January 13th, 1727

Born on January 13th, 1727

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 109,000 days old!

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What happened on January 13th?

January 13th, 2012

The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia (pictured) ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.

January 13th, 2001

The first of two large earthquakes in the span of a month struck El Salvador, killing at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.

January 13th, 2000

Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.

January 13th, 1972

Bernice Gera won a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, allowing her to become the first female professional baseball umpire.

January 13th, 1968

American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.

January 13th, 1963

Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio (pictured), was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.

January 13th, 1915

About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy.

January 13th, 1884

Welsh physician William Price (pictured) was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; this eventually led to the passing of the Cremation Act 1902 by Parliament.

January 13th, 1847

The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.

January 13th, 1842

First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, was the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad who evaded capture or death.

January 13th, 1815

British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, in the only battle of the War of 1812 to take place in the state of Georgia.

January 13th, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with hundreds of deaths when the latter ran aground.

January 13th, 1435

Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.

January 13th, 1916

The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights.

January 13th, 1949

In the first recorded instance of strike action by Catholic laity against the clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City, went on strike.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 13th

Born on January 13th, 1727

84

Pierre Laujon

French playwright and chansonnier

*January 13th, 1727, Paris †July 13th, 1811, Paris

Same year
Born in 1727

32

Louise Élisabeth of France

French princess

*August 14th, 1727, Versailles †December 6th, 1759, Versailles

79

Michel Adanson

French naturalist (1727-1806)

*April 7th, 1727, Aix-en-Provence †August 3rd, 1806, Paris

90

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)

*February 16th, 1727, Leiden †October 26th, 1817, Vienna

52

Tommaso Traetta

Italian composer

*March 30th, 1727, Bitonto †April 6th, 1779, Venice

76

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Italian painter and engraver

*August 30th, 1727, Venice †March 3rd, 1804, Venice

44

Justine Favart

French opera singer

*June 14th, 1727, Avignon †April 21st, 1772, Paris

65

Elizabeth Griffith

Welsh-Irish writer

*October 11th, 1727, Glamorgan †January 5th, 1793, Kildare

75

Henry XXX of Reuss-Gera

(1727-1802)

*April 24th, 1727, Gera †April 26th, 1802, Gera

67

Friedrich Hartmann Graf

German composer (1727-1795)

*August 23rd, 1727, Rudolstadt †August 19th, 1795, Augsburg

32

François Thurot

French privateer, merchant naval captain and smuggler

*July 22nd, 1727, Nuits-Saint-Georges †February 28th, 1760, Isle of Man

69

Pasquale Anfossi

Italian opera composer

*April 5th, 1727, Taggia †February 1st, 1797, Rome

56

Nano Nagle

Foundress of Presentation Sisters

*November 30th, 1727, County Cork †April 20th, 1784, Cork

54

Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold

Count of Lippe (1727-1782)

*June 12th, 1727, Detmold †May 1st, 1782, Detmold

86

Martin Bachofen

(1727-1814)

*March 23rd, 1727, Basel †February 10th, 1814, Basel

51

Johann Joseph Gassner

Austrian priest

*August 22nd, 1727, Bludenz †January 1st, 1779, Kirchroth

60

Ludwig Joseph von Welden

German priest, Prince-Bishop of Freising

*May 11th, 1727, Hochaltingen †March 15th, 1788, Freising

70

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov

Russian Minister of Education, one of the founders of the Moscow University (1755)

*November 1st, 1727, Moscow †November 15th, 1797, Saint Petersburg

66

Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne

Catholic cardinal (1727-1794)

*October 9th, 1727, Paris †February 16th, 1794, Sens

24

Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf

German hymnwriter

*September 19th, 1727, Herrnhut †May 28th, 1752, London

91

Salomon Hirzel

Swiss politician, historian and writer (1727-1818)

*May 13th, 1727, Zürich †November 15th, 1818, Zürich

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 13th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Old New Year's Eve , Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period) which are celebrated on January 13th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1727 is a normal year and no leap year.

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