February 13

2024 Calendar

February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of the year (322 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

721 - Chilperic II (b. 672)
858 – Kenneth I of Scotland
1130 - Pope Honorius II
1141 - Bela II of Hungary (b. 1110)
1199 - Stefan Nemanja, Serbian Grand Prince (b. 1113)
1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
1332 - Andronik II Palaiologus, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 1250)
1539 - Isabella d'Este, Italian Renaissance figure (b. 1474)
1542 – Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1521)
1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter (b. 1510)
1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian Prince (b. 1526)
1660 – Charles X, King of Sweden (b. 1622)
1662 – Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596)
1693 - Johann Kaspar Kerli, German organist and composer (b. 1627)
1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
1741 - Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer (b. 1660)
1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
1787 - Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croat-Italian physicist (b. 1711)
1813 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
1837 - Mariano Jose de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809)
1883 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
1888 - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)
1889 - Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815)

1901 – 2000

1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1906 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
1909 - Hugo Egmont Horring, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1842)
1916 - Carlos Antonio Mendoza, 3rd President of Panama (b. 1856)
1934 - Jozsef Pusztai, Slovenian-Hungarian writer (b. 1864)
1942 - Epitacio Pessoa, President of Brazil (b. 1865)
1943 - Neyyire Neyir, Turkish actress (b. 1902)
1954 - Agnes MacPhail, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1956 - Jan Lukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
1958 – Dame Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette (b. 1880)
1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902)
1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
1974 - Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1912)
1975 - Andre Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
1976 - Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (b. 1904)
1980 – Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1905)
1982 - Zeng Jinlian, tallest woman ever (b. 1964)
1988 - John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (b. 1950)
1991 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1993 - Willoughby Gray, British actor (b. 1916)

From 2001

2002 – Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician (b. 1952)
2005 – Maurice Trintignant, French racing driver (b. 1917)
2006 – Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
2007 - Johanna Sallstrom, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
2008 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese movie director and producer (b. 1915)
2008 – Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist (b. 1917)
2010 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert and Sullivan (b. 1916)
2011 – Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (b. 1932)
2013 - Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch politician (b. 1933)
2014 - Balu Mahendra, Indian moviemaker and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2014 - Richard Moller Nielsen, Danish footballer and coach (b. 1937)
2014 - Piero D'Inzeo, Italian equestrian show jumper (b. 1923)
2014 - Ralph Waite, American actor (b. 1928)
2015 - Kesava Reddy, Indian writer (b. 1946)
2015 - Stan Chambers, American journalist (b. 1923)
2016 - Antonin Scalia, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1936)
2016 - O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet, lyricist and politician (b. 1931)
2016 - Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
2016 - Christopher Zeeman, British mathematician (b. 1925)
2017 - Sara Coward, British actress (b. 1948)
2017 - Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of Kim Jong-un (b. 1971)
2017 - Jan Grabowski, Polish speedway rider (b. 1950)
2017 - Lucky Pulpit, American-trained racehorse (b. 2001)
2017 - E-dubble, American rapper (b. 1982)
2017 - Harold Denton, American public servant (b. 1936)
2017 - Bruce Lansbury, English-American television producer (b. 1930)
2017 - Seijun Suzuki, Japanese director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1923)
2018 - Joseph Bonnel, French footballer (b. 1939)
2018 - Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2018 - Tito Francona, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2018 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (b. 1934)
2018 - Josefina Samper, Spanish communist and feminist (b. 1927)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 - Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist (d. 1976)
1901 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish writer (d. 1935)
1902 - Harold Lasswell, American political scientist (d. 1978)
1903 - Georgy Beriev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1979)
1903 – Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
1906 - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
1909 - Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Guatemalan cardinal (d. 1983)
1910 – William Shockley, British-American physicist (d. 1989)
1911 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet (d. 1984)
1911 - Jean Muir, American actress (d. 1996)
1913 - Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia (d. 1982)
1915 – Aung San, Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician (d. 1947)
1915 - lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
1916 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert and Sullivan (d. 2010)
1918 - Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006)
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
1919 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
1921 - Jeanne Demessieux, French organist, pianist and composer (d. 1968)
1922 - Francis Pym, British politician
1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (d. 2014)
1923 – Chuck Yeager, American pilot
1923 - Michael Anthony Bilandic, 49th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
1923 - James Abdnor, American politician (d. 2012)
1925 - Stuart Wagstaff, English-Australian entertainer (d. 2015)
1928 - Gerald Regan, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia
1929 – Omar Torrijos, President of Panama (d. 1981)
1930 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor and illustrator (d. 2015)
1930 - Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author and academic
1932 - Barbara Shelley, English actress
1932 - Sarah Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
1933 – Paul Biya, President of Cameroon
1933 – Kim Novak, American actress
1933 - Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (d. 2000)
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer
1934 - George Segal, American actor
1937 - Rupiah Banda, former President of Zambia
1937 - Sigmund Jaehn, German cosmonaut
1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
1939 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (d. 2011)
1939 - Beate Klarsfeld, German activist
1940 - Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, former Mayor of Rotterdam
1941 – Sigmar Polke, German painter (d. 2010)
1941 - Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor
1942 - Katsuaki Watanabe, CEO of Toyota
1942 – Peter Tork, American musician (Member of The Monkees)
1942 - Carol Lynley, American actress
1944 – Jerry Springer, American television host
1944 – Stockard Channing, American actress
1944 - Bo Svenson, American actor
1945 - Wallis Grahn, Swedish actress (d. 2018)
1945 - King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
1945 - Simon Schama, British historian
1945 - Marian Dawkins, British biologist
1946 – Artur Jorge, Portuguese football coach
1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach
1947 - Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 - Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American actress and dancer
1949 - Peter Kern, Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2015)
1950 – Peter Gabriel, English musician
1950 - Bob Daisley, Australian musician

