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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1917 (December 13 1917) | Birth | John Hart, American actor | John Hart Quotes |
| December 13th, 1897 (December 13 1897) | Birth | Drew Pearson, American journalist (died in 1969) | |
| 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, 1867 (December 13 1867) | Birth | Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (died in 1917) | |
| December 13th, 1837 (December 13 1837) | Death | Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (born in 1756) | |
| December 13th, 1797 (December 13 1797) | Birth | Heinrich Heine, German poet (died in 1856) | Heinrich Heine Quotes |
| December 13th, 1577 (December 13 1577) | Event | Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. | |
| December 13th, 1557 (December 13 1557) | Death | Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician | |
