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| December 13th, 2007 (December 13 2007) | Event | The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada. | |
| December 13th, 2007 (December 13 2007) | Death | Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor (born in 1936) | |
| December 13th, 2007 (December 13 2007) | Death | Mark Partridge, Rhodesian politician | |
| December 13th, 2006 (December 13 2006) | Event | The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct. | |
| December 13th, 2006 (December 13 2006) | Death | Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (born in 1932) | |
| December 13th, 2005 (December 13 2005) | Birth | Prince Aymeric of Belgium | |
| December 13th, 2005 (December 13 2005) | Birth | Prince Nicolas of Belgium | |
| December 13th, 2005 (December 13 2005) | Death | Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (born in 1981) | |
| December 13th, 2005 (December 13 2005) | Death | Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips and children s author (born in 1953) | |
| December 13th, 2004 (December 13 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. | |
| December 13th, 2004 (December 13 2004) | Death | Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (born in 1934) | |
| December 13th, 2004 (December 13 2004) | Death | David Wheeler, English computer scientist (born in 1927) | |
| December 13th, 2003 (December 13 2003) | Event | Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn). | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| December 13th, 2003 (December 13 2003) | Death | William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator (born in 1921) | |
| December 13th, 2002 (December 13 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. | |
| December 13th, 2002 (December 13 2002) | Death | Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin Spoonful) (born in 1945) | |
| December 13th, 2001 (December 13 2001) | Event | the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists. | |
| December 13th, 2001 (December 13 2001) | Death | Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (born in 1967) | Chuck D Quotes |
| December 13th, 2000 (December 13 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. | John Aubrey Quotes |
| December 13th, 2000 (December 13 2000) | Event | American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States. | |
| December 13th, 1996 (December 13 1996) | Event | Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. | |
| December 13th, 1994 (December 13 1994) | Death | Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (born in 1934) | |
| December 13th, 1993 (December 13 1993) | Death | Vanessa Duries, French novelist (born in 1972) | |
| December 13th, 1992 (December 13 1992) | Death | K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (born in 1899) | |
| December 13th, 1992 (December 13 1992) | Death | Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (born in 1899) | |
| December 13th, 1991 (December 13 1991) | Birth | Jay Greenberg, American composer | |
| December 13th, 1989 (December 13 1989) | Event | The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden. | |
| December 13th, 1989 (December 13 1989) | Birth | Taylor Swift, American singer/songwriter | |
| December 13th, 1988 (December 13 1988) | Birth | Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer | |
| December 13th, 1983 (December 13 1983) | Birth | Matt Deis, American bassist | |
| December 13th, 1983 (December 13 1983) | Birth | Otylia Jedrzejczak, Polish swimmer | |
| December 13th, 1983 (December 13 1983) | Death | Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (born in 1921) | |
| December 13th, 1983 (December 13 1983) | Death | Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (born in 1933 | |
| December 13th, 1982 (December 13 1982) | Birth | Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter | |
| December 13th, 1982 (December 13 1982) | Birth | Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1982 (December 13 1982) | Birth | Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver | |
| December 13th, 1982 (December 13 1982) | Birth | Freddie Weinke, American football player | |
| December 13th, 1982 (December 13 1982) | Birth | Dominik Werling, German footballer | |
| December 13th, 1981 (December 13 1981) | Event | General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity. | Martial Quotes |
| December 13th, 1981 (December 13 1981) | Birth | Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence) | |
| December 13th, 1981 (December 13 1981) | Death | Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer (born in 1904) | |
| December 13th, 1979 (December 13 1979) | Event | The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election. | |
| December 13th, 1979 (December 13 1979) | Death | Jon Hall, American actor (born in 1915) | |
| December 13th, 1978 (December 13 1978) | Birth | Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone) | |
| December 13th, 1978 (December 13 1978) | Birth | BJ Penn, American mixed martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| December 13th, 1977 (December 13 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. | Evans Quotes |
| December 13th, 1977 (December 13 1977) | Birth | Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer | |
| December 13th, 1976 (December 13 1976) | Birth | Josh Fogg, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1976 (December 13 1976) | Birth | Radoslaw Sobolewski, Polish footballer | |
| December 13th, 1976 (December 13 1976) | Birth | Soren Friis, Danish footballer | |
| December 13th, 1975 (December 13 1975) | Birth | Bates Battaglia, National Hockey League player | |
| December 13th, 1975 (December 13 1975) | Birth | Tom DeLonge, American guitarist,(blink-182, Angels & Airwaves) | |
| December 13th, 1975 (December 13 1975) | Birth | Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1974 (December 13 1974) | Event | Malta becomes a republic. | |
| December 13th, 1974 (December 13 1974) | Birth | Sara Cox, English TV and radio presenter | |
| December 13th, 1974 (December 13 1974) | Birth | Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand) | |
| December 13th, 1973 (December 13 1973) | Birth | Christie Clark, American actress | |
| December 13th, 1973 (December 13 1973) | Death | Henry Green, English author (born in 1905) | |
| December 13th, 1972 (December 13 1972) | Event | Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century. | |
| December 13th, 1969 (December 13 1969) | Birth | Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player | |
| December 13th, 1969 (December 13 1969) | Birth | Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (died in 2007) | |
| December 13th, 1969 (December 13 1969) | Death | Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (born in 1886) | |
| December 13th, 1969 (December 13 1969) | Death | Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (born in 1893) | |
| December 13th, 1968 (December 13 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. | |
| December 13th, 1968 (December 13 1968) | Birth | Tony Curran, Scottish actor | |
| December 13th, 1967 (December 13 1967) | Event | Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels | |
| December 13th, 1967 (December 13 1967) | Event | San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours. | |
| December 13th, 1967 (December 13 1967) | Birth | Jamie Foxx, American actor | |
| December 13th, 1967 (December 13 1967) | Birth | Bo Pelini, American football coach | |
| December 13th, 1966 (December 13 1966) | Birth | Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef | |
| December 13th, 1966 (December 13 1966) | Birth | Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker | |
| December 13th, 1965 (December 13 1965) | Birth | Marko Maetamm, Estonian artist | |
| December 13th, 1964 (December 13 1964) | Birth | hide, Japanese musician (X Japan) (died in 1998) | |
| December 13th, 1962 (December 13 1962) | Event | NASA "Relay 1" launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. | |
| December 13th, 1962 (December 13 1962) | Birth | Roger Ilegems, Belgian track cyclist and road bicycle racer | |
| December 13th, 1962 (December 13 1962) | Birth | Kendra Slewenski, English netballer | |
| December 13th, 1962 (December 13 1962) | Death | Harry Barris, American popular singer (born in 1905) | |
| December 13th, 1961 (December 13 1961) | Birth | Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer | |
| December 13th, 1961 (December 13 1961) | Birth | Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician | |
| December 13th, 1961 (December 13 1961) | Birth | Gary Zimmerman, former NFL offensive lineman | |
| December 13th, 1961 (December 13 1961) | Death | Grandma Moses, American painter (born in 1860) | |
| December 13th, 1960 (December 13 1960) | Birth | Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor | |
| December 13th, 1959 (December 13 1959) | Event | Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus. | |
| December 13th, 1959 (December 13 1959) | Birth | Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler | |
| December 13th, 1959 (December 13 1959) | Birth | Johnny Whitaker, American actor | |
| December 13th, 1958 (December 13 1958) | Birth | Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress | |
| December 13th, 1958 (December 13 1958) | Death | Tim Moore, American actor (born in 1887) | Tim Moore Quotes |
| December 13th, 1957 (December 13 1957) | Birth | Steve Buscemi, American actor | |
| December 13th, 1957 (December 13 1957) | Birth | Morris Day, American singer (The Time) | |
| December 13th, 1957 (December 13 1957) | Birth | Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman | |
| December 13th, 1956 (December 13 1956) | Birth | Dale Berra, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1956 (December 13 1956) | Birth | Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer | |
| December 13th, 1955 (December 13 1955) | Death | Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (born in 1874) | |
| December 13th, 1954 (December 13 1954) | Birth | John Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter | |
| December 13th, 1954 (December 13 1954) | Birth | Tamora Pierce, American author | |
| December 13th, 1954 (December 13 1954) | Death | John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (born in 1879) | |
| December 13th, 1953 (December 13 1953) | Birth | Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve | |
| December 13th, 1953 (December 13 1953) | Birth | Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1953 (December 13 1953) | Birth | Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 13th, 1952 (December 13 1952) | Birth | Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler (died in 1998) | |
| December 13th, 1951 (December 13 1951) | Event | Margaret Thatcher (Roberts) marries Denis Thatcher at City Methodist in London. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| December 13th, 1950 (December 13 1950) | Birth | Wendie Malick, American actress | |
| December 13th, 1950 (December 13 1950) | Birth | Tom Vilsack, Governor of Iowa | |
| December 13th, 1950 (December 13 1950) | Death | Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (born in 1902) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 13th, 1949 (December 13 1949) | Event | The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. | |
| December 13th, 1949 (December 13 1949) | Birth | Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television | |
| December 13th, 1949 (December 13 1949) | Birth | Randy Owen, lead vocals, rhythm guitar for Alabama | |
| December 13th, 1949 (December 13 1949) | Birth | Paula Wilcox, English actress | |
| December 13th, 1948 (December 13 1948) | Birth | Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers) | |
| December 13th, 1948 (December 13 1948) | Birth | Ted Nugent, American guitarist | Ted Nugent Quotes |
| December 13th, 1948 (December 13 1948) | Birth | Brian Wilson, Scottish politician | Brian Wilson Quotes |
| December 13th, 1947 (December 13 1947) | Birth | Darlene Cates, American actress | |
| December 13th, 1947 (December 13 1947) | Birth | Dave Hamilton, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1947 (December 13 1947) | Death | Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (born in 1874) | |
| December 13th, 1945 (December 13 1945) | Birth | Kathy Garver, American actress | |
| December 13th, 1945 (December 13 1945) | Birth | Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (died in 1977) | Al McGuire Quotes |
| December 13th, 1945 (December 13 1945) | Death | Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal (born in 1923) | |
| December 13th, 1945 (December 13 1945) | Death | Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (born in 1906) | |
| December 13th, 1945 (December 13 1945) | Death | Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (born in 1919) | |
| December 13th, 1944 (December 13 1944) | Birth | Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor | Ang Lee Quotes |
| December 13th, 1944 (December 13 1944) | Death | Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (born in 1866) | Wassily Kandinsky Quotes |
| December 13th, 1944 (December 13 1944) | Death | Lupe Velez, Mexican actress (born in 1908) | |
| December 13th, 1943 (December 13 1943) | Event | World War II: 710 Bombers of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Kiel, Germany. | |
| December 13th, 1943 (December 13 1943) | Birth | Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1943 (December 13 1943) | Birth | Gosta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (died in 2002) | |
| December 13th, 1942 (December 13 1942) | Birth | Anna Eshoo, American politician | |
| December 13th, 1942 (December 13 1942) | Death | Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (born in 1866) | |
| December 13th, 1941 (December 13 1941) | Event | World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. | |
| December 13th, 1941 (December 13 1941) | Birth | John Davidson, American actor and game show host | John Davidson Quotes |
| December 13th, 1940 (December 13 1940) | Death | Jacques-Arsene d Arsonval, French physicist (born in 1851) | |
| December 13th, 1940 (December 13 1940) | Death | George Regas, Greek actor (born in 1890) | |
| December 13th, 1939 (December 13 1939) | Event | World War II: Battle of the River PlateCaptain 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. | |
| December 13th, 1939 (December 13 1939) | Birth | Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (died in 2002) | |
| December 13th, 1938 (December 13 1938) | Event | The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. | |
| December 13th, 1938 (December 13 1938) | Birth | Alvin Curran, American composer | |
| December 13th, 1938 (December 13 1938) | Birth | Heino, German folk singer. | |
| December 13th, 1937 (December 13 1937) | Event | Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of NanjingNanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. | |
| December 13th, 1937 (December 13 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. | |
| December 13th, 1937 (December 13 1937) | Birth | Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1936 (December 13 1936) | Birth | His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV), Imam (leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims | |
| December 13th, 1936 (December 13 1936) | Birth | J. C. Martin, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1935 (December 13 1935) | Birth | Joe Christopher, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1935 (December 13 1935) | Birth | Ken Hall, American football player | |
| December 13th, 1935 (December 13 1935) | Birth | Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player | |
| December 13th, 1935 (December 13 1935) | Death | Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1871) | |
| December 13th, 1934 (December 13 1934) | Birth | Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer | |
| December 13th, 1934 (December 13 1934) | Death | Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (born in 1854) | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| December 13th, 1932 (December 13 1932) | Death | Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (born in 1853) | |
| December 13th, 1931 (December 13 1931) | Death | Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (born in 1840) | |
| December 13th, 1930 (December 13 1930) | Birth | Robert Prosky, American actor | |
| December 13th, 1930 (December 13 1930) | Death | Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1869) | |
| December 13th, 1929 (December 13 1929) | Birth | Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor | |
| December 13th, 1926 (December 13 1926) | Birth | George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete | |
| December 13th, 1925 (December 13 1925) | Birth | Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian | |
| December 13th, 1924 (December 13 1924) | Death | Samuel Gompers, American labor and political leader, founder of AFL (born in 1850) | |
| December 13th, 1923 (December 13 1923) | Birth | Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| December 13th, 1923 (December 13 1923) | Birth | Larry Doby, American baseball player (died in 2003) | |
| December 13th, 1922 (December 13 1922) | Death | Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (born in 1861) | |
| December 13th, 1920 (December 13 1920) | Birth | George Shultz, United States Secretary of State 1982-1989 | |
| December 13th, 1919 (December 13 1919) | Birth | Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (died in 1942) | |
| December 13th, 1919 (December 13 1919) | Death | Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (born in 1850) | |
| December 13th, 1917 (December 13 1917) | Birth | John Hart, American actor | John Hart Quotes |
| December 13th, 1915 (December 13 1915) | Birth | Curd Jurgens, German-born Austrian actor (died in 1982) | |
| December 13th, 1915 (December 13 1915) | Birth | Ross Macdonald, American-born author (died in 1983) | |
| December 13th, 1915 (December 13 1915) | Birth | B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa 1966-1978 (died in 1983) | |
| December 13th, 1913 (December 13 1913) | Birth | Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (died in 2002) | |
| December 13th, 1913 (December 13 1913) | Birth | Archie Moore, American boxer (died in 1998) | |
| December 13th, 1911 (December 13 1911) | Birth | Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (died in 1999) | |
| December 13th, 1911 (December 13 1911) | Birth | Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (died in 1972) | Kenneth Patchen Quotes |
| December 13th, 1910 (December 13 1910) | Birth | Van Heflin, American actor (died in 1971) | |
| December 13th, 1906 (December 13 1906) | Birth | Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (died in 1968) | |
| December 13th, 1906 (December 13 1906) | Birth | Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author (died in 1996) | |
| December 13th, 1903 (December 13 1903) | Birth | Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (died in 1993) | |
| December 13th, 1902 (December 13 1902) | Birth | Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, (d.1979) | |
| December 13th, 1897 (December 13 1897) | Birth | Drew Pearson, American journalist (died in 1969) | |
| December 13th, 1895 (December 13 1895) | Death | Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (born in 1800) | |
| December 13th, 1887 (December 13 1887) | Birth | George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (died in 1985) | |
| December 13th, 1887 (December 13 1887) | Birth | Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (died in 1964) | |
| December 13th, 1883 (December 13 1883) | Birth | Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (died in 1950) | |
| December 13th, 1883 (December 13 1883) | Death | Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (born in 1812) | |
| December 13th, 1881 (December 13 1881) | Death | August Senoa, Croatian writer (born in 1838) | |
| December 13th, 1874 (December 13 1874) | Birth | Josef Lhevinne, Russian-born pianist (died in 1944) | |
| December 13th, 1871 (December 13 1871) | Birth | Emily Carr, Canadian artist (died in 1945) | |
| December 13th, 1870 (December 13 1870) | Birth | Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (died in 1940) | |
| December 13th, 1868 (December 13 1868) | Death | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (born in 1794) | |
| December 13th, 1867 (December 13 1867) | Birth | Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (died in 1917) | |
| December 13th, 1864 (December 13 1864) | Birth | Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (died in 1947) | |
| December 13th, 1863 (December 13 1863) | Death | Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (born in 1813) | |
| December 13th, 1862 (December 13 1862) | Event | American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. | Robert Burns Quotes |
| December 13th, 1860 (December 13 1860) | Birth | Lucien Guitry, French actor (died in 1925) | |
