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Events
- 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
- 1503 - Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
- 1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1635 - The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded.
- 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1689 - William III of England and Mary II of England are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Clan Donald at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William II of Scotland.
- 1815 - The Cambridge Union Society founded.
- 1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and Movie projector.
- 1899 - Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- 1920 - The Negro National League (the first) is formed.
- 1934 - The Soviet Union steamship Cheliuskin (ship) sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
- 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh kidnapping, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
- 1945 - World War II: Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from Wehrmacht forces.
- 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany to raid the city by massive aerial bombardment (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
- 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by United States air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- 1975 - A fire erupts in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
- 1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 1979 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdad. The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraqi civilians.
- 1997 - Space Shuttle program: STS-82 Mission - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at 7,022.44.
- 2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
- 2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
- 2007 - Republic of China opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the Republic of China presidential election, 2008.
Births
- 1457 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles of Burgundy and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
- 1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
- 1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
- 1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
- 1728 - John Hunter (surgeon), Scottish surgeon (d. 1793)
- 1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
- 1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
- 1769 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
- 1805 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
- 1835 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
- 1855 - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
- 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
- 1876 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
- 1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
- 1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English author (d. 1965)
- 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)
- 1891 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
- 1892 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
- 1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
- 1906 - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1910 - William Shockley, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1989)
- 1911 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner (d. 1984)
- 1913 - George Barker (poet), British poet (d. 1991)
- 1915 - Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1945)
- 1915 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006)
- 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
- 1919 - Eddie Robinson (football coach), American football coach (d. 2007)
- 1920 - Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002)
- 1922 - Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83
- 1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
- 1923 - Michael Anthony Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
- 1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
- 1923 - Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official
- 1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
- 1928 - The McGuire Sisters, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- 1929 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981)
- 1930 - Ernst Fuchs (artist), Austrian artist
- 1932 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1933 - Paul Biya, Cameroon politician
- 1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
- 1933 - Caroline Blakiston, British actress
- 1934 - George Segal, American actor
- 1937 - Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992)
- 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter
- 1941 - Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee 2003 - present
- 1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
- 1942 - Carol Lynley, American actress
- 1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
- 1943 - Geoff Edwards, American game show host
- 1944 - Stockard Channing, American actress
- 1944 - Jerry Springer, American television host
- 1944 - Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor
- 1944 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006)
- 1945 - King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1946 - Colin Matthews, British composer
- 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
- 1950 - Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis (band))
- 1951 - Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer
- 1951 - David Naughton (actor), American actor and singer
- 1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
- 1953 - Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer
- 1954 - Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1954 - Eric Johnson, American artist
- 1955 - Joe Birkett, American lawyer
- 1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
- 1956 - Yiannis Kouros, Greek Australian ultramarathon
- 1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member
- 1957 - Denise Austin, American fitness expert
- 1958 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- 1958 - Derek Riggs, British artist
- 1958 - Tip Tipping, American actor and stuntman (d. 1993)
- 1959 - Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1959 - Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman
- 1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
- 1960 - Gary Patterson, American football coach
- 1960 - Matt Salinger, American actor
- 1960 - Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
- 1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician
- 1961 - Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician
- 1964 - Mark Patton, American actor
- 1964 - Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician
- 1966 - Jeff Waters, Canadian musician (Annihilator (band))
- 1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian soccer player and coach
- 1968 - Kelly Hu, American actress
- 1970 - Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer
- 1971 - Sonia Evans, British singer
- 1971 - Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971 - Todd Williams, American baseball player
- 1972 - Charlie Garner, American football player
- 1974 - Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player
- 1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
- 1974 - Jeff Duran, American radio personality
- 1975 - Iván González, Puerto Rican disc jockey and musician
- 1976 - Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
- 1976 - Leslie Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1976 - Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator (band))
- 1977 - Randy Moss, American football player
- 1977 - Ben Collins (driver), British racing driver
- 1978 - Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress
- 1979 - Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
- 1979 - Mena Suvari, American actress
- 1980 - Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
- 1981 - Luisão, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 - Liam Miller, Irish footballer
- 1981 - Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
- 1982 - Lanisha Cole, American model
- 1985 - Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
- 1985 - Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
- 1986 - Luke Moore, English footballer
- 1989 - Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
Deaths
- 858 - Kenneth I of Scotland
- 1130 - Pope Honorius II
- 1141 - Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
- 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
- 1322 - Andronicus II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1260)
- 1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)
- 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
- 1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
- 1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
- 1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
- 1602 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
- 1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- 1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
- 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
- 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
- 1662 - Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596)
- 1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
- 1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
- 1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
- 1787 - Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- 1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
- 1813 - Samuel Ashe (1725-1813), Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
- 1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
- 1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
- 1837 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
- 1845 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
- 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
- 1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
- 1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
- 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
- 1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
- 1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
- 1964 - Werner Heyde, German psyhiatrist (b. 1902)
- 1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1975 - André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
- 1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
- 1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
- 1980 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1984 - Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
- 1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
- 2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
- 2003 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
- 2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
- 2005 - Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
- 2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
- 2006 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2007 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- 2007 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
- 2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
Liturgical feasts
External links
- On this day in Canada
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- BBC: On This Day
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Events
- 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
- 1503 - Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims.
- 1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1635 - The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded.
- 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
- 1689 - William III of England and Mary II of England are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Clan Donald at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William II of Scotland.
- 1815 - The Cambridge Union Society founded.
- 1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
- 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
- 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and Movie projector.
- 1899 - Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- 1920 - The Negro National League (the first) is formed.
- 1934 - The Soviet Union steamship Cheliuskin (ship) sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
- 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh kidnapping, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
- 1945 - World War II: Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from Wehrmacht forces.
- 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany to raid the city by massive aerial bombardment (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
- 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
- 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by United States air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- 1975 - A fire erupts in the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.
- 1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 1979 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy a bunker in Baghdad. The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for Iraqi civilians.
- 1997 - Space Shuttle program: STS-82 Mission - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at 7,022.44.
- 2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
- 2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- 2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
- 2007 - Republic of China opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the Republic of China presidential election, 2008.
Births
- 1457 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles of Burgundy and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
- 1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
- 1599 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
- 1672 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
- 1728 - John Hunter (surgeon), Scottish surgeon (d. 1793)
- 1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
- 1768 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
- 1769 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
- 1805 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
- 1835 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
- 1855 - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
- 1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
- 1876 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
- 1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
- 1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English author (d. 1965)
- 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982)
- 1891 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985)
- 1892 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
- 1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
- 1906 - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1910 - William Shockley, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1989)
- 1911 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner (d. 1984)
- 1913 - George Barker (poet), British poet (d. 1991)
- 1915 - Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1945)
- 1915 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006)
- 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
- 1919 - Eddie Robinson (football coach), American football coach (d. 2007)
- 1920 - Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002)
- 1922 - Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83
- 1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
- 1923 - Michael Anthony Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
- 1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
- 1923 - Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official
- 1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
- 1928 - The McGuire Sisters, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- 1929 - Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981)
- 1930 - Ernst Fuchs (artist), Austrian artist
- 1932 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1933 - Paul Biya, Cameroon politician
- 1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
- 1933 - Caroline Blakiston, British actress
- 1934 - George Segal, American actor
- 1937 - Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992)
- 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1939 - Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter
- 1941 - Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee 2003 - present
- 1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
- 1942 - Carol Lynley, American actress
- 1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
- 1943 - Geoff Edwards, American game show host
- 1944 - Stockard Channing, American actress
- 1944 - Jerry Springer, American television host
- 1944 - Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor
- 1944 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006)
- 1945 - King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1946 - Colin Matthews, British composer
- 1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
- 1950 - Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis (band))
- 1951 - Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer
- 1951 - David Naughton (actor), American actor and singer
- 1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
- 1953 - Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer
- 1954 - Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1954 - Eric Johnson, American artist
- 1955 - Joe Birkett, American lawyer
- 1956 - Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
- 1956 - Yiannis Kouros, Greek Australian ultramarathon
- 1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member
- 1957 - Denise Austin, American fitness expert
- 1958 - Pernilla August, Swedish actress
- 1958 - Derek Riggs, British artist
- 1958 - Tip Tipping, American actor and stuntman (d. 1993)
- 1959 - Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1959 - Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman
- 1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
- 1960 - Gary Patterson, American football coach
- 1960 - Matt Salinger, American actor
- 1960 - Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
- 1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician
- 1961 - Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1962 - Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician
- 1964 - Mark Patton, American actor
- 1964 - Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician
- 1966 - Jeff Waters, Canadian musician (Annihilator (band))
- 1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian soccer player and coach
- 1968 - Kelly Hu, American actress
- 1970 - Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer
- 1971 - Sonia Evans, British singer
- 1971 - Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971 - Todd Williams, American baseball player
- 1972 - Charlie Garner, American football player
- 1974 - Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player
- 1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
- 1974 - Jeff Duran, American radio personality
- 1975 - Iván González, Puerto Rican disc jockey and musician
- 1976 - Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
- 1976 - Leslie Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1976 - Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator (band))
- 1977 - Randy Moss, American football player
- 1977 - Ben Collins (driver), British racing driver
- 1978 - Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress
- 1979 - Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
- 1979 - Mena Suvari, American actress
- 1980 - Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
- 1981 - Luisão, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 - Liam Miller, Irish footballer
- 1981 - Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
- 1982 - Lanisha Cole, American model
- 1985 - Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
- 1985 - Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
- 1986 - Luke Moore, English footballer
- 1989 - Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
Deaths
- 858 - Kenneth I of Scotland
- 1130 - Pope Honorius II
- 1141 - Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
- 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
- 1322 - Andronicus II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1260)
- 1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)
- 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
- 1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
- 1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
- 1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
- 1602 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
- 1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
- 1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
- 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
- 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
- 1662 - Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596)
- 1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
- 1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
- 1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
- 1787 - Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- 1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
- 1813 - Samuel Ashe (1725-1813), Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
- 1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
- 1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
- 1837 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
- 1845 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
- 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
- 1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
- 1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
- 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
- 1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
- 1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
- 1964 - Werner Heyde, German psyhiatrist (b. 1902)
- 1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1975 - André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
- 1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
- 1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
- 1980 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
- 1984 - Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
- 1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
- 2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
- 2003 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
- 2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
- 2005 - Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
- 2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
- 2006 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2007 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- 2007 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
- 2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
Liturgical feasts
External links
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February 13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 13
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13 February 2004
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