March 13
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March 13 is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 600 - Leander of Seville, Spanish bishop (b. 534)
- 1202 - Mieszko III the Old, Duke of Greater Poland (b. 1126)
- 1395 - John Barbour, Scottish priest and poet (b. 1320)
- 1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
- 1569 - Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1530)
- 1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, mother of Louis XVI of France (b. 1731)
- 1773 - Philibert Commerson, French historian and explorer (b. 1727)
- 1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
- 1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
- 1854 - Jean-Baptiste Villèle, Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
- 1873 - David Swinson Maynard, founder of Seattle (b. 1808)
- 1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
- 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
- 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragette (b. 1820)
- 1913 - Ernst Georg Ravenstein, German-English geographer and cartographer (b. 1834)
- 1914 - Hakeem Noord-ud-Din, Muslim scholar
- 1918 – César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
- 1936 - Francis Bell, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
- 1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
- 1938 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
- 1938 - Carlo Minoretti, Italian cardinal (b. 1861)
- 1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
- 1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
- 1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
- 1965 - Fan S. Noli, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
- 1975 – Ivo Andric, Serbo-Croatian writer (b. 1892)
- 1987 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist, movie maker and writer (b. 1909)
- 1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist (b. 1903)
- 1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
- 1995 - Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)
- 1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish movie director (b. 1941)
- 1998 - Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
- 1998 - Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
From 2001
- 2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)
- 2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
- 2004 - Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Robert C. Baker, inventor of the Chicken Nugget (b. 1921)
- 2009 - Andrew Martin, American professional wrestler (b. 1975)
- 2010 – He Pingping, smallest man in the world with the ability to walk (b. 1988)
- 2011 – Owsley Stanley, LSD supplier (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Michel Duchaussoy, French actor (b. 1938)
- 2012 - Jacques Villiers, French engineer (b. 1924)
- 2013 - Tore Lokoloko, 2nd Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1930)
- 2013 - Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2014 - Reubin Askew, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1937)
- 2014 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
- 2014 - Icchokas Mera, Lithuanian writer (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938)
- 2015 - Irwin Hasen, American cartoonist and comic artist (b. 1918)
- 2015 - Al Rosen, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- 2016 - Adrienne Corri, British actress (b. 1930)
- 2016 - Martin Olav Sabo, American politician (b. 1938)
- 2016 - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Adib Boroumand, Iranian poet and politician (b. 1924)
- 2017 - Kika de la Garza, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German nobleman (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author and film director (b. 1965)
- 2017 - Ed Whitlock, English-Canadian long-distance runner (b. 1931)
- 2017 - Hiroto Muraoka, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
- 2017 - Henri Cueco, French painter and writer (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Morton Deutsch, American social psychologist (b. 1920)
- 2017 - André Jagendorf, American plant biologist (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Richard H. Solomon, American diplomat (b. 1939)
- 2018 - T. Berry Brazelton, American paediatrician and author (b. 1918)
- 2018 - Bebeto de Freitas, Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (b. 1950)
- 2018 - Jens Nilsson, Swedish politician (b. 1948)
- 2018 - Leonid Kvinikhidze, Russian screenwriter and director (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (b. 1933)
- 2019 - Frank Cali, American crime boss (b. 1965)
- 2019 - Harry Hughes, American politician, 57th Governor of Maryland (b. 1926)
- 2019 - Ghazali Jaafar, Filipino militant and politician (b. 1943)
- 2019 - Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
- 2019 - Leroy Stanton, American baseball player (b. 1946)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991)
- 1903 - Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2016)
- 1906 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2012)
- 1907 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (d. 1986)
- 1908 - Walter Annenberg, American philanthropist, editor and diplomat (d. 2002)
- 1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
- 1910 - Sammy Kaye, American saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter (d. 1987)
- 1910 - Kemal Tahir, Turkish novelist and intellectual (d. 1973)
- 1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
- 1913 – William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987)
- 1916 - Jacque Fresco, American futurist, writer and engineer (d. 2017)
- 1921 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
- 1921 - Gitta Sereny, Austrian-British biographer, historian and investigative journalist (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer (d. 2010)
- 1923 - William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
- 1925 - Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
- 1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Ivan Irwin, American-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
- 1928 - Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
- 1929 - Zbigniew Messner, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2014)
- 1929 - Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (d. 2014)
- 1929 - Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1929 - Joseph Mascolo, American musician and actor (d. 2016)
- 1930 - Günther Uecker, German painter
- 1931 - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German screenwriter and movie director
- 1933 - Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
- 1933 - Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (d. 2014)
- 1934 - Mario David, Italian footballer (d. 2005)
- 1934 - Mario Missiroli, Italian director (d. 2014)
- 1935 - David Nobbs, English comedy writer (d. 2015)
- 1936 - José Mojica Marins, Brazilian filmmaker and actor
- 1936 - Michael Checkland, former Director-General of the BBC
- 1937 - Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (d. 2017)
- 1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
- 1938 - Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1939 - Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer (d. 2018)
- 1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
- 1940 - Christopher Gable, British dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 1998)
- 1940 - Jacqueline Sassard, French actress
- 1941 - John Clark, Scottish footballer
- 1941 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Scatman John, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1942 - Geoffrey Hayes, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2018)
- 1942 - Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and engineer
- 1943 - Giancarlo De Sisti, Italian footballer
- 1943 - André Téchiné, French director and songwriter
- 1945 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
- 1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
- 1947 - Lesley Collier, English ballerina and educator
- 1949 - Sian Elias, New Zealand judge, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand
- 1950 – William H. Macy, American actor
1951 – 1975
- 1952 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and essayist
- 1953 – Deborah Raffin, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1953 - Ridley Pearson, American writer
- 1954 – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, British politician and diplomat
- 1955 – Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
- 1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian athlete
- 1956 - Dana Delany, American actress
- 1957 - John Hoeven, 31st Governor of North Dakota
- 1958 – Linda Robson, English actress
- 1959 - Kathy Hilton, American socialite
- 1960 – Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
- 1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
- 1960 - Jorge Sampaoli, Argentine footballer and manager
- 1961 – Sebastiano Nela, Italian footballer
- 1962 - Terence Blanchard, American trumpeter and composer
- 1967 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
- 1969 – Luca Bucci, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress
- 1971 - Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
- 1973 – Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
- 1973 - David Draiman, American musician
- 1974 – Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
From 1976
- 1977 – Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
- 1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
- 1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1979 - Cedric van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
- 1980 - Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Swedish writer
- 1980 - Caron Butler, American basketball player
- 1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
- 1980 - Flavia Cacace, Italian dancer
- 1981 – Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
- 1981 - April Matson, American actress and singer
- 1982 - Jeremy Curl, English explorer, author and photographer
- 1982 - Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (d. 2016)
- 1985 - Ben Lowe, Australian rugby player
- 1985 - Naughty Boy, English DJ and producer
- 1986 - Shunsuke Daito, Japanese actor
- 1987 - Marco Andretti, American racing driver
- 1987 – Andreas Beck, German footballer
- 1989 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer
- 1989 – Marko Marin, German footballer
- 1989 - Peaches Geldof, British television personality (d. 2014)
- 1989 - Harry Helling, British actor
- 1991 - Kim Eli, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
- 1991 - Le Quang Liem, Vietnamese chess player
- 1991 - Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player
- 1991 - Luan Santana, Brazilian singer and composer
- 1992 - Lucy Fry, Australian actress
- 1992 - Kaya Scodelario, British actress
- 1994 - Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
- 1995 - Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier