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2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*
* January 1 – Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927)
* January 2
** Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (b. 1920)
** Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
* January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)
* January 4 – Tony Lip, American actor (b. 1930)
* January 7
** David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)
** Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)
* January 9
** James M. Buchanan, American Nobel-winning economist (b. 1919)
** Sakine Cansız, Kurdish terrorist (b. 1958)
*
* February 1 – Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
* February 2 – Chris Kyle, United States Navy sniper (b. 1974)
* February 4
** Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932)
* February 14
** Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)
** Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (b. 1983)
* February 17 – Mindy McCready, American country singer (b. 1975)
* February 18
** Kevin Ayers, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944)
** Otfried Preußler, German children author (b. 1923)
* February 19
** 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)
*
* March 1 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (b. 1944)
* March 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
* March 4 – Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
* March 5
** Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
** Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
* March 6
** Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
** Andrei Panin, Russian actor (b. 1962)
* March 7
** Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)
** Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
* March 8 – Hartmut Briesenick, German athlete (b. 1949)
* March 10 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (b. 1915)
* March 12 – Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
*
* April 1 – Moses Blah, 23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947)
*
* May 2
** Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
** Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
* May 4 – Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist (b. 1917)
* May 5 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
* May 6 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
* May 7 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects (b. 1920)
* May 8
** Jeanne Cooper, American actress (b. 1928)
** Bryan Forbes, English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist (b. 1926)
* May 13 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
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* June 3
** Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)
** Jiah Khan, British-Indian actress and singer (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)
** Taufiq Kiemas, 5th Spouses of the Presidents of Indonesia, First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
* June 9 – Iain Banks, Scottish 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 and film producer (b. 1961)
** Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–1998) (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)
*
* July 2
** Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948) (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)
** Pran (actor), Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)
* 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)
* July 31 – Michael Ansara, American actor (b. 1922)
* August 5 – George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
* August 8 – Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
* August 10
** 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)
** Allen Lanier, American musician (b. 1946)
* August 15
** Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur (b. 1944)
** Sławomir Mrożek, Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist (b. 1930)
** August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (b. 1936)
** Marich Man Singh Shrestha, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942)
** Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
* August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927)
* August 19
** Abdul Rahim Hatif, Acting President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
** Cedar Walton, American pianist (b. 1934)
** Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984)
* August 20
** Elmore Leonard, American novelist (b. 1925)
** Marian McPartland, British-born pianist (b. 1918)
* August 21 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
* August 22 – Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
* August 24 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
* August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
* August 27 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Soviet-Ukrainian mass murderer (b. 1959)
* August 30 – Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel poet (b. 1939)
* August 31 – Sir David Frost, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1939)
* September 1
** Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
** Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
* September 2
** Ronald Coase, British Nobel economist (b. 1910)
** Frederik Pohl, American writer (b. 1919)
* September 5
** Sushmita Banerjee, Indian writer (b. 1963)
** Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
* September 11 – Jimmy Fontana, Italian actor, composer and singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
* September 12
** Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
** Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
* September 17 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (b. 1913)
* September 18
** Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
** Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (b. 1920)
* September 19
** 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)
* September 23 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (b. 1907)
* October 1
** Peter Broadbent (footballer), Peter Broadbent, English footballer (b. 1933)
** Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
** Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (b. 1938)
* October 3 – Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
* October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, North Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1911)
* October 5 – Carlo Lizzani, Italian film director (b. 1922)
* October 7
** Terry Burnham, American actress (b. 1949)
** 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)
* October 11
** María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
** Erich Priebke, German SS captain and convicted war criminal (b. 1913)
* October 12
** George Herbig, American astronomer (b. 1920)
** Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (b. 1951)
* October 14 – Bruno Metsu, French football coach (b. 1954)
* October 16 – Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
* October 17 – Lou Scheimer, American producer (b. 1928)
* October 20
** Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
** Lawrence Klein, American Nobel economist (b. 1920)
* October 23 – Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
* October 24 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
* October 25
** Nigel Davenport, English actor (b. 1928)
** Hal Needham, American stuntman, film director, actor and writer (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 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. 1979)
* November 2 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
* November 7 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
* November 12
** Al Ruscio, American actor (b. 1924)
** 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)
* November 21 – Tôn Thất Đính, South Vietnamese Army general and politician (b. 1926)
* November 25
** 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)
** Tony Musante, American actor (b. 1936)
* November 27 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
* November 28 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919)
* November 30
** Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
** Yury Yakovlev, Soviet and Russian film actor (b. 1928)
* December 1 – Heinrich Boere, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
* December 2
** Pedro Rocha (Uruguayan footballer), Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1942)
** Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (b. 1930)
* December 5
** Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
** Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist (b. 1931)
* 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 (musician), Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
