Birthdays occurring on November, 13

Deaths occurring on November, 13

1770

George Grenville died on November 13, 1770 English politician whose policy of taxing the American colonies started the train of events leading to the American Revolution. 1712-1770 A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter More quotations from George Grenville

1861

Arthur Hugh Clough died on November 13, 1861 English writer and poet, 1819-1861 And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him More quotations from Arthur Hugh Clough

1868

Gioacchino Rossini died on November 13, 1868 Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. More quotations from Gioacchino Rossini

1907

Francis Thompson died on November 13, 1907 English poet and writer, 1859-1907 Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul. More quotations from Francis Thompson

1916

H. H. Munro died on November 13, 1916 Burman born English Novelist and short-story Writer (under pseudonym Saki), 1870-1916 I always say beauty is only sin deep. More quotations from H. H. Munro