What happened in 2013
400 entries recorded for 2013, listed by date. That was 13 years ago.
2013 at a glance
- Years ago
- 13 (as of 2026)
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- 21st century
- Decade
- 2010s
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- 400
- Breakdown
- 76 historical events · 323 deaths · 1 births
January
- January 1
2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede
At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
- January 2
Gerda Lerner
Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (born 1920)
- January 2
Teresa Torańska
Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (born 1944)
- January 3
Ivan Mackerle
Ivan Mackerle, Czech cryptozoologist, explorer, and author (born 1942)
- January 3
Alfie Fripp
Alfie Fripp, English soldier and pilot (born 1913)
- January 4
Kawit shooting
A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
- January 4
Zoran Žižić
Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1951)
- January 4
Anwar Shamim
Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (born 1931)
- January 5
Qazi Hussain Ahmad
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (born 1938)
- January 8
Jeanne Manford
Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (born 1920)
- January 8
Alasdair Milne
Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (born 1930)
- January 8
Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (born 1927)
- January 10
January 2013 Pakistan bombings
More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
- January 11
Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt
French special forces failed in an attempted rescue of a DGSE agent, who had been taken hostage in 2009 by al-Shabaab, in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
- January 11
Guido Forti
Guido Forti, Italian businessman, founded the Forti Racing Team (born 1940)
- January 11
Tom Parry Jones
Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (born 1935)
- January 11
Mariangela Melato
Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (born 1941)
- January 11
Alemayehu Shumye
Alemayehu Shumye, Ethiopian runner (born 1988)
- January 11
Nguyễn Khánh
Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam (born 1927)
- January 12
Precious Bryant
Precious Bryant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
- January 12
Flor María Chalbaud
Flor María Chalbaud, First Lady of Venezuela (born 1921)
- January 13
Rodney Mims Cook Sr.
Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (born 1924)
- January 13
Diogenes Allen
Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (born 1932)
- January 14
Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (born 1923)
- January 15
Badrashin railway accident
A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
- January 17
Murder of Shahzad Luqman
Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in Petralona, Athens, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece.
- January 17
Lance Armstrong
Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of Oprah's Next Chapter.
- January 19
Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)
- January 19
Frank Pooler
Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (born 1926)
- January 19
Taihō Kōki
Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)
- January 19
Stan Musial
Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)
- January 19
Toktamış Ateş
Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)
- January 20
Pavlos Matesis
Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (born 1933)
- January 20
Toyo Shibata
Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (born 1911)
- January 21
Chumpol Silpa-archa
Chumpol Silpa-archa, Thai academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1940)
- January 21
Michael Winner
Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1935)
- January 21
Ahmet Mete Işıkara
Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and academic (born 1941)
- January 22
Hinton Mitchem
Hinton Mitchem, American businessman and politician (born 1938)
- January 22
Robert Bonnaud
Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (born 1929)
- January 23
Józef Glemp
Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (born 1929)
- January 25
2013 Uribana prison riot
At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
- January 25
Martial Asselin
Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1924)
- January 25
Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer)
Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (born 1929)
- January 25
Aase Nordmo Løvberg
Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano and actress (born 1923)
- January 26
Stefan Kudelski
Stefan Kudelski, Polish-Swiss engineer, inventor of the Nagra (born 1929)
- January 26
Christine M. Jones
Christine M. Jones, American educator and politician (born 1929)
- January 26
Padma Kant Shukla
Padma Kant Shukla, Indian physicist and academic (born 1950)
- January 26
Shōtarō Yasuoka
Shōtarō Yasuoka, Japanese author (born 1920)
- January 27
Kiss nightclub fire
Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
- January 27
Ivan Bodiul
Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician (born 1918)
- January 27
Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (born 1925)
- January 28
Hattie N. Harrison
Hattie N. Harrison, American educator and politician (born 1928)
- January 28
Florentino Fernández (boxer)
Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach (born 1936)
- January 29
SCAT Airlines Flight 760
Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- January 30
Naro-1
Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
- January 30
Korea Aerospace Research Institute
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit.
- January 31
Torre Ejecutiva Pemex
A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion (aftermath pictured) that killed at least 37 people and injured another 121.
- January 31
Hassan Habibi
Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (born 1937)
- January 31
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (born 1923)
February
- February 1
The Shard
The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.
