What happened on January 13 ?

85 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician

703 - Empress Jit? of Japan (b. 645)

858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex

888 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor

1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)

1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian

1177 - Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)

1330 - Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)

1363 - Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol

1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)

1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)

1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)

1691 - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (b. 1624)

1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)

1775 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)

1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)

1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)

1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)

1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)

1864 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)

1906 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)

1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)

1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western lawman (b. 1848)

1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)

1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)

1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)

1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)

1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)

1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States and Senator from Minnesota (b. 1911)

1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1908)

1979 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)

1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)

2002 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (b. 1963)

2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)

2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)

2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (b. 1937)

2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)

2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)

2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)