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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of October 0054 | EVENT | Nero ascends to the Roman throne |
| 13th of October 0409 | EVENT | Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania. |
| 13th of October 1307 | EVENT | Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy. |
| 13th of October 1332 | EVENT | Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days. |
| 13th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 13th of October 1773 | EVENT | The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. |
| 13th of October 1775 | EVENT | The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy). |
| 13th of October 1777 | EVENT | After his defeat on October 7, 1777, British General John Burgoyne's Army at The Battles of Saratoga becomes surrounded by superior numbers, setting the stage for its surrender -- a feat of arms which inspires the Kingdom of France to enter the American Revolutionary War against the British. |
| 13th of October 1792 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid. |
| 13th of October 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights : As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock. |
| 13th of October 1843 | EVENT | In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world). |
| 13th of October 1845 | EVENT | A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state. |
| 13th of October 1881 | EVENT | Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations. |
| 13th of October 1884 | EVENT | Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude. |
| 13th of October 1885 | EVENT | The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 13th of October 1892 | EVENT | Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13 : 14. |
| 13th of October 1915 | EVENT | The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I. |
| 13th of October 1917 | EVENT | The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal. |
| 13th of October 1918 | EVENT | Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I. |
| 13th of October 1923 | EVENT | Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. |
| 13th of October 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. |
| 13th of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is liberated by the Red Army. |
| 13th of October 1946 | EVENT | France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic. |
| 13th of October 1962 | EVENT | The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died. |
| 13th of October 1967 | EVENT | The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California. |
| 13th of October 1970 | EVENT | Fiji joins the United Nations. |
| 13th of October 1972 | EVENT | An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 176. |
| 13th of October 1972 | EVENT | Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued. |
| 13th of October 1976 | EVENT | The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C. |
| 13th of October 1976 | EVENT | A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground). |
| 13th of October 1977 | EVENT | Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction. |
| 13th of October 1983 | EVENT | Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 13th of October 1990 | EVENT | End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace. |
| 13th of October 1992 | EVENT | An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8. |
| 13th of October 1999 | EVENT | The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). |
| 13th of October 2010 | EVENT | The 2010 Copiapo mining accident in Copiapo, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue. |
| 13th of October 1162 | BIRTHDAY | Leonora of England, Queen of Castile (d. 1214) |
| 13th of October 1244 | BIRTHDAY | Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (d. 1314) |
| 13th of October 1453 | BIRTHDAY | Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (d. 1471) |
| 13th of October 1474 | BIRTHDAY | Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515) |
| 13th of October 1566 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643) |
| 13th of October 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, queen of Portugal (d. 1666) |
| 13th of October 1696 | BIRTHDAY | John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743) |
| 13th of October 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784) |
| 13th of October 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778) |
| 13th of October 1756 | BIRTHDAY | James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1833) |
| 13th of October 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839) |
| 13th of October 1820 | BIRTHDAY | John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899) |
| 13th of October 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902) |
| 13th of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Myers, English poet, Classicist and author (d. 1921) |
| 13th of October 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929) |
| 13th of October 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900) |
| 13th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Jozsef Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (d. 1948) |
| 13th of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914) |
| 13th of October 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952) |
| 13th of October 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932) |
| 13th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947) |
| 13th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1968) |
| 13th of October 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Rich, American actress (d. 1988) |
| 13th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978) |
| 13th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | E. Beatrice Riley, Australian supercentenarian (d. 2009) |
| 13th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Marks, American songwriter (d. 1997) |
| 13th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973) |
| 13th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (d. 1978) |
| 13th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian football player and manager (d. 1983) |
| 13th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Allegret, French film director (d. 1987) |
| 13th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Block, American cartoonist (d. 2001) |
| 13th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956) |
| 13th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001) |
| 13th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Torkar, Slovenian writer (d. 2004) |
| 13th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003) |
| 13th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Cornel Wilde, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 13th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | George Osmond, American patriach of The Osmonds (d. 2007) |
| 13th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (d. 1985) |
| 13th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hudson Walker, American actor (d. 1951) |
| 13th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007) |
| 13th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Montand, Italian singer and actor (d. 1991) |
| 13th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (d. 2006) |
| 13th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril Shaps, English actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Moturu Udayam, Indian woman's activist (d. 2002) |
