1913

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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1913 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1913
MCMXIII
Ab urbe condita2666
Armenian calendar1362
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԲ
Assyrian calendar6663
Baháʼí calendar69–70
Balinese saka calendar1834–1835
Bengali calendar1320
Berber calendar2863
British Regnal year3 Geo. 5  4 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2457
Burmese calendar1275
Byzantine calendar7421–7422
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
4609 or 4549
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4610 or 4550
Coptic calendar1629–1630
Discordian calendar3079
Ethiopian calendar1905–1906
Hebrew calendar5673–5674
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1969–1970
 - Shaka Samvat1834–1835
 - Kali Yuga5013–5014
Holocene calendar11913
Igbo calendar913–914
Iranian calendar1291–1292
Islamic calendar1331–1332
Japanese calendarTaishō 2
(大正2年)
Javanese calendar1842–1843
Juche calendar2
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4246
Minguo calendarROC 2
民國2年
Nanakshahi calendar445
Thai solar calendar2455–2456
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

Events

January

  • January 5 First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war.
  • January 13 Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.[1]
  • January 23 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power.
  • January Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research.[2][3][4] Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein.[5]

February

March

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

April

  • April Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel is published.
  • 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 10 Albrecht Grocery Shop, predecessor of the Aldi discount store chain globally, is founded in Essen, Germany.>Weymouth, Lauren. "Secrets of the German supermarkets conquering America (24 slides)". MSN: Money. Archived from the original on September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2017.</ref>
  • April 13 Boca Juniors' debut in Primera was on April 13 v Estudiantil Porteño, a 4–2 win as visitor with 3 goals scored by Arnulfo Leal.
  • 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 on this date, and for more than a decade after.[12]

May

May 29: The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.

June

  • 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 Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.[15]
  • June 5 Muscat rebellion: Rebels take Nizwa.
  • 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 as 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 13 The predecessor of the Aldi store chain opens in Essen, Germany.
  • June 24 Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
  • June 29 The Second Balkan War begins.

July

  • July 10
    • Romania declares war on Bulgaria.
    • Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the all-time highest temperature recorded on Earth (although its validity has been challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of 54.4 °C (129.9 °F) was recorded at the same location, which would make it the world's highest verified air temperature, subject to confirmation).[16]
  • July 13 The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.[17]
  • July 27 The town of San Javier, Uruguay is founded[18] by Russian settlers.
  • July 29 Agreement reached at the Anglo-Ottoman Convention which defined the limits of Ottoman jurisdiction in the area of the Persian Gulf with respect to Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

August

  • August 2 The first known ascent of Mount Olympus in Greece is made by Swiss mountaineers Daniel Baud-Bovy and Frédéric Boissonnas guided by Christos Kakkalos.
  • 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.[19]
  • August 20 After his airplane fails at an altitude of 900 feet (270 m), aviator Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first person to bail out from an airplane and land safely.[20]
  • August 23 The Little Mermaid statue is finished in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 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.[21]
  • 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.[1][21]

September

The Balkan boundaries after 1913

October

Nearly-completed Ford Model Ts at the Highland Park Plant
  • October 7 The Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant in Highland Park, Michigan, near Detroit, becomes the first automobile production facility in the world to implement the moving assembly line, significantly speeding up production of the Model T.
  • October 9 Canadian-owned ocean liner SS Volturno (1906), carrying passengers (mostly immigrants) and a chemical cargo from Rotterdam to New York City, catches fire in a North Atlantic gale; 136 die, but 521 are saved by ships summoned by SOS messages to the scene.
  • October 10
  • October 11 The Philadelphia Athletics win the deciding game of the 1913 World Series, over baseball's New York Giants, winning 3–1 to take the series in five games.
  • 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.[19]
  • October 16 The British Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.[22]
Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig

November

  • November 5 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 711 The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships, and more than 250 lives.

December

Date unknown

  • The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established in Bengal Province (modern-day Bangladesh).
  • French physicist Georges Sagnac shows that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of its source.
  • The Camel cigarettes are introduced by R. J. Reynolds in the United States (the first packaged cigarettes).
  • Prada is established as a leather goods dealer in Milan, by Mario Prada and his brother.
  • Astra, as predecessor of AstraZeneca, a healthcare and pharmaceutical brand worldwide, founded in Södertälje, Sweden.
  • The value of world trade reaches roughly $38 billion.

