On This Day — January 13
4203 noted people were born and 2174 died on January 13 in our archive, including Andy Jassy, Erwin Bälz and Wilhelm Wien.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 13
Andy Jassy
b. 1968
Erwin Bälz
1849 – 1913
Wilhelm Wien
1864 – 1928
Akhmat Salpagarov
b. 1962
Alexandre Lacoste
1842 – 1923
Alexey Sinitsyn
b. 1976
Andrew Roberts
b. 1963
Anne Pringle
b. 1955
Antony Phillipson
b. 1971
Arturo Casadevall
b. 1957
Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
1809 – 1886
David Orme Masson
1858 – 1937
Edmund White
1940 – 2025
Elias M. Stein
1931 – 2018
Eric Betzig
b. 1960
Félix Tisserand
1845 – 1896
Georg Franz Hoffmann
1760 – 1826
Gregorio Peces-Barba
1938 – 2012
Harold Furth
1930 – 2002
Iain Richard Torrance
b. 1949
Ivan Mashkov
1867 – 1945
Jacek Majchrowski
b. 1947
Jean-Claude Guibal
1941 – 2021
Jenő Szép
1920 – 2004
Jüri Uluots
1890 – 1945
Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer
1899 – 1957
Karl Menger
1902 – 1985
Martha Hildebrandt
1925 – 2022
Matthew H. Todd
b. 1973
Melvin Ember
1933 – 2009
Michel Chevalier
1806 – 1879
Mykola Prysyazhnyuk
b. 1960
Nate Silver
b. 1978
Olga Vasilieva
b. 1960
Orlando Bloom
b. 1977
Paavo Heininen
1938 – 2022
Pasqual Maragall i Mira
b. 1941
Pierre-Dominique Bazaine
1786 – 1838
Ron Tauranac
1925 – 2020
Ross Granville Harrison
1870 – 1959
Sergei Muratov
b. 1964
Shahnon Ahmad
1933 – 2017
Sydney Brenner
1927 – 2019
Vasily Danilewsky
1852 – 1939
Wilhelm Hanle
1901 – 1993
Zhou Youguang
1906 – 2017
Aaron Pixton
b. 1986
Abdellatif Miraoui
b. 1962
Abdennour Bidar
b. 1971
Ahmed Ben Salah
1926 – 2020
Ahmed Qaid Saleh
1940 – 2019
Alan S. Duncan
b. 1965
Albert van der Sandt Centlivres
1887 – 1966
Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
1849 – 1921
András Beck
1911 – 1985
Arvind Sharma
b. 1940
Ati George Sokomanu
b. 1936
Aymeric Chauprade
b. 1969
Bernardo de Cólogan y Cólogan
1847 – 1921
Bob Parker
b. 1953
Brian Barry
1936 – 2009
Cabu
1938 – 2015
Carolyn See
1934 – 2016
Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth
1796 – 1885
Charles Walmesley
1722 – 1797
Chester Lyman
1814 – 1890
Claudia Emerson
1957 – 2014
Craig M. Wright
b. 1944
Daniel Kehlmann
b. 1975
Daniel Scioli
b. 1957
Darius Paul Dassault
1882 – 1969
David Dean Shulman
b. 1949
Denise Morrison
b. 1954
Derek Hanekom
b. 1953
Donald Hayworth
1898 – 1982
Dorota Olko
b. 1988
Earle Wheeler
1908 – 1975
Eiki Berg
b. 1970
Elis Fischer
1834 – 1889
Elwood V. Jensen
1920 – 2012
Emmanuel Pontremoli
1865 – 1956
Erhard Schmidt
1876 – 1959
Erik Krag
1902 – 1987
Erland Kolding Nielsen
1947 – 2017
Ernest Chantre
1843 – 1924
Esaias Tegnér the Younger
1843 – 1928
Essington Lewis
1881 – 1961
Eulogius (Smirnov)
1937 – 2020
Farah Pandith
b. 1968
Felice Cavagnis
1841 – 1906
Fernando Chui
b. 1957
Francis Pryor
b. 1945
Françoise David
b. 1948
Gabriel Baer
1919 – 1982
Ghislaine Dupont
1956 – 2013
Giacomo Cattani
1823 – 1887
Gilbert Cesbron
1913 – 1979
Guido del Mestri
1911 – 1993
Gumersindo de Azcárate
1840 – 1917
Guruh Sukarnoputra
b. 1953