** Rossana Podestà, Libyan-born Italian actress (b. 1934)
* December 11 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (b. 1920)
* December 12
** Jang Song-thaek, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
** Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator and activist (b. 1931)
** Audrey Totter, American actress (b. 1917)
* December 14 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
* December 15
** Harold Camping, American evangelist (b. 1921)
** Joan Fontaine, Japanese-born British American actress (b. 1917)
* December 16 – Ray Price (musician), Ray Price, American singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
* December 18 – Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (b. 1929)
* December 21 – Peter Geach, British philosopher (b. 1916)
* December 23
** 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)
* December 29
** Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (b. 1932)
** Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1937)
* December 31 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)
Edward Snowden
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becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA
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wiretapping
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information; Typhoon Haiyan
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kills over 6,000 in the Philippines
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and Southeast Asia
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; The Dhaka garment factory collapse
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in Bangladesh
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kills over 1,000 people; The streak from the Chelyabinsk meteor
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that rocketed across the Russian
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morning sky; Protests occur amid the coup d'état
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that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi
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; Smoke rises as a result of the Westgate shopping mall attack
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in Nairobi, Kenya
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, carried out by Al-Shabaab militants; The Boston Marathon bombing
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marks the first terrorist attack
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in the United States
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since 9/11; Pope Francis
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is elected to the Papacy
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International Year of Quinoa
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Events
January
*January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French army ...
: A 7.7 earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island generating a 1.5 m tsunami.
* January 10
Events Pre-1600
* 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the ...
– At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muham ...
– The French military
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begins a 5-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict
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, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine
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group.
* January 16– 20 – Thirty-nine international workers and 1 security guard die in a hostage crisis
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at a natural gas
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facility near In Aménas
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, Algeria
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* January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
*1156 &nda ...
– Barack Obama
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is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States
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.
* January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to b ...
– An estimated 245 people die in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul
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, Brazil.
February
*February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– North Korea
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conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Ti ...
– A meteor
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explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk
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, 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. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.
* February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
*1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1440 – The ...
– American scientists use a 3D printer
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to create a living lab-grown ear
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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 with ear trauma or amputation.
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
*13 ...
– Park Geun-hye
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Park was the f ...
becomes the first woman to become the president of South Korea
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.
* February 28
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
* 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...
– Benedict XVI
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resigns as pope
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, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII
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in 1415
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, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V Celestine is a given name and a surname.
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* Pope Celestine I (died 432)
* Pope Celestine II (died 1144)
* Pope Celestine III (c. 1106–1198)
* Pope Celestine IV (died 1241)
* Pope Celestine V (1215–1296)
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in 1294
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Asia
* February 18 – Kublai Khan dies; by this time the separation of the four khanates of the Mongol Empir ...
.
March
*March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
* 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
* 1591 – At the Battle of ...
– Cardinal
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina
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is elected Elected may refer to:
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the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis
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and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
* March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate ...
– Central African Republic
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President François Bozizé
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Bozizé rose to become a high-ranking army officer in the 1970s, under the rule of Jean- ...
flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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, after rebel forces capture
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the nation's capital, Bangui
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.
* March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visi ...
– The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus
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. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism
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, the European Financial Stability Facility
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, and the International Monetary Fund
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. The deal precipitates a banking crisis
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in the island nation.
April
*April 2
Events Pre-1600
*1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
– The United Nations General Assembly
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adopts the Arms Trade Treaty
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It entered into force on 24 December 2014. 113 states have ratified the treaty, and a further 28 states have signed but no ...
to regulate the international trade of conventional weapon
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s.
