January 13
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January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of the year (353 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
- 533 - Saint Remigius, Bishop of Reims (b. 437)
- 614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
- 703 - Empress Jiti of Japan (b. 645)
- 858 – Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
- 888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
- 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
- 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
- 1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
- 1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
- 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
- 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
- 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
- 1717 - Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Swiss entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647)
- 1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
- 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
- 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, consort of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
- 1832 - Thomas Lord, English cricketer (b. 1755)
- 1838 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
- 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German-Russian explorer (b. 1778)
- 1853 – Theophilus Kairis, Greek revolutionary (b. 1783)
- 1864 – Stephen Foster, American musician (b. 1826)
- 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
- 1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
- 1897 - David Schwarz, Austro-Hungarian aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1850)
1901 – 2000
- 1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
- 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
- 1916 – Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1850)
- 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
- 1928 - Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902)
- 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848)
- 1932 – Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1870)
- 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
- 1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
- 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
- 1949 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894)
- 1958 - Jesse L. Lasky, American movie producer (b. 1910)
- 1961 - Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
- 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
- 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (b. 1902)
- 1969 - Li Zongren, Chinese politician (b. 1890)
- 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
- 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Marcel Camus, French movie director (b. 1912)
- 1982 - Arland D. Williams, Jr., American airline passenger (b. 1935)
- 1986 - Abdul Fattah Ismail, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
- 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
- 1993 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
- 2000 - Elizabeth Kerr, American actress (b. 1912)
From 2001
- 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
- 2002 - Paul J. Fannin, Governor of Arizona (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (b. 1946)
- 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
- 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
- 2008 - Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
- 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
- 2011 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
- 2012 - Lefter Küçükonyadis, Turkish footballer (b. 1925)
- 2013 - Bille Brown, Australian actor (b. 1952)
- 2014 - Menachem Zilberman, Israeli comedian and songwriter (b. 1946)
- 2014 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and movie producer (b. 1927)
- 2014 - Mihai Fotino, Romanian actor (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Mark Juddery, Australian author and journalist (b. 1971)
- 2015 - Keith Wright, Australian politician (b. 1942)
- 2015 - Hara Patnaik, Indian actor and movie director (b. 1958)
- 2015 - Jack Hayward, English businessman (b. 1923)
- 2015 - Robert White, American diplomat (b. 1926)
- 2015 - Trevor Colbourn, Australian educator and academic (b. 1927)
- 2016 - J. F. R. Jacob, Indian military officer (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian filmmaker, songwriter and record producer (b. 1934)
- 2016 - Brian Bedford, British actor (b. 1935)
- 2016 - William Craig, American philosopher (b. 1918)
- 2016 - Bern Herbolsheimer, American composer (b. 1948)
- 2016 - Conrad Phillips, British actor (b. 1925)
- 2016 - Lawrence Phillips, American football player (b. 1975)
- 2016 - Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
- 2017 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Mark Fisher, British writer (b. 1968)
- 2017 - Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (b. 1925)
- 2017 - John Jacobs, English golfer (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
- 2017 - David Modell, American businessman (b. 1960)
- 2017 - Anton Nanut, Slovenian conductor (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Ari Rath, Austrian-Israeli journalist (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist (b. 1960)
- 2018 - Doug Harvey, American baseball umpire (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Tzimis Panousis, Greek rock musician and comedian (b. 1954)
- 2018 - Jean Porter, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2018 - Eliyahu Winograd, Israel judge (b. 1926)
- 2018 - Byron Langley, American politician (b. 1926)
- 2019 - Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
- 2019 - Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
- 2019 - Alfred K. Newman, American Navajo code talker (b. 1924)
- 2019 - Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player (b. 1941)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 - Mieczyslaw Zywczysnki, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
- 1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
- 1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017)
- 1908 - Enrico Paoli, Italian chess player (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Earle G. Wheeler, American general (d. 1975)
- 1909 - Danny Barker, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Martinus van der Lubbe, Dutch Communist (d. 1934)
