August 13
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1757 - James Gillray, British caricaturist and printmaker (d. 1815)
- 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1935 - Alex de Renzy, United States filmmaker (d. 2001)
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Deaths
- 1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter (b. 1460)
- 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
- 1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
- 1941 - J. Stuart Blackton, United States filmmaker (b. 1875)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
- 1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
- 1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
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