August 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#99 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 13 birthdays
Anders Jonas Ångström · Swedish physicist1814
Lucy Stone · American abolitionist and suffragist1818
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet · Irish mathematician and physicist1819
Richard Willstätter · German chemist1872
John Logie Baird · Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television1888
Alfred Hitchcock · British filmmaker1899
Salvador Luria · Italian American microbiologist1912
Makarios III · Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus1913
Frederick Sanger · British biochemist1918
Fidel Castro · Cuban politician, author and revolutionary1926
Janet Yellen · 78th United States Secretary of the Treasury1946
Kristalina Georgieva · Bulgarian economist and CEO1953
Manuel Valls · French and Spanish politician1962
John Slattery · American actor1962
Sridevi · Indian actress1963
Alan Shearer · English footballer1970
Sebastian Stan · Romanian and American actor1982
Niko Kranjčar · Croatian footballer1984
Lucas Moura · Brazilian association football player1992
Presnel Kimpembe · French footballer1995
On this day in history
1918Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
1999The Act on National Flag and Anthem was adopted, formally establishing the Hinomaru and "Kimigayo" as the Japanese national flag and anthem, respectively.
2004Merely 22 hours after Tropical Storm Bonnie struck the U.S. state of Florida, Hurricane Charley inflicted further damage to the region (example pictured).
2010After being boarded by Canadian authorities, MV Sun Sea docked in British Columbia and the 492 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee claimants on board were placed in detention.
1762Anglo-Spanish War: The United Kingdom captured Havana after a five-week siege, holding it until the Treaty of Paris the following year.
1876A performance of Das Rheingold (scene pictured) opened the first performance of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, attended by emperors and other composers.
1889William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
1898Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
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