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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of August 1516 | EVENT | The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor recognises Francis's claim to Milan. |
| 13th of August 1521 | EVENT | Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Cortes. |
| 13th of August 1536 | EVENT | Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536). |
| 13th of August 1553 | EVENT | Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic. |
| 13th of August 1704 | EVENT | War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim : English and Austrian forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops. |
| 13th of August 1792 | EVENT | King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people. |
| 13th of August 1806 | EVENT | Battle of Misar during the Serbian revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans. |
| 13th of August 1814 | EVENT | The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London. |
| 13th of August 1831 | EVENT | Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia. |
| 13th of August 1889 | EVENT | German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon. |
| 13th of August 1913 | EVENT | Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania. |
| 13th of August 1913 | EVENT | First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley. |
| 13th of August 1918 | EVENT | Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist. |
| 13th of August 1918 | EVENT | Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. |
| 13th of August 1920 | EVENT | Polish-Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated. |
| 13th of August 1937 | EVENT | The Battle of Shanghai begins. |
| 13th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: in Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs (Operation Pastorius) are executed. |
| 13th of August 0582 | BIRTHDAY | Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) |
| 13th of August 1311 | BIRTHDAY | King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350) |
| 13th of August 1584 | BIRTHDAY | Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) |
| 13th of August 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and physicist (d. 1698) |
| 13th of August 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748) |
| 13th of August 1666 | BIRTHDAY | William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727) |
| 13th of August 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich, count von Bruhl, German statesman (d. 1763) |
| 13th of August 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Francois I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776) |
| 13th of August 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Carolina of Austria, Austrian-born queen consort of Naples and of the Two Sicilies, wife of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814) |
| 13th of August 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816) |
| 13th of August 1790 | BIRTHDAY | William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872) |
| 13th of August 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, German-born queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849) |
| 13th of August 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869) |
| 13th of August 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Jonas Angstrom, Swedish physicist (d. 1874) |
| 13th of August 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893) |
| 13th of August 1819 | BIRTHDAY | George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903) |
| 13th of August 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900) |
| 13th of August 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Goldwin Smith, English-born Canadian historian and journalist (d. 1910) |
| 13th of August 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricketer (d. 1891) |
| 13th of August 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Adler, German-born American educator (d. 1933) |
| 13th of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926) |
| 13th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist, founder of Fiat (d. 1945) |
| 13th of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Willstatter, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1942) |
| 13th of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962) |
| 13th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Dean, English cricketer (d. 1957) |
| 13th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952) |
| 13th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946) |
| 13th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1975) |
| 13th of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958) |
| 13th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer (d. 1962) |
| 13th of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 13th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980) |
| 13th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988) |
| 13th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 13th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976) |
| 13th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 13th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of Dyle, Dane, and Bernbach (now DDB) (d. 1982) |
| 13th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997) |
| 13th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Luria, Italian-born American microbiologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1991) |
| 13th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998) |
| 13th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d. 1977) |
| 13th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970) |
| 13th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
| 13th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Laureate |
| 13th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (d. 2007) |
| 13th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Sir George Shearing, British jazz pianist |
| 13th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 13th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician |
| 13th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor |
| 13th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfried Hilker, German football referee |
| 13th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Don Ho, American vocalist and pianist (d. 2007) |
