June 13th, 1871

Born on June 13th, 1871

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 55,000 days old!

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What happened on June 13th?

June 13th, 2013

Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.

June 13th, 2011

A 6.0 Mw earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.

June 13th, 2007

Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.

June 13th, 1996

After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.

June 13th, 1983

Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.

June 13th, 1971

The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.

June 13th, 1970

"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

June 13th, 1969

Governor of Texas Preston Smith signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.

June 13th, 1952

Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.

June 13th, 1944

Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied vehicles in less than 15 minutes.

June 13th, 1935

In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

June 13th, 1916

World War I: The Battle of Mont Sorrel in the Ypres Salient came to an end as a Canadian assault led German forces to withdraw to their original lines.

June 13th, 1881

The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette (pictured) was finally crushed and sank after having been trapped in ice for almost two years.

June 13th, 1805

Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

June 13th, 1525

Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism.

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

Born on June 13th, 1871

52

Vladimir Arnoldi

Russian botanist (1871-1924)

*June 13th, 1871, Michurinsk †March 22nd, 1924, Moscow

79

Princess Hélène of Orléans

Princess of France

*June 13th, 1871, London †January 21st, 1951, Stabiae

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 13th?

54

Søren Rasted

Danish musician

*June 13th, 1969, Blovstrød

73

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

*June 13th, 1865, Sandymount †January 28th, 1939, Menton

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

26

Yuta Watanabe

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1997, Suginami-ku

78

Augusta Lundin

Swedish fashion designer

*June 13th, 1840, Kristianstad †February 20th, 1919, Stockholm

48

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

*June 13th, 1831, Edinburgh †November 5th, 1879, Cambridge

90

Jules Bordet

Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (1870-1961)

*June 13th, 1870, Soignies †April 6th, 1961, City of Brussels

80

Malcolm McDowell

British actor (born 1943)

*June 13th, 1943, Horsforth

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

76

Paavo Nurmi

Finnish middle and long distance runner (1897-1973)

*June 13th, 1897, Turku †October 2nd, 1973, Helsinki

57

Nick Ponting

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1966, London

35

Nikita Khakimov

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1988, Moscow

60

Michal Malý

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1963, Hradec Králové

47

Qiang Hong

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1976, Jiangsu

53

Sandra Dimbour

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1970, Saint-Denis

30

Kai Schäfer

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1993, Darmstadt

28

Jeon Hyuk-jin

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1995, Ulsan

26

070 Shake

American rapper (born 1997)

*June 13th, 1997, North Bergen

69

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigerian-American economist

*June 13th, 1954, Ogwashi-Uku

51

Felipe Ángeles Ramírez

Mexican military officer

*June 13th, 1868, Zacualtipan †November 26th, 1919, Chihuahua City

Same year
Born in 1871

51

Marcel Proust

French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)

*July 10th, 1871, 16th arrondissement of Paris †November 18th, 1922, 16th arrondissement of Paris

47

Rosa Luxemburg

German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919)

*March 5th, 1871, Zamość †January 15th, 1919, Berlin

66

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)

*August 30th, 1871, Nelson †October 19th, 1937, Cambridge

64

Victor Grignard

French chemist (1871-1935)

*May 6th, 1871, Cherbourg †December 13th, 1935, 7th arrondissement of Lyon

128

Irene Alföldi

Hungarian singer and opera singer

*July 24th, 1871, Eger †January 1st, 2000

74

Theodore Dreiser

American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)

*August 27th, 1871, Terre Haute †December 28th, 1945, Hollywood

85

Émile Borel

French mathematician and politician

*January 7th, 1871, Saint-Affrique †February 3rd, 1956, Paris

76

Wilhelm von Opel

Member of the German Opel family

*May 15th, 1871, Rüsselsheim am Main †May 2nd, 1948, Wiesbaden

64

Grazia Deledda

Italian novelist (1871-1936)

*September 27th, 1871, Nuoro †August 15th, 1936, Rome

67

James Weldon Johnson

American writer and activist

*June 17th, 1871, Jacksonville †June 26th, 1938, Wiscasset

85

Maurice Garin

French cyclist

*March 3rd, 1871, Arvier †February 18th, 1957, Lens

93

Jan Fabricius

(1871-1964) Dutch playwright and writer

*September 30th, 1871, Assen †November 23rd, 1964, Wimborne Minster

69

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

British politician (1871-1940)

*January 8th, 1871, Belfast †November 24th, 1940, County Down

54

Friedrich Ebert

German politician, president of Germany (1871-1925)

*February 4th, 1871, Heidelberg †February 28th, 1925, Berlin

47

Karl Liebknecht

German socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)

*August 13th, 1871, Leipzig †January 15th, 1919, Berlin

72

Emma Müllenhoff

German writer

*September 22nd, 1871, Kiel †April 14th, 1944, Bavaria

57

Segundo de Chomón

Spanish-French film director, cinematographer and animator (1871-1929)

*October 17th, 1871, Teruel †May 2nd, 1929, 20th arrondissement of Paris

68

Giuseppe Motta

Member of the Swiss Federal Council (1871-1940)

*December 29th, 1871, Airolo †January 23rd, 1940, Bern

83

Cordell Hull

American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944

*October 2nd, 1871, Olympus †July 23rd, 1955, Bethesda

73

Paul Valéry

French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)

*October 30th, 1871, Sète †July 20th, 1945, Paris

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Public holidays on June 13th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on June 13th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1871 is a normal year and no leap year.

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