Title: January 13 Content: ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * 888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks. * 1328 – Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault. * 1733 – James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina. * 1750 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid to agree on their colonial policy. * 1822 – The design of the Flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. * 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins. * 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks 4 miles off Long Island, New York, killing 139 people. * 1893 – The independent British Labour Party holds its first meeting. * 1893 - United States marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the ship USS Boston to prevent Queen Liliuokalani from abandoning the Bayonet Constitution. * 1898 - Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair. === 1901 2000 === * 1908 - The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people. * 1910 - The first public radio broadcast takes place from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. * 1915 - An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, kills 29,800 people. * 1917 - A train crash near Ciurea, Romania, kills between 600 and 1,000 people. * 1930 – An expedition led by Douglas Mawson discovers the Aagaard Islands off Antarctica. * 1935 – Most voters in Saarland decide to become part of Germany. * 1939 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, killing 71 people. * 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile. * 1951 - First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, later ending in French victory. * 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is chosen as the President of Yugoslavia. * 1963 – A coup in Togo kills the country's first President, Sylvanus Olympio. * 1964 – An Anti-Muslim riot in Calcutta leaves 100 people dead. * 1964 – Karol Woityla, later Pope John Paul II, becomes archbishop of Krakow. * 1972 – A coup occurs in Ghana. * 1974 - Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport opens to the public. * 1982 - Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge, shortly after take-off, and falls into the Potomac River, killing 74 people on board, and 4 motorists on the bridge. * 1985 – Africa's worst rail disaster occurs in Awash, northeastern Ethiopia, when a train plunges into a ravine, killing 428 people. * 1986 – Voyager 2 discovers three moons of Uranus: Desdemona, Belinda and Rosalind. * 1986 - A civil war begins in Yemen. * 1990 – The US' first elected African American state Governor, L. Douglas Wilder, takes office in Virginia. * 1991 – Soviet troops crush a pro-independence demonstration in Vilnius, Lithuania, killing 14 people, and wounding over 1,000. * 1993 – Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off, as STS-54 launches from Cape Canaveral. * 1993 – Erich Honecker and his wife Margot go into exile in Chile. === From 2001 === * 2001 – An earthquake that was 7.6 on the Richter scale hits all of El Salvador, killing over 800 people. * 2012 – The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. These are the first Winter Youth Olympics. * 2012 - Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia crashes onto rocks off the island of Giglio, off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, killing 32 people. * 2018 - 2018 Hawaii false missile alert: An alert falsely claiming there was an incoming missile causes panic in Hawaii. * 2019 - Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, is stabbed during a charity event; he dies the next day, aged 53. ==Births== === Up to 1900 === * 5 BC - Emperor Guangwu of Han, Chinese ruler (d. 57) * 101 - Lucius Aelius, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Hadrian (d. 138) * 1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379) * 1338 - Jeong Mong-ju, Korean politician, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392) * 1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571) * 1596 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch artist (d. 1656) * 1610 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665) * 1615 - Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian admiral (d. 1683) * 1683 - Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760) * 1698 - Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782) * 1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (d. 1831) * 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1820) * 1779 - William Badger, 20th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1852) * 1787 - John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) * 1805 – Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862) * 1808 – Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873) * 1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883) * 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and writer (d. 1899) * 1836 - Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter (d. 1868) * 1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896) * 1855 – Otto Lehmann, German physicist (d. 1922) * 1858 - Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian biologist (d. 1931) * 1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943) * 1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959) * 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (d. 1928) * 1865 - Princess Marie of Orleans, French- Danish princess (d. 1908) * 1866 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901) * 1869 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931) * 1869 - William G. Bulow, Governor of South Dakota (d. 1960) * 1870 - Jedrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician (d. 1944) * 1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959) * 1880 - Herbert Brenon, American director, screenwriter and actor (d. 1958) * 1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938) * 1884 - Sophie Tucker, Ukrainian-American singer and actress (d. 1966) * 1885 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1964) * 1887 - George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949) * 1887 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (d. 1917) * 1890 – Jüri Uluots, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945) * 1892 - Ermanni Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (d. 1976) * 1893 - Clark Ashton Smith, American sculptor, writer and painter (d. 1961) * 1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (d. 1963) * 1898 – Kaj Munk, Danish pastor, poet and Resistance activist (d. 1944) * 1898 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978) * 1899 - Lev Kuleshov, Soviet-Russian director (d. 1970) === 1901 1950 === * 1901 - Mieczyslaw Zywczysnki, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978) * 1904 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977) * 