Birthdates Which Occur on January 13:
1381 St Colette abbess/reformer (Poor Clares)
1406 Matteo Palmieri Italian writer (Della vita civile)
1505 Joachim II Hector ruler (Brandenburg)
1596 Jan J Goyen Dutch landscape painter
1616 Antoinette Bourignon Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic
1628 Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
1674 Prosper Jolyot de Cr‚billon French poet (Atr‚e et Thyeste)
1690 Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel composer
1727 Johann Christoph Schmugel composer
1734 Luca Sorkocevic composer
1778 Anton Fischer composer
1788 Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz composer
1802 Eduard von Bauernfeld Vienna, comedic playwright
1807 Napoleon Bonaparte Buford Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1808 Salmon P Chase (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)
1812 Humphrey Marshall Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
1815 William Henry French Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1824 Ignacy Marceli Komorowski composer
1834 Horatio Alger Jr Revere Mass, author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win)
1835 Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior
1850 Leon Francis Victor Caron composer
1859 Kost¡s Palam s Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia)
1864 Wilhelm K W Wien German phyicist (Nobel 1911)
1866 Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov composer
1869 Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist
1870 Henryk Opienski Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
1874 Jozef E van Roey Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen
1884 Johannes Elsensohn Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)
and Sophie Tucker [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
1885 Alfred Fuller CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
1892 Paul Smart US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948)
1893 Clarke Ashton Smith US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
and Jan Evangelista Zelinka composer
1895 Fortunio Bonanova Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
1898 Pedro DE Teixeira de Mattos Dutch diplomat
19-- Sierra XXX actress (Money Hole, Surfer Girl, Lady in Red)
1900 Yasuji Kiyose composer
1903 Kay Francis [Katherine E Gibbs], Okla City, actress (False Madonna)
1904 Richard Addinsell London England, composer (Taming of Shrew)
1906 Maxime Jacob composer
1909 Marinus van der Lubbe Dutch communist
1913 Jeff Morrow NYC, actor (Bart-Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising)
1916 Osa Massen Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Jack London, Rocketship XM)
1917 Felix Guerro Diaz composer
1918 Steve Dunne Northampton Mass, actor (Professional Father)
and Ted Willis prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young)
1919 Army Archerd Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game)
and Robert Stack LA Calif, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane)
1923 Jack Watling London, actor (Nanny, Adventure for 2, Naked Heart)
1925 Gwen Verdon LA, actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity)
and Rosemary Murphy Munich Germany, actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner)
1926 Carolyn Heilbrun [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album)
and Pamela M Cunnington English architect/author (Change of Use)
1928 David Sheiner NYC, actor (Paul-Mr Novak, Norman-Diana)
and Gregory Walcott Wilson NC, actor (87th Precinct)
1929 Wim Bary actor/theater director (Dear Guys)
1930 Frances Sternhagen Wash DC, actress (Outland, Starting Over)
and Liz Anderson rocker
1931 Charles Nelson Reilly NYC, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1933 Nurdin Jivraj Tanzanian/British hotel magnate (Buckingham Intl)
and Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart US, sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder)
1934 Rip Taylor comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show)
1936 Ami Maayani composer
and Edward R Madigan (Rep-R-IL, 1973- )
1937 Haj‚ J Schartman Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1938 Billy Gray LA Calif, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best)
and Paavo Johannes Heininen composer
1941 Meinhard Nehmer German DR, 2 man bobsledder (Olympic-gold-1976)
1943 Richard Moll Cal, actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor)
and William Duckworth composer
1945 [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter] UK, sci-fi author (High Kings)
1947 John Lees England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
and Peter Sundelin Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 T Bone' Burnett rocker
1949 Rakesh Sharma India, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11)
1952 Cornelius Bumpus keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute)
and Sharon Gabet Fort Wayne IN, actress (Edge of Night, Another World)
1954 Vicki McCarty Los Angeles Ca, playmate (Sep, 1979)
1955 Fred White rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
and Jay McInerney author (Bright Lights, Big City)
and Titus M Mafolo South African journalist/ANC-leader
1956 Jay McInerney
and Malcolm Foster rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
1957 Christina Seufert Sacraento Calif, diver (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1959 Kevin Anderson IL, actor (Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy)
1961 Graham "Suggs" McPherson Sussex, rock vocalist (Madness-Our House)
and Julia Louis-Dreyfus NYC, comedienne (SNL, Seinfeld, Soul Man, Troll)
1963 Tim Patrick Kelly Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1964 Penelope Ann Miller LA Ca, actress (Kindergarden Cop) [or Feb 13]