- February 1
Helene Hale
Helene Hale, American politician (born 1918)
- February 3
James Muri
James Muri, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)
- February 3
Jam Mohammad Yousaf
Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (born 1954)
- February 3
Cardiss Collins
Cardiss Collins, American politician (born 1931)
- February 3
Oscar Feltsman
Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (born 1921)
- February 4
Reg Presley
Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (born 1941)
- February 4
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (born 1932)
- February 5
Egil Hovland
Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer and conductor (born 1924)
- February 5
Tom McGuigan
Tom McGuigan, New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (born 1921)
- February 5
Reinaldo Gargano
Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (born 1934)
- February 7
Mississippi
The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
- February 7
Krsto Papić
Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (born 1933)
- February 8
February 2013 North American blizzard
A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
- February 8
Giovanni Cheli
Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (born 1918)
- February 8
James DePreist
James DePreist, American conductor and educator (born 1936)
- February 9
Richard Artschwager
Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (born 1923)
- February 9
Jimmy Smyth (hurler)
Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (born 1931)
- February 9
Keiko Fukuda
Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (born 1913)
- February 10
2013 Prayag Kumbh Mela stampede
Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
- February 10
David Hartman (rabbi)
David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)
- February 10
W. Watts Biggers
W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)
- February 11
Sultanate of Sulu
Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade Lahad Datu District, Sabah, Malaysia, beginning the Lahad Datu standoff.
- February 11
Pope Benedict XVI
The Vatican confirms that Pope Benedict XVI will resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
- February 12
Reginald Turnill
Reginald Turnill, English journalist and author (born 1915)
- February 12
Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1941)
- February 13
Miles J. Jones
Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952)
- February 13
Gerry Day
Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)
- February 13
Pieter Kooijmans
Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)
- February 14
Glenn Boyer
Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (born 1924)
- February 14
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (born 1931)
- February 15
Chelyabinsk meteor
A meteor exploded (video featured) over Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, producing a shock wave that injured about 1,500 people.
- February 15
Ahmed Rajib Haider
Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bangladeshi atheist blogger
- February 15
Sanan Kachornprasart
Sanan Kachornprasart, Thai general and politician (born 1935)
- February 16
February 2013 Quetta bombing
At least 91 people were killed and 190 others injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town, Pakistan.
- February 16
Colin Edwards (footballer)
Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (born 1991)
- February 16
Grigory Pomerants
Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (born 1918)
- February 16
Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)
- February 18
Brussels Airport diamond heist
Eight gunmen stole US$50,000,000 worth of diamonds from a Swiss-bound aircraft at Brussels Airport.
- February 19
Park Chul-soo
Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1948)
- February 19
Eugene Whelan
Eugene Whelan, Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)
- February 19
Donald Richie
Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (born 1924)
- February 19
Armen Alchian
Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (born 1914)
- February 19
Robert Coleman Richardson
Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)
- February 20
Kenji Eno
Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (born 1970)
- February 20
David S. McKay
David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (born 1936)
- February 21
2013 Hyderabad blasts
At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
- February 21
Hasse Jeppson
Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (born 1925)
- February 22
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (born 1923)
- February 22
Atje Keulen-Deelstra
Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (born 1938)
- February 22
Jean-Louis Michon
Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (born 1924)
- February 23
Joseph Friedenson
Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (born 1922)
- February 23
Lotika Sarkar
Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (born 1945)
- February 23
Julien Ries
Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (born 1920)
- February 23
Eugene Bookhammer
Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (born 1918)
- February 24
Con Martin
Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (born 1923)
- February 24
The Velvets
Virgil Johnson, American singer (born 1935)
- February 26
2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash
A hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people in the deadliest ballooning disaster in history.
- February 26
Hot air balloon
A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
- February 26
Marie-Claire Alain
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (born 1926)
- February 26
Stéphane Hessel
Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and author (born 1917)
- February 26
Simon Li
Simon Li, Hong Kong judge and politician (born 1922)
- February 27
2013 Menznau shooting
A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
- February 27
Ramon Dekkers
Ramon Dekkers, Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (born 1969)
- February 27
Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson, American actor (born 1923)
- February 27
Van Cliburn
Van Cliburn, American pianist (born 1934)
- February 27
Adolfo Zaldívar
Adolfo Zaldívar, Chilean lawyer and politician (born 1943)
- February 28
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
- February 28
Donald Glaser
Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
March
- March 1
Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)
- March 2
Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey, Australian journalist (born 1944)
- March 2
Giorgos Kolokithas
Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (born 1945)
- March 2
Shabnam Shakeel
Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author (born 1942)
- March 3
March 2013 Karachi bombing
A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 48 people and injured 200 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area.
