On This Day — May 13
4057 noted people were born and 1858 died on May 13 in our archive, including Hagit Messer Yaron, Nikolay Kuznetsov and Rolf Skår.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 13
Hagit Messer Yaron
b. 1953
Nikolay Kuznetsov
b. 1979
Rolf Skår
1941 – 2023
Alanna Heiss
b. 1943
Alfred Baring Garrod
1819 – 1907
Alfred von Kremer
1828 – 1889
Andrea Leadsom
b. 1963
András Hajnal
1931 – 2016
Anton Rehmann
1840 – 1917
Antonia Ferrín Moreiras
1914 – 2009
Chris Gibson
b. 1964
David Aaron Kessler
b. 1951
Egon Börger
b. 1946
Fernando Carrillo Florez
b. 1962
Francis Hayman
1818 – 1897
Georgios Papanikolaou
1883 – 1962
Giovanni Sartori
1924 – 2017
Giuliano Amato
b. 1938
Géry Moutier
b. 1957
Henry Murray
1893 – 1988
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg
1912 – 1982
Ian Agol
b. 1970
Ihab Ilyas
b. 1973
Immo Appenzeller
b. 1940
Jane Glover
b. 1949
Johannes Thiele
1865 – 1918
John Galvin
1929 – 2015
John Kasich
b. 1952
José Jiménez Lozano
1930 – 2020
Karol Karski
b. 1966
Lars Fredrik Svanberg
1805 – 1878
Lazare Carnot
1753 – 1823
Miguel Sebastián Gascón
b. 1957
Nikolay Pavlovich Petrov
1836 – 1920
Ronald Ross
1857 – 1932
Stella Rimington
1935 – 2025
Steven A. Kivelson
b. 1954
Theodor Schreiber
1848 – 1912
Tomasz Grodzki
b. 1958
Trevor Baylis
1937 – 2018
Uroš Seljak
b. 1966
Yves Delage
1854 – 1920
Adang Daradjatun
b. 1949
Adolf Muschg
b. 1934
Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez
b. 1954
Aleksandr Kaleri
b. 1956
Alexander Ananenkov
b. 1952
Alexander Keyssar
b. 1947
Alexander Vilenkin
b. 1949
Alexis Clairaut
1713 – 1765
Aloizio Mercadante
b. 1954
Aman Tuleyev
1944 – 2023
Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
1943 – 2026
Antoine Lefort
1879 – 1928
Antony of Bergen op Zoom
1500 – 1541
Birger Hedqvist
1894 – 1964
Bobby Valentine
b. 1950
Brian J. Ford
b. 1939
Carl von Rosenstein
1766 – 1836
Carolyn R. Payton
1925 – 2001
Carrie Lam
b. 1957
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
1878 – 1949
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
1730 – 1782
Cheryl Dunye
b. 1966
Christian Bäumler
1836 – 1933
Christopher Roop
1831 – 1917
Claudie Haigneré
b. 1957
Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
1712 – 1772
Dan Price
b. 1984
Daniel Winslow
b. 1958
David Bevington
1931 – 2019
David Hill
b. 1957
David Stav
b. 1960
David Todd Wilkinson
1935 – 2002
Detlef Gromoll
1938 – 2008
Eduardo Engel
b. 1956
Edwin S. Shneidman
1918 – 2009
Emil Fuchs
1874 – 1971
Enid A. Haupt
1906 – 2005
Enrique Bolaños
1928 – 2021
Eraly Togjanov
b. 1963
Erik Varden
b. 1974
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger
1738 – 1804
Evelin Lindner
b. 1954
Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud
b. 1950
Francesco Pigliaru
b. 1954
Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford
1788 – 1861
Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz
1822 – 1902
Frank Beaurepaire
1891 – 1956
François Nau
1864 – 1931
Fred van der Blij
1923 – 2018
Fredrik Lange-Nielsen
1891 – 1980
Fredrik Riben
1868 – 1950
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann
1785 – 1860
