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October 13

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Treaty of Kars

105 years ago

Born this day

1925

Margaret Thatcher

Would be 101

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Oldest record

490th

Garcilaso de la Vega

death anniversary

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Famous births29

1821 · 205 yrs

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow ( VEER-koh, FEER-khoh; German:; 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician.

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ActivismDied aged 80

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1833 · 193 yrs

Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind of classical music.

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MusicDied aged 53

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1887 · 139 yrs

Jozef Tiso

Jozef Gašpar Tiso (Slovak pronunciation:, Hungarian pronunciation:; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician, dictator, and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945.

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1895 · 131 yrs

Cemal Gürsel

Cemal Gürsel (13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état.

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1902 · 124 yrs

Shigeyoshi Suzuki

Shigeyoshi Suzuki (鈴木重義, Suzuki Shigeyoshi; October 13, 1902 – December 20, 1971) was a Japanese football player who played for and later managed the Japan national team.

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1921 · 105 yrs

Yves Montand

Ivo Livi (Italian:; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand (French:), was an Italian-born French actor and singer. Montand has been described as one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.

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1925 · 101 yrs

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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PoliticsWould be 101

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1927 · 99 yrs

Turgut Özal

Halil Turgut Özal (13 October 1927 – 17 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, bureaucrat, engineer and statesman who served as the president of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the prime minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Motherland Party.

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PoliticsWould be 99

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1931 · 95 yrs

Raymond Kopa

Raymond Kopa (né Kopaszewski; 13 October 1931 – 3 March 2017) was a French professional footballer, integral to the France national team of the 1950s. At the club level he played primarily for Reims but also for Real Madrid teams that won three European Cups.

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SportsWould be 95

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1934 · 92 yrs

Nana Mouskouri

Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri (Greek: Ιωάννα "Νάνα" Μούσχουρη; born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician.

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MusicAge 92

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1941 · 85 yrs

Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his solo work and his collaborations with Art Garfunkel. He and Garfunkel, whom he met in elementary school in 1953, came to prominence in the 1960s as Simon & Garfunkel.

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MusicAge 85

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1945 · 81 yrs

Desi Bouterse

Desiré "Dési" Delano Bouterse (13 October 1945 – 23 December 2024) was a Surinamese military officer, politician and revolutionary who served as the eighth president of Suriname from 2010 to 2020, having previously led the country twice after a coup as a military leader from 1980 to 1987 and again from 1990 to 1991.

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Famous deaths13

1536 · 490 yrs

Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega, KOS (c. 1501 – 14 October 1536) was a Spanish soldier and poet.

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LiteratureDied aged 35

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1715 · 311 yrs

Nicolas Malebranche

Nicolas Malebranche (6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715) was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St.

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PhilosophyDied aged 77

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1815 · 211 yrs

Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat (English: myoo-RAH, French:; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a Marshal of the Empire, regarded as the foremost cavalry commander of the Napoleonic Wars, who reigned as King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon (Italian: Gioacchino Napoleone) from 1808 to 1815.

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RoyaltyDied aged 48

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1822 · 204 yrs

Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova (Italian pronunciation:; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures.

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ArtDied aged 64

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1825 · 201 yrs

Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria

Maximilian I Joseph (German: Maximilian I. Josef; 27 May 1756 – 13 October 1825) was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria (as Maximilian IV Joseph) from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria (as Maximilian I Joseph) from 1806 to 1825.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1882 · 144 yrs

Arthur de Gobineau

Arthur de Gobineau, Count de Gobineau (French:; Joseph Arthur de Gobineau; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French writer and diplomat who is best known for helping introduce scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race and Nordicism.

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PoliticsDied aged 66

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1928 · 98 yrs

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known as Princess Dagmar of Denmark before her marriage, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

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RoyaltyDied aged 80

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1987 · 39 yrs

Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain ( BRAT-n; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.

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1990 · 36 yrs

Le Duc Tho

Lê Đức Thọ (Vietnamese:; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973, but refused the award.

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PoliticsWould be 115

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2003 · 23 yrs

Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist.

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ScienceWould be 108

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2016 · 10 yrs

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Bhumibol Adulyadej (5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 9 June 1946 until his death in 2016.

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RoyaltyWould be 98

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2016 · 10 yrs

Dario Fo

Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (Italian:; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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MusicWould be 100

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Events5

1921 · 105 yrs

Treaty of Kars

The Treaty of Kars was a treaty that established the borders between Turkey and the three Transcaucasian Soviet republics, which are now the independent republics of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The treaty was signed in the city of Kars on 13 October 1921.

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Politics

1972 · 54 yrs

1972 Andes flight disaster

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972.

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Disaster

1977 · 49 yrs

Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181

Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737-200 jet airliner (reg. D-ABCE) named Landshut, was hijacked on 13 October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine while en route from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.

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War

1996 · 30 yrs

1996 Japanese Grand Prix

The 1996 Japanese Grand Prix (officially known as the XXII Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Suzuka on 13 October 1996. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1996 Formula One World Championship.

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Sports

2019 · 7 yrs

2019 Japanese Grand Prix

The 2019 Japanese Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix 2019) was a Formula One racing event held on 13 October 2019 at the Suzuka International Racing Course in Suzuka in the Mie Prefecture, Japan.

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