February 13

February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 321 days remaining until the end of the year (322 in leap years).

Events

• 1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th-13th.
• 1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
• 1503 – Disfida di Barletta – tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
• 1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
• 1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
• 1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
• 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government begins to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency rules Sweden until 1672.
• 1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
• 1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
• 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
• 1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
• 1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
• 1861 – In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
• 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
• 1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
• 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
• 1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
• 1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
• 1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
• 1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
• 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
• 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• 1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
• 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1961 – A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
• 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
• 1978 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
• 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
• 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
• 1982 – The Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala.
• 1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
• 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
• 2000 – The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
• 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
• 2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
• 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
• 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
• 2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
• 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
• 2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Births

• 711 BC – Emperor Jimmu of Japan (d. 585 BC)
• 1457 – Mary of Burgundy (d. 1482)
• 1480 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1599 – Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
• 1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
• 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754)
• 1719 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral (d. 1792)
• 1721 – John Reid, Scottish general (d. 1807)
• 1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon (d. 1793)
• 1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (d. 1835)
• 1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian author (d. 1844)
• 1804 – Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (d. 1860)
• 1805 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
• 1811 – François Achille Bazaine, French marshal (d. 1888)
• 1831 – John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (d. 1869)
• 1834 – Heinrich Caro, German chemist (d. 1910)
• 1835 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
• 1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1895)
• 1849 – Wilhelm Voigt German impostor (d. 1922)
• 1855 – Paul Deschanel, French politician, 11th President of France (d. 1922)
• 1860 – Nienke van Hichtum, Dutch author (d. 1939)
• 1866 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938)
• 1867 – Harold Mahony, Irish tennis player (d. 1905)
• 1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879)
• 1870 – Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1938)
• 1873 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (d. 1938)
• 1876 – Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (d. 1949)
• 1880 – Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1955)
• 1881 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Hal Chase, American baseball player (d. 1947)
• 1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (d. 1922)
• 1884 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (d. 1961)
• 1885 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
• 1887 – Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic (d. 1919)
• 1888 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
• 1889 – Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director (d. 1974)
• 1891 – Kate Roberts, Welsh author (d. 1985)
• 1891 – Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
• 1892 – Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General (d. 1954)
• 1893 – Zénon-Bernard, Luxembourger politician (d. 1942)
• 1897 – William S. Bowdern, American priest and author (d. 1983)
• 1900 – Roy Harrod, English economist (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Paul Lazarsfeld, American sociologist (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Harold Lasswell, American political scientist (d. 1978)
• 1903 – Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian aircraft designer, founded the Beriev Aircraft Company (d. 1979)
• 1903 – Georges Simenon, Belgian author (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1964)
• 1906 – Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
• 1907 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004)
• 1910 – William Shockley, English-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Jean Muir, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Margaretta Scott, English actress (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Henri Caillavet, French politician (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947)
• 1916 – John Reed, English actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991)
• 1919 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
• 1920 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese-French painter (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (d. 1968)
• 1921 – Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and translator (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Welsh politician (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Gordon Tullock, American economist
• 1923 – Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Chuck Yeager, American pilot and general
• 1924 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Gerald Regan, Canadian politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia
• 1929 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian military officer (d. 1981)
• 1930 – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter and sculptor
• 1930 – Israel Kirzner, English-American economist
• 1930 – Yves Michaud, Canadian journalist
• 1932 – Robert Fulford, Canadian journalist
• 1932 – Susan Oliver, American actress and director (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Barbara Shelley, English actress
• 1932 – Simms Taback, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, President of Cameroon
• 1933 – Caroline Blakiston, English actress
• 1933 – Kenneth Dement, American football player and lawyer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Costa-Gavras, Greek-French director and producer
• 1933 – Patrick Godfrey, English actor
• 1933 – Kim Novak, American actress
• 1933 – Peter L. Pond, American clergyman and philanthropist (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer
• 1934 – George Segal, American actor
• 1935 – Don Panoz, American businessman
• 1937 – Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author (d. 1992)
• 1937 – Angelo Mosca, Canadian football player and wrestler
• 1937 – Enn Soosaar, Estonian columnist and publicist (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Larry Cunningham, Irish singer (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Raôul Duguay, Canadian poet and activist
• 1939 – Beate Klarsfeld, German nazi hunter
• 1939 – Zarinoff Lebeouf, Canadian wrestler
• 1939 – R. C. Sproul, American pastor, theologian, and author
