Notable Birthdays for January 13
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (1807-1883) - Major General for the Union Army.
Ernestine Rose (1810-1892) - Suffragist and freethinker often referred to as the first Jewish feminist.
Horatio Alger. (1832-1899) - Novelist who often wrote about rags to riches stories.
Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959) - Biologist who made significant contributions in understand animal embryonic development.
Clarke Ashton Smith (1893-1961) - One of the most influential science fiction authors of all time.
Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978) - Mathematician who founded the Department of Experimental Statistics at NC State University.
Robert Stack (1919-2003) - Acclaimed actor who was also the original host of television series Unsolved Mysteries.
Rip Taylor (1931-2019) - Actor and comedian.
Billy Gray (1938-Still Living) - Actor known for his role as Bud on Father Knows Best.
Bob Baffert (1953-Still Living) - Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer.
Patrick Dempsey (1966-Still Living) - Actor who played the popular Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy.
Andrew Yang (1975-Still Living) - Founder of Venture for America.
Nate Silver (1978-Still Living) - Founder of FiveThirtyEight.
Notable Events for January 13
1794 - Congress changes U.S. flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes.
1888 - The National Geographic Society is founded to increase geographic knowledge.
1930 - The first Mickey Mouse comic strip appears.
1942 - Henry Ford patents a soybean car.
1962 - Chubby Checker's song "The Twist" inspires the Twist dance craze.
1978 - The Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled as a paid donor or volunteer donor.
1978 - NASA select its first women astronauts for the first time.