145,824 People Natural disasters in 1989 * Hurricane Hugo * Loma Prieta earthquake * 1989 Newcastle earthquake People who died on April 13 (various years) * 2006 - Bill Baker, baseball player * 2005 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer * 2005 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician * 2005 - Don Blasingame, baseball player * 2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter * 2004 - Lou Berberet, baseball player * 2002 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver * 2001 - Robert Moon, Postal Inspector and "Father" of the ZIP Code * 2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer * 1999 - Willi Stoph, German politician * 1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player "Mr NZ Chess" * 1998 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer * 1997 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist * 1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author, publisher, military figure, and actress * 1993 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (car accident) * 1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician * 1984 - Richard Hurndall. British actor * 1983 - Theodore Stephanides, Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist * 1981 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan * 1980 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver * 1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and film maker * 1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, first President of Chad * 1975 - Larry Parks, American actor * 1971 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author * 1971 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player * 1966 - Georges Duhamel, French writer * 1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq * 1962 - Culbert Olson, Governor of California * 1959 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor * 1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher * 1944 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist * 1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer * 1938 - Grey Owl, proponent of nature conservation * 1936 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader * 1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general * 1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author * 1911 - John McLane, Governor of New Hampshire * 1911 - George Washington Glick, Governor of Kansas * 1910 - William Quiller Orchardson, British painter * 1909 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer * 1890 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * 1882 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian * 1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist * 1868 - Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia * 1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist * 1853 - James Iredell, Jr., Governor of North Carolina * 1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist * 1826 - Franz Danzi, German composer * 1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer * 1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary * 1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian * 1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French author * 1641 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman * 1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader * 1635 - Fahkr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (executed) * 1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia * 1279 - Boleslaus the Pious, Polish duke * 1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev * 814 - Krum, Khan of Bulgaria * 799 - Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicle