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September 13

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1404

Hijra

1404 years ago

Born this day

1916

Roald Dahl

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1945th

Titus

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Famous births29

AD 786 · 1240 yrs

al-Maʾmun

Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Harun (Arabic: أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, romanized: Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14 September 786 – 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun (Arabic: المأمون, lit.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 46

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1087 · 939 yrs

John II Komnenos

John II Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ἱωάννης Κομνηνός, romanized: Iōánnēs Komnēnós; 13 September 1087 – 8 April 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143.

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RoyaltyDied aged 55

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1475 · 551 yrs

Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia (13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was an Italian cardinal deacon and later a condottiero, as well as a member of the Spanish House of Borgia. He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and sibling to Lucrezia Borgia.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 31

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1739 · 287 yrs

Gregory Potyomkin

Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (11 October 1739 – 16 October 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.

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MilitaryDied aged 52

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1819 · 207 yrs

Clara Schumann

Clara Josephine Schumann (German:; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher.

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MusicDied aged 76

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1830 · 196 yrs

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach née Countess Dubsky (Czech: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, German: Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach; 13 September 1830 – 12 March 1916) was an Austrian writer and a noblewoman.

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LiteratureDied aged 85

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1860 · 166 yrs

John J. Pershing

John Joseph Pershing (13 September 1860 – 15 July 1948), nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American army general, educator, and founder of the Pershing Rifles. He served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I from 1917 to 1920.

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MilitaryDied aged 87

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1874 · 152 yrs

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and twelve-tone composition.

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MusicDied aged 76

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1876 · 150 yrs

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio.

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LiteratureWould be 150

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1886 · 140 yrs

Robert Robinson

Sir Robert Robinson (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947, he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.

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ScienceWould be 140

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1887 · 139 yrs

Leopold Ružička

Leopold Ružička (pronounced; born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976) was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He worked most of…

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ScienceWould be 139

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1903 · 123 yrs

Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər kohl-BAIR, September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996), also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃ show-shwan), was a French-American stage and film actress. She began her career in earnest on Broadway during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures.

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FilmWould be 123

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Famous deaths11

AD 81 · 1945 yrs

Titus

Titus Flavius Vespasianus (30 December AD 39 – 13 September 81) was Roman emperor from AD 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father, Vespasian, upon his death, becoming the first Roman emperor to succeed his biological father.

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RoyaltyDied aged 41

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1321 · 705 yrs

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Italian:; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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LiteratureDied aged 56

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1592 · 434 yrs

Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant writers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1598 · 428 yrs

Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent (Spanish: Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.

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RoyaltyDied aged 71

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1872 · 154 yrs

Ludwig Feuerbach

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach ( FOIR-bahkh; German:; 28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians.

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PhilosophyDied aged 68

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1928 · 98 yrs

Italo Svevo

Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian:), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1949 · 77 yrs

August Krogh

Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.

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ScienceDied aged 74

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1971 · 55 yrs

Lin Biao

Lin Biao (Chinese: 林彪; 5 December 1907 – 13 September 1971) was a Chinese military commander and politician.

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MilitaryWould be 118

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1996 · 30 yrs

Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur ( TOO-pahk shə-KOOR; Spanish: Túpac; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black America.

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MusicWould be 55

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2021 · 5 yrs

Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969.

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ScienceWould be 102

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2022 · 4 yrs

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (UK: GOD-ar, US: goh-DAR; French:; 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.

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FilmWould be 95

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Events5

AD 622 · 1404 yrs

Hijra

The Hijrah, (Arabic: الهجرة, romanized: al-Hijrah, lit. 'migration') also Hegira (from Medieval Latin), was the journey the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina.

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History

1515 · 511 yrs

Battle of Marignano

The Battle of Marignano, (or bataille de Marignan in French) which took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan, was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai.

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War

1759 · 267 yrs

Battle of the Plains of Abraham

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the First Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War—whose North American theatre is referred to by Americans as the French and Indian War.

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War

1993 · 33 yrs

Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995.

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Politics

2020 · 6 yrs

2020 Tuscan Grand Prix

The 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio della Toscana Ferrari 1000 2020) was a Formula One motor race held on 13 September 2020 at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello in Scarperia e San Piero, Tuscany, Italy.

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