Anniversaries 13 July

Birth

John Dee10

English mathematican, astrologer and antiquary 1527–1608

Francis Drake5

English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and poli… 1540–1596

Jacques-Louis Ménétra3

glazier, tradesman 1738–1812

John Clare21

English poet 1793–1864

Nathan Bedford Forrest27

Confederate Army general 1821–1877

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield3

British Baron and politician 1859–1947

William Harrison Moreland1

British civil servant in India and historian 1868–1938

June Downey8

American psychologist 1875–1932

Eliseo Vivas2

American philosopher 1901–1993

Kenneth Clark47

Art historian, broadcaster and museum director 1903–1983

Kaoru Ishikawa3

Japanese business theorist 1915–1989

Hau Pei-tsun3

Taiwanese politician 1919

Robert S. Mendelsohn1

American pediatrician 1926–1988

Vijay R. Singh15

Fijian politician 1931–2006

Hubert Reeves3

Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science 1932

Piero Manzoni16

Italian artist 1933–1963

Wole Soyinka11

Nigerian writer 1934

Jack Kemp2

American football player, quarterback, U.S. Congressman 1935–2009

Earl Lovelace1

Trinidad and Tobago writer 1935

Monique Wittig3

French writer 1935–2003

Pete Escovedo3

Mexican-American jazz musician and percussionist 1935

Thomas Savundaranayagam1

Sri Lankan Tamil bishop 1938

Harrison Ford6

American film actor and producer 1942

Cheech Marin1

American comedian, actor and writer 1946

Cynthia Heimel1

American writer 1947–2018

David Duke15

American White nationalist, white supremacist, writer, righ… 1950

Ma Ying-jeou24

Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China 1950

Jane Hamilton3

American novelist 1957

Cameron Crowe4

Academy Award-winning American writer and film director 1957

Eben Moglen6

American law professor and free software advocate 1959

Ian Hislop7

Satirical comedian, Editor, Television and radio presenter 1960

Tom Kenny2

American actor 1962

R. J. Palacio2

American author 1963

Scott B. Smith1

author 1965

Carolyn Mackler6

American writer 1973

Death

Aisha24

Muhammad's wife 605–678

Rashi15

French rabbi and commentator 1040–1105

James Bradley11

English astronomer; Astronomer Royal 1693–1762

Jean-Paul Marat10

politician and journalist during the French Revolution 1743–1793

James Northcote1

English painter 1746–1831

Rufus Choate11

American politician 1799–1859

August Kekulé4

German organic chemist 1829–1896

Alfred M. Mayer1

American physicist 1836–1897

Émile Banning4

academic, civil servant 1836–1898

Alfred Marshall5

British economist 1842–1924

Alfred Stieglitz12

American photographer 1864–1946

Arnold Schoenberg20

Austrian-American composer 1874–1951

Grantland Rice2

American sportswriter 1880–1954

Sheng Shicai1

Chinese warlord 1895–1970

A. D. Hope2

Australian poet and essayist 1907–2000

Frida Kahlo51

Mexican painter 1907–1954

Gabrielle Roy40

French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

Ali Al-Wardi39

Iraqi sociologist 1913–1995

Joy Davidman1

American poet 1915–1960

Brion Gysin10

Canadian artist 1916–1986

Nadine Gordimer57

South african Nobel-winning writer 1923–2014

Lorin Maazel3

French-American conductor 1930–2014

Carolyn See1

American writer 1934–2016

Liu Xiaobo18

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human right… 1955–2017