Who Was Born Today – October 13 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on October 13 | ||
1784 | Ferdinand VII, king of Spain. | |
1817 | William Kirby, Canadian writer. | |
1853 | Lillie Langtry, British actress. | |
1890 | Conrad Richter, novelist and short story writer. | |
1907 | Yves Allégret, French film director (Dédée d’Anvers, Une si jolie petite plage). | |
1909 | Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block), multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist. | |
1910 | Ernest Kellogg Gann, pilot and adventure novelist (Island in the Sky, The High and Mighty). | |
1910 | Art Tatum, American jazz pianist. | |
1925 | Margaret Thatcher, the first female UK prime minister (1979-1990). | |
1926 | Ray Brown, jazz bass player. | |
1930 | Bruce Geller, screenwriter, producer, actor; won two Emmys as the writer, producer and director of the Mission Impossible TV series. | |
1939 | Melinda Dillon, actress, best known for her role as Ralphie’s mother in the TV classic A Christmas Story (1983). | |
1941 | Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; rose to fame as half of the Simon & Garfunkel duo; to date (2013) he has received 12 Grammys including a Lifetime Achievement Award (2001); Time magazine included him in its 2006 special “100 People Who Shaped the World.” | |
1947 | Sammy Hagar, “The Red Rocker,” singer, songwriter, musician; replaced David Lee Roth as lead singer of the band Van Halen. | |
1959 | Marie Osmond, singer (“Paper Roses”), songwriter, actress; co-hosted TV variety show Donny & Marie with her brother Donny (1976-79). | |
1960 | Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary for Pres. George W. Bush (2001-03). | |
1967 | Kate Walsh, actress (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice TV series). | |
1969 | Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater; won Olympic bronze (1992) and silver (1994) medals; US National Champion 1993; on Jan. 6, 1994, she was clubbed on the knee in an attack intended to aid one of her skating rivals. |
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