Who was born on February 13?

Who was born on February 13?

– 1743 – Sir Joseph Banks (1820) – English naturalist, botanist.
– 1769 – Ivan Krylov (1844) – Russian poet, fable writer, publicist, publisher.
– 1873 – Fyodor Chaliapin (1938) – great opera singer.
– 1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1922) – Russian and Soviet theater actor, director, teacher.
– 1901 – Sayfi Olimov (1984) – actor, director, one of the organizers of the Uzbek theater, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1903 – Georges Simenon (1989) – Belgian writer, master of the detective genre.
– 1910 – William Bradford Shockley (1989) – American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1965).
– 1911 – Hasan Polat (1942) – Uzbek writer.
– 1913 – Badal Nurmuhamedov (1991) – actor, director, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1990).
– 1913 – Khalid ibn Abdulaziz al-Saud (1982) – King of Saudi Arabia (1975-1982).
– 1916 – Shamsiddinov Fazliddin (1980) – conductor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1965) and Karakalpakstan (1973).
– 1947 – Tatyana Tarasova – Soviet and Russian figure skating coach.
– 1954 – Nisa Gasimova – singer, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan.
– 1960 – Pierluigi Collina – Italian football referee.
– 1962 – Mirzagul Sapayeva – actress, singer, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2002).
– 1963 – Yap Hartsen – engineer who invented the Bluetooth device.
– 1965 – Yuri Savichev – Soviet football player, Olympic champion (1988), author of the “golden goal”.
– 1975 – Artemiy Lebedev – Russian designer and inventor.
– 1986 – Hamish Bond – New Zealand athlete, three-time Olympic champion in rowing, multiple world champion.