What happened on August 13 ?

582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)

1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)

1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch

1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)

1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)

1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)

1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)

1700 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)

1717 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)

1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)

1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)

1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)

1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)

1814 - Anders Jonas ÿngström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)

1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893)

1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, French physicist (d. 1903)

1820 - Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)

1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)

1851 - Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933)

1860 - Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)

1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)

1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)

1879 - John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)

1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)

1888 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946)

1895 - Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)

1899 - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)

1902 - Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)

1904 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)

1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)

1912 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)

1912 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)

1913 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)

1913 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d.1977)

1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Pirze laureate

1919 - George Shearing, British musician

1920 - Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)

1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician

1930 - Don Ho, American musician

1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, United States Surgeon General

1941 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)

1943 - David St. Hubbins, singer and guitarist (Spinal Tap). Fictional character, played by Michael McKean

1944 - Kevin Tighe, American actor

1948 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano

1949 - Bobby Clarke, Canadian hockey player

1951 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer

1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)

1959 - Danny Bonaduce, American actor

1961 - Sandra Miranda, Puerto Rican Hair Stylist and Entrepreneur

1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer

1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater

1970 - Matthew Hyson, American professional wrestler

1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer

1971 - Nichola Holt, contestant in Big Brother UK series 1 and porn actress

1972 - Hani Hanjour, September 11, 2001 attacks pilot and terrorist

1973 - Brittany Andrews, American model and actress

1975 - Joe Perry, English snooker player

1975 - Marty Turco, Canadian hockey player

1975 - Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani Fast bowler

1977 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer

1978 - Paul Banks, AKA Lloyd Banks

1979 - Taizo Sugimura, Japanese politician

1982 - Shani Davis, American speed skater

1983 - Ales Hemsky, Czech Republican hockey player

1992 - Katharine Close, Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Winner of 2006