Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 13

Births

 * 1786 - Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
 * 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, (pictured) Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
 * 1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
 * 1888 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
 * 1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
 * 1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 2015)
 * 1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
 * 1953 - Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
 * 1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American singer and musician (Weezer)
 * 1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses

Deaths

 * 1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
 * 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
 * 1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
 * 1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)

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