May 13

Events

 * 1890 - is issued a patent for an electric generator (No. 428,057)
 * 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.



Births

 * 1842 –, English composer (d. 1900)
 * 1912 –, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
 * 1937 –, English inventor of the wind-up radio
 * 1941 –, British singer
 * 1941 –, American singer (d. 1959)
 * 1943 –, American singer (d. 1992)
 * 1945 –, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
 * 1950 –, American singer and musician
 * 1950 –, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
 * 1951 –, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
 * 1954 –, Irish singer and songwriter
 * 1965 –, English violinist
 * 1965 –, American country music singer
 * 1967 –, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
 * 1967 –, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001)
 * 1968 –, English musician
 * 1968 –, Guitarist
 * 1968 –, American rapper
 * 1969 –, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
 * 1977 –, Dutch singer
 * 1979 –, American musician (Maroon 5)
 * 1980 –, Filipino singer
 * 1980 –, American Bassist for the band Anti-flag
 * 1983 –, Australian singer