July 13 in History

Former president of the United States Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt while speaking at an election campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.

After a five-day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera is recovered from Lake Piru in California, where she had drowned.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.

Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina in the final 1–0 after extra time.

Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.

Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.

Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 crashes in Boa Viagem, Recife, killing all 16 people on board.

Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.

French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-70 to deploy the TDRS-7 satellite.

Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.

The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.

Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.

Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil, New York City experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.

Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.

In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.

The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.

Vuoristorata, one of the oldest still-operating wooden roller coasters in Europe, is opened at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland.

World War II: Montenegrins begin the Trinaestojulski ustanak (Thirteenth of July Uprising), a popular revolt against the Axis powers.

The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.

The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.

Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.

American Civil War: The New York City draft riots begin three days of rioting which will later be regarded as the worst in United States history.

In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.

The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion begins in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia conclude the London Straits Convention, which forbids warships to cross the Bosporus and Dardanelles in times of war.

Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law, is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.

The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.

The French Armée d'Orient under Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a Mamluk army under Murad Bey in battle of Shubra Khit.

The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria begins.

The Congress of the Confederation enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.

Nine Years' War: French naval forces led by Anne Hilarion de Tourville, fresh from their victory at Beachy Head, sail West and launch a raid on the small English town of Teignmouth, leaving it devastated.

English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.

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

Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.

Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.

Nanjing surrenders to Zhu Di without a fight, ending the Jingnan campaign. The Jianwen Emperor disappears and his family is incarcerated.

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

Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.

William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

Lamine Yamal, Spanish footballer

Nihal Sarin, Indian Chess Grandmaster

Wyatt Oleff, American actor

Mason Teague, Australian rugby league player

Deborah Medrado, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

Kim Sin-jin, South Korean footballer

Josh Hines-Allen, American football player

Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist

Cody Bellinger, American baseball player

Dante Exum, Australian basketball player

Dan Bentley, English footballer

Yebin, South Korean singer-songwriter and composer

Rich the Kid, American rapper

Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer

Tyler Skaggs, American baseball player (died 2019)

Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player

Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer

Leon Bridges, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer

Charis Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player

Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian-Italian footballer

Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer

DJ LeMahieu, American baseball player

Raúl Spank, German high jumper

Tulisa, English singer-songwriter and actress

Trell Kimmons, American sprinter

Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer

Charlotte Dujardin, English equestrian

Abdallah El Said, Egyptian footballer

Ida Maria, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Faf du Plessis, South African professional cricketer

Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter

Marco Pomante, Italian footballer

Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler

Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player

Simon Clist, English footballer

Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer

Nick Kenny, Australian rugby league player

Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer

Masyita Crystallin, Indonesian economist

Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist

Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer

Daniel Díaz, Argentinian footballer

Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player

Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater and coach

Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player

Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player

Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player

Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor

Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter

Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress

Jarno Trulli, Italian racing driver

Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler

MF Doom, English-American rapper (died 2020)

Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach

Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer

José Andrés, Chef, Restaurateur, and Entrepreneur

Brad Godden, Australian rugby league player

Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician

Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan political scientist and politician

Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician, 50th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment

Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia

Gerald Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)

Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor and educator

Eileen Ivers, American fiddler

Akina Nakamori, Japanese singer and actress

Colin van der Voort, Australian rugby league player

Parker Bohn III, American bowler

Neal Foulds, English snooker player and sportscaster

Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model

Tom Kenny, American voice actor and screenwriter

Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player

Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician (died 2014)

Anders Jarryd, Swedish tennis player

Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician

Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager

Tim Watson, Australian footballer, coach, and journalist

Ian Hislop, Welsh-English journalist and screenwriter

Richard Leman, English field hockey player

Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician

Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver and businessman

Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter

Michael Spinks, American boxer

Ray Bright, Australian cricketer

Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress

Gil Birmingham, American actor

Mila Mulroney, Chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney

David Thompson, American basketball player

Rob Bishop, American educator and politician

Didi Conn, American actress and singer

George Nelson, American astronomer and astronaut

Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China

Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (died 2015)

Bryan Murray, Irish actor

Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter

Tony Kornheiser, American television sports talk show host and former sportswriter

Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)

Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian

Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author (died 2021)

Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer (died 2020)

Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (died 1991)

Ernő Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube

Chris Serle, English journalist and actor (died 2024)

Harrison Ford, American actor and producer

Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer

Robert Forster, American actor and producer (died 2019)

Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (died 2005)

Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer (died 2022)

Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (died 2013)

Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (died 2015)

Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer

Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (died 2013)

Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist

Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (died 1970)

Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (died 2009)

Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright

Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (died 2021)

Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (died 2002)

Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager (died 2022)

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut

David Storey, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2017)

Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (died 1963)

Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author (died 2023)

Per Nørgård, Danish composer and music theorist (died 2025)

Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)

Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (died 2014)

Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (died 2006)

Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist (died 2020)

Bob Crane, American actor (died 1978)

Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (died 2008)

Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer

Al Rex, American musician (died 2020)

Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 2017)

Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower (died 2020)

Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (died 2008)

T. Loren Christianson, American politician (died 2019)

Thomas Clark, American politician (died 2020)

Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist (died 2021)

Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer (died 2020)

Ashley Bryan, American children's book author and illustrator (died 2022)

Colonel James H. Harvey, US Army Air Force (later US Air Force) fighter pilot and Tuskegee Airman.

