What happened on May 13 ?

1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)

1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)

1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)

1699 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)

1712 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)

1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)

1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)

1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)

1794 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)

1795 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)

1830 - Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)

1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)

1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)

1857 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)

1882 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)

1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)

1907 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)

1913 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)

1913 - William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (d. 1980)

1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)

1923 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress

1926 - Wallace Breem, British author

1927 - Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)

1931 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)

1934 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004)

1937 - Madeleine Albright, 64th American Secretary of State

1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist

1937 - Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)

1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio

1939 - Harvey Keitel, American actor

1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)

1941 - Senta Berger, Austrian actress

1941 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)

1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author

1947 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American author

1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician

1951 - Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota

1951 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)

1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter

1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation

1957 - Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, producer

1961 - Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor

1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)

1962 - Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet

1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor

1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian (Bakusho Mondai)

1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & The Blowfish)

1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American singer (Death) (d. 2001)

1969 - André Schmechta, German musician, X Marks the Pedwalk.

1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer

1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer

1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress

1978 - Barry Zito, baseball player

1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player

1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden

1980 - Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress

1981 - Jimmy Yang, American professional wrestler

1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model

1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol

1986 - Robert Pattinson, English actor

1988 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer