On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 13 1968
Born on This Day
Akiko Yano🇯🇵
singer-songwriter · b. 1955
Days alive
4,748
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Alexander Kipnis🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1891–1978
Days lived
31,866
Anatoly Zilber🇷🇺
deceasedRussian physician · 1931–2023
Days lived
33,674
Anders Behring Breivik
Notable Trials · b. 1979
Artur Yusupov🇩🇪
writer · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Beate Klarsfeld🇫🇷
Franco-German journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian · b. 1939
Days alive
10,592
Brice Bardou🇫🇷
rugby union player · b. 1969
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Daniel O'Shea🇺🇸
Figure skater · b. 1991
Dimitrie Gusti🇷🇴
deceasedRomanian academic · 1880–1955
Days lived
27,652
Edwin Edgar Voigt
deceasedAmerican methodist bishop · 1892–1977
Days lived
31,003
Emanuel Ungaro🇫🇷
deceasedFrench fashion designer (1933-2019) · 1933–2019
Days lived
31,722
Feodor Chaliapin🇺🇸
deceasedRussian opera singer and actor (1873-1938) · 1873–1938
Days lived
23,798
Gary O'Donoghue🇬🇧
Journalist · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Guy Zinn🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1887-1949) · 1887–1949
Days lived
22,880
Henry Rollins🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1961
Days alive
2,556
Iqbal Khan🇮🇳
Saudi Arabian banker · b. 1957
Days alive
4,017
Jaden Ivey🇺🇸
Basketball player · b. 2002
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Jerry Springer🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1944–2023
Days lived
28,928
Joseph Furst🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1916–2005
Days lived
32,797
Karl Meixner🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1903–1976
Days lived
26,983
Leo Douglass🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1901-1985) · 1901–1985
Days lived
30,730
Logan Ondrusek🇺🇸
film director · b. 1985
Luke Ridnour🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1981
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Marie Mävers🇩🇪
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1991
Matthias Klimsa🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1971
Memphis Depay
football player · b. 1994
Mike Nickeas🇺🇸
Canadian-American baseball player · b. 1983
Nathan Eovaldi🇺🇸
film director · b. 1990
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Otto Tausig🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian writer, film director, actor (1922–2011) · 1922–2011
Days lived
32,746
Otto Weinkamm🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1902-1968) · 1902–1968
Days lived
24,089
Ozjasz Thon🇵🇱
deceasedRabbi, writer, zionist (1870-1936) · 1870–1936
Days lived
24,377
Paul Biya
politician · b. 1933
Days alive
12,783
Percy Barnevik🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish businessman · 1941–2025
Days lived
30,836
Peter Gabriel🇬🇧
singer · b. 1950
Days alive
6,574
Ralf Rocchigiani🇩🇪
German boxer · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Randy Moss🇺🇸
American football player and sports analyst (born 1977) · b. 1977
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Robbie Williams🇬🇧
singer · b. 1974
Stephan Ebn🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1978
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Vitinha
association football player · b. 2000
Died on This Day
Abelardo L. Rodríguez🇲🇽
deceasedPresident of Mexico (1932-1934) · 1889–1967
Days lived
28,400
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Alfred Einstein🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1880–1952
Days lived
25,976
Antonin Scalia🇺🇸
deceasedAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016 · 1936–2016
Days lived
29,193
Blind Boy Fuller🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1907–1941
Days lived
12,272
Bodo Ebhardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect and castle explorer (1865–1945) · 1865–1945
Days lived
29,258
Charlie Conerly🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1921-1996) · 1921–1996
Days lived
27,175
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David Stern🇮🇱
deceasedRussia-born Israeli politician and businessman · 1910–2003
Days lived
33,924
Eileen Sheridan🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish racing cyclist (1923–2023) · 1923–2023
Days lived
36,278
François Tavenas🇨🇦
deceasedscientist · 1942–2004
Days lived
22,434
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Heinz Haber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physicist (1913–1990) · 1913–1990
Days lived
28,033
Henri Salvador🇫🇷
deceasedFrench Caribbean recording artist; singer, songwriter (1917–2008) · 1917–2008
Days lived
33,082
Huey "Piano" Smith🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican R&B pianist (1934–2023) · 1934–2023
Days lived
32,525
Hugh Dalton🇬🇧
deceasedWelsh politician and British MP (1887-1962) · 1887–1962
Days lived
27,199
James Cooke Brown🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1921–2000
Days lived
28,696
Jean Nicolas🇫🇷
deceasedFrench presbyter (1901–1984) · 1901–1984
Days lived
30,053
Kon Ichikawa🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008) · 1915–2008
Days lived
33,688
Lotte Lang🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1900–1985
Days lived
31,079
Ludwig Schemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman translator and race theorist (1852–1938) · 1852–1938
Days lived
31,165
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Martin Balsam
deceasedActor · 1919–1996
Days lived
27,860
Oswald Thomas🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian astronomer (1882–1963) · 1882–1963
Days lived
29,420
Pauline Trigère🇫🇷
deceasedAmerican fashion designer (1908–2002) · 1908–2002
Days lived
34,069
Urs Jaeggi🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss sociologist, painter, and author (1931-2021) · 1931–2021
Days lived
32,743
Waylon Jennings🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican country musician (1937–2002) · 1937–2002
Days lived
23,619
Werner Heyde🇩🇪
deceasedSS officer and psychiatrist (1902-1964) · 1902–1964
Days lived
22,574
Yury Vlasov🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet weightlifter (1935–2021) · 1935–2021
Days lived
31,117
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,045
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,716
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,889
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,586
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,159
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,601
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,567
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,201
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,645
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,297
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,096
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,610
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,628
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,297
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,649
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,192
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,102
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,079
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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