Anniversaries 13 March

Birth

Joseph Priestley47

English theologian, chemist, educator, and political theori… 1733–1804

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey32

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and I… 1764–1845

Karl Friedrich Schinkel2

Prussian architect, city planner, and painter 1781–1841

Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz2

German politician and publisher 1797–1860

James Waddel Alexander3

American Presbyterian minister and theologian 1804–1859

Edwin Ransford1

British opera singer 1805–1876

Hans Gude1

Norwegian painter 1825–1903

Percival Lowell7

American astronomer 1855–1916

Alexej von Jawlensky23

Russian painter 1864–1941

Barbados Joe Walcott2

British boxer 1873–1935

Hugh Walpole6

New Zealand writer 1884–1941

Alexander Vandegrift1

United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and Com… 1887–1973

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1

American physicist 1899–1980

Giorgos Seferis2

Greek poet and diplomat 1900–1971

A.D. Patel5

Fijian politician 1905–1969

L. Ron Hubbard85

American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, … 1911–1986

Jacque Fresco52

American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916–2017

Robert Denning13

American interior designer 1927–2005

Barry Hughart5

American novelist 1934–2019

David Nobbs1

British author and scriptwriter 1935–2015

Donella Meadows15

American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer 1941–2001

Mahmoud Darwich9

Palestinian writer 1941–2008

Yann Arthus-Bertrand1

French photographer 1946

Ali Mohamed Shein2

President of Zanzibar 1948

Alberto Manguel63

writer 1948

William H. Macy7

American actor, screenwriter, teacher and director in theat… 1950

Charles Krauthammer78

American journalist 1950–2018

Ridley Pearson10

American writer 1953

Ethan Nadelmann7

American writer; campaigner for the legalization of mariju… 1957

Alan Grayson15

American politician 1958

Caryl Phillips3

Kittian-British writer 1958

David Romer1

American economist 1958

Yurii Andrukhovych9

Ukrainian writer, poet, essayist and translator 1960

David Baboulene8

UK author 1960

Stephen H. Webb2

American theologian 1961–2016

Octavia Nasr1

lebanese writer 1966

Alastair Reynolds198

British novelist and astronomer 1966

Lisa Lutz8

US author 1970

Viet Thanh Nguyen4

American author of fiction 1971

Common (rapper)20

American rapper, actor and author from Illinois 1972

David Draiman6

American singer and songwriter 1973

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson1

Icelandic actor 1973

Dominique Morisseau1

actor and playwright 1978

Martin Villeneuve1

Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter 1978

Paul Smith (musician)3

English rock singer 1979

Peaches Geldof2

British journalist, television presenter and model 1989–2014

Death

John Barbour12

Scottish poet 1316–1395

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux30

French poet and critic 1636–1711

Balbhadra Kunwar3

National hero of Nepal 1789–1823

Thomas Noon Talfourd5

British politician 1795–1854

Richard Henry Horne7

English poet and critic 1802–1884

Susan B. Anthony48

American women's rights activist 1820–1906

Benjamin Harrison13

American politician, 23rd President of the United States (i… 1833–1901

Elihu Thomson1

American inventor 1853–1937

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl1

French philosopher 1857–1939

Clarence Darrow70

American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Li… 1857–1938

Кларенс Дарроу1

1857–1938

Rockwell Kent3

American artist 1882–1971

Corrado Gini2

Italian statistician 1884–1965

Ivo Andrič16

novelist, short story writer 1892–1975

Stephen Vincent Benét102

poet, short story writer, novelist 1898–1943

Hans-Georg Gadamer16

German philosopher 1900–2002

Bruno Bettelheim2

child psychologist and writer 1903–1990

Jan Patočka1

Czech essayist and philosopher 1907–1977

Alberto Assa2

Colombian eductor and translator 1909–1996

Taubie Kushlick4

South African actor and director 1910–1991

Marjorie Holmes2

American columnist and best-selling Christian author 1910–2002

Weston La Barre5

anthropologist 1911–1996

Sydney Carter26

British musician and poet 1915–2004

Robin Maugham2

British novelist, playwright and travel writer 1916–1981

T. Berry Brazelton1

American pediatrician 1918–2018

Hilary Putnam8

American philosopher 1926–2016

Irving Younger2

American lawyer 1932–1988

Krzysztof Kieślowski3

Polish film director and screenwriter 1941–1996

Amy Krouse Rosenthal4

author, a radio show host and producer, and filmmaker 1965–2017