- March 3
Luis Cubilla
Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1940)
- March 3
James Strong (Australian businessman)
James Strong, Qantas CEO from 1993 to 2001 (born 1944)
- March 5
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1954)
- March 5
Duane Gish
Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (born 1921)
- March 5
Paul Bearer
Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (born 1954)
- March 6
Chorão
Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1970)
- March 6
W. Wallace Cleland
W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (born 1930)
- March 6
Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
- March 6
Stompin' Tom Connors
Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
- March 7
Peter Banks
Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)
- March 7
Damiano Damiani
Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)
- March 7
Claude King
Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)
- March 8
John O'Connell (Dublin politician)
John O'Connell, Irish politician, Irish Minister of Health (born 1927)
- March 8
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (born 1922)
- March 9
Merton Simpson
Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (born 1928)
- March 9
Max Jakobson
Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (born 1923)
- March 10
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)
- March 11
Martin Adolf Bormann
Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (born 1930)
- March 11
Simón Alberto Consalvi
Simón Alberto Consalvi, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela (born 1927)
- March 12
Michael Grigsby
Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)
- March 12
Ganesh Pyne
Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)
- March 13
2013 conclave
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.
- March 13
Clive Burr
Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (born 1957)
- March 14
Aramais Sahakyan
Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (born 1936)
- March 14
Ieng Sary
Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925)
- March 14
Jack Greene
Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930)
- March 15
Booth Gardner
Booth Gardner, American businessman and politician, Governor of Washington (born 1936)
- March 15
Terry Lightfoot
Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player (born 1935)
- March 16
Jamal Nazrul Islam
Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)
- March 16
Yadier Pedroso
Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (born 1986)
- March 16
Ruchoma Shain
Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (born 1914)
- March 16
Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton, English actor (born 1921)
- March 16
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (born 1925)
- March 16
Marina Solodkin
Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)
- March 17
Lawrence Fuchs
Lawrence Fuchs, American scholar and academic (born 1927)
- March 17
William B. Caldwell III
William B. Caldwell III, American general (born 1925)
- March 17
A. B. C. Whipple
A.B.C. Whipple, American journalist and historian (born 1918)
- March 18
Clay Ford
Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (born 1938)
- March 18
Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (born 1947)
- March 18
MM Alam
Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (born 1935)
- March 19
19 March 2013 Iraq attacks
A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
- March 20
George Lowe (mountaineer)
George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (born 1924)
- March 20
James Herbert
James Herbert, English author (born 1943)
- March 22
2013 Thailand refugee camp fire
At least 37 people were killed after a fire in Thailand destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees.
- March 22
Vladimír Čech
Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (born 1951)
- March 22
Bebo Valdés
Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)
- March 23
Virgil Trucks
Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (born 1917)
- March 23
Onofre Corpuz
Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist, historian, and academic (born 1926)
- March 23
Boris Berezovsky (businessman)
Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (born 1946)
- March 25
Léonce Bernard
Léonce Bernard, Canadian politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (born 1943)
- March 25
Ben Goldfaden
Ben Goldfaden, American basketball player and educator (born 1913)
- March 25
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (born 1927)
- March 26
Tom Boerwinkle
Tom Boerwinkle, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1945)
- March 26
Krzysztof Kozłowski
Krzysztof Kozłowski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Interior (born 1931)
- March 26
Dave Leggett
Dave Leggett, American football player (born 1933)
- March 26
Don Payne (writer)
Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (born 1964)
- March 27
Yvonne Brill
Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (born 1924)
- March 27
Fay Kanin
Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (born 1917)
- March 27
Hjalmar Andersen
Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (born 1923)
- March 28
Hugh McCracken
Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (born 1942)
- March 28
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths, English actor (born 1947)
- March 28
George E. P. Box
George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (born 1919)
- March 28
Bob Teague
Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (born 1929)
- March 29
2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse
At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- March 29
Brian Huggins
Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (born 1931)
- March 29
Reginald Gray (artist)
Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (born 1930)
- March 30
Edith Schaeffer
Edith Schaeffer, Chinese-Swiss religious leader and author, co-founded L'Abri (born 1914)
- March 30
Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone, South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (born 1934)
- March 30
Bobby Parks
Bobby Parks, American basketball player and coach (born 1962)
- March 30
Bob Turley
Bob Turley, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)
- March 30
Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (born 1923)
April
- April 1
Moses Blah
Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (born 1947)
- April 1
Karen Muir
Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (born 1952)
- April 2
Fred (cartoonist)
Fred, French author and illustrator (born 1931)
- April 2
Milo O'Shea
Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (born 1926)
- April 2
Jesús Franco
Jesús Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (born 1930)
- April 3
2013 Argentina floods
More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- April 3
Buenos Aires Province
The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.
