1913
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Art and culture
Theory
- The Serious Artist by Ezra Pound
- Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine de Saint-Point
- The Art of Noises manifesto by Luigi Russolo
- Isidor Isaak Sadger coins sadomasochismus in "Über den sado-masochistischen Komplex"
- Les livres de l'Enfer by Pascal Pia, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fernand Fleuret and Louis Perceau
Music
- Igor Stravinsky's premiere of 'Le Sacre du printemps' at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
- Intonarumori invented by Luigi Russolo
- Die glückliche Hand by Arnold Schoenberg
Literature
- Petersburg by Andrei Bely
- Villa des Roses by Willem Elsschot
Film
- The Student of Prague, German film by Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener
- The Last Days of Pompeii by Mario Caserini
- Traffic in Souls by George Loane Tucker
Art
- Krazy Kat comic
- Bicycle Wheel by Duchamp
- Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni
- Armory Show brings modern art to the United States
- Piazza d'Italia (Autumn Melancholy) by Giorgio de Chirico
- Guitar, Newspaper, Glass and Bottle by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
Births
- Piero Fornasetti (d. 1988)
- Roger Caillois (d. 1978)
- Hedy Lamarr (d. 2000)
- Norman O. Brown (d. 2002)
- James Broughton (d. 1999)
- Frank Tashlin, American animation director (d. 1972)
- March 4 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
- May 16 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
- May 26 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
- Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
- June 28 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
- July 7 – Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician (d. 2011)
- Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
- September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
- Stanley Kramer, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 2001)
- November 2 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (Elmer Gantry) (d. 1994)
- November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1967)
- Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- Benjamin Britten, English composer (d. 1976)
- December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
Deaths
Deaths
January–June
- January 2 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
- January 16 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist, and inventor (b. 1832)
- February 2 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1845)
- February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. 1840)
- February 22 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
- February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
- March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
- March 11 – John Shaw Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)
- March 18 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
- March 22 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
- March 25 – Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, British field marshal (b. 1833)
- March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837)
- May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
- May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
- June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
- June 5 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner
- June 8 – Emily Davison, British suffragette (b. 1872)
- June 28 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian president (b. 1841)
July–December
- July 3 – Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
- July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
- July 19 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
- July 29 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
- August 7 – Samuel Franklin Cody, American/British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
- September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
- October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
- October 16 – Ralph Rose, American athlete (b. 1885)
- November 7 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
- November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1837)
- December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer (b. 1864)
- December 7
- Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
- Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, inventor of mail order (b. 1844)
- December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
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