13 January
January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year).
Events
Births
- 1596 - Jan van Goyen, painter (d. 1656)
- 1653 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian (d. 1705)
- 1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricistand dramatist, also known as Maler Müller (d. 1825)
- 1805 - Thomas Dyer, mayor of Chicago, IL (d. 1862
- 1808 - Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, Chief Justice, (d. 1873)
- 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., Unitarian minister, author (d. 1899)
- 1859 - Karl Bleibtreu, critic (d. 1928)
- 1864 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (d. 1928)
- 1866?- G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic. He stated he was born at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve Julian calendar (d. 1949)
- 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, composer
- 1867 - Francis Everett Townsend, American physician and social reformer
- 1879 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961)
- 1884 - Sophie Tucker, singer, comedienne, vaudeville performer (d. 1966)
- 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, writter (d. 1961)
- 1919 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
- 1919 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (d. 1970)
- 1924 - Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
- 1926 - Amanda Cross - feminist author (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Brockman Adams (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
- 1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, actor
- 1942 - Richard Moll, actor
- 1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, television executive (d. 1997)
- 1955 - Jay McInerney, writer
- 1960 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- 1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
- 1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress
- 1966 - Patrick Dempsey, actor
- 1969 - Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
- 1970 - Keith Coogan, actor
- 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian NHL goalie
- 1977 - Orlando Bloom, actor
- 1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentinian professional tennis player
Deaths
- 86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician
- 858 - Ethelwulf, king of Wessex (b. ca. 800)
- 1151 - Abbot Suger abbot of Saint-Denis (b. 1081)
- 1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet (b. 1552)
- 1864 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah (b. 1826)
- 1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western legend (b. 1848)
- 1941 - James Joyce, writer (b. 1882)
- 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, actor, comedian (b. 1919)
- 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President of the United States and former Senator from Minnesota (b. 1911)
- 1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
- 2002 - Ted Demme film and television director (b. 1963)
- 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer, found dead in his cell (b. 1946)
- 2004 - Arne Næss jr., Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (b. 1937)
Holidays and observances
- Catholicism - Baptism of the Lord
- National Vocation Awareness Week
- Lovers of Life International - Day of Orgiastic Life
- Liberation Day in Togo
January 12 - January 14 - December 13 - February 13 -- listing of all days
