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A classically trained pianist, Lee began writing music at age 11 and co-founded Evanescence at 13, inspired by various musical genres and film scores from an early age.
Famous Birthdays on December 13
1981 — Amy Lee
American singer, songwriter and pianist
December 13 has 134 recorded notable births across history, from 1272 to 2009. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Famous Birthdays
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1272 – 2009
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Major events on December 13
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- 1962 NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. Source
- 1939 The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter. Source
- 2003 Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit. Source
- 1989 The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded. Source
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Ted Nugent's first three solo albums, Ted Nugent (1975), Free-for-All (1976) and Cat Scratch Fever (1977), as well as the live album Double Live Gonzo!
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In 1934, she married Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary.
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Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014.
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WWE author Brian Shields called him one of the most electrifying and charismatic wrestlers in the country, particularly during his peak in the early 1980s.
More major people born on December 13
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1948
Ted Nugent
American musician
Theodore Anthony Nugent is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He goes by several nicknames, including Uncle Ted, the Nuge, and Motor City Madman.
1906
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (died 1968)
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, later Duchess of Kent, was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and a British princess by marriage.
1953
Ben Bernanke
American economist
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014.
1952
Junkyard Dog
American professional wrestler (died 1998)
Sylvester Ritter was an American professional wrestler and college football player, best known for his time in Mid-South Wrestling, where he would serve as a world heavyweight champion, and the World Wrestling…
1923
Larry Doby
American baseball player (died 2003)
Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the…
1991
Dave Leduc
Canadian martial artist
Dave Leduc is a Canadian-Burmese Lethwei fighter. He is a former six-time Lethwei world champion who held the Openweight Lethwei World Championship and was undefeated under traditional rules KO to win.
1989
Hellen Obiri
Kenyan runner
Hellen Onsando Obiri is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. She is the only woman to have won world titles in indoor track, outdoor track and cross country.
1912
Luiz Gonzaga
Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (died 1989)
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet and one of the most influential figures of Brazilian popular music in the twentieth century.
1908
Elizabeth Alexander
English geologist, academic, and physicist (died 1958)
Frances Elizabeth Somerville Alexander was a British geologist, academic, and physicist, whose wartime work with radar and radio led to early developments in radio astronomy and whose post-war work on the geology of…
1897
Albert Aalbers
Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (died 1961)
Albert Frederik Aalbers was a Dutch architect who created villas, hotels, and office buildings in Bandung, Indonesia, during Dutch colonial rule in the 1930s.
1972
Matti Kärki
Swedish heavy metal singer
Matti Kärki is a Swedish singer who is best known for his work with Dismember. Before he joined Dismember in 1991, he was the singer in the Swedish band Carnage (1989–1990).
1971
Scott Sattler
Australian rugby league player
Scott Sattler is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played during the 1990s and 2000s, later becoming the Football Manager of the Gold Coast Titans.
1887
Alvin C. York
American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1964)
Alvin Cullum York, also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I.
1560
Maximilien de Béthune
Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister of France (died 1641)
Maximilien de Béthune Sully, 1st Prince of Sully, Marquis of Rosny and Nogent, Count of Muret and Villebon, Viscount of Meaux was a French nobleman, soldier, statesman, and counselor of King Henry IV of France.
1995
Emma Corrin
English actor
Emma Louise Corrin is an English actor who has worked on stage and screen.
2002
Brock Bowers
American football player
Brock Allen Bowers is an American professional football player who is a tight end for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).
1906
Laurens van der Post
South African-English soldier and author (died 1996)
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.
1936
J. C. Martin
American baseball player
Joseph Clifton Martin is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1959 to 1972.
1272
King Frederick III of Sicily (died 1337)
Frederick III ; 13 December 1272 – 25 June 1337) was the regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1291 until 1295 and subsequently King of Sicily from 1295 until his death.