January 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#347 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 13 birthdays
Wilhelm Wien · German physicist1864
Chaïm Soutine · Belarusian-French painter1893
Paul Feyerabend · Austrian-born philosopher of science1924
Sydney Brenner · South African-British biologist1927
Rakesh Sharma · First Indian astronaut1949
Gilmar Rinaldi · Brazilian association football player1959
Eric Betzig · American physicist1960
Julia Louis-Dreyfus · American actress1961
Penelope Ann Miller · American actress1964
Patrick Dempsey · American actor and racecar driver1966
Stephen Hendry · Scottish snooker player1969
Shonda Rhimes · American television producer, television and film writer, and author1970
Marco Pantani · Italian road racing cyclist1970
Vitaly Scherbo · Soviet-Belarusian-American artistic gymnast1972
Andrew Yang · American entrepreneur, attorney and political candidate1975
Michael Peña · American actor1976
Orlando Bloom · English actor and model1977
Akira Kaji · Japanese association football player1980
Liam Hemsworth · Australian actor1990
Luis Díaz · Colombian association football player1997
On this day in history
1968American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.
1969British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led Zeppelin, in the United States.
1972Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo.
2003The trans-Neptunian object 208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory, California.
1847The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.
1916The first Feminist Congress of Yucatán (delegates pictured) began in Mérida, Mexico, to propose reforms for women's social, educational, and legal rights.
1949In the first recorded instance of strike action by Catholic laity against the clergy, gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City, went on strike.
2012The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.
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