- April 3
Mariví Bilbao
Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (born 1930)
- April 4
2013 Thane building collapse
A building collapsed on tribal land in Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths.
- April 4
Carmine Infantino
Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (born 1925)
- April 4
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (born 1942)
- April 4
Bengt Blomgren
Bengt Blomgren, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)
- April 4
Tommy Tycho
Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)
- April 8
José Luis Sampedro
José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (born 1917)
- April 8
Mikhail Beketov
Mikhail Beketov, Russian journalist (born 1958)
- April 8
Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (born 1942)
- April 8
Sara Montiel
Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (born 1928)
- April 8
A.J. & Big Justice
Big Justice, American social media personality
- April 9
2013 Bushehr earthquake
A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
- April 9
Velika Ivanča shooting
At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
- April 10
Robert Edwards (physiologist)
Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
- April 10
Gordon Thomas (cyclist)
Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (born 1921)
- April 11
Don Blackman
Don Blackman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1953)
- April 12
April 2013 Kidal attack
Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
- April 13
Salam Fayyad
Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.
- April 13
Lion Air Flight 904
Lion Air Flight 904 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Indonesia, injuring 40 people.
- April 13
Stephen Dodgson
Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (born 1924)
- April 14
Efi Arazi
Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (born 1937)
- April 14
Colin Davis
Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (born 1927)
- April 14
R. P. Goenka
R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (born 1930)
- April 15
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs during the running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- April 15
15 April 2013 Iraq attacks
A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
- April 15
Boston Marathon bombing
Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.
- April 15
Benjamin Fain
Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1930)
- April 15
Richard LeParmentier
Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (born 1946)
- April 15
Jean-François Paillard
Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (born 1928)
- April 16
Moment magnitude scale
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Balochistan province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
- April 16
2013 Baga massacre
The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
- April 16
Ali Kafi
Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (born 1928)
- April 16
George Beverly Shea
George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (born 1909)
- April 16
Siegfried Ludwig
Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (born 1926)
- April 16
Pentti Lund
Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1925)
- April 16
Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (born 1930)
- April 17
West Fertilizer Company explosion
An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.
- April 17
Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher
The ceremonial funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher takes place at St Paul's Cathedral.
- April 17
Carlos Graça
Carlos Graça, São Toméan politician, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (born 1931)
- April 17
Bi Kidude
Bi Kidude, Tanzanian Taarab singer (born ≈1910)
- April 17
V. S. Ramadevi
V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (born 1934)
- April 17
Yngve Moe
Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (born 1957)
- April 18
Anne Williams (activist)
Anne Williams, English activist (born 1951)
- April 18
Goran Švob
Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (born 1947)
- April 19
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
- April 19
François Jacob
François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
- April 19
Al Neuharth
Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)
- April 20
Moment magnitude scale
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.
- April 21
Leopold Engleitner
Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author, and educator (born 1905)
- April 21
Shakuntala Devi
Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (born 1929)
- April 22
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.
- April 22
Lalgudi Jayaraman
Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)
- April 22
Richie Havens
Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
- April 22
Robert Suderburg
Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)
- April 23
2013 Hawija clashes
At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
- April 24
April 2013 Bachu unrest
Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
- April 24
Rana Plaza collapse
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.
- April 24
Savar Upazila
A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.
