April 13
April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April.
Events
Births
- 1519 - Catherine de Medici, queen of France (d. 1589)
- 1570 - Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
- 1618 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French Writer (d. 1693)
- 1713 - Frederick (Lord) North George III's sixth prime minister (d. 1792)
- 1729 - Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and magazine editor (d. 1811)
- 1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
- 1753 - Frederick Frelinghuysen, American statesman
- 1771 - Richard Trevithick, Mechanical Engineer and developer of the World's first locomotive (d. 1833)
- 1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish Engineer (d. 1868)
- 1787 - John Robertson, U.S. congressman (d. 1873)
- 1808 - Antonio Meucci, Italian Inventor (d. 1896)
- 1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
- 1828 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop of Durham (d. 1889)
- 1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (d. 1889)
- 1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
- 1852 - F.W. Woolworth, merchant/businessman, founder of Woolworth's (d. 1919)
- 1860 - James Ensor, painter (d. 1949)
- 1866 - Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw (d. 1908)
- 1872 - Alexander Roda Roda, writer (d. 1945)
- 1873 - John W. Davis, American Politician (d. 1955)
- 1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1949)
- 1880 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (d. 1955)
- 1881 - Ludwig Binswanger, existential psychiatrist (d. 1966)
- 1885 - Georg Lukács, Philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
- 1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
- 1889 - Herbert Osborne Yardley, Cryptographer (d. 1958)
- 1890 - Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
- 1891 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
- 1892 - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, inventor of Radar (d. 1973)
- 1893 - Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, commander of RAF's Bomber Command in World War II (d. 1984)
- 1894 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
- 1900 - Pierre Molinier, Painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- 1901 - Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst and semantician (d. 1981)
- 1902 - Philippe de Rothschild, Grand Prix race-car driver and wine grower (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
- 1906 - Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1989)
- 1907 - Harold E. Stassen, frequent candidate for President of the United States (d. 2001)
- 1909 - Eudora Welty, writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 (d. 2001)
- 1909 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish-American Mathematician (d. 1984)
- 1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian football player (d.1946)
- 1919 - Howard Keel, actor, singer, former president of the Screen Actors Guild
- 1919 - Roland Gaucher, French Journalist
- 1920 - Roberto Calvi, banker (d. 1982)
- 1920 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
- 1920 - John LaPorta, jazz musician
- 1920 - Claude Cheysson, French Politician
- 1922 - John Braine, British Novelist (d. 1986)
- 1923 - Don Adams, actor (Get Smart), comedian
- 1924 - Stanley Donen, director
- 1924 - Jack Chick, Christian evangelist
- 1926 - John George Vanderbilt Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
- 1928 - Alan Clark - maverick British politician (d. 1999)
- 1931 - Dan Gurney, Racing driver
- 1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean Politician (d. 1976)
- 1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell - American senator
- 1935 - Lyle Waggoner, actor
- 1937 - Lanford Wilson, playwright
- 1937 - Edward Fox, British Actor
- 1939 - Paul Sorvino, actor
- 1939 - Seamus Heaney, poet
- 1943 - Bill Conti, Musical Director
- 1944 - Jack Casady, musician ("Jefferson Airplane")
- 1944 - Susan Davis, American Politician
- 1946 - Al Green, soul singer, pastor
- 1948 - B. Allan Benson, NLRB Regional Director
- 1948 - Sue Doughty, British Politician
- 1949 - Jean-Jacques Favier, Payload specialist
- 1949 - Frank Doran, Scottish Politician
- 1950 - Ron Perlman, actor
- 1951 - Peabo Bryson, pop singer
- 1951 - Peter Davison, actor and the fifth Doctor Who
- 1951 - Max Weinberg, drummer
- 1952 - David Drew, British Politician
- 1952 - Ron Dittemore, NASA shuttle program manager
- 1953 - Stephen Byers, British Politician
- 1954 - Jimmy Destri, musician
- 1954 - Barbara Roche, British Politician
- 1955 - Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
- 1955 - Lupe Pintor, Mexican Boxer
- 1956 - Alison Wheeler, British Political activist
- 1956 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, Australian Rally Driver (d. 2003)
- 1960 - Rudi Völler, former German national football coach
- 1963 - Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster
- 1964 - Caroline Rhea, actress
- 1970 - Rick Schroder, actor
- 1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski, ice hockey player
- 1972 - Aaron Lewis, Singer
- 1974 - Sergei Gonchar, hockey player
- 1976 - Jonathan Brandis, actor (d. 2003)
- 1976 - Patrik Elias, ice hockey player
- 1978 - Arron Asham, ice hockey player
Deaths
- 799 - Paul the Deacon, Monk and chronicler (b. ca 720)
- 1279 - Boleslaus the Pious, a duke of Greater Poland
- 1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia
- 1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, leader of Hugenots (b. 1579)
- 1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, folklorist (b. 1621)
- 1722 - Charles Leslie, Theologian (b. 1650)
- 1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
- 1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
- 1826 - Franz Danzi, German Composer (b. 1763)
- 1853 - James Iredell, Jr., Governor of North Carolina 1b. 1788)
- 1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German Chemist (b. 1788)
- 1855 - Henry De la Beche, English Geologist (b. 1796)
- 1868 - Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
- 1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish Botanist (b. 1813)
- 1882 - Bruno Bauer, German Theologian (b. 1809)
- 1909 - Whitley Stokes, British Lawyer (b. 1830)
- 1910 - William Quiller Orchardson, British P)ainter (b. 1835)
- 1911 - George Washington Glick, Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
- 1911 - John McLane, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
- 1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese Author (b. 1886)
- 1925 - Elwood Haynes, automobile pioneer
- 1938 - Grey Owl, Proponent of Nature Conservation (b. 1888)
- 1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, U.S. Astronomer (b. 1863)
- 1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German-Jewish philosopher (b. 1874)
- 1962 - Culbert Olson, Governor of California (b. 1876)
- 1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (b. 1921)
- 1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, First president of Chad (b. 1918)
- 1975 - Larry Parks, American Actor (b. 1914)
- 1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian Artist and Filmmaker (b. 1931)
- 1981 - Asaka Yasuhiko, Member of the Japanese imperial family (b. 1887)
- 1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American Musician (b. 1911)
- 1984 - Richard Hurndall. British Actor and first Doctor Who (b. 1910)
- 1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author, publisher, military figure and actress (b. 1896)
- 1999 - Willi Stoph, Chairman of the council of ministers in East Germany.
- 2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) (b. 1916)
- 2002 - Damon Knight, science fiction author (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Jon Gustafson, editor
- 2004 - Lou Berberet, Baseball player (b. 1929)
- 2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
Holidays and Observances
April 12 - April 14 - March 13 - May 13 -- listing of all days
