Anniversaries 13 April
Birth
![Thomas Jefferson photo]()
3rd President of the United States of America
1743–1826
![Duncan Gregory photo]()
British mathematician
1813–1844
![George Holyoake photo]()
British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor
1817–1906
![Thomas D'Arcy McGee photo]()
Canadian politician
1825–1868
![Josephine Butler photo]()
British feminist
1828–1906
![William Quan Judge photo]()
American occult writer
1851–1896
![Richard T. Ely photo]()
United States economist and author
1854–1943
![Ray Lyman Wilbur photo]()
President of Stanford University
1875–1949
![György Lukács photo]()
Marxist philosopher and literary critic
1885–1971
![Nella Larsen photo]()
Novelist, librarian, nurse
1891–1964
![Arthur Travers Harris photo]()
Royal Air Force air marshal
1892–1984
![Jacques Lacan photo]()
French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
1901–1981
![Marion L. Starkey photo]()
American historian & writer
1901–1991
![Christopher Vokes photo]()
Canadian general
1904–1985
![Samuel Beckett photo]()
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
1906–1989
![Eudora Welty photo]()
American author
1909–2001
![Stanislaw Ulam photo]()
Polish-American mathematician
1909–1984
![Bruce Palmer Jr. photo]()
United States Army Chief of Staff
1913–2000
![Madalyn Murray O'Hair photo]()
Atheist activist
1919–1995
![Julius Nyerere photo]()
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and P…
1922–1999
![John Braine photo]()
English novelist
1922–1986
![Jack T. Chick photo]()
Christian comics writer
1924–2016
![Michael Halliday photo]()
Australian linguist
1925–2018
![Alan Clark photo]()
British politician
1928–1999
![Elena Efimovna Kuzmina photo]()
Russian archaeologist
1931–2013
![Seamus Heaney photo]()
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
1939–2013
![J. M. G. Le Clézio photo]()
French writer and Nobel Prize winner
1940
![Michael Herr photo]()
American war correspondent, screenwriter
1940–2016
![Michael Hammer photo]()
American academic
1948–2008
![Christopher Hitchens photo]()
British American author and journalist
1949–2011
![Dany Laferrière photo]()
Haitian Canadian novelist and journalist
1953
![Rita Williams-Garcia photo]()
American children's writer
1957
![Amy Goodman photo]()
American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, invest…
1957
![Garry Kasparov photo]()
former chess world champion
1963
![Omawumi photo]()
Nigerian musician and actress
1982
![Nabeel Qureshi (author) photo]()
Christian missionary, speaker and author who was a convert …
1983–2017
Death
![Jean De La Fontaine photo]()
French poet, fabulist and writer.
1621–1695
![Bruno Bauer photo]()
German philosopher and historian
1809–1882
![Richard Garnett photo]()
British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
1835–1906
![Ernst Cassirer photo]()
German philosopher
1874–1945
![Carlo Carrà photo]()
Italian painter
1881–1966
![John Thomas Flynn photo]()
American journalist
1882–1964
![Takuboku Ishikawa photo]()
Japanese writer
1886–1912
![David McCord photo]()
American writer
1897–1997
![Wallace Stegner photo]()
American historian, writer, and environmentalist
1909–1993
![John Archibald Wheeler photo]()
American physicist
1911–2008
![Muriel Spark photo]()
Scottish writer
1918–2006
![Günter Grass photo]()
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic art…
1927–2015
![Miloš Forman photo]()
czech-American director, screenwriter, and professor
1932–2018
![Lewis Nordan photo]()
American writer
1939–2012
![Eduardo Galeano photo]()
Uruguayan writer
1940–2015
![Tony Buzan photo]()
British psychologist
1942–2019
