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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of April 1111 | EVENT | Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 13th of April 1204 | EVENT | Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. |
| 13th of April 1256 | EVENT | The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. |
| 13th of April 1598 | EVENT | Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.) |
| 13th of April 1612 | EVENT | Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island. |
| 13th of April 1742 | EVENT | George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 13th of April 1796 | EVENT | The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India. |
| 13th of April 1829 | EVENT | The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics. |
| 13th of April 1849 | EVENT | Hungary becomes a republic. |
| 13th of April 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. |
| 13th of April 1868 | EVENT | The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala. |
| 13th of April 1870 | EVENT | The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded. |
| 13th of April 1873 | EVENT | The Colfax Massacre takes place. |
| 13th of April 1902 | EVENT | James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. |
| 13th of April 1909 | EVENT | The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. |
| 13th of April 1919 | EVENT | The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. |
| 13th of April 1919 | EVENT | Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded. |
| 13th of April 1919 | EVENT | Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. |
| 13th of April 1941 | EVENT | Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. |
| 13th of April 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. |
| 13th of April 1943 | EVENT | The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. |
| 13th of April 1944 | EVENT | Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. |
| 13th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. |
| 13th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria. |
| 13th of April 1948 | EVENT | The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem. |
| 13th of April 1953 | EVENT | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. |
| 13th of April 1958 | EVENT | During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. |
| 13th of April 1960 | EVENT | The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. |
| 13th of April 1964 | EVENT | At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. |
| 13th of April 1970 | EVENT | An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon. |
| 13th of April 1972 | EVENT | The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. |
| 13th of April 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Battle of An Loc begins. |
| 13th of April 1974 | EVENT | Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. |
| 13th of April 1975 | EVENT | Bus massacre in Lebanon: Attack by the Phalangist resistance kill 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. |
| 13th of April 1976 | EVENT | The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. |
| 13th of April 1984 | EVENT | India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control. |
| 13th of April 1987 | EVENT | Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999. |
| 13th of April 1992 | EVENT | The Great Chicago Flood. |
| 13th of April 1997 | EVENT | Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. |
| 13th of April 1506 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546) |
| 13th of April 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589) |
| 13th of April 1570 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606) |
| 13th of April 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625) |
| 13th of April 1584 | BIRTHDAY | Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666) |
| 13th of April 1593 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641) |
| 13th of April 1618 | BIRTHDAY | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693) |
| 13th of April 1648 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717) |
| 13th of April 1715 | BIRTHDAY | John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783) |
| 13th of April 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Percy, Bishop and magazine editor (d. 1811) |
| 13th of April 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792) |
| 13th of April 1735 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791) |
| 13th of April 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826) |
| 13th of April 1747 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Philip II, Duke of Orleans (d. 1793) |
| 13th of April 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830) |
| 13th of April 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830) |
| 13th of April 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833) |
| 13th of April 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868) |
| 13th of April 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877) |
| 13th of April 1787 | BIRTHDAY | John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873) |
| 13th of April 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884) |
| 13th of April 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889) |
| 13th of April 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868) |
| 13th of April 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop (d. 1889) |
| 13th of April 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889) |
| 13th of April 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905) |
| 13th of April 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917) |
| 13th of April 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928) |
| 13th of April 1852 | BIRTHDAY | F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919) |
| 13th of April 1860 | BIRTHDAY | James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949) |
| 13th of April 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908) |
| 13th of April 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945) |
| 13th of April 1873 | BIRTHDAY | John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955) |
| 13th of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Lyman Wilbur, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior and 3rd President of Stanford University (d. 1949) |
| 13th of April 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943) |
| 13th of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955) |
| 13th of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Lukacs, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971) |
| 13th of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964) |
| 13th of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995) |
| 13th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958) |
| 13th of April 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949) |
| 13th of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921) |
| 13th of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964) |
| 13th of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Scholl, German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl (d. 1973) |
| 13th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973) |
| 13th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, British Air Force commander (d. 1984) |
| 13th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973) |
| 13th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917) |
| 13th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor (d. 1993) |
| 13th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976) |
| 13th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981) |
| 13th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988) |
| 13th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987) |
| 13th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989) |
| 13th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991) |
| 13th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (d. 2001) |
| 13th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001) |
| 13th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984) |
| 13th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Louis Levesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994) |
| 13th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946) |
| 13th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006) |
| 13th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert O. Anderson, American businessman (d. 2007) |
| 13th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Keel, American actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2004) |
