Anniversaries 13 March
Birth
![Joseph Priestley photo]()
English theologian, chemist, educator, and political theori…
1733–1804
![Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and I…
1764–1845
![Karl Friedrich Schinkel photo]()
Prussian architect, city planner, and painter
1781–1841
![Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz photo]()
German politician and publisher
1797–1860
![James Waddel Alexander photo]()
American Presbyterian minister and theologian
1804–1859
![Edwin Ransford photo]()
British opera singer
1805–1876
![Hans Gude photo]()
Norwegian painter
1825–1903
![Percival Lowell photo]()
American astronomer
1855–1916
![Alexej von Jawlensky photo]()
Russian painter
1864–1941
![Hugh Walpole photo]()
New Zealand writer
1884–1941
![Alexander Vandegrift photo]()
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and Com…
1887–1973
![John Hasbrouck Van Vleck photo]()
American physicist
1899–1980
![Giorgos Seferis photo]()
Greek poet and diplomat
1900–1971
![A.D. Patel photo]()
Fijian politician
1905–1969
![L. Ron Hubbard photo]()
American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, …
1911–1986
![Jacque Fresco photo]()
American futurist and self-described social engineer
1916–2017
![Robert Denning photo]()
American interior designer
1927–2005
![Barry Hughart photo]()
American novelist
1934–2019
![David Nobbs photo]()
British author and scriptwriter
1935–2015
![Donella Meadows photo]()
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
1941–2001
![Mahmoud Darwich photo]()
Palestinian writer
1941–2008
![Ali Mohamed Shein photo]()
President of Zanzibar
1948
![William H. Macy photo]()
American actor, screenwriter, teacher and director in theat…
1950
![Charles Krauthammer photo]()
American journalist
1950–2018
![Ethan Nadelmann photo]()
American writer; campaigner for the legalization of mariju…
1957
![Caryl Phillips photo]()
Kittian-British writer
1958
![Yurii Andrukhovych photo]()
Ukrainian writer, poet, essayist and translator
1960
![Stephen H. Webb photo]()
American theologian
1961–2016
![Alastair Reynolds photo]()
British novelist and astronomer
1966
![Viet Thanh Nguyen photo]()
American author of fiction
1971
![Common (rapper) photo]()
American rapper, actor and author from Illinois
1972
![David Draiman photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1973
![Dominique Morisseau photo]()
actor and playwright
1978
![Martin Villeneuve photo]()
Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter
1978
![Peaches Geldof photo]()
British journalist, television presenter and model
1989–2014
Death
![Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux photo]()
French poet and critic
1636–1711
![Balbhadra Kunwar photo]()
National hero of Nepal
1789–1823
![Thomas Noon Talfourd photo]()
British politician
1795–1854
![Richard Henry Horne photo]()
English poet and critic
1802–1884
![Susan B. Anthony photo]()
American women's rights activist
1820–1906
![Benjamin Harrison photo]()
American politician, 23rd President of the United States (i…
1833–1901
![Elihu Thomson photo]()
American inventor
1853–1937
![Lucien Lévy-Bruhl photo]()
French philosopher
1857–1939
![Clarence Darrow photo]()
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Li…
1857–1938
![Rockwell Kent photo]()
American artist
1882–1971
![Corrado Gini photo]()
Italian statistician
1884–1965
![Ivo Andrič photo]()
novelist, short story writer
1892–1975
![Stephen Vincent Benét photo]()
poet, short story writer, novelist
1898–1943
![Hans-Georg Gadamer photo]()
German philosopher
1900–2002
![Bruno Bettelheim photo]()
child psychologist and writer
1903–1990
![Jan Patočka photo]()
Czech essayist and philosopher
1907–1977
![Alberto Assa photo]()
Colombian eductor and translator
1909–1996
![Taubie Kushlick photo]()
South African actor and director
1910–1991
![Marjorie Holmes photo]()
American columnist and best-selling Christian author
1910–2002
![Sydney Carter photo]()
British musician and poet
1915–2004
![Robin Maugham photo]()
British novelist, playwright and travel writer
1916–1981
![T. Berry Brazelton photo]()
American pediatrician
1918–2018
![Hilary Putnam photo]()
American philosopher
1926–2016
![Irving Younger photo]()
American lawyer
1932–1988
![Krzysztof Kieślowski photo]()
Polish film director and screenwriter
1941–1996
![Amy Krouse Rosenthal photo]()
author, a radio show host and producer, and filmmaker
1965–2017
