August 13th All Events |
Read about how to open files in Open File Database. |
| August 13th, 3114 (August 13 3114) | Event | According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts. | |
| August 13th, 2007 (August 13 2007) | Death | Brian Adams, aka Demolition Crush, American professional wrestler (born in 1964) | |
| August 13th, 2007 (August 13 2007) | Death | Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (born in 1902) | Brooke Astor Quotes |
| August 13th, 2007 (August 13 2007) | Death | Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (born in 1893) | |
| August 13th, 2007 (August 13 2007) | Death | Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (born in 1917) | |
| August 13th, 2006 (August 13 2006) | Death | Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (born in 1957) | |
| August 13th, 2006 (August 13 2006) | Death | Tony Jay, English actor (born in 1933) | |
| August 13th, 2005 (August 13 2005) | Death | David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born in 1942) | |
| August 13th, 2004 (August 13 2004) | Event | Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area. | |
| August 13th, 2004 (August 13 2004) | Event | Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Male. | |
| August 13th, 2004 (August 13 2004) | Event | 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. | |
| August 13th, 2004 (August 13 2004) | Death | Julia Child, American chef and television personality (born in 1912) | Julia Child Quotes |
| August 13th, 2003 (August 13 2003) | Death | Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (born in 1929) | |
| August 13th, 2001 (August 13 2001) | Death | Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (born in 1947) | |
| August 13th, 2000 (August 13 2000) | Death | Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (born in 1965) | |
| August 13th, 1999 (August 13 1999) | Death | Jaime Garzon, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (born in 1960) | |
| August 13th, 1998 (August 13 1998) | Death | Julien Green, American novelist ((born in 1900) | |
| August 13th, 1998 (August 13 1998) | Death | Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (born in 1934) | |
| August 13th, 1996 (August 13 1996) | Event | Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelievre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. All are found guilty on June 22, 2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively. | |
| August 13th, 1996 (August 13 1996) | Death | Antonio de Spinola, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (born in 1910) | |
| August 13th, 1996 (August 13 1996) | Death | David Tudor, American pianist and composer (born in 1926) | |
| August 13th, 1995 (August 13 1995) | Death | Jan Kresadlo, Czech-born writer (born in 1926) | |
| August 13th, 1995 (August 13 1995) | Death | Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (born in 1931) | |
| August 13th, 1992 (August 13 1992) | Birth | Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion | |
| August 13th, 1991 (August 13 1991) | Death | Jack Ryan, American designer (Barbie) (born in 1926) | |
| August 13th, 1989 (August 13 1989) | Death | Tim Richmond, American race car driver (born in 1955) | |
| August 13th, 1989 (August 13 1989) | Death | Larkin Smith, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (born in 1944) | |
| August 13th, 1986 (August 13 1986) | Birth | Joseph Lapira, American soccer player | |
| August 13th, 1984 (August 13 1984) | Birth | Niko Kranjcar, Croatian footballer | |
| August 13th, 1984 (August 13 1984) | Birth | Heath Pearce, American soccer player | |
| August 13th, 1984 (August 13 1984) | Birth | Boone Logan, American baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1984 (August 13 1984) | Birth | Baby Blue, American rapper (Pretty Ricky) | |
| August 13th, 1984 (August 13 1984) | Death | Tigran Petrosian, Soviet/Armenian chess player (born in 1929) | |
| August 13th, 1983 (August 13 1983) | Birth | Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player | |
| August 13th, 1983 (August 13 1983) | Birth | Lubomir Michalik, Slovakian footballer | |
| August 13th, 1983 (August 13 1983) | Birth | Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born actor | |
| August 13th, 1982 (August 13 1982) | Birth | Shani Davis, American speed skater | |
| August 13th, 1982 (August 13 1982) | Death | Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (born in 1933) | |
| August 13th, 1979 (August 13 1979) | Event | The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16. | |
| August 13th, 1979 (August 13 1979) | Birth | Roman Colon, Dominican baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1979 (August 13 1979) | Birth | Corey Patterson, American baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1979 (August 13 1979) | Birth | Taizo Sugimura, Japanese politician | |
| August 13th, 1978 (August 13 1978) | Birth | Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwean footballer | |
| August 13th, 1977 (August 13 1977) | Birth | Michael Klim, Australian swimmer | |
| August 13th, 1975 (August 13 1975) | Birth | Joe Perry, English snooker player | |
