April 13, 1941

1941Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.

1941Jean-Marc Reiser, French author and illustrator (died 1983)^[†]

Jean-Marc Reiser was a French comics creator, notable for his black comedy and controversial contemporary satire.

1941Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (born 1863)^[†]

Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. She was nearly deaf throughout her career after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party.

1941William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (born 1879)^[†]

William Twaits was a Canadian amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Twaits was born in Galt, Ontario. In 1904 he was a member of the Galt F.C. team, which won the gold medal in the soccer tournament. He played all two matches as a forward.