Template:Selected anniversaries/August 13
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1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shaped the work of the Impressionists.
1974: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.