• 1940 – Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam
• 1940 – Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian computer scientist
• 1941 – Andrea Conte, American nurse
• 1941 – Sigmar Polke, German painter
• 1941 – Bo Svenson, Swedish actor
• 1942 – Carol Lynley, American actress
• 1942 – Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (The Monkees)
• 1942 – Donald E. Williams, American navy officer and astronaut
• 1943 – Elaine Pagels, American theologian
• 1944 – Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian drummer (Traffic, Can, and Zahara) (d. 1983)
• 1944 – Stockard Channing, American actress
• 1944 – Jerry Springer, English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati
• 1944 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006)
• 1945 – King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Simon Schama, English historian
• 1945 – William Sleator, American author
• 1945 – David Tremlett, English sculptor
• 1946 – Richard Blumenthal, American politician
• 1946 – Louis Kondos, Greek actor
• 1946 – Colin Matthews, English composer
• 1947 – Stephen Hadley, American diplomat, 21st United States National Security Advisor
• 1947 – Dick Kaysø, Danish actor
• 1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
• 1947 – Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
• 1949 – Judy Dyble, English singer-songwriter and pianist (Fairport Convention and Giles, Giles and Fripp)
• 1950 – Ewa Aulin, Swedish actress
• 1950 – Bob Daisley, Australian bass player and songwriter (Rainbow, Chicken Shack, Widowmaker, Uriah Heep, and Living Loud)
• 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and producer (Genesis)
• 1950 – Donna Hanover, American journalist
• 1950 – Chuck Neubauer, American journalist
• 1951 – Ellen Bry, American actress
• 1951 – Greg Fulginiti, American engineer
• 1951 – David Naughton, American actor and singer
• 1952 – Ed Gagliardi, American bass player (Foreigner)
• 1952 – Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
• 1952 – Paul Jeffreys, English rock musician and bassist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (d. 1988)
• 1953 – Rico J. Puno, Filipino singer
• 1953 – Akio Sato, Japanese wrestler
• 1954 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1955 – Joe Birkett, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Princess Alia bint Al Hussein of Jordan
• 1956 – Liam Brady, Irish footballer
• 1956 – Richard Eden, Canadian actor
• 1956 – Peter Hook, English singer and bass player (Joy Division, New Order, Freebass, Revenge, and Monaco)
• 1956 – Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner
• 1957 – Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author
• 1957 – Tony Butler English musician and rock bassist (Big Country)
• 1958 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
• 1958 – Marc Emery, Canadian publisher, politician, and activist
• 1958 – Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist, author, and politician
• 1958 – Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator
• 1958 – Tip Tipping, English actor and stuntman (d. 1993)
• 1959 – Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee
• 1960 – Gary Patterson, American football player and coach
• 1960 – Matt Salinger, American actor
• 1960 – Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
• 1961 – Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer
• 1961 – Cevin Key, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Skinny Puppy, Download, PlatEAU, The Tear Garden, and Hilt)
• 1961 – Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Black Flag, Rollins Band, and State of Alert)
• 1961 – Richard Tyson, American actor
• 1962 – Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician, 8th Governor of Puerto Rico
• 1962 – Hugh Dennis, English actor and comedian
• 1962 – May Sweet, Burmese singer and actress
• 1962 – Nickla Roberts, American wrestler
• 1963 – Thomas Miller, German footballer
• 1964 – Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain, and astronaut
• 1964 – Yamantaka Eye, Japanese singer (Boredoms)
• 1964 – Ylva Johansson, Swedish educator and politician
• 1966 – Jeff Waters, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Annihilator)
• 1967 – Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
• 1968 – Kelly Hu, American model and actress
• 1968 – Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer
• 1968 – Daisuke Ikeda, Japanese wrestler
• 1968 – Yasuhiro Yamada, Japanese footballer (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Ahlam, Emirati singer
• 1969 – Andrew Bryniarski, American bodybuilder and actor
• 1969 – Mihai Leu, Romanian boxer
• 1970 – Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1970 – Ian McKeever, Irish mountaineer (d. 2013)
• 1970 – Diane Youdale, English gladiator
• 1971 – Sonia, English singer
• 1971 – Matt Berninger, American singer-songwriter (The National)
• 1971 – Galen Gering, American actor
• 1971 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1971 – Todd Williams, American baseball player
• 1972 – Charlie Garner, American football player
• 1974 – Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor
• 1974 – Gus Hansen, Danish poker player
• 1974 – Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Take That)
• 1975 – Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler, German politician
• 1975 – Ben Collins, English race car driver
• 1975 – Tony Dalton, American-Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1976 – Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (By Divine Right and Broken Social Scene)
• 1976 – Jörg Bergmeister German race car driver
• 1976 – Chantal de Bruijn, Dutch field hockey player
• 1976 – Dave Padden, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Annihilator and Terror Syndrome)
• 1976 – Martín Sastre, Uruguayan director
• 1977 – Petra Gáspár, Hungarian tennis player
• 1977 – Randy Moss, American football player
• 1978 – Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1978 – Hamish Glencross, Scottish guitarist (My Dying Bride)
• 1978 – Philippe Jaroussky, French tenor
• 1979 – Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer
• 1979 – Lucy Brown, English actress
• 1979 – Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress
• 1980 – Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican wrestler
• 1980 – Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
• 1980 – Mark Watson, English comedian and author
• 1981 – Luisão, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Matías Agüero, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1981 – Sam Burley, American runner
• 1981 – Liam Miller, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
• 1982 – Brady Bryant, American soccer player
• 1982 – Lanisha Cole, American model
• 1982 – Michael Turner, American football player
• 1983 – Mike Nickeas, American baseball player
• 1984 – Eveli Saue, Estonian orienteer and biathlete
• 1984 – Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer
• 1985 – Mayra Andrade, Cape Verdean singer
• 1985 – Matthieu Franke, French-German rugby player
• 1985 – Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
• 1985 – Hedwiges Maduro, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Zach Condon, American singer-songwriter (Beirut)
• 1986 – Luke Moore, English footballer
• 1986 – Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player
• 1986 – Jayden Jaymes, American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, and model
• 1987 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
• 1988 – Fuat Kalkan, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Aston Merrygold, English singer and actor (JLS)
• 1989 – Carly McKillip, Canadian actress and singer
• 1989 – Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer
• 1989 – Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 – Olivia Allison, English swimmer
• 1990 – Gyaincain Norbu, Chinese 11th Panchen Lama
• 1990 – Kevin Strootman, Dutch footballer
• 1990 – Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
• 1990 – Marco Romizi, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Declan Gallagher, Scottish footballer
• 1991 – Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer
• 1992 – Raby George, Swedish footballer
• 1993 – Sophie Evans, Welsh singer and actress
• 1994 – Patryk Dobek, Polish sprinter
• 1995 – Ayame Koike, Japanese actress