- 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
- 1911 - Guido del Mestri, German cardinal (d. 1993)
- 1913 - Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Liselotte Landbeck, Austrian skater (d. 2013)
- 1919 - Robert Stack, American actor, sportsman and television host (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, French movie director and producer (d. 1970)
- 1923 - Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
- 1923 - Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (d. 2011)
- 1925 - Rosemary Murphy, German-born American actress (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Michael Bond, British writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
- 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African-British biologist
- 1928 - Gregory Walcott, American actor (d. 2015)
- 1929 - Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
- 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1932 - Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994)
- 1933 - Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (d. 2017)
- 1934 - Carolyn See, American novelist, professor and critic (d. 2016)
- 1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor
- 1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian racecar designer
- 1936 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
- 1938 - Daevid Allen, Australian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2015)
- 1938 - Richard Anthony, French singer (d. 2015)
- 1938 - Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
- 1938 - Shivkumar Sharma, Indian composer
- 1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer
- 1939 - Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentine author, screenwriter and director
- 1941 – Pascual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician
- 1942 - Carol Cleveland, English actress
- 1942 - Piero Marini, Italian archbishop
- 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor
- 1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Polish politician and Krakow Mayor
- 1947 - Erland Kolding Nielsen, Danish academic (d. 2017)
- 1947 – Carles Rexach, Catalan-Spanish footballer
- 1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
- 1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut
- 1950 - Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer (d. 2014)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (d. 2003)
- 1951 - Kim Manners, American television producer, director and actor (d. 2009)
- 1951 - Antoni Szymanowski, Polish footballer
- 1952 - John Lee Hooker, Jr., American blues singer
- 1954 - Bruno Coulais, French movie score composer
- 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African rock musician and composer
- 1955 – Huh Jung-Moo, South Korean footballer
- 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer
- 1955 - Anne Pringle, English diplomat
- 1955 - Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer (d. 2015)
- 1956 - Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (d. 2017)
- 1956 - Greg Trooper, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
- 1957 - Claudia Emerson, American poet (d. 2014)
- 1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer
- 1957 - Daniel Scioli, 33rd Vice President of Argentina
- 1957 - Mary Glindon, English politician
- 1957 - Dusan Bukovac, Bulgarian footballer
- 1958 - Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1959 - Jay Lomenzo, American musician
- 1960 - Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
- 1960 - Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
- 1961 – Suggs, English singer (Madness)
- 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
- 1961 - Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
- 1963 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (d. 2011)
- 1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian
- 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
- 1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
- 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor
- 1966 - Simon Shelton, English actor (d. 2018)
- 1968 – Chara, Japanese singer and actress
- 1968 - Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder
- 1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
- 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
- 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
- 1970 - Gavin Whittaker, Australian rugby league player (d. 2017)
- 1970 - Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter, director and producer
- 1971 - John Mallory Asher, American movie actor and director
- 1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress
- 1972 - Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actor
- 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1975 - Daniel Kehlmann, Austrian-German writer
From 1976
- 1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer
- 1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
- 1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater
- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, British actor
- 1978 - Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician
- 1979 - Katy Brand, British actress and comedienne
- 1980 - María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d. 2013)
- 1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
- 1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
- 1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician
- 1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
- 1982 - Kamran Akmal, Pakistani cricketer
- 1982 - Ruth Wilson, English actress
- 1983 - William Hung, Chinese singer
- 1984 - Raif Badawi, Saudi writer, blogger and activist
- 1984 - Kamghe Gaba, German athlete
- 1985 - Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
- 1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
- 1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Lee Seung-gi, Korean singer & actor
- 1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
- 1989 - Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actor
- 1990 - Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1991 - Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
- 1992 - Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
- 1993 - Max Whitlock, British gymnast
- 1995 - Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
- 1995 - Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian