June 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#165 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 13 birthdays
James Clerk Maxwell · Scottish physicist1831
Jules Bordet · Belgian immunologist and microbiologist1870
Fernando Pessoa · Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher1888
Paavo Nurmi · Finnish middle and long distance runner1897
Luis Walter Alvarez · American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor1911
Don Budge · American tennