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1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
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March 4:
Wilson sworn in as the 28th president of the United States.
- June – The first edition of the Christian esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross is published in the United States (it is still issued bimonthly today).
- June 4 – Emily Davison, a British suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies 4 days later in the hospital, never having regained consciousness.
- June 8 – The Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons, in front of an audience of 60,000 people. It has been constructed especially for the 1916 Summer Olympics, which are cancelled as a result of World War I.
- June 13 – A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley and passengers are buried under the contents of an overhead garbage chute, that breaks in Niagara Falls, New York.
- June 15 – Bud Bagsak Massacre: U.S. troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 civilians in Bud Bagsak, the Philippines.
- June 24 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
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[edit] Births
[edit] January–February
- January 1 – Shek Kin, Hong Kong veteran actor (d. 2009)
- January 2 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
- January 6
- January 9 – Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- January 10 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician (d. 1991)
- January 15
- January 18
- January 22
- January 25
- January 28 – Wally Parks, founder of the NHRA {d. 2007)
- January 29 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
- February 2 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
- February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
- February 6 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
- February 10 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
- February 13 – George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
- February 14
- February 20 – Tommy Henrich, American baseball player (d. 2009)
- February 25
- February 27
[edit] March–April
- March 1 – R. S. R. Fitter, British writer (d. 2005)
- March 2 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
- March 4 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- March 13
- March 18 – René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
- March 21 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
- March 26
- March 29 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
- March 30
- March 31 – Etta Baker, American musician (d. 2006)
- April 3 – Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
- April 7 – Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
- April 8 – Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam (d. 2004)
- April 11 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
- April 14 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
- April 21 – Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (d. 1985)
- April 27 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)
[edit] May–June
- May 1
- May 4 – Hisaya Morishige, Japanese actor (d. 2009)
- May 5 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
- May 8 – Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937)
- May 11 – Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994)
- May 13 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (d. 1980)
- May 16 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
- May 20 – William Hewlett, American businessman (d. 2001)
- May 26 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
- May 29 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
- June 6 – Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
- June 10 – Benjamin Shapira, a German-born Israeli biochemist and recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
- June 11
- June 18
- June 25 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
- June 26 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
- June 26 – Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist
- June 27 – Richard Pike Bissell, author of short stories and novels (d. 1977)
- June 28 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
- June 30 – Alfonso López Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)
[edit] July–August
- July 3 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1965)
- July 7 – Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician
- July 12 – Philip Mayer Kaiser, American diplomat (d. 2007)
- July 12 – Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- July 13 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate
- July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
- July 15 – Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist (d. 2010)
- July 17 – Roger Garaudy, French Holocaust denier
- July 18 – Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
- July 22 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
- July 22 – Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano
- July 23 – Michael Foot, British politician
- August 8 – John Facenda, American sports announcer (d. 1984)
- August 8 – Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U.S Representative and U.S. Senator (d. 2006)
- August 10 – Wolfgang Pauli, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- August 13 – Fred Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1998)
- August 13 – Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d. 1977)
- August 16 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
- August 17 – W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant (d. 2008)
- August 17 – Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
- August 19 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
- August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
- August 27 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
- August 28 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
- August 28 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
- August 28 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
- August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer
- August 30 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- August 31 – Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
- August 31 – Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer
[edit] September–October
- September 1 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1979)
- September 2 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
- September 4
- September 10 – Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
- September 11 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
- September 12 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
- September 14 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
- September 15 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
- September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
- September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
- September 24 – Wilson Rawls, American author (d. 1984)
- September 25 – Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, engineer (d. 1970)
- September 28 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
- September 29
- September 30 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975)
- October 10
- October 11 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer
- October 18 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (d. 1993)
- October 22 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (d. 1954)
- October 22 – Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
- October 27 – Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
[edit] November–December
- November 2 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (Elmer Gantry) (d. 1994)
- November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1967)
- November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- November 7 – Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Canadian sculptor (d. 2009)
- November 8 – June Havoc, American actress
- November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- November 10 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (d. 2005)
- November 13 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
- November 15 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
- November 18 – Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1999)
- November 21
- November 22
- November 25 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
- December 6
- December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
- December 9 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)
- December 10
- December 13 – Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general (d. 2002)
- December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
- December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace (d. 1989)
- December 18
- December 21 – Arnold Friberg, American artist
- December 30 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 2 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
- February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. 1840)
- February 22 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
- February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
- March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
- March 11 – John Shaw Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)
- March 18 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
- March 22 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
- March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837)
- May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
- May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
- June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
- June 5 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner
- June 8 – Emily Davison, British suffragette (b. 1872)
- June 28 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian president (b. 1841)
[edit] July–December
- July 3 – Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
- July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
- July 19 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
- July 29 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
- August 7 – Samuel Franklin Cody, American/British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
- September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
- October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
- October 16 – Ralph Rose, American athlete (b. 1885)
- November 7 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
- November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1837)
- December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (b. 1864)
- December 7
- December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
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