July 13
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July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 171 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 574 - Pope John III
- 678 - Aisha, wife of the prophet Muhammad (b. 612)
- 716 - Rui Zong, Chinese Tang Dynasty Emperor (b. 662)
- 939 - Pope Leo VII
- 1024 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
- 1189 - Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)
- 1299 – King Eric II of Norway (b. 1268)
- 1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
- 1402 – Zhu Yunwen, Emperor of China (b. 1377)
- 1621 - Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1559)
- 1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
- 1645 – Tsar Michael of Russia (b. 1596)
- 1705 - Titus Oates, English conspirator (b. 1649)
- 1761 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
- 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
- 1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, cardinal and pretender to the British throne (b. 1725)
- 1882 - Johnny Ringo, American outlaw (b. 1850)
- 1890 - John C. Fremont, American general and politician (b. 1813)
- 1896 - August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829)
1901 – 2000
- 1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist and inventor (b. 1845)
- 1934 - Mary E. Byrd, American educator and astronomer (b. 1849)
- 1936 - José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (b. 1893) (murdered)
- 1941 - Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
- 1945 - Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, scriptwriter and producer (b. 1879)
- 1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
- 1949 - Walt Kuhn, American painter and cartoonist (b. 1877)
- 1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
- 1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
- 1955 – Ruth Ellis, British murderer (b. 1926)
- 1967 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
- 1973 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (b. 1901)
- 1974 - Marthe Vinot, French actress (b. 1894)
- 1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist (b. 1897)
- 1976 - Frederick Hawksworth, British engineer (b. 1884)
- 1976 – Joachim Peiper, SS officer (b. 1915)
- 1980 – Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
- 1992 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1905)
- 1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, Lego group (b. 1920)
- 1998 - Konstantinos Kallios, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1901)
From 2001
- 2002 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Red Buttons, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2008 - Bronislaw Geremek, Polish historian and writer (b. 1932)
- 2010 – George Steinbrenner, American baseball team owner (b. 1930)
- 2012 - Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940)
- 2012 - Richard D. Zanuck, American movie producer (b. 1934)
- 2013 - Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1982)
- 2014 - Lorin Maazel, French-American conductor and composer (b. 1930)
- 2014 - Jan Nolten, Dutch road bicycle racer (b. 1930)
- 2014 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Gert Voss, German actor (b. 1941)
- 2015 - Philipp Missfelder, German politician (b. 1979)
- 2015 - Joan Sebastian, Mexican actor, singer and composer (b. 1951)
- 2015 - Arturo Paoli, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1912)
- 2016 - El Lebrijano, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Héctor Babenco, Argentine-Brazilian movie director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1946)
- 2016 - Hollis L. Harris, American airline executive (b. 1931)
- 2016 - Carolyn See, American author and critic (b. 1934)
- 2016 - Bernardo Provenzano, Italian crime boss (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1955)
- 2017 - Américo Amorim, Portuguese businessman (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Vince Farrar, English rugby league player (b. 1947)
- 2017 - Fresh Kid Ice, American rapper (2 Live Crew) (b. 1964)
- 2017 - Héctor Lechuga, Mexican comedian, actor and radio presenter (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Joaquim Molins i Amat, Catalan politician (b. 1945)
- 2017 - Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (b. 1931)
- 2017 - Charles Bachman, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
- 2017 - Marie-Josephine Gaudette, American-Italian nun and supercentenarian (b. 1902)
- 2017 - Gertrude Poe, American journalist (b. 1915)
- 2017 - Carl E. Reichardt, American banking executive (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Stan Dragoti, American movie director (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Ray Frenette, Canadian politician (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Frank Giroud, French comics writer (b. 1956)
- 2018 - Claudio Pieri, Italian football referee (b. 1940)
- 2018 - Claude Seignolle, French author (b. 1917)
- 2018 - Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Richard Carter, Australian actor (b. 1953)
- 2019 - Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1940)
- 2019 - Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, Indian writer and curator (b. 1933)
- 2019 - Rod Richards, Welsh politician (b. 1947)
- 2019 - Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1907 - George Weller, American author, playwright and journalist (died 2002)
- 1908 - Dorothy Round, English tennis player (died 1982)
- 1909 - Souphanouvong, Laotian politician (died 1995)
- 1913 – Dave Garroway, American television host (died 1982)
- 1913 – Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Danish shipping magnate (died 2012)
- 1915 - Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese university professor (died 1989)
- 1918 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (died 1955)
- 1919 – William F. Quinn, 1st State Governor of Hawaii (died 2006)