Leslie Brooks, American actress (died 2011)

Anker Jørgensen, Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2016)

Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (died 2011)

Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2006)

Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (died 1999)

Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (died 2020)

William F. Quinn, American lawyer (died 2006)

Alberto Ascari, Italian racing driver (died 1955)

Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (died 2015)

Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (died 1989)

Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality (died 1982)

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (died 2012)

Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper (died 1993)

Souphanouvong, 1st President of Laos (died 1995)

Dorothy Round, English tennis player (died 1982)

Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (died 1974)

Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (died 1990)

Eugenio Pagnini, Italian modern pentathlete (died 1993)

Magda Foy, American child actress (died 2000)

Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (died 1983)

Eric Portman, English actor (died 1969)

George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (died 1969)

Julius Schreck, German commander (died 1936)

Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (died 1980)

Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter and educator (died 1992)

Sidney Blackmer, American actor (died 1973)

Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1940)

Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (died 1941)

Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower (died 1955)

Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician (died 1965)

Stan Coveleski, American baseball player (died 1984)

Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town (died 1948)

Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (died 1951)

Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary (died 1970)

John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (died 1912)

Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist (died 1963)

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1947)

Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (died 1929)

Marie Andrieu, French anarchist, cartomancer and spiritualist (died 1911)

Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (died 1918)

Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (died 1889)

Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died 1877)

John Clare, English poet and author (died 1864)

Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (died 1837)

István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (died 1829)

Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (died 1827)

Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (died 1818)

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1657)

Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and illustrator (died 1677)

Roland Fréart de Chambray (died 1676)

Pope Clement X (died 1676)

Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (died 1651)

John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1609)

Giulio d'Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (died 1561)

Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de' Medici, Catholic cardinal (died 1528)

Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (born 1947)

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and politician, 7th & 15th President of Nigeria (born 1942)

Shannen Doherty, American actress (born 1971)

Ruth Hesse, German opera singer (born 1936)

Richard Simmons, American fitness personality and public figure (born 1948)

Chino Trinidad, Filipino sports journalist and executive (born 1967)

Thomas Matthew Crooks, American student, known for attempting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump (born 2003)

Naomi Pomeroy, American chef and restaurateur (born 1974)

Grant Imahara, American electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host (born 1970)

Zindzi Mandela, South African politician, diplomat, and third daughter of Nelson Mandela (born 1960)

Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (born 1955)

Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (born 1979)

Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (born 1927)

Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (born 1924)

Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (born 1919)

Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)

Jeff Leiding, American football player (born 1961)

Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1930)

Leonard Garment, American lawyer and public servant, 14th White House Counsel (born 1924)

Henri Julien, French race car driver (born 1927)

Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (born 1982)

Ottavio Quattrocchi, Italian businessman (born 1938)

Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (born 1924)

Marc Simont, French-American author and illustrator (born 1915)

Warren Jabali, American basketball player (born 1946)

Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (born 1940)

Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (born 1934)

Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (born 1933)

Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (born 1931)

George Steinbrenner, American businessman (born 1930)

Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1932)

Michael Reardon, American mountaineer (born 1965)

Red Buttons, American actor (born 1919)

Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (born 1922)

Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1907)

Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (born 1914)

Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1901)

Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (born 1968)

Pandro S. Berman, American director, producer, and production manager (born 1905)

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (born 1920)

Davey Allison, American race car driver (born 1961)

Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (born 1909)

Martin Hurson, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1956)

Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (born 1921)

Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (born 1913)

Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (born 1884)

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)

Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (born 1901)

Leslie Groves, American general and engineer, head of the Manhattan Project (born 1896)

Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (born 1895)

Tom Simpson, English cyclist (born 1937)

Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter, illustrator and writer (born 1895)

Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (born 1915)

Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (born 1907)

Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (born 1874)

Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (born 1877)

Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (born 1864)

Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (born 1879)

Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (born 1913)

Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (born 1887)

Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (born 1849)

Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (born 1870)

Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (born 1870)

Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)

Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (born 1840)

Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (born 1866)

August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (born 1829)

They Even Fear His Horses, American tribal chief (born 1836)

John C. Frémont, American general and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (born 1813)

Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (born 1819)

Robert Hamerling, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (born 1830)

John C. Pemberton, American general (born 1814)

Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal, pretender to the British throne and last member of the House of Stuart (born 1725)

Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, scientist and theorist (born 1743)

Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and academic (born 1715)

James Bradley, English priest and astronomer (born 1693)

Edward Braddock, Scottish general (born 1695)

Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1631)

Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (born 1585)

Robert Shirley, English soldier and diplomat (born 1581)

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1563)

Albert VII, archduke of Austria (born 1559)

Adam Wenceslaus, duke of Cieszyn (born 1574)

John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (born 1490)

Afonso, Portuguese prince (born 1475)

Peter Parler, German architect, designed St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge (born 1330)

Bertrand du Guesclin, French nobleman and knight (born 1320)

Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian academic and jurist (born 1313)

Hubert Walter, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (born 1160)

Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (born 1040)

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 973)

Gunther, margrave of Merseburg

Henry I, bishop of Augsburg

Pandulf II, Lombard prince

Landulf IV, Lombard prince

Abu'l-Qasim, Kalbid emir of Sicily

Leo VII, pope of the Catholic Church

Huang Chao, Chinese rebel leader (born 835)

Wu Yuanheng, Chinese poet and politician (born 758)

Rui Zong, Chinese emperor (born 662)

John III, pope of the Catholic Church