Anniversaries 13 December
Birth
![Henry IV of France photo]()
first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
1553–1610
![Dokyo Etan photo]()
Son of Sanada Nobuyuki
1642–1721
![Yongzheng Emperor photo]()
Qing Dynasty emperor
1678–1735
![Heinrich Heine photo]()
German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
1797–1856
![Arthur Penrhyn Stanley photo]()
English churchman, Dean of Westminster
1815–1881
![Werner von Siemens photo]()
German inventor and industrialist
1816–1892
![John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland photo]()
British politician
1818–1906
![Phillips Brooks photo]()
American clergyman and author
1835–1893
![Emily Carr photo]()
Canadian painter and writer
1871–1945
![George Pólya photo]()
Hungarian mathematician
1887–1985
![Alvin C. York photo]()
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
1887–1964
![Marc Connelly photo]()
American playwright
1890–1980
![Maryon Pearson photo]()
Wife of Prime Minister of Canada
1901–1989
![Talcott Parsons photo]()
American sociologist
1902–1979
![Ella Baker photo]()
African-American civil rights and human rights activist
1903–1986
![John Piper (artist) photo]()
English painter and printmaker (1903-1992)
1903–1992
![Laurens van der Post photo]()
South African writer
1906–1996
![Marjorie Grene photo]()
American philosopher
1910–2009
![Kenneth Patchen photo]()
American writer and poet
1911–1972
![Trygve Haavelmo photo]()
Norwegian economist and econometrician
1911–1999
![John Vorster photo]()
politician from South Africa and seventh Prime Minister of …
1915–1983
![Kaysone Phomvihane photo]()
first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary P…
1920–1992
![George Shultz photo]()
American economist, statesman, and businessman
1920
![Antoni Tàpies photo]()
Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
1923–2012
![Truman G. Madsen photo]()
American educator
1926–2009
![W. Richard Scott photo]()
American sociologist
1932
![Aga Khan IV photo]()
49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism
1936
![Juanita Broaddrick photo]()
American nursing home administrator
1942
![Herman Cain photo]()
American writer, businessman and activist
1945
![Ted Nugent photo]()
American rock musician
1948
![Lester Bangs photo]()
American music critic and journalist
1948–1982
![Andrews Thazhath photo]()
Archbishop of Trichur
1951
![Lin Chuan photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1951
![Steve Forbert photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1954
![Tamora Pierce photo]()
American writer of fantasy novels for children
1954
![Jamie Raskin photo]()
American law professor; Maryland State Senator
1962
![Rex Ryan photo]()
American football coach
1962
![Scott Zolak photo]()
American football quarterback
1967
![Leanne Wood photo]()
Welsh Plaid Cymru politician
1971
![Tom DeLonge photo]()
American rock musician
1975
![Amy Lee photo]()
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1981
![Taylor Swift photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1989
![Dave Leduc photo]()
Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)
1991
![Marcus Orelias photo]()
American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur
1993
Death
![Maimónides photo]()
rabbi, physician, philosopher
1138–1204
![François Viète photo]()
French mathematician
1540–1603
![Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne photo]()
Prince of Ligne
1735–1814
![Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough photo]()
Lord Chief Justice of England
1750–1818
![Frances Wright photo]()
American activist
1795–1852
![Georg Friedrich Daumer photo]()
German philosopher and poet
1800–1875
![Christian Friedrich Hebbel photo]()
German poet and dramatist
1813–1863
![Gustave Le Bon photo]()
French psychologist
1841–1931
![Samuel Gompers photo]()
American Labor Leader[AFL]
1850–1924
![John Maxson Stillman photo]()
American chemist
1852–1923
![Arthur Wesley Dow photo]()
painter from the United States
1857–1922
![Grandma Moses photo]()
American artist
1860–1961
![Wassily Kandinsky photo]()
Russian painter
1866–1944
![Nicholas Roerich photo]()
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, enligh…
1874–1947
![L. P. Hartley photo]()
British novelist and short story writer
1895–1972
![John G. Bennett photo]()
British mathematician and author
1897–1974
![Michael Roberts (writer) photo]()
English schoolteacher and man of letters
1902–1948
![Ella Baker photo]()
African-American civil rights and human rights activist
1903–1986
![Mary Renault photo]()
English novelist
1905–1983
![Lew Grade photo]()
Imperial Russian/Ukrainian-born British media proprietor, i…
1906–1998
![Glyn Daniel photo]()
British archaeologist
1914–1986
![Paul A. Samuelson photo]()
American economist
1915–2009
![Thomas C. Schelling photo]()
American economist
1921–2016
![Marco Denevi photo]()
Argentine journalist, writer
1922–1998
![T S Satyan photo]()
Indian photojournalist
1923–2009
![Russell Hoban photo]()
American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator
1925–2011
![John Joseph Gerry photo]()
Australian priest
1927–2017
![David Wheeler (computer scientist) photo]()
British computer scientist
1927–2004
![Benedict Anderson photo]()
American political scientist
1936–2015
![Richard Holbrooke photo]()
American diplomat
1941–2010
![Stanley Tookie Williams photo]()
American criminal
1953–2005
![Richard Carlson photo]()
Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
1961–2006