Friedrich Karl Gottlob Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen
1809 – 1889
Georgy Baydukov
1907 – 1994
Gerald Westheimer
b. 1924
Gherman Pântea
1894 – 1968
Giulio Alessio
1853 – 1940
Hajibala Abutalybov
b. 1944
Henrik B. Andersen
b. 1958
Hermann von Schlagintweit
1826 – 1882
Hisamuddin Alam Shah of Selangor
1898 – 1960
Honoré Jackson
1861 – 1952
Inge Lehmann
1888 – 1993
Ishaq Dar
b. 1950
J. B. Gunn
1928 – 2008
James Duthie
b. 1966
Jaromír Bosák
b. 1965
Jeanette Varberg
b. 1978
Jeffrey Richard de Corban Evans
b. 1948
Jeremy Allaire
b. 1971
Jerome Charyn
b. 1937
Joe Neguse
b. 1984
John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough
1852 – 1921
John L. Volakis
b. 1956
John Lawrence LeConte
1825 – 1883
John S. Allen
1907 – 1982
Jordi Xuclà
b. 1973
Justin Rosenstein
b. 1983
K. N. Raj
1924 – 2010
Karen Ludwig
b. 1964
Karl Peterson
1828 – 1881
Karl Wolff
1900 – 1984
Katalin Szili
b. 1956
Kathleen Jamie
b. 1962
Keisuke Serizawa
1895 – 1984
Kirill Kravchenko
b. 1976
Konrad Głębocki
b. 1972
Kurt Diebner
1905 – 1964
Lance Crouther
b. 1962
Li Andersson
b. 1987
Liesje Schreinemacher
b. 1983
Lilija Hrynevyč
b. 1965
Londa Schiebinger
b. 1952
Lorenzo Mascheroni
1750 – 1800
Lucien Tesnière
1893 – 1954
Mahfud MD
b. 1957
Manasseh Cutler
1742 – 1823
Manning Marable
1950 – 2011
Manuel Sánchez Cuesta
b. 1942
Maria Tatar
b. 1945
Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa
1898 – 1990
Marjorie Meinel
1922 – 2008
Mark Mazzetti
b. 1974
Mark Miles
b. 1967
Marlene Svazek
b. 1992
Melissa Nobles
b. 1963
Melvin Clark George
1849 – 1933
Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki
1680 – 1744
Mike Savage
b. 1960
Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
b. 1973
Natalie Cassidy
b. 1983
Nicolae Andronic
b. 1959
Nina Sorokina
1942 – 2011
Nouria Hernandez
b. 1957
Níkos Aliágas
b. 1969
Oddo Biasini
1917 – 2009
Oleg Viro
b. 1948
Oscar Howe
1915 – 1983
Oskar Kellner
1851 – 1911
Pam Fredman
b. 1950
Paola Antonelli
b. 1963
Patrice de MacMahon
1808 – 1893
Pavel Jozef Šafárik
1795 – 1861
Pierre Sudreau
1919 – 2012
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
b. 1979
Pál Schmitt
b. 1942
Raj Persaud
b. 1963
Rajko Petrov Nogo
1945 – 2022
Raoul Laparra
1876 – 1943
René Stockman
b. 1954
Richard Baggallay
1816 – 1888
Rodrigo Mundaca
b. 1961
Roy Schneider
1939 – 2022
Ruth A. David
b. 1953
Ruth Wisse
b. 1936
Ryumon Yasuda
1891 – 1965
Scott Morrison
b. 1968
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
1699 – 1782
Sergiu Klainerman
b. 1950
Shareef Kunjahi
1914 – 2007
Stephen Byrne
b. 1990
Stephen Colbert
b. 1964
Tadeusz Wolsza
b. 1956
Teodor Axentowicz
1859 – 1938
Teodósio de Gouveia
1889 – 1962
Tom Cotton
b. 1977
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
b. 1942
Vojislav Marinković
1876 – 1935
Warren B. Hamilton
1925 – 2018
Werner Henke
1909 – 1944
William Richard Tolbert
1913 – 1980
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev
1843 – 1917
Yukihiko Ikeda
1937 – 2004
Zoltán Várkonyi
1912 – 1979
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
1894 – 1972
Édouard Sain
1830 – 1910
A. C. Woolner
1878 – 1936
Abby Dahlkemper
b. 1993
… and 3,857 more
