What happened on April 13 ?

800 - Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler

814 - Krum, Khan of Bulgaria

1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)

1279 - Boleslaus the Pious, Polish duke

1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia

1635 - Fahkr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (executed)

1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)

1641 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)

1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)

1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)

1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)

1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)

1826 - Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)

1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)

1853 - James Iredell, Jr., Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)

1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)

1868 - Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)

1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)

1882 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)

1909 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)

1910 - William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)

1911 - George Washington Glick, Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)

1911 - John McLane, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)

1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)

1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)

1925 - Elwood Haynes, American automobile pioneer (b. 1857)

1938 - Grey Owl, proponent of nature conservation (b. 1888)

1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)

1944 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)

1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)

1962 - Culbert Olson, Governor of California (b. 1876)

1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (b. 1921)

1975 - Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)

1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, first President of Chad (b. 1918)

1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and film maker (b. 1931)

1981 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)

1984 - Richard Hurndall. British actor (b. 1910)

1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)

1993 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (car accident) (b. 1909)

1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author, publisher, military figure, and actress (b. 1896)

1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player "Mr NZ Chess" (b. 1924)

1999 - Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)

2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)

2001 - Robert Moon, Postal Inspector and "Father" of the ZIP Code (b. 1917)

2002 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)

2004 - Lou Berberet, baseball player (b. 1929)

2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)

First day of Thai New Year.

First day of Cambodian New Year.

The Feast Day of St. Martin the Confessor in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Saint Martinus I

Saint Hermenegild

Blessed Ido of Boulogne

Blessed Ida of Louvain

BBC: On This Day

Today in History: April 13