Anniversaries 13 September

Birth

Cesare Borgia12

Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal 1475–1507

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley9

English statesman 1520–1598

Daniel Defoe43

English trader, writer and journalist 1660–1731

Джулиус Чарльз Хэар1

1795–1855

Julius Hare3

British theologian 1795–1855

James Finlay Weir Johnston1

Scottish agricultural chemist 1796–1855

John Sedgwick1

Union Army general 1813–1864

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach81

Austrian writer 1830–1916

John J. Pershing3

United States Army general in World War I 1860–1948

Henry Fountain Ashurst10

United States Senator from Arizona 1874–1962

Arnold Schoenberg20

Austrian-American composer 1874–1951

Sherwood Anderson19

writer 1876–1941

Fani Badayuni1

Indian writer 1879–1961

J.B. Priestley35

English writer 1894–1984

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu66

Romanian politician 1899–1938

Claudette Colbert2

French-American actress 1903–1996

Bill Monroe5

American bluegrass musician 1911–1996

W. Ian Thomas1

British writer 1914–2007

Roald Dahl103

British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot a… 1916–1990

Mary Midgley42

British philosopher and ethicist 1919–2018

Andrew Marshall5

the director of the United States Department of Defense's O… 1921–2019

Natália Correia1

Portuguese writer 1923–1993

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya1

Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the… 1923–1941

Édouard Boubat1

French photographer 1923–1999

Maurice Jarre1

French composer 1924–2009

Sidney Drell1

American physicist 1926–2016

Adrienne Kennedy3

African-American playwright 1931

Don Bluth2

American animator 1937

Judith Martin13

American etiquette expert 1938

John Smith5

Labour Party leader from Scotland (1938-1994) 1938–1994

Mildred D. Taylor3

American writer 1943

Steve Kilbey27

British artist 1954

Tom Holt40

British writer 1961

Ann Wagner2

American diplomat 1962

Jane Dodds1

Welsh Liberal Democrat politician elected to the UK Parliam… 1963

Tavis Smiley1

Talk show host, author, entrepreneur, advocate, philanthrop… 1964

Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz3

Polish writer 1964

Paul Kellam2

British virologist 1965

Tyler Perry20

American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, produce… 1966

E. Lockhart101

American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenag… 1967

Shane Warne3

Australian former international cricketer 1969–2022

Jason Scott Sadofsky2

American technology historian and archivist 1970

Stella McCartney2

British fashion designer 1971

Fabio Cannavaro4

Italian footballer 1973

Akimine Kamijyo1

Japanese manga artist 1975

Ro Khanna6

U.S. Representative from California 1976

Fiona Apple26

singer-songwriter, musician 1977

Peter Sunde6

Swedish activist and computer expert 1978

Niall Horan2

Irish singer and songwriter 1993

Death

William Farel1

French evangelist 1489–1565

John Cheke1

English politician and scholar 1514–1557

Philip II of Spain2

King of Spain who became King of England by marriage to Que… 1527–1598

Michel De Montaigne264

(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

Francisco Pelsaert7

Dutch merchant, commander of the ship Batavia 1591–1630

James Wolfe4

British Army officer 1727–1759

Francesco Maggiotto1

Italian painter (1738-1805) 1738–1805

Charles James Fox42

British Whig statesman 1749–1806

Charles Boarman6

US Navy Rear Admiral 1795–1879

Ludwig Feuerbach36

German philosopher and anthropologist 1804–1872

Italo Svevo18

Italian writer 1861–1928

August Krogh1

Danish physiologist 1874–1949

Ugo Cavallero5

Italian general 1880–1943

Leopold Stokowski8

British conductor 1882–1977

Walter P. Stacy1

American judge 1884–1951

Baruch Ashlag8

Polish rabbi 1907–1991

George Wallace17

45th Governor of Alabama 1919–1998

Antony Hewish1

English physicist and radio astronomer 1924–2021

Guido Ceronetti2

Italian poet, writer, journalist and translator 1927–2018

Peter Lougheed1

Canadian politician 1928–2012

Sarah E. Wright1

American writer 1929–2009

Donald A. Schön3

American academic 1930–1997

Ann Richards13

American politician 1933–2006

Carl Oglesby4

American political activist 1935–2011

Tupac Shakur154

rapper and actor 1971–1996