| December 13th, 1856 (December 13 1856) | Birth | Svetozar Boroevic, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (died in 1920) | |
| December 13th, 1837 (December 13 1837) | Death | Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (born in 1756) | |
| December 13th, 1836 (December 13 1836) | Birth | Franz von Lenbach, German painter (died in 1904) | |
| December 13th, 1835 (December 13 1835) | Death | John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (born in 1760) | |
| December 13th, 1818 (December 13 1818) | Birth | Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (died in 1882) | |
| December 13th, 1816 (December 13 1816) | Birth | Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (died in 1892) | |
| December 13th, 1814 (December 13 1814) | Death | Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal (born in 1735) | |
| December 13th, 1804 (December 13 1804) | Birth | Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (died in 1873) | |
| December 13th, 1797 (December 13 1797) | Birth | Heinrich Heine, German poet (died in 1856) | Heinrich Heine Quotes |
| December 13th, 1784 (December 13 1784) | Birth | Archduke Louis of Austria (died in 1864) | |
| December 13th, 1784 (December 13 1784) | Death | Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (born in 1709) | Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| December 13th, 1783 (December 13 1783) | Death | Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (born in 1717) | |
| December 13th, 1769 (December 13 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. | John Hart Quotes |
| December 13th, 1769 (December 13 1769) | Death | Christian Furchtegott Gellert, German poet (born in 1715) | |
| December 13th, 1754 (December 13 1754) | Death | Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1696) | |
| December 13th, 1729 (December 13 1729) | Death | Anthony Collins, English philosopher (born in 1676) | Philo Quotes |
| December 13th, 1724 (December 13 1724) | Birth | Franz Aepinus, German scientist (died in 1802) | |
| December 13th, 1721 (December 13 1721) | Death | Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (born in 1676) | |
| December 13th, 1720 (December 13 1720) | Birth | Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (died in 1804) | |
| December 13th, 1716 (December 13 1716) | Death | Charles de La Fosse, French painter (born in 1640) | |
| December 13th, 1678 (December 13 1678) | Birth | Yongzheng Emperor of China (died in 1735) | |
| December 13th, 1662 (December 13 1662) | Birth | Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (died in 1729) | Philo Quotes |
| December 13th, 1643 (December 13 1643) | Event | English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. | |
| December 13th, 1642 (December 13 1642) | Event | Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand. | |
| December 13th, 1640 (December 13 1640) | Birth | Robert Plot, English naturalist (died in 1696) | |
| December 13th, 1636 (December 13 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. | |
| December 13th, 1621 (December 13 1621) | Death | Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born in 1535) | |
| December 13th, 1603 (December 13 1603) | Death | Francois Viete, French mathematician (born in 1540) | |
| December 13th, 1585 (December 13 1585) | Birth | William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died in 1649) | |
| December 13th, 1577 (December 13 1577) | Event | Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. | |
| December 13th, 1565 (December 13 1565) | Death | Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (born in 1516) | |
| December 13th, 1557 (December 13 1557) | Death | Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician | |
| December 13th, 1553 (December 13 1553) | Birth | King Henry IV of France (died in 1610) | |
| December 13th, 1545 (December 13 1545) | Event | Council of Trent begins. | |
| December 13th, 1533 (December 13 1533) | Birth | King Eric XIV of Sweden (died in 1577) | |
| December 13th, 1521 (December 13 1521) | Birth | Pope Sixtus V (died in 1590) | |
| December 13th, 1521 (December 13 1521) | Death | Manuel I of Portugal (born in 1469) | |
| December 13th, 1516 (December 13 1516) | Death | Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (born in 1462) | |
| December 13th, 1466 (December 13 1466) | Death | Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (born in 1386) | |
| December 13th, 1404 (December 13 1404) | Death | Albert, Count of Holland (born in 1336) | |
| December 13th, 1294 (December 13 1294) | Event | Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. | |
| December 13th, 1250 (December 13 1250) | Death | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1194) | |
| December 13th, 1204 (December 13 1204) | Event | Maimonides dies | |
| December 13th, 1204 (December 13 1204) | Death | Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (born in 1135) | Philo Quotes |
| December 13th, 1126 (December 13 1126) | Death | Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria | |
| December 13th, 1124 (December 13 1124) | Death | Pope Callixtus II | |
| December 13th, 1048 (December 13 1048) | Death | Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (born in 973) | |