Deaths

• 721 – Chilperic II
• 858 – Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (b. 810)
• 942 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Islamic military officer
• 1130 – Pope Honorius II
• 1141 – Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
• 1199 – Stefan Nemanja of Serbia (b. 1113)
• 1219 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
• 1332 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1259)
• 1539 – Isabella d'Este, Italian wife of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (b. 1474)
• 1542 – Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, English assistant to Catherine Howard (b. 1505)
• 1542 – Catherine Howard, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1521)
• 1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1500)
• 1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish scholar (b. 1515)
• 1592 – Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter (b. 1510)
• 1600 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
• 1602 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (b. 1507)
• 1608 – Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
• 1624 – Stephen Gosson, English author (b. 1554)
• 1657 – Miles Sindercombe, English attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
• 1660 – Charles X Gustav of Sweden (b. 1622)
• 1662 – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1596)
• 1693 – Johann Kaspar Kerll, German organist and composer (b. 1627)
• 1727 – William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (b. 1666)
• 1728 – Cotton Mather, American minister and author (b. 1663)
• 1732 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
• 1741 – Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer (b. 1660)
• 1787 – Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1711)
• 1787 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French diplomat, Foreign Minister of France (b. 1717)
• 1813 – Samuel Ashe, American politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
• 1818 – George Rogers Clark, American general (b. 1752)
• 1826 – Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
• 1831 – Edward Berry, English admiral (b.1768)
• 1837 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1809)
• 1845 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
• 1877 – Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (b. 1815)
• 1883 – Richard Wagner, German director and composer (b. 1813)
• 1888 – Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)
• 1889 – João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe, Brazilian politician (b. 1815)
• 1905 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1906 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• 1908 – David Hesser, American water polo player (b. 1884)
• 1934 – József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1942 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865)
• 1950 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
• 1951 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
• 1952 – Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
• 1956 – Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
• 1960 – Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
• 1964 – Paulino Alcantara, Filipino footballer (b. 1896)
• 1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect (b. 1883)
• 1974 – Amir Khan, Indian singer (b. 1912)
• 1975 – André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (b. 1938)
• 1976 – Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (b. 1904)
• 1980 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1982 – Zeng Jinlian, Chinese giant (b. 1964)
• 1984 – Andre Stander, South African police officer and bank robber (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Dave Tarras, Ukrainian clarinet player (b. 1897)
• 1991 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Ron Pickering, English sportscaster (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Robert Klark Graham, American businessman (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
• 2000 – James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (b. 1921)
• 2000 – John Leake, English soldier (b. 1950)
• 2002 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Highwaymen) (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Dennis McDermott, Canadian union leader (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist and theorist, 7th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1916)
• 2004 – François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1942)
• 2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
• 2005 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Dick Weber, American bowler (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
• 2006 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Roger Voisin, French-American trumpet player (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Edward Upward, English author (b. 1903)
• 2010 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Cy Grant, Guyanese-English actor, singer, and poet (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2010 – John Reed, English actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Freddie Solomon, American football player (b. 1953)
• 2013 – John Ammonds, English television producer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Gabriele Basilico, Italian photographer (b. 1944)
• 2013 – John Holt, American football player (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Stefan Wigger, German actor (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Georges Wohlfart, Luxembourger politician (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Tibor Zsíros, Hungarian basketball player (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Catherine de Ricci
  • Beatrice of Ornacieux
  • Ermenilda of Ely
  • Fulcran
  • Polyeuctus (Roman Catholic church)
  • Castor of Karden (Roman Catholic church)
  • February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• The first day of Lupercalia (Roman Empire)
• The Festival of Parentalia (Roman Empire)
• World Radio Day

External links

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