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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of January 0532 | EVENT | Nika riots in Constantinople. |
| 13th of January 0888 | EVENT | Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks. |
| 13th of January 1328 | EVENT | Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault. |
| 13th of January 1435 | EVENT | Sicut Dudum is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV about the enslaving of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish natives. |
| 13th of January 1547 | EVENT | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death. |
| 13th of January 1605 | EVENT | The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison. |
| 13th of January 1607 | EVENT | The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. |
| 13th of January 1733 | EVENT | James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 13th of January 1785 | EVENT | John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times). |
| 13th of January 1797 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900. |
| 13th of January 1815 | EVENT | War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. |
| 13th of January 1822 | EVENT | The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. |
| 13th of January 1830 | EVENT | The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins. |
| 13th of January 1832 | EVENT | President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. |
| 13th of January 1840 | EVENT | The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. |
| 13th of January 1842 | EVENT | Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad. |
| 13th of January 1847 | EVENT | The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. |
| 13th of January 1869 | EVENT | National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C. |
| 13th of January 1893 | EVENT | The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting. |
| 13th of January 1893 | EVENT | U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. |
| 13th of January 1898 | EVENT | Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair. |
| 13th of January 1908 | EVENT | The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people. |
| 13th of January 1910 | EVENT | The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. |
| 13th of January 1913 | EVENT | Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated is founded on the campus of Howard University as the second Black Greek Letter Organization for Women. The mission is to make a move towards social activism. |
| 13th of January 1915 | EVENT | An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800. |
| 13th of January 1934 | EVENT | The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR. |
| 13th of January 1935 | EVENT | A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany. |
| 13th of January 1939 | EVENT | The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people. |
| 13th of January 1942 | EVENT | Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car. |
| 13th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. |
| 13th of January 1951 | EVENT | First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France. |
| 13th of January 1953 | EVENT | Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia. |
| 13th of January 1953 | EVENT | An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership. |
| 13th of January 1958 | EVENT | The Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. |
| 13th of January 1964 | EVENT | Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta : resulting in 100 deaths. |
| 13th of January 1964 | EVENT | Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland. |
| 13th of January 1966 | EVENT | Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. |
| 13th of January 1968 | EVENT | Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison |
| 13th of January 1972 | EVENT | Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong. |
| 13th of January 1974 | EVENT | Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. |
| 13th of January 1982 | EVENT | Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. |
| 13th of January 1985 | EVENT | A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa. |
| 13th of January 1986 | EVENT | A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties. |
| 13th of January 1990 | EVENT | L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia. |
| 13th of January 1991 | EVENT | Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000. |
| 13th of January 1993 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center. |
| 13th of January 2001 | EVENT | An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800. |
| 13th of January 1334 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379) |
| 13th of January 1505 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571) |
| 13th of January 1562 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601) |
| 13th of January 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656) |
| 13th of January 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665) |
| 13th of January 1616 | BIRTHDAY | Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680) |
| 13th of January 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705) |
| 13th of January 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694) |
| 13th of January 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760) |
| 13th of January 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808) |
| 13th of January 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Muller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825) |
| 13th of January 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820) |
| 13th of January 1787 | BIRTHDAY | John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854) |
| 13th of January 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866) |
| 13th of January 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862) |
| 13th of January 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873) |
| 13th of January 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883) |
| 13th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899) |
| 13th of January 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896) |
| 13th of January 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931) |
| 13th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943) |
| 13th of January 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959) |
| 13th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) |
| 13th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marie of Orleans (d. 1908) |
| 13th of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901) |
| 13th of January 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931) |
| 13th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959) |
| 13th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967) |
| 13th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961) |
| 13th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938) |
| 13th of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966) |
| 13th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man" (d. 1973) |
| 13th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964) |
| 13th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946) |
| 13th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | George Gurdjieff, Georgian-Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949) |
| 13th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Juri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945) |
| 13th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963) |
| 13th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961) |
| 13th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944) |
| 13th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978) |
| 13th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Mieczys?aw Zywczynski, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978) |
| 13th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991) |
| 13th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977) |
| 13th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) |
| 13th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist |
| 13th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934) |
| 13th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989) |
| 13th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005) |
