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 – José 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 – José Antonio Sáez, 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 Kjellén, 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 – André François-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 Björnsdóttir, 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
 2000 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer and Olympic champion

 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 Widén, 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 González, 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)

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