About the day » Thursday January 2, 1913Calender converter

• Aartje Kooijman, Nieuwland,4243,Vijfheerenlanden,Utrecht,Nederland († 1973)
• Albertus Rossel, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Jacoba Meyer, Hopetown, Cape Province, South Africa († 1965)
• Anna Havinga, Nieuwe Laan gem. Veendam
• Anna van Brunschot, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Adriana Cornelia STERK, Beetsterzwaag
• Adolf GROMMERS, Groningen
• Annie Quast, Kiel (Dld.)
• van Hengstum, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 1913)
• Alberta Theresia Streppel, Duistervoorde (Voorst) († 2017)

• 1122 Geziena Hulshof (81), Anloo
• Arend Jan Brunshorst (44), Diepenheim, Hof van Twente, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Oudman (56)
• Adriana de Graaf (78), Enschede
• Arie van Es (55), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Sentveld (34), Egmond-Binnen, Egmond, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wenders (61), Vaals,Gemeente Vaals,Limburg,Nederland
• Aafke Klazes de Boer (57), Noordhorn
• Ane Douma
• Adriana Helena Pagie (0), Loon op Zand

• 1905 » Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1905 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor († 1998)
• 1909 » Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author († 1998)
• 1909 » Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author († 2009)
• 1913 » Anna Lee, English-American actress († 2004)
• 1913 » Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist († 1992)
• 1917 » Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer († 2003)
• 1918 » Willi Graf, German physician and activist († 1943)
• 1919 » Beatrice Hicks, American engineer († 1979)
• 1920 » Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry († 1992)

• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• January 5 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
• February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• March 4 » First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
• June 4 » Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
• October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
• November 9 » The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

The temperature on January 2, 1913 was between 4.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.