Who Was Born Today – February 13 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on February 13 | ||
1599 | Alexander VII, Roman Catholic Pope. | |
1682 | Giovanni Piazzetta, painter (Fortune Teller). | |
1764 | Charles de Talleyrand, Napoleon’s foreign minister. | |
1849 | Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, Winston Churchill’s father and member of Parliament. | |
1873 | Feodor Chaliapin, opera singer. | |
1892 | Grant Wood, painter (American Gothic). | |
1902 | Georges Simenon, novelist. | |
1910 | William B. Shockley, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor. | |
1919 | Tennessee Ernie Ford, country and gospel singer. | |
1922 | Harold “Hal” Moore Jr., US Army lieutenant general, author; led 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment at 1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley; his best-known book, co-authored with combat journalist Joe Galloway, is “We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young,” an account of that battle. | |
1923 | Charles “Chuck” Yeager, American test pilot, the first man to break the sound barrier. | |
1933 | Kim Novak, actress. |