December 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#209 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 13 birthdays
Werner von Siemens · German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist1816
Mary Todd Lincoln · First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 18651818
Valery Bryusov · Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian1873
George Pólya · Hungarian mathematician1887
Talcott Parsons · American sociologist1902
Trygve Haavelmo · Norwegian economist and econometrician1911
George Shultz · American politician1920
Philip W. Anderson · American physicist1923
Dick Van Dyke · American actor and comedian1925
Christopher Plummer · Canadian actor1929
Aga Khan IV · 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism Muslims1936
Herman Cain · American businessman1945
Ben Bernanke · American economist1953
Steve Buscemi · American actor1957
Jamie Foxx · American actor, comedian, and singer1967
Tom DeLonge · American rock musician1975
Amy Lee · American singer, pianist and songwriter1981
Santi Cazorla · Spanish association football player1984
Taylor Swift · American singer-songwriter1989
Emma Corrin · British actor1995
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
1928An American in Paris, a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by George Gershwin, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
2013Beyoncé released her fifth studio album without any prior announcement or promotion; it sold 2.3 million copies before the end of the year.
2019Jo Swinson steps down as Leader of the Liberal Democrats after losing her seat in the 2019 general election making her tenure the shortest in the party's history.
1968Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
1981Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law.
1991Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army retreated after the failure of Operation Whirlwind, destroying their tanks to avoid their capture.
2003Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
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