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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of February 1503 | EVENT | Disfida di Barletta : famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. |
| 13th of February 1542 | EVENT | Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery. |
| 13th of February 1575 | EVENT | Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont on the same day. |
| 13th of February 1633 | EVENT | Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. |
| 13th of February 1668 | EVENT | Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation. |
| 13th of February 1689 | EVENT | William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England. |
| 13th of February 1692 | EVENT | 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. |
| 13th of February 1739 | EVENT | Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. |
| 13th of February 1867 | EVENT | Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. |
| 13th of February 1880 | EVENT | Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. |
| 13th of February 1881 | EVENT | The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. |
| 13th of February 1894 | EVENT | Auguste and Louis Lumiere patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. |
| 13th of February 1914 | EVENT | Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. |
| 13th of February 1920 | EVENT | The Negro National League is formed. |
| 13th of February 1931 | EVENT | New Delhi becomes the capital of India. |
| 13th of February 1934 | EVENT | The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. |
| 13th of February 1935 | EVENT | 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. |
| 13th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. |
| 13th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. |
| 13th of February 1951 | EVENT | Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. |
| 13th of February 1954 | EVENT | Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game |
| 13th of February 1955 | EVENT | Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. |
| 13th of February 1960 | EVENT | With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. |
| 13th of February 1960 | EVENT | Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 13th of February 1961 | EVENT | A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. |
| 13th of February 1967 | EVENT | American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. |
| 13th of February 1970 | EVENT | Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released. |
| 13th of February 1971 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. |
| 13th of February 1978 | EVENT | Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. |
| 13th of February 1979 | EVENT | An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. |
| 13th of February 1981 | EVENT | A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 13th of February 1982 | EVENT | Rio Negro massacre in Guatemala. |
| 13th of February 1984 | EVENT | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 13th of February 1990 | EVENT | German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. |
| 13th of February 1991 | EVENT | 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. |
| 13th of February 2000 | EVENT | The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. |
| 13th of February 2001 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. |
| 13th of February 2004 | EVENT | 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". |
| 13th of February 2007 | EVENT | Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
| 13th of February 2008 | EVENT | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. |
| 13th of February 2010 | EVENT | A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. |
| 13th of February 1457 | BIRTHDAY | Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482) |
| 13th of February 1480 | BIRTHDAY | Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542) |
| 13th of February 1516 | BIRTHDAY | Bayinnaung, King of Burma (d. 1581) |
| 13th of February 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667) |
| 13th of February 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Francois Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731) |
| 13th of February 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754) |
| 13th of February 1719 | BIRTHDAY | George Rodney, British naval officer (d. 1792) |
| 13th of February 1721 | BIRTHDAY | John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807) |
| 13th of February 1728 | BIRTHDAY | John Hunter, Scottish surgeon (d. 1793) |
| 13th of February 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835) |
| 13th of February 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844) |
| 13th of February 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859) |
| 13th of February 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Achille Bazaine, French marshal (d. 1888) |
| 13th of February 1831 | BIRTHDAY | John Aaron Rawlins, American soldier, civil servant, and 29th United States Secretary of War (d. 1869) |
| 13th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Caro, German Chemist (d. 1910) |
| 13th of February 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908) |
| 13th of February 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman (d. 1895) |
| 13th of February 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922) |
| 13th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938) |
| 13th of February 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist, composer (d. 1938) |
| 13th of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938) |
| 13th of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933) |
| 13th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949) |
| 13th of February 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor Farjeon, English author (d. 1965) |
| 13th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian director (d. 1922) |
| 13th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961) |
| 13th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Harry S. Truman (d. 1982) |
| 13th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Geza Csath, Hungarian writer (d. 1919) |
| 13th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968) |
| 13th of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and theatre director (d. 1974) |
| 13th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942) |
| 13th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (d. 1985) |
| 13th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1954) |
| 13th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Bowdern, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest (d. 1983) |
| 13th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Harrod, English economist (d. 1978) |
