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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of December 1294 | EVENT | Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. |
| 13th of December 1545 | EVENT | Council of Trent begins. |
| 13th of December 1577 | EVENT | Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. |
| 13th of December 1636 | EVENT | The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. |
| 13th of December 1642 | EVENT | Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand. |
| 13th of December 1643 | EVENT | English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. |
| 13th of December 1769 | EVENT | Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth. |
| 13th of December 1809 | EVENT | Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor. |
| 13th of December 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. |
| 13th of December 1867 | EVENT | Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six. |
| 13th of December 1937 | EVENT | Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing. |
| 13th of December 1937 | EVENT | Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing : Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. |
| 13th of December 1938 | EVENT | The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. |
| 13th of December 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of the River Plate : Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles. |
| 13th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. |
| 13th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece. |
| 13th of December 1949 | EVENT | The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. |
| 13th of December 1959 | EVENT | Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus. |
| 13th of December 1960 | EVENT | While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaim him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor. |
| 13th of December 1962 | EVENT | NASA "Relay 1" launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. |
| 13th of December 1967 | EVENT | Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels |
| 13th of December 1968 | EVENT | Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship. |
| 13th of December 1972 | EVENT | Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century. |
| 13th of December 1974 | EVENT | Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations |
| 13th of December 1977 | EVENT | A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team. |
| 13th of December 1979 | EVENT | The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election. |
| 13th of December 1981 | EVENT | General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity. |
| 13th of December 1988 | EVENT | Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York. |
| 13th of December 1989 | EVENT | Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded. |
| 13th of December 2000 | EVENT | The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed. |
| 13th of December 2001 | EVENT | the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists. |
| 13th of December 2002 | EVENT | Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004. |
| 13th of December 2003 | EVENT | Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn). |
| 13th of December 2004 | EVENT | Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal. |
| 13th of December 2006 | EVENT | The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, is announced as extinct. |
| 13th of December 1521 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590) |
| 13th of December 1533 | BIRTHDAY | King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577) |
| 13th of December 1553 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry IV of France (d. 1610) |
| 13th of December 1585 | BIRTHDAY | William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649) |
| 13th of December 1640 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696) |
| 13th of December 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729) |
| 13th of December 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735) |
| 13th of December 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804) |
| 13th of December 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802) |
| 13th of December 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864) |
| 13th of December 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856) |
| 13th of December 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873) |
| 13th of December 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Neri, Brazilian nurse (d. 1880) |
| 13th of December 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892) |
| 13th of December 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882) |
| 13th of December 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904) |
| 13th of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Svetozar Boroevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920) |
| 13th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925) |
| 13th of December 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947) |
| 13th of December 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917) |
| 13th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940) |
| 13th of December 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945) |
| 13th of December 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Lhevinne, Russian-born pianist (d. 1944) |
| 13th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950) |
| 13th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985) |
| 13th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964) |
| 13th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Pearson, American journalist (d. 1969) |
| 13th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, (d. 1979) |
| 13th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986) |
| 13th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (d. 1986) |
| 13th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993) |
| 13th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (d. 1968) |
| 13th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author (d. 1996) |
| 13th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 13th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999) |
| 13th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972) |
| 13th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998) |
| 13th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002) |
| 13th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language. (d. 2004) |
| 13th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Curd Jurgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982) |
| 13th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Macdonald, American-born author (d. 1983) |
| 13th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (d. 1983) |
| 13th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | John Hart, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 13th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942) |
| 13th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | George Shultz, American economist, statesman, and 60th United States Secretary of State |
| 13th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 13th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003) |
| 13th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian |
| 13th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete |
| 13th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor |
| 13th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 13th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer |
| 13th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Christopher, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Hall, American football player |
| 13th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | J. C. Martin, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | His Highness Prince Shah Karim al-Husseini Aga Khan IV, Present Imam (leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims |
| 13th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player |
| 13th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ulf G. Linden, Swedish entrepreneur (d. 2009) |
| 13th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Curran, American composer |
| 13th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Heino, German folk singer. |
| 13th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (d. 2002) |
| 13th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Davidson, American actor and game show host |
| 13th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Eshoo, American politician |
| 13th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player |
| 13th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gosta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002) |
| 13th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor |
| 13th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Garver, American actress |
| 13th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (d. 1977) |
| 13th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Darlene Cates, American actress |
| 13th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Hamilton, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Hagon, Canadian actor and host |
| 13th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Bangs, Rock critic (d. 1982) |
| 13th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers) |
| 13th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Board, British track and field athlete (d. 1970) |
| 13th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Nugent, American guitarist |
| 13th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Wilson, Scottish politician |
| 13th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lindsay, English actor |
| 13th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Verlaine, American singer and guitarist (Television) |
| 13th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Owen, American country singer and guitarist (Alabama) |
| 13th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Wilcox, English actress |
| 13th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Wendie Malick, American actress |
| 13th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Vilsack, 40th Governor of Iowa and 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture |
| 13th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler (d. 1998) |
| 13th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player |
| 13th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve |
| 13th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Davidson, British comedian |
| 13th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player and General Manager |
| 13th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter |
| 13th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter |
| 13th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tamora Pierce, American author |
| 13th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Berra, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Majida El Roumi, Lebanese soprano, singer |
| 13th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Hubbard, American basketball player |
| 13th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Buscemi, American actor |
| 13th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Day, American singer (The Time) |
| 13th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman |
| 13th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress |
| 13th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler |
| 13th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Whitaker, American actor |
| 13th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor |
| 13th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer |
| 13th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Zimmerman, American football player |
| 13th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician |
| 13th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Ilegems, Belgian track cyclist and road bicycle racer |
| 13th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Ryan, American football coach |
| 13th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Raskin, American law professor and politician |
| 13th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kendra Slewenski, English netballer |
| 13th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Ryan, American football coach |
| 13th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | hide, Japanese musician (X Japan) (d. 1998) |
| 13th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Marko Maetamm, Estonian artist |
| 13th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef |
| 13th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker |
| 13th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Tirico, sports broadcaster |
| 13th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Pelini, American football coach |
| 13th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Foxx, American actor and singer |
| 13th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Curran, Scottish actor |
| 13th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (d. 2007) |
| 13th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 13th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer |
| 13th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Evans, English singer |
| 13th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Grant, Australian football player |
| 13th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christie Clark, American actress |
| 13th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Cox, English TV and radio presenter |
| 13th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Matenopoulos, American television personality and actress |
| 13th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand) |
| 13th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player |
| 13th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tom DeLonge, American guitarist (blink-182, Angels & Airwaves) |
| 13th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | S?ren Friis, Danish footballer |
| 13th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rados?aw Sobolewski, Polish footballer |
| 13th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Fogg, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer |
| 13th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sascha Kindred, British Paralympic swimmer |
| 13th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone) |
| 13th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | BJ Penn, American mixed martial artist |
| 13th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Patrik Antonius, Finnish poker player |
| 13th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor |
| 13th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bosco Wong, Hong Kong Singer and Actor |
| 13th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan France, English footballer |
| 13th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence) |
| 13th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player |
| 13th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter |
| 13th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver |
| 13th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dominik Werling, German footballer |
| 13th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Otylia Jedrzejczak, Polish swimmer |
| 13th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Deis, American bassist |
| 13th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Hanna-Maria Seppala, Finnish swimmer |
| 13th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bumpus, American football player |
| 13th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress |
| 13th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player |
| 13th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rickie Fowler, American golfer |
| 13th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Schwarzenegger, American author |
| 13th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Swift, American singer |
| 13th of December 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Aymeric of Belgium |
| 13th of December 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Nicolas of Belgium |
| 13th of December 1048 | DEATH | Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (Born 973) |
| 13th of December 1124 | DEATH | Pope Callixtus II |
| 13th of December 1126 | DEATH | Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria |
| 13th of December 1204 | DEATH | Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (Born 1135) |
| 13th of December 1250 | DEATH | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1194) |
| 13th of December 1404 | DEATH | Albert, Count of Holland (Born 1336) |
| 13th of December 1466 | DEATH | Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (Born 1386) |
| 13th of December 1516 | DEATH | Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (Born 1462) |
| 13th of December 1521 | DEATH | Manuel I of Portugal (Born 1469) |
| 13th of December 1557 | DEATH | Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician |
| 13th of December 1565 | DEATH | Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (Born 1516) |
| 13th of December 1603 | DEATH | Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (Born 1540) |
| 13th of December 1621 | DEATH | Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (Born 1535) |
| 13th of December 1716 | DEATH | Charles de La Fosse, French painter (Born 1640) |
| 13th of December 1721 | DEATH | Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (Born 1676) |
| 13th of December 1729 | DEATH | Anthony Collins, English philosopher (Born 1676) |
| 13th of December 1754 | DEATH | Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1696) |
| 13th of December 1769 | DEATH | Christian Furchtegott Gellert, German poet (Born 1715) |
| 13th of December 1783 | DEATH | Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (Born 1717) |
| 13th of December 1784 | DEATH | Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (Born 1709) |
| 13th of December 1814 | DEATH | Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal (Born 1735) |
| 13th of December 1835 | DEATH | John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (Born 1760) |
| 13th of December 1837 | DEATH | Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (Born 1756) |
| 13th of December 1863 | DEATH | Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (Born 1813) |
| 13th of December 1868 | DEATH | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (Born 1794) |
| 13th of December 1881 | DEATH | August Senoa, Croatian writer (Born 1838) |
| 13th of December 1883 | DEATH | Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (Born 1812) |
| 13th of December 1893 | DEATH | Georg August Rudolph, German politician (Born 1816) |
| 13th of December 1895 | DEATH | Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (Born 1800) |
| 13th of December 1919 | DEATH | Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (Born 1850) |
| 13th of December 1922 | DEATH | Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (Born 1861) |
| 13th of December 1924 | DEATH | Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (Born 1850) |
| 13th of December 1930 | DEATH | Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-born Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1869) |
| 13th of December 1931 | DEATH | Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (Born 1840) |
| 13th of December 1932 | DEATH | Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (Born 1853) |
| 13th of December 1934 | DEATH | Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (Born 1854) |
| 13th of December 1935 | DEATH | Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1871) |
| 13th of December 1940 | DEATH | George Regas, Greek actor (Born 1890) |
| 13th of December 1940 | DEATH | Jacques-Arsene d'Arsonval, French physicist (Born 1851) |
| 13th of December 1942 | DEATH | Wlodimir Ledochowski, Austrian-born Polish religious figure (Born 1866) |
| 13th of December 1944 | DEATH | Lupe Velez, Mexican actress (Born 1908) |
| 13th of December 1944 | DEATH | Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (Born 1866) |
| 13th of December 1945 | DEATH | Irma Grese, German concentration camp supervisor (Born 1923) |
| 13th of December 1945 | DEATH | Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (Born 1906) |
| 13th of December 1945 | DEATH | Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-born German concentration camp supervisor (Born 1919) |
| 13th of December 1947 | DEATH | Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (Born 1874) |
| 13th of December 1950 | DEATH | Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1902) |
| 13th of December 1954 | DEATH | John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (Born 1879) |
| 13th of December 1955 | DEATH | Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (Born 1874) |
| 13th of December 1958 | DEATH | Tim Moore, American actor (Born 1887) |
| 13th of December 1960 | DEATH | Dora Marsden, British editor, writer (Born 1882) |
| 13th of December 1961 | DEATH | Grandma Moses, American painter (Born 1860) |
| 13th of December 1962 | DEATH | Harry Barris, American popular singer (Born 1905) |
| 13th of December 1969 | DEATH | Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (Born 1886) |
| 13th of December 1969 | DEATH | Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (Born 1893) |
| 13th of December 1973 | DEATH | Henry Green, English author (Born 1905) |
| 13th of December 1979 | DEATH | Jon Hall, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 13th of December 1981 | DEATH | Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer (Born 1904) |
| 13th of December 1983 | DEATH | Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (Born 1933) |
| 13th of December 1983 | DEATH | Alexander Schmemann, Estonian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (Born 1921) |
| 13th of December 1986 | DEATH | Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (b, 1903) |
| 13th of December 1986 | DEATH | Smita Patil, Indian Actress (Born1955) |
| 13th of December 1986 | DEATH | Heather Angel, British actress (Born 1909) |
| 13th of December 1992 | DEATH | Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (Born 1899) |
| 13th of December 1992 | DEATH | K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (Born 1899) |
| 13th of December 1993 | DEATH | Vanessa Duries, French novelist (Born 1972) |
| 13th of December 1994 | DEATH | Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (Born 1934) |
| 13th of December 1996 | DEATH | Edward Blishen, English author (Born 1920) |
| 13th of December 2001 | DEATH | Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (Born 1967) |
| 13th of December 2002 | DEATH | Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin' Spoonful) (Born 1945) |
| 13th of December 2003 | DEATH | William V. Roth, Jr., American politician (Born 1921) |
| 13th of December 2004 | DEATH | Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 13th of December 2004 | DEATH | David Wheeler, English computer scientist (Born 1927) |
| 13th of December 2005 | DEATH | Stanley Tookie Williams, American convicted murderer (Born 1953) |
| 13th of December 2005 | DEATH | Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (Born 1981) |
| 13th of December 2006 | DEATH | Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (Born 1932) |
| 13th of December 2007 | DEATH | Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor (Born 1936) |
| 13th of December 2007 | DEATH | Mark Partridge, Rhodesian politician (Born 1922) |
| 13th of December 2008 | DEATH | Kathy Staff, British actress (Born 1928) |
| 13th of December 2008 | DEATH | John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer (Born 1959) |
| 13th of December 2010 | DEATH | Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (Born 1941) |
| 13th of December 2010 | DEATH | Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (Born 1942) |