Birthdates Which Occur on February 13:
1440 Hartmann Schedel German physician/humanist/historian
1480 Hieronymus Aleander [Gir¢lamo Aleandro], Italian diplomat/cardinal
1599 Alexander VII [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
1610 Jean de la Badie French divine, founder of Lagardists
1622 Adam Pijnacker landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1658 Jan B Wellekens Dutch poet/painter
1660 Johann Sigismund Kusser composer
1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
1713 Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas composer
1721 John Reid composer
1754 Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-P‚rigord Fr bishop/premier (1815)
1755 Fran‡ois Alexander Sallantin composer
1757 John C Hespe Dutch journalist/politician
1764 Talleyrand France/Napolean's foreign minster
1768 douard Mortier French general, duke, prime minister (1834-35)
1787 James P Carrell composer
1805 David Dudley Field lawyer/law codifier
and Peter Dirichlet Germany, number theorist/analysist
and Peter G L Dirichlet Germany, number theorist/analysist
1807 Bartolommea Capitanio Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters)
1820 Bela Albrecht Pal Keler composer
1822 Lev A Mej Russian nobleman/poet
1829 Gerard Keller writer (Netherlands Spectator)
1831 John Aaron Rawlins Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
1833 William Whedbee Kirkland Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1837 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer
1840 Georg Jacobi composer
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill England, politician, Winston's father
1852 Johan L E Dreyer Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
1859 Frank van de Goes Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1861 Uchimura Kanzo Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
1862 Karel Weis composer
1870 Leopold Godowsky Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1874 Hendrik Spiekman Dutch social-democratic politician
and Henry Spiekman social-democratic politician
1877 Jazeps Medins composer
1881 Eleanor Farjeon English author
1883 Bainbridge Crist composer
and Harold "Hal" Chase baseball player/manager
1885 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman 1st lady (1945-52)
1886 Ricardo Giraldes Argentina, novelist/poet (Don Segundo Sombra)
1887 Alvin York famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
1888 Georgios Papandreou Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier
and Heintje Davids [Hendrika], Dutch revue star
1892 Grant Wood US, painter (American Gothic)
and Robert Houghwout Jackson 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
1895 Fred Essler Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)
1898 Neville Pearson English publisher
19-- Misty Regan XXX actress (Blue Dream Lover, Little Girls Talk Dirty)
1902 Blair Moody New Haven Ct, (Sen-Mich)
and Karl Menger Austria/US mathematician (theory of dimension)
1903 Georges Simenon Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1908 Gerald Strang Claresholm Canada, composer
and Sulo Nurmela Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 William B Shockley London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
1912 French J Van den Brande Flemish actor
and Jose de Capriles US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52)
and Margaretta Scott actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast)
1914 Earl Cadogan British large landowner (Military Cross)
and George Kleinsinger San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba)
1915 Lyle Betther Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
1916 James Griffith LA Calif, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1917 Polly Rose actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
1918 Helen Stephens Fulton Mo, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
and Patty Berg Minn, golfer (1943, 1955 AP Sports Woman of Year)
1919 Eddie Robinson winningest college football coach (Grambling)
and Joan Edwards NYC, vocalist (Joan Edwards Show)
and Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol Tn, country vocalist/actor (pea picker)
1920 Bryant Boudleaux Shellman Ga, rock writer (Bye Bye Love)
and Eileen Farrell Willimantic Conn, operatic soprano^
1921 Henk van Galen Last Dutch journalist
and Zao-Wou-Ki Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
1922 Lord Pym of Sandy British minister of foreign affairs
1923 Chuck Yeagar US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber French economist/politician
1925 Jan Arends Dutch poet/author
1926 Barney Childs composer
1927 Harry Wich Dutch set designer
1929 Omar Torr˜os Herrera president Panama
1930 Dotty McGuire Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1931 Marjorie Jackson Austria, 100m/200m dash (Oly-gold-1952) [or Sep 13]
1933 Caroline Blakiston actress (At Bertram's Hotel)
and Emanuel Ungaro France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
and Kim Novak Chicago, Ill, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
and Paul Biya president of Cameroon (1982- )
1934 George Segal actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)
1936 Leamon King Tulare Calif, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1937 Sigmund J„hn German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29)
and Susan Oliver NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place, Star Trek-Cage)
1938 Oliver Reed London England, actor (Big Sleep)
1939 Valery I Rozhestvensky USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1941 Bo Svenson Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
1942 Carol Lynley NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
and Donald E Williams Lafayette Ind, Capt USN/astro (STS 51D, STS 34)
1943 Leo Frankowski US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
1944 Peter Tork Wash DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
and Stockard Channing NYC, actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace)
1945 Keith Nichols jazz pianist
and King Floyd rocker
and Roy Dyke Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun)
1947 Tony Butler rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
1950 Peter Gabriel Surrey England, rock vocalist (Genesis, In Your Eyes)
1951 David Naughton Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Separate Vacations)
1952 David Puilum Choi Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
and Ed Gagliardi NYC, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1953 Sharon Wyatt Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
and Suleiman Nyambui Tanzanian runner (world record 5k indoor)
1955 Jan de Ligt Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
and Scott Smith rock bassist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1956 Liam Brady British soccer player
and Peter Hook English rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round, Run)
1957 Doris King Nashville Tenn, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1958 Mark Fox congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool)
1960 Kelly McCormick Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
and Matt Salinger Windsor VT, actor (Capt America, Deadly Deception)
and Michael Craig rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
1961 Henry Rollins US vocalist/poet (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box)
and Les Warner rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
1962 Jackie Silva Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer (Pan Am-Bronze)
1963 Penelope Ann Miller actress (Awakenings, Chaplin, Freshman) [or 1/13]
and Roberta Vasquez LA Calif, playmate (November, 1984)
1965 Stephen Manley LA Calif, actor (Donny-Married the 1st Year)
1966 Freedom Williams rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now)
1967 Melanie Denise Bridges Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
Deaths Which Occured February 13:
1130 Honorius II [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies
1199 Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon) monk, dies
1237 Jordanus of Saxon 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns
1315 Jan I van Chalon-Arlay mayor of Neuchƒtel, dies
1332 Andronicus II Paleologus Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies
1542 Catharine Howard queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1602 Alexander Nowell English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
1629 Girolamo Giacobbi composer, dies at 61
1635 Georg R Weckerlin German poet, dies
1660 Charles X Gustaaf king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
1662 Elisabeth Stuart English daughter of James I, dies at 65
1693 Johann Kaspar Kerll composer, dies at 65
1724 Francisco Jose Coutinho composer, dies at 43
1741 Johann Joseph Fux Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80
1784 Charles Gravier French earl of Vergennes/min of For affairs, dies
1798 Wilhelm H Wackenroder German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies
1814 Augustin Holler composer, dies at 70
1841 Thomas Ainsworth English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45
1849 Christian Rummel composer, dies at 61
1873 Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies
1882 Henry Highland Garnet diplomat, dies at 66 in Monrovia, Liberia
1883 Pavel Melnikov [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
Richard Wagner German composer (Die Walkre), dies at 69 in Venice
1891 David D Porter US Admiral (Civil War), dies at 77
1893 Ignacio M Altamirano Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58
1894 Franjo Racki Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65
1896 Karl Reinthaler composer, dies at 73
1907 Marcel Bertrand French mine engineer, dies
1917 Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1921 Willem PC Knuttel bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
1927 Brooks Adams US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
1935 Violet Paget British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78
1943 William Walraven journalist/writer (Miskende Grumbler), dies
1952 Alfred Einstein German/US musicologist, dies
1958 Georges Rouault French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86
1959 William L Axt composer, dies at 70
1960 Delmar G Roos designer of jeep, dies at 79
1963 Harry Steers bowling hall of famer, dies
1965 Jerry Burke pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
William H Kilpatrick US mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93
1968 Ildebrando Pizzetti composer, dies at 87
Mae Marsh actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
1975 Dagmar Godowsky actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78
Eric Harding Thiman composer, dies at 74
Henry P Van Dusen US protestant theologist, dies at 77
1976 General Murtala Mohammed head of Nigeria, killed during a coup
Lily Pons French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
1977 Jack Gardner actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77
1979 Jean Renoir actor/director (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
1980 David Janssen [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
1982 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman) dies at 17
1983 Marian Nixon actress (Dr Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at 78
1990 Ken Lynch actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
1991 Bernard Sauer Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67
Eddie Bartell actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
1992 Bob den Uyl journalist/writer (Restless Travel), dies
1993 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91
1994 Jack Kirby cartoonist (Marvel Comics), dies at 76
Theo Bitter painter/set designer, dies at 79
1995 Abdelhafid Said Algerian student leader, murdered
Alberto Burri Ital's physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79
Azeddine Medjoubi head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49
Holidays Which Occur February 13:
St Augustine, Florida Fiesta de Menendez
2002 China New Years-Year of Horse (4700)
Religious Observances on February 13:
Christian Feast of St Martinian
Methodist Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
RC Ermenhild, daughter of King Erkonbert of Knows/abbess
RC Herlindis/Relindis, 1st abbess of Aldeneyck
RC Pope Gregory II
1589 Christian Commemoration of St Catherine de Ricci, virgin/mystic
1818 Ang Commemoration of Absalom Jones, priest,
Things to Remember for February 13:
Biorhythm Health Month-National Meat Month
Flowers-violet & primrose Gem-amethyst
National Cherry-American Heart-TV Sweeps & Black History Month
[Ancient Rome] Kalend‘ Februarius; Kalend Feb
[Plains Indians] Hunger Moon month
6 Days Astrological sign: Aquarius
1 Day Theta Centaurid meteor shower, radiant in Lupus near Centaurus
33 Days Delta Leonid meteor shower, radiant between ç & ë Leonis
Lego National Build-off
[Ancient Rome] Idus Februarius
Highlights in History Which Occur February 13:
1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
1510 Charles van Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1651 Flemish missionaries Joris van Yellow departs to Congo
1678 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1692 MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King Willem III
1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine)
1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti
1777 de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
1799 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
1816 -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
1832 1st appearance of cholera at London
1837 Riot in NY over high price of flour
1858 Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
1861 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ
Col Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
1862 -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN
1864 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
1866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1867 "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after
controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1895 Moving picture projector patented
1899 -16øF (-27øC), Minden Louisiana (state record)
and -1øF (-18øC) New Orleans, La
and -2øF (-19øC) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
1901 M Wolf discovers asteroids #473 Nolli & #474 Prudentia
1905 -29øF (-34øC) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
and -40øF (-40øC) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
and -40øF (-40øC) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
1914 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
1920 National Negro Baseball League organized
1923 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes
1925 US Congress curtails role of Supreme Court
1927 Portuguese Gen Carmona uprises against his regime
1934 Austrian Dollfuss govt bans socialistic party
1935 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
and H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1342 Brabantia, #1353 Maartje & #2378
1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
and Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
and NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington
1939 A Wachmann discovers asteroid #1586 Thiele
1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
1942 Operation Seel"we (invasion of England) cancelled
1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front
1945 Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; 135,000 die
and USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany
1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
1954 Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
and KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
1959 Barbie doll goes on sale
and Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
and Suriname govt of Pengel resigns
1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1971 Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2
1972 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan
1973 US dollar devalues 10%
1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1975 Cyprus pulls out of Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
and Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
1977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
and S J Bus discovers asteroid #2791 Paradise
1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
1980 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
and Harvard College discovers asteroids #2482 Perkin & #2658 Gingerich
1981 Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
1982 Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
and Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
and Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
1985 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3365
and Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leader
1988 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada
and Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
and European Community does away with inner boundaries as of Jan 1, 1992
and Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
and Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged
and with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
and Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
and US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
and US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
1993 Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
and Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
and Sergei Boebka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
1994 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
and Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
and Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
Your Special Reminders for February 13:
1914 -1øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1951 64øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 44th day of the year with 321 days left (Numerology = 6)
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