| August 13th, 1975 (August 13 1975) | Birth | Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 13th, 1975 (August 13 1975) | Birth | Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer | |
| August 13th, 1973 (August 13 1973) | Birth | Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress | |
| August 13th, 1973 (August 13 1973) | Birth | Molly Henneberg, American journalist | |
| August 13th, 1973 (August 13 1973) | Birth | Eric Medlen, American drag racer and rodeo star (died in 2007) | |
| August 13th, 1972 (August 13 1972) | Birth | Kevin Plank, American entrepreneur (Under Armour) | |
| August 13th, 1971 (August 13 1971) | Birth | Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor | |
| August 13th, 1971 (August 13 1971) | Birth | Patrick Carpentier, Quebec race car driver | |
| August 13th, 1971 (August 13 1971) | Birth | Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born actor | |
| August 13th, 1970 (August 13 1970) | Birth | Will Clarke, American novelist | |
| August 13th, 1970 (August 13 1970) | Birth | Elvis Grbac, American football player | |
| August 13th, 1970 (August 13 1970) | Birth | Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler | Matt Hyson Quotes |
| August 13th, 1970 (August 13 1970) | Birth | Alan Shearer, English footballer | |
| August 13th, 1969 (August 13 1969) | Birth | Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater | |
| August 13th, 1968 (August 13 1968) | Event | Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel G. Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens. | |
| August 13th, 1967 (August 13 1967) | Birth | Amelie Nothomb, Belgian writer | |
| August 13th, 1966 (August 13 1966) | Birth | Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 13th, 1965 (August 13 1965) | Birth | Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer | |
| August 13th, 1965 (August 13 1965) | Death | Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (born in 1899) | |
| August 13th, 1964 (August 13 1964) | Birth | Jay Buhner, American baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1964 (August 13 1964) | Birth | Hank Cheyne, American actor | |
| August 13th, 1963 (August 13 1963) | Birth | John Slattery, American actor | |
| August 13th, 1963 (August 13 1963) | Birth | Sridevi, Indian actress | |
| August 13th, 1961 (August 13 1961) | Event | The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants attempts to escape to the West. | |
| August 13th, 1961 (August 13 1961) | Birth | Dawnn Lewis, American actress | |
| August 13th, 1961 (August 13 1961) | Birth | Stuart Maconie, English music writer and broadcaster | |
| August 13th, 1961 (August 13 1961) | Birth | Tom Perrotta, American novelist | |
| August 13th, 1960 (August 13 1960) | Event | The Central African Republic declares independence from France. | |
| August 13th, 1960 (August 13 1960) | Birth | Phil "The Power" Taylor, English darts player | |
| August 13th, 1960 (August 13 1960) | Birth | Koji Kondo, Japanese composer | |
| August 13th, 1959 (August 13 1959) | Birth | Danny Bonaduce, American actor | |
| August 13th, 1959 (August 13 1959) | Birth | Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1958 (August 13 1958) | Birth | Fergal Sharkey, musician | |
| August 13th, 1958 (August 13 1958) | Birth | Sgt. First Class Randall Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (died in 1993) | |
| August 13th, 1958 (August 13 1958) | Death | Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (born in 1868) | |
| August 13th, 1955 (August 13 1955) | Birth | Paul Greengrass, English film director | |
| August 13th, 1955 (August 13 1955) | Birth | Keith Ahlers, British racing driver | |
| August 13th, 1955 (August 13 1955) | Birth | Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver | |
| August 13th, 1954 (August 13 1954) | Event | Radio Pakistan broadcasts National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time. | |
| August 13th, 1954 (August 13 1954) | Birth | Nico Assumpcao, Brazilian bass player (died in 2001) | Cao Cao Quotes |
| August 13th, 1952 (August 13 1952) | Birth | Herb Ritts, American photographer (died in 2004) | |
| August 13th, 1951 (August 13 1951) | Birth | Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (died in 2007) | |
| August 13th, 1949 (August 13 1949) | Birth | Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 13th, 1948 (August 13 1948) | Birth | Kathleen Battle, American soprano | |
| August 13th, 1948 (August 13 1948) | Death | Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (born in 1897) | |
| August 13th, 1947 (August 13 1947) | Birth | Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician | |
| August 13th, 1946 (August 13 1946) | Death | H. G. Wells, English writer (born in 1866) | |
| August 13th, 1945 (August 13 1945) | Birth | Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician | |
| August 13th, 1944 (August 13 1944) | Birth | Kevin Tighe, American actor | |
| August 13th, 1944 (August 13 1944) | Birth | Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver | |
| August 13th, 1941 (August 13 1941) | Birth | Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (died in 2003) | |
