Anniversaries 13 July
Birth
![John Dee photo]()
English mathematican, astrologer and antiquary
1527–1608
![Francis Drake photo]()
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and poli…
1540–1596
![Jacques-Louis Ménétra photo]()
glazier, tradesman
1738–1812
![Nathan Bedford Forrest photo]()
Confederate Army general
1821–1877
![Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield photo]()
British Baron and politician
1859–1947
![William Harrison Moreland photo]()
British civil servant in India and historian
1868–1938
![June Downey photo]()
American psychologist
1875–1932
![Eliseo Vivas photo]()
American philosopher
1901–1993
![Kenneth Clark photo]()
Art historian, broadcaster and museum director
1903–1983
![Kaoru Ishikawa photo]()
Japanese business theorist
1915–1989
![Hau Pei-tsun photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1919
![Robert S. Mendelsohn photo]()
American pediatrician
1926–1988
![Vijay R. Singh photo]()
Fijian politician
1931–2006
![Hubert Reeves photo]()
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
1932
![Jack Kemp photo]()
American football player, quarterback, U.S. Congressman
1935–2009
![Earl Lovelace photo]()
Trinidad and Tobago writer
1935
![Pete Escovedo photo]()
Mexican-American jazz musician and percussionist
1935
![Thomas Savundaranayagam photo]()
Sri Lankan Tamil bishop
1938
![Harrison Ford photo]()
American film actor and producer
1942
![Cheech Marin photo]()
American comedian, actor and writer
1946
![Cynthia Heimel photo]()
American writer
1947–2018
![David Duke photo]()
American White nationalist, white supremacist, writer, righ…
1950
![Ma Ying-jeou photo]()
Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China
1950
![Cameron Crowe photo]()
Academy Award-winning American writer and film director
1957
![Eben Moglen photo]()
American law professor and free software advocate
1959
![Ian Hislop photo]()
Satirical comedian, Editor, Television and radio presenter
1960
Death
![Rashi photo]()
French rabbi and commentator
1040–1105
![James Bradley photo]()
English astronomer; Astronomer Royal
1693–1762
![Jean-Paul Marat photo]()
politician and journalist during the French Revolution
1743–1793
![James Northcote photo]()
English painter
1746–1831
![Rufus Choate photo]()
American politician
1799–1859
![August Kekulé photo]()
German organic chemist
1829–1896
![Alfred M. Mayer photo]()
American physicist
1836–1897
![Émile Banning photo]()
academic, civil servant
1836–1898
![Alfred Marshall photo]()
British economist
1842–1924
![Alfred Stieglitz photo]()
American photographer
1864–1946
![Arnold Schoenberg photo]()
Austrian-American composer
1874–1951
![Grantland Rice photo]()
American sportswriter
1880–1954
![Sheng Shicai photo]()
Chinese warlord
1895–1970
![A. D. Hope photo]()
Australian poet and essayist
1907–2000
![Frida Kahlo photo]()
Mexican painter
1907–1954
![Gabrielle Roy photo]()
French Canadian fiction writer
1909–1983
![Ali Al-Wardi photo]()
Iraqi sociologist
1913–1995
![Brion Gysin photo]()
Canadian artist
1916–1986
![Nadine Gordimer photo]()
South african Nobel-winning writer
1923–2014
![Lorin Maazel photo]()
French-American conductor
1930–2014
![Carolyn See photo]()
American writer
1934–2016
![Liu Xiaobo photo]()
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human right…
1955–2017
