Today in History
13 June
280 births · 84 deaths · 52 events recorded
Notable Births
All 280 ›
Macklin Celebrini
b. 2006
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2006)
Penny Oleksiak
b. 2000
Canadian swimmer (born 2000)
Andrzej Lepper
b. 1954
Polish politician (1954–2011)
John Forbes Nash Jr.
b. 1928
American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)
Leo Kanner
b. 1894
Austrian-American physician and psychiatrist
Gao Qifeng
b. 1889
Chinese painter (1889–1933)
W. B. Yeats
b. 1865
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Frances Burney
b. 1752
English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)
Notable Deaths
All 84 ›
Angela Bofill
d. 2024
American R&B singer (1954–2024)
Cormac McCarthy
d. 2023
American writer (1933–2023)
Ned Beatty
d. 2021
American actor (1937–2021)
Buddy Boudreaux
d. 2015
Musical artist
Sergio Renán
d. 2015
Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter
Mike Shrimpton
d. 2015
New Zealand cricketer (1940–2015)
Mahdi Elmandjra
d. 2014
Moroccan economist, sociologist and futurologist
Gyula Grosics
d. 2014
Hungarian footballer and manager (1926–2014)
On This Day in History
All 52 ›
2025
Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.
Twelve-Day War
2023
At least 100 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Kwara boat disaster
2023
Three people are killed and another three injured in an early morning stabbing and van ramming attack in Nottingham, England.
2023 Nottingham attacks
2021
A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion
2018
Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
Volkswagen
2015
A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
2012
A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
13 June 2012 Iraq attacks
2010
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
Hayabusa