Famous people born in 1913

The best-known people born in 1913, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
November 7 · d. 1960
Photo: Photograph by United Press International, Public domain
Richard Nixon
president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
January 9 · d. 1994
Photo: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U, Public domain
Gerald Ford
president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
July 14 · d. 2006
Photo: David Hume Kennerly, Public domain
Rosa Parks
civil rights activist
February 4 · d. 2005
Photo: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Willy Brandt
German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
December 18 · d. 1992
Photo: Engelbert Reineke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Vivien Leigh
British actress (1913–1967)
November 5 · d. 1967
Photo: Fawcett Publications, Public domain
Menachem Begin
Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)
August 16 · d. 1992
Photo: Menachem Begin 1978.jpg : USAF personnel derivative work: Ladislav Faigl, Public domain
Jesse Owens
American track and field athlete (1913–1980)
September 12 · d. 1980
Photo: Acme News Photos, Public domain
Claude Simon
French writer (1913–2005)
October 10 · d. 2005
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/7313591@N02 Renaud Camus] from Plieux, France, CC BY 2.0
Burt Lancaster
American actor (1913–1994)
November 2 · d. 1994
Photo: Hal Wallis Productions, Public domain
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
March 26 · d. 1996
Photo: Topsy Kretts, CC BY 3.0
Jean Marais
French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)
December 11 · d. 1998
Photo: original: Carl Van Vechten derivative work: …trialsanderrors, Public domain
Willis Lamb
American physicist (1913–2008)
July 12 · d. 2008
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Wolfgang Paul
German physicist (1913–1993)
August 10 · d. 1993
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)
November 22 · d. 1976
Photo: Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0
Gustáv Husák
Czechoslovak politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (1913-1991)
January 10 · d. 1991
Photo: http://kalendarakcii.bratislava.sk/vismo/akce.asp?id_org=700021&id=4789&p1=7765 http://zpravy.idnes., CC BY-SA 3.0
Loretta Young
American actress (1913–2000)
January 6 · d. 2000
Photo: Studio Publicity, Public domain
Bill Shankly
Scottish footballer and manager (1913-1981)
September 2 · d. 1981
Photo: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenzō Tange
Japanese architect (1913–2005)
September 4 · d. 2005
Photo: Hans van Dijk for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Robert Capa
American photographer (1913–1954)
October 22 · d. 1954
Photo: Gerda Taro, Public domain
Amrita Sher-Gil
Hungarian-Indian painter (1913–1941)
January 30 · d. 1941
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author probably Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870–1954), Public domain
Muddy Waters
American blues musician (1913–1983)
April 4 · d. 1983
Photo: Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0
Makarios III
Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus (1913–1977)
August 13 · d. 1977
Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Fernandez, Orlando, photographer. Cropped by, Public domain
Roger Garaudy
French philosopher, politician and Holocaust denier (1913-2012)
July 17 · d. 2012
Sergey Mikhalkov
Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)
March 13 · d. 2009
Photo: Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0
Bảo Đại
Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945
October 22 · d. 1997
Paul Ricœur
French philosopher (1913–2005)
February 27 · d. 2005
Photo: Juerg Mueller / Scanpix., CC0
Danny Kaye
American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (1911–1987)
January 18 · d. 1987
Photo: Wikiwatcher1 at en.wikipedia, Public domain
Roger Sperry
American neuroscientist
August 20 · d. 1994
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Peter Cushing
British actor (1913–1994)
May 26 · d. 1994
Photo: Hammer films, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 6 · Edward Gierek, Polish politician (1913-2001)
January 10 · Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister of Albania (1913-1981)
January 14 · Motoo Tatsuhara, Japanese association football player (1913–1984)
January 15 · Lloyd Bridges, American actor (1913–1998)
January 25 · Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (1913-1994)
January 29 · Victor Mature, American actor (1913–1999)

February

February 2 · Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer and philosopher (1913-2008)
February 6 · Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
February 14 · Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (1913 – disappeared 1975)
February 21 · Benjamin Bloom, American psychologist (1913–1999)
February 25 · Gert Fröbe, German actor (1913–1988)
February 27 · Irwin Shaw, American writer (1913–1984)

March

March 4 · John Garfield, American actor (1913-1952)
March 13 · Paul Grice, British philosopher
March 18 · René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (1913–1996)
March 18 · Werner Mölders, German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913-1941)
March 19 · Alexander Pokryshkin, Soviet aviator (1913-1985)
March 22 · Sabiha Gökçen, first Turkish female combat pilot (1913–2001)

April

April 3 · Per Borten, 25th Prime Minister of Norway (1913–2005)
April 8 · Sourou-Migan Apithy, Beninese politician (1913-1989)
April 10 · Stefan Heym, German writer (1913-2001)
April 20 · Willi Hennig, German biologist (1913–1976)
April 27 · Philip Abelson, US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)
April 30 · Yasuo Suzuki, Japanese association football player

May

May 6 · Stewart Granger, British actor (1913–1993)
May 13 · William Richard Tolbert, President of Liberia 1971–1980 (1913–1980)
May 18 · Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter
May 18 · Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Colombian writer and philosopher (1913–1994)
May 19 · Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Sixth President of India (1913-1996)
May 20 · Bill Hewlett, American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1913–2001)

June

June 10 · Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
June 11 · Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and executive (1913-1970)
June 20 · Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Infante of Spain (1913-1993)
June 23 · William P. Rogers, American politician (1913–2001)
June 26 · Aimé Césaire, Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)
June 26 · Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (1913–2010)

July

July 7 · Michele Andreolo, Italian footballer (1912-1981)
July 7 · Pinetop Perkins, American blues pianist (1913–2011)
July 10 · Salvador Espriu, Catalan writer (1913–1985)
July 11 · Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana (1969-1972)
July 18 · Red Skelton, American comedian (1913–1997)
July 23 · Michael Foot, British politician (1913-2010)

August

August 17 · Mark Felt, Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal (1913-2008)
August 22 · Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)
August 26 · Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer (1913–2022)
August 28 · Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (1913-1995)
August 30 · Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)
August 31 · Bernard Lovell, English physicist and radio astronomer

September

September 4 · Stanford Moore, American biochemist (1913-1982)
September 13 · Tadao Horie, Japanese association football player (1913–2003)
September 14 · Jacobo Árbenz, president of Guatemala in 1951–54
September 23 · Tokutaro Ukon, Japanese association football player (1913–1944)
September 27 · Albert Ellis, American psychologist (1913–2007)
September 29 · Silvio Piola, Italian footballer and manager (1913-1996)

October

October 6 · Meret Oppenheim, German-Swiss surrealist artist and lyricist (1913–1985)
October 15 · Xi Zhongxun, Chinese politician (1913-2002)
October 19 · Vinícius de Moraes, Brazilian composer, singer, writer (1913–1980)
October 19 · Haxhi Lleshi, Albanian politician (1913-1998)
October 19 · Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (1913-1991)
October 24 · Tito Gobbi, Italian opera singer (1913–1984)

November

November 3 · Marika Rökk, Hungarian-born actress, singer, dancer (1913–2004)
November 4 · Gig Young, American actor (1913–1978)
November 4 · Elisabeth Bykova, Soviet chess player (1913-1989)
November 10 · Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (1913-2005)
November 13 · Lon Nol, Cambodian Field Marshal (1913-1985)
November 24 · Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (1913–2005)

December

December 1 · Mary Martin, American actress (1913-1990)
December 1 · Mary Ainsworth, American-Canadian psychologist & scholar
December 4 · Robert Adler, American physicist and inventor (1913–2007)
December 18 · Alfred Bester, American author (1913–1987)
December 19 · Mykola Amosov, Ukrainian soviet and Ukrainian surgeon (1913–2002)
December 29 · Pierre Werner, Luxembourgish politician (1913-2002), Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959-1974, 1979-1984)

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