Harold Ellis
1926 – 2026
Henri Salaün
1866 – 1936
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
1826 – 1913
Henry Singer Keating
1804 – 1888
Hienadź Sahanovič
b. 1961
Irina Rukina
b. 1948
Ivan Pavlov
b. 1971
Ivan Shishkin
1831 – 1898
J. P. Knight
1828 – 1886
Jacek Gmoch
b. 1939
Jacob Wallenberg
b. 1956
James O'Brien
b. 1972
Jean de Beaumont
1904 – 2002
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
b. 1945
Jerry Hunter
b. 1965
Jijé
1914 – 1980
Joannes Antonides van der Linden
1609 – 1664
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
1911 – 2005
Johann Christian Stark
1753 – 1811
John Pringle Nichol
1804 – 1859
Josef Matoušek
1906 – 1939
Joseph Vendryes
1875 – 1960
Jørgen Roed
1808 – 1888
Jürgen Gmehling
b. 1946
Jürgen Linden
b. 1947
Jędrzej Moraczewski
1870 – 1944
Kakichi Kawarada
1886 – 1955
Kim Tae-young
1949 – 2025
Klaas Dijkhoff
b. 1981
Kunio Mikuriya
b. 1954
Lawrence Alexander Hardie
1933 – 2013
Leokadiya Drobizheva
1933 – 2021
Leonid Bodnarchuk
1938 – 2015
Lev Mekhlis
1889 – 1953
Lionel Groulx
1878 – 1967
Lorrie Moore
b. 1957
Lyubov Mala
1919 – 2003
Léon Lecornu
1854 – 1940
M. Gessen
b. 1967
Mailis Reps
b. 1975
Manuel Ayerdi Olaizola
b. 1967
Maria Gordina
b. 1968
Maria de la Pau Janer
b. 1966
Marian Konieczny
1930 – 2017
Martin Neil Baily
b. 1945
Maurice Paléologue
1859 – 1944
Max Nonne
1861 – 1959
Michael Bond
1926 – 2017
Michel Vinaver
1927 – 2022
Mohammad Ali Najafi
b. 1952
Moulay Hafid Elalamy
b. 1960
Nick Clooney
b. 1934
Nikolay Pukhov
1895 – 1958
Noh Do Young
b. 1963
Norbert Geis
b. 1939
Oskar Minkowski
1858 – 1931
Otto Lehmann
1855 – 1922
Pat Danner
b. 1934
Patrick M. Walsh
b. 1955
Paul A. Goble
b. 1949
Peter James Thomas
b. 1961
Pierre Massé
1898 – 1987
Prince Arisugawa Takehito
1862 – 1913
Prince Arthur of Connaught
1883 – 1938
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
1674 – 1762
Péter Fülöp Kocsis
b. 1963
Ray Davis
1915 – 2003
Renato Aragão
b. 1935
Rob Redding
b. 1976
Robert Branner
1927 – 1973
Robert John Fleming
1907 – 1984
Roger Davies
b. 1954
Rufus Youngblood
1924 – 1996
Saeed Abu Ali
b. 1955
Sally Pederson
b. 1951
Salmon P. Chase
1808 – 1873
Shawqi Daif
1910 – 2005
Shonda Rhimes
b. 1970
Shyamanand Jalan
1934 – 2010
Silvia Gašparovičová
b. 1941
Sir William Treloar, 1st Baronet
1843 – 1923
Stan Boland
b. 1960
Stanisław Szenic
1904 – 1987
Stavros S. Anthony
b. 1957
Stephen Hendry
b. 1969
Stuart J. Freedman
1944 – 2012
Thomas Aeschi
b. 1979
Thomas Massie
b. 1971
Tom Gola
1933 – 2014
Vojtěch Filip
b. 1955
William B. Kouwenhoven
1886 – 1975
Winnie Byanyima
b. 1959
Zheng Dongguo
1903 – 1991
Zuzka Bebarová-Rujbrová
b. 1951
pito marini
b. 1942
Şarık Tara
1930 – 2018
A. V. Wells
1856 – 1918
Abraham Ravitz
1934 – 2009
Adoniram J. Warner
1834 – 1910
Adriana Paz
b. 1980
… and 4,003 more
Died on January 13
Auguste Rateau
1863 – 1930
Chia-Chiao Lin
1916 – 2013
Abdul Sathar Kunju
1939 – 2025
Abel Rey
1873 – 1940
Alan Budd
1937 – 2023
Alfred de Quervain
1879 – 1927
Anton Rehmann
1840 – 1917
Ari Rath
1925 – 2017
Arland D. Williams, Jr.