1966 Patrick Dempsey Lewiston Me, actor (Mike-Fast Times)
1969 Andre Cason US runner (world record 50 indoor)
and Katarzyna Nowak Lodz Poland, tennis star
1970 Anne-Marie Goddard Utrechtum, Netherlands, playmate (Jan, 94)
and Frank Kooiman soccer player (Sparta)
and Keith Coogan Palm Springs, actor (Adv in Babysitting, Hiding Out)
and Keith Mitchell Palm Springs Calif, actor (Jeffrey-Waltons, Gun Shy)
1972 Nicole Eggert Glendale Calif, actress (Charles in Charge, Baywatch)
Deaths Which Occured January 13:
858 Aethelwolf king of Wessex (Battle at Aclea), dies
888 Charles III King of France, dies
1049 Dirk IV Count of Holland, dies
1177 Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg Duke of Austria, dies
1307 Arnoud van Foreest clergy of Utrecht, dies
1330 Frederick (III) de Blank duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies
1488 Hermann Vischer "the Old", buried
1599 Edmund Spenser poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1625 Pieter Bruegel "the Older" (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies
1651 Abraham C Bloemaert painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86
1682 Simon van Lions lawyer/historian, dies at 55
1691 George Fox founder of Quakers, dies at 66
1702 Peter Rabus poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41
1762 Leonhard Trautsch composer, dies at 68
1795 Fran‡ois-Joseph Krafft composer, dies at 73
1797 Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern wife of Frederik II, dies at 81
1828 Alexandre-Auguste Robineau composer, dies at 80
1838 Ferdinand Reis composer, dies at 53
1864 Stephen Foster composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
1879 WF Hendrik the Navigator prince of Netherlands/viceroy of Lux, dies
1892 Charles Albert White composer, dies at 62
1901 Carlo Angeloni composer, dies at 66
1913 Thomas P Krag Norse author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44
1914 Bernardus H Heldt Member of Dutch 2nd chamber, dies at 74
Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer, dies 76
1924 Georg H Quincke German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
1929 Wyatt Earp US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
1930 C-E Auguste Rateau French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66
1939 Jacob Ruppert NY Yankee owner, dies
1941 James Joyce novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zrich Switzerland, at 58
1947 Veit Valentin German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
1954 Roland Diggle composer, dies at 69
1958 Edna Purviance actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61
John Lindeboom vicar/church historian, dies at 75
1960 Sibilla Aleramo [Rina Faccio], Ital poet (Una donna), dies at 83
1962 Ernie Kovacs comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42
1963 Leonardus G Kortenhorst Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (KVP), dies at 76
1968 Bill Masterson (Minn Northstars) checked into the boards & killed
1969 Wilton Graff actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65
1971 Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding Germ SS-general/contractor (Tulle), dies
Henri Tomasi composer, dies at 69
Robert Still composer, dies at 61
1976 Margaret Leighton British actress (Much ado about nothing), dies
1978 Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn
Joseph V McCarthy baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 90
1979 Donny Hathaway Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33
1980 Andr‚ Kostelanetz Russian/US conductor, dies at 78
1981 Emiel van Hemeldonck Belgian writer (Maria, My Child), dies at 83
1982 Marcel Camus French director (Orfeu Negro), dies
1983 Arthur Space actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74
D Mack Reynolds US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies
John McHugh actor, dies of a heart attack at 69
1985 Carol Wayne Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies at 42
1986 Abdel Fattah Ismail president of South-Yemen (19??-80), murdered
1987 E of Ruller journalist/alderman (ARP)/co-founder (Loyal), dies
1988 Chiang Ching-huo president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69
1989 Joe Spinell actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
1992 Josef Neckermann German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies
Yvonne Bryceland actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
1994 Johan J Holst Norse minister of Defense/Foreign affairs, dies at 56
1995 Arnold Smith painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
Maxwell Henley Harris Austr poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73
Holidays Which Occur January 13:
Ghana Redemption Day (1972)
Togo Liberation Day (anniversary of coup) (1967)
US Stephen Foster Memorial Day
Religious Observances on January 13:
Christ-Sweden/Norway Tyvendedagen/St Knute/20th day of Christmas
RC Feast of Blessed Yvette
RC Feast of St Leontius
RC Remigius, 1st bishop/patron saint of Reims
old RC Feast of the Baptism of Jesus
367 Christian Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers
398 RC, Ang Memorial of St Hilary, bishop of Poitiers/doctor (opt)
1691 Lutheran Commemoration of George Fox, renewer of society
Things to Remember for January 13:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
7 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
[Ancient Roman calendar] Idus Januarius; Id Jan
7 Days Delta Cancrid meteor shower, radiant in Cancer, west of Praesepe
9 Days Coma-Berenicid meteor shower, radiant in Coma Berenices
Highlights in History Which Occur January 13:
888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1559 Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1621 John Pieterszoon Coens fleet sails north to Molukken
