Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 13
Births
[edit]- 1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
- 1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
- 1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
- 1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
- 1820 - Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)
- 1860 - Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)
- 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d.1977)
- 1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2013)
- 1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
- 1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
Deaths
[edit]- 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, (pictured) French painter (b. 1798)
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
- 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Soviet/Armenian chess player (b. 1929)