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Births On This Day,
June, 13

  • 1944 Ban Ki-moon

    South Korean diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

  • 1897 Paavo Nurmi

    Finnish runner

  • 1888 Fernando Pessoa

    Portuguese poet

  • 1884 Gerald Gardner

    English occultist

  • 1865 W. B. Yeats

    Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 13

  • 2006 Charles Haughey

    Irish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Ireland

  • 1979 Demetrio Stratos

    Egyptian/Italian singer-songwriter

  • 1918 Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia

  • 1886 Ludwig II of Bavaria

  • 1645 Miyamoto Musashi

    Japanese swordsman, author

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