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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
2013 was designated as:
Events
January
February
February 12 – North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test , prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.[9] [10]
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 .[11] The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid , prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.[12] [13]
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.[14]
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 .[15]
March
April
May
May 6 – Three women, missing for more than nine years, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio. Police arrest Ariel Castro , their abductor, later that day.[30] [importance? ]
May 14 –16 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö , Sweden , and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song "Only Teardrops ".
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 .[31]
May 22 – British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered in Woolwich , southeast London by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.[32]
May 31 – The El Reno tornado , near El Reno, Oklahoma , United States, having a record-breaking width 2.6 miles (4.2 km), with maximum wind speeds up to 301 mph (484 km/h), is the widest tornado ever recorded on earth.[33] [34]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Births
Deaths
January
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
January 9
January 11
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 22 – Said Ali al-Shihri , Saudi Arabian deputy leader (b. 1971 )
January 23 – Józef Glemp , Polish cardinal (b. 1929 )
January 31 – Hassan Habibi , 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937 )
February
March
March 1 – Bonnie Franklin , American actress (b. 1944 )
March 3 – Luis Cubilla , Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940 )
March 5
March 6
March 7
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 – Malachi Throne , American actor (b. 1928 )
March 14 – Ieng Sary , Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925 )
March 16
March 19 – Harry Reems , American pornographic actor (b. 1947 )
March 20 – Zillur Rahman , 18th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929 )
March 21
March 22 – Bebo Valdés , Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918 )
March 23
March 27 – Hjalmar Andersen , Norwegian skater (b. 1923 )
March 28 – Richard Griffiths , English actor (b. 1947 )
April
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
April 9 – Paolo Soleri , Italian-born American architect (b. 1919 )
April 10 – Robert Edwards , British Nobel physiologist (b. 1925 )
April 11
April 13 – Chi Cheng , American musician (b. 1970 )
April 14
April 17
April 18 – Storm Thorgerson , British graphic designer (b. 1944 )
April 19
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
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
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 , Argentinian politician, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925 )
May 18
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
July
July 2
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
July 20 – Helen Thomas , American journalist (b. 1920 )
July 22 – Dennis Farina , American actor (b. 1944 )
July 23
July 25
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
August 12 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau , (b. 1968 )
August 14 – Gia Allemand , American actress (b. 1983 )
August 15
August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati , Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927 )
August 19
August 20
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
October
October 1
October 3 – Sergei Belov , Russian basketball player (b. 1944 )
October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp , Vietnamese General (b. 1911 )
October 5 – Carlo Lizzani , Italian film director (b. 1922 )
October 7
October 9 – Wilfried Martens , Belgian politician, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936 )
October 10 – Scott Carpenter , American astronaut (b. 1925 )
October 11
October 12
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
October 23 – Anthony Caro , British sculptor (b. 1924 )
October 24 – Manolo Escobar , Spanish singer (b. 1931 )
October 25
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. c. 1979 )
November 2 – Walt Bellamy , American basketball player (b. 1939 )
November 7 – Amparo Rivelles , Spanish actress (b. 1925 )
November 12
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 25
November 26
November 27 – Nílton Santos , Brazilian footballer (b. 1925 )
November 28 – Mitja Ribičič , Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919 )
November 30
December
December 1 – Heinrich Boere , Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921 )
December 2
December 5
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
December 11 – Nadir Afonso , Portuguese painter (b. 1920 )
December 12
December 14 – Peter O'Toole , British-Irish actor (b. 1932 )
December 15
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 )
December 23
December 26 – Marta Eggerth , Hungarian-American singer and actress (b. 1912 )
December 28 – Joseph Ruskin , American actor (b. 1924 )
December 29
December 31 – James Avery , American actor (b. 1945 )
Nobel Prizes
New English words
See also
References
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