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January–February

Edward Gierek
Gustáv Husák
Lloyd Bridges
Kazimierz Sabbat

March–April

William J. Casey
René Clément
  • 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 12 Loulie Jean Norman, American singer (d. 2005)
  • March 13
    • William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987)
    • Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer, lyricist (d. 2009)
  • March 15 Rosita Contreras, Argentine actress (d. 1962)
  • March 18
    • René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
    • Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander (d. 2018)
    • 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 22 Tom McCall, American politician and journalist (d. 1983)
  • March 26
    • Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
    • Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist (d. 2010)
  • March 28 Toko Shinoda, Japanese painter (d. 2021)
  • 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
    • Cecil Gant, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
    • Rosemary Lane, American singer (d. 1974)
    • Frances Langford, American singer, actress (d. 2005)
    • Muddy Waters, African-American musician (d. 1983)
  • April 7
    • Louise Currie, American actress (d. 2013)
    • Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader (d. 2017)
    • Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
  • April 8
    • Sourou-Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure, 2nd President of Dahomey (d. 1989)
    • Benedict J. Semmes Jr., American admiral (d. 1994)
    • Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam (d. 2004)
  • April 9 Aleksanteri Saarvala, Finnish artistic gymnast (d. 1989)
  • April 10 Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
  • April 11 Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
  • April 11 Winifred Drinkwater, Scottish aviator, first woman to hold a commercial pilot's license (d. 1996)
  • April 14 Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
  • April 16 Les Tremayne, British-born American actor (d. 2003)
  • April 18 Jack Pope, American judge, attorney, and author (d. 2017)
  • April 19
    • Lloyd Cardwell, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
    • Karl Rawer, German physicist (d. 2018)
  • April 21 Richard Beeching, chairman of British Rail (d. 1985)
  • April 27 Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)
  • April 29 Eugene Vielle, British Royal Air Force officer (d. 2015)

May–June

Stewart Granger
Woody Herman
Elton Britt
Alfonso López Michelsen
  • May 1
    • Roy Matsumoto, American army officer (d. 2014)
    • Louis Nye, American comedian, actor (d. 2005)
    • Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
  • May 4 Hisaya Morishige, Japanese actor (d. 2009)
  • May 5 Fred J. Doocy, American politician, banker (d. 2017)
  • May 6 Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (d. 1993)
  • May 8
    • Bob Clampett, American director (Looney Tunes) (d. 1984)
    • Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937)
    • Sid James, South African-born British actor, comedian (d. 1976)
    • Charles Scorsese, American actor, father of Martin Scorsese (d. 1993)
  • May 11 Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994)
  • May 13
  • May 16
    • Gheorghe Apostol, Romanian communist politician (d. 2010)
    • Woody Herman, American musician, band leader (d. 1987)
    • Paul R. Norby, American naval officer (d. 2015)
  • May 19 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (d. 1996)
  • May 20
    • Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian soccer player (d. 1996)
    • William Hewlett, American businessman (d. 2001)
  • May 22 Benedict Garmisa, American politician (d. 1985)
  • May 24
    • Peter Ellenshaw, American matte designer (d. 2007)
    • James Flint, British Royal Air Force officer, businessman (d. 2013)
    • Haldpr Topsøe, Danish engineer (d. 2013)
  • May 25 Benjamin Melniker, American producer (d. 2018)
  • May 26
    • Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
    • Pierre Daninos, French writer, humorist (d. 2005)
    • Josef Manger, German weightlifter (d. 1991)
  • May 29 Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
  • May 31 Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian, radio and television personality (d. 1979)
  • June 2 Elsie Tu, English-born Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015)
  • June 3 Yitzhak Berman, Israeli politician (d. 2013)
  • June 6 Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
  • June 10 Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
  • June 11
  • June 13
    • Ralph Edwards, American game show host (d. 2005)
    • Yitzhak Pundak, Polish-born Israeli military officer, diplomat (d. 2017)
    • Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (d. 1943)
  • June 18
    • Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
    • Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (d. 1993)
    • Sylvia Field Porter, American economist, journalist (d. 1991)
  • June 20 Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Spanish royal, Count of Barcelona (d. 1993)
  • June 21
    • Luis Taruc, Filipino political figure, insurgent (d. 2005)
    • Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk (d. 2003)
    • Kid Azteca, Mexican boxer (d. 2002)
  • June 22 Álvaro Alsogaray, Argentine politician and businessman (d. 2005)
  • June 23
    • Jacques Rabemananjara, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet (d. 2005)
    • William P. Rogers, American diplomat (d. 2001)
  • June 24 Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian road racing cyclist (d. 2002)
  • June 25 Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
  • June 26
    • Rudolf Brazda, German concentration camp prisoner (d. 2011)
    • Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet, politician (d. 2008)
    • Konrāds Kalējs, Latvian soldier (d. 2001)
    • Anissa Rawda Najjar, Lebanese feminist, women's rights activist (d. 2016)
    • Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010)
  • June 27
    • Richard Pike Bissell, American author (d. 1977)
    • Elton Britt, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1972)
    • Benvenuto Nunes, Brazilian olympic freestyle, backstroke swimmer (d. unknown)
  • June 28
    • Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
    • Maldwyn James, Welsh international rugby union player (d. 2003)
  • June 30
    • Henry Leask, British Army officer (d. 2004)
    • Alfonso López Michelsen, 24th President of Colombia (d. 2007)

July

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
Coral Browne
  • July 1
    • Lee Guttero, American basketball player (d. 2004)
    • Noel Miller, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
    • Frederick Malkus, American politician (d. 1999)
    • André Tollet, French upholsterer, trade unionist and communist (d. 2001)
    • Frank Barrett, American relief pitcher (d. 1998)
    • Mario Acerbi, Italian football player (d. 2010)
    • Joana Raspall i Juanola, Spanish writer and librarian (d. 2013)
    • Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, Indian Army Chief (d. 2000)
  • July 3 Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1965)
  • July 4 Barbara Weeks, American actress (d. 2003)
  • July 5
    • Elwood Cooke, American tennis player (d. 2004)
    • Smiley Lewis, American New Orleans rhythm and blues singer, guitarist (d. 1966)
  • July 6 Vance Trimble, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author (d. 2021)
  • July 7
    • Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician (d. 2011)
    • Lu Ann Meredith, American actress (d. 1998)
  • July 8 Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician and schoolteacher (d. 2017)
  • July 9
    • Ted Grant, South African Trotskyist (d. 2006)
    • William M. Zachacki, (d. 1969)
  • July 10
    • Elizabeth Inglis, English actress (d. 2007)
    • Joan Marsh, American actress (d. 2000)
  • July 11 Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanese nationalist leader, 2nd Prime Minister of Ghana (d. 1978)
  • July 12
    • Sultan Hamid II (d. 1978)
    • Edith Nash, American educator, poet (d. 2003)
    • Rufus Rogers, New Zealand doctor, politician (d. 2009)
    • Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)[24]
  • July 13
    • Kay Linaker, American actress (d. 2008)
    • Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (d. 2012)
  • July 14
  • July 15
    • Gene Wettstone, American gymnastics coach (d. 2013)
    • Hammond Innes, English author (d. 1998)
    • Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet, memoirist (d. 2010)
  • July 16
    • Mirza Babayev, Azerbaijani movie actor, singer (d. 2003)
    • Herman Gundlach, American football offensive lineman (d. 2005)
    • Antoine Raab, German footballer (d. 2006)
    • Carmen Acevedo Vega, Ecuadorian poet, writer, and journalist (d. 2006)
  • July 17
    • Roger Garaudy, French Holocaust denier (d. 2012)
    • Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
  • July 18
    • N. Krishnaswami Reddy, Indian lawyer (d. 2002)
    • Du Runsheng, Chinese military officer, politician, and economist (d. 2015)
    • Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
  • July 19
    • Fred Agnich, American politician (d. 2004)
    • Manouchehr Sotodeh, Iranian geographer (d. 2016)
  • July 20
    • Irma Córdoba, Argentine actress (d. 2008)
    • Guillermo Leaden, Argentine bishop (d. 2014)
  • July 22
    • Esteban Reyes, Mexican tennis player (d. 2014)
    • Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader, songwriter (d. 1995)
    • Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano (d. 2014)
  • July 23
  • July 24 Robert Emhardt, American actor (d. 1994)
  • July 26 Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer (d. 2012)
  • July 28 Hedley Kett, British naval officer (d. 2014)
  • July 29 Erich Priebke, German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (d. 2013)
  • July 30 Lou Darvas, American artist, cartoonist (d. 1987)

