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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 13th of July 1174 | EVENT | William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173 : 1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. |
| 13th of July 1260 | EVENT | the Livonian Order suffered its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
| 13th of July 1558 | EVENT | Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines. |
| 13th of July 1573 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: the Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months. |
| 13th of July 1643 | EVENT | English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down : In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller. |
| 13th of July 1787 | EVENT | The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery. |
| 13th of July 1794 | EVENT | The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria. |
| 13th of July 1830 | EVENT | The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India. |
| 13th of July 1854 | EVENT | In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon. |
| 13th of July 1863 | EVENT | New York Draft Riots: in New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. |
| 13th of July 1878 | EVENT | Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire. |
| 13th of July 1905 | EVENT | The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes. |
| 13th of July 1919 | EVENT | The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight. |
| 13th of July 1923 | EVENT | The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. |
| 13th of July 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Montenegrins start a popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak). |
| 13th of July 1973 | EVENT | Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in. |
| 13th of July 1977 | EVENT | New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences a blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting. |
| 13th of July 1985 | EVENT | The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow. |
| 13th of July 1985 | EVENT | United States Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. |
| 13th of July 1990 | EVENT | An earthquake with its epicentre in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak). |
| 13th of July 0040 | BIRTHDAY | Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93) |
| 13th of July 1527 | BIRTHDAY | John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609) |
| 13th of July 1579 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651) |
| 13th of July 1590 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement X (d. 1676) |
| 13th of July 1607 | BIRTHDAY | Vaclav Hollar, Bohemian-born English etcher (d. 1677) |
| 13th of July 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657) |
| 13th of July 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Calder, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1818) |
| 13th of July 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837) |
| 13th of July 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline of Baden, consort of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1841) |
| 13th of July 1793 | BIRTHDAY | John Clare, English poet (d. 1864) |
| 13th of July 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), German-born consort of Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1860) |
| 13th of July 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate cavalry officer (d. 1877) |
| 13th of July 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918) |
| 13th of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929) |
| 13th of July 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Webb, British socialist (d. 1947) |
| 13th of July 1864 | BIRTHDAY | John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912) |
| 13th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Mountbatten, German-born consort of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1965) |
| 13th of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Babel, Soviet writer (d. 1940) |
| 13th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 13th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992) |
| 13th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Schreck, German Nazi party official (d. 1936) |
| 13th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1969) |
| 13th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969) |
| 13th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983) |
| 13th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino military leader (d. 1990) |
| 13th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Loren Pope, American writer (d. 2008) |
| 13th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982) |
| 13th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Maersk Mc-Kinney M?ller, Danish shipping magnate |
| 13th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955) |
| 13th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000) |
| 13th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007) |
| 13th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999) |
| 13th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005) |
| 13th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) |
| 13th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Anker J?rgensen, Danish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark |
| 13th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor |
| 13th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003) |
| 13th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer |
| 13th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Veil, French politician |
| 13th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000) |
| 13th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978) |
| 13th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist |
| 13th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2006) |
| 13th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Shemer, Israeli songwriter (d. 2004) |
| 13th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Ramsey, American basketball player |
| 13th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist |
| 13th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Byrne, English actress |
| 13th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate |
| 13th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 13th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager |
| 13th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist |
| 13th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kemp, American football player and politician (d. 2009) |
| 13th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Ayler, American jazz saxophonist and singer (d. 1970) |
| 13th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Stewart, English actor |
| 13th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Forster, American actor |
| 13th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker |
| 13th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds) |
| 13th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Ford, American actor |
| 13th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor |
| 13th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Cheech Marin, American actor |
| 13th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter |
| 13th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Daphne Maxwell Reid, American actress |
| 13th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist |
| 13th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | George Nelson, American astronaut |
| 13th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwanese politician and statesman |
| 13th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Bishop, American politician |
| 13th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Didi Conn, American actress |
| 13th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mila Mulroney, Yugoslavian-born former First Lady of Canada |
| 13th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player |
| 13th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer |
| 13th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Mandrell, American country music singer |
| 13th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | David Thompson, American basketball player |
| 13th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler |
| 13th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Spinks, American boxer |
| 13th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Dux, American martial artist and fight choreographer |
| 13th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver |
| 13th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Margera, American TV personality |
| 13th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Crowe, American film director |
| 13th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Leman, English field hockey player |
| 13th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Hislop, British writer and editor |
| 13th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Abraham, American football player |
| 13th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer |
| 13th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager |
| 13th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kenny, American voice actor |
| 13th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rhonda Vincent, American singer |
| 13th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Foulds, English snooker player |
| 13th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Spud Webb, American basketball player |
| 13th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Levert, American R&B singer (d. 2006) |
| 13th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan conductor |
| 13th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Birmingham, American actor |
| 13th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Barnett, American blogger (d. 2008) |
| 13th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey |
| 13th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Gant, American actor |
| 13th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Taylor, British screenwriter |
| 13th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Greenway, British vocalist (Napalm Death) |
| 13th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter |
| 13th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist |
| 13th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Pinches, English snooker player |
| 13th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler |
| 13th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Silvio Zarate, Argentine footballer |
| 13th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer |
| 13th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver |
| 13th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Danni Boatwright, American model, sportscaster, and reality show contestant |
| 13th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 13th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Al Santos, American model and actor |
| 13th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Scott, American actress |
| 13th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player |
| 13th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer |
| 13th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Libuse Prusova, Czech tennis player |
| 13th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater |
| 13th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Kovacs, Hungarian swimmer |
| 13th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ineta Radevica, Latvian athlete |
| 13th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005) |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever) |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Clist, English footballer |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Kenny, Australian Rugby League player |
| 13th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 13th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler |
| 13th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter |
| 13th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Pomante, Italian footballer |
| 13th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ida Maria, Norwegian singer |
| 13th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer |
| 13th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Tulisa Contostavlos, British singer (N-Dubz) |
| 13th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Steven R. McQueen, American actor |
| 13th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Marcos Paulo, Brazilian footballer |
| 13th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) |
| 13th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Weinberg, American actor |
| 13th of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Patton, American actor |
| 13th of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer |
| 13th of July 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Erin, American actress |
| 13th of July 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Ridge Canipe, American actor |
| 13th of July 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Howard, American actor |
| 13th of July 0574 | DEATH | Pope John III (birth year unknown) |
| 13th of July 0678 | DEATH | Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad (birth year unknown) |
| 13th of July 0939 | DEATH | Pope Leo VII (birth year unknown) |
| 13th of July 1024 | DEATH | Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 973) |
| 13th of July 1189 | DEATH | Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony, English-born daughter of Henry II of England and wife of Henry the Lion Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (Born 1156) |
| 13th of July 1205 | DEATH | Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England (Born c. 1160) |
| 13th of July 1357 | DEATH | Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (Born 1313) |
| 13th of July 1399 | DEATH | Peter Parler, German architect (Born 1330) |
| 13th of July 1402 | DEATH | Zhu Yunwen, Emperor of China (Born 1377) |
| 13th of July 1551 | DEATH | John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (Born 1490) |
| 13th of July 1621 | DEATH | Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (Born 1559) |
| 13th of July 1626 | DEATH | Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (Born 1563) |
| 13th of July 1628 | DEATH | Robert Shirley, English adventurer (Born 1581) |
| 13th of July 1629 | DEATH | Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (Born 1585) |
| 13th of July 1645 | DEATH | Tsar Michael of Russia (Born 1596) |
| 13th of July 1683 | DEATH | Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (Born 1631) |
| 13th of July 1693 | DEATH | Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (Born 1636) |
| 13th of July 1705 | DEATH | Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (Born 1649) |
| 13th of July 1755 | DEATH | Edward Braddock, British general (Born 1695) |
| 13th of July 1760 | DEATH | Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (Born 1696) |
| 13th of July 1761 | DEATH | Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (Born 1712) |
| 13th of July 1762 | DEATH | James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (Born 1693) |
| 13th of July 1789 | DEATH | Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (Born 1715) |
| 13th of July 1793 | DEATH | Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (Born 1743) |
| 13th of July 1807 | DEATH | Henry Benedict Stuart, Italy-born Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (Born 1725) |
| 13th of July 1882 | DEATH | Johnny Ringo, American gunfighter (Born 1850) |
| 13th of July 1889 | DEATH | Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (Born 1830) |
| 13th of July 1890 | DEATH | John C. Fremont, American Army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (Born 1813) |
| 13th of July 1896 | DEATH | Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, German chemist (Born 1829) |
| 13th of July 1921 | DEATH | Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (Born 1845) |
| 13th of July 1922 | DEATH | Martin Dies, Sr., American politician (Born 1870) |
| 13th of July 1946 | DEATH | Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (Born 1864) |
| 13th of July 1951 | DEATH | Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (Born 1874) |
| 13th of July 1954 | DEATH | Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (Born 1907) |
| 13th of July 1955 | DEATH | Ruth Ellis, British murderer, last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom (Born 1926) |
| 13th of July 1960 | DEATH | Joy Gresham, American writer (Born 1915) |
| 13th of July 1965 | DEATH | Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (Born 1895) |
| 13th of July 1967 | DEATH | Tom Simpson, British cyclist (Born 1937) |
| 13th of July 1967 | DEATH | Tommy Lucchese, Sicilian-American mobster (Born 1899) |
| 13th of July 1973 | DEATH | Willy Fritsch, German film actor (Born 1901) |
| 13th of July 1974 | DEATH | Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1897) |
| 13th of July 1976 | DEATH | Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS) (Born 1915) |
| 13th of July 1976 | DEATH | Frederick Hawksworth, English GWR chief mechanical engineer (Born 1884) |
| 13th of July 1979 | DEATH | Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (Born 1913) |
| 13th of July 1980 | DEATH | Seretse Khama, Botswana statesman, the first President of Botswana (Born 1921) |
| 13th of July 1983 | DEATH | Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (Born 1909) |
| 13th of July 1993 | DEATH | Davey Allison, American race car driver (Born 1961) |
| 13th of July 1995 | DEATH | Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (Born 1920) |
| 13th of July 1996 | DEATH | Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (Born 1905) |
| 13th of July 1997 | DEATH | Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (Born 1968) |
| 13th of July 2002 | DEATH | Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (Born 1908) |
| 13th of July 2003 | DEATH | Compay Segundo, Cuban trova guitarist and singer (Born 1907) |
| 13th of July 2004 | DEATH | Arthur Kane, American bassist (New York Dolls) (Born 1949) |
| 13th of July 2004 | DEATH | Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (Born 1930) |
| 13th of July 2006 | DEATH | Michael Busselle, English photographer and writer (Born 1935) |
| 13th of July 2006 | DEATH | Red Buttons, American comedian (Born 1919) |
| 13th of July 2007 | DEATH | Michael Reardon, American free climber (Born 1965) |
| 13th of July 2008 | DEATH | Bronis?aw Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (Born 1932) |
| 13th of July 2010 | DEATH | Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and part of R.D. Burman's band (Born 1931) |
| 13th of July 2010 | DEATH | George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees (Born 1930) |