June 13

Events
Up to 1960
313 The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-Emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
1373 The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance takes effect.
1381 The Peasants' Revolt in England, led by Wat Tyler, ends in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
1525 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.
1625 Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland marries Henrietta Maria of France.
1665 Anglo-Dutch War: English victory at the naval Battle of Lowestoft.
1733 The island of Croix in the Caribbean goes from French control to the Danish West India Company.
1740 In the present-day United States, Georgia's Governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of Saint Augustine.
1774 Rhode Island bans the import of slaves.
1777 American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis and four companions see the Great Falls on the Missouri River.
1858 Up to 250 passengers are killed in an explosion on the paddle steamer Pennsylvania on the Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee.
1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 A fire destroys much of Vancouver.
1886 Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in the Starnberger See (Starnberg Lake). His doctor was also found dead. The exact circumstances of their deaths remain a mystery.
1893 Grover Cleveland secretly undergoes a successful operation to remove a large cancerous portion of his jaw.
1898 The Yukon Territory is split from Canada's Northwest Territories. Dawson becomes the capital. Later, the capital moves to Whitehorse
1910 The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is founded.
1917 A World War I German air raid on London kills 162 people.
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1934 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice.
1935 Jim Braddock wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title by defeating Max Baer.
1946 King Umberto II of Italy goes into exile in Portugal as Italy becomes a republic after a referendum on June 2.
1950 Hugo Koblet wins the 33rd edition of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. As a Swiss, he is the first non-Italian to win the event.
1952 Catalina Affair: A Swedish DC-3 aircraft is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955 The Mir Mine, the first Soviet diamond mine, is discovered.
1956 In football, Real Madrid wins the first European Cup, defeating Stade Reims 4-3 in Paris.
1961 2000
1967 Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1967 The Soviet Union calls for action against Israel.
1970 The Long and Winding Road becomes The Beatles' last US Number One hit song.
1971 The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1974 The 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany begins.
1977 James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing Martin Luther King, Jr., is recaptured following his escape from prison three days earlier.
1978 Israel's Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1981 Marcus Serjeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II during the Trooping the Colour parade.
1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his deceased half-brother Khalid.
1982 Racing driver Riccardo Paletti is killed when he crashes on the start grid of the Canadian Grand Prix.
1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
1990 Official demolition of the Berlin Wall begins.
1991 The 1998 Winter Olympics are given to Nagano, Japan.
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazlewood for the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.
1995 Jacques Chirac announces that France will continue to carry out nuclear testing in French Polynesia.
1996 Guernsey votes to end its ban on abortion.
1997 The Uphaar cinema fire in New Delhi kills 59 people.
1997 Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma bombing.
2000 South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il meet at the first inter-Korean summit, in Pyongyang.
2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot at Pope John Paul II in 1981.
From 2001
2002 The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002 Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle on the Yangju highway, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the US and South Korea.
2005 Irish becomes one of the official languages of the European Union.
2005 Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation at his Neverland Ranch.
2011 Two strong aftershocks, following the February 22 earthquake, hit Christchurch, New Zealand, measuring at 5.5 and 6 magnitude, causing more damage, liquefaction, and 10 injuries.
2012 At least 93 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq.
2014 2014 FIFA World Cup: Previous champions, Spain, are beaten 5-1 by the Netherlands in a group match. They had beaten the Dutch in the final of the previous World Cup. It is the worst opening-day result of any defending champion in the history of tournament.
2019 Two oil tankers are attacked in the Strait of Hormuz; The governments of the United States and United Kingdom blame Iran for the attacks.
Births
Up to 1800
40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
823 Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
839 Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks (d. 888)
1508 Alesandro Piccolomini, Italian writer and philosopher (d. 1579)
1584 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese Samurai warrior, artist and writer (d. 1645)
1595 Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1667)
1615 Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
1649 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1672 Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1741)
1752 Fanny Burney, English novelist (d. 1840)
1753 Johan Afzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1837)
1761 Antonin Vranicky, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
1763 Jose Bonifacio de Andrade, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
1773 Thomas Young, English polymath (d. 1829)
1775 Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (d. 1833)
1786 Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
1790 Jose Antonio Saez, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
1801 1900
1809 Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and writer (d. 1894)
1821 Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, French historian, publicist and statesman (d. 1901)
1822 Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1894)
1827 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1831 James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish inventor and physicist (d. 1879)
1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish engineer (d. 1931)
1863 Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 Rudolf Kjellen, Swedish professor (d. 1922)
1865 William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (d. 1939)
1866 Aby Warburg, German art historian (d. 1929)
1870 Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
1874 Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (d. 1938)
1875 Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
1876 William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
1882 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1960)
1884 Dobri Bozhilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945)
1884 Burrill Bernard Crohn, American physician (d. 1983)
1884 Anton Drexler, German political figure (d. 1942)
1885 Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (d. 1959)
1887 Andre Francois-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
1887 Bruno Frank, German writer (d. 1957)
1888 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
1892 Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
1893 Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (d. 1957)
1894 Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1894 Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
1894 Tay Garnett, American movie director (d. 1977)
1897 Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (d. 1973)
1899 Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer, conductor, theorist and journalist (d. 1978)
1901 1950
1901 Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
1903 Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1905 Doc Cheatham, American trumpeter, singer and bandleader (d. 1997)
1905 Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
1906 Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1908 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (d. 1992)
1908 Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (d. 2003)
1909 E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
1910 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (d. 1988)
1914 Barbara Reynolds, English author and lexicographer (d. 2015)
1915 Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
1917 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan writer (d. 2005)
1917 Teddy Turner, English actor and comedian (d. 1992)
1920 Rolf Huisgen, German chemist (d. 2020)
1921 Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
1926 Paul Lynde, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1926 Jerome Lejeune, French physician and geneticist (d. 1994)
1927 Slim Dusty, Australian singer (d. 2003)
1928 John Forbes Nash, American mathematician (d. 2015)
1928 Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
1928 Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman
1929 Ralph McQuarrie, American production designer (d. 2012)
1929 Robert W. Scott, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
1932 Bob McGrath, American actor and singer
1935 Samak Sundaravej, former Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
1935 Christo, Bulgarian artist (d. 2020)
1935 Jeanne-Claude, French artist (d. 2009)
1937 Erich Ribbeck, German football manager
1939 Siegfried, German-born tiger trainer and magician (Siegfried and Roy) (d. 2021)
1940 Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 2017)
1940 Gojko Mitic, Serbian actor
1941 Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941 Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach and manager
1942 Abdulsalami Abubakar, former President of Nigeria
1943 Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1943 Jim Guy Tucker, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
1944 Ban Ki-moon, South Korean Secretary-General of the United Nations
1946 Gonzalo Aja, Spanish cyclist
1946 Sher Bahadur Deuba, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
1946 Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist
1948 Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1948 Joe Roth, American director and producer
1949 Ulla Schmidt, German politician
1950 Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1950 Nick Brown, British politician
1951 1975
1951 Richard Thomas, American actor
1951 Stellan Skarsgaard, Swedish actor
1953 Tim Allen, American actor
1954 Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (d. 2011)
1954 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician
1955 Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer
1957 Roy Cooper, American politician, 75th Governor of North Carolina
1958 Peter Scudamore, British jockey and trainer
1959 Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
1959 Boyko Borisov, three-time Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1959 Klaus Iohannis, 5th President of Romania
1961 Bob Crow, English trade union leader (d. 2014)
1962 Ally Sheedy, American actress
1964 Kathy Burke, English actress
1964 Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
1965 Lisa Vidal, American actress
1965 Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, Spanish royal
1966 Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966 Naoko Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1968 David Gray, British singer