1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1770 de Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris
1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times
1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1854 Anthony Foss patents accordion
1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
1865 -Jan 15th) BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC
1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
and National convention of black leaders meets in Wash DC
1873 P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
1874 Battle between workers & police in NYC, 100s injuried
and US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1875 Paul Henry discovers asteroid #141 Lumen
1877 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #171 Ophelia
1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
and Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus
1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #465 Alekto
1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Neth
1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American)
claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
and Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 for Stanley Cup
1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
and Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
1912 -40øF (-40øC), Oakland, Maryland (state record)
1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000
and W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanellen
1919 Soccer team OSV forms
1920 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #925 Alphonsina
and NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
and WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions
1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament
1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests
1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood Calif
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1985 Hopmann
and S Arend discovers asteroid #1127 Mimi
1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
1940 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1553 Bauersfelda & #1880 McCrosky
1942 Allied Conference for war trials
and German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
and Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
and Hitler declares "Total War"
and Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov
and US infantry captures Galloping Horse-Hill Guadalcanal
1945 Prokofjev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin
1951 German general F Christian freed early
1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
and KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
and Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia
1954 Milt rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
and WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Al Tate
1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
and US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
and King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago
1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
1966 1st black selected for pres cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Coup in Togo
1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
and Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton is fatally injured
1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
1973 Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)
1974 Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins-24, Minnesota Vikings-7 in Houston
1979 Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam
and YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
and Togo's constitution becomes effective
1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 30 mi
and Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson
and Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals
1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St
and Bridge in Washington, DC, & falls into Potomac River, killing 78
1983 AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition
and C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2906 Caltech
and L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #2892 Filipenko
and Qu‚bec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out
1984 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
1985 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
and Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
and Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
and NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
and South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammeds bodyguard shoots opponents
1987 7 top NY Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
and W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers
to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
and Jerry Parks, Okla defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
and Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
and Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13« year run
and Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1990 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1991 Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
and Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
and UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
1992 Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 Italian govt of Ciampi resigns
1915 Avezzano, Italy. Quake kills 30,000.
Your Special Reminders for January 13:
13th day of year with 352 remaining (Numerology = 5)
and 1914 -3øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1932 68øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
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