| 13th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966) |
| 13th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Thatcher, English politician |
| 13th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979) |
| 13th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Walter "Killer" Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2008) |
| 13th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (d. 2002) |
| 13th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist |
| 13th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter (d. 2010) |
| 13th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Geller, American screenwriter and television producer (d. 1978) |
| 13th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Kopa, French footballer |
| 13th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001) |
| 13th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 13th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Raynald Frechette, Canadian politician and jurist (d. 2007) |
| 13th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Narriman, Egyptian royalty (d. 2005) |
| 13th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bingham, English jurist |
| 13th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician |
| 13th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sami Frey, French actor |
| 13th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003) |
| 13th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | T. J. Cloutier, American poker player |
| 13th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Melinda Dillon, American actress |
| 13th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist |
| 13th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon & Garfunkel) |
| 13th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Jones, American football team owner |
| 13th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Tiffin, American film actress |
| 13th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rutanya Alda, American actress |
| 13th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Bailey, American baseball player |
| 13th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Barnicle, American newspaper columnist |
| 13th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago) |
| 13th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Desi Bouterse, Surinamese politician |
| 13th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Christophe, French singer |
| 13th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Edwina Currie, British politician |
| 13th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen) |
| 13th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster |
| 13th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Wakeman, English saxophonist (Soft Machine) |
| 13th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Ford Coley, American musician |
| 13th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Poe, American politician |
| 13th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and singer (d. 1997) |
| 13th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster (d. 1996) |
| 13th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Neve, Belgian racing driver |
| 13th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Marisol Malaret, beauty pageant contestant |
| 13th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mollie Katzen, American cookbook author |
| 13th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Johnson, American supermodel |
| 13th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Lone, Hong Kong actor |
| 13th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Day, American jockey |
| 13th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | George Frazier, American baseball player |
| 13th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Ribbe, French historian |
| 13th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician |
| 13th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Dunn, American artist |
| 13th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Carter, American television producer |
| 13th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Toal, Scottish religious figure |
| 13th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Theus, American basketball player and head coach |
| 13th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Cantwell, American politician, junior senator of Washington |
| 13th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer |
| 13th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Osmond, American entertainer |
| 13th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax) |
| 13th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Keisler, American attorney |
| 13th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ari Fleischer, American White House press secretary to George W. Bush |
| 13th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Brewster, American football coach |
| 13th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach |
| 13th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Preston, American actress |
| 13th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | T'Keyah Crystal Keymah, American actress |
| 13th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Rice, American football player |
| 13th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Channer, Jamaican writer |
| 13th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Chip Foose, American automotive designer and fabricator |
| 13th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Andrew Mink, American convicted murderer (d. 2004) |
| 13th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Covert, American actor |
| 13th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Travaglio, Italian journalist |
| 13th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Judge, American actor |
| 13th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nie Haisheng, Chinese astronaut |
| 13th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist |
| 13th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Cooper, American baseball player |
| 13th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Hoffman, American baseball player |
| 13th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Walsh, American actress |
| 13th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Vickers, English footballer |
| 13th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Sotomayor, Cuban Athlete |
| 13th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo) |
| 13th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer |
| 13th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rhett Akins, American country singer |
| 13th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cady McClain, American actress |
| 13th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater |
| 13th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Jackson, American actor and musician |
| 13th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Serena Altschul, American reporter |
| 13th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Howley, Welsh rugby player |
| 13th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Potts, British opera singer |
| 13th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Hitesh Modi, Kenyan cricketer |
| 13th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter |
| 13th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian |
| 13th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Bush, American TV host |
| 13th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Tosar, Spanish actor |
