Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 13

Births

 * 1835 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement (d. 1908)
 * 1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
 * 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
 * 1892 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
 * 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
 * 1923 - Chuck Yeager, American pilot and NASA official (d. 2020) (pictured)
 * 1944 - Stockard Channing, American actress

Deaths

 * 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)
 * 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
 * 1662 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596)
 * 1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
 * 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
 * 2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)