Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 13

Births

• 1570 – Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606) (pictured)
• 1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
• 1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
• 1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001)

Deaths

• 1695 – Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
• 1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)