| August 13th, 1940 (August 13 1940) | Event | World War II: Battle of Britain beginsThe Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations. | |
| August 13th, 1940 (August 13 1940) | Birth | Tony Cloninger, American baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1938 (August 13 1938) | Birth | Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist | |
| August 13th, 1937 (August 13 1937) | Event | Battle of Shanghai begins. | |
| August 13th, 1937 (August 13 1937) | Death | Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (born in unknown) | |
| August 13th, 1935 (August 13 1935) | Birth | Mudcat Grant, American baseball player | |
| August 13th, 1935 (August 13 1935) | Birth | Rod Hull, British television entertainer (died in 1999) | |
| August 13th, 1933 (August 13 1933) | Birth | Doctor Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States | |
| August 13th, 1930 (August 13 1930) | Birth | Don Ho, American musician (died in 2007) | |
| August 13th, 1930 (August 13 1930) | Birth | Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (died in 1999) | |
| August 13th, 1930 (August 13 1930) | Birth | Bernard Manning, English comedian (died in 2007) | |
| August 13th, 1926 (August 13 1926) | Birth | Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| August 13th, 1920 (August 13 1920) | Event | Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated. | |
| August 13th, 1920 (August 13 1920) | Birth | Neville Brand, American actor (died in 1992) | |
| August 13th, 1919 (August 13 1919) | Birth | Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (died in 2007) | |
| August 13th, 1919 (August 13 1919) | Birth | Sir George Shearing, British jazz pianist | |
| August 13th, 1918 (August 13 1918) | Event | Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist. | |
| August 13th, 1918 (August 13 1918) | Event | Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. | |
| August 13th, 1918 (August 13 1918) | Birth | Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate | |
| August 13th, 1917 (August 13 1917) | Birth | Sid Gordon, American baseball player (died in 1975) | |
| August 13th, 1917 (August 13 1917) | Death | Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1860) | |
| August 13th, 1914 (August 13 1914) | Birth | Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (died in 1970) | |
| August 13th, 1913 (August 13 1913) | Event | Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of Albania. | |
| August 13th, 1913 (August 13 1913) | Event | Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley. | |
| August 13th, 1913 (August 13 1913) | Birth | Fred Davis, English snooker player (died in 1998) | |
| August 13th, 1913 (August 13 1913) | Birth | Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d.1977) | |
| August 13th, 1912 (August 13 1912) | Birth | Ben Hogan, American golfer (died in 1997) | |
| August 13th, 1912 (August 13 1912) | Birth | Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1991) | |
| August 13th, 1912 (August 13 1912) | Death | Jules Massenet, French composer (born in 1842) | |
| August 13th, 1911 (August 13 1911) | Birth | William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (died in 1982) | |
| August 13th, 1910 (August 13 1910) | Death | Florence Nightingale, English nurse (born in 1820) | Florence Nightingale Quotes |
| August 13th, 1908 (August 13 1908) | Birth | Gene Raymond, American actor (died in 1998) | Gene Ray Quotes |
| August 13th, 1907 (August 13 1907) | Birth | Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (died in 1976) | |
| August 13th, 1904 (August 13 1904) | Birth | Charles Buddy Rogers, American actor (died in 1999) | |
| August 13th, 1902 (August 13 1902) | Birth | Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (died in 1988) | |
| August 13th, 1899 (August 13 1899) | Birth | Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (died in 1980) | Alfred Hitchcock Quotes |
| August 13th, 1895 (August 13 1895) | Birth | Bert Lahr, American actor (died in 1967) | |
| August 13th, 1890 (August 13 1890) | Birth | Ellen Osiier, Danish Olympic champion fencer (died in 1962) | |
| August 13th, 1889 (August 13 1889) | Birth | Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (died in 1958) | |
| August 13th, 1888 (August 13 1888) | Birth | John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (died in 1946) | John Scott Quotes |
| August 13th, 1888 (August 13 1888) | Birth | Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (died in 1975) | |
| August 13th, 1887 (August 13 1887) | Birth | Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (died in 1952) | |
| August 13th, 1879 (August 13 1879) | Birth | John Ireland, English composer (died in 1962) | |
| August 13th, 1872 (August 13 1872) | Birth | Richard Willstatter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1942) | |
| August 13th, 1866 (August 13 1866) | Birth | Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (died in 1945) | |
| August 13th, 1865 (August 13 1865) | Death | Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (born in 1818) | |
| August 13th, 1863 (August 13 1863) | Death | Eugene Delacroix, French painter (born in 1798) | Eugene Delacroix Quotes |