1935 – 1982
Edgar J. Goodspeed
1871 – 1962
Friedrich Loofs
1858 – 1928
Hedvig Gebhard
1867 – 1961
Jana Hlaváčová
1938 – 2024
Joan Reventós i Carner
1927 – 2004
John Robert Seeley
1834 – 1895
Nicholas Andrew Rey
1938 – 2009
Owen Harding Wangensteen
1898 – 1981
Paul Niggli
1888 – 1953
Peter Waage
1833 – 1900
Victor Cousin
1792 – 1867
Ye Qisun
1898 – 1977
Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy
1877 – 1935
Albert Heijn
1927 – 2011
Alberto Abdala
1920 – 1986
Aleksandar Bakočević
1928 – 2007
Alexander Soper
1904 – 1993
Alfred Gilman, Sr.
1908 – 1984
Alfred Laliberté
1878 – 1953
Alfred Lichtwark
1852 – 1914
Alfred Nzo
1925 – 2000
Anton Nanut
1932 – 2017
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
1930 – 2017
Arthur Stoll
1887 – 1971
Boris Bugayev
1923 – 2007
Carl Sattler
1877 – 1966
Charity Adams Earley
1918 – 2002
Charles Monnard
1790 – 1865
Chiang Ching-kuo
1910 – 1988
Claudette Colvin
1939 – 2026
Dana Carleton Munro
1866 – 1933
David M. Shoup
1904 – 1983
Dorothea Bate
1878 – 1951
Edward Marsh
1872 – 1953
Edward Schunck
1820 – 1903
Eliyahu Winograd
1926 – 2018
Ernesto Martens
1933 – 2024
Eugeniusz Geppert
1890 – 1979
Felipe Sánchez Román
1850 – 1916
Fernando Cento
1883 – 1973
Georg Hermann Quincke
1834 – 1924
Georges Lesueur
1834 – 1910
Gilberto Agustoni
1922 – 2017
Gino Cassinis
1885 – 1964
Giorgos Vasiliou
1931 – 2026
Guido Dessauer
1915 – 2012
Henri Braconnot
1780 – 1855
Henri Langlois
1914 – 1977
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
1628 – 1684
Hervé Alphand
1907 – 1994
Holten Castenschiold
1865 – 1950
Hubert Humphrey
1911 – 1978
Hun Yuan
1944 – 2026
Ijūin Gorō
1852 – 1921
Jack Hayward
1923 – 2015
Jacques Louis Randon
1795 – 1871
Jean Maurice Tourneux
1849 – 1917
Jean-Baptiste Marchand
1863 – 1934
Jean-Jacques Beineix
1946 – 2022
Jerome Berson
1924 – 2017
Johan Jørgen Holst
1937 – 1994
John Alexander MacWilliam
1857 – 1937
John Anderson
1726 – 1796
John H. Rubel
1920 – 2015
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
1751 – 1838
Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko
1842 – 1903
Kathleen Dixon Huntley Gordon-Gray
1918 – 2012
Kirill Orlovsky
1895 – 1968
Martin Flämig
1913 – 1998
Maurice A. Donahue
1918 – 1999
Michita Sakata
1916 – 2004
Paek Nak-chun
1896 – 1985
Paul Ulrich Villard
1860 – 1934
Peter Duesberg
1936 – 2026
Pierre Henri Battifol
1861 – 1929
Pietro Moscati
1739 – 1824
Rad Kortenhorst
1886 – 1963
Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen
1882 – 1975
Raoul Jobin
1906 – 1974
Rauf Denktaş
1924 – 2012
René Pleven
1901 – 1993
Riki Kawara
1937 – 2013
Robert Herbert Story
1835 – 1907
Robert Jacobus Forbes
1900 – 1973
Robert John Tillyard
1881 – 1937
Robert White
1926 – 2015
Romuald Twardowski
1930 – 2024
Saishū Onoe
1876 – 1957
Salvador Novo
1904 – 1974
Scott Adams
1957 – 2026
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
1864 – 1930
Seiichi Funahashi
1904 – 1976
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio
1902 – 1963
Takarabe Takeshi
1867 – 1949
Thomas Matthews
1849 – 1930
