1913
1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday . (click on link for calendar)
Events
January-March
April-September
April 8 - Passing of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , dictating the direct election of senators.
April 24 - Woolworth Building opening ceremony.
May 13 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft .
May 14 - New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller .
May 29 - Igor Stravinsky 's ballet score The Rite of Spring May 30 - First Balkan War : A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war.
June - First edition of the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in the United States ; still issued bimonthly till today.
June 4 - Emily Davison , a suffragette , runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby . She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
June 15 - Bud Bagsak Massacre : US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines.
June 24 - Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia .
July 3 - Commemeration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of United States Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 10 - Death Valley , California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004 ).
August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield .
August 20 - 700 feet above Buc , France , parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.
September 23 - French aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean
September 29 - Rudolf Diesel disappears enroute to Britain
October-December
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Births
January-February
January 6 - Loretta Young , American actress (d. 2000 )
January 9 - Richard M. Nixon , President of the United States (d. 1994 )
January 15 - Lloyd Bridges , American actor (d. 1998 )
January 18 - Danny Kaye , American actor (d. 1987 )
January 24 - Norman Dello Joio , American composer
January 29 - Peter von Zahn , German journalist and writer (d. 2001 )
February 4 - Rosa Parks , American civil rights activist
February 6 - Mary Leakey , anthropologist (d. 1996 )
February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee , actress, ecdysiast (d. 1970 )
February 11 - Lucio Diestro , composer
February 13 - George Barker , British poet (d. 1991 )
February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa , American labor union leader (d. 1975 - disappeared)
February 14 - Mel Allen , sports reporter (d. 1996 )
February 25 - Gert Fröbe , actor (d. 1988 )
February 25 - Jim Backus , actor (d. 1989 )
February 27 - Irwin Shaw , writer (d. 1984 )
March-August
March 4 - John Garfield , actor (d. 1952 )
March 13 - William Casey , director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 1987 )
March 13 - Sergey Mikhalkov , Russian writer; wrote lyrics to the Soviet and Russian national anthems
March 18 - René Clément , French film director (d. 1996 )
March 21 - George Abecassis , English Formula One driver (d. 1991 )
March 29 - Tony Zale , world champion boxer (d. 1997 )
March 29 - R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (d. 2000 )
March 30 - Richard Helms , director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002 )
March 30 - Frankie Laine , singer
April 3 - Per Borten , former Premier of Norway (d. 2005 )
April 27 - Philip Hauge Abelson , physicist co-discoverer of Neptunium (d. 2004 )
May 1 - Walter Susskind , Czech conductor (d. 1980 )
May 8 - Saima Harmaja , Finnish poet (d. 1937 )
May 11 - Robert Jungk , publicist and futurologist (d. 1994 )
May 16 - Woody Herman , musician, band leader (d. 1987 )
May 20 - William Hewlett , cofounder of Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001 )
May 26 - Peter Cushing , British actor (d. 1994 )
June 10 - Tikhon Khrennikov , Soviet composer
June 11 - Vince Lombardi , American football coach (d. 1970 )
June 18 – Robert Mondavi , leading American wine maker
June 25 - Cyril Fletcher , British comedian (d. 2005 )
June 28 - Franz Antel , Austrian filmmaker
July 14 - Gerald Ford , 38th President of the United States
July 22 - Gorni Kramer , Italian bandleader and songwriter
August 8 - John Facenda , voice of NFL Films (d. 1984 )
August 17 - Rudy York , Major League Baseball All-Star (d. 1970 )
August 28 - Robertson Davies , Canadian novelist (d. 1995 )
August 28 - Richard Tucker , American tenor (d. 1975 )
September-December
September 5 - Frank Thomas , Disney animator (d. 2004 )
September 12 - Jesse Owens , American athlete (d. 1980 )
September 14 - Jacobo Arbenz , president of Guatemala (d. 1971 )
September 19 - Frances Farmer , American actress (d. 1970 )
September 15 - John N. Mitchell , former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988 )
September 29 - Stanley Kramer , Academy Award Winning Movie Producer, director, and writer (d. 2001 )
September 29 - Trevor Howard , actor (d. 1988 )
September 29 - Silvio Piola , all-time highest Serie A goalscorer (d. 1996 )
September 30 - Bill Walsh , movie producer and writer (d. 1975 )
November 2 - Burt Lancaster , actor (d. 1994 )
November 5 - Vivien Leigh , British actress (d. 1967 )
November 7 - Albert Camus , French writer (d. 1960 )
November 10 - Álvaro Cunhal , Portuguese communist politician
November 21 - Roy Boulting , English film director and producer (d. 2001 )
November 22 - Benjamin Britten , English composer (d. 1976 )
December 6 - Eleanor Holm - American swimmer (d. 2004 )
Deaths
January 1 - Alfred von Schlieffen , German field marshal
January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort , French meteorologist
February 26 - Felix Draeseke , German composer
March 10 - Harriet Tubman , Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist
March 22 - Sung Chiao-jen , a founder of KMT
March 31 - John Pierpont Morgan , American financier and banker
June 5 - Chris von der Ahe , brewer, baseball owner
July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young , American naval hero
October 5 - Hans von Bartels , German painter
December 12 - Menelik II , Emperor of Ethiopia
Alfred Russel Wallace , Welsh biologist
