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August 13
August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining.
Events
up to 999
1000-1499
1500-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
Up to 999
1000-1399
1400-1899
- 1422 - William Caxton, printer
- 1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, physician, mathematician and physicist (d. 1698)
- 1666 - William Wotton, Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom
- 1818 - Lucy Stone, pioneering women's rights activist
- 1820 - Sir George Grove, author, Dictionary of Music and Musicians (d. 1900)
- 1823 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (d. 1910)
- 1851 - Felix Adler, educator, founder of the Ethical Movement (d. 1933)
- 1860 - Annie Oakley, sharpshooter (d. 1926)
- 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, industrialist (d. 1945)
- 1888 - John Logie Baird, television pioneer (d. 1946)
- 1895 - Bert Lahr, actor (d. 1967)
- 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (d. 1980)
1900-1999
- 1902 - Felix Wankel, engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, actor (d. 1999)
- 1907 - Sir Basil Spence, architect (d. 1976)
- 1912 - Salvador Luria, biologist; Nobel Prize, 1969 (d. 1991)
- 1912 - Ben Hogan, golf champion (d. 1997)
- 1913 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)
- 1919 - George Shearing, musician
- 1920 - Neville Brand, actor (d. 1992)
- 1927 - Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician
- 1930 - Don Ho, musician
- 1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General
- 1935 - Jim (Mudcat) Grant , baseball player
- 1948 - Kathleen Battle, soprano
- 1949 - Bobby Clarke, ice hockey star
- 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, singer
- 1952 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer (d. 2004)
- 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, actor
- 1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- 1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- 1970 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player
- 1975 - Joe Perry, English snooker player
Deaths
900-1899
1900-1999
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer
- 1912 - Jules Massenet, composer (b. 1842)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, writer (b. 1866).
- 1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868).
- 1964 - Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, murderers. The last people to be executed in Great Britain.
- 1965 - Ikeda Hayato, thrice Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
- 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, World chess champion (b. 1929).
- 1989 - Tim Richmond, NASCAR race car driver (b. 1955)
- 1995 - Mickey Mantle, Baseball Hall of Fame member (b. 1931)
- 1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech emigre writer (b. 1926)
- 1996 - David Tudor, pianist and composer (b. 1926).
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
August 12 - August 14 - July 13 - September 13 -- listing of all days
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