- April 25
György Berencsi
György Berencsi, Hungarian virologist and academic (born 1941)
- April 25
Brian Adam
Brian Adam, Scottish biochemist and politician (born 1948)
- April 25
Jacob Avshalomov
Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (born 1919)
- April 26
George Jones
George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)
- April 26
Jacqueline Brookes
Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930)
- April 26
Earl Silverman
Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (born 1948)
- April 27
Aída Bortnik
Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (born 1938)
- April 27
Aloysius Jin Luxian
Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (born 1916)
- April 27
Jérôme Louis Heldring
Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist and author (born 1917)
- April 27
Mutula Kilonzo
Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1948)
- April 27
Antonio Díaz (footballer, born 1969)
Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (born 1969)
- April 27
Lorraine Copeland
Lorraine Copeland, Scottish archaeologist (born 1921)
- April 28
Brad Lesley
Brad Lesley, American baseball player (born 1958)
- April 29
National Airlines Flight 102
National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
- April 29
2013 Prague explosion
A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
- April 29
Pesah Grupper
Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)
- April 29
Alex Elisala
Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (born 1992)
- April 30
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
- April 30
Viviane Forrester
Viviane Forrester, French author and critic (born 1925)
- April 30
Roberto Chabet
Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (born 1937)
- April 30
Shirley Firth
Shirley Firth, Canadian skier (born 1953)
May
- May 1
Kris Kross
Chris Kelly, American rapper (born 1978)
- May 2
Dvora Omer
Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (born 1932)
- May 2
Jeff Hanneman
Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1964)
- May 2
Joseph P. McFadden
Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop (born 1947)
- May 2
Ernie Field
Ernie Field, English boxer (born 1943)
- May 3
Herbert Blau
Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (born 1926)
- May 3
Cedric Brooks
Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (born 1943)
- May 3
David Morris Kern
David Morris Kern, American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (born 1909)
- May 3
Curtis Rouse
Curtis Rouse, American football player (born 1960)
- May 3
Keith Carter (swimmer)
Keith Carter, American swimmer and soldier (born 1924)
- May 3
Brad Drewett
Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (born 1958)
- May 3
Joe Astroth
Joe Astroth, American baseball player (born 1922)
- May 4
Christian de Duve
Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
- May 4
Javier Diez Canseco
Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (born 1948)
- May 4
Otis Bowen
Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (born 1918)
- May 5
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (born 1935)
- May 5
Robert Ressler
Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (born 1937)
- May 6
Ariel Castro kidnappings
Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
- May 6
Cleveland
Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.
- May 6
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1919)
- May 6
Severo Aparicio Quispe
Severo Aparicio Quispe, Peruvian bishop (born 1923)
- May 6
Michelangelo Spensieri
Michelangelo Spensieri, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
- May 7
George Sauer Jr.
George Sauer, Jr., American football player (born 1943)
- May 7
Ferruccio Mazzola
Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)
- May 9
Ottavio Missoni
Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (born 1921)
- May 9
Humberto Lugo Gil
Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (born 1933)
- May 9
George M. Leader
George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1918)
- May 9
Ramón Blanco (footballer)
Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1952)
- May 10
One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).
- May 11
2013 Reyhanlı car bombings
Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
- May 12
Gerd Langguth
Gerd Langguth, German political scientist, author, and academic (born 1946)
- May 13
Kermit Gosnell
American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
- May 14
Asghar Ali Engineer
Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian author and activist (born 1939)
- May 14
Wayne Brown (American politician)
Wayne Brown, American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (born 1936)
- May 14
Arsen Chilingaryan
Arsen Chilingaryan, Armenian footballer and manager (born 1962)
- May 15
May 2013 Iraq attacks
An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
- May 15
Henrique Rosa
Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1946)
- May 16
Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)
- May 16
Paul Shane
Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (born 1940)
- May 16
Angelo Errichetti
Angelo Errichetti, American politician (born 1928)
- May 16
Bryan Illerbrun
Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (born 1957)
- May 16
Frankie Librán
Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (born 1948)
- May 17
Philippe Gaumont
Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (born 1973)
- May 17
Peter Schulz
Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (born 1930)
- May 17
Ken Venturi
Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster (born 1931)
- May 17
Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine Commander in Chief and dictator (born 1925)
- May 18
Murder of Mark Carson
Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march against anti-LGBTQ violence.
- May 20
Enhanced Fujita scale
An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
- May 20
2013 Moore tornado
A tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, United States, killing 24 people and causing an estimated $2 billion of damage.