| 13th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007) |
| 13th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 13th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States |
| 13th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mudcat Grant, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Hull, British television entertainer (d. 1999) |
| 13th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist |
| 13th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Musselman, American basketball head coach (d. 2000) |
| 13th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003) |
| 13th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Willetts, English George Cross recipient (d. 1971) |
| 13th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver |
| 13th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Tighe, American actor |
| 13th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician |
| 13th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Jackman, England cricketer |
| 13th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Stanley, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Stocker, Canadian voice actor |
| 13th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician |
| 13th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Battle, American soprano |
| 13th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Petit, French high wire artist |
| 13th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Brunzell, American professional wrestler |
| 13th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007) |
| 13th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002) |
| 13th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Carter, American folksinger (d. 2002) |
| 13th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Hughie Thomasson, American guitarist (Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2007) |
| 13th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Assumpcao, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001) |
| 13th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Ahlers, British racing driver |
| 13th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver |
| 13th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Greengrass, English film director |
| 13th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David Feherty, Northern Irish golfer |
| 13th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Feargal Sharkey, Northern Irish vocalist (The Undertones) |
| 13th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Shughart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993) |
| 13th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Bonaduce, American actor |
| 13th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce French, England cricketer |
| 13th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Taylor, English darts player |
| 13th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Kondo, Japanese composer |
| 13th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Christodoulou, Greek basketball player |
| 13th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Mallender, England cricketer |
| 13th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Maconie, English music writer and broadcaster |
| 13th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dawnn Lewis, American actress |
| 13th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Perrotta, American novelist |
| 13th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sunil Shetty, Indian actor and producer |
| 13th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer |
| 13th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Slattery, American actor |
| 13th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sridevi, Indian actress |
| 13th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Buhner, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Cheyne, American actor |
| 13th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Debi Mazar, American actress |
| 13th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lemke, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer |
| 13th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Hood, American screenwriter |
| 13th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Amelie Nothomb, Belgian writer |
| 13th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Quinn Cummings, American actress |
| 13th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater |
| 13th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Will Clarke, American novelist |
| 13th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler |
| 13th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Grbac, American football player |
| 13th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Shearer, English footballer |
| 13th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Carpentier, Quebec racing driver |
| 13th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor |
| 13th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Heike Makatsch, German actress |
| 13th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born American actor |
| 13th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Plank, American entrepreneur (Under Armour) |
| 13th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | John Safran, Australian television presenter |
| 13th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Henneberg, American journalist |
| 13th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress |
| 13th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Medlen, American drag racer and rodeo star (d. 2007) |
| 13th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrod Washburn, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Endicott, American singer (The Bravery) |
| 13th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer |
| 13th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Perry, English snooker player |
| 13th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | James Carpinello, American actor |
| 13th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jody Thompson, Canadian actress |
| 13th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Klim, Australian swimmer |
| 13th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Taizo Sugimura, Japanese politician |
| 13th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Colon, Dominican baseball player |
