Anniversaries 13 June

Birth

Alessandro Piccolomini9

Italian writer and philosopher 1508–1579

Martha Washington7

First Lady of the United States 1731–1802

Frances Burney16

English writer 1752–1840

Thomas Young (scientist)28

English polymath 1773–1829

Winfield Scott6

Union United States Army general 1786–1866

Thomas Arnold5

English headmaster of Rugby School 1795–1842

James Clerk Maxwell27

Scottish physicist 1831–1879

W.B. Yeats255

Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

Miriam A. Ferguson1

American politician 1875–1961

Joseph Stella7

American artist 1877–1946

Mary Antin4

American memoirist 1881–1949

Étienne Gilson22

French historian and philosopher 1884–1978

Burrill Bernard Crohn2

American gastroenterologist 1884–1983

Fernando Pessoa288

Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935

Basil Rathbone2

British actor 1892–1967

Dorothy L. Sayers72

English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957

Abdur Rab Nishtar1

Pakistani politician 1899–1958

Bruno de Finetti1

Italian mathematician 1906–1985

E. M. S. Namboodiripad19

Indian politician 1909–1998

Mary Whitehouse2

British activist 1910–2001

John Nash23

American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928–2015

Paul Veyne1

French historian 1930

Irvin D. Yalom5

American psychotherapist and writer 1931

Ulrich Duchrow1

German theologian 1935

Eleanor Holmes Norton1

non-voting Delegate to to the United States Congress for th… 1937

Dennis Mueller4

American economist 1940

Malcolm McDowell3

English actor 1943

Ban Ki-moon4

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1944

Whitley Strieber2

American writer 1945

Ranulph Glanville1

British cyberneticist (1946-2014) 1946–2014

Jerrold Nadler1

American politician 1947

Ellen Ullman3

American writer 1949

Ann Druyan9

American author and producer 1949

Red Symons7

Australian broadcaster and musician 1949

Angelo Moreschi2

Italian Catholic Bishop 1952–2020

Tim Allen3

American actor, voiceover artist and comedian 1953

Alan Hansen1

Scottish footballer 1955

Boyko Borissov2

Bulgarian politician 1959

Cathy Cassidy1

British author of young adult fiction 1962

Audrey Niffenegger6

American writer, artist and academic 1963

Erik Naggum118

Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

Annette Widmann-Mauz1

German politician 1966

Grigori Perelman1

Russian mathematician 1966

Ben Horowitz7

American businessman 1966

Jeanine Áñez7

President of Bolivia 1967

Melissa Nathan1

British writer 1968–2006

Steve-O2

England-born American stunt performer/radio personality 1974

Johannes Grenzfurthner48

Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film dire… 1975

Chris Evans (actor)8

American actor 1981

Ashley Olsen1

actor from USA 1986

Death

Anthony of Padua3

Franciscan 1195–1231

Honinbo Sansa1

go player, founder of the prestigious Hon'inbō school 1559–1623

Мусаси Миямото1

1584–1645

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye8

British songwriter, composer, poet and author 1807–1867

Tippu Tip2

Swahili slave trader 1837–1905

Leopoldo Alas1

novelist 1852–1901

Martin Buber58

German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878–1965

William A. Patterson3

President of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966 1899–1980

Georg von Békésy3

Hungarian physicist 1899–1972

Osamu Dazai39

Japanese author 1909–1948

Roger Garaudy1

French philosopher 1913–2012

Ruth Harrison1

British activist 1920–2000

Charles Haughey8

Irish politician 1925–2006

Jimmy Dean1

American singer 1928–2010

Fathi Yakan1

Lebanese Islamic cleric-politician 1933–2009

Anita Pallenberg5

German actress, model and Rolling Stones groupie 1942–2017

Walter Rodney50

Guyanese politician, activist and historian 1942–1980