Birthdates which
occurred on 13th April :
1519 Catherine
de Médici Queen of Spain/daughter of Henry II
1545 Elisabeth van Valois French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri
II
1593 Thomas Wentworth London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland
1626 Aert Jansz van Nes Lieutenant-Admiral, baptised
1648 Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon French mystic (quiétisme)
1713 Pierre de Jelyotte composer
1729 Thomas Percy English literary/bishop of Dromore
1732 Frederick Lord North (C) British PM (1770-82)
1733 Johann Heinrich Zang composer
1743 Thomas Jefferson Shadwell VA, (D-R) 3rd US President (1801-09)
1749 Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt Dutch count/Vice-Admiral
1756 Louis H J Condé French prince
1762 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth)
1762 Karl Friedrich Horn composer
1771 Adam FJA van der Duyn Dutch Governorernor (South Holland)
1771 Richard Trevithick Illogan Cornwall England, inventor (steam
locomotive)
1784 Cornelis Smit Dutch ship builder
1791 Félix Earl de Merode Belgian minister of War/Finance
1799 Heinrich F L Rellstab German music theorist
1799 Joseph Rastrelli composer
1810 Félicien C David French composer (Perle du Brésil,
Désert)
1816 William Sterndale Bennett composer
1817 Alphonse Wauters Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
1822 Leroy Augustus Stafford Brigadier General (Confederate Army),
died in 1864
1822 William Stephen Walker Brigadier General (Confederate Army),
died in 1899
1828 Joseph B Lightfoot English theologist/bishop of Durham
1830 Eduard Lassen composer
1832 James Wimshurst British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
1847 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk Governor-General (Netherlands East-Indies)
1849 Enrique José Varona Cuban sociologist/psychologist
1852 Frank W Woolworth 5¢ & 10¢ King (Woolworths)
1854 Richard T Ely US economist (Hard Times)
1860 James Ensor Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
1865 Heinrich Reinhardt composer
1867 Sammy Woods cricket bowler (Australia & England Rugby wing-forward)
1868 John Blackwood McEwen composer
1872 A Roda Roda writer
1873 Theodore Morse composer
1881 Ludwig Binswanger Swiss psychiatrist (Über Ideenflucht)
1883 Alexander Alexandrov composer
1883 Demjan Bednyi writer
1885 György Lukács Hungarian philosopher (Zerstörung
der Vernunft)
1885 Pieter S Gerbrandy Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
1886 Ethel Leginska composer
1892 Arthur Harris Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
1892 Robert A Watson-Watt England, physicist (radar)
1894 Ludvig Irgens Jensen composer
1895 Olga Rudge violinist
1895 Olof R Jändel Swedish poet
1899 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko composer
1899 Alfred Moser Butts game inventor (Scrabble)
1899 Alfred Schutz Austrian/US architect/philosopher
19-- Jean Carol Hillsdale NJ, actress (Nadine-Guiding Light)
19-- Michael Leon actor (Pete Jannings-Days of Our Life)
19-- Richard Karron New York NY, actor (Fatso, Charlie & Company,
Teacher's Only)
19-- Ruben Rabassa Havana Cuba, Spanish personality
1901 René-Jean Pleven French premier (1950-52)
1902 Philippe de Rothschild Paris France, manager (Bordeaux Vineyard)
1902 Godfrey Kenton actor (Well's Theater)
1903 Rex Evans actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker)
1904 Georges Yves Marie Congar dominican Theologian cardinal
1906 Samuel Beckett Irish playwright (Waiting for Godot/Nobel 1969)
1906 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
1907 Harold Stassen West St Paul MN, (Governor-Republican-MN) perennial
presidential candidate
1909 Eudora Welty Jackson MS, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer
1973)
1909 Jan Veldkamp Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)
1909 Mervyn Hugh Cowie willife conservationist
1911 Nino Sanzogno composer
1912 Roy Winsor Chicago IL, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of
Life)
1913 Bernard Chacksfield Air Vice-Marshal
1913 David Donald Albritton Danville AL, high jumper (Olympics-silver-1936)
1915 Bert [Albert L F] Peleman [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer
1915 R N Coote Bishop (Colchester)
1915 Stephan Hermlin writer
1915 Stephen Roberts CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915 Tom Greenshields sculptor
1918 Audrey Barker writer
1919 Howard Keel [Harry Clifford Leek] Gillespie IL, actor/singer
(7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
1919 Madalyn Murray O'Hair American atheist (opppsed prayer in school)
1920 Liam Cosgrave leader (Fine Gael Party)
1921 Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza industrialist
1921 Carlo Prosperi composer
1921 James Wilson British Lieutenant-General
1921 Maxwell Henley Harris Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood)
1922 John Braine English novelist (Life at the Top)
1922 John George Vanderbile Henry Spencer-Churchill [11th Duke of
Marlborough] English large landowner
1924 Stanley Donen Columbia SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled,
Damn Yankees)
1925 Frank Chamberlain CEO (Test & County Cricket Board)
1925 Frank Neville Hosband Robinson physicist
1925 Hilda Dianda composer
1926 Don [James Yarmy] Adams New York NY, actor/comedian (Maxwell
Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)
1926 Godfrey Kenton actor
1927 Mari Blanchard Long Beach CA, actress (Kathy-Klondike)
1927 Lord Wedderburn of Charlton QC
1927 Maurice Ronet Nice France, actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of
Love)
1927 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie conservation scientist
1929 Marilynn Smith Topeka KS, LPGA golfer (1972 Pabst Open)
1930 Justice Harman
1931 Beverley Cross playwright
1931 Michael Burchill actor
1932 Barney Simon theatre director/writer
1932 Karl Kroeger composer
1933 Shani Wallis Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver)
1933 Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Senator-D-CO)
1934 Horace Kay US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy)
1934 Siegfried Matthus composer
1935 Erich von Däniken author (Chariots of the Gods)
1935 Lyle Waggoner Kansas City KS, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Wonder
Woman)
1935 Kenneth Hayr air marshal
1935 Peter Heap diplomat
1937 Lanford Wilson US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
1937 Edward Fox London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
1937 Peter M Harris Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1938 Frederic Rzewski Westfield MA, composer (Spacecraft)
1938 John Weston diplomat
1939 Paul Sorvino Brookyn NY, stage/screen actor, (Law and Order,
Reds, Goodfellas, A Touch of Class, That Championship Season, An American
Millionaire, The Mating Dance, Skyscraper, King Lear)
1939 Barbara-Rose Collins (Representative-Democrat-MI)
1939 Seamus Heaney poet
1939 Wijnie Jabaaij Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 Lester Chambers Flora MS, vocalist (Chambers Brothers-Time Has
Come Today)
1941 Margaret Price Tredegar Wales, soprano (Pamlina-Die Zauberflöte)
1942 Bill Conti Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky
IV)
1943 Bill Koch US skier
1943 Eve Graham rocker (New Seekers)
1944 Brian Pendleton Wolverhampton West Midlands England, rocker (The
Pretty Things)
1944 Charles Burnett director (When it Rains, Glass Shield)
1944 Jack Casady Washington DC, rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson
Airplane)
1944 Michael Saunders barrister
1945 Lowell George rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a
Hero)
1945 Tony Dow Hollywood CA, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1945 Carlos Gimenez Argentina/Venezuela, founder (Theater festival
of Caracas)
1945 Edward J Caruthers Jr Troy AL, high jumper (Olympics-silver-1968)
1945 Raymond van Geytenbeek Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques)
1945 Stacy Johnson US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone)
1946 Al Green Forest City AR, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1946 Jim Pons rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1946 Roy Loney rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1948 Amy Robinson Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets)
1948 Kathleen Battle US soprano (Tannhäuser)
1948 Peter Swevel rocker
1949 Philippe Petit Nemours France, juggler/aerialist
1949 Jean-Jacques Favier Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78)
1950 Terry Lester Indianapolis IN, actor (Royce Keller-As The World
Turns, Mason Capwell-Santa Barbara, Jack Abbott-Young & Restless)
1950 Riff West rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1950 Ron Perlman Bronx NY, actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the
Beast)
1951 Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba Austria, figure skater (Olympics-gold-1972)
1951 Jack Quinn (Representative-Republican-NY)
1951 Max Weinberg rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 Peabo Bryson Greenville SC, R&B vocalist (I'm So into You)
1951 Peter Davison actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three)
1952 Jonjo O'Neill racehorse trainer
1953 Stephen Byers MP
1954 Barbara Roche MP
1954 Jimmy Destri rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture)
1955 Kabaka of Buganda
1955 Louis Johnson Los Angeles CA, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers
Johnson)
1956 Michael Nikolay German Democratic Republic, gymnast (Olympics)
1957 Saundra Santiago Bronx NY, actress (Gina-Miami Vice)
1957 Wayne Lewis keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1957 Gary Kroeger Cedar Falls IA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Return
of Shaggy Dog)
1958 Randy Piper heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild)
1959 Vicki Witt Lansing MI, playmate (August 1978)
1961 Tammy Stephens Arlington TX, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be
Cruel)
1963 Gary Kimovich Kasparov USSR, world chess champion (1985- )
1963 Jan Willem van Ede Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, PSV)
1963 Mark Leiter Joliet IL, pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
1964 Bill D'Angelo heavy metal rocker
1964 Page Hannah Chicago IL, actress (Kate Riley-Fame)
1964 Davis Milton Love III Charlotte NC, PGA golfer (1987 MCI Heritage)
1964 Doug Strange Greenville SC, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 Jose Rijo pitcher (New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds)
1965 Quinn Early NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints, Buffalo Bills)
1966 Rodney Smith Washington DC, 149½ lbs greco-roman wrestler
(Olympics-92, 96)
1967 Dana Barros NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1968 Tami Lyn Jameson Minneapolis MN, team handball goalie/twin sister
of Toni (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 Ted Washington NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Toni Lee Jameson Minneapolis MN, team handball back court/twin
sister of Tami (Olympics-96)
1969 Harold Pruett rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me)