| 13th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Patterson, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Markouizos, Greek figure skater |
| 13th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shani Davis, American speed skater |
| 13th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kalenna Harper, American singer-songwriter (Dirty Money) |
| 13th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born American actor |
| 13th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player |
| 13th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Niko Kranjcar, Croatian footballer |
| 13th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Boone Logan, American baseball player |
| 13th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | James Morrison, British singer |
| 13th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Gerrit van Look, German rugby player and coach |
| 13th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Grega Bole, Slovenian cyclist |
| 13th of August 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Piper Reese, American child reporter |
| 13th of August 0586 | DEATH | Radegund, Frankish princess consort of King Chlothar I (Born c. 520) |
| 13th of August 0900 | DEATH | King Zwentibold of Lotharingia (Born 870) |
| 13th of August 1134 | DEATH | Irene of Hungary, consort of Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos (Born 1088) |
| 13th of August 1382 | DEATH | Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile, consort of King John I of Castile (Born 1358) |
| 13th of August 1523 | DEATH | Gerard David, Flemish painter (Born c. 1460) |
| 13th of August 1617 | DEATH | Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (Born 1540) |
| 13th of August 1667 | DEATH | Jeremy Taylor, Irish prose writer and bishop (Born 1613) |
| 13th of August 1686 | DEATH | Louis Maimbourg, French historian (Born 1610) |
| 13th of August 1721 | DEATH | Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (Born 1665) |
| 13th of August 1744 | DEATH | John Cruger, Dutch-born American politician and 39th Mayor of New York City (Born 1678) |
| 13th of August 1749 | DEATH | Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (Born 1719) |
| 13th of August 1755 | DEATH | Francesco Durante, Italian composer (Born 1684) |
| 13th of August 1826 | DEATH | Rene Laennec, French physician (Born 1781) |
| 13th of August 1863 | DEATH | Eugene Delacroix, French painter (Born 1798) |
| 13th of August 1865 | DEATH | Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (Born 1818) |
| 13th of August 1910 | DEATH | Florence Nightingale, English nurse (Born 1820) |
| 13th of August 1912 | DEATH | Jules Massenet, French composer (Born 1842) |
| 13th of August 1917 | DEATH | Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1860) |
| 13th of August 1937 | DEATH | Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (birth year unknown) |
| 13th of August 1946 | DEATH | H. G. Wells, English writer (Born 1866) |
| 13th of August 1948 | DEATH | Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (Born 1897) |
| 13th of August 1958 | DEATH | Otto Witte, German acrobat and claimant to the Albanian throne (Born 1868) |
| 13th of August 1965 | DEATH | Ikeda Hayato, Japanese politician (Born 1899) |
| 13th of August 1982 | DEATH | Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (Born 1933) |
| 13th of August 1984 | DEATH | Tigran Petrosian, Soviet-Armenian chess player (Born 1929) |
| 13th of August 1986 | DEATH | Way Bandy, American make-up artist (Born 1941) |
| 13th of August 1989 | DEATH | Tim Richmond, American race car driver (Born 1955) |
| 13th of August 1989 | DEATH | Larkin Smith, American politician (Born 1944) |
| 13th of August 1991 | DEATH | Jack Ryan, American designer (Barbie) (Born 1926) |
| 13th of August 1995 | DEATH | Jan Kresadlo, Czech writer (Born 1926) |
| 13th of August 1995 | DEATH | Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (Born 1963) |
| 13th of August 1995 | DEATH | Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (Born 1931) |
| 13th of August 1995 | DEATH | Rob Slater, American mountaineer (Born 1960) |
| 13th of August 1996 | DEATH | David Tudor, American pianist and composer (Born 1926) |
| 13th of August 1996 | DEATH | Antonio de Spinola, Portuguese general and politician (Born 1910) |
| 13th of August 1998 | DEATH | Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (Born 1946) |
| 13th of August 1998 | DEATH | Nino Ferrer, Italian-born French singer and composer (Born 1934) |
| 13th of August 1998 | DEATH | Julien Green, American novelist (Born 1900) |
| 13th of August 1999 | DEATH | Jaime Garzon, Colombian journalist and comedian (Born 1960) |
| 13th of August 2000 | DEATH | Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (Born 1965) |
| 13th of August 2001 | DEATH | Otto Stuppacher, Austrian race car driver (Born 1947) |
| 13th of August 2003 | DEATH | Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (Born 1929) |
| 13th of August 2004 | DEATH | Julia Child, American chef and television personality (Born 1912) |
| 13th of August 2005 | DEATH | David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (Born 1942) |
| 13th of August 2006 | DEATH | Jon Nodtveidt, Swedish vocalist (Born 1975) |
| 13th of August 2006 | DEATH | Payao Poontarat, Thai boxer (Born 1957) |
| 13th of August 2006 | DEATH | Tony Jay, English actor (Born 1933) |
| 13th of August 2007 | DEATH | Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentenarian (Born 1893) |
| 13th of August 2007 | DEATH | Brian Adams, American professional wrestler (Born 1964) |
| 13th of August 2007 | DEATH | Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (Born 1917) |
| 13th of August 2007 | DEATH | Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (Born 1902) |
| 13th of August 2008 | DEATH | Bill Gwatney, American political figure (Born 1959) |
| 13th of August 2008 | DEATH | Dino Toso, American Formula 1 engineer (Born 1969) |
| 13th of August 2008 | DEATH | Jack Weil, American businessman (Born 1901) |
| 13th of August 2008 | DEATH | Sandy Allen, American tallest woman in the world (Born 1955) |
| 13th of August 2008 | DEATH | Henri Cartan, French mathematician (Born 1904) |
| 13th of August 2010 | DEATH | Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (Born 1981) |
| 13th of August 2010 | DEATH | Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (Born 1919) |