October 13

Events



 * 1953 - The first U.S. patent for a burglar alarm operated by ultrasonic sound is issued to Samuel Bagno of New York City (No. 2,655,645)

Births

 * 1900 – Gerald Marks, American songwriter (d. 1997)
 * 1909 – Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956)
 * 1925 – Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
 * 1926 – Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (d. 2002)
 * 1927 – Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist
 * 1940 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
 * 1941 – Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon & Garfunkel)
 * 1947 – Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
 * 1947 – Alan Wakeman, English saxophonist (Soft Machine)
 * 1948 – John Ford Coley, American musician
 * 1948 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and singer (d. 1997)
 * 1958 – Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
 * 1968 – Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
 * 1970 – Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
 * 1970 – Paul Potts, British Opera singer and winner of Britain's Got Talent
 * 1980 – Ashanti, American singer
 * 1981 – Kele Okereke, English singer (Bloc Party)
 * 1984 – Misono, Japanese singer (Day After Tomorrow)
 * 1992 – Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor

Deaths

 * 1979 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
 * 1987 – Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b. 1929)
 * 1993 – Wade Flemons, American soul singer (b. 1940)
 * 2001 – Peter Doyle, Australian folk singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
 * 2009 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927)