- 1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-American movie score composer (died 1999)
- 1921 - Tullio Ilomets, Estonian chemist and science historian (died 2018)
- 1922 – Anker Jorgensen, former Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2016)
- 1923 - Alexandre Astruc, French film director and critic (died 2016)
- 1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (died 2014)
- 1924 - Michel Constantin, French actor (died 2003)
- 1927 – Simone Veil, French politician (died 2017)
- 1928 – Bob Crane, American actor, (died 1978)
- 1928 – Mace Neufeld, movie producer
- 1928 - Sven Davidson, Swedish tennis player (died 2008)
- 1929 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (died 2006)
- 1929 – Alan Civil, English French horn player (died 1989)
- 1930 - Viktor Tsybulenko, Ukrainian javelin thrower (died 2013)
- 1931 - Ernie Colón, American comic artist (died 2019)
- 1931 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)
- 1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
- 1933 - Patsy Byrne, English actress (died 2014)
- 1933 – David Storey, English writer (died 2017)
- 1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize winner
- 1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and Vice Presidential candidate (died 2009)
- 1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
- 1936 – Albert Ayler, American jazz musician (died 1970)
- 1938 - Michael Verhoeven, German movie director
- 1938 - David Mitton, English model-maker (died 2008)
- 1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor
- 1940 - Paul Prudhomme, American chef (died 2015)
- 1941 – Robert Forster, American actor
- 1941 – Jacques Perrin, French actor, director and producer
- 1941 – Luis Alberto Lacalle, former President of Uruguay
- 1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor
- 1942 – Roger McGuinn, American musician
- 1943 – Fabrizio Poletti, Italian footballer
- 1944 – Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor, sculptor, and architect
- 1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
- 1948 - Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
- 1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, American actress
- 1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, politician in the Republic of China
- 1950 - Jurelang Zedkaia, President of the Marshall Islands (died 2015)
- 1950 - George Nelson, American astronaut
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Didi Conn, American actress
- 1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician
- 1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney
- 1954 – Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer and songwriter
- 1956 - Michael Spinks, American boxer
- 1956 - Günther Jauch, German television presenter
- 1957 - Phil Margera, American television personality
- 1957 – Cameron Crowe, American movie director and writer
- 1960 - Ian Hislop, British journalist, writer and editor
- 1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
- 1962 - Tom Kenny, American comedian and actor
- 1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American bluegrass singer
- 1963 – Neal Foulds, English snooker player
- 1963 - Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer and model
- 1965 - Akina Nakamori, Japanese singer and actress
- 1966 - Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-British conductor
- 1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian singer and DJ
- 1967 - Akira Hokuto, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1969 - Barney Greenway, English singer-songwriter
- 1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-Greek weightlifter
- 1969 - Kim Jeong, American comedian and actor
- 1969 - Oles Buzina, Ukrainian journalist and writer (d. 2015)
- 1970 – Barry Pinches, English snooker player
- 1972 - Rodrigo Gularte, Brazilian drug trafficker (d. 2015)
- 1973 - Ariel Zarate, Argentine footballer
- 1973 - Roberto Martinez, Spanish footballer and football manager
- 1974 – Jarno Trulli, Italian Formula 1 racer
- 1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1975 - Danni Boatwright, American model and sportscaster
From 1976
- 1976 – Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Ashley Scott, American actress
- 1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
- 1979 – Jonathan Goulet, Canadian mixed martial artist
- 1979 – Fernando Salazar, Mexican footballer
- 1980 – Kousuke Atari, Japanese singer
- 1981 – Fran Kranz, American actor
- 1981 – Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian racing cyclist
- 1981 – Ineta Radevica, Latvian athlete
- 1983 – Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
- 1983 – Carmen Villalobos, Colombian actress
- 1984 – Ida Maria, Norwegian singer
- 1985 – Charlotte Dujardin, British equestrian
- 1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Tulisa Contostavlos, English singer (N-Dubz)
- 1987 – Ajmal Kasab, Pakistani Islamist terrorist (died 2012)
- 1988 – He Pingping, world's smallest man (died 2010)
- 1988 – Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer
- 1988 – Steven R. McQueen, American actor
- 1989 – Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1989 – Juan Fernando Caicedo, Colombian footballer
- 1990 – Matt Weinberg, American actor
- 1990 – Eduardo Salvio, Argentine footballer
- 1990 – Jonathan Mensah, Ghanaian footballer
- 1991 – Tyler Skaggs, American baseball player (d. 2019)
- 1992 – Dylan Patton, American actor
- 1994 – Ridge Canipe, American actor
- 1995 – Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
- 1997 – Leo Howard, American actor, model and martial artist
Deaths
Holidays and observances
- Kiribati – Independence Day, 2nd day (not a holiday)
- Mongolia – Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
- Montenegro – Statehood Day
- Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Kálimát (Words) – First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar
- Bon Festival – Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)