* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( d. 1780 )

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

* 1759 – Ferdinand VI of Spain ( b. 1713 )

* 1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter ( b. 1713 )

* 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession ( Queen Anne's War ): Treaty of Utrecht.

* 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

* 4 Kings of Sicily ( 1266 – 1282, 1700 – 1713, 1735 – 1815 )

** Philip ( 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Dukes and Duchess of Luxembourg ( 1412 – 1415, 1419 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 1 Duke of Milan ( 1700 – 1713 )

* 7 Margraves and Marchionesses of Namur ( 1217 – 1237, 1429 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Counts and Countesses of Hainaut ( 1253 – 1256, 1417 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Counts and Countesses of Flanders ( 1383 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* Nicola Sala ( 1713 – 1801 ), Italian composer

Prince Eugene's Italian manuscript had been presented to him in 1713 by John Frederick Cramer ; and was transferred to the Austrian National Library in Vienna in 1738 with the rest of his library.

* 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company ( d. 1785 )

* December 26 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist ( b. 1713 )

In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht formally confirmed Austrian sovereignty over most of Spain's Italian possessions including Lombardy and its capital, Milan.

* February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer ( d. 1713 )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Handel's reputation in England, where he had lived since 1713, had been established through his compositions of Italian opera.

Gasparo, count Gozzi ( December 4, 1713 – December 26, 1786 ) was an Italian critic and dramatist.

Following the Italian Wars ( 1494 to 1559 ), Italy saw a long period of relative peace, first under Habsburg Spain ( 1559 to 1713 ) and then under Habsburg Austria ( 1713 to 1796 ).

* Arcangelo Corelli ( 1653 – 1713 ), Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music

* List of Italian knights of the Order of Malta from 1136 to 1713: Elenco dei cavaleri del S. M. Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme by Francesco Bonazzi ( Napoli 1897 )

* February 11 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer ( b. 1713 )

During the reign of composer John Eccles as Master of the King's Musick, George Frideric Handel supplied the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne ( 1713 ).

* February 11-Antoine Dauvergne, violinist and composer ( born 1713 )

* February 1 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer ( b. 1713 )

* May 20 – Domènech Terradellas, composer ( born 1713 )

Johann Gottfried's father Theophilus Lessing 1647-1735 mayor of Kamenz Robert Schumann's ( the composer and pianist 1810-1856 ) four times great uncle, Johanne Sophie Susanna Lessing ( 1745-1818 daughter of Carl Heinrich Lessing 1713, a trumpeter ) his grandmother.

* Johann Ludwig Krebs ( 1713 – 1780 ), German composer, student of J. S.

When Marchand left for Germany in 1713, it may have been to escape from his wife's legal threats — however, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg reported that Marchand left because Louis XIV exiled the composer for " impertinence.

Antoine Dauvergne ( October 3, 1713 – February 11, 1797 ) was a French composer and violinist.

They are: that the opera Dafne was written and conducted by the composer in Barcelona in 1709 ; that he visited London, where he wrote his Stabat Mater, possibly for the society of " Antient Musick "; that it was performed in Oxford in 1713 ; that in 1712, he was in Vienna.

** Johann Benda ( 1713 – 1752 ), violinist, composer, and son of Jan Jiří

Couperin's four volumes of harpsichord music, published in Paris in 1713, 1717, 1722, and 1730, contain over 230 individual pieces, which can be played on solo harpsichord or performed as small chamber works.

The year 1713 in music involved some significant events.

After a series of successful operas and the commencement of his successful collaboration with the librettist Pierre-Charles Roy, in 1713 the king appointed Destouches inspector general of the Académie Royale de Musique, at a stipend of 4000 livres a year ; later, in 1725 Louis XV would appoint him superintendent of chamber music for the Chambre du Roi, and then Director of the Académie.