Anniversaries 13 November

Birth

Aurelius Augustinus183

early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

Edward III of England3

King of England 1312–1377

Alexander Suvorov24

Russian military commander 1730–1800

Ranjit Singh2

founder of Sikh Empire (early 19th century) 1780–1839

Esaias Tegnér7

Swedish poet, professor and bishop 1782–1846

George Walter Thornbury2

British writer 1828–1876

Edwin Booth3

19th century American actor 1833–1893

Alfred M. Mayer1

American physicist 1836–1897

Joseph F. Smith1

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1838–1918

Robert Louis Stevenson118

Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

Louis Brandeis45

American Supreme Court Justice 1856–1941

Bert Leston Taylor1

American writer 1866–1921

Edgar A. Singer, Jr.10

American philosopher 1873–1954

Antonio Porchia276

Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Anastas Mikoyan14

Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman 1895–1978

E. Wight Bakke1

American sociologist and economist (1903-1971) 1903–1971

Günter Reimann16

German economist 1904–2005

Heinz von Foerster11

Austrian American scientist and cybernetician 1911–2002

Fred Phelps45

American pastor and activist 1929–2014

Jaime Gil de Biedma1

Spanish poet 1929–1990

Jack Burnham5

American art historian 1931

Гарри Кент Маршалл3

1934–2016

George V. Higgins1

American novelist, lawyer, journalist, professor 1939–1999

Saul Kripke3

American philosopher 1940

Jeremy Jackson (scientist)1

American marine biologist 1942

Mustafa Dzhemilev4

Leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement 1943

Amory B. Lovins8

American physicist 1947

Julien Friedler1

artist, writer 1950

Merrick Garland21

American judge 1952

Andrés Manuel López Obrador1

president of Mexico 1953

Scott McNealy7

American businessman 1954

Whoopi Goldberg15

American actress 1955

Stephen Baxter55

author 1957

Greg Abbott2

48th Governor of Texas 1957

Paul Graham43

English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist 1964

Jimmy Kimmel15

American talk show host and comedian 1967

Ayaan Hirsi Ali56

Dutch feminist, author 1969

Mohammed Alkobaisi21

Iraqi Islamic scholar 1970

Sara Ryan1

American writer 1971

Death

Ludwig Uhland1

German poet 1787–1862

Gioachino Rossini9

Italian composer 1792–1868

James Henry Hammond3

Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina politician 1807–1864

Arthur Hugh Clough34

English poet 1819–1861

Camille Pissarro51

French painter 1830–1903

Francis Thompson19

British poet 1859–1907

Maurice Denis17

French painter 1870–1943

Saki58

British writer 1870–1916

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist4

German general during World War II 1881–1954

Margaret Wise Brown9

American children's writer and editor 1910–1952

John Stapp2

American academic 1910–1999

Valerie Hobson1

actress 1917–1998

Armand V. Feigenbaum8

American businessman 1922–2014

Nobuo Okishio1

Japanese economist 1927–2003

Alexander Grothendieck3

French mathematician 1928–2014

B.S. Johnson1

British writer 1933–1973

Vine Deloria Jr.11

American writer 1933–2005

Ol' Dirty Bastard7

American rapper 1968–2004