A sharpshooter.

A suffragist.

The master of suspense.

A revolutionary.

A Hawaiian crooner.

A Winter Soldier.

And on the other side of today's ledger, modern nursing, science fiction, baseball, French cooking and the electric guitar.

August 13 did not arrive quietly.

American abolitionist and pioneering advocate for women's rights.

Stone became one of the leading voices of the 19th-century women's suffrage movement and famously kept her own surname after marriage, an uncommon act of independence in her time.

One of America's legendary marksmen.

Born Phoebe Ann Mosey in Ohio, Annie Oakley became internationally famous through Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, astonishing audiences with feats of precision shooting.

Tiny target.

Big legend. 🎯

Good evening.

🎬 Alfred Hitchcock, the filmmaker who turned suspense into an art form, was born in London.

Psycho.

Rear Window.

Vertigo.

North by Northwest.

Rebecca.

Hitchcock understood that what an audience imagines might happen can be more frightening than what it actually sees.

The shower curtain has never fully recovered. 🚿🔪

Hitchcock and Annie Oakley are both listed among the notable August 13 births in contemporary historical calendars.

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba.

He led the Cuban Revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista and subsequently dominated Cuban political life for nearly half a century, becoming one of the defining and most controversial figures of the Cold War.

Hawaiian singer and entertainer Don Ho was born in Honolulu.

His signature song, Tiny Bubbles, became inseparable from his easygoing island-showroom persona.

🥂 Considering that today is also Prosecco Day, the bubbles appear to have coordinated their calendars.

Actor, singer and songwriter Dawnn Lewis, remembered especially as Jaleesa Vinson on A Different World, was born today.

Actor and director John Slattery, forever carrying a little of Mad Men's Roger Sterling with him, was born today.

Romanian-American actor Sebastian Stan, widely known as Bucky Barnes and the Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, celebrates his birthday today.

History apparently thawed him out in time for cake. 🎂

Florence Nightingale, nurse, social reformer and statistician, died at 90.

Her work during and after the Crimean War helped transform nursing into a modern profession.

Less remembered is her remarkable use of statistics and data visualization to make the case for sanitary reform.

The Lady with the Lamp also knew her way around a chart. 🪔📊

Writer H. G. Wells died at 79.

The Time Machine.

The Invisible Man.

The War of the Worlds.

The Island of Doctor Moreau.

More than a century after he began imagining technological futures, we are still wandering through questions Wells helped teach popular culture to ask.

Some writers tell stories.

Others install doors in the future.

Baseball legend Mickey Mantle died at 63.

The New York Yankees icon won three American League MVP awards, the 1956 Triple Crown and seven World Series championships during one of baseball's most celebrated careers. ⚾

Julia Child died just two days short of her 92nd birthday.

Through Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television programs, Child convinced generations of American home cooks that intimidating French cuisine could be learned one omelet, soufflé and wonderfully imperfect attempt at a time.

Bon appétit. 🍳

Time-and-Date's August 13 chronology records Wells, Mantle, and Child among today's notable deaths.

Annie Oakley aimed.

Hitchcock watched.

Nightingale counted.

Wells imagined.

Mantle swung.

Julia cooked.

Les Paul plugged in.

Different worlds.

Different gifts.

Different centuries.

But every one of them left something behind that continued moving after they were gone.

And maybe that is the quiet magic of a date in history:

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