- May 20
Billie Dawe
Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1924)
- May 20
Miloslav Kříž
Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (born 1924)
- May 20
Flavio Costantini
Flavio Costantini, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1926)
- May 20
Anders Eliasson
Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (born 1947)
- May 20
Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (born 1939)
- May 21
Count Christian of Rosenborg
Count Christian of Rosenborg, member of the Danish royal family (born 1942)
- May 21
Leonard Marsh (businessman)
Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1933)
- May 21
Cot Deal
Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (born 1923)
- May 21
Frank Comstock
Frank Comstock, American trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1922)
- May 22
Fusilier
Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by two Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London.
- May 22
Sigurd Schmidt
Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (born 1922)
- May 23
Interstate 5 in Washington
A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
- May 23
Flynn Robinson
Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (born 1941)
- May 23
Hayri Kozakçıoğlu
Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (born 1938)
- May 23
Epy Guerrero
Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (born 1942)
- May 23
Georges Moustaki
Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)
- May 24
Pyotr Todorovsky
Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (born 1925)
- May 24
Gotthard Graubner
Gotthard Graubner, German painter (born 1930)
- May 24
Helmut Braunlich
Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (born 1929)
- May 24
Ron Davies (footballer, born 1942)
Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (born 1942)
- May 24
Haynes Johnson
Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (born 1931)
- May 25
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Naxalite insurgents of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacked a convoy of Indian National Congress leaders in the state of Chhattisgarh, causing at least 27 deaths.
- May 25
Naxalism
Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
- May 26
Roberto Civita
Roberto Civita, Italian-Brazilian businessman (born 1936)
- May 26
Tom Lichtenberg
Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (born 1940)
- May 26
Jack Vance
Jack Vance, American author (born 1916)
- May 26
Otto Muehl
Otto Muehl, Austrian painter (born 1925)
- May 26
Ray Barnhart
Ray Barnhart, American businessman and politician (born 1928)
- May 26
John Bierwirth
John Bierwirth, American lawyer and businessman (born 1924)
- May 27
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (born 1917)
- May 27
Bill Pertwee
Bill Pertwee, English actor (born 1926)
- May 27
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1931)
- May 28
Gezi Park protests
Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
- May 28
Viktor Kulikov
Viktor Kulikov, Russian commander (born 1921)
- May 28
Eddie Romero
Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, screenwriter, and National Artist for Cinema and Broadcast Arts (born 1924)
- May 30
Nigeria
Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
- May 30
Jayalath Jayawardena
Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (born 1953)
- May 31
2013 El Reno tornado
An extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 150 others.
- May 31
Asteroid
The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
- May 31
Frederic Lindsay
Frederic Lindsay, Scottish author and educator (born 1933)
- May 31
Gerald E. Brown
Gerald E. Brown, American physicist and academic (born 1926)
June
- June 1
James Kelleher
James Kelleher, Canadian lawyer and politician, 33rd Solicitor General of Canada (born 1930)
- June 2
Mario Bernardi
Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1930)
- June 2
Chen Xitong
Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (born 1930)
- June 2
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)
- June 3
United States v. Manning
The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
- June 3
Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant fire
At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
- June 3
Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)
- June 3
Józef Czyrek
Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)
- June 3
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (born 1924)
- June 4
Walt Arfons
Walt Arfons, American race car driver (born 1916)
- June 4
Hermann Gunnarsson
Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (born 1946)
- June 4
Joey Covington
Joey Covington, American drummer (born 1945)
- June 4
Will Wynn (American football)
Will Wynn, American football player (born 1949)
- June 5
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish republican activist and politician (born 1932)
- June 5
Stanisław Nagy
Stanisław Nagy, Polish cardinal (born 1921)
- June 5
Michel Ostyn
Michel Ostyn, Belgian physiologist and physician (born 1924)
- June 5
Helen McElhone
Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (born 1933)
- June 6
Jerome Karle
Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918)
- June 6
Esther Williams
Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921)
- June 7
Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960)
Questions about 2013
What happened in 2013?
This site records 400 entries for 2013, including 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede on January 1. They are listed below by date.
How long ago was 2013?
13 years ago, counting from 2026. Anyone born in 2013 turns 13 this year.
Which century is 2013 in?
2013 falls in the 21st century, in the 2010s.
Which generation was born in 2013?
Generation Alpha (2013–2024). Born entirely in the 21st century.
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