January 13

### 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.

### 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 writer, 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)
- 1965 – 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)
- 1967 – Viktor Bout, Russian soldier
- 1967 – Suzzane Cryer, American actress
- 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

### 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 – Thelma Rogers, English actress (b. 1924)

### 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 writer 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)