Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 13

Births

 * 1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791) (pictured)
 * 1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
 * 1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)
 * 1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
 * 1940 - Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
 * 1971 - Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
 * 1983 - James Bourne, English musician

Deaths

 * AD 81 - Titus, Roman emperor (b. AD 39)
 * 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)
 * 1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
 * 1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
 * 1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)
 * 1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
 * 1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
 * 1996 - Tupac Shakur (2Pac), American rapper and actor (b. 1971)
 * 2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925)