June 13

Charles the Bald

Charles the Bald (French: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877) was king of West Francia (843–77), king of Italy (875–77) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–77).

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Thomas Young

Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone.

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (Portuguese:; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese literature.

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Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber.

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John Forbes Nash

John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.

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Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor, 13 June 1943) is an English actor. He first became known for portraying Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson's If....

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Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon (Korean: 반기문; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was the South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade between 2004 and 2006.

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Klaus Iohannis

Klaus Werner Iohannis (born 13 June 1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former teacher who served as the president of Romania from 2014 until his resignation in 2025.

Grigori Perelman

Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григорий Яковлевич Перельман, pronounced; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician and geometer who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology.

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Anthony of Padua

Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon (born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

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Martin Buber

Martin Buber (German:; Hebrew: מרטין בובר; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.

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Pumpuang Duangjan

Ramphueng Chithan (Thai: รำพึง จิตร์หาญ; 4 August 1961 – 13 June 1992), known professionally as Pumpuang Duangjan (Thai: พุ่มพวง ดวงจันทร์; RTGS: Phumphuang Duangchan), was a Thai singer and actress. Honored as the "Queen of Luk Thung", she is one of the most celebrated luk thung vocalists in Thailand.

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