July 13th, 1944

Born on July 13th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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What happened on July 13th?

July 13th, 2020

After a five day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera is recovered from Lake Piru, confirming her death.

July 13th, 2013

Typhoon Soulik makes landfall in East China and Taiwan, killing at least 20 people.

July 13th, 2003

French Directorate-General for External Security personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, resulting in a political scandal.

July 13th, 1992

The Croatian Army concludes Operation Tiger, advancing 17 kilometres (11 miles) into the Dubrovnik hinterland.

July 13th, 1973

Watergate scandal: Under questioning by Senate investigators, White House deputy chief of staff Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a secret taping system (tape recorder pictured) in the Oval Office.

July 13th, 1943

World War II: Operation Fustian, an Allied operation to capture the Primosole Bridge in Sicily, begins.

July 13th, 1942

World War II: The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was converted from a battalion to accommodate a larger number of volunteers spurred on by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.

July 13th, 1913

While on a campaign in Bulgaria, the Romanian Army suffered a cholera outbreak that led to around 1,600 deaths.

July 13th, 1863

Four days of rioting began in New York City in response to laws passed by the U.S. Congress to draft men to fight in the American Civil War.

July 13th, 1831

Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic (cover shown), which engendered a period of unprecedented reforms that provided for the westernization of the local society.

July 13th, 1643

English Civil War: Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes, Wiltshire.

July 13th, 1586

Anglo–Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company repel a fleet of Spanish and Maltese galleys off the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria at the Battle of Pantelleria.

July 13th, 1260

Livonian Crusade: Samogitian forces defeated Teutonic knights and the Livonian Order at the Battle of Durbe.

July 13th, 1260

The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

July 13th, 1249

Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.

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

Born on July 13th, 1944

79

Ernő Rubik

Hungarian inventor

*July 13th, 1944, Budapest

79

Hansjörg Knauthe

East German biathlete

*July 13th, 1944, Geising

79

Jerry Sullivan

American football coach

*July 13th, 1944, Miami

79

Al Groh

American football player and coach

*July 13th, 1944, New York

79

Roger Minick

American photographer (1944- )

*July 13th, 1944, Ramona

79

Pu Zoramthanga

Indian politician

*July 13th, 1944, Samthang

79

Stanisław Łukaszczyk

Polish sportsperson

*July 13th, 1944, Murzasichle

79

Lorenz Böllinger

German jurist and criminologist

*July 13th, 1944, Bad Friedrichshall

79

Egon Coordes

German football player and manager

*July 13th, 1944, Wesermünde

76

Eric Freeman

Australian rules footballer and cricketer

*July 13th, 1944, Semaphore †December 14th, 2020, Woodville South

47

Cyril Knowles

Footballer and manager (1944-1991)

*July 13th, 1944, Fitzwilliam †August 30th, 1991, Middlesbrough

74

Raúl Moneta

Argentinian businessperson, lawyer and private banker (1944-2019)

*July 13th, 1944, Buenos Aires †June 6th, 2019

79

Shoji Kikuchi

Professional golfer

*July 13th, 1944, Shizuoka Prefecture

79

Otis D. Wright II

United States federal judge

*July 13th, 1944, Tuskegee

79

Freddie M. Garcia

President of ABS-CBN

*July 13th, 1944, Manila

79

Buzz Stephen

American baseball player

*July 13th, 1944, Porterville

79

Roosevelt Abdulgafur

Filipino swimmer

*July 13th, 1944, Sulu

79

Tom Rickhoff

American judge

*July 13th, 1944, Bayview

79

Gerhard Glück

German cartoonist and illustrator

*July 13th, 1944, Bad Vilbel

77

Joel Hasse Ferreira

Portuguese politician

*July 13th, 1944, Lisbon †March 18th, 2022, Lisbon

76

Boris Klyuyev

Soviet and Russian actor (1944-2020)

*July 13th, 1944, Moscow †September 1st, 2020, Moscow

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Who's birthday is on July 13th?

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

82

Diethelm Ferner

German association football player and manager

*July 13th, 1941 †November 7th, 2023

91

Hubert Reeves

Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science

*July 13th, 1932, Montreal †October 13th, 2023, 13th arrondissement of Paris

83

Patrick Stewart

British actor (born 1940)

*July 13th, 1940, Mirfield

78

Robert Forster

American actor (1941–2019)

*July 13th, 1941, Rochester †October 11th, 2019, Los Angeles

81

Harrison Ford

American actor (born 1942)

*July 13th, 1942, Swedish Hospital

25

Kati-Kreet Marran

Estonian badminton player

*July 13th, 1998, Tartu

66

Dene Smuts

South African politician

*July 13th, 1949, Bloemfontein †April 21st, 2016, Cape Town

28

Vilde Bøe Risa

Norwegian association football player

*July 13th, 1995, Bergen

75

Alf Hansen

Norwegian rower

*July 13th, 1948, Oslo

89

Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate Nigerian writer

*July 13th, 1934, Ogun State

87

Josef Válka

Czech historian (1929-2017)

*July 13th, 1929, Borač †May 13th, 2017, Brno

83

David Storey

British writer (1933-2017)

*July 13th, 1933, Wakefield †March 27th, 2017, London

36

Vitalii Konov

Ukrainian badminton player

*July 13th, 1987, Priozersk

77

Cheech Marin

American actor

*July 13th, 1946, Los Angeles

73

Ma Ying-jeou

President of Taiwan from 2008 to 2016

*July 13th, 1950, Kwong Wah Hospital

26

Ben Lane

English badminton player

*July 13th, 1997, Kingston upon Thames

31

Kristjan Kaljurand

Estonian badminton player

*July 13th, 1992, Tallinn

25

Natsuki Oie

Badminton player

*July 13th, 1998, Ishikawa Prefecture

71

Dominique Bussereau

French politician

*July 13th, 1952, Tours

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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