Victor Baltard
1805 – 1874
Wen Yuan-ning
1900 – 1984
Wickham Steed
1871 – 1956
William Charles Goddard Knowles
1908 – 1969
William Henry Waddington
1826 – 1894
William Hunter
1861 – 1937
Émile-René Ménard
1862 – 1930
Abdul Fattah Ismail
1939 – 1986
Abdurrahman Melek
1896 – 1978
Adam Bełcikowski
1839 – 1909
Albert Ottinger
1878 – 1938
Albert Thompson
1886 – 1966
Alexandre Ribot
1842 – 1923
Alfred Blumstein
1930 – 2026
Alfred Seale Haslam
1844 – 1927
Aloys Felke
1927 – 1997
Alvan E. Bovay
1818 – 1903
Amitava Bose
1947 – 2017
Andre Kostelanetz
1901 – 1980
Anjali Devi
1927 – 2014
Anthony Forster
1813 – 1897
Anthony Jerome Griffin
1866 – 1935
Antoine Vieillard de Boismartin
1747 – 1815
Antonije Isaković
1923 – 2002
Antonio Bajamonti
1822 – 1891
Antonio Carafa
1538 – 1591
Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo
1797 – 1867
Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary
1776 – 1847
Arthur Fairbanks
1864 – 1944
Arthur Wightman
1922 – 2013
Arturo Frei Bolívar
1939 – 2022
Benjamin F. Gibson
1931 – 2021
Bernard Descôteaux
1947 – 2024
Bunzō Hayata
1874 – 1934
Caleb Bailey
1898 – 1957
Carl Gustaf Bernhard
1910 – 2001
Carleton Ellis
1876 – 1941
Charles Alexander Nelson
1839 – 1933
Charles Brune
1891 – 1956
Charles Follen
1796 – 1840
Charles Graux
1852 – 1882
Charles James Faulkner
1847 – 1929
Charles Rogers
1800 – 1874
Charles Tillon
1897 – 1993
Christian Magnus Falsen
1782 – 1830
Count Francis Lützow
1849 – 1916
D Prakash Rao
1958 – 2021
Dalmacio Iglesias
1879 – 1933
Dan Voorhees Stephens
1868 – 1939
Daniel Weisweiller
1814 – 1892
David Coren
1917 – 2011
David N. Henderson
1921 – 2004
DeWitt Peck
1894 – 1973
Diogenes Allen
1932 – 2013
Donald A. Gurnett
1940 – 2022
Douglas M. Costle
1939 – 2019
Earl Douglass
1862 – 1931
Edmund Spenser
1552 – 1599
Eduard Haffner
1804 – 1889
Eduardo Barrón
1888 – 1949
Einar Johannessen
1926 – 2016
Elgar Howarth
1935 – 2025
Eli Alva Helmick
1863 – 1945
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
1715 – 1797
Ellen Stewart
1919 – 2011
Emil Szramek
1887 – 1942
Ernie Kovacs
1919 – 1962
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
1778 – 1852
Ferdinand Ries
1784 – 1838
Fidel Fita y Colomé
1835 – 1918
Finn Olav Gundelach
1925 – 1981
Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani
1871 – 1951
Francis W. Nye
1918 – 2019
Francisco de Salinas
1513 – 1590
Franco Piperno
1943 – 2025
Frank Eddy
1856 – 1929
Frank J. Coppa
1937 – 2021
Frank Shuster
1916 – 2002
František Lexa
1876 – 1960
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
1847 – 1928
Gabriel Veyre
1871 – 1936
Galvarino Gallardo
1877 – 1957
Georg Hilker
1807 – 1875
George D. Shea
1894 – 1971
George E. Gorman
1873 – 1935
George Henry Sharpe
1828 – 1900
George Rose
1744 – 1818
George Thorn
1838 – 1905
Gerhard Rose
1896 – 1992
Gilbert Anselme Girouard
1846 – 1885
Giuseppe Simone Assemani
1687 – 1768
Gorky González Quiñones
1939 – 2017
H. B. Higgins
1851 – 1929
H. L. Richardson
1927 – 2020
Harald Hilarius-Kalkau
1852 – 1924
Harriet G. Walker
1841 – 1917
… and 1,974 more