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2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of
the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of
the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
13th year of the 3rd millennium, the 13th year of
the 21st century, and the 4th year of
the 2010s decade. 2013
was designated as: ·
International Year of Water Cooperation[1] ·
International Year of Quinoa[1] Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
January[edit]
·
January 10 –
More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan. ·
January 11 –
The French military begins a five-month
intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the
militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.[2][3] ·
January 16–20 –
Thirty-nine international workers and one security guard die in a hostage crisis at a natural gasfacility
near In Aménas, Algeria.[4][5][6][7] ·
January 27 –
242 young people (range between 18 and 25) die in a nightclub fire in the Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.[citation
needed] February[edit]
·
February 12 – North Korea conducts
its third underground nuclear test,
prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the
international community.[8][9] ·
February 15 –
A meteor explodes over the Russian city
of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489-1,492 people and damaging over
4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's
atmosphere in over a century.[10]The
incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a
larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the
vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.[11][12] ·
February 21 –
American scientists use a 3D printer to
create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and
animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could
be grown to order as transplants for
human patients suffering from ear trauma or amputation.[13] ·
February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first
to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to
do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.[14] March[edit]
·
March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio
of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he
takes the nameFrancis[15][16][17] and
becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the
first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.[18] ·
March 24 – Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
after rebel forces capture the
nation's capital, Bangui.[19][20] ·
March 25 –
The European Union agrees to a €10 billion
economic bailout for Cyprus.
The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation
Mechanism, the European Financial Stability
Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. The deal
precipitates a banking crisis in
the island nation.[21][22] ·
March 27 –
Canada becomes the first country to withdraw from the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification.[23] April[edit]
·
April 2 –
The United Nations General Assembly adopts
the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the
international trade of conventional weapons.[24] ·
April 15 –
Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one of whom was a United States
citizen) explode two bombs at the Boston
Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States,
killing 3 and injuring 264 others.[25][26] ·
April 24 –
The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the
worst industrial disaster in
the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.[27][28] ·
April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following
the abdication of Beatrix.[29] May[edit]
·
May 15 –
In a study published in the scientific journal Nature,
researchers from Oregon Health & Science
University in the United States describe the first production
of human embryonic stem cells by cloning.[30] ·
May 22 – British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is
murdered in Woolwich, southeast London by
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale. ·
May 31 –
The El Reno tornado, widest tornado ever recorded
developed near El Reno, Oklahoma.[importance?] June[edit]
·
June 6 –
Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses
operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news
publications and flees the country, later being granted
temporary asylum in Russia.[31][32][33] ·
June 26 – Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in
an Australian Labor Party leadership
ballot[34] and
consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years
after Gillard replaced Rudd.[35] July[edit]
·
July 1 – Croatia becomes
the 28th member of the European Union.[36] ·
July 3 –
Amid mass protests across Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi is
deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence.[37][38] ·
July 21 – Philippe is sworn in as King of the Belgians, following the
abdication of Albert II.[39] August[edit]
·
August 14 –
Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the
security forces, leaving 2,696 dead.[40] The
raids were described by Human Rights Watch as "one of the
world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent
history".[41] ·
August 21 –
1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the
Syrian Civil War.[42] ·
August 29 –
The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK
military attacks on Syria.[43] September[edit]
·
Australian federal election, 2013:
The Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott defeats
the Labor Governmentled by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.[44] Abbott
would be sworn in on September 18th.[45] ·