1905 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) * 1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017) * 1908 - Enrico Paoli, Italian chess player (d. 2005) * 1908 - Earle G. Wheeler, American general (d. 1975) * 1909 - Danny Barker, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1994) * 1909 - Martinus van der Lubbe, Dutch Communist (d. 1934) * 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005) * 1911 - Guido del Mestri, German cardinal (d. 1993) * 1913 - Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993) * 1916 - Liselotte Landbeck, Austrian skater (d. 2013) * 1919 - Robert Stack, American actor, sportsman and television host (d. 2003) * 1920 – Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1984) * 1922 - Albert Lamorisse, French movie director and producer (d. 1970) * 1923 - Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997) * 1923 - Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (d. 2003) * 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994) * 1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer (d. 2011) * 1925 - Rosemary Murphy, German-born American actress (d. 2014) * 1926 – Michael Bond, British writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017) * 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African-British biologist * 1928 - Gregory Walcott, American actor (d. 2015) * 1929 - Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994) * 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007) * 1932 - Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994) * 1933 - Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (d. 2017) * 1934 - Carolyn See, American novelist, professor and critic (d. 2016) * 1934 - Rip Taylor, American actor * 1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian racecar designer * 1936 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone * 1938 - Daevid Allen, Australian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2015) * 1938 - Richard Anthony, French singer (d. 2015) * 1938 - Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015) * 1938 - Shivkumar Sharma, Indian composer * 1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer * 1939 - Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentine author, screenwriter and director * 1941 – Pascual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician * 1942 - Carol Cleveland, English actress * 1942 - Piero Marini, Italian archbishop * 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor * 1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Polish politician and Krakow Mayor * 1947 - Erland Kolding Nielsen, Danish academic (d. 2017) * 1947 – Carles Rexach, Catalan-Spanish footballer * 1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur * 1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut * 1950 - Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer (d. 2014) === 1951 1975 === * 1951 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (d. 2003) * 1951 - Kim Manners, American television producer, director and actor (d. 2009) * 1951 - Antoni Szymanowski, Polish footballer * 1952 - John Lee Hooker, Jr., American blues singer * 1954 - Bruno Coulais, French movie score composer * 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African rock musician and composer * 1955 – Huh Jung-Moo, South Korean footballer * 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter * 1955 - Jay McInerney, American writer * 1955 - Anne Pringle, English diplomat * 1955 - Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer (d. 2015) * 1956 - Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (d. 2017) * 1956 - Greg Trooper, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017) * 1957 - Claudia Emerson, American poet (d. 2014) * 1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer * 1957 - Daniel Scioli, 33rd Vice President of Argentina * 1957 - Mary Glindon, English politician * 1957 - Dusan Bukovac, Bulgarian footballer * 1958 - Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager * 1959 - Jay Lomenzo, American musician * 1960 - Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner * 1960 - Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director * 1961 – Suggs, English singer (Madness) * 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress * 1961 - Jeremy Bamber, English murderer * 1963 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (d. 2011) * 1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian * 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress * 1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer * 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor * 1966 - Simon Shelton, English actor (d. 2018) * 1968 – Chara, Japanese singer and actress * 1968 - Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder * 1969 - Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier * 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player * 1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004) * 1970 - Gavin Whittaker, Australian rugby league player (d. 2017) * 1970 - Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter, director and producer * 1971 - John Mallory Asher, American movie actor and director * 1972 - Nicole Eggert, American actress * 1972 - Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actor * 1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player * 1974 - Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player * 1975 - Daniel Kehlmann, Austrian-German writer === From 1976 === * 1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer * 1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer * 1976 - Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater * 1977 – Orlando Bloom, British actor * 1978 - Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician * 1979 - Katy Brand, British actress and comedienne * 1980 - María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d. 2013) * 1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player * 1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer * 1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician * 1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player * 1982 - Kamran Akmal, Pakistani cricketer * 1982 - Ruth Wilson, English actress * 1983 - William Hung, Chinese singer * 1984 - Raif Badawi, Saudi writer, blogger and activist * 1984 - Kamghe Gaba, German athlete * 1985 - Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer * 1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater * 1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player * 1987 – Lee Seung-gi, Korean singer & actor * 1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer * 1989 - Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actor * 1990 - Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor * 1991 - Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer