Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 13

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)