Anniversaries 13 April

Birth

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon7

French mystic 1648–1717

Thomas Jefferson456

3rd President of the United States of America 1743–1826

Jean Pierre Flourens1

1794–1867

Duncan Gregory4

British mathematician 1813–1844

George Holyoake13

British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor 1817–1906

Thomas D'Arcy McGee11

Canadian politician 1825–1868

Josephine Butler3

British feminist 1828–1906

William Quan Judge27

American occult writer 1851–1896

Richard T. Ely2

United States economist and author 1854–1943

Ray Lyman Wilbur3

President of Stanford University 1875–1949

György Lukács12

Marxist philosopher and literary critic 1885–1971

Nella Larsen3

Novelist, librarian, nurse 1891–1964

Arthur Travers Harris7

Royal Air Force air marshal 1892–1984

Jacques Lacan20

French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist 1901–1981

Marion L. Starkey10

American historian & writer 1901–1991

Christopher Vokes16

Canadian general 1904–1985

Samuel Beckett122

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

Eudora Welty37

American author 1909–2001

Stanislaw Ulam33

Polish-American mathematician 1909–1984

Bruce Palmer Jr.12

United States Army Chief of Staff 1913–2000

Madalyn Murray O'Hair9

Atheist activist 1919–1995

Julius Nyerere4

Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and P… 1922–1999

John Braine1

English novelist 1922–1986

Jack T. Chick39

Christian comics writer 1924–2016

Michael Halliday23

Australian linguist 1925–2018

Alan Clark10

British politician 1928–1999

Elena Efimovna Kuzmina3

Russian archaeologist 1931–2013

Seamus Heaney29

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer 1939–2013

J. M. G. Le Clézio1

French writer and Nobel Prize winner 1940

Michael Herr4

American war correspondent, screenwriter 1940–2016

Ataol Behramoğlu18

Turkish writer 1942

Sam Slom1

American politician 1942

Oscar Urbina Ortega1

Catholic archbishop 1947

Michael Hammer14

American academic 1948–2008

Christopher Hitchens305

British American author and journalist 1949–2011

Erick Avari2

Indian actor 1952

Dany Laferrière3

Haitian Canadian novelist and journalist 1953

Charles Foster Johnson49

American musician 1953

Rita Williams-Garcia1

American children's writer 1957

Amy Goodman8

American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, invest… 1957

Michel Faber13

novelist 1960

Nazarene Soosai1

1963

Garry Kasparov61

former chess world champion 1963

Justin Barrett3

Irish activist 1971

Omawumi1

Nigerian musician and actress 1982

Nabeel Qureshi (author)3

Christian missionary, speaker and author who was a convert … 1983–2017

Death

Jean De La Fontaine47

French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621–1695

Christopher Pitt18

English poet 1699–1748

Nicolas Chamfort54

French writer 1741–1794

Jane Taylor6

British poet 1783–1824

Bruno Bauer1

German philosopher and historian 1809–1882

Richard Garnett6

British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet 1835–1906

Emil Nolde28

German artist 1867–1956

Evelyn Beatrice Hall12

English writer 1868–1956

Ernst Cassirer1

German philosopher 1874–1945

Carlo Carrà15

Italian painter 1881–1966

John Thomas Flynn6

American journalist 1882–1964

Georges Duhamel23

French writer 1884–1966

Takuboku Ishikawa3

Japanese writer 1886–1912

Anant Priolkar1

historian 1895–1973

David McCord1

American writer 1897–1997

Wallace Stegner29

American historian, writer, and environmentalist 1909–1993

John Archibald Wheeler16

American physicist 1911–2008

Muriel Spark19

Scottish writer 1918–2006

Günter Grass4

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic art… 1927–2015

Miloš Forman9

czech-American director, screenwriter, and professor 1932–2018

Lewis Nordan1

American writer 1939–2012

Eduardo Galeano12

Uruguayan writer 1940–2015

Tony Buzan9

British psychologist 1942–2019