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January 13 - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, a Service Sorority, is founded on the campus of Howard University by twenty-two collegiate women

January 23 - Military coup in Ottoman Empire lead by Enver Pasha, the CUP overthrew the Liberal Union coalition and introduced a military dictatorship (Coup of 1913)

January 30 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

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February 1 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.

February 3 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax.

February 3 - Trial of the remnants of the Bonnot gang begins.

February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century

February 27 - Freezing weather stops everything in Balkans

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March

March - Outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia when the House of Romanov celebrate the 300th anniversary of their succession to the throne
March 4 - End of term for President of the United States William Howard Taft. He is succeeded by Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
March 10 - Civil Rights activist Harriet Tubman dies of pneumonia
March 12 - Canberra becomes the federal capital of Australia
March 13 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa returns to Mexico from his self-imposed exile in USA
March 18 - George I of Greece is assassinated.
March 20 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT) is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.
March 25 - Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadaloupe and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government as the head of "Constitutionals"
March 25 - 2 days of rain in the Miami Valley flood the region and mark the worst natural disaster in Ohio's recorded history.
March 26 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople.

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April

April 8 - Passing of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, dictating the direct election of senators.
April 24 - Woolworth Building opening ceremony.

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May

May 13 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft.
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 29 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
May 30 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war.

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June

June - First edition of the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in the United States; still issued bimonthly till today.
June 4 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
June 13 - Great Gorge and International Railway trolley and passengers are buried under the contents of an overhead garbage chute that broke in Niagara Falls, New York.
June 15 - Bud Bagsak Massacre: US troops under General John 'Black Jack' Pershing kill at least 2,000 relatively defenceless men, women and children, Bud Bagsak, Philippines. (Disputed: First Battle of Bud Dajo)
June 24 - Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.

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July

July 3 - Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg draws thousands of United States Civil War veterans and their families to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 10 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2004).

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August

August 4 - In China, province of Chungking declares independence. Chinese Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks
August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield.
August 15 - Start of Dublin Strike & Lockout, all trade union members dismissed
August 20 - 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely.

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September

September 19 - Francis Ouimet wins the U.S. Open by five strokes to become the first ametuer to ever win the event
September 23 - French aviator Roland Garros flies over the Mediterranean
September 29 - Rudolf Diesel disappears en route to Britain
September 29 - Pancho Villa is elected commander of the "Northern Division" of the Constitutionals

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October

October 1 - Villa's troops take Torreon after a three-day battle when government troops retreat
October 10 - US President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
October 19 - Founding of the DLRG (German Life Saving Society)

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November

November 5 - The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III.
November 6 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
November 7- November 12 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills over 250.

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December

December 1 - 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 was not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one did spark an era of mass production).
December 1 - Greece annexes Crete
December 12 - Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II dies and is succeeded by his grandson Iyasu V of Ethiopia.
December 12 - Vincencio Peruggia tries to sell Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested
December 23 - The Federal Reserve is created by Woodrow Wilson
December 30 - Italy returns Mona Lisa to France

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Unknown Dates

Female suffrage in Norway
British steamship Calvadas disappears in the Marmara Sea with 200 hands on board
First crossword puzzle appears in the World newspaper
Black Chamber, forerunner of NSA, founded
de Sitter: speed of light is independent of speed of source
Sagnac: speed of light depends on speed of rotating platform
Painting ''September Morn'' creates a national sensation in U.S.
Camel Cigarettes were introduced
Ela Hockaday founds The Hockaday School
First publication of Journal of Ecology
National Temperance Council founded to promote temperance movement
United States Soccer Federation forms
Crescent School founded

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January

January 2 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
January 6 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
January 6 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
January 9 - Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States (d. 1994)
January 10 - Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician (d. 1991)
January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
January 18 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
January 18 - George Unwin, British fighter ace WWII (d. 2006)
January 22 - William Cardinal Conway, Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
January 22 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
January 24 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer
January 25 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
January 29 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)

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February

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 13 - George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
February 14 - Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor leader (disappeared) (d. 1975)
February 25 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
February 25 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
February 27 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
February 27 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)

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March

March 1 - Richard 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)
March 13 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and lyricist
March 13 - Smoky Dawson , Australian Country Singer
March 18 - René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
March 21 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
March 26 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
March 26 - Jacqueline de Romilly, French Philologist
March 29 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
March 30 - Richard Helms, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 2002)
March 30 - Frankie Laine, American singer
March 30 - Ċensu Tabone, Maltese Politician
March 31 - Etta Baker, American Blues Musician (d. 2006 )

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April

April 3 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
April 11 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion disigner (d. 2006)
April 13 - Fred Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1998)
April 27 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)

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May

May 1 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
May 1 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
May 5 - Tyrone Power, American Actor (d. 1958)
May 8 - 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 20 - William Hewlett, American businessman (d. 2001)
May 26 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
May 29 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

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June

June 6 - Carlo L. Golino, American Scholar (d. 1991)
June 10 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer
June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
June 18 - Robert Mondavi, American wine maker
June 25 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
June 28 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker

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July

July 12 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 14 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
July 18 - Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
July 22 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)

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August

August 8 - John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (d. 1984)
August 10 - Wolfgang Pauli, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
August 13 - 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 - Rudy York, baseball player (d. 1970)
August 17 - W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant
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 27 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
August 28 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
August 30 - Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

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September

September 4 - Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
September 5 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
September 14 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
September 15 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
September 19 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
September 29 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
September 29 - Stanley Kramer, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001)
September 29 - Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (d. 1996)
September 30 - Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975)

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October

October 10 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
October 22 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (d. 1954)

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November

November 2 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
November 5 - Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
November 7 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
November 9 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
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 21 - John Boulting, English film director (d.1985)
November 21 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001)
November 22 - Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)

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December

December 6 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
December 8 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
December 10 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
December 10 - Harry Locke, British character actor (d. 1987)
December 13 - Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general (d. 2002)
December 18 - Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
December 18 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
December 21 - Arnold Friberg, an American artist
December 30 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)

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Deaths

January 2 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
January 4 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
February 22 - 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 22 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
March 31 - J.P.Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837)
June 5 - Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner
June 8 - Emily Davison, British suffragette (b. 1872)
July 3 - Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (b. 1845)
July 13 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Ciivl War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
July 29 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
September 30 - Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
October 5 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
November 22 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (b. 1837)
December 7 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
December 12 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)

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Date unknown

John S. Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)

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Nobel Prizes

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

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Ship events



List of ship launches in 1913
List of ship commissionings in 1913
List of ship decommissionings in 1913