and actress * 1992 - Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer * 1993 - Max Whitlock, British gymnast * 1995 - Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor * 1995 - Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian ==Deaths== === Up to 1900 === * 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC) * 533 - Saint Remigius, Bishop of Reims (b. 437) * 614 – Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow * 703 - Empress Jiti of Japan (b. 645) * 858 – Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795) * 888 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839) * 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076) * 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081) * 1177 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107) * 1330 – Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286) * 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568) * 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584) * 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616) * 1717 - Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Swiss entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647) * 1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723) * 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726) * 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, consort of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715) * 1832 - Thomas Lord, English cricketer (b. 1755) * 1838 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784) * 1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German-Russian explorer (b. 1778) * 1853 – Theophilus Kairis, Greek revolutionary (b. 1783) * 1864 – Stephen Foster, American musician (b. 1826) * 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (b. 1823) * 1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823) * 1897 - David Schwarz, Austro-Hungarian aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1850) === 1901 2000 === * 1905 – George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838) * 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848) * 1916 – Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1850) * 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842) * 1928 - Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902) * 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848) * 1932 – Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1870) * 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860) * 1941 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882) * 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889) * 1949 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894) * 1958 - Jesse L. Lasky, American movie producer (b. 1910) * 1961 - Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880) * 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919) * 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (b. 1902) * 1969 - Li Zongren, Chinese politician (b. 1890) * 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904) * 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (b. 1911) * 1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901) * 1982 – Marcel Camus, French movie director (b. 1912) * 1982 - Arland D. Williams, Jr., American airline passenger (b. 1935) * 1986 - Abdul Fattah Ismail, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939) * 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910) * 1993 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907) * 2000 - Elizabeth Kerr, American actress (b. 1912) === From 2001 === * 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897) * 2002 - Paul J. Fannin, Governor of Arizona (b. 1907) * 2004 – Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (b. 1946) * 2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967) * 2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949) * 2008 - Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956) * 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928) * 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950) * 2011 – Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (b. 1963) * 2012 – Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924) * 2012 - Lefter Küçükonyadis, Turkish footballer (b. 1925) * 2013 - Bille Brown, Australian actor (b. 1952) * 2014 - Menachem Zilberman, Israeli comedian and songwriter (b. 1946) * 2014 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and movie producer (b. 1927) * 2014 - Mihai Fotino, Romanian actor (b. 1930) * 2015 - Mark Juddery, Australian author and journalist (b. 1971) * 2015 - Keith Wright, Australian politician (b. 1942) * 2015 - Hara Patnaik, Indian actor and movie director (b. 1958) * 2015 - Jack Hayward, English businessman (b. 1923) * 2015 - Robert White, American diplomat (b. 1926) * 2015 - Trevor Colbourn, Australian educator and academic (b. 1927) * 2016 - J. F. R. Jacob, Indian military officer (b. 1923) * 2016 - Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian filmmaker, songwriter and record producer (b. 1934) * 2016 - Brian Bedford, British actor (b. 1935) * 2016 - William Craig, American philosopher (b. 1918) * 2016 - Bern Herbolsheimer, American composer (b. 1948) * 2016 - Conrad Phillips, British actor (b. 1925) * 2016 - Lawrence Phillips, American football player (b. 1975) * 2016 - Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (b. 1927) * 2016 - Tera Wray, American pornographic actress (b. 1982) * 2017 - Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922) * 2017 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (b. 1930) * 2017 - Mark Fisher, British writer (b. 1968) * 2017 - Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (b. 1925) * 2017 - John Jacobs, English golfer (b. 1925) * 2017 - Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942) * 2017 - David Modell, American businessman (b. 1960) * 2017 - Anton Nanut, Slovenian conductor (b. 1932) * 2017 - Ari Rath, Austrian-Israeli journalist (b. 1925) * 2017 - Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist (b. 1960) * 2018 - Doug Harvey, American baseball umpire (b. 1930) * 2018 - Tzimis Panousis, Greek rock musician and comedian (b. 1954) * 2018 - Jean Porter, American actress (b. 1922) * 2018 - Eliyahu Winograd, Israel judge (b. 1926) * 2018 - Byron Langley, American politician (b. 1926) * 2019 - Bonnie Guitar, American country singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923) * 2019 - Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969) * 2019 - Alfred K. Newman, American Navajo code talker (b. 1924) * 2019 - Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player (b. 1941) ==Observances== * Korean American Day * Old New Year (parts of Eastern Europe) * Saint Knut's Day, end of the Christmas period (Finland, Norway, Sweden) * Constitution Day (Mongolia) * Democracy Day (Cape Verde) * Liberation Day (Togo) Category:Days of the year