Anniversaries 13 August

Birth

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher16

British lawyer, judge and politician 1815–1899

Lucy Stone34

American abolitionist and suffragist 1818–1893

George Gabriel Stokes1

British mathematician and physicist 1819–1903

George Grove1

(1820–1900) English writer on music and director of the Roy… 1820–1900

Goldwin Smith1

British historian and journalist 1823–1910

Felix Adler99

German American professor of political and social ethics, r… 1851–1933

Paul Blobel10

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator 1894–1951

Alfred Hitchcock45

British filmmaker 1899–1980

George E. Mendenhall7

American academic 1916–2016

Fidel Castro77

former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President… 1926–2016

Joycelyn Elders12

American pediatrician, public health administrator, and for… 1933

Seraphim Rose1

American Orthodox writer and saint 1934–1982

Vyjayanthimala27

Indian actress, politician & dancer 1936

Sharon Kay Penman18

American historical novelist 1945

Janet Yellen4

American economist and professor 1946

Richard Sandbrook4

environmentalist 1946–2005

Merrill Markoe1

American writer 1948

Bobby Clarke1

Canadian ice hockey player 1949

Dan Fogelberg13

singer-songwriter, musician 1951–2007

Donna Barr1

comic book author and cartoonist 1952

John Elder Robison1

American writer 1957

David Feherty5

professional golfer, broadcaster, writer 1958

John Dear8

Catholic priest from the United States 1959

George Packer14

American journalist and writer 1960

Tom Perrotta10

American novelist and screenwriter 1961

Manuel Valls5

French Socialist Party (PS) politician 1962

Valerie Plame4

American spy 1963

Amélie Nothomb3

Belgian francophone writer 1967

Crystal Allen2

American actress 1972

Kevin Plank1

American entrepreneur and philanthropist 1972

Kamila Shamsie18

Pakistani writer 1973

Ibram X. Kendi4

American author and historian 1982

Peter Gelderloos12

American anarchist 1982

Sebastian Stan6

Romanian-American actor 1982

Sarah Huckabee Sanders3

American political press secretary 1982

Себастьян Стэн2

1983

James Morrison13

English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984

Andrea Meza1

Miss Universe 2020 1994

Death

Maximus the Confessor1

Christian saint and theologian 580–662

Lanxi Daolong2

Buddhist monk 1213–1278

Jeremy Taylor13

English clergyman 1613–1667

Eugène Delacroix50

French painter 1798–1863

George Gilfillan7

Scottish writer 1813–1878

Elizabeth Prentiss11

American musician, hymnwriter 1818–1878

Florence Nightingale81

English social reformer and statistician, and the founder o… 1820–1910

William Stanley Jevons69

English economist and logician 1835–1882

H. G. Wells142

English writer 1866–1946

Oscar Levy22

German physician and writer 1867–1946

Ethel Lina White1

British writer 1876–1944

James Oliver Curwood1

Novelist, conservationist 1878–1927

Emmet Fox7

American New Thought writer 1886–1951

Wilm Hosenfeld2

Righteous Among the Nations 1895–1952

Henry Williamson1

British ruralist and natural history writer 1895–1977

Julien Green1

American author 1900–1998

Brooke Astor3

Socialite, writer, Philanthropist 1902–2007

Julia Child40

American chef 1921–2004

Helen Gurley Brown4

American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman 1922–2012

John Hollander31

American poet 1929–2013

Tigran Petrosian4

Soviet Georgian Armenian chess player and chess writer 1929–1984

Mickey Mantle10

Professional baseball player 1931–1995

David Lange34

New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zeala… 1942–2005