births · Ray Brown
- Births · Killer Kowalski
- Deaths · Hans E. Kinck
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1093 · Deaths · Robert I, Count of Flanders
- 1119 · Deaths · Alan IV
- 982 · Deaths · Emperor Jingzong of Liao
Events · 20
- 1644Battle of Fehmarn — 1644 naval battle of the Torstenson War
- 1793First Battle of Wissembourg — 1793 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1812Battle of Queenston Heights — war of 1812 battle
- 1843B'nai B'rith — international Jewish service organization
- 1885Georgia Tech — public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- 1915Action of the Hohenzollern Redoubt — battle which took place on 13 – 19 October 1915
- 1917Miracle of the Sun — series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917 in Portugal
- 1921Treaty of Kars — peace treaty
- 1946
- 1949Young Pioneers of China — Chinese political youth organization
- 19721972 Andes flight disaster — aviation accident
- 1972Aeroflot Flight 217 — aviation accident
- 1972flag of Okinawa Prefecture — Japanese prefectural flag
- 19761976 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crash — deadliest plane crash in Bolivia
- 1977Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 — 1977 aircraft hijacking
- 20132013 Madhya Pradesh stampede — 2013 human crush in Datia, Madhya Pradesh, India
- 2016Death and funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej — death of the monarch of Thailand
- 20192019 Chicago Marathon — marathon in Chicago
- 2022Sitong Bridge protest — Political protests in Beijing on the eve of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
- 20252025 Gaza peace summit — diplomatic meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Births · 60
- 1453(Julian date)Edward of Westminster — Prince of Wales
- 1474(Julian date)Mariotto Albertinelli — Italian painter (1474-1515)
- 1499Claude of France — Duchess of Brittany; queen consort of France (1499-1524)
- 1821Rudolf Virchow — German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
- 1862Mary Kingsley — British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
- 1887Jozef Tiso — Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
- 1905Yves Allégret — French film director (1905–1987)
- 1909
- 1911Ashok Kumar — Indian actor (1911–2001)
- 1912Cornel Wilde — Hungarian-American actor and film director
- 1918Robert Walker — American actor (1918-1951)
- 1920Laraine Day — American actress (1920–2007)
- 1921Yves Montand — French-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)
- 1923Faas Wilkes — Dutch footballer (1923-2006)
- 1924Roberto Eduardo Viola — military officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina
- 1925
- 1925Lenny Bruce — American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)
- 1926Ray Brown — American jazz musician (1926–2002)
- 1927Turgut Özal — 8th President of the Republic of Turkey (1927–1993)
- 1931Raymond Kopa — French footballer (1931–2017)
- 1932John G. Thompson — American mathematician
- 1934Nana Mouskouri — Greek singer (born 1934)
- 1939Melinda Dillon — American actress (1939–2023)
- 1940Pharoah Sanders — American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)
- 1941Paul Simon — American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Deaths · 60
- 54(Julian date)Claudius — fourth Roman emperor (41–54)
- 982Emperor Jingzong of Liao — 5th emperor of Liao Dynasty (r. 969－982)
- 1093(Julian date)Robert I, Count of Flanders — Count of Flanders
- 1119Alan IV — Duke of Brittany (1060-1119)
- 1382(Julian date)Peter II of Cyprus — King of Cyprus
- 1435Hermann II, Count of Celje — Ban of Slavonia and Croatia (1361-1435)
- 1562Claudin de Sermisy — French composer
- 1605(Julian date)Theodore Beza — French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar (1519-1605)
- 1687Geminiano Montanari — Italian astronomer (1633-1687)
- 1694Samuel von Pufendorf — German philosopher (1632–1694)
- 1706Iyasu I — emperor of Ethiopia
- 1715Nicolas Malebranche — French philosopher
- 1812Isaac Brock — British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
- 1815Joachim Murat — Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves, The king of Naples (1767-1815)
- 1822Antonio Canova — Italian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822)
- 1825Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria — King of Bavaria
- 1869Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve — French literary critic (1804–1869)
- 1882Arthur de Gobineau — French diplomat and writer known for racial theories (1816–1882)
- 1905Henry Irving — English stage actor of the Victorian era (1838–1905)
- 1909Francisco Ferrer — Spanish freethinker, anarchist and educator (1859–1909)
- 1911Sister Nivedita — Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda
- 1917Florence La Badie — actress (1888-1917)
- 1919Karl Adolph Gjellerup — Danish writer (1857–1919)
- 1926Hans E. Kinck — Norwegian writer (1865–1926)
- 1928Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) — Empress consort of Russia (1847–1928)
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