Anniversaries 13 October

Birth

Peter Barlow (mathematician)2

British mathematician and physicist 1776–1862

Thomas Erskine4

Scottish theologian 1788–1870

Thomas Haynes Bayly19

English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839

William Motherwell3

British writer 1797–1835

Rudolf Virchow8

German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, path… 1821–1902

John R. Commons26

United States institutional economist and labor historian 1862–1945

Albert Jay Nock68

American journalist 1870–1945

Theodore G. Bilbo4

American politician 1877–1947

Robert LeFevre47

American libertarian businessman 1911–1986

Henry Schriver10

American politician 1914–2011

Laraine Day11

American actress 1920–2007

Lenny Bruce19

comedian and social critic 1925–1966

Margaret Thatcher348

British stateswoman and politician 1925–2013

Killer Kowalski1

Canadian professional wrestler 1926–2008

Turgut Özal5

Turkish politician 1927–1993

Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill2

British judge 1933–2010

Paul Simon116

American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

Edwina Currie3

British politician 1946

Peter Brimelow3

American journalist 1947

Sammy Hagar1

American musician 1947

Beverly Johnson1

American model and actress 1952

Tejinder Virdee4

British physicist 1952

Jeremy Waldron1

American lawyer 1953

Chris Carter6

American television and film producer, director and writer 1956

Jamal Khashoggi5

Saudi Arabian journalist 1958–2018

Jeet Thayil24

Indian writer 1959

Doug MacLeod1

Australian writer 1959

Mikko Hyppönen5

Finnish computer security expert 1969

Rolf Potts2

American writer 1970

Sebastian Fitzek2

German writer 1971

Sacha Baron Cohen12

English stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and voice actor 1971

Matt Hughes4

American mixed martial artist 1973

Neil Strauss35

American writer 1973

David Haye2

British boxer 1980

Hill Zaini4

Bruneian singer 1987

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez45

American politician 1989

Pooja Hegde2

Indian actress 1990

Tiffany Trump2

American Internet personality and daughter of Donald Trump … 1993

Joshua Wong3

Hong Kong activist, Secretary-general of Demosistō 1996

Death

Akbar13

3rd Mughal Emperor 1542–1605

Nicolas Malebranche2

philosopher 1638–1715

William Prescott2

Continental army soldier 1726–1795

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve10

French literary critic 1804–1869

Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia5

Spanish anarchist 1859–1909

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield3

British Baron and politician 1859–1947

Sister Nivedita9

Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and a disciple o… 1867–1911

Muhammad Ali (writer)2

Pakistani scholar and leading figure of the Ahmadiyya Movem… 1874–1951

Donald McGill11

British artist 1875–1962

Manuel Bandeira1

Brazilian writer 1886–1968

Erich Auerbach7

German Philologist 1892–1957

Hans Freudenthal27

Dutch mathematician 1905–1990

Satish Chandra2

an Indian historian 1922–2017

Bhumibol Adulyadej6

King of Thailand 1927–2016

Stephen E. Ambrose3

American historian 1936–2002

Eduardus Sangsun3

Indonesian bishop (1943-2008) 1943–2008

Louise Glück10

American poet 1943–2023