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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of May 1373 | EVENT | Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love. |
| 13th of May 1497 | EVENT | Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. |
| 13th of May 1515 | EVENT | Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich. |
| 13th of May 1568 | EVENT | Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. |
| 13th of May 1619 | EVENT | Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. |
| 13th of May 1648 | EVENT | Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed. |
| 13th of May 1779 | EVENT | War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel). |
| 13th of May 1780 | EVENT | The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee. |
| 13th of May 1787 | EVENT | Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia. |
| 13th of May 1804 | EVENT | Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derne from the Americans attack the city. |
| 13th of May 1830 | EVENT | Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia. |
| 13th of May 1846 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico. |
| 13th of May 1848 | EVENT | First performance of Finland's national anthem. |
| 13th of May 1861 | EVENT | The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. |
| 13th of May 1861 | EVENT | Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri. |
| 13th of May 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights. |
| 13th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Resaca : the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 13th of May 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch : in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory. |
| 13th of May 1880 | EVENT | In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. |
| 13th of May 1888 | EVENT | With the passage of the Lei Aurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery. |
| 13th of May 1909 | EVENT | The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner. |
| 13th of May 1912 | EVENT | The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom. |
| 13th of May 1917 | EVENT | Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal. |
| 13th of May 1923 | EVENT | Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified. |
| 13th of May 1939 | EVENT | The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM. |
| 13th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. |
| 13th of May 1940 | EVENT | Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety. |
| 13th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailovic starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. |
| 13th of May 1943 | EVENT | World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. |
| 13th of May 1948 | EVENT | 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. |
| 13th of May 1950 | EVENT | The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone. |
| 13th of May 1951 | EVENT | The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru. |
| 13th of May 1952 | EVENT | The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. |
| 13th of May 1954 | EVENT | The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place. |
| 13th of May 1958 | EVENT | During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. |
| 13th of May 1958 | EVENT | The trade mark Velcro is registered. |
| 13th of May 1958 | EVENT | May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria. |
| 13th of May 1960 | EVENT | Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born. |
| 13th of May 1963 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided. |
| 13th of May 1967 | EVENT | Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969. |
| 13th of May 1969 | EVENT | Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| 13th of May 1972 | EVENT | Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths. |
| 13th of May 1980 | EVENT | An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area. |
| 13th of May 1981 | EVENT | Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives. |
| 13th of May 1985 | EVENT | Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. |
| 13th of May 1989 | EVENT | Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike. |
| 13th of May 1992 | EVENT | Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China. |
| 13th of May 1994 | EVENT | Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. |
| 13th of May 1996 | EVENT | Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people. |
| 13th of May 1998 | EVENT | Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. |
| 13th of May 1998 | EVENT | India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. |
| 13th of May 2000 | EVENT | In Enschede, Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately EUR450 million in damage. |
| 13th of May 2005 | EVENT | The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam. |
| 13th of May 2005 | EVENT | The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan. |
| 13th of May 2006 | EVENT | 2006 Sao Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil. |
| 13th of May 2008 | EVENT | The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths. |
| 13th of May 2011 | EVENT | In India, The Communist Party of India (Marxist) lost Assembly elections in West Bengal to Trinamool Congress, ending world's longest democratically elected Communist government's 34 year rule in the State.[1] |
| 13th of May 1024 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109) |
| 13th of May 1254 | BIRTHDAY | Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321) |
| 13th of May 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654) |
| 13th of May 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712) |
| 13th of May 1655 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724) |
| 13th of May 1699 | BIRTHDAY | Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782) |
| 13th of May 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772) |
| 13th of May 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1780) |
| 13th of May 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782) |
| 13th of May 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798) |
| 13th of May 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823) |
| 13th of May 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878) |
| 13th of May 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835) |
| 13th of May 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875) |
| 13th of May 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902) |
| 13th of May 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894) |
| 13th of May 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897) |
| 13th of May 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900) |
| 13th of May 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938) |
| 13th of May 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1932) |
| 13th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Lima Barreto, Brazilian author (d. 1922) |
| 13th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963) |
| 13th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the pap smear (d. 1962) |
| 13th of May 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Asgeir Asgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972) |
| 13th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-born psychologist and parapsychologist (d. 1964) |
| 13th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Justin/Giustino Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (d. 2007) |
| 13th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984) |
| 13th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989) |
| 13th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977) |
| 13th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007) |
| 13th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988) |
| 13th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (d. 1980) |
| 13th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981) |
| 13th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | T. Balasaraswati, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984) |
| 13th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007) |
| 13th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978) |
| 13th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice Arthur, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 13th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (d. 1991) |
| 13th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Red Garland, American hard bop jazz pianist (d.1984) |
| 13th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2010) |
| 13th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director |
| 13th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Breem, British author (d. 1990) |
| 13th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958) |
| 13th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001) |
| 13th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter |
| 13th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Bolanos, Nicaraguan politician |
| 13th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007) |
| 13th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gravel, American politician |
| 13th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Jimenez Lozano, Spanish writer |
| 13th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Shaw, President of Dominica |
| 13th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Jones, American businessman, and cult leader of the Peoples Temple (d. 1978) |
| 13th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (d. 2010) |
| 13th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 13th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Cossa, American baritone |
| 13th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Baylis, English inventor |
| 13th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist |
| 13th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995) |
| 13th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Zohra Lampert, American actress |
| 13th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Giuliano Amato, Italian politician |
| 13th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Beaudoin, French/Canadian businessman |
| 13th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Keitel, American actor |
| 13th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Hildrun Claus, German athlete |
| 13th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989) |
| 13th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jody Conradt, American basketball coach |
| 13th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959) |
| 13th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Senta Berger, Austrian actress |
| 13th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Brown, British singer |
| 13th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Young, American television director |
| 13th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist |
| 13th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Wells, American singer (d. 1992) |
| 13th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Armistead Maupin, American author |
| 13th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Magic Dick, American musician (The J. Geils Band) |
| 13th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Anderson, American actor |
| 13th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Waneta Hoyt, American convicted serial killer (d. 1998) |
| 13th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor |
| 13th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Zoe Wanamaker, English/American actress |
| 13th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 13th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Manning Marable, American academic and author (d. 2011) |
| 13th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Valentine, American baseball player and manager |
| 13th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician |
| 13th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Sayles Belton, American politician |
| 13th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music) |
| 13th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | James Whale, English radio personality |
| 13th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Kasich, American politician and political commentator |
| 13th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Walsh, Canadian comedian and actress |
| 13th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter |
| 13th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual figure |
| 13th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Madeley, English television presenter |
| 13th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II, Philippine politician |
| 13th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer |
| 13th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Klump, German Red Army Faction terrorist |
| 13th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer |
| 13th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Barber, British actress |
| 13th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor |
| 13th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sean McDonough, American sportscaster |
| 13th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul McDermott, Australian comedian |
| 13th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet |
| 13th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Masur, Australian tennis player |
| 13th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor |
| 13th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder |
| 13th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Verica, American actor |
| 13th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (d. 2006) |
| 13th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian |
| 13th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tasmin Little, English violinist |
| 13th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lari White, American country music singer |
| 13th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host |
| 13th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish) |
| 13th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer |
| 13th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Goldfrapp, English musician |
| 13th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001) |
| 13th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Thornton, American pop singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001) |
| 13th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997) |
| 13th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | PMD, American rapper |
| 13th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Buckethead, American musician |
| 13th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Nalen, American football player |
| 13th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer |
| 13th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Geraghty, American actor |
| 13th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Bezzi, Italian rugby player |
| 13th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer |
| 13th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Trajan Langdon, American basketball player |
| 13th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Robby Hammock, American baseball player |
| 13th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer |
| 13th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Morton, English actress |
| 13th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Hopkins, American actor |
| 13th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Bibby, American basketball player |
| 13th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 13th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Mildenhall, English footballer |
| 13th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player |
| 13th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Zito, American baseball player |
| 13th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Varmland of Sweden |
| 13th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5) |
| 13th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Barker, American bassist (Anti-Flag) |
| 13th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress |
| 13th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer |
| 13th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Wang Yang, American professional wrestler |
| 13th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress |
| 13th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sunny Leone, Canadian/American pornographic actress |
| 13th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol |
| 13th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer |
| 13th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Gorbicz, Hungarian handball player |
| 13th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Yaya Toure, Ivorian footballer |
| 13th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007) |
| 13th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Dayal, Indian singer |
| 13th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslav Halak, Slovak hockey player |
| 13th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Iwan Rheon, Welsh stage/television actor and singer |
| 13th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Giuliana Marino, German glamour model |
| 13th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer |
| 13th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Sutter, English footballer |
| 13th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Pattinson, English actor, musician and model |
| 13th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Candice Accola, American actress/singer |
| 13th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Doyle, American broadway actor/singer |
| 13th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hunter Parrish, American actor |
| 13th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Prejean, American beauty pageant contestant |
| 13th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Donovan, Australian singer |
| 13th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer |
| 13th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Debby Ryan, American actress |
| 13th of May 1176 | DEATH | Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1119) |
| 13th of May 1312 | DEATH | Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1263) |
| 13th of May 1573 | DEATH | Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (Born 1521) |
| 13th of May 1619 | DEATH | Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (Born 1547) |
| 13th of May 1704 | DEATH | Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (Born 1632) |
| 13th of May 1742 | DEATH | Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (Born 1719) |
| 13th of May 1807 | DEATH | Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (Born 1721) |
| 13th of May 1809 | DEATH | Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, first Anglican to challenge the Church's position on slavery (Born 1731) |
| 13th of May 1832 | DEATH | Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (Born 1769) |
| 13th of May 1835 | DEATH | John Nash, English architect (Born 1752) |
| 13th of May 1866 | DEATH | Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (Born 1796) |
| 13th of May 1871 | DEATH | Daniel Auber, French composer (Born 1782) |
| 13th of May 1878 | DEATH | Joseph Henry, American scientist (Born 1797) |
| 13th of May 1884 | DEATH | Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (Born 1809) |
| 13th of May 1885 | DEATH | Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (Born 1809) |
| 13th of May 1901 | DEATH | Leopoldo Alas y Urena, a.k.a. "Clarin", Spanish novelist and literary critic (Born 1851) |
| 13th of May 1903 | DEATH | Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (Born 1864) |
| 13th of May 1916 | DEATH | Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (Born 1859) |
| 13th of May 1921 | DEATH | Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (Born 1848) |
| 13th of May 1925 | DEATH | Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (Born 1879) |
| 13th of May 1926 | DEATH | Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (Born 1857) |
| 13th of May 1930 | DEATH | Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Born 1861) |
| 13th of May 1937 | DEATH | Ekaterina Geladze, Georgian mother of Joseph Stalin (Born 1858) |
| 13th of May 1938 | DEATH | Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1861) |
| 13th of May 1941 | DEATH | Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (Born 1891) |
| 13th of May 1945 | DEATH | Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (Born 1895) |
| 13th of May 1957 | DEATH | Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (Born 1886) |
| 13th of May 1961 | DEATH | Gary Cooper, American actor (Born 1901) |
| 13th of May 1962 | DEATH | Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (Born 1893) |
| 13th of May 1963 | DEATH | Alois Hudal, Austrian-born Catholic bishop who assisted Nazi war criminals in escaping (Born 1885) |
| 13th of May 1972 | DEATH | Dan Blocker, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 13th of May 1974 | DEATH | Arthur J. Burks, "million-words-a-year" pulp magazines author (Born 1898) |
| 13th of May 1974 | DEATH | Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (Born 1902) |
| 13th of May 1975 | DEATH | Bob Wills, American musician (Born 1905) |
| 13th of May 1977 | DEATH | Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (Born 1934) |
| 13th of May 1985 | DEATH | Leatrice Joy, American actress (Born 1893) |
| 13th of May 1988 | DEATH | Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1929) |
| 13th of May 1992 | DEATH | F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (Born 1909) |
| 13th of May 1994 | DEATH | Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (Born 1920) |
| 13th of May 1999 | DEATH | Gene Sarazen, American golfer (Born 1902) |
| 13th of May 2000 | DEATH | Paul Bartel, American actor (Born 1938) |
| 13th of May 2000 | DEATH | Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (Born 1951) |
| 13th of May 2001 | DEATH | Jason Miller, American playwright (Born 1939) |
| 13th of May 2001 | DEATH | R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (Born 1906) |
| 13th of May 2002 | DEATH | Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (Born 1939) |
| 13th of May 2002 | DEATH | Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (Born 1925) |
| 13th of May 2002 | DEATH | Clinton Davis, American artist (Born 1918) |
| 13th of May 2005 | DEATH | Eddie Barclay, French record producer (Born 1921) |
| 13th of May 2005 | DEATH | George Dantzig, American mathematician (Born 1914) |
| 13th of May 2005 | DEATH | Michael Ross, American serial killer (Born 1959) |
| 13th of May 2006 | DEATH | Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (Born 1923) |
| 13th of May 2006 | DEATH | Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Born 1949) |
| 13th of May 2008 | DEATH | Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (Born 1930) |
| 13th of May 2008 | DEATH | Ron Stone, American television reporter (Born 1936) |
| 13th of May 2009 | DEATH | Frank Aletter, American character actor (Born 1926) |
| 13th of May 2009 | DEATH | Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian-born member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem (Born 1934) |
| 13th of May 2009 | DEATH | Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (Born 1914) |
| 13th of May 2011 | DEATH | Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1982) |