2013


2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.


Edward SnowdenTyphoon HaiyanDhaka garment factory collapse2013 papal conclaveChelyabinsk meteorBoston Marathon bombingWestgate shopping mall attack2013 Egyptian coup d'état
From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment factory collapse in Bangladesh kills over 1,000 people; The streak from the Chelyabinsk meteor that rocketed across the Russian morning sky; Protests occur amid the coup d'état that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt; Smoke rises as a result of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, carried out by Al-Shabaab militants; The Boston Marathon bombing marks the first terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11; Pope Francis is elected to the Papacy in the 2013 papal conclave.
Hugo Chávez
Princess Lilian
Richard Griffiths
Roger Ebert
Margaret Thatcher
Jonathan Winters
Giulio Andreotti
Jorge Rafael Videla
Esther Williams
James Gandolfini
Gyula Horn
Princess Fawzia
Cory Monteith
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
Julie Harris
Sir David Frost
Otto Sander
Ken Norton
Tom Clancy
Lou Reed
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Frederick Sanger
Paul Walker
Nelson Mandela
Peter O'Toole
Joan Fontaine
James Avery