Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today In History Star August 13
Go to Today's Date
Biographies: August 13
Master of suspense
Featured Biography Sir Alfred Hitchcock

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock

Film director Sir Alfred Hitchcock—a master of suspense who used innovative techniques and a sound grasp of human psychology to create such immensely popular movies as Psycho (1960)—was born in London this day in 1899.

More Biographies
Petrosyan, Tigran Vartanovich
June 17, 1929 — August 13, 1984
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan was a Soviet Armenian chess master who...
Massenet, Jules
May 12, 1842 — August 13, 1912
Jules Massenet
Jules Massenet was a leading French opera composer, whose music is...
Lucy Stone.
August 13, 1818 — October 18, 1893
Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone was an American pioneer in the women’s rights movement....
default image
September 17, 1900 — August 13, 1985
J. Willard Marriott
J. Willard Marriott was an American businessman who founded one of...
Archbishop Makarios III.
August 13, 1913 — August 3, 1977
Makarios III
Makarios III was the archbishop and primate of the Orthodox Church...
default image
August 13, 1819 — February 1, 1903
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet was a British physicist and...
Miescher, Friedrich
August 13, 1844 — August 26, 1895
Friedrich Miescher
Friedrich Miescher was a Swiss student of cell metabolism and the...
default image
January 28, 1853 — August 13, 1900
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was a Russian philosopher and mystic...