1913

1913

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916

1913 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1913 MCMXIII
Ab urbe condita	2666
Armenian calendar	1362 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԲ
Assyrian calendar	6663
Baháʼí calendar	69–70
Balinese saka calendar	1834–1835
Bengali calendar	1320
Berber calendar	2863
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 5 – 4 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2457
Burmese calendar	1275
Byzantine calendar	7421–7422
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4610 or 4403     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4611 or 4404
Coptic calendar	1629–1630
Discordian calendar	3079
Ethiopian calendar	1905–1906
Hebrew calendar	5673–5674
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1969–1970
- Shaka Samvat	1834–1835
- Kali Yuga	5013–5014
Holocene calendar	11913
Igbo calendar	913–914
Iranian calendar	1291–1292
Islamic calendar	1331–1332
Japanese calendar	Taishō 2 (大正２年)
Javanese calendar	1842–1843
Juche calendar	2
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4246
Minguo calendar	ROC 2 民國2年
Nanakshahi calendar	445
Thai solar calendar	2455–2456
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 2039 or 1658 or 886     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 2040 or 1659 or 887

1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 913th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1913, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January

Main article: January 1913

• January 1 – The British Board of Film Censors receives the authority to classify and censor films.
• January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.
• January 23 – General election in Tasmania.
• January 23 – In the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état, Ismail Enver comes to power.
• January 30 – The British House of Lords rejects an Irish Home Rule Bill

Ismail Enver

• The Centennial Year Industrial Exposition is announced for Canada

February

Main article: February 1913

• February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station.
• February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes.
• February 9 – Mexican Revolution: Beginning of "La Decena Trágica", the rebellion of some military chiefs against the President Francisco I. Madero.
• February 18 – Mexican Revolution: President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez are forced to resign. Pedro Lascuráin serves as President for less than an hour before General Victoriano Huerta, leader of the coup, takes office
• February 22 – Mexican Revolution: Assassination of Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez.

February 1: New York's Grand Central Terminal as rebuilt.

March

Main article: March 1913

• March
  • The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.
  • Following the assassination of his rival Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament and rules as a dictator.
• c. March 1 – British steamship Calvados disappears in the Sea of Marmara with 200 on board.
• March 3 – The Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 takes place in Washington, D.C. led by Inez Milholland on horseback.
• March 4
  • Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as President of the United States.
  • The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey form part of the Department of Commerce.

March 4: Wilson sworn in as the 28th president of the United States.

• March 4–6 – First Balkan War: Battle of Bizani: Forces of the Kingdom of Greece capture the forts of Bizani (covering the approaches to Ioannina) from the Ottoman Empire.
• March 7 – The British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore harbour.
• March 12 – Australia begins building the new federal capital of Canberra.
• March 13 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
• March 17 – The Military Aviation Academy (Escuela de Aviación Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Militar) on 4 December 1952. The Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) would grow from this foundation.
• March 18 – King George I of Greece is assassinated after 50 years on the throne. He is succeeded by his son Constantine.
• March 20 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (Kuomintang), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies two days later.
• March 23 – Supporters of Phan Xích Long begin an attempt to revolt against colonial rule in French Indochina.
• March 25 – Great Dayton Flood after four days of rain in the Miami Valley kills over 360 and destroys 20,000 homes, chiefly in Dayton.
• March 26
  • Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadalupe and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government as head of the Constitutionals.
  • Balkan Wars: Siege of Adrianople ends when Bulgarian forces take Adrianople from the Ottomans.

March 12: Australia begins building the new capital of Canberra.

April

Main article: April 1913

• April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.
• April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
• April 21 – Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.
• April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world at this date and for more than a decade after.

May

Main article: May 1913

• May 3 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
• May 9–July 11 – Major industrial strike in the Black Country of England involving 25,000 workers, threatening preparations for World War I in naval and steel industries. The workers demand 23 shillings minimum wage.
• 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 26 (May 13 O.S.) – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a 4-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
• May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.
• May 30 – First Balkan War: The Treaty of London is signed, ending the war. Greece is granted those parts of southern Epirus which it does not already control and the independence of Albania is recognised.
• South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train pilots for the South African Aviation Corps, to become the South African Air Force on 1 February 1920.

June

Main article: June 1913

• June 1 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
• June 4 – Emily Davison, a British suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.
• June 8 – The Deutsches Stadion in Berlin is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons in front of an audience of 60,000 people. It had been constructed in anticipation of the 1916 Summer Olympics, later to be cancelled the result of World War I.
• June 11
  • Women's suffrage is enacted in Norway.
  • Battle of Bud Bagsak: Armed with guns and heavy artillery, U.S. and Philippine troops under General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing fight a four-day battle against 500 Moro rebels who are armed mostly with kampilan swords. The rebels are killed in a final desperate charge on June 15.
• June 18 – The Arab Congress of 1913 opens, during which Arab nationalists meet to discuss desired reforms under the Ottoman Empire.
• June 19 – The Parliament of South Africa passes the Natives Land Act, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.
• June 24 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
• June 29 – The Second Balkan War begins.

July

Main article: July 1913

• Foundation of Iglesia ni Cristo, an independent sect of Christianity in the Philippines.
• July 10
  • Romania declares war on Bulgaria.
  • Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the world (as of 2013).
• July 27 – Foundation of the town of San Javier, Uruguay, by Russian settlers.

August

Main article: August 1913

• August 4 – Republic of China: the province of Chungking (Chongqing) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.
• August 10 – Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Bucharest is signed, ending the war. Macedonia is divided and Northern Epirus is assigned to Albania.
• August 13 – Harry Brearley invents stainless steel in Sheffield.
• August 20 – After his airplane fails at an altitude of 900 feet (270 m), aviator Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first person to bail out to safety from an airplane and land safely.
• August 23 – The statue The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark, is finished.
• August 26 – Dublin Lock-out in Ireland: Members of James Larkin's Irish Transport and General Workers' Union employed by the Dublin United Tramways Company begin strike action in defiance of the dismissal of trade union members by its chairman.
• August 31 – Dublin Lock-out: "Bloody Sunday": The dispute escalates when the Dublin Metropolitan Police kill one demonstrator and injure 400 in dispersing a demonstration.

September

Main article: September 1913 (month)

The Balkan boundaries after 1913

• September 9 – In Germany, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.
• September – Jean Sibelius leads his tone poem Luonnotar premiere in Helsinki, Finland with soprano Aino Ackté.
• September 17 – In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president.
• September 23 – French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.
• September 29 – Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Constantinople is signed in Istanbul between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

October

Main article: October 1913

• October 1 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
• October 10
  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
  • Yuan Shikai elected as President of the Republic of China.
• October 14 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales kills 439 miners, the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom.
• October 16 – HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.

Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig

• October 18 – The Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in Germany is finished.
• October 19 – The DLRG (German Life-Saving Society) is founded.
• October 26 – Victoriano Huerta elected president of Mexico.
• October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.

November

Main article: November 1913

• November 5 – The King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
• November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships and more than 250 lives.

December

Main article: December 1913

• December 1
  • The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. Although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production.
  • Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
• December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.
• December 23 – The Federal Reserve System is created as the central banking system of the United States by Woodrow Wilson's signature of the Federal Reserve Act.
• December 30 – Italy returns the Mona Lisa to France.

Date unknown

• Establishment of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in present-day Bangladesh (then Bengal Province).
• French physicist Georges Sagnac shows that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of its source.
• The Camel cigarette brand is introduced by R. J. Reynolds in the United States, the first packaged cigarette.
• The value of world trade reaches roughly $38 billion.