| 13th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Summer Sanders, American swimmer and sports broadcaster |
| 13th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Dumbreck, Scottish racing driver |
| 13th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Dawkins, American football player |
| 13th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Hughes, American mixed martial artist |
| 13th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress |
| 13th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer |
| 13th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Di Natale, Italian football player |
| 13th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth Batty, English cricketer |
| 13th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Pierce, American basketball player |
| 13th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kiele Sanchez, American actress |
| 13th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player |
| 13th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Wes Brown, English footballer |
| 13th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer |
| 13th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Haye, English boxer |
| 13th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Parker, English footballer |
| 13th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ashanti, American singer |
| 13th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Ashford, English footballer |
| 13th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kele Okereke, English singer (Bloc Party) |
| 13th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer |
| 13th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Pavanello, Italian rugby player |
| 13th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Misono, Japanese singer (Day After Tomorrow) |
| 13th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Simek, American footballer |
| 13th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Agbonlahor, English footballer |
| 13th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Newbrough, American actress |
| 13th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer |
| 13th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor |
| 13th of October 0054 | DEATH | Claudius, Roman Emperor (Born 10 BC) |
| 13th of October 1093 | DEATH | Robert I, Count of Flanders |
| 13th of October 1282 | DEATH | Nichiren Japanese spiritual figure (Born 1222) |
| 13th of October 1415 | DEATH | Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military officer (Born 1381) |
| 13th of October 1508 | DEATH | Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (Born 1446) |
| 13th of October 1605 | DEATH | Theodore Beza, French theologian (Born 1519) |
| 13th of October 1673 | DEATH | Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (Born 1617) |
| 13th of October 1687 | DEATH | Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (Born 1633) |
| 13th of October 1694 | DEATH | Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (Born 1632) |
| 13th of October 1706 | DEATH | Iyasus I of Ethiopia (Born 1682) |
| 13th of October 1715 | DEATH | Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (Born 1638) |
| 13th of October 1759 | DEATH | John Henley, English minister (Born 1692) |
| 13th of October 1788 | DEATH | Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (Born 1702) |
| 13th of October 1812 | DEATH | Sir Isaac Brock, British general (Born 1769) |
| 13th of October 1815 | DEATH | Joachim Murat, French marshal (Born 1767) |
| 13th of October 1822 | DEATH | Antonio Canova, Venetian sculptor (Born 1757) |
| 13th of October 1825 | DEATH | Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (Born 1756) |
| 13th of October 1841 | DEATH | Patrick Campbell, British naval officer (Born 1773) |
| 13th of October 1869 | DEATH | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (Born 1804) |
| 13th of October 1882 | DEATH | Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (Born 1816) |
| 13th of October 1890 | DEATH | Samuel Freeman Miller, American jurist (Born 1816) |
| 13th of October 1904 | DEATH | Pavlos Melas, Greek military officer (Born 1870) |
| 13th of October 1905 | DEATH | Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (Born 1838) |
| 13th of October 1909 | DEATH | Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (Born 1849) |
| 13th of October 1917 | DEATH | Florence La Badie, American actress (Born 1888) |
| 13th of October 1919 | DEATH | Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1857) |
| 13th of October 1926 | DEATH | Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (Born 1865) |
| 13th of October 1931 | DEATH | Ernst Didring, Swedish author (Born 1868) |
| 13th of October 1938 | DEATH | E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (Born 1894) |
| 13th of October 1945 | DEATH | Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (Born 1857) |
| 13th of October 1950 | DEATH | Ernest Haycox, American writer (Born 1899) |
| 13th of October 1955 | DEATH | Manuel Avila Camacho, Mexican politician (Born 1897) |
| 13th of October 1961 | DEATH | Louis Rwagasore, Burundi politician (Born 1932) |
| 13th of October 1966 | DEATH | Clifton Webb, American actor (Born 1889) |
| 13th of October 1968 | DEATH | Bea Benaderet, American actress (Born 1906) |
| 13th of October 1971 | DEATH | Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (Born 1921) |
| 13th of October 1973 | DEATH | Albert Mandler, Israeli colonel, (Born1929) |
| 13th of October 1974 | DEATH | Ed Sullivan, American television personality (Born 1901) |
| 13th of October 1979 | DEATH | Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (Born 1886) |
| 13th of October 1987 | DEATH | Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 13th of October 1987 | DEATH | Kishore Kumar, Indian singer (Born 1929) |
| 13th of October 1988 | DEATH | Mike Venezia, American jockey (Born 1945) |
| 13th of October 1990 | DEATH | Le ?uc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1911) |
| 13th of October 1992 | DEATH | Dantrell Davis, American gang shooting victim (Born 1985) |
| 13th of October 1993 | DEATH | Wade Flemons, American soul singer (Born 1940) |
| 13th of October 1995 | DEATH | Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (Born 1924) |
| 13th of October 1996 | DEATH | Beryl Reid, British actress (Born 1919) |
| 13th of October 2000 | DEATH | Jean Peters, American actress (Born 1926) |
| 13th of October 2001 | DEATH | Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (Born 1949) |
| 13th of October 2002 | DEATH | Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (Born 1936) |
| 13th of October 2003 | DEATH | Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1918) |
| 13th of October 2004 | DEATH | Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist (Born 1915) |
| 13th of October 2005 | DEATH | Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (Born 1942) |
| 13th of October 2006 | DEATH | Wang Guangmei, wife of Liu Shaoqi (Born 1921) |
| 13th of October 2007 | DEATH | Bob Denard, French mercenary (Born 1929) |
| 13th of October 2008 | DEATH | Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (Born 1989) |
| 13th of October 2008 | DEATH | Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (Born 1971) |
| 13th of October 2009 | DEATH | Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar (Born 1935) |
| 13th of October 2009 | DEATH | Al Martino, American singer and actor (Born 1927) |
| 13th of October 2010 | DEATH | Vernon Biever, American photographer (Born 1923) |