February 13

Events

Pre-1600

* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1258 – Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire, orders his army to sack and plunder the city of Baghdad, which they had just captured.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
*1503 – Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
*1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.

1601–1900

*1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
*1642 – The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of England from serving in the House of Lords.
*1660 – With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.
*1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
*1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
*1726 – Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
*1755 – Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into two: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
*1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the ''General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina'', which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
*1861 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
*1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
*1880 – Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.

1901–present

*1913 – The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
*1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
*1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
*1931 – The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
*1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
*1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
* 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
*1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
*1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
*1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
* 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy.
*1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
* 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
*1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
*1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
*1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
*1978 – Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
*1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
*1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
*1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
*1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
*1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
*1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
*1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
*2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
*2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star ''BPM 37093''. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
*2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
*2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
*2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
*2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
*2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European ''Vega'' rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
*2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
*2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
* 2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

Births

Pre-1600

*1440 – Hartmann Schedel, German physician (d. 1514)
*1457 – Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1482)
*1469 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)
*1480 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)
*1523 – Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)
*1539 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (d. 1582)
*1569 – Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1625)
*1599 – Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)

1601–1900

*1602 – William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1637)
*1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (d. 1731)
*1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (d. 1754)
*1719 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician (d. 1792)
*1721 – John Reid, Scottish general (d. 1807)
*1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. 1793)
*1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (d. 1834)
*1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (d. 1835)
*1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1844)
*1805 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (d. 1859)
*1811 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (d. 1888)
*1815 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (d. 1857)
*1819 – Francis Smith, Haitian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1909)
*1831 – John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (d. 1869)
*1834 – Heinrich Caro, Sephardic Jewish Polish-German chemist and academic (d. 1910)
*1835 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader (d. 1908)
*1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1895)
*1855 – Paul Deschanel, Belgian-French politician, 11th President of France (d. 1922)
*1863 – Hugo Becker, German cellist and composer (d. 1941)
*1867 – Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (d. 1905)
*1870 – Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1938)
*1871 – Joseph Devlin, Northern Irish political leader ( Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)) (d. 1934)
*1873 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (d. 1938)
*1876 – Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player and umpire (d. 1933)
*1879 – Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (d. 1949)
*1880 – Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1955)
*1881 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1965)
*1883 – Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (d. 1947)
* 1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (d. 1922)
*1884 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (d. 1961)
*1885 – Bess Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1982)
*1887 – Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic (d. 1919)
*1888 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
*1889 – Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director (d. 1974)
*1891 – Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (d. 1985)
* 1891 – Grant Wood, American painter and academic (d. 1942)
*1892 – Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 57th United States Attorney General (d. 1954)
*1898 – Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (d. 1979)
*1899 – Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (d. 1978)
*1900 – Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (d. 1979)