August

September–October

Paul "Bear" Bryant
Claude Simon
Tito Gobbi
  • September 1 Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter, graphic artist (d. 1979)
  • September 2
    • Alex Lovy, American animator (d. 1992)
    • Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
    • Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981)
  • September 3 Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
  • 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 6 – Julie Gibson, American singer and actress (d. 2019)
  • September 10
    • Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat (d. 2009)
    • Zephania Mothopeng, South African politician, activist (d. 1990)
  • September 11
    • Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
    • Eugenia Rawls, American actress (d. 2000)
  • September 12
  • September 13
    • Roy Engel, American actor (d. 1980)
    • Trần Đại Nghĩa, North Vietnamese army general (d. 1997)
  • September 14
  • September 15 John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General, convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
  • September 17
    • Robert Lembke, German television presenter, game show host (d. 1989)
    • Ata Kandó, Hungarian-born Dutch photographer (d. 2017)
  • 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 actor, popular music and jazz singer (d. 2014)
  • September 25
    • Charles Helou, 9th President of Lebanon (d. 2001)
    • Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, British civil engineer (d. 1970)
  • September 27 Alexandru Drăghici, Romanian communist activist and politician (d. 1993)
  • September 28 Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist, illustrator (d. 2007)
  • September 29
  • September 30
    • Bill Walsh, American movie producer, writer (d. 1975)
    • Cecilia Caballero Blanco, First Lady of Colombia (d. 2019)
  • October 2 Roma Mitchell, Australian lawyer, Governor of South Australia (d. 2000)
  • October 4 Martial Célestin, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
  • 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, writer (d. 2011)
  • October 18 Evelyn Venable, American actress (d. 1993)
  • October 19 Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, lyricist, and diplomat (d. 1980)
  • October 20
    • Barney Phillips, American actor (d. 1982)
    • Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho, Brazilian singer (d. 2011)
  • October 22
    • Boots Mallory, American actress, dancer, and model (d. 1958)
    • Robert Capa, Hungarian-born American photojournalist (d. 1954)
    • Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
    • Hans-Peter Tschudi, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 2002)
  • October 24
    • Ron Barassi Sr., Australian rules footballer (d. 1941)
    • Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (d. 1984)
  • October 27
    • Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist (d. 2016)
    • Otto Wichterle, Czech inventor of the modern contact lens (d. 1998)
  • October 28 Don Lusk, American animator (d. 2018)

November

Lon Nol
  • November 2 Burt Lancaster, American actor, best known for his role in Elmer Gantry (d. 1994)
  • November 3
    • Marika Rökk, Egyptian-born Austrian singer, dancer and actress (d. 2004)
    • Antony Mitradas, Indian film director (d. 2017)
  • November 5 Vivien Leigh, British actress, best known for her role in Gone With The Wind (d. 1967)
  • November 6 – Aisha Abd al-Rahman, Egyptian writer (d. 1998)
  • November 7
    • Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
    • Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Canadian sculptor (d. 2009)
    • Tahira Tahirova, Azerbaijani politician (d. 1991)
  • November 8 – Max Desfor, American photographer (d. 2018)
  • November 10
    • Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (d. 2005)
    • Sun Yun-suan, Chinese engineer, politician (d. 2006)
  • November 11 – Rosemary Inyama, educator, politician, businesswoman and community developer[29] (d. unknown)
  • November 13
    • Landrum Bolling, American political scientist and academic administrator (d. 2018)
    • Lon Nol, 2-Time Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 1985)
    • Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
  • November 15 Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
  • November 16 Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (d. 2015)
  • November 18 Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1999)
  • November 21
    • John Boulting, English film director (d. 1985)
    • Roy Boulting, English film director, producer (d. 2001)
  • November 22
    • Charles Berlitz, American author (d. 2003)
    • Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
    • Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach (d. 2016)[30]
    • Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
    • Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater (d. 2018)
  • November 23 William Krehm, Canadian author, journalist and political activist (d. 2019)
  • November 24 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (d. 2005)
  • November 25 Lewis Thomas, American physician, essayist (d. 1993)

December

Jean Marais

Date unknown

  • Halil-Salim Jabara, Israeli Arab politician (d. 1999)
  • Bahjat Talhouni, 4-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1994)