The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the
right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.[46] ·
September 21 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya,
killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.[47] October[edit]
·
October 10 –
Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty
designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and
releases of mercury and mercury compounds.[48] ·
October 18 – Saudi Arabia rejects
a seat on the United Nations Security Council,
making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council. Jordan takes
the seat on December 6.[49] November[edit]
·
November 5 –
The unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission is launched
by India from
its launchpad in Sriharikota.[50] ·
November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda),
one of the strongest tropical
cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam,
causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.[51] ·
November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a
series of portraits of Lucian Freud by
the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction,
setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.[52][53] ·
November 17 –
Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes
at Kazan Airport, Russia. ·
November 21 – Euromaidan pro-EU
demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic
association agreement between the European Union and
Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.[54] ·
November 24 – Iran agrees to
limit their nuclear development program in
exchange for sanctions relief.[55][56] December[edit]
·
December 7 – Ninth
Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates
sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at
loosening global trade barriers.[57] ·
December 14 – Chinese unmanned
spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover,
becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on
the Moon since 1976 and
the third ever robotic rover to do so.[58] ·
December 15 –
Fighting between ethnic Dinka and Nuer members
of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan,
plunging the country into civil war.[59] Births[edit]
·
July 22 – Prince George of Cambridge Deaths[edit]
Main
article: Deaths in 2013 Further
information: Category:2013 deaths
January[edit]
·
January 1 – Patti Page,
American singer (b. 1927) ·
January 2 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan
footballer (b. 1945) ·
January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director,
actor, and politician (b. 1930) ·
January 7 – David R. Ellis,
American film director (b. 1952) ·
January 9 – James M. Buchanan, American Nobel economist
(b. 1919) ·
Aaron Swartz,
American programmer (b. 1986) ·
Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and
politician (b. 1927) ·
January 14 – Conrad Bain,
Canadian-American actor (b. 1923) ·
January 15 – Nagisa Oshima,
Japanese film director (b. 1932) ·
January 18 – Jon Mannah,
Australian rugby league player (b. 1989) ·
January 19 – Stan Musial,
American baseball player (b. 1920) ·
January 21 – Michael Winner,
British film director and producer (b. 1935) ·
January 23 – Józef Glemp,
Polish cardinal (b. 1929) February[edit]
·
February 1 – Ed Koch,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1924) ·
February 2 – Chris Kyle,
United States Navy sniper (b. 1974) ·
February 4 – Reg Presley,
British singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1941) ·
February 14 – Ronald Dworkin,
American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931) ·
February 17 – Tony Sheridan,
British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1940) ·
Chieko Honda,
Japanese voice actress (b. 1963) ·
Kevin Ayers,
British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944) ·
Otfried Preußler, German children author
(b. 1923) ·
Armen Alchian,
American economist (b. 1914) ·
Robert Coleman Richardson, American
Nobel physicist (b. 1937) ·
February 22 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and
pianist (b. 1923) ·
February 23 – Julien Ries,
Belgian cardinal (b. 1920) ·
February 25 – Carmen Montejo,
Cuban-Mexican actress (b. 1925) ·
February 26 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer
(b. 1917) ·
February 27 – Van Cliburn,
American pianist (b. 1934) ·
February 28 – Donald A.
Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926) March[edit]
·
March 3 – Luis Cubilla,
Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940) ·
March 5 ·
Arthur Storch,
American actor (b. 1925) ·
Hugo Chávez,
President of Venezuela (b. 1954) ·
Paul Bearer,
American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954) ·
March 6 – Alvin Lee,
British guitarist (b. 1944) ·
March 7 ·
Peter Banks,
British guitarist (b. 1947) ·
Damiano
Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
March 10 ·
Larisa
Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1925) ·
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (b. 1915) ·
March 12 – Clive Burr,
British drummer (b. 1957) ·
March 14 – Ieng Sary,
Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925) ·
March 16 – José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine
executive and policy maker (b. 1925) ·
March 20 – Zillur Rahman,
19th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929) ·
March 21 ·
Chinua Achebe,
Nigerian writer (b. 1930) ·
Pietro Mennea,
Italian athlete (b. 1952) ·
March 22 – Bebo Valdés,
Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918) ·
March 23 ·
Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman
(b. 1946) ·
Joe Weider,
Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1919) ·
March 27 – Hjalmar
Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923) ·
March 28 – Richard Griffiths, British actor (b. 1947) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Moses Blah,
23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947) ·
April 2 – Jesús Franco,
Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
April 3 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British
novelist and screenwriter (b. 1927) ·
April 4 – Roger Ebert,
American film critic and writer (b. 1942) ·
April 6 – Bigas Luna,
Spanish film director (b. 1946) ·
April 8 ·
Annette Funicello, American actress and
singer (b. 1942) ·
Sara Montiel,
Spanish singer and actress (b. 1928) ·
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom (b. 1925) ·
April 9 – Paolo Soleri,
Italian-born American architect (b. 1919) ·
April 10 – Robert Edwards, British Nobel
physiologist (b. 1925) ·
April 11 ·
Maria
Tallchief, American prima ballerina (b. 1925) ·
Jonathan
Winters, American comedian and actor (b. 1925) ·
Hilary
Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (b. 1916) ·
April 13 – Chi Cheng, American musician (b. 1970) ·
April 14 ·
Colin Davis,
British conductor (b. 1927) ·
Armando Villanueva, 121st Prime Minister of
Peru (b. 1915) ·
April 17 ·
Deanna Durbin,
Canadian-born singer and actress (b. 1921) ·
Carlos Graça,
6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1931) ·
April 18 – Storm
Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944) ·
April 19 ·
François Jacob, French Nobel biologist
(b. 1920) ·
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist
(b. 1986) ·
April 22 – Richie Havens,
American folk singer (b. 1941) ·
April 26 – George Jones,
American country music singer (b. 1931) ·
April 28 – János Starker,
Hungarian-born American cellist (b. 1924) May[edit]
·
May 2 – Jeff Hanneman,
American guitarist (b. 1964) ·
May 4 – Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist
(b. 1917) ·
May 6 – Giulio
Andreotti, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919) ·
May 7 – Ray
Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects
(b. 1920) ·
May 13 – Kenneth Waltz,
American political scientist (b. 1924) ·
May 15 – Henrique Rosa,
President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946) ·
May 16 – Heinrich
Rohrer, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1933) ·
May 17 – Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of
Argentina (b. 1925) ·
May 18 – Nam Duck-woo,
12th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1924) ·
May 20 – Ray Manzarek,
American keyboardist (b. 1939) ·
May 22 – Henri
Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916) ·
May 23 – Georges
Moustaki, French singer and songwriter (b. 1934) ·
May 26 – Jack Vance,
American novelist (b. 1916) ·
May 31 – Jean Stapleton,
American actress (b. 1923) June[edit]
·
June 3 ·
Frank
Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924) ·
Jiah Khan,
Indian actress (b. 1988) ·
June 6 ·
Jerome Karle,
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (b. 1918) ·
Esther
Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921) ·
June 7 ·
Pierre Mauroy,
Prime Minister of France (b. 1928) ·
Richard
Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960) ·
June 8 – Yoram Kaniuk,
Israeli writer (b. 1930) ·
June 9 – Iain Banks,
British novelist (b. 1954) ·
June 11 – Robert Fogel,
American Nobel Prize-winning economic historian (b. 1926) ·
June 15 ·
Heinz Flohe,
German footballer (b. 1948) ·
Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel
Prize-winning physicist (b. 1936) ·
June 16 ·
Josip Kuže,
Croatian footballer and coach (b. 1952) ·
Ottmar Walter,
German footballer (b. 1924) ·
June 19 ·
James
Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961) ·
Gyula Horn,
Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–98) (b. 1932) ·
June 23 ·
Bobby Bland,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1930) ·
Richard
Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
June 24 – Emilio Colombo,
40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920) ·
June 26 – Marc Rich,
Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (b. 1934) ·
June 27 – Alain Mimoun,
French track and field athlete (b. 1921) ·
June 29 ·
Margherita
Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922) ·
Jim Kelly, American martial artist and
actor (b. 1946) July[edit]
·
July 2 ·
Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran
(1941–48) (b. 1921) ·
Douglas Engelbart, American computer
scientist and inventor (b. 1925) ·
July 3 – Radu Vasile,
Romanian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942) ·
July 12 – Amar Bose,
American engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929) ·
July 13 – Cory Monteith,
Canadian actor and musician (b. 1982) ·
July 19 ·
Mel Smith,
British comedian and actor (b. 1952) ·
Bert Trautmann,
German-born British footballer (b. 1923) ·
July 20 – Helen Thomas,
American journalist (b. 1920) ·
July 22 – Dennis Farina,
American actor (b. 1944) ·
July 23 ·
Emile Griffith,
American welterweight boxer (b. 1938) ·
Djalma Santos,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1929) ·
July 25 ·
Walter De
Maria, American sculptor and composer (b. 1935) ·
Bernadette Lafont, French actress (b. 1938) ·
July 26 – JJ Cale,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1938) ·
July 28 – Eileen Brennan,
American actress and singer (b. 1932) ·
July 29 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
(b. 1986) ·
July 30 – Antoni
Ramallets, Spanish footballer (b. 1924) August[edit]
·
August 5 – George Duke,
American keyboardist (b. 1946) ·
August 8 – Karen Black,
American actress (b. 1939) ·
László Csatáry, Hungarian war criminal
(b. 1915) ·
Eydie Gormé,
