Anniversaries 13 May
Birth
![Ibrahim ibn Adham photo]()
ascetic Sufi saint
718–776
![Lazare Carnot photo]()
French political, engineering and mathematical figure
1753–1823
![Pope Pius IX photo]()
255th Pope of the Catholic Church
1792–1878
![John Sullivan Dwight photo]()
American minister
1813–1893
![William Paton Mackay photo]()
Scottish clergyman
1839–1885
![Alphonse Daudet photo]()
French novelist
1840–1897
![Arthur Sullivan photo]()
English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
1842–1900
![Dimitrije Tucović photo]()
Serbian politician
1881–1914
![Lima Barreto photo]()
Brazilian writer
1881–1922
![Georges Braque photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1882–1963
![Witold Pilecki photo]()
World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
1901–1948
![Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed photo]()
the fifth President of India and a politician
1905–1977
![Bea Arthur photo]()
actress, singer, comedian
1922–2009
![Giovanni Sartori photo]()
Italian journalist and political scientist
1924–2017
![Harry Schwarz photo]()
South African activist
1924–2010
![Mike Gravel photo]()
American politician; United States Senator
1930–2021
![Jim Jones photo]()
founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple
1931–1978
![Trevor Baylis photo]()
English inventor
1937–2018
![Roger Zelazny photo]()
American speculative fiction writer
1937–1995
![Bruce Chatwin photo]()
English novelist
1940–1989
![Álvaro Corrada del Río photo]()
Puerto Rican Catholic bishop
1942
![Li Hongzhi photo]()
Chinese religious leader and dissident
1951
![John Kasich photo]()
American politician and former television host
1952
![Carrie Lam photo]()
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1957
![Stephen Colbert photo]()
American political satirist, writer, comedian, television h…
1964
![Ronnie Coleman photo]()
American bodybuilder
1964
![Scott Morrison photo]()
30th Prime Minister of Australia
1968
![Erik Varden photo]()
Norwegian Monk and Prelate
1974
![Alexander Rybak photo]()
Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist
1986
![Melanie Perkins photo]()
Australian technology entrepreneur
1987
![Tyrann Mathieu photo]()
All-American college football player, defensive back, corne…
1992
![Debby Ryan photo]()
American singer and actress
1993
Death
![Takeda Shingen photo]()
Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
1521–1573
![Louis Bourdaloue photo]()
French serman writer
1632–1704
![Beilby Porteus photo]()
Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London
1731–1809
![Jacques-Louis Ménétra photo]()
glazier, tradesman
1738–1812
![Georges Cuvier photo]()
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
1769–1832
![Jacob Henle photo]()
German physician, anatomist, and zoologist
1809–1885
![Nora Perry photo]()
American writer
1831–1896
![Isabella Fyvie Mayo photo]()
Scottish poet, novelist, reformer
1843–1914
![Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner photo]()
British statesman and colonial administrator
1854–1925
![Sholem Aleichem photo]()
Yiddish author and playwright
1859–1916
![Walter Raleigh (professor) photo]()
British academic
1861–1922
![Fridtjof Nansen photo]()
Norwegian polar explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1861–1930
![Bede Griffiths photo]()
Benedictine Monk
1906–1993
![R. K. Narayan photo]()
writer of Indian English literature
1906–2001
![Stanislaw Ulam photo]()
Polish-American mathematician
1909–1984
![Franz Kline photo]()
American painter
1910–1962
![Robert LeFevre photo]()
American libertarian businessman
1911–1986
![George Dantzig photo]()
American mathematician
1914–2005
![Doris Day photo]()
American actress, singer, and animal rights activist
1922–2019
![Jaroslav Pelikan photo]()
US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and mediev…
1923–2006
