Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 13
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Births
- 1553 – Henry IV of France, King of Navarre and France (d. 1610)
- 1678 – Yongzheng Emperor, 5th emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (d. 1735)
- 1897 – Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect and designer of the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961)
- 1902 – Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986)
- 1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1915 – B. J. Vorster, 4th State President of South Africa (d. 1983)
- 1989 – Taylor Swift, American pop singer (pictured)
Deaths
- 1466 – Donatello, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1386)
- 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
- 1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1756)
- 1922 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
- 1955 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- 1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)