Births

January–February

• January 1 – Shek Kin, Hong Kong veteran actor (d. 2009)
• January 2 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
• January 4 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (d. 2007)
• January 6
  • Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
  • Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
• January 9 – Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• January 10 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician (d. 1991)
• January 15
  • Eugène Brands, Dutch painter (d. 2002)
  • Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
  • Alexander Marinesko, Soviet naval officer (d. 1963)
• January 18 – George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII (d. 2006)
• January 22
  • Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst (d. 2012)
  • William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
  • Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
• January 23
  • Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960)
  • Wally Parks, founder of the NHRA (d. 2007)
• January 25
  • Huang Hua, Foreign Minister of China (d. 2010)
  • Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
• January 29 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
• February 2 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
• February 6 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
• February 10
  • Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
  • Bill White, Australian rugby union player (d. 1969)
• February 14
  • Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
  • Woody Hayes, American college football coach (d. 1987)
  • Jimmy Hoffa, American labor leader (disappeared 1975)
• February 19 – Frank Tashlin, American animation director (d. 1972)
• February 20 – Tommy Henrich, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• February 25
  • Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
  • Gert Fröbe, German actor (Goldfinger) (d. 1988)
• February 26 – George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
• February 27
  • T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (d. 1992)
  • Paul Ricœur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
  • Kazimierz Sabbat, leader of Polish government-in-exile (d. 1989)
  • Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)

March–April

• March 1 – R. S. R. Fitter, British writer (d. 2005)
• March 2 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
• March 4 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
• March 13
  • William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987)
  • Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and lyricist (d. 2009)
• March 18
  • René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
  • Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (d. 1941)
• March 19 – Smoky Dawson, Australian singer (d. 2008)
• March 21 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
• March 26
  • Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
  • Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist (d. 2010)
• March 29 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
• March 30
  • Richard Helms, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 2002)
  • Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
  • Ċensu Tabone, Maltese politician (d. 2012)
• March 31 – Etta Baker, American musician (d. 2006)
• April 3 – Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
• April 4
  • Rosemary Lane, American singer (d. 1975)
  • Frances Langford, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
• April 7
  • Louise Currie, American actress (d. 2013)
  • Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
• April 8
  • Benedict J. Semmes, Jr., American admiral (d. 1994)
  • Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam (d. 2004)
• April 10 – Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
• April 11 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
• April 14 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
• April 16 – Les Tremayne, British-born American actor (d. 2003)
• April 21 – Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (d. 1985)
• April 27 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)

May–June

• May 1
  • Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
  • Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
• May 4 – Hisaya Morishige, Japanese actor (d. 2009)
• May 5 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
• May 8
  • Bob Clampett, American "Looney Tunes" director (d. 1984)
  • Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937)
• May 11 – Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994)
• May 13 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (d. 1980)
• May 16 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
• May 19 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician and 6th President of India (d. 1996)
• May 20
  • Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian football player (soccer) (d.1996)
  • William Hewlett, American businessman (d. 2001)
• May 24 – Peter Ellenshaw, American matte designer (d. 2007)
• May 26
  • Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
  • Pierre Daninos, French writer and humorist (d. 2005)
  • Josef Manger, German weightlifter (d. 1991)
• May 29 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
• June 6 – Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
• June 10 – Benjamin Shapira, a German-born Israeli biochemist and recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
• June 11
  • Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
  • Risë Stevens, American mezzosoprano (d. 2013)
• June 18
  • Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
  • Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
• June 25 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
• June 26
  • Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
  • Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
• June 27 – Richard Pike Bissell, American author (d. 1977)
• June 28 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
• June 30 – Alfonso López Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)

July

• July 3 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1965)
• July 7 – Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician (d. 2011)
• July 8 – Bill Thompson, American voice actor (d. 1971)
• July 9 – William M. Zachacki, d. 1969)
• July 10 – Salvador Espriu, Catalan poet (d. 1985)
• July 12
  • Philip Mayer Kaiser, American diplomat (d. 2007)
  • Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
• July 13
  • Kay Linaker, American actress (d. 2008)
  • Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (d. 2012)
• July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
• July 15
  • Hammond Innes, English author (d. 1998)
  • Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist (d. 2010)
• July 17
  • Roger Garaudy, French Holocaust denier (d. 2012)
  • Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
• July 18 – Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
• July 22
  • Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
  • Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano (d. 2014)
• July 23 – Michael Foot, British politician (d. 2010)
• July 24 – Robert Emhardt, American actor (d. 1994)
• July 29 – Erich Priebke, German war criminal and leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (d. 2013)
• July 30 – Lou Darvas, American artist and cartoonist (d. 1987)

August

• August 8
  • John Facenda, American sports announcer (d. 1984)
  • Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U.S Representative and U.S. Senator (d. 2006)
• August 9 – Tadeusz Kotz, Polish World War II fighter ace (d. 2008)
• August 10 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
• August 13
  • Fred Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1998)
  • Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d. 1977)
• August 16 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
• August 17
  • W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant (d. 2008)
  • Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
• August 19 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
• August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
• August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
• August 27 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
• August 28
  • Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
  • Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
• August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2014)
• August 30 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• August 31
  • Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
  • Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer (d. 2012)

September–October

• September 1 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
• September 2
  • Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
  • Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981)
• September 4
  • Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
  • Boone Guyton, American test pilot (d. 1996)
  • Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
  • Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (d. 2005)
• September 10 – Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
• September 11
  • Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
  • Eugenia Rawls, American actress (d. 2000)
• September 12
  • Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
  • Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (d. 2013)
• September 13 – Roy Engel, American actor (d. 1980)
• September 14
  • Jacobo Árbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
  • Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
• September 15 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
• September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
• September 22 – Lillian Chestney, American painter (d. 2000)
• September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
• September 24
  • Wilson Rawls, American author (d. 1984)
  • Herb Jeffries, American jazz singer (d. 2014)
• September 25 – Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, engineer (d. 1970)
• September 28 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
• September 29
  • Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
  • Stanley Kramer, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001)
  • Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (d. 1996)
• September 30 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975)
• October 10
  • Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer (d. 2004)
  • Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• October 11 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2011)
• October 18 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (d. 1993)
• October 20 – Barney Phillips, American actor (d. 1982)
• October 22
  • Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (d. 1954)
  • Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
• October 24 – Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (d. 1984)
• October 27 – Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist

November

• November 2 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (Elmer Gantry) (d. 1994)
• November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1967)
• November 7
  • Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
  • Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Canadian sculptor (d. 2009)
• November 10 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (d. 2005)
• November 13 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
• November 15 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
• November 18 – Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1999)
• November 21
  • John Boulting, English film director (d. 1985)
  • Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001)
• November 22
  • Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
  • Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
• November 25 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)

December

• December 6
  • Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast (d. 2002)
  • Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
• December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
• December 10
  • Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
  • Harry Locke, British character actor (d. 1987)
• December 13 – Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general (d. 2002)
• December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
• December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace (d. 1989)
• December 18
  • Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
  • Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
• December 21 – Arnold Friberg, American artist (d. 2010)
• December 25 – Candy Candido, American voice actor (d. 1999)
• December 28 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian-American actor (d. 2009)
• December 29 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 2002)
• December 30 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)

Date unknown

• Halil-Salim Jabara, Israeli Arab politician (d. 1999)

Deaths

January–June

• January 2 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
• January 16 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist, and inventor (b. 1832)
• January 27 – Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, statesman, former Prime Minister (b. 1832)
• February 2 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1845)
• February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. 1840)
• February 22
  • Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and semiotician (b. 1857)
  • Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
• February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
• March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
• March 11 – John Shaw Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)
• March 18 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• March 22 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
• March 25 – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, British field marshal (b. 1833)
• March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837)
• May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
• May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
• June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
• June 5 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner
• June 8 – Emily Davison, British suffragette (b. 1872)
• June 23 – Nicolás de Piérola, former president of Peru (b. 1839)
• June 28 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian president (b. 1841)

July–December

• July 3 – Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
• July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
• July 19 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
• July 20 – Vsevolod Rudnev, Russian admiral (b. 1855)
• July 29 – Tobias Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
• August 7 – Samuel Franklin Cody, American/British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
• September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
• October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
• October 16 – Ralph Rose, American athlete (b. 1885)
• October 29 – Darío de Regoyos, Spanish painter (b. 1857)
• November 7 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
• November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1837)
• December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (b. 1864)
• December 7
  • Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
  • Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, inventor of mail order (b. 1844)
• December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
• December 26 (disappeared on this date) – Ambrose Bierce, American writer and journalist (b. 1842)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
• Chemistry – Alfred Werner
• Medicine – Charles Richet
• Literature – Rabindranath Tagore
• Peace – Henri La Fontaine

External links

• 1913 Coin Pictures
• 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place (Vienna) BBC News Magazine 17 April 2013

Further reading

• Charles Emmerson. 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) excerpt and text search
• Florian Illies [in French] (2013). 1913: The Year Before the Storm. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-352-6.