*April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
** Venezuelan presidential election, Nicolás Maduro was declared winner with a narrow victory over his opponent Henrique Capriles Radonski
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.
** Venezuelan presidential election protests.
* April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
*1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
– Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (1 of whom was a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon
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in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.
*April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– A magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolts Sichuan
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, China, leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.
* April 21 – Businessman Horacio Cartes
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wins the 2013 Paraguayan general election
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against Efraín Alegre
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.
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...
– The 2013 Savar building collapse
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, one of the worst industrial disasters
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...
in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh
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.
* April 30
Events Pre-1600
* 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
* 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
*1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columb ...
– Willem-Alexander
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is inaugurated
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as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix
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.
May
*May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
* 1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
*1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and fo ...
– 18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013
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takes place in Malmö
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, Sweden, and is won by Danish
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entrant Emmelie de Forest
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with the song "Only Teardrops
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".
* May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arb ...
–
**In a study published in the scientific journal ''Nature
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'', researchers from Oregon Health & Science University
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public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Med ...
in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cell
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s by cloning
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.
**The World Health Organization
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names the novel coronavirus Middle East respiratory syndrome
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(MERS).
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
...
– British Army
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soldier Fusilier
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Lee Rigby
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of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
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is murdered in Woolwich
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, southeast London
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by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
* May 31 - The largest tornado ever recorded hit El Reno.This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado
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was the widest tornado ever recorded. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile weather radars
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revealed extreme winds up to 296 mph (476 km/h) within the vortex. These are among the highest observed wind speeds on Earth
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, just slightly lower than the wind speeds of 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado
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. As it crossed U.S. 81, it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).
June
* June 6 – FormerCIA
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employee Edward Snowden
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discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum
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in Russia.
* June 25
Events Pre-1600
* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
– Emir of Qatar
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Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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abdicates and his son Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
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Tamim is the fourth son ...
assumes power.
* June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fro ...
** Kevin Rudd
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defeats Julia Gillard
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in an Australian Labor Party leadership ballot and consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years after Gillard replaced Rudd.
** ''United States v. Windsor
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'' (570 U.S. 744) decided in the Supreme Court of the United States
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, overturning a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act
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and hence granting federal recognition to same-sex marriage in the United States
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.
July
*July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Croatia
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becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
* July 3 – Amid 2012–13 Egyptian protests, mass protests across Egypt, President of Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi
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, leading to Political violence in Egypt (2013), widespread violence.
* July 21 – Philippe of Belgium, Philippe is sworn in as List of Belgian monarchs, King of the Belgians, following the abdication of Albert II of Belgium, Albert II.
* July 22–July 28, 28 – XIV World Youth Day 2013, World Youth Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
August
* August 14 – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are raided by the security forces, leaving 2,696 dead. The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as "1 of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history". *August 15 –Horacio Cartes
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is sworn in as President of Paraguay.
* August 21 – 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War.
* August 29 – The United Kingdom Parliament List of Government defeats in the House of Commons (1945–present)#Cameron (coalition government), votes against UK military attacks on Syria.
September
* September 7 ** 2013 Australian federal election: The Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, National Coalition (Australia), Coalition led by Tony Abbott defeats the Australian Labor Party, Labor Rudd Government (2013), Government led by Prime Minister of Australia, Prime MinisterKevin Rudd
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. Abbott would be sworn in on September 18th.
** The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
* September 9, September 8 – The 2013 Colorado floods, 2013 Colorado Floods begin, resulting from heavy rain in the Colorado River Basin.
* September 17 – Rockstar Games releases video game Grand Theft Auto V.
* September 21 – Al-Shabaab (militant group), al-Shabaab Islamic militants Westgate shopping mall attack, attack the Westgate, Nairobi, Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya
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, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.
October
* October 10 – Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the Minamata Convention on Mercury, Minamata Treaty, a United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury (element), mercury and mercury compounds. * October 15 – A Moment magnitude scale, magnitude 7.2 earthquake 2013 Bohol earthquake, struck Bohol,Philippines
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, leaving 222 dead, 8 missing, and 976 people injured.
* 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.