1901–present

*1901 – Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (d. 1976)
*1902 – Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist (d. 1978)
*1903 – Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Design Bureau (d. 1979)
* 1903 – Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (d. 1989)
*1906 – Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author (d. 1994)
*1907 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress (d. 2004)
*1910 – William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
*1911 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist (d. 1984)
* 1911 – Jean Muir, American actress and educator (d. 1996)
*1912 – Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander (d. 1961)
* 1912 – Margaretta Scott, English actress (d. 2005)
*1913 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (d. 1982)
*1915 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1915 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician, 5th Premier of British Crown Colony of Burma (d. 1947)
*1916 – Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist (d. 1987)
*1919 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991)
* 1919 – Eddie Robinson, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
*1920 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
* 1920 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano and educator (d. 2002)
*1921 – Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (d. 1968)
* 1921 – Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996)
*1922 – Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Welsh soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 2008)
* 1922 – Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (d. 2014)
*1923 – Michael Anthony Bilandic, American soldier, judge, and politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)
* 1923 – Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier (d. 2020)
*1924 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (d. 2006)
*1926 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (d. 2012)
*1928 – Gerald Regan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2019)
*1929 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (d. 1981)
*1930 – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2015)
* 1930 – Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author, and academic
*1932 – Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
*1933 – Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon
* 1933 – Kim Novak, American actress
* 1933 – Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (d. 2019)
*1934 – George Segal, American actor (d. 2021)
*1937 – Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author and academic (d. 1992)
* 1937 – Sigmund Jähn, German pilot and cosmonaut (d. 2019)
* 1937 – Angelo Mosca, American-Canadian football player and wrestler (d. 2021)
*1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
*1940 – Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (d. 2022)
*1941 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (d. 2010)
* 1941 – Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor, director, and producer
*1942 – Carol Lynley, American model and actress (d. 2019)
* 1942 – Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (d. 2019)
* 1942 – Donald E. Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2016)
*1943 – Elaine Pagels, American theologian and academic
*1944 – Stockard Channing, American actress
* 1944 – Jerry Springer, English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati (d. 2023)
*1945 – Marian Dawkins, English biologist and academic
* 1945 – King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
* 1945 – Simon Schama, English historian and author
* 1945 – William Sleator, American author and composer (d. 2011)
*1946 – Richard Blumenthal, American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut
* 1946 – Janet Finch, English sociologist and academic
* 1946 – Colin Matthews, English composer and educator
*1947 – Stephen Hadley, American soldier and diplomat, 21st United States National Security Advisor
* 1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
* 1947 – Bogdan Tanjević, Montenegrin-Bosnian basketball coach
* 1947 – Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
*1949 – Peter Kern, Austrian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
*1950 – Vera Baird, English lawyer and politician
* 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician
*1951 – David Naughton, American actor and singer
*1952 – Ed Gagliardi, American musician (d. 2014)
*1953 – Akio Sato, Japanese wrestler and manager
*1954 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player (d. 1989)
*1955 – Joe Birkett, American lawyer, judge, and politician
*1956 – Peter Hook, English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
*1957 – Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author
*1958 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress
* 1958 – Øivind Elgenes, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and composer
* 1958 – Marc Emery, Canadian publisher and activist
* 1958 – Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist and politician
* 1958 – Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator
*1959 – Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player
*1960 – Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee
* 1960 – John Healey, English journalist and politician
* 1960 – Gary Patterson, American football player and coach
* 1960 – Matt Salinger, American actor
* 1960 – Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player and author
*1961 – Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1961 – cEvin Key, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboard player, and producer
* 1961 – Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
*1962 – Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician
* 1962 – Baby Doll, American wrestler and manager
* 1962 – Michele Greene, American actress
*1964 – Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain, and astronaut
* 1964 – Ylva Johansson, Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Employment
*1965 – Peter O'Neill, Papua New Guinean accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
*1966 – Neal McDonough, American actor and producer
* 1966 – Jeff Waters, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
* 1966 – Freedom Williams, American rapper and singer
*1967 – Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
*1968 – Kelly Hu, American actress
*1969 – Joyce DiDonato, American soprano and actress
* 1969 – Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American science fiction author and editor
*1970 – Elmer Bennett, American basketball player
* 1970 – Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist
*1971 – Sonia Evans, English singer-songwriter
* 1971 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1971 – Todd Williams, American baseball player
*1972 – Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian discus thrower
* 1972 – Juha Ylönen, Finnish ice hockey player
*1974 – Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor
* 1974 – Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter
*1975 – Ben Collins, English race car driver
* 1975 – Katie Hopkins, English media personality and columnist
*1976 – Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver
* 1976 – Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
*1977 – Randy Moss, American football player and coach
*1978 – Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1978 – Philippe Jaroussky, French singer
* 1978 – Cory Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*1979 – Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian murderer
* 1979 – Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
* 1979 – Rachel Reeves, English economist and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
* 1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer
*1980 – Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer
*1981 – Luisão, Brazilian footballer
* 1981 – Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
*1982 – Even Helte Hermansen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
* 1982 – Michael Turner, American football player
*1983 – Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player
* 1983 – Anna Watkins, English rower
*1984 – Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer
*1985 – Somdev Devvarman, Indian tennis player
* 1985 – J. R. Giddens, American basketball player
* 1985 – Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
* 1985 – Al Montoya, American ice hockey player
*1986 – Luke Moore, English footballer
* 1986 – Aqib Talib, American football player
*1987 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
*1988 – Ryan Goins, American baseball player
* 1988 – Dave Rudden, Irish author
*1989 – Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
*1990 – Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player
* 1990 – Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
*1991 – Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer
* 1991 – Vianney, French singer
* 1991 – Luke Voit, American baseball player
*1992 – Keith Appling, American basketball player
*1994 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
*1995 – Kendall Fuller, American football player
* 1995 – Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, French-Cameroonian footballer
*2000 – Vitinha, Portuguese footballer
*2001 – Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player
*2002 – Jaden Ivey, American basketball player
* 2002 – Sophia Lillis, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

