March 13

March 13 is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

• 483 – St. Felix becomes Pope.
• 874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.
• 1138 – Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• 1639 – Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.
• 1781 – William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
• 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
• 1848 – The March Revolution in Vienna begins.
• 1862 – American Civil War:the US federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.
• 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was 1 March in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
• 1884 – The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).
• 1897 – San Diego State University founded.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
• 1900 – In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.

1901 – 2000

• 1920 – The "Wolfgang Kapp Putsch" briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 1921 – Mongolia, under Black Baron, declares its independence from China.
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
• 1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re–open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".
• 1940 – Winter War ended.
• 1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
• 1943 – Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• 1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
• 1957 – The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
• 1964 – A young woman, Kitty Genovese, is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• 1971 – In New York City, Rock group The Allman Brothers Band record a concert that will be released as their classic live album At Fillmore East
• 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
• 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in world, is opened, connecting Aomori and Hakodate in Japan.
• 1988 – I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.
• 1990 – Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the first female President of Haiti.
• 1991 – The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean–up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• 1992 – In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.
• 1993 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.
• 1996 – The Dunblane Massacre: In Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.
• 1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
• 1997 – In Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.
• 2000 – After 17 seasons in the NFL, Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino retires.

From 2001

• 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000–year–old upright–walking human footprints have been found in Italy.
• 2005 – A Presidential election takes place in Kyrgyzstan. Controversy around this election leads to the removal of President Askar Akayev.
• 2012 – Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announce that they are to stop publishing its print edition, in order to focus on its online edition.
• 2012 – 28 people are killed as a bus returning from a school trip back to Belgium crashes in a tunnel in Canton Valais, Switzerland.
• 2013 – cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected Pope, choosing to be known as Pope Francis. He is the first Pope from Latin America as well as the first Jesuit Pope.
• 2015 – Iceland withdraws its application for European Union membership.
• 2016 – 17 people are killed in an armed attack on a hotel in the Ivory Coast.
• 2016 – 37 people are killed in bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey.
• 2017 – Nicola Sturgeon asks for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.
• 2018 – US President Donald Trump fires his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and nominates CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him.
• 2019 – A school shooting in Suzano, São Paulo, Brazil, kills 8 people.
• 2019 – A school collapse in Lagos, Nigeria, kills 8 people.
• 2019 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes by a majority against a "No-Deal" Brexit.

Births

Up to 1900

• 1372 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)
• 1593 – Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)
• 1615 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
• 1683 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French–British politician (d. 1744)
• 1696 – Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Marshal of France (d. 1788)
• 1700 – Michel Blavet, French flautist (d. 1768)
• 1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
• 1733 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist (d. 1804)
• 1741 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
• 1764 – Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
• 1770 – Daniel Lambert, English man known for his obesity (d. 1809)
• 1781 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)
• 1798 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
• 1815 – James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and Christian missionary (d. 1911)
• 1825 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (d. 1903)
• 1829 – Richard Coke, 16th Governor of Texas (d. 1897)
• 1842 – Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1929)
• 1845 – Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist (d. 1929)
• 1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
• 1857 – B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian and politician (d. 1935)
• 1860 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
• 1864 – Alexei von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
• 1870 – Albert Meyer, Swiss politician (d. 1953)
• 1874 – Ellery Clark, American athlete (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Enrico Toselli, Italian composer and pianist (d. 1926)
• 1884 – Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
• 1886 – Home Run Baker, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1888 – Paul Morand, French writer (d. 1976)
• 1890 – Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
• 1895 – Luigi Cevenini, Italian footballer (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet, writer and public activist (d. 1937)
• 1898 – Henry Hathaway, American movie director and producer (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Bela Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
• 1899 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (d. 1965)
• 1900 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet (d. 1971)

1901 – 1950

• 1902 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2016)
• 1906 – Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2012)
• 1907 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and writer (d. 1986)
• 1908 – Walter Annenberg, American philanthropist, editor and diplomat (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Sammy Kaye, American saxophonist, bandleader and songwriter (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Kemal Tahir, Turkish novelist and intellectual (d. 1973)
• 1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, American founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
• 1913 – William Casey, American CIA director (d. 1987)
• 1916 – Jacque Fresco, American futurist, writer and engineer (d. 2017)
• 1921 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
• 1921 – Gitta Sereny, Austrian–British biographer, historian and investigative journalist (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
• 1925 – Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
• 1926 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Ivan Irwin, American–Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
• 1928 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Zbigniew Messner, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Peter Breck, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Joseph Mascolo, American musician and actor (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Günther Uecker, German painter
• 1931 – Wolfgang Kohlhaase, German screenwriter and movie director
• 1933 – Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (d. 1991)
• 1933 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and futurologist (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Mario David, Italian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Mario Missiroli, Italian director (d. 2014)
• 1935 – David Nobbs, English comedy writer (d. 2015)
• 1936 – José Mojica Marins, Brazilian filmmaker and actor
• 1936 – Michael Checkland, former Director–General of the BBC
• 1937 – Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (d. 2017)
• 1938 – Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1939 – Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer (d. 2018)
• 1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Christopher Gable, British dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 1998)
• 1940 – Jacqueline Sassard, French actress
• 1941 – John Clark, Scottish footballer
• 1941 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (d. 2008)
• 1942 – Scatman John, American singer (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Geoffrey Hayes, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2018)
• 1942 – Dave Cutler, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1943 – Giancarlo De Sisti, Italian footballer
• 1943 – André Téchiné, French director and songwriter
• 1945 – Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
• 1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
• 1947 – Lesley Collier, English ballerina and educator
• 1949 – Sian Elias, New Zealand judge, 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand
• 1950 – William H. Macy, American actor

