Anniversaries 13 January

Birth

Samuel Woodworth3

American writer 1784–1842

Salmon P. Chase7

Chief Justice of the United States 1808–1873

Ernestine Rose4

American feminist activist 1810–1892

Ethel Lynn Beers2

American writer 1827–1879

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff1

influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos… 1866–1949

G. I. Gurdjieff62

influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos… 1866–1949

Lev Mekhlis6

Soviet politician 1889–1953

Elmer Davis2

American politician 1890–1958

Miguel Pro1

Mexican Jesuit priest and martyr 1891–1927

Clark Ashton Smith5

American author 1893–1961

Chaim Soutine8

painter 1893–1943

Jan Burgers1

Dutch physicist 1895–1981

Jeff Morrow1

American actor and World War II veteran 1907–1993

Dieter Wisliceny3

SS-Hauptsturmführer 1911–1948

Paul Karl Feyerabend81

Austrian-born philosopher of science 1924–1994

Michael Bond4

English author, creator of Paddington the Bear 1926–2017

Carolyn G. Heilbrun3

Academic, novelist 1926–2003

Sydney Brenner5

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medic… 1927–2019

Guy Sajer1

French military writer and cartoonist 1927

Carolyn See1

American writer 1934–2016

George Reisman8

American economist 1937

Edmund White28

American novelist and LGBT essayist 1940

Frances M. Beal1

American activist 1940

Diego Causero1

Italian apostolic nuncio 1940

Tevita Momoedonu2

Prime Minister of Fiji 1946

Steve Rivkin1

American marketing theorist 1947–2016

Paul Guyer3

American philosopher 1948

Frank E. Peretti8

American writer 1951

Jay McInerney10

American writer 1955

Fernando Chui1

Chief Executive of Macau (2009-2019) 1957

Lorrie Moore26

American writer 1957

Winnie Byanyima4

Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat 1959

Ernie Irvan2

American racing driver 1959

Julia Louis-Dreyfus2

American actress, comedian and producer 1961

Christian Homburg18

German academic 1962

David Motiuk1

Canadian bishop 1962

Bill Bailey93

English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter a… 1965

Debito Arudou7

Author/activist with Japanese citizenship born in the USA 1965

Masha Gessen7

Russian-American journalist and activist 1967

Traci Bingham2

American actress 1968

Genco Gulan6

contemporary artist 1969

Andrew Yang3

American entrepreneur 1975

Orlando Bloom1

British actor 1977

Nate Silver1

American statistician and writer 1978

Liam Hemsworth12

Australian actor 1990

Kadda Sheekoff7

Haitian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor,… 1993

Death

Edmund Spenser53

English poet 1552–1599

George Fox9

English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of F… 1624–1691

John Scott3

British barrister and politician, born 1751 1751–1838

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac2

French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the mo… 1755–1841

Stephen Foster8

American songwriter 1826–1864

John Robert Seeley7

British historian 1834–1895

Jakob Hurt1

Estonian linguist 1839–1907

Francis William Bourdillon10

British poet 1852–1921

Lyonel Feininger1

German-American painter 1871–1956

James Joyce191

Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

Jerome Frank9

American jurist 1889–1957

Sophie Taeuber-Arp4

Swiss artist 1889–1943

Sigurd F. Olson2

American conservationist 1899–1982

Hubert H. Humphrey18

Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson 1911–1978

Hortense Calisher1

American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist 1911–2009

Nancy Bird Walton3

Australian aviatrix 1915–2009

Ernie Kovacs2

American comedian, actor, and writer 1919–1962

Ellen Stewart3

American theater director and producer 1919–2011

Richard Dalitz3

Australian physicist 1925–2006

W.D. Snodgrass1

Poet 1926–2009

Patrick McGoohan3

actor 1928–2009

Francine du Plessix Gray1

American writer 1930–2019

Mark Fisher (writer)1

British cultural theorist (1968-2017) 1968–2017

Tom Hurndall1

British activist 1981–2004