February 13

Events

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.

1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Reims and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.

1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government begins to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War, something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency rules Sweden until 1672.

1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.

1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

1755 – Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: 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 – In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.

1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.

1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.

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.

1934 – The Soviet steamship Chelyuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.

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.

1947 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 18 relating to disarmament is adopted.

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.

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.

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 1/2-mile-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.

1983 – Two US Marshals are killed in a shootout with tax protester Gordon Kahl in Medina, North Dakota.

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 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.

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 is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Births

711 BC – Emperor Jimmu of Japan (d. 585 BC)

1440 – Hartmann Schedel, German physician (d. 1514)

1457 – Mary of Burgundy (d. 1482)

1469 – Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (d. 1549)

1480 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)

1539 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (d. 1582)

1599 – Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)

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)

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)

1867 – Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (d. 1905)

1870 – Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1938)

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, Jewish-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, American wife of Harry S. 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)

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 Aircraft Company (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)

1918 – Patty Berg, American golfer and lieutenant (d. 2006)

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)

1920 – Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese-French painter and educator (d. 2013)

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

1924 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (d. 2006)

1925 – Stuart Wagstaff English-Australian actor (d. 2015)

1928 – Gerald Regan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia

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

1934 – George Segal, American actor

1937 – Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author and academic (d. 1992)

1937 – Angelo Mosca, American-Canadian football player and wrestler

1938 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)

1939 – Raôul Duguay, Canadian poet and activist

1940 – Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam

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

1942 – Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor

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

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 – 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

1950 – Len Pascoe, Australian cricketer

1951 – David Naughton, American actor and singer

1952 – Ed Gagliardi, American bass player (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

1955 – Scott Smith, Canadian bass player and songwriter (d. 2000)

1956 – Liam Brady, Irish footballer and manager

1956 – Peter Hook, English singer and bass player

1956 – Richard Tyson, American actor and producer

1957 – Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author

1957 – Tony Butler, English bass player

1957 – Hubert Girault, Swiss scientist, electrochemist

1958 – Pernilla August, Swedish actress

1958 – Marc Emery, Canadian publisher and activist

1958 – Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist and politician

1958 – Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator

1958 – Øivind Elgenes, Norwegian vocalist, guitarist and composer; front figure of Dance with a Stranger

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 and producer

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, 8th Governor of Puerto Rico

1962 – Hugh Dennis, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

1962 – Baby Doll, American wrestler and manager

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 – Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer; Eurovision Song Contest winner (1993)

1969 – Joyce DiDonato, American soprano and actress

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 – Charlie Garner, American football player

1974 – Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor

1974 – Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter

1975 – Ben Collins, English race car driver

1976 – Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver

1976 – Shannon Nevin, Australian rugby league player

1977 – Randy Moss, American football player and coach

1978 – Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player

1978 – Philippe Jaroussky, French tenor

1979 – Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian murderer

1979 – Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer

1979 – Rachel Reeves, English economist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer

1980 – Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer

1980 – Sebastian Kehl, German footballer

1981 – Luisão, Brazilian footballer

1981 – Liam Miller, Irish footballer

1981 – Luke Ridnour, American basketball player

1981 – Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer

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 – Mayra Andrade, Cape Verdean-French singer

1985 – Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress

1985 – Hedwiges Maduro, Dutch footballer

1985 – Alexandros Tziolis, Greek footballer

1986 – Hamish Bond, New Zealand rower

1986 – Luke Moore, English footballer

1986 – Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player

1987 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer

1987 – Frank-Paul Nu'uausala, New Zealand rugby league player

1988 – Ryan Goins, American baseball player

1988 – Eddy Pettybourne, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

1989 – Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer

1989 – Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer

1990 – Olivia Allison, English swimmer

1990 – Marco Romizi, Italian footballer

1990 – Mamadou Sakho, French footballer

1990 – Kevin Strootman, Dutch footballer

1991 – Declan Gallacher, Scottish footballer

1991 – Junior Roqica, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

1993 – Adam Clydsdale, Australian rugby league player

1994 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer

1994 – Patryk Dobek, Polish sprinter

1995 – Ayame Koike, Japanese actress

1995 – Sebastian Bonecki, Polish footballer

Deaths

721 – Chilperic II, Frankish king (b. 672)

858 – Kenneth MacAlpin, Scottish king (b. 810)

942 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid regent

1130 – Pope Honorius II (b. 1060)

1141 – Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)

1199 – Stefan Nemanja, Serbian saint (b. 1113)

1219 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)

1332 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1259)

1351 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general

1539 – Isabella d'Este, Italian wife of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (b. 1474)

1542 – Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, English assistant to Catherine Howard (b. 1505)

1542 – Catherine Howard, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1521)

1571 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1500)

1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (b. 1515)

1602 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (b. 1507)

1660 – Charles X Gustav 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)

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)

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)

1893 – Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (b. 1834)

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)

1943 – Neyyire Neyir, Turkish stage and movie actress (b. 1902)

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)

1968 – Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)

1973 – Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (b. 1883)

1974 – Amir Khan, Indian singer (b. 1912)

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)

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)

1995 – Alberto Burri, Italian artist (b. 1915)

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. 1950)

2002 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)

2003 – Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (b. 1926)

2003 – Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)

2003 – Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist and politician, 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)

2012 – Kushimaumi Keita, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (b. 1965)

2013 – Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2013 – Izya Gershtein, Kyrgyzstani-Israeli director and screenwriter (b. 1923)

2013 – Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (b. 1952)

2013 – Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (b. 1933)

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)

2015 – John McCabe, English pianist and composer (b. 1939)

2015 – Kesava Reddy, Indian physician and author (b. 1946)

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, Vice President (1990–1992) (b. 1933)

2017 – Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (b. 1926)

2017 – Kim Jong-nam, North Korean political figure (b. 1971)

2017 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

Children's Day (Myanmar)

Christian feast day:

Absalom Jones (Episcopal Church (USA))

Beatrice of Ornacieux

Castor of Karden

Catherine of Ricci

Ermenilda of Ely

Fulcran

Jordan of Saxony

Polyeuctus (Roman Catholic Church)

February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

World Radio Day