*106 – Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty (b. AD 79)
* 721 – Chilperic II, Frankish king (b. 672)
* 858 – Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (probable; b. 810)
* 921 – Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia
* 936 – Xiao Wen, empress of the Liao Dynasty
* 942 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid emir and regent
* 988 – Adalbert Atto, Lombard nobleman
*1021 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 985)
*1130 – Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1060)
*1141 – Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1110)
*1199 – Stefan Nemanja, Serbian grand prince (b. 1113)
*1219 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (b. 1192)
*1332 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1259)
*1351 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
*1539 – Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman (b. 1474)
*1542 – Catherine Howard, English wife of Henry VIII of England (executed; b. 1521)
*1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1500)
*1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (b. 1515)

1601–1900

*1602 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (b. 1507)
*1660 – Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (b. 1622)
*1662 – Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (b. 1596)
*1693 – Johann Caspar Kerll, German organist and composer (b. 1627)
*1727 – William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (b. 1666)
*1728 – Cotton Mather, American minister and author (b. 1663)
*1732 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian and author (b. 1640)
*1741 – Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (b. 1660)
*1787 – Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1711)
* 1787 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (b. 1717)
* 1795 – George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (b. 1717)
*1813 – Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
*1818 – George Rogers Clark, American general (b. 1752)
*1826 – Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (b. 1745)
*1831 – Edward Berry, English admiral (b. 1768)
*1837 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1809)
*1845 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (b. 1773)
*1859 – Eliza Acton, English food writer and poet (b. 1799)
*1877 – Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (b. 1815)
*1883 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
*1888 – Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)
*1892 – Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
*1893 – Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (b. 1834)

1901–present

*1905 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
*1906 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
*1934 – József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
*1942 – Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (b. 1895)
* 1942 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865)
*1950 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (b. 1875)
*1951 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (b. 1877)
*1952 – Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (b. 1896)
*1954 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1890)
*1956 – Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
*1958 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (b. 1880)
* 1958 – Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
*1964 – Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1896)
* 1964 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1902)
*1967 – Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (b. 1880)
* 1967 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889)
*1968 – Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
* 1968 – Portia White, Canadian opera singer (b. 1911)
*1973 – Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (b. 1883)
*1975 – André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
*1976 – Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (b. 1938)
* 1976 – Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (b. 1904)
*1980 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
*1984 – Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (b. 1888)
*1986 – Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
*1989 – Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1911)
*1991 – Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (b. 1900)
*1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
*1996 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
*1997 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (b. 1906)
* 1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
*2000 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1914)
* 2000 – James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (b. 1921)
* 2000 – John Leake, English soldier (b. 1949)
*2002 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
*2003 – Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (b. 1926)
* 2003 – Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1916)
*2004 – François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1942)
* 2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1952)
*2005 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1943)
* 2005 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (b. 1907)
*2006 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher and author (b. 1919)
*2007 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (b. 1923)
* 2007 – Charlie Norwood, American captain and politician (b. 1941)
* 2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (b. 1922)
*2008 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
*2009 – Edward Upward, English author and educator (b. 1903)
*2010 – Lucille Clifton, American poet and academic (b. 1936)
* 2010 – Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
*2012 – Russell Arms, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
* 2012 – Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
* 2012 – Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (b. 1928)
*2013 – Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
* 2013 – Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (b. 1952)
* 2013 – Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands), Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (b. 1933)
* 2013 – Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (b. 1916)
* 2013 – Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (b. 1939)
*2014 – Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
* 2014 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1937)
* 2014 – Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (b. 1928)
*2015 – Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (b. 1918)
* 2015 – Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (b. 1923)
*2016 – O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (b. 1931)
* 2016 – Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1936)
*2017 – Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (b. 1933)
* 2017 – Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (b. 1926)
* 2017 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1923)
* 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (b. 1971)
* 2017 – E-Dubble, American rapper (b. 1982)
*2018 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (b. 1934)
*2019 – Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (b. 1936)
*2021 – Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

*Children's Day (Myanmar)
*Christian feast day:
**Absalom Jones (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church), Episcopal Church (USA))
**Beatrice of Ornacieux
**Castor of Karden
**Catherine of Ricci
**Saint Dyfnog, Dyfnog
**Ermenilda of Ely
**Fulcran
**Jordan of Saxony
**Polyeuctus (Roman Catholic Church)
**February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*World Radio Day

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
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