August 13th Today's Famous Birthdays

• August 13th 
• 582 Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)
• 1311 King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
• 1422 William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
• 1584 Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
• 1617 Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist
• 1625 Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)
• 1655 Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
• 1662 Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
• 1666 William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
• 1692 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer
• 1699 John Dyer, British poet, born in Aberglasney, Wales (Baptism date)
• 1700 Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
• 1704 Lorenzo Fago, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1793)
• 1717 Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
• 1717 Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
• 1721 Francis Ireland, composer
• 1747 Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer
• 1748 Pieter L. van de Kasteele, Dutch politician and patriot
• 1752 Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
• 1764 Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
• 1790 William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
• 1792 Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
• 1802 Nikolaus Lenau, Hungarian German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
• 1803 Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
• 1814 Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
• 1817 Karoly Thern, composer
• 1818 Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)
• 1819 George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)
• 1820 George Grove, biblical scholar/misicographer, born in London, England
• 1820 Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
• 1823 Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)
• 1826 William Thomas Best, composer
• 1831 Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
• 1841 Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)
• 1851 John Lincoln Clem, American general and drummer boy (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1937)
• 1851 Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933)