December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1521 - Pope Sixtus V, religious leader
- 1553 - King Henry IV of France (+ 1610)
- 1797 - Heinrich Heine, poet (+ 1856)
- 1798 - Joseph Walker[?], explorer
- 1816 - Werner von Siemens, ingenieur, inventor and industrialist (+ 1892)
- 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln[?], First Lady (+ 1882)
- 1829 - Hugo von Ziemssen[?], physicist (+ 1902)
- 1836 - Franz von Lenbach[?], painter (+ 1904)
- 1854 - Thomas Watson[?], telephone pioneer
- 1886 - Diego Rivera, artist, muralist (+ 1957)
- 1887 - George Polya, mathematician
- 1897 - Drew Pearson[?], journalist, political columnist (+ 1969)
- 1903 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist (+ 1993)
- 1910 - Van Heflin[?], actor (+ 1971)
- 1913 - Archie Moore, world champion boxer (+ 1998)
- 1915 - Curd Jürgens[?], actor (+ 1982)
- 1915 - Ross Macdonald[?], author (+ 1983)
- 1923 - Larry Doby, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1925 - Dick Van Dyke[?], actor, comedian
- 1927 - Christopher Plummer[?], actor
- 1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1948 - Ted Nugent, musician
- 1950 - Tom Vilsack Governor of Iowa
Deaths
Holidays and observances
See Also:
December 12 - December 14 - November 13 - January 13 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
All Wikipedia text
is available under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License