February 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#325 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 13 birthdays
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet · German mathematician1805
Sarojini Naidu · Indian poet1879
Grant Wood · American painter1891
Georges Simenon · Belgian writer1903
William Shockley · American physicist and inventor1910
Khalid of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia1911
Aung San · Burmese revolutionary leader1915
Chuck Yeager · American World War II flying ace and test pilot1923
Kim Novak · American actress1933
Paul Biya · Cameroonian politician1933
George Segal · American actor1934
Jerry Springer · American television personality and politician1944
Stockard Channing · American actress1944
Peter Gabriel · British singer and musician1950
Henry Rollins · American musician1961
Kelly Hu · American actress1968
Robbie Williams · British singer1974
Mena Suvari · American actress, fashion designer, model1979
Rafael Márquez · Mexican association football player1979
Memphis Depay · Dutch association football player1994
On this day in history
1961Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within.
1987Federal agents began to issue indictments against county-level supervisors in Mississippi after Operation Pretense exposed massive corruption in the state's local governments.
2012The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
2021Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
1914Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1967American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1975Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
1979An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
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