| August 13th, 1860 (August 13 1860) | Birth | Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (died in 1926) | |
| August 13th, 1851 (August 13 1851) | Birth | Felix Adler, German-born educator (died in 1933) | |
| August 13th, 1826 (August 13 1826) | Death | Rene Laennec, French physician (born in 1781) | |
| August 13th, 1823 (August 13 1823) | Birth | Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (died in 1910) | |
| August 13th, 1820 (August 13 1820) | Birth | Sir George Grove, English music historian (died in 1900) | |
| August 13th, 1819 (August 13 1819) | Birth | George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (died in 1903) | |
| August 13th, 1818 (August 13 1818) | Birth | Lucy Stone, American suffragette (died in 1893) | Lucy Stone Quotes |
| August 13th, 1814 (August 13 1814) | Event | The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London. | |
| August 13th, 1814 (August 13 1814) | Birth | Anders Jonas Angstrom, Swedish physicist (died in 1874) | |
| August 13th, 1803 (August 13 1803) | Birth | Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (died in 1869) | Philo Quotes |
| August 13th, 1792 (August 13 1792) | Birth | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (died in 1849) | William King Quotes |
| August 13th, 1790 (August 13 1790) | Birth | William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (died in 1872) | |
| August 13th, 1764 (August 13 1764) | Birth | Louis Baraguey d Hilliers, French general (died in 1816) | |
| August 13th, 1755 (August 13 1755) | Death | Francesco Durante, Italian composer (born in 1684) | |
| August 13th, 1752 (August 13 1752) | Birth | Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (died in 1814) | |
| August 13th, 1749 (August 13 1749) | Death | Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (born in 1719) | |
| August 13th, 1744 (August 13 1744) | Death | John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (born in 1678) | |
| August 13th, 1721 (August 13 1721) | Death | Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born in 1665) | |
| August 13th, 1717 (August 13 1717) | Birth | Louis Francois I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (died in 1776) | |
| August 13th, 1704 (August 13 1704) | Event | War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of BlenheimEnglish and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians. | |
| August 13th, 1700 (August 13 1700) | Birth | Heinrich, count von Bruhl, German statesman (died in 1763) | |
| August 13th, 1686 (August 13 1686) | Death | Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (born in 1610) | |
| August 13th, 1667 (August 13 1667) | Death | Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (born in 1613) | Jeremy Taylor Quotes |
| August 13th, 1666 (August 13 1666) | Birth | William Wotton, English scholar (died in 1727) | |
| August 13th, 1662 (August 13 1662) | Birth | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (died in 1748) | |
| August 13th, 1625 (August 13 1625) | Birth | Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (died in 1698) | |
| August 13th, 1617 (August 13 1617) | Death | Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (born in 1540) | |
| August 13th, 1584 (August 13 1584) | Birth | Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (died in 1640) | |
| August 13th, 1553 (August 13 1553) | Event | Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic. | John Calvin Quotes |
| August 13th, 1536 (August 13 1536) | Event | Buddhist monks from Kyoto s Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536). | |
| August 13th, 1523 (August 13 1523) | Death | Gerard David, Flemish painter | |
| August 13th, 1521 (August 13 1521) | Event | Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Cortes. | |
| August 13th, 1516 (August 13 1516) | Event | Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signedied in In it, Francis recognises Charles s claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis s claim to Milan. | |
| August 13th, 1415 (August 13 1415) | Event | Hundred Years War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men. | |
| August 13th, 1382 (August 13 1382) | Death | Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (born in 1358) | |
| August 13th, 1326 (August 13 1326) | Event | Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti. | |
| August 13th, 1315 (August 13 1315) | Event | Louis X of France marries Clemence d Anjou. | |
| August 13th, 1313 (August 13 1313) | Birth | Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch | |
| August 13th, 1311 (August 13 1311) | Birth | King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (died in 1350) | |
| August 13th, 1134 (August 13 1134) | Death | Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus | |
| August 13th, 0900 (August 13 0900) | Death | Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (born in 870) | |
| August 13th, 0586 (August 13 0586) | Death | Radegund, wife of Clotaire I | |
| August 13th, 0582 (August 13 0582) | Birth | Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (died in 640) | |