Died on May 13
Fridtjof Nansen
1861 – 1930
Georges Cuvier
1769 – 1832
Nikolai Brashman
1796 – 1866
Aleksei Nikolaevich Bakh
1857 – 1946
Carlos Augusto León
1914 – 1997
Christian Kramp
1760 – 1826
Emil Hațieganu
1878 – 1959
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
1809 – 1885
Frigyes Korányi
1828 – 1913
Gabriel Tarde
1843 – 1904
George Bernard Dantzig
1914 – 2005
Jacques-Louis Soret
1827 – 1890
John R. Ross
1938 – 2025
Joseph Henry
1797 – 1878
Kenneth Keith
1937 – 2026
Marguerite Perey
1909 – 1975
Michael Fekete
1886 – 1957
Otto Heckmann
1901 – 1983
Robert Clive
1877 – 1948
Umberto Colombo
1927 – 2006
Yakiv Holovatsky
1814 – 1888
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
1854 – 1925
Alois Hudal
1885 – 1963
Attila Nagy
1933 – 1992
Baadur Tsuladze
1935 – 2018
Ben Roy Mottelson
1926 – 2022
Bernardin Gantin
1922 – 2008
Beth Chatto
1923 – 2018
Boris Vasilchikov
1860 – 1931
Chedli Klibi
1925 – 2020
Dana Porter
1901 – 1967
Daniel Offer
1929 – 2013
Daniel Solander
1733 – 1782
David Malet Armstrong
1926 – 2014
David T. Ansted
1814 – 1880
Doris Day
1922 – 2019
Eckley Brinton Coxe
1839 – 1895
Edgardo Angara
1934 – 2018
Eric Treacy
1907 – 1978
Erik Krag
1902 – 1987
Eugen Netto
1848 – 1919
Fredric Westin
1782 – 1862
Gabriel Bacquier
1924 – 2020
Gara Garayev
1918 – 1982
Giorgio Kutufà
1948 – 2020
H. Trendley Dean
1893 – 1962
Heinrich Limpricht
1827 – 1909
Henri Deglane
1855 – 1931
Hermann Collitz
1855 – 1935
Ignacio Barraquer
1884 – 1965
Jaime Torres Bodet
1902 – 1974
Jan Kapras
1880 – 1947
Jaroslav Pelikan
1923 – 2006
Jean Aicard
1848 – 1921
Jean-Claude Bradley
2000 – 2014
John Bryson
1943 – 2025
John Swainson
1925 – 1994
Josef Michl
1939 – 2024
José Mujica
1935 – 2025
Jumbo Tsuruta
1951 – 2000
Jürgen Trumpf
1931 – 2023
Karol Kirst
1885 – 1953
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
1948 – 2022
Kit Bond
1939 – 2025
Louis François Georges Baby
1832 – 1906
Luis María Serra
1941 – 2024
Luís Viana Neto
1933 – 2022
Maksim Sedej
1909 – 1974
Marisa Volpi
1928 – 2015
Morgan Crofton
1826 – 1915
Mosharraf Hossain
1943 – 2026
Ottokar Lorenz
1832 – 1904
R. K. Narayan
1906 – 2001
Rafael Sanus Abad
1931 – 2010
Reuben Guild
1822 – 1899
Richard Börnstein
1852 – 1913
Richard Garwin
1928 – 2025
Richard Palais
1931 – 2026
Robert Alfred Theobald
1884 – 1957
Robert Boyd
1710 – 1794
Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer
1877 – 1953
Roy Crowson
1914 – 1999
Sergey Afanasyev
1918 – 2001
Sergey Gorshkov
1910 – 1988
Sisavang Vatthana
1907 – 1978
Stanisław Leśniewski
1886 – 1939
Stanisław Ulam
1909 – 1984
Sushil Kumar Modi
1952 – 2024
Thomas Dewar Weldon
1896 – 1958
Thomas Monro
1759 – 1833
Thomas Widdrington
1600 – 1664
Unita Blackwell
1933 – 2019
Uolevi Raade
1912 – 1998
Vibeke Sperling
1945 – 2017
Volodymyr Kostyantynovych Vysokovych
1854 – 1912
Walter Raleigh
1861 – 1922
William Goldwin Carrington Howland
1915 – 1994
William Gurney Benham
1859 – 1944
William Henry Fitton
1780 – 1861
Ángel Gallardo
1867 – 1934
Östen Sjöstrand
1925 – 2006
Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz
1912 – 1999
Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah
1864 – 1943
Adolf Schiffer
1873 – 1950
Alan Eggleston
1941 – 2025
Alan Shapley
1903 – 1973
Albert Bosch i Fustegueras
1848 – 1900
Albert Brasseur
1860 – 1932
Alexander Buchan
1829 – 1907
Alexander Fadeyev
1901 – 1956
Alexander Mikulin
1895 – 1985
Alexander Pedler
1849 – 1918
Alice Munro
1931 – 2024
Allal al-Fassi
1910 – 1974
Altamiro Rossato
1925 – 2014
Amasa Junius Parker
1807 – 1890
Anatoly Nedbaylo
1923 – 2008
Andrew Duncan
1773 – 1832
André Bord
1922 – 2013
Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau
1788 – 1855
Anosov Pavel Petrovich
1796 – 1851
Anthony Bailey
1933 – 2020
Antin Vasynchuk
1885 – 1935
Anton C. Pegis
1905 – 1978
Apolinario Mabini
1864 – 1903
Armistead Burwell
1839 – 1913
Arthur Morse
1892 – 1967
Badal Sarkar
1925 – 2011
Beilby Porteus
1731 – 1809
Bernard Bosson
1948 – 2017
Brian O'Neill
1941 – 2009
Camillo Peano
1863 – 1930
Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss
1886 – 1945
Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza
1920 – 2004
Charles John Howard
1862 – 1928
Chit Estella
1957 – 2011
Christian Gmelin
1792 – 1860
Clarence R. Magney
1883 – 1962
Clarence Sasser
1947 – 2024
Cyril Wecht
1931 – 2024
Cyrus McCormick
1809 – 1884
David McNiven Garner
1928 – 2016
David Sackett
1934 – 2015
Denis Gascoigne Lillie
1884 – 1963
Denison Olmsted
1791 – 1859
Denny Shute
1904 – 1974
Don Cordner
1922 – 2009
Earl Charles Behrens
1892 – 1985
Edgar Michiels van Verduynen
1885 – 1952
Eduard Sagalaev
1946 – 2023
Edward Mundy
1794 – 1851
Edward Paget
1775 – 1849
Einar Jørgensen
1875 – 1944
Einar Sverdrup
1895 – 1942
Eliphalet Dyer
1721 – 1807
Eliza Jane Pratt
1902 – 1981
Elton Fax
1909 – 1993
Emil Purgly
1880 – 1964
Epitácio Cafeteira
1924 – 2018
Ernest Picard
1821 – 1877
Ernest Torrence
1878 – 1933
Ferdinand Poise
1828 – 1892
Francis L. Garrett
1919 – 1992
François Guillemot de Villebois
1681 – 1760
Frederick H. Tarr
1868 – 1944
Friedrich Guggenberger
1915 – 1988
Gaetano Gorgoni
1933 – 2020
Gainan Saidkhuzhin
1937 – 2015
Gary Cooper
1901 – 1961
George Washington Warren
1813 – 1883
Georgy Petrov
1912 – 1987
Gilles Cloutier
1928 – 2014
Giotto Bizzarrini
1926 – 2023
Giuseppe Petrilli
1913 – 1999
Gustaf Dyrssen
1891 – 1981
Gustav Flor
1829 – 1883
Hao Wang
1921 – 1995
Harry Lane Englebright
1884 – 1943
Hasrat Mohani
1875 – 1951
Hayat Saif
1942 – 2019
Helene Lange
1848 – 1930
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker
1851 – 1929
Hermann Levi
1839 – 1900
Hugh Montefiore
1920 – 2005
Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano
1763 – 1839
Ignatius Frederick Horstmann
1840 – 1908
James Breckinridge
1763 – 1833
James F. Short Jr.
1924 – 2018
James Leith
1826 – 1869
James M. Shuart
1931 – 2016
James Young
1811 – 1883
Jason Miller
1939 – 2001
Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff
1926 – 2012
Joan Diener
1930 – 2006
Joanna Tse
1968 – 2003
Johan Gullichsen
1936 – 2023
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
1547 – 1619
John Ernest Buttery Hotson
1877 – 1944
John Joseph Fitzgerald
1872 – 1952
John Martyn Harlow
1819 – 1907
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