April 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#349 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 13 birthdays
György Lukács · Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic1885
Alfred Schütz · American sociologist1899
Jacques Lacan · French psychoanalyst and writer1901
Samuel Beckett · Irish writer1906
Stanisław Ulam · Polish-American mathematician1909
Eudora Welty · American short story writer, novelist and photographer1909
Julius Nyerere · Tanzanian politician and writer1922
Stanley Donen · American film director and choreographer1924
Seamus Heaney · Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer1939
Paul Sorvino · American actor1939
J. M. G. Le Clézio · French writer and Nobel Prize winner1940
Michael Stuart Brown · American geneticist and Nobel laureate1941
Al Green · American singer1946
Christopher Hitchens · English American author and journalist1949
Ron Perlman · American actor1950
Amy Goodman · American journalist1957
Rudi Völler · German footballer and manager1960
Garry Kasparov · Russian chess grandmaster and activist1963
Carles Puyol · Spanish footballer1978
Claudio Bravo · Chilean association football player1983
On this day in history
1943The Neoclassical Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1958In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
2011The board of Rosendale, New York, voted 3–2 to approve the purchase of Joppenbergh Mountain.
2013Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.
1973Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was released.
1976The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1997In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score.
2009Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and later concluded on the same day in 2016.
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