1968 Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster
1969 Virginie Despentes, French writer, novelist and movie maker
1969 Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1969 Soren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1969 Jamie Walters, American entertainer
1970 Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1970 Rivers Cuomo, American musician
1970 Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1973 Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician
1973 Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1974 Selma Bjornsdottir, Icelandic singer
1974 Steve-O, American stunt performer and TV personality
1975 Ante Covic, Australian footballer
From 1976
1976 Kym Marsh, English singer, actress and TV presenter
1978 Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1978 Richard Kingson, Ghanaian footballer
1980 Sarah Connor, German singer
1980 Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980 Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980 Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
1981 Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress
1981 Radim Vrbata, Czech ice hockey player
1982 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian long-distance runner
1982 Chris Cusiter, Scottish rugby union player
1986 Mary-Kate & Ashely Olsen, American actresses
1986 Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
1986 Kat Dennings, American actress
1986 Mans Zelmerlow, Swedish singer
1989 Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress
1990 Aaron Johnson, English actor
1991 Barbara Bonansea, Italian footballer
1991 Anatoly Zabolotny, Russian footballer
1992 Kim Jin-su, South Korean footballer
1993 Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
1993 Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
1996 Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
Deaths
Up to 1975
1036 Ali az-Zahir, Islamic ruler (b. 1005)
1231 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1645 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman and author (b. 1584)
1762 Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, German doctor (b. 1715)
1784 Henry Middleton, American politician (b. 1717)
1817 Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish author and engineer (b. 1744)
1846 Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (b. 1767)
1881 Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1901 Leopoldo Alas, Spanish writer (b. 1852)
1905 Theodoros Deligiannis, Greek statesman (b. 1820)
1908 Antonio Gonzalez de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1824)
1918 Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
1930 Henry Segrave, American-English racing driver (b. 1896)
1931 Kitasato Shibasaburo, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1948 Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
1951 Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1957 Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
1965 Martin Buber, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1878)
1972 Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian biophysicist (b. 1899)
1972 Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
1976 2010
1979 Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1945)
1980 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
1982 Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1986 Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
1987 Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
1993 Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
1997 Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
1998 Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2003 Malik Meraj Khalid, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2003 Hassan ibn Yahya, Prime Minister of North Yemen (b. 1908)
2004 Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2006 Charles Haughey, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
2008 Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (b. 1950)
2009 Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
2010 Jimmy Dean, American singer (b. 1928)
From 2011
2012 William Standish Knowles, American chemist (b. 1917)
2012 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher, author and Holocaust denier (b. 1913)
2014 Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (b. 1926)
2014 Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and actor (b. 1924)
2014 Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (b. 1933)
2014 Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2014 Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor (b. 1924)
2014 Jim Keays, Australian rock musician (b. 1946)
2014 Sara Widen, Swedish opera singer (b. 1980)
2015 Drs. P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter, poet and writer (b. 1919)
2015 Buddy Boudreaux, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1917)
2016 Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Armenian singer (b. 1925)
2016 Oleg Karavaychuk, Soviet-Russian composer (b. 1927)
2016 Chips Moman, American songwriter (b. 1937)
2017 A. R. Gurney, American playwright (b. 1927)
2017 Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1924)
2017 Jack Ong, American actor (b. 1940)
2017 Anita Pallenberg, Italian actress (b. 1944)
2017 Ulf Stark, Swedish screenwriter and author (b. 1944)
2018 Arkangel de la Muerte, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2018 Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
2018 D. J. Fontana, American rock music drummer (b. 1931)
2018 Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (b. 1933)
2019 Pat Bowlen, American sports executive (b. 1944)
2019 Nature Ganganbaigal, Chinese musician and composer (b. 1990)
2019 Edith Gonzalez, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
2019 Geoff Lees, English footballer (b. 1933)
2019 Heinrich Reichert, Swiss neurobiologist (b. 1949)
2019 Wilhelm Wieben, German television journalist, actor and author (b. 1935)
2020 Sheikh Md Abdullah, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1945)
2020 Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (b. 1932)
2020 Jim Grelle, American runner (b. 1936)
2020 B. Kannan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1951)
2020 Mohammed Nasim, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
2020 Maurice Rajsfus, French writer and historian (b. 1928)
2020 Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (b. 1925)
2020 Tineke Verburg, Dutch journalist and television presenter (b. 1956)
2020 Marc Zermati, French record producer (b. 1945)
Holidays and Observances
Inventors' Day (Hungary)
Days of the year