The Year 2013 — Map & Timeline

Historical figures in 2013

The atlas holds 53 people and 111 moments here, in 2013. The most recorded lives are Li Keqiang, Sebastián Piñera and Mohamed Morsi. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Educators.

Notable people

Kenneth Kaunda
in 2013
1 moment here
Zambian teacher, nationalist leader, and first president of independent Zambia, serving from 1964 to 1991.…
Kenzaburō Ōe
in 2013
1 moment here
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Nobel laureate, and prominent pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigner.…
Kobe Bryant
in 2013
1 moment here
Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire 20-year NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers.…
Lee Kuan Yew
in 2013
1 moment here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Li Keqiang
in 2013
10 moments here
Chinese politician and economist who rose from rural labour in Anhui through the Communist Youth League, led Henan and Liaoning, served as vice…
Manmohan Singh
in 2013
1 moment here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Margaret Thatcher
in 2013
1 moment here
British stateswoman Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman to hold the…
Maryam Mirzakhani
in 2013
1 moment here
Iranian mathematician whose work transformed the study of hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces, and dynamics.…
Maya Angelou
in 2013
1 moment here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Mikhail Kalashnikov
in 2013
3 moments here
Soviet and Russian small-arms designer, military engineer, and lieutenant general, best known for the AK-47 and later Kalashnikov weapon systems.…
Mohamed Morsi
in 2013
7 moments here
Egyptian engineer, university professor, Muslim Brotherhood politician, and Egypt’s fifth president, serving from 2012 until his removal in July…
Mwai Kibaki
in 2013
3 moments here
Kenyan economist and politician who served as Kenya’s third president from 2002 to 2013. This chronology records documented physical presence from…
Nelson Mandela
in 2013
2 moments here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Nguyễn Phú Trọng
in 2013
3 moments here
Vietnamese politician and political theorist who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 until his death in 2024, and…
Paul Walker
in 2013
3 moments here
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor best known for playing Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise.…
Pervez Musharraf
in 2013
2 moments here
Pakistani military officer and politician who served as Pakistan’s chief executive after the 1999 coup and as president from 2001 to 2008.…
Pope Benedict XVI
in 2013
2 moments here
Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927–2022), Pope Benedict XVI, was a German Catholic theologian, archbishop, cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the…
Pope Francis
in 2013
5 moments here
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, was an Argentine Jesuit priest, archbishop of Buenos Aires, cardinal, and head of the Catholic Church and…
Pran
in 2013
2 moments here
Pran Krishan Sikand, known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor whose screen career extended from pre-Partition Lahore to Hindi cinema in…
Pranab Mukherjee
in 2013
2 moments here
Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13th President of India from 25 July 2012 to 25 July 2017.…
Sebastián Piñera
in 2013
9 moments here
Chilean economist, businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.…
Shinzo Abe
in 2013
6 moments here
Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020.…
Sirikit
in 2013
1 moment here
Sirikit Kitiyakara was Queen of Thailand from 1950 to 2016 as consort of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and later Queen Mother.…
Sridevi
in 2013
1 moment here
Indian actress Sridevi (Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan) worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema from childhood through 2018.…

Historical figures in 2013

Notable people

Kenneth Kaunda

Kenzaburō Ōe

Kobe Bryant

Lee Kuan Yew

Li Keqiang

Manmohan Singh

Margaret Thatcher

Maryam Mirzakhani

Maya Angelou

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Mohamed Morsi

Mwai Kibaki

Nelson Mandela

Nguyễn Phú Trọng

Paul Walker

Pervez Musharraf

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Francis

Pran

Pranab Mukherjee

Sebastián Piñera

Shinzo Abe

Sirikit

Sridevi

Moments

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