Anniversaries 13 August
Birth
![William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher photo]()
British lawyer, judge and politician
1815–1899
![Lucy Stone photo]()
American abolitionist and suffragist
1818–1893
![George Gabriel Stokes photo]()
British mathematician and physicist
1819–1903
![George Grove photo]()
(1820–1900) English writer on music and director of the Roy…
1820–1900
![Goldwin Smith photo]()
British historian and journalist
1823–1910
![Felix Adler photo]()
German American professor of political and social ethics, r…
1851–1933
![Paul Blobel photo]()
German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
1894–1951
![Alfred Hitchcock photo]()
British filmmaker
1899–1980
![George E. Mendenhall photo]()
American academic
1916–2016
![Fidel Castro photo]()
former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President…
1926–2016
![Joycelyn Elders photo]()
American pediatrician, public health administrator, and for…
1933
![Seraphim Rose photo]()
American Orthodox writer and saint
1934–1982
![Vyjayanthimala photo]()
Indian actress, politician & dancer
1936
![Sharon Kay Penman photo]()
American historical novelist
1945
![Janet Yellen photo]()
American economist and professor
1946
![Richard Sandbrook photo]()
environmentalist
1946–2005
![Bobby Clarke photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1949
![Dan Fogelberg photo]()
singer-songwriter, musician
1951–2007
![Donna Barr photo]()
comic book author and cartoonist
1952
![David Feherty photo]()
professional golfer, broadcaster, writer
1958
![John Dear photo]()
Catholic priest from the United States
1959
![George Packer photo]()
American journalist and writer
1960
![Tom Perrotta photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1961
![Manuel Valls photo]()
French Socialist Party (PS) politician
1962
![Amélie Nothomb photo]()
Belgian francophone writer
1967
![Kevin Plank photo]()
American entrepreneur and philanthropist
1972
![Ibram X. Kendi photo]()
American author and historian
1982
![Sebastian Stan photo]()
Romanian-American actor
1982
![Sarah Huckabee Sanders photo]()
American political press secretary
1982
![James Morrison photo]()
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984
Death
![Maximus the Confessor photo]()
Christian saint and theologian
580–662
![Jeremy Taylor photo]()
English clergyman
1613–1667
![George Gilfillan photo]()
Scottish writer
1813–1878
![Elizabeth Prentiss photo]()
American musician, hymnwriter
1818–1878
![Florence Nightingale photo]()
English social reformer and statistician, and the founder o…
1820–1910
![William Stanley Jevons photo]()
English economist and logician
1835–1882
![Oscar Levy photo]()
German physician and writer
1867–1946
![James Oliver Curwood photo]()
Novelist, conservationist
1878–1927
![Emmet Fox photo]()
American New Thought writer
1886–1951
![Wilm Hosenfeld photo]()
Righteous Among the Nations
1895–1952
![Henry Williamson photo]()
British ruralist and natural history writer
1895–1977
![Julien Green photo]()
American author
1900–1998
![Brooke Astor photo]()
Socialite, writer, Philanthropist
1902–2007
![Helen Gurley Brown photo]()
American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman
1922–2012
![Tigran Petrosian photo]()
Soviet Georgian Armenian chess player and chess writer
1929–1984
![Mickey Mantle photo]()
Professional baseball player
1931–1995
![David Lange photo]()
New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zeala…
1942–2005
