Anniversaries 13 May

Birth

Ibrahim ibn Adham4

ascetic Sufi saint 718–776

Lazare Carnot1

French political, engineering and mathematical figure 1753–1823

Pope Pius IX1

255th Pope of the Catholic Church 1792–1878

John Sullivan Dwight5

American minister 1813–1893

William Paton Mackay7

Scottish clergyman 1839–1885

Alphonse Daudet15

French novelist 1840–1897

Arthur Sullivan6

English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1842–1900

Dimitrije Tucović4

Serbian politician 1881–1914

Lima Barreto11

Brazilian writer 1881–1922

Georges Braque43

French painter and sculptor 1882–1963

Karl Wolff5

SS general 1900–1984

Witold Pilecki7

World War II concentration camp leader and resistor 1901–1948

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed11

the fifth President of India and a politician 1905–1977

Daphne du Maurier2

British writer 1907–1989

Joe Louis2

American boxer 1914–1981

Balasaraswati9

Indian dancer 1918–1984

Bea Arthur10

actress, singer, comedian 1922–2009

Giovanni Sartori3

Italian journalist and political scientist 1924–2017

Harry Schwarz17

South African activist 1924–2010

Mike Gravel4

American politician; United States Senator 1930–2021

Jim Jones8

founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple 1931–1978

Trevor Baylis4

English inventor 1937–2018

Roger Zelazny112

American speculative fiction writer 1937–1995

Francine Pascal6

American writer 1938

Brian J. Ford1

Academic, author 1939

Bruce Chatwin6

English novelist 1940–1989

Álvaro Corrada del Río1

Puerto Rican Catholic bishop 1942

Eve Babitz1

American author 1943

Armistead Maupin6

American writer 1944

Stephen R. Donaldson18

Novelist 1947

Stevie Wonder51

American musician 1950

Li Hongzhi7

Chinese religious leader and dissident 1951

John Kasich2

American politician and former television host 1952

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar25

spiritual leader 1956

Carrie Lam2

Chief Executive of Hong Kong 1957

Kōji Suzuki2

Japanese writer 1957

Kristine Larsen2

American astronomer 1963

Stephen Colbert131

American political satirist, writer, comedian, television h… 1964

Ronnie Coleman7

American bodybuilder 1964

Melanie Thornton1

singer 1967–2001

Scott Morrison2

30th Prime Minister of Australia 1968

Asaduddin Owaisi2

Indian politician 1969

Francis Y. Kalabat1

American bishop 1970

Erik Varden1

Norwegian Monk and Prelate 1974

Nathan Leone4

American musician 1981

Alexander Rybak7

Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist 1986

Robert Pattinson2

English actor 1986

Charlotte Wessels3

Dutch singer 1987

Melanie Perkins5

Australian technology entrepreneur 1987

Tyrann Mathieu2

All-American college football player, defensive back, corne… 1992

Debby Ryan1

American singer and actress 1993

Death

Takeda Shingen2

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period 1521–1573

Louis Bourdaloue1

French serman writer 1632–1704

Beilby Porteus5

Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London 1731–1809

Jacques-Louis Ménétra3

glazier, tradesman 1738–1812

Georges Cuvier5

French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832) 1769–1832

Jacob Henle2

German physician, anatomist, and zoologist 1809–1885

Nora Perry3

American writer 1831–1896

Isabella Fyvie Mayo2

Scottish poet, novelist, reformer 1843–1914

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner8

British statesman and colonial administrator 1854–1925

Sholem Aleichem2

Yiddish author and playwright 1859–1916

Walter Raleigh (professor)12

British academic 1861–1922

Fridtjof Nansen4

Norwegian polar explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1861–1930

Bede Griffiths2

Benedictine Monk 1906–1993

R. K. Narayan10

writer of Indian English literature 1906–2001

Stanislaw Ulam33

Polish-American mathematician 1909–1984

Franz Kline20

American painter 1910–1962

Robert LeFevre47

American libertarian businessman 1911–1986

Laurie Lee22

British writer 1914–1997

George Dantzig9

American mathematician 1914–2005

Hugh Montefiore4

British bishop 1920–2005

Doris Day6

American actress, singer, and animal rights activist 1922–2019

Jaroslav Pelikan1

US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and mediev… 1923–2006

Joyce Brothers39

Joyce Brothers 1927–2013

Brian McNaughton6

US author 1935–2004

Charles Coffey1

Irish composer