American singer (b. 1928) ·
August 12 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (b. 1968) ·
August 14 – Gia Allemand,
American actress (b. 1983) ·
August 15 – Marich Man Singh Shrestha, 28th Prime
Minister of Nepal (b. 1942) ·
August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo
player (b. 1927) ·
Cedar Walton,
American pianist (b. 1934) ·
Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984) ·
Elmore Leonard,
American novelist (b. 1925) ·
Marian McPartland, British-born pianist
(b. 1918) ·
August 21 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut
(b. 1936) ·
August 24 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925) ·
August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian
footballer (b. 1930) ·
August 30 – Seamus Heaney,
Irish Nobel poet (b. 1939) ·
August 31 – David Frost,
British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1939) September[edit]
·
September 1 – Tommy Morrison,
American boxer (b. 1969) ·
Ronald Coase,
British Nobel economist (b. 1910) ·
Frederik Pohl,
American writer (b. 1919) ·
September 5 – Rochus Misch,
German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917) ·
September 12 – Ray Dolby,
American engineer and inventor (b. 1933) ·
Ken Norton,
American boxer (b. 1943) ·
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic
(b. 1920) ·
Hiroshi
Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927) ·
Saye Zerbo,
3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1932) ·
September 22 – David H. Hubel,
Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1926) October[edit]
·
Tom Clancy,
American writer (b. 1947) ·
Giuliano Gemma,
Italian actor (b. 1938) ·
Peter Broadbent, English footballer
(b. 1933) ·
October 3 – Sergei Belov,
Russian basketball player (b. 1944) ·
October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese General (b. 1911) ·
Patrice Chéreau, French opera and theatre director,
filmmaker, actor and producer (b. 1944) ·
Ovadia Yosef,
Israeli religious leader (b. 1920) ·
October 9 – Wilfried
Martens, Belgian politician, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium
(b. 1936) ·
October 10 – Scott
Carpenter, American astronaut (b. 1925) ·
María de Villota, Spanish racing driver
(b. 1980) ·
Erich Priebke,
German SS captain and convicted war criminal (b. 1913) ·
October 14 – Bruno Metsu,
French football coach (b. 1954) ·
October 20 – Lawrence Klein,
American Nobel economist (b. 1920) ·
October 23 – Anthony Caro,
British sculptor (b. 1924) ·
October 24 – Manolo Escobar,
Spanish singer (b. 1931) ·
Bill Sharman,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) ·
Marcia Wallace,
American actress and comedian (b. 1942) ·
October 27 – Lou Reed,
American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1942) ·
October 28 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of
Poland (b. 1927) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan (b. c. 1979) ·
November 2 – Walt Bellamy,
American basketball player (b. 1939) ·
November 7 – Amparo
Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925) ·
November 12 – John Tavener,
British composer (b. 1944) ·
November 15 – Glafcos
Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919) ·
November 17 – Doris Lessing,
British Nobel writer (b. 1919) ·
November 19 – Frederick
Sanger, British Nobel biochemist (b. 1918) ·
November 20 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American murderer
(b. 1950) ·
Bill Foulkes,
British footballer (b. 1932) ·
Chico Hamilton,
American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921) ·
November 26 – Arik Einstein,
Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1939) ·
November 27 – Nílton Santos,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1925) ·
November 28 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovene
politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919) ·
Paul Walker,
American actor (b. 1973) ·
Yury Yakovlev,
Soviet and Russian film actor (b. 1928) December[edit]
·
December 1 – Heinrich Boere,
Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921) ·
December 2 – Vernon Shaw,
5th President of Dominica (b. 1930) ·
December 5 – Nelson Mandela,
1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918) ·
December 7 – Édouard Molinaro, French film director and
screenwriter (b. 1928) ·
December 8 – John Cornforth,
Australian–British Nobel chemist (b. 1917) ·
December 9 – Eleanor Parker,
American actress (b. 1922) ·
December 10 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer
(b. 1930) ·
December 12 – Jang Sung-taek,
North Korean politician (b. 1946) ·
December 14 – Peter O'Toole,
British-Irish actor (b. 1932) ·
Harold Camping,
American evangelist (b. 1921) ·
Joan Fontaine,
Japanese-born British American actress (b. 1917) ·
December 16 – Ray Price, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1926) ·
December 18 – Ronnie Biggs,
British criminal (b. 1929) ·
December 21 – Peter Geach,
British philosopher (b. 1916) ·
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
(b. 1919) ·
Yusef Lateef,
American jazz musician and composer (b. 1920) ·
December 26 – Marta Eggerth,
Hungarian-American singer and actress (b. 1912) ·
Wojciech Kilar,
Polish composer (b. 1932) ·
Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic
cross-country skier (b. 1937) ·
December 31 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt,
and Arieh Warshel ·
Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller ·
Peace – Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ·
Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs ·
Physiology or Medicine – James E.
Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof See also[edit]
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