1970 Rick Schroder Staten Island NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ,
Earthling)
1970 Eddie Robinson NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Monty Brown NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Ramona Reuter Miss New York-USA (1997)
1971 Corey Yothers Los Angeles CA, actor (Off the Rock)
1971 Charles Outlaw NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers, Orlando Magic)
1972 Dave Wohlabaugh NFL center/guard (New England Patriots)
1972 Jeroen Thesseling pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1972 Mariusz Czerkawski Radomsko Pol, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 Mike Kennedy Vancouver British Columbia Canada, NHL left wing
(Dallas Stars)
1973 Aaron Hayden NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Green Bay
Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 Dave Wohlabaugh corner (New England Patriots)
1974 Sergei Gonchar Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Capitals,
Olympics-silver-1998)
1976 Everton Matambanadzo Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler (vs Pakistan
1996)
1976 Jonathan Brandis Danbury CT, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest
DSV, Never Ending Story II)
1978 Grace Murray Tubbs Miss Montana Teen-USA (1996)
1979 Monica Ivey Miss Hawaii Teen-USA (1996)
1991 Dylan Frances Penn Los Angeles CA, daughter of Sean Penn &
Robin Wright
1992 Jet Travolta daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
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Deaths which occurred
on April 13:
0799 Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi Longobardisch writer, dies
1475 Matteo Palmieri Italian writer (Città di Vita), dies at
69
1517 Tuman Bey last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1638 Henri II duke of Rohan-Gié, French hugenot leader, dies
at 58
1695 Jean de La Fontaine poet, dies
1722 Charles Leslie Irish controversialist, dies
1728 Johann Christoph Schmidt composer, dies at 63
1742 Giovanni Veneziano composer, dies at 59
1756 Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg German klavecinist/composer, dies
at 29
1794 Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort French playwright, commits
suicide at 53
1806 Jean-Jacques Bachelier French painter, dies at about 82
1822 Gaetano Valeri composer, dies at 61
1825 Josef Gelinek composer, dies at 66
1826 Franz Danzi composer, dies at 62
1831 Ferdinand Kauer composer, dies at 80
1864 Johann Schneider composer, dies at 74
1868 Theodorus [Kasa] emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1873 Carlo Coccia composer, dies at 90
1886 Karoly Thern composer, dies at 68
1903 Derk J A Haspels Dutch actor, dies at 65
1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1910 William Orchardson British painter, dies
1928 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre composer, dies at 36
1932 Johannes T de Visser 1st Dutch minister of Education, dies at
75 [or 14th]
1936 Demertzis Greek premier, dies
1941 Annie Jump Cannon US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies
at 77
1942 Henk Sneevliet leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1944 Cecile Chaminade composer, dies at 86
1944 Paul Hazard French literature historian, dies at 65
1946 William Henry Bell composer, dies at 72
1949 C V France dies at 80
1952 [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies
at 79
1959 Eduard A van Beinum Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1959 Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout Giant of Rotterdam (2.375
meters tall), dies at 38
1967 Luis Somoza Debayle President of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at
44
1973 Alexandre A M Stols publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies
at 73
1974 Stanley Smith actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies
at 71
1975 Larry Parks actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1975 N'garta Tombalbaye President Chad, dies
1978 Paul McGrath actor (The Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1984 Christopher Wilder FBI's "most wanted man", accidentally
kills self
1986 Stephen Stucker actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1990 Luis Trenker dies at 97
1990 Ronald Ibbs dies
1992 Brian Oulton dies at 84
1992 Wallace Stegner novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 Walter Stuart Surridge cricketeer (Captain of Surrey), dies at
74
1993 Barry Karas dies of leukemia at 49
1993 Henny Budie Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1993 Max Tripels Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1994 Donald Benjamin Harden archaeologist, dies at 92
1994 Nikolai Afanassyevich Kryuchkov actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 P J Engels Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1994 Robert O van Gennep Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandèl),
dies at 56
1994 Rudolf Hrusinsky Czechoslovakia, actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels),
dies at 72
1994 Taleb Ali al-Suheil Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1995 Edward Firth Henderson arabist, dies at 77
1995 Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott script writer, dies at 87
1996 Denis Sargan econometrician, dies at 71
1996 George Mackey Brown poet, dies at 74
1996 James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke criminal, dies at 64
1997 Ann Craft researcher/writer, dies at 53
1997 George Wald scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies
at 80
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