April 13
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Events
- 1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
- 1702 - Gulliver's Travels first voyage ends
- 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
- 1870 – Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- 1885 – Van Gogh starts to work on the The Potato Eaters
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Births
- 1519 – Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
- 1570 – Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
- 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
- 1860 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
- 1885 – Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
- 1900 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- 1901 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
- 1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Ken Nordine, American voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of Word Jazz albums (d. 2019)
- 1922 – John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986)
- 1933 - Morton Subotnick, American composer of electronic music
- 1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Al Green, American singer and pastor
- 1949 – Christopher Hitchens, English-born journalist, critic, and author (d. 2011)
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Deaths
- 1695 – Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
- 1882 – Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
- 1932 - Pierre Batcheff, French actor (b. 1901)
- 1943 – Oskar Schlemmer, German artist (b. 1888)
- 1945 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
- 1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
- 1966 - Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881)
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