Births on January 13

Zhou Youguang

Born on January 13, 1906

Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist, sinologist, and academic (d. 2017)

Zhou Youguang (13 January 1906 – 14 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperanto-speaker, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.

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Events on 1906

8 Apr

Alzheimer's disease
Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
7 Jun

RMS Lusitania
Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
18 Sep

Tsunami
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
20 Sep

RMS Mauretania (1906)
Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
9 Nov

Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

Births on January 13

Zhou Youguang

Born on January 13, 1906

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Events on 1906

Alzheimer's disease

RMS Lusitania

Tsunami

RMS Mauretania (1906)

Panama Canal