| 13th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 13th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist (d. 1992) |
| 13th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000) |
| 13th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970) |
| 13th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997) |
| 13th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994) |
| 13th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Petit, French choreographer |
| 13th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000) |
| 13th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor |
| 13th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bond, British writer |
| 13th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003) |
| 13th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004) |
| 13th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate |
| 13th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (d. 1994) |
| 13th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Sternhagen, American actress |
| 13th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Anderson, American singer |
| 13th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984) |
| 13th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 13th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Wiggins, British actor |
| 13th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994) |
| 13th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rip Taylor, American actor |
| 13th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari) |
| 13th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress |
| 13th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone |
| 13th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tord Grip, Swedish football manager |
| 13th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | William B. Davis, Canadian actor |
| 13th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Shivkumar Sharma, santoor player, music composer |
| 13th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach |
| 13th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund White, American author |
| 13th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician |
| 13th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Cleveland, English actress |
| 13th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Moll, American actor |
| 13th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician |
| 13th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Krakow |
| 13th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach |
| 13th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Lees, English Musician |
| 13th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur |
| 13th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997) |
| 13th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rakesh Sharma, first Indian and 138th person to visit space |
| 13th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Brandner, German politician |
| 13th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Forsch, American baseball player |
| 13th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John McNaughton, American film director |
| 13th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes) |
| 13th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter |
| 13th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jay McInerney, American writer |
| 13th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Hubert-Whitten, American actress |
| 13th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lorrie Moore, American writer |
| 13th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer |
| 13th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth) |
| 13th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach |
| 13th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips) |
| 13th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Suggs, English singer (Madness) |
| 13th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress |
| 13th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter |
| 13th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Higgins, Canadian hockey player |
| 13th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player |
| 13th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin McClatchy, American businessman |
| 13th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bailey, British comedian |
| 13th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer |
| 13th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Penelope Ann Miller, American actress |
| 13th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Dempsey, American actor |
| 13th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shelagh Fogarty, British radio presenter |
| 13th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Jones, Australian actress |
| 13th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Traci Bingham, American actress |
| 13th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Whitlow, English footballer |
| 13th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Chara, Japanese singer and actress |
| 13th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player |
| 13th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier |
| 13th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Coogan, American actor |
| 13th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004) |
| 13th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator (Grey's Anatomy) |
| 13th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Whyman, English paranormal researcher, television personality, writer and musician |
| 13th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Mallory Asher, American film actor/director |
| 13th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer |
| 13th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Eggert, American actress |
| 13th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | James O'Brien, British radio presenter and journalist |
| 13th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor |
| 13th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Park Jin-Young, Korean singer |
| 13th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast |
| 13th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 13th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor |
| 13th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 13th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Pena, American actor |
| 13th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater |
| 13th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | James Posey, American basketball player |
| 13th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Bloom, English actor |
| 13th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ashmit Patel, Indian actor |
| 13th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist |
| 13th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer |
| 13th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer |
| 13th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player |
| 13th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Brown, American football player |
| 13th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor |
| 13th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Rasner, American baseball player |
| 13th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jason James, Welsh bassist |
| 13th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player |
| 13th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | William Hung, American Idol contestant |
| 13th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player |
| 13th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Morris, English actor |
| 13th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer |
| 13th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Motte, American musician (3OH!3) |
| 13th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer |
| 13th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Ludwig, German beach volleyball player |
| 13th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater |
| 13th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer |
| 13th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist |
| 13th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Seung Gi, South Korean singer |
| 13th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sven Wetzel, German rugby player |
| 13th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Pliuschin, Moldovan cyclist |
| 13th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Freeman, American football player |
| 13th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer |
| 13th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | James Berrett, English footballer |
| 13th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Arguez, American footballer |
| 13th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor |
| 13th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer/actress/MC |
| 13th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer |
| 13th of January 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor |
| 13th of January 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Winter, Canadian student |
| 13th of January 0614 | DEATH | Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow |
| 13th of January 0703 | DEATH | Empress Jito of Japan (Born 645) |
| 13th of January 0858 | DEATH | King Ethelwulf of Wessex (Born 795) |
| 13th of January 0888 | DEATH | Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 839) |
| 13th of January 1138 | DEATH | Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1076) |
| 13th of January 1151 | DEATH | Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (Born 1081) |
| 13th of January 1177 | DEATH | Henry II of Austria (Born 1107) |
| 13th of January 1330 | DEATH | Frederick I of Austria (Born 1286) |
| 13th of January 1363 | DEATH | Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (Born 1344) |
| 13th of January 1599 | DEATH | Edmund Spenser, English poet (Born 1552) |
| 13th of January 1625 | DEATH | Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (Born 1568) |
| 13th of January 1630 | DEATH | Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (Born 1584) |
| 13th of January 1658 | DEATH | Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (Born 1616) |
| 13th of January 1691 | DEATH | George Fox, English founder of Quakerism (Born 1624) |
| 13th of January 1766 | DEATH | King Frederick V of Denmark (Born 1723) |
| 13th of January 1775 | DEATH | Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (Born 1693) |
| 13th of January 1790 | DEATH | Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (Born 1712) |
| 13th of January 1796 | DEATH | John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (Born 1726) |
| 13th of January 1797 | DEATH | Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (Born 1715) |
| 13th of January 1832 | DEATH | Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founder of Lord's cricket ground (Born 1755) |
| 13th of January 1838 | DEATH | Ferdinand Ries, German composer (Born 1784) |
| 13th of January 1852 | DEATH | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (Born 1778) |
| 13th of January 1853 | DEATH | Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (Born 1783) |
| 13th of January 1860 | DEATH | William Mason, American politician (Born 1786) |
| 13th of January 1864 | DEATH | Stephen Foster, American composer (Born 1826) |
| 13th of January 1882 | DEATH | Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (Born 1834) |
| 13th of January 1885 | DEATH | Schuyler Colfax, American politician (Born 1823) |
| 13th of January 1889 | DEATH | Solomon Bundy, American politician (Born 1823) |
| 13th of January 1894 | DEATH | Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Born 1831) |
| 13th of January 1905 | DEATH | George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (Born 1838) |
| 13th of January 1906 | DEATH | Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (Born 1859) |
| 13th of January 1915 | DEATH | Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (Born 1848) |
| 13th of January 1923 | DEATH | Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (Born 1842) |
| 13th of January 1924 | DEATH | Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (Born 1834) |
| 13th of January 1928 | DEATH | Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1902} |
| 13th of January 1929 | DEATH | Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (Born 1848) |
| 13th of January 1929 | DEATH | H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (Born 1851) |
| 13th of January 1932 | DEATH | Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (Born 1870) |
| 13th of January 1934 | DEATH | Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (Born 1860) |
| 13th of January 1941 | DEATH | James Joyce, Irish writer (Born 1882) |
| 13th of January 1943 | DEATH | Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (Born 1889) |
| 13th of January 1958 | DEATH | Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (Born 1880) |
| 13th of January 1962 | DEATH | Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (Born 1919) |
| 13th of January 1967 | DEATH | Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (Born 1910) |
| 13th of January 1971 | DEATH | Robert Still, English composer (Born 1910) |
| 13th of January 1974 | DEATH | Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (Born 1906) |
| 13th of January 1974 | DEATH | Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (Born 1904) |
| 13th of January 1976 | DEATH | Margaret Leighton, English actress (Born 1922) |
| 13th of January 1977 | DEATH | Henri Langlois, French film archivist, and a co-founder of the Cinematheque Francaise (Born 1914) |
| 13th of January 1978 | DEATH | Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (Born 1911) |
| 13th of January 1978 | DEATH | Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (Born 1887) |
| 13th of January 1979 | DEATH | Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (Born 1907) |
| 13th of January 1979 | DEATH | Donny Hathaway, American musician (Born 1945) |
| 13th of January 1980 | DEATH | Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (Born 1901) |
| 13th of January 1982 | DEATH | Marcel Camus, French director (Born 1912) |
| 13th of January 1988 | DEATH | Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (Born 1910) |
| 13th of January 1993 | DEATH | Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (Born 1907) |
| 13th of January 1995 | DEATH | Max Harris, Australian poet, columnist and publisher (Born 1921) |
| 13th of January 2001 | DEATH | Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (Born 1985) |
| 13th of January 2002 | DEATH | Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, Ernest Hemingway's first mate (Born 1897) |
| 13th of January 2002 | DEATH | Ted Demme, American film director (Born 1963) |
| 13th of January 2002 | DEATH | Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Born 1916) |
| 13th of January 2003 | DEATH | Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (Born 1914) |
| 13th of January 2004 | DEATH | Arne Naess Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (Born 1937) |
| 13th of January 2004 | DEATH | Harold Shipman, British serial killer (Born 1946) |
| 13th of January 2004 | DEATH | Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (Born 1921) |
| 13th of January 2005 | DEATH | Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (Born 1915) |
| 13th of January 2005 | DEATH | Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (Born 1924) |
| 13th of January 2006 | DEATH | Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (Born 1934) |
| 13th of January 2006 | DEATH | Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1967) |
| 13th of January 2007 | DEATH | Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1949) |
| 13th of January 2007 | DEATH | Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (Born 1911) |
| 13th of January 2008 | DEATH | Johnny Podres, American baseball player (Born 1932) |
| 13th of January 2008 | DEATH | Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (Born 1956) |
| 13th of January 2009 | DEATH | Dona Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (Born 1905) |
| 13th of January 2009 | DEATH | Dai Llewellyn Welsh socialite |
| 13th of January 2009 | DEATH | Patrick McGoohan, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 13th of January 2009 | DEATH | William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (Born 1926) |
| 13th of January 2009 | DEATH | Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (Born 1925) |
| 13th of January 2009 | DEATH | Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (Born 1915) |
| 13th of January 2010 | DEATH | Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (Born 1950) |
| 13th of January 2010 | DEATH | Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (Born 1980) |
| 13th of January 2010 | DEATH | Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist (Born 1930) |