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Today's Anniversary – Friday, March 13


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Births

* 1979 Paul Smith British musician and lead singer of the band Max?mo Park.
* 1973 David Draiman David Michael Draiman was born March 13, 1973 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, USA to a Jewish Orthodox family.
* 1972 Common Chicago-based hip hop artist.
* 1960 David Baboulene British author of humorous books on ships and travel, as well as illustrated children's books and books on Story Theory.
* 1957 Ethan Nadelmann Founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the war on drugs.
* 1948 Ali Mohamed Shein Current Vice-President of Tanzania.
* 1941 Donella Meadows Pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher and writer.
* 1935 David Nobbs English comedy writer.
* 1927 Robert Denning American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.
* 1911 L. Ron Hubbard American science fiction author.
* 1907 Mircea Eliade Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.
* 1905 A.D. Patel Indo-Fijian politician, farmers' leader and founder and leader of the National Federation Party.
* 1899 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck American physicist, co-awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his contributions to the understanding of electrons in magnetic solids.
* 1884 Hugh Walpole English writer.
* 1873 Joe Walcott Joe Walcott, also known alternatively as Barbados Joe Walcott to destinguish him from the American known by the same name, was born in Demerara, British Guyana on March 13, 1873, and died October 1, 1935.
* 1864 Alexej von Jawlensky Russian Expressionist painter active in Germany.
* 1855 Percival Lowell Amateur astronomer.
* 1825 Hans Gude Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters.
* 1805 Edwin Ransford English singer and composer.
* 1804 James Waddel Alexander American Presbyterian minister and theologian who followed in the footsteps of his father, Rev.
* 1781 Karl Friedrich Schinkel Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets.
* 1733 Joseph Priestley English Unitarian clergyman, theologian, political theorist, and the scientist who is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, as he was the first to isolate it in its gaseous state.

Deaths

† 2004 Sydney Carter English poet and songwriter.
† 2002 Hans-Georg Gadamer German philosopher of the continental tradition, most famous for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method.
† 1975 Ivo Andric Yugoslavian novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
† 1943 Stephen Vincent Benet American author, poet, short story writer and novelist.
† 1939 Lucien Levy-Bruhl French philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist.
† 1938 Clarence Darrow American lawyer, best known for having defended teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925), opposing William Jennings Bryan.
† 1937 Elihu Thomson Engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France.
† 1906 Susan B. Anthony Prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.
† 1901 Benjamin Harrison 23rd (1889–1893) President of the United States.
† 1884 Richard Henry Horne English poet and critic.
† 1854 Thomas Noon Talfourd English judge and author.
† 1711 Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux Commonly called Boileau, was a French poet and critic.
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