1951 – 1975

1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Liam Brady, Irish footballer
1956 - Peter Hook, English musician
1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1958 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
1958 - Tip Tipping, English actor and stuntman (d. 1993)
1959 - Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
1960 - Pia Sundhage, Swedish soccer player and coach
1960 - Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
1961 - Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 - Henry Rollins, American singer, actor and writer
1961 - Richard Tyson, American actor
1962 - Anibal Acevedo Vila, former Governor of Puerto Rico
1962 - Hugh Dennis, English actor and comedian
1964 - Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain and astronaut
1964 - Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician
1965 - Peter O'Neill, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 - Johnny Tapia, American boxer (d. 2012)
1968 - Daisuke Ikeda, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer
1969 - Joyce DiDonato, American mezzo-soprano
1970 - Elmer Bennett, American basketball player
1970 - Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist
1971 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
1971 - Todd Williams, American baseball player
1974 – Robbie Williams, English singer
1974 - Ana Patricia Rojo, Mexican actress
1975 – Ben Collins, English racing driver
1975 - Tony Dalton, American-born actor

From 1976

1976 - Suzanne Maddock, British actress
1978 - Philippe Jaroussky, French tenor
1979 – Rafael Marquez, Mexican footballer
1979 - Rachel Reeves, English politician
1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress
1979 - Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer (2011 Norway attacks)
1980 – Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
1981 - Sam Burley, American athlete
1981 - Liam Miller, Irish footballer (d. 2018)
1983 - Anna Watkins, British rower
1984 - Eveli Saue, Estonian orienteer and athlete
1985 - Hedwiges Maduro, Dutch footballer
1985 – Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
1986 – Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player
1987 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
1988 - Aston Merrygold, British singer (JLS)
1989 - Carly McKillip, Canadian singer and actress
1989 - Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
1990 - Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama
1990 - Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
1993 - Alex Sawyer, British actor, director and singer
1994 - Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
1995 - Ayame Koike, Japanese actress

Deaths

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