| 13th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lazarsfeld, American Sociologist (d. 1976) |
| 13th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Lasswell, American political scientist (d. 1978) |
| 13th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989) |
| 13th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Georgy Beriev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1979) |
| 13th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994) |
| 13th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Callighen, Canadian Hockey Player (d. 1964) |
| 13th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004) |
| 13th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | William Shockley, British-American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1989) |
| 13th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Muir, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 13th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner (d. 1984) |
| 13th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947) |
| 13th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John Reed, British actor and singer (d. 2010) |
| 13th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006) |
| 13th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007) |
| 13th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991) |
| 13th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987) |
| 13th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Eileen Farrell, American opera soprano (d. 2002) |
| 13th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996) |
| 13th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Demessieux, French organist, pianist, composer (d. 1968) |
| 13th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Tullock, American economist |
| 13th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83 (d. 2008) |
| 13th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician (d. 2002) |
| 13th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003) |
| 13th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Yeager, American fighter and test pilot |
| 13th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (d. 2006) |
| 13th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters) |
| 13th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler (d. 1981) |
| 13th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Kirzner, American economist |
| 13th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist |
| 13th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Blakiston, British actress |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Biya, Cameroon politician |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Costa Gavras, Greek-French filmmaker |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Godfrey, British actor |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist (d. 2000) |
| 13th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Novak, American actress |
| 13th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | George Segal, American actor |
| 13th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Don Panoz, American entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS) |
| 13th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992) |
| 13th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999) |
| 13th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter |
| 13th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Arne S?lvberg, Norwegian computer scientist |
| 13th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee |
| 13th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sigmar Polke, German painter |
| 13th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Lynley, American actress |
| 13th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees) |
| 13th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Donald E. Williams, NASA astronaut |
| 13th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Pagels, American theologian |
| 13th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (d. 1983) |
| 13th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Springer, American television host |
| 13th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor |
| 13th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Stockard Channing, American actress |
| 13th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006) |
| 13th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006) |
| 13th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Schama, British historian |
| 13th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David Tremlett, English artist |
| 13th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Blumenthal, American Senator |
| 13th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Kondos, Greek actor |
| 13th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Matthews, British composer |
| 13th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Kays?, Danish actor |
| 13th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach |
| 13th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Hadley, U.S. National Security Adviser |
| 13th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Dyble, British singer/songwriter (Fairport Convention) |
| 13th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ewa Aulin, Swedish actress |
| 13th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis), composer and humanitarian |
| 13th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer |
| 13th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | David Naughton, American actor and singer |
| 13th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist |
| 13th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer |
| 13th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 13th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Birkett, American lawyer |
| 13th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member |
| 13th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Brady, Irish footballer |
| 13th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hook, English bassist (Joy Division and New Order) |
| 13th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner |
| 13th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Austin, American fitness expert |
| 13th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Pernilla August, Swedish actress |
| 13th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Emery, Canadian cannabis activist |
| 13th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Riggs, British artist |
| 13th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (d. 1993) |
| 13th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Eden, American actor |
| 13th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman |
| 13th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gord Hampson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee |
| 13th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Patterson, American football coach |
| 13th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player |
| 13th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Salinger, American actor |
| 13th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 13th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kyi Hla Han, Burmese golfer |
| 13th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Cevin Key, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy, Subconscious Communications) |
| 13th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor (Black Flag) |
| 13th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | May Sweet, Burmese singer |
| 13th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Anibal Acevedo Vila, American politician and 8th Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
| 13th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ylva Johansson, Swedish politician |
| 13th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Yamantaka Eye, Japanese musician (Boredoms) |
| 13th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Patton, American actor |
| 13th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen G. Bowen, NASA astronaut |
| 13th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Waters, Canadian musician (Annihilator) |
| 13th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach |
| 13th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Hu, American actress |
| 13th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer |
| 13th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ahlam, Bahraini singer |
| 13th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Karoline Kruger, Norwegian singer |
| 13th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Youdale, British television personality |
| 13th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Galen Gering, American actor |
| 13th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sonia, British singer |
| 13th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 13th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Williams, American baseball player |
| 13th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Garner, American football player |
| 13th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jorg Bergmeister German race car driver |
| 13th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Duran, American radio personality |
| 13th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player |
| 13th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Williams, English singer |
| 13th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Fonzworth Bentley, American hip-hop artist |
| 13th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sabine Batzing-Lichtenthaler, German politician |
| 13th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Collins, British racing driver |
| 13th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Gonzalez, Puerto Rican writer and musician |
| 13th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dalton, Mexican (American born) actor and screenwriter |
| 13th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator) |
| 13th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist |
| 13th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 13th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Moss, American football player |
| 13th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress |
| 13th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Hamish Glencross, Scottish guitarist (My Dying Bride) |
| 13th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Jaroussky, French sopranist countertenor |
| 13th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Marquez, Mexican footballer |
| 13th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mena Suvari, American actress |
| 13th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Brown, British actress |
| 13th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Kehl, German footballer |
| 13th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Watson, British comedian |
| 13th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matias Aguero, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 13th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Luisao, Brazilian footballer |
| 13th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Burley, American middle-distance track athlete |
| 13th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Miller, Irish footballer |
| 13th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Ridnour, American basketball player |
| 13th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lanisha Cole, American model |
| 13th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Nickeas, American baseball player |
| 13th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress |
| 13th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matthieu Franke, French-born German rugby player |
| 13th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer |
| 13th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Moore, English footballer |
| 13th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Colletti, American TV star |
| 13th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Riley, American Actress |
| 13th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player |
| 13th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer |
| 13th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Fuat Kalkan, Turkish footballer |
| 13th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Aston Merrygold, English singer and actor |
| 13th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Carly McKillip, Canadian actress |
| 13th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer |
| 13th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer |
| 13th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Gyaincain Norbu, 11th Panchen Lama |
| 13th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer |
| 13th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Evans, Welsh musician |
| 13th of February 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Ayame Koike, Japanese actress |
| 13th of February 0858 | DEATH | Kenneth I of Scotland |
| 13th of February 1130 | DEATH | Pope Honorius II |
| 13th of February 1141 | DEATH | Bela II of Hungary (Born 1110) |
| 13th of February 1219 | DEATH | Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (Born 1192) |
| 13th of February 1332 | DEATH | Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1259) |
| 13th of February 1539 | DEATH | Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (Born 1474) |
| 13th of February 1542 | DEATH | Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (Bornc. 1521) |
| 13th of February 1542 | DEATH | Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess of Rochford, lady-in-waiting of the above (Bornc. 1505) |
| 13th of February 1571 | DEATH | Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (Born 1500) |
| 13th of February 1585 | DEATH | Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (Born 1515) |
| 13th of February 1592 | DEATH | Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter |
| 13th of February 1600 | DEATH | Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (Born 1538) |
| 13th of February 1602 | DEATH | Alexander Nowell, English clergyman |
| 13th of February 1608 | DEATH | Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (Born 1526) |
| 13th of February 1624 | DEATH | Stephen Gosson, English satirist (Born 1554) |
| 13th of February 1657 | DEATH | Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell |
| 13th of February 1660 | DEATH | King Charles X of Sweden (Born 1622) |
| 13th of February 1662 | DEATH | Elizabeth Stuart (Born 1596) |
| 13th of February 1727 | DEATH | William Wotton, English scholar (Born 1666) |
| 13th of February 1728 | DEATH | Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (Born 1663) |
| 13th of February 1732 | DEATH | Charles-Rene d'Hozier, French historian (Born 1640) |
| 13th of February 1787 | DEATH | Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (Born 1717) |
| 13th of February 1787 | DEATH | Ru?er Boskovic, Croatian scientist and diplomat (Born 1711) |
| 13th of February 1813 | DEATH | Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (Born 1725) |
| 13th of February 1818 | DEATH | George Rogers Clark, American military leader (Born 1752) |
| 13th of February 1826 | DEATH | Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (Born 1745) |
| 13th of February 1831 | DEATH | Edward Berry Royal Navy admiral (Born1768) |
| 13th of February 1837 | DEATH | Mariano Jose de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (Born 1809) |
| 13th of February 1845 | DEATH | Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (Born 1773) |
| 13th of February 1883 | DEATH | Richard Wagner, German composer (Born 1813) |
| 13th of February 1888 | DEATH | Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (Born 1814) |
| 13th of February 1889 | DEATH | Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (Born 1815) |
| 13th of February 1905 | DEATH | Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (Born 1844) |
| 13th of February 1906 | DEATH | Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (Born 1866) |
| 13th of February 1934 | DEATH | Jozsef Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet, journalist in Hungary (Born 1864) |
| 13th of February 1942 | DEATH | Epitacio Pessoa, Brazilian president (Born 1865) |
| 13th of February 1950 | DEATH | Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (Born 1875) |
| 13th of February 1951 | DEATH | Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (Born 1877) |
| 13th of February 1952 | DEATH | Josephine Tey, English author (Born 1896) |
| 13th of February 1956 | DEATH | Jan ?ukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (Born 1878) |
| 13th of February 1958 | DEATH | Georges Rouault, French painter (Born 1871) |
| 13th of February 1958 | DEATH | Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (Born 1880) |
| 13th of February 1964 | DEATH | Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (Born 1902) |
| 13th of February 1968 | DEATH | Mae Marsh, American actress (Born 1895) |
| 13th of February 1974 | DEATH | Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical singer (Born 1912) |
| 13th of February 1975 | DEATH | Andre Beaufre, French General (Born 1902) |
| 13th of February 1976 | DEATH | Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (Born 1938) |
| 13th of February 1976 | DEATH | Lily Pons, French-born soprano (Born 1904) |
| 13th of February 1980 | DEATH | David Janssen, American actor (Born 1931) |
| 13th of February 1984 | DEATH | Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (Born 1946) |
| 13th of February 1989 | DEATH | Wayne Hays, American politician (Born 1911) |
| 13th of February 1991 | DEATH | Arno Breker, German sculptor (Born 1900) |
| 13th of February 1991 | DEATH | Ron Pickering, athletics coach and BBC sports commentator and presenter (Born 1930) |
| 13th of February 1992 | DEATH | Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (Born 1909) |
| 13th of February 1996 | DEATH | Martin Balsam, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 13th of February 1997 | DEATH | Robert Klark Graham, American businessman and eugenecist (Born 1906) |
| 13th of February 1997 | DEATH | Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (Born 1920) |
| 13th of February 2000 | DEATH | Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (Born 1914) |
| 13th of February 2000 | DEATH | James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (Born 1921) |
| 13th of February 2002 | DEATH | Waylon Jennings, American musician (Born 1937) |
| 13th of February 2003 | DEATH | Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (Born 1932) |
| 13th of February 2003 | DEATH | Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (Born 1926) |
| 13th of February 2003 | DEATH | Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (Born 1916) |
| 13th of February 2004 | DEATH | Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (Born 1952) |
| 13th of February 2005 | DEATH | Nelson Briles, baseball player (Born 1943) |
| 13th of February 2005 | DEATH | Lucia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (Born 1907) |
| 13th of February 2005 | DEATH | Dick Weber, American professional bowler (Born 1929) |
| 13th of February 2005 | DEATH | Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (Born 1965) |
| 13th of February 2005 | DEATH | Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (Born 1917) |
| 13th of February 2006 | DEATH | Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (Born 1919) |
| 13th of February 2006 | DEATH | Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (Born 1946) |
| 13th of February 2007 | DEATH | Charlie Norwood, American politician (Born 1941) |
| 13th of February 2007 | DEATH | Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (Born 1923) |
| 13th of February 2007 | DEATH | Johanna Sallstrom, Swedish actress (Born 1974) |
| 13th of February 2007 | DEATH | Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (Born 1922) |
| 13th of February 2008 | DEATH | Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (Born 1918) |
| 13th of February 2009 | DEATH | Edward Upward, British novelist and short-story writer (Born 1903) |
| 13th of February 2010 | DEATH | Lucille Clifton, American poet (Born 1936) |
| 13th of February 2010 | DEATH | John Reed, British singer of Gilbert & Sullivan (Born 1916) |