What happened on March 13 ?

1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)

1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet

1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)

1569 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530)

1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman

1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)

1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)

1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)

1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)

1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)

1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)

1854 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)

1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)

1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)

1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., American railroad magnate (b. 1868)

1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)

1906 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)

1918 - César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)

1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)

1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)

1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)

1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)

1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)

1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)

1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)

1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)

1975 - Ivo Andri?, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1988 - John Holmes, American actor (b. 1944)

1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)

1991 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)

1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)

1996 - Krzysztof Kie?lowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)

1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)

1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)

1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)

2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)

2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)

2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)

2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)

2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)

Greek Orthodox Church - Feast day of Saint Nicephorus.

Feast days in the Roman Catholic Church Saint Gerald

Saint Nicephorus

Saint Roderick

Saint Salomon

Saint Eufrasia

Saint Modesta

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