1951 – 1975

• 1952 – Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and essayist
• 1953 – Deborah Raffin, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Ridley Pearson, American writer
• 1954 – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, British politician and diplomat
• 1955 – Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
• 1955 – Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian athlete
• 1956 – Dana Delany, American actress
• 1957 – John Hoeven, 31st Governor of North Dakota
• 1958 – Linda Robson, English actress
• 1959 – Kathy Hilton, American socialite
• 1960 – Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
• 1960 – Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
• 1960 – Jorge Sampaoli, Argentine footballer and manager
• 1961 – Sebastiano Nela, Italian footballer
• 1962 – Terence Blanchard, American trumpeter and composer
• 1967 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
• 1969 – Luca Bucci, Italian footballer
• 1971 – Annabeth Gish, American actress
• 1971 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
• 1973 – Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
• 1973 – David Draiman, American musician
• 1974 – Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player

From 1976

• 1977 – Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
• 1979 – Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
• 1979 – Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1979 – Cedric van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
• 1980 – Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Swedish writer
• 1980 – Caron Butler, American basketball player
• 1980 – Molly Stanton, American actress
• 1980 – Flavia Cacace, Italian dancer
• 1981 – Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
• 1981 – April Matson, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Jeremy Curl, English explorer, writer and photographer
• 1982 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (d. 2016)
• 1985 – Ben Lowe, Australian rugby player
• 1985 – Naughty Boy, English DJ and producer
• 1986 – Shunsuke Daito, Japanese actor
• 1987 – Marco Andretti, American racing driver
• 1987 – Andreas Beck, German footballer
• 1989 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer
• 1989 – Marko Marin, German footballer
• 1989 – Peaches Geldof, British television personality (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Harry Helling, British actor
• 1991 – Kim Eli, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
• 1991 – Le Quang Liem, Vietnamese chess player
• 1991 – Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player
• 1991 – Luan Santana, Brazilian singer and composer
• 1992 – Lucy Fry, Australian actress
• 1992 – Kaya Scodelario, British actress
• 1994 – Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer
• 1995 – Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 600 – Leander of Seville, Spanish bishop (b. 534)
• 1202 – Mieszko III the Old, Duke of Greater Poland (b. 1126)
• 1395 – John Barbour, Scottish priest and poet (b. 1320)
• 1516 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• 1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1530)
• 1767 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, mother of Louis XVI of France (b. 1731)
• 1773 – Philibert Commerson, French historian and explorer (b. 1727)
• 1808 – King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
• 1842 – Henry Shrapnel, English soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
• 1854 – Jean-Baptiste Villèle, Prime Minister of France (b. 1773)
• 1873 – David Swinson Maynard, founder of Seattle (b. 1808)
• 1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
• 1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)

1901 – 2000

• 1901 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragette (b. 1820)
• 1913 – Ernst Georg Ravenstein, German–English geographer and cartographer (b. 1834)
• 1914 – Hakeem Noord-ud-Din, Muslim scholar
• 1918 – César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
• 1936 – Francis Bell, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
• 1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
• 1938 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
• 1938 – Carlo Minoretti, Italian cardinal (b. 1861)
• 1949 – Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
• 1955 – King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
• 1964 – Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
• 1965 – Fan S. Noli, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1975 – Ivo Andric, Serbo–Croatian writer (b. 1892)
• 1987 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist, movie maker and writer (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian–American child psychologist (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish movie director (b. 1941)
• 1998 – Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Hans von Ohain, German–American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)

From 2001

• 2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)
• 2002 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
• 2004 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Robert C. Baker, inventor of the Chicken Nugget (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Andrew Martin, American professional wrestler (b. 1975)
• 2010 – He Pingping, smallest man in the world with the ability to walk (b. 1988)
• 2011 – Owsley Stanley, LSD supplier (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Michel Duchaussoy, French actor (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Jacques Villiers, French engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Tore Lokoloko, 2nd Governor–General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Reubin Askew, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Icchokas Mera, Lithuanian writer (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Irwin Hasen, American cartoonist and comic artist (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Al Rosen, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 2016 – Adrienne Corri, British actress (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Martin Olav Sabo, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2016 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Adib Boroumand, Iranian poet and politician (b. 1924)
• 2017 – Kika de la Garza, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German nobleman (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American writer and film director (b. 1965)
• 2017 – Ed Whitlock, English–Canadian long–distance runner (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Hiroto Muraoka, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Henri Cueco, French painter and writer (b. 1929)
• 2017 – Morton Deutsch, American social psychologist (b. 1920)
• 2017 – André Jagendorf, American plant biologist (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Richard H. Solomon, American diplomat (b. 1939)
• 2018 – T. Berry Brazelton, American paediatrician and writer (b. 1918)
• 2018 – Bebeto de Freitas, Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Jens Nilsson, Swedish politician (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Leonid Kvinikhidze, Russian screenwriter and director (b. 1937)
• 2018 – Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (b. 1933)
• 2019 – Frank Cali, American crime boss (b. 1965)
• 2019 – Harry Hughes, American politician, 57th Governor of Maryland (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Ghazali Jaafar, Filipino militant and politician (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
• 2019 – Leroy Stanton, American baseball player (b. 1946)