Deaths

January

February

Gustaf de Laval
Yohan Kazimir Ernrot

March

April

  • April 7 Carl von Lemcke, German mathematician (b. 1867)
  • April 8 Gyula Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1849)
  • April 15 Kareemullah Shah, Indian Sufi scholar and saint
  • April 18 Lester Frank Ward, American botanist, paleontologist and sociologist (b. 1841)
  • April 19
    • Paul Janson, Belgian politician (b. 1840)
    • Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist and historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) (b. 1863)
  • April 20 Vilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (b. 1836)
  • April 24 Vsevolod Abramovich, Russian aviator (b. 1890)
  • April 25
    • Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ukrainian author (b. 1864)
    • Stjepan Kovačević, Croatian politician (b. 1841)
  • April 27 Gabriel von Seidl, German architect (b. 1848)
  • April 28 Andreas Flocken, German entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1845)
  • April 29 Václav Hladík, Austro-Hungarian novelist (b. 1868)

May

Tancrède Auguste
Elena Guro
  • May 1 John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger, U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
  • May 2
    • Tancrède Auguste, Haitian general, 20th President of Haiti (b. 1856)
    • Metropolitan Baselios Paulose I, Indian bishop (b. 1836)
  • May 6 Elena Guro, Russian painter and writer (b. 1877)
  • May 8 Louis Adolphus Duhring, American physician (b. 1845)
  • May 16 Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
  • May 19 Gabriel Loppé, French painter and photographer (b. 1825)
  • May 25 Alfred Redl, Austrian military intelligence officer, double agent (honorable suicide) (b. 1864)
  • May 27 Catherine Amanda Coburn, American journalist, newspaper editor (b. 1834)
  • May 28 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, British politician and scientist (b. 1839)

June

Emily Davison
Nicolás de Piérola
  • June 2 Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
  • June 5 Chris von der Ahe, German-born American brewer, baseball owner (b. 1851)
  • June 8 Emily Davison, English suffragette (b. 1872)
  • June 22
    • Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet (b. 1875)
    • Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, French pioneer (b. 1862)
  • June 23
    • Nicolás de Piérola, Peruvian politician, 2-time President of Peru (b. 1839)
    • Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, English surgeon (b. 1828)
  • June 28 Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer, politician and 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)

July

Prince Arisugawa Takehito
Climaco Calderon
  • July 1 Emanuel M. Abrahams, American politician (b. 1866)
  • July 3 Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
  • July 5 Prince Arisugawa Takehito (b. 1862)
  • July 7 Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American Union Army officer, diplomat and politician (b. 1841)
  • July 10
    • Mikoláš Aleš, Austro-Hungarian painter (b. 1835)
    • John Valentine Ellis, Canadian journalist (b. 1835)
  • July 11 Charles Lavigne, Ceylonese Roman Catholic and Syro Malabar Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1840)
  • July 13 Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
  • July 16 Sigismund Bachrich, Hungarian composer (b. 1841)
  • July 17 Esther Saville Allen, American author (b. 1837)
  • July 19 Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer, politician and 15th President of Colombia (b. 1852)
  • July 20 Vsevolod Rudnev, Russian admiral (b. 1855)
  • July 22 Adhémar Esmein, French jurist (b. 1848)
    • Eduardo López Rivas, Venezuelan editor and journalist (b. 1850)
  • July 29 Tobias Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
  • July 30

August

Johannes Linnankoski
  • August 3
    • Josephine Cochrane, American inventor of the first commercially successful dishwasher (b. 1839)
    • Joseph Graybill, American actress (b. 1887)
  • August 4 Étienne Laspeyres, German economist (b. 1834)
  • August 7 Samuel Franklin Cody, American-born British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
  • August 9 Wilhelm Albermann, German sculptor (b. 1835)
  • August 10 Jules Desbrochers des Loges, French entomologist (b. 1836)
  • August 11
    • Vasily Avseenko, Russian journalist and writer (b. 1842)
    • Natalie Zahle, Danish educator and women's rights activist (b. 1827)
  • August 13 August Bebel, German Social Democratic politician (b. 1840)
  • August 20 Émile Ollivier, 24th Prime Minister of France (b. 1825)
  • August 22 Oscar de Négrier, French general (b. 1839)
  • August 28 Fyodor Kamensky, Russian sculptor (b. 1836)
  • August 29 Lars Havstad, Norwegian activist (b. 1851)

September

October

Faisal bin Turki
Katsura Tarō

November

Sava Grujić

December

Emperor Menelik II
Patriarch Anthimus VII of Constantinople

Nobel Prizes

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Further reading

  • Charles Emmerson. 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) excerpt and text search; covers 20 major world cities
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 269–96.
  • Florian Illies (2013). 1913: The Year Before the Storm. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-352-6.
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