| 13th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007) |
| 13th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000) |
| 13th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995) |
| 13th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982) |
| 13th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Cheysson, French politician |
| 13th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004) |
| 13th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland |
| 13th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986) |
| 13th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian First President and Father of the Nation (d. 1999) |
| 13th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005) |
| 13th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Chick, American evangelist |
| 13th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Donen, American film director |
| 13th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough |
| 13th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983) |
| 13th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Ronet, French film actor (d. 1983) |
| 13th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999) |
| 13th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2001) |
| 13th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997) |
| 13th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Gurney, American race car driver and team owner |
| 13th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976) |
| 13th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. politician |
| 13th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Waggoner, American actor |
| 13th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Lanford Wilson, American playwright (d. 2011) |
| 13th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Fox, English actor |
| 13th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate |
| 13th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sorvino, American actor |
| 13th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988) |
| 13th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | J.M.G. Le Clezio, French novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature. |
| 13th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006) |
| 13th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Max Mosley, British racing driver, engineer and former president of the FIA |
| 13th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate |
| 13th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer |
| 13th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Conti, American composer |
| 13th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Kidd, American skier |
| 13th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Davis, American politician |
| 13th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Burnett, American film director |
| 13th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001) |
| 13th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Casady, American musician |
| 13th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dow, American actor |
| 13th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lowell George, American singer/guitarist (d. 1979) |
| 13th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Nunn, Australian actress |
| 13th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970) |
| 13th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Robinson, American actor |
| 13th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Al Green, American singer and pastor |
| 13th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister |
| 13th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sue Doughty, British politician |
| 13th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy |
| 13th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Drago Jancar, Slovenian writer |
| 13th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Doran, Scottish politician |
| 13th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Hitchens, English-born journalist, critic, and author |
| 13th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Zunino, Argentine racing driver |
| 13th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | William Sadler, American actor |
| 13th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Perlman, American actor |
| 13th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peabo Bryson, American singer |
| 13th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Davison, English actor |
| 13th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Streich, East German footballer |
| 13th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Max Weinberg, American drummer |
| 13th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Dittemore, American space administrator |
| 13th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Drew, British politician |
| 13th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Erick Avari, British-Indian actor |
| 13th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Byers, British politician |
| 13th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Destri, American keyboardist |
| 13th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Roche, British politician |
| 13th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Olsen, Danish singer |
| 13th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer |
| 13th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg |
| 13th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003) |
| 13th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Saundra Santiago, American actress |
| 13th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Kroeger, American actor |
| 13th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer |
| 13th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now |
| 13th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Voller, German football coach |
| 13th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania |
| 13th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist |
| 13th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Hiro Yamamoto, American rock bassist |
| 13th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988) |
| 13th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager |
| 13th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player |
| 13th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Davis Love III, Professional Golfer |
| 13th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress |
| 13th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect |
| 13th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mando, Greek singer |
| 13th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player |
| 13th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Ford, American musician |
| 13th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Tanon, Puerto Rican singer |
| 13th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Barros, American basketball player |
| 13th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Muschiol, German footballer |
| 13th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer |
| 13th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Brown, American professional wrestler |
| 13th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Szilveszter Csollany, Hungarian gymnast |
| 13th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Schroder, American actor |
| 13th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Rincon, Mexican baseball player |
| 13th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Outlaw, American basketball player |
| 13th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dina Korzun, Russian actress |
| 13th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Valensia, Dutch singer |
| 13th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind) |
| 13th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player |
| 13th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | David Schurmann, Brazilian film director |
| 13th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player |
| 13th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Turner , British racing driver |
| 13th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | David Zdrilic, Australian soccer player |
| 13th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Dyer, English footballer |
| 13th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist |
| 13th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | David Philip Hefti, Swiss composer and conductor |
| 13th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Valentina Cervi, Italian actress |
| 13th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Patrik Elias, Czech ice hockey player |
| 13th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Howerton, American actor |
| 13th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor |
| 13th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | James Jordan, English professional ballroom dancer |
| 13th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Howard, American actor |
| 13th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carles Puyol, Catalan footballer |
| 13th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist |
| 13th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player |
| 13th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Baron Davis, American basketball player |
| 13th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress |
| 13th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Quentin Richardson, American basketball player |
| 13th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress |
| 13th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Peldon, American actress |
| 13th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nat Borchers, American soccer player |
| 13th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nellie McKay, American singer |
| 13th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer |
| 13th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer |
| 13th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Schalk Burger, South African rugby player |
| 13th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hunter Pence, American baseball player |
| 13th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer |
| 13th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor |
| 13th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer |
| 13th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer |
| 13th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer |
| 13th of April 0799 | DEATH | Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (Born c. 720) |
| 13th of April 0814 | DEATH | Krum of Bulgaria |
| 13th of April 1093 | DEATH | Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (Born 1030) |
| 13th of April 1605 | DEATH | Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (Born c. 1551) |
| 13th of April 1612 | DEATH | Sasaki Kojiro, Japanese samurai |
| 13th of April 1635 | DEATH | Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (Born 1572) |
| 13th of April 1638 | DEATH | Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (Born 1579) |
| 13th of April 1641 | DEATH | Richard Montagu, English clergyman (Born 1577) |
| 13th of April 1695 | DEATH | Jean de la Fontaine, French author (Born 1621) |
| 13th of April 1722 | DEATH | Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (Born 1650) |
| 13th of April 1793 | DEATH | Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (Born 1763) |
| 13th of April 1794 | DEATH | Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (Born 1741) |
| 13th of April 1826 | DEATH | Franz Danzi, German composer (Born 1763) |
| 13th of April 1853 | DEATH | Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (Born 1788) |
| 13th of April 1853 | DEATH | James Iredell, Jr., American politician (Born 1788) |
| 13th of April 1855 | DEATH | Henry De la Beche, English geologist (Born 1796) |
| 13th of April 1868 | DEATH | Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (Born 1818) |
| 13th of April 1880 | DEATH | Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (Born 1813) |
| 13th of April 1882 | DEATH | Bruno Bauer, German theologian (Born 1809) |
| 13th of April 1886 | DEATH | John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (Born 1811) |
| 13th of April 1890 | DEATH | Samuel J. Randall, American politician (Born 1828) |
| 13th of April 1909 | DEATH | Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (Born 1830) |
| 13th of April 1910 | DEATH | William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (Born 1835) |
| 13th of April 1911 | DEATH | George Washington Glick, American politician (Born 1827) |
| 13th of April 1911 | DEATH | John McLane, American politician (Born 1852) |
| 13th of April 1912 | DEATH | Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (Born 1886) |
| 13th of April 1918 | DEATH | Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (Born 1870) |
| 13th of April 1927 | DEATH | Georg Voigt, German politician (Born 1866) |
| 13th of April 1936 | DEATH | Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (Born 1903) |
| 13th of April 1936 | DEATH | Konstantinos Demertzis, Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1876) |
| 13th of April 1938 | DEATH | Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (Born 1888) |
| 13th of April 1941 | DEATH | Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (Born 1863) |
| 13th of April 1942 | DEATH | Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (Born 1879) |
| 13th of April 1942 | DEATH | Henk Sneevliet, Dutch Communist (Born 1883) |
| 13th of April 1944 | DEATH | Cecile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (Born 1857) |
| 13th of April 1945 | DEATH | Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (Born 1874) |
| 13th of April 1954 | DEATH | Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (Born 1890) |
| 13th of April 1959 | DEATH | Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (Born 1901) |
| 13th of April 1961 | DEATH | John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (Born 1935) |
| 13th of April 1962 | DEATH | Culbert Olson, American politician (Born 1876) |
| 13th of April 1966 | DEATH | Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (Born 1921) |
| 13th of April 1966 | DEATH | Georges Duhamel, French writer (Born 1884) |
| 13th of April 1971 | DEATH | Michel Briere, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1949) |
| 13th of April 1971 | DEATH | Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (Born 1921) |
| 13th of April 1975 | DEATH | Larry Parks, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 13th of April 1975 | DEATH | Francois (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (Born 1918) |
| 13th of April 1978 | DEATH | Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (Born 1931) |
| 13th of April 1980 | DEATH | Markus Hottinger, Austrian racing driver (Born 1956) |
| 13th of April 1981 | DEATH | Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (Born 1887) |
| 13th of April 1983 | DEATH | Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (Born 1896) |
| 13th of April 1984 | DEATH | Richard Hurndall, British actor (Born 1910) |
| 13th of April 1984 | DEATH | Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (Born 1911) |
| 13th of April 1984 | DEATH | Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (Born 1912) |
| 13th of April 1986 | DEATH | Stephen Stucker, American actor (Born 1947) |
| 13th of April 1993 | DEATH | Wallace Stegner, American writer (Born 1909) |
| 13th of April 1997 | DEATH | Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (Born 1896) |
| 13th of April 1997 | DEATH | Voldemar Vali, Estonian wrestler (Born 1903) |
| 13th of April 1998 | DEATH | Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (Born 1960) |
| 13th of April 1999 | DEATH | Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (Born 1924) |
| 13th of April 1999 | DEATH | Willi Stoph, German politician (Born 1914) |
| 13th of April 2000 | DEATH | Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Born 1916) |
| 13th of April 2001 | DEATH | Robert Moon, American postal inspector (Born 1917) |
| 13th of April 2002 | DEATH | Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (Born 1928) |
| 13th of April 2004 | DEATH | Lou Berberet, American baseball player (Born 1929) |
| 13th of April 2004 | DEATH | Caron Keating, British television presenter (Born 1962) |
| 13th of April 2005 | DEATH | Don Blasingame, American baseball player (Born 1932) |
| 13th of April 2005 | DEATH | Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (Born 1924) |
| 13th of April 2005 | DEATH | Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (Born 1959) |
| 13th of April 2005 | DEATH | Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (Born 1945) |
| 13th of April 2006 | DEATH | Bill Baker, American baseball player (Born 1911) |
| 13th of April 2007 | DEATH | Don Selwyn, Maori actor and film director (Born c. 1936) |
| 13th of April 2008 | DEATH | John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (Born 1911) |
| 13th of April 2009 | DEATH | Bruce Snyder, American football coach (Born 1940) |
| 13th of April 2009 | DEATH | Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (Born 1936) |
| 13th of April 2009 | DEATH | Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (Born 1954) |