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January 13

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Chemical Weapons Convention

33 years ago

Born this day

1864

Wilhelm Wien

Died aged 64

Oldest record

309th

Maria Sibylla Merian

death anniversary

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Famous births27

1781 · 245 yrs

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German pronunciation:; 13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets.

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ArtDied aged 60

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1831 · 195 yrs

Ivan Shishkin

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian: Иван Иванович Шишкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian Realist painter and draughtsman, best known for his landscape subjects. One of the most notable artisans to emerge during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he was among founding members of the Peredvizhniki company.

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ArtDied aged 67

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1864 · 162 yrs

Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German:; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.

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ScienceDied aged 64

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1866 · 160 yrs

George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.

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PhilosophyDied aged 83

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1871 · 155 yrs

Karl Liebknecht

Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (German:; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist politician and revolutionary.

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PoliticsDied aged 48

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1893 · 133 yrs

Chaïm Soutine

Chaïm Soutine (French:; Russian: Хаим Соломонович Сутин, romanized: Khaim Solomonovich Sutin; Yiddish: חײם סוטין, romanized: Chaim Sutin; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living…

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1924 · 102 yrs

Paul Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend (FY-ur-ah-bent; German:; January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of science.

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1927 · 99 yrs

Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston.

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1938 · 88 yrs

Cabu

Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (French pronunciation:; 13 January 1938 – 7 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (pronounced), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices.

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1947 · 79 yrs

Carles Rexach

Carles Rexach Cerdà (Catalan pronunciation:; born 13 January 1947) is a Spanish former football winger and manager. His career was mainly associated with Barcelona, spending 44 years at the club as a player (youth levels included) and coach.

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SportsAge 79

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1949 · 77 yrs

Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma (born 13 January 1949) is an Indian cosmonaut and a pilot of the Indian Air Force. He became the first Indian to travel to outer space, when he flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme.

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1959 · 67 yrs

Gilmar Rinaldi

Gilmar Luís Rinaldi (born 13 January 1959) is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and a current football agent of such players as Adriano. Gilmar competed for Brazil at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and was part of the victorious 1994 FIFA World Cup squad.

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SportsAge 67

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Famous deaths5

1717 · 309 yrs

Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German-Dutch entomologist, naturalist, and scientific illustrator.

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ArtDied aged 69

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1852 · 174 yrs

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (20 September 1778 – 25 January 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.

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MilitaryDied aged 73

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1941 · 85 yrs

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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1978 · 48 yrs

Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served from 1965 to 1969 as the 38th vice president of the United States.

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1988 · 38 yrs

Chiang Ching-kuo

Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat. He served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988, and acted as a de facto leader of the country by serving as Premier from 1972 to 1978.

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Events5

1993 · 33 yrs

Chemical Weapons Convention

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control treaty administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental…

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Politics

2012 · 14 yrs

2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games (German: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2012), officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in Innsbruck, Austria, on 13–22 January 2012.

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Sports

2012 · 14 yrs

Costa Concordia disaster

On 13 January 2012, the seven-year-old Costa Cruises vessel Costa Concordia was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when the cruise ship deviated from her planned route at Isola del Giglio, Italy in order to perform a sail-by salute, and as a consequence struck a rock formation on the sea floor.

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Disaster

2021 · 5 yrs

Second impeachment of Donald Trump

Donald Trump, serving as the 45th president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired. On that date, the House of Representatives adopted one article of impeachment against Trump: incitement of insurrection.

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History

2024 · 2 yrs

2024 Taiwanese presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 as part of the 2024 general elections. Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the incumbent president of the Republic of China, was ineligible for reelection due to term limits.

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