Also on This Day in History October 13
Discover what happened on October 13 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, October 13
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1820
John William Dawson
Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology.
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1776
Peter Barlow
English mathematician and engineer who invented two varieties of achromatic (non-colour-distorting) telescope lenses.
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1787
William Brockedon
English writer, painter and inventor. In 1819 a patent was granted to William Brockedon for a diamond wire drawing die.
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1821
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow was a German physician generally regarded as the greatest pathologist of all time and frequently referred to as the founder of cellular pathology.
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1932
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson is an American mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups.
Deaths on This Day, October 13
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1945
Milton Snavely Hershey
American manufacturer who founded the Hershey Chocolate Corporation.
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2003
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Canadian physicist who developed neutron diffraction techniques used for studying the structure and properties of matter for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994.
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1987
Walter H. Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947.
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2016
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej, conferred with the title King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great, was the ninth king of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX, from 1946 until his death in 2016.
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1963
A.A. Griffith
A.A. (Alan Arnold) Griffith was a British engineer who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and turbine design.