This Day in History : [ 13 / May ]

Richard Simon French Biblical critic (d. 1712)

Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti] Italian 244th Pope (1721-24)

Marquis of Pombal Prime Minister of Portugal (1756-1777) born in Lisbon Portugal (d. 1782)

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

Maria Theresa Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I)

Henry William (Baron) Stiegel early American glassmaker

Archduchess Maria Christina Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)

Lazare Carnot French politician engineer and mathematician known as the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars born in Nolay Cte-dOr (d. 1823)

Adrian Loosjes Pzn publisherwriter (Mauritius Lijnslager)

Charles Ots Belgian composer born in Brussels (d. 1845)

Pius IX Pio Nono [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti] Pope (1846-78)

Louis-Leopold Robert French painter (d. 1835)

Joshua Ratoon Sands American Rear Admiral (Union Navy) born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1883)

Grard Paul Deshayes French geologist (d. 1875)

Francis of Assisi of Bourbon King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)

Zebulon Baird Vance Governor (Confederacy) (d. 1894)

Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller Dutch minister of Colonies

Alphonse Daudet French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon) born in Nmes France (d. 1897)

Arthur Sullivan English operatic composer (Pirates of Penzance H.M.S Pinafore) born in London (d. 1900)

Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer Belgian politician

Louis H Chrispijn Dutch actor and director (Krates Lost & Found Silvia Silombra) born in Amsterdam Netherland (d. 1926)

Peter Henry Emerson 1st to promote photography as an independent art

Tom ORourke American boxing manager (d. 1938)

Ronald Ross British pathologist (Nobel Prize 1902) born in Almora North-Western Provinces British India (d. 1932)

August Enna Danish composer (The Witch) (d. 1939)

Frank Brangwyn Wales paintermuralistcartoonist (Willam Morris)

Muriel Robb British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902) born in Newcastle upon Tyne England (d. 1907)

Georges Braque French cubist painter and sculptor (My bicycle) who helped develop Cubism with Pablo Picasso born in Argenteuil Val-dOise (d. 1963)

Henk JFM Sneevliet leader RSAPeditor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)

Georgios Papanikolaou Greek doctor inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)

Joseph Achron LatviaUS violinistcomposer (Golem suite)

Fritz Rasp Bayreuth Germany actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)

sgeir sgeirsson 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)