November
* November 5 – The uncrewed Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad in Sriharikota. * November 8 –Typhoon Haiyan
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(Yolanda), 1 of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines
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and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.
* November 12 – ''Three Studies of Lucian Freud'', a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the United Kingdom, British painter Francis Bacon (artist), Francis Bacon, sells for United States dollar, US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.
* 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.
** Moldovan-ship registration, flagged cargo ship makes port in Beirut, Lebanon, carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. After inspection by port state control, the ''Rhosus'' is deemed seakeeping, unseaworthy, and is forbidden to set sail. By order of an Urgent Matters judge in Beirut, the cargo is brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a 2020 Beirut explosion, massive explosion on August 4, 2020.
* November 24 – Iran Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, agrees to limit their Nuclear program of Iran, nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.
December
* December 7 – World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2013, Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers. * December 14 – China National Space Administration, Chinese uncrewed spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the ''Yutu (rover), Yutu'' Lunar rover, rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-Moon landing, land on the Moon since Luna 24, 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so. * December 15 – Fighting between ethnic Dinka people, Dinka and Nuer people, Nuer members of the presidential guard break out in Juba, South Sudan, plunging the country into South Sudanese Civil War, civil war.Births
* July 22 – Prince George of WalesDeaths
January
* January 1 – Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927)
* January 2
** Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (b. 1920)
** Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
* January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)
* January 4 – Tony Lip, American actor (b. 1930)
* January 7
** David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)
** Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)
* January 9
** James M. Buchanan, American Nobel-winning economist (b. 1919)
** Sakine Cansız, Kurdish terrorist (b. 1958)
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muham ...
** Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
** Nguyễn Khánh, South Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1927)
** Aaron Swartz, American programmer, entrepreneur, and Internet hacktivist (b. 1986)
* January 14 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
* January 15 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (b. 1932)
* 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)
* January 31 – Hassan Habibi, 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)
February
* February 1 – Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
* February 2 – Chris Kyle, United States Navy sniper (b. 1974)
* February 4
** Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932)
* February 14
** Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)
** Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (b. 1983)
* February 17 – Mindy McCready, American country singer (b. 1975)
* February 18
** Kevin Ayers, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944)
** Otfried Preußler, German children author (b. 1923)
* February 19
** 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
Events Pre-1600
*138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
*13 ...
– 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)
** Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
* February 28
Events Pre-1600
* 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
* 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...
– Donald A. Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926)
March
* March 1 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (b. 1944)
* March 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
* March 4 – Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
* March 5
** Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
** Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
* March 6
** Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
** Andrei Panin, Russian actor (b. 1962)
* March 7
** Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)
** Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
* March 8 – Hartmut Briesenick, German athlete (b. 1949)
* March 10 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (b. 1915)
* March 12 – Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
* March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
* 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
* 1591 – At the Battle of ...
– Malachi Throne, American actor (b. 1928)
* March 14 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925)
* March 20 – Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh 2009–2013 (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 (businessman), 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, English actor (b. 1947)
* March 31 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American athlete (b. 1949)
April
* April 1 – Moses Blah, 23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947)
* April 2
Events Pre-1600
*1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
** Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
** Milo O'Shea, Irish actor (b. 1926)
* 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)
** Don Shirley, American classical and jazz pianist and composer (b. 1927)
* 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 (1979–1990) (b. 1925)
* April 9 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect (b. 1919)
* April 10 – Robert Edwards (physiologist), 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
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Chi Cheng (musician), 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
** Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (b. 1918)
** François Jacob, French Nobel biologist (b. 1920)
** Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (b. 1986)
* April 21 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer (b. 1959)
* 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
* May 2
** Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
** Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
* May 4 – Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist (b. 1917)
* May 5 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
* May 6 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
* May 7 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects (b. 1920)
* May 8
** Jeanne Cooper, American actress (b. 1928)
** Bryan Forbes, English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist (b. 1926)
* May 13 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
* May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arb ...
– Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946)
* May 16 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
* May 17 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian politician, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)
* May 18
** Steve Forrest (actor), Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925)
** Nam Duck-woo, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1924)
* May 20 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (b. 1939)
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
...
– 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
* June 3
** Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)
** Jiah Khan, British-Indian actress and singer (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)
** Taufiq Kiemas, 5th Spouses of the Presidents of Indonesia, First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
* June 9 – Iain Banks, Scottish 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 and film producer (b. 1961)
** Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–1998) (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
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fro ...
– 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 (martial artist), Jim Kelly, American martial artist and actor (b. 1946)
July
* July 2
** Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948) (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)
** Pran (actor), Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)
* 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)
* July 31 – Michael Ansara, American actor (b. 1922)
August
* August 5 – George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
* August 8 – Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
* August 10
** 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)
** Allen Lanier, American musician (b. 1946)
* August 15
** Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur (b. 1944)
** Sławomir Mrożek, Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist (b. 1930)
** August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (b. 1936)
** Marich Man Singh Shrestha, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942)
** Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
* August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927)
* August 19
** Abdul Rahim Hatif, Acting President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
** Cedar Walton, American pianist (b. 1934)
** Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984)
* August 20
** Elmore Leonard, American novelist (b. 1925)
** Marian McPartland, British-born pianist (b. 1918)
* August 21 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
* August 22 – Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
* August 24 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
* August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
* August 27 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Soviet-Ukrainian mass murderer (b. 1959)
* August 30 – Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel poet (b. 1939)
* August 31 – Sir David Frost, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1939)
September
* September 1
** Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
** Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
* September 2
** Ronald Coase, British Nobel economist (b. 1910)
** Frederik Pohl, American writer (b. 1919)
* September 5
** Sushmita Banerjee, Indian writer (b. 1963)
** Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
* September 11 – Jimmy Fontana, Italian actor, composer and singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
* September 12
** Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
** Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
* September 17 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (b. 1913)
* September 18
** Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
** Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (b. 1920)
* September 19
** 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)
* September 23 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (b. 1907)
October
* October 1
** Peter Broadbent (footballer), Peter Broadbent, English footballer (b. 1933)
** Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
** Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (b. 1938)
* October 3 – Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
* October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, North Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1911)
* October 5 – Carlo Lizzani, Italian film director (b. 1922)
* October 7
** Terry Burnham, American actress (b. 1949)
** 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)
* October 11
** María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
** Erich Priebke, German SS captain and convicted war criminal (b. 1913)
* October 12
** George Herbig, American astronomer (b. 1920)
** Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (b. 1951)
* October 14 – Bruno Metsu, French football coach (b. 1954)
* October 16 – Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
* October 17 – Lou Scheimer, American producer (b. 1928)
* October 20
** Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
** Lawrence Klein, American Nobel economist (b. 1920)
* October 23 – Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
* October 24 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
* October 25
** Nigel Davenport, English actor (b. 1928)
** Hal Needham, American stuntman, film director, actor and writer (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
* November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. 1979)
* November 2 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
* November 7 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
* November 12
** Al Ruscio, American actor (b. 1924)
** 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)
* November 21 – Tôn Thất Đính, South Vietnamese Army general and politician (b. 1926)
* November 25
** 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)
** Tony Musante, American actor (b. 1936)
* November 27 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
* November 28 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919)
* November 30
** Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
** Yury Yakovlev, Soviet and Russian film actor (b. 1928)
December
* December 1 – Heinrich Boere, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
* December 2
** Pedro Rocha (Uruguayan footballer), Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1942)
** Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (b. 1930)
* December 5
** Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
** Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist (b. 1931)
* 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 (musician), Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
** Rossana Podestà, Libyan-born Italian actress (b. 1934)
* December 11 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (b. 1920)
* December 12
** Jang Song-thaek, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
** Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator and activist (b. 1931)
** Audrey Totter, American actress (b. 1917)
* December 14 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
* December 15
** Harold Camping, American evangelist (b. 1921)
** Joan Fontaine, Japanese-born British American actress (b. 1917)
* December 16 – Ray Price (musician), Ray Price, American singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
* December 18 – Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (b. 1929)
* December 21 – Peter Geach, British philosopher (b. 1916)
* December 23
** 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)
* December 29
** 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
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Alice Munro * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons * Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – François Englert and Peter Higgs * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. SüdhofNew English words
*''binge-watching, bingeable''See also
* International observance#2010s, List of international years *References
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