March 13 is the 72th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). There are 293 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1733 - Joseph Priestley, scientist, minister (+ 1804)
- 1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1790)
- 1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French soldier (+ 1815)
- 1764 - Charles Grey, second Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel[?], master builder (+ 1841)
- 1798 - Abigail Fillmore[?], First Lady
- 1855 - Percival Lowell, astronomer (+ 1916)
- 1860 - Hugo Wolf, composer (+ 1903)
- 1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter (+ 1941)
- 1880 - Frank Thiess[?], writer (+ 1977)
- 1884 - Oskar Loerke[?], lyricist, narrator and essayist (+ 1941)
- 1884 - Sir Hugh Walpole[?], novelist (+ 1941)
- 1900 - George Seferis[?], Nobel prize-winning poet (+ 1971)
- 1908 - Walter Annenberg, publisher, philanthropist (+ 2002)
- 1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (+ 1985)
- 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, author (+ 1986)
- 1913 - William Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 1987)
- 1914 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot
- 1939 - Neil Sedaka[?], singer
- 1942 - Dave Cutler, software engineer
- 1949 - Julia Migenes[?], soprano
- 1950 - William H. Macy[?], actor
- 1952 - Wolfgang Rihm[?], composer
- 1956 - Dana Delany[?], actress
- 1960 - Adam Clayton, bassist for the rock band U2
Deaths
- 1619 - Richard Burbage, actor
- 1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark
- 1842 - Henry Shrapnel, soldier, inventor
- 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia
- 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
- 1906 - Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist
- 1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Soviet politician and intellectual
- 1938 - Clarence Darrow, attorney
- 1965 - Corrado Gini, statistician
- 1990 - Bruno Bettelheim[?], child psychologist, psychiatrist
- 1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director
- 1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist
- 1999 - Garson Kanin[?], writer, director
Holidays and observances
See Also: March 12 -
March 14 -
February 13 -
April 13 - more
historical anniversaries
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