Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 13

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[edit] Births

• 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
• 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882) (pictured)
• 1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
• 1929 - Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
• 1957 - Steve Buscemi, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• 1466 - Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
• 1784 - Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
• 1961 - Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)