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May 13 1638

Richard Simon French Biblical critic (d. 1712)

May 13 1655

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

May 13 1699

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

May 13 1712

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

May 13 1717

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

May 13 1729

Henry William (Baron) Stiegel early American glassmaker

May 13 1742

Archduchess Maria Christina Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)

May 13 1753

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)

May 13 1761

Adrian Loosjes Pzn publisherwriter (Mauritius Lijnslager)

May 13 1776

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

May 13 1792

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

May 13 1794

Louis-Leopold Robert French painter (d. 1835)

May 13 1795

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

May 13 1795

Grard Paul Deshayes French geologist (d. 1875)

May 13 1822

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

May 13 1830

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

May 13 1831

Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller Dutch minister of Colonies

May 13 1840

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

May 13 1842

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

May 13 1843

Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer Belgian politician

May 13 1854

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

May 13 1856

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

May 13 1856

Tom ORourke American boxing manager (d. 1938)

May 13 1857

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

May 13 1859

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

May 13 1867

Frank Brangwyn Wales paintermuralistcartoonist (Willam Morris)

May 13 1878

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

May 13 1882

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

May 13 1883

Henk JFM Sneevliet leader RSAPeditor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)

May 13 1883

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

May 13 1886

Joseph Achron LatviaUS violinistcomposer (Golem suite)

May 13 1891

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

May 13 1894

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

May 13 1106 Henry I of Limburg loses the duchy of Lower Lorraine to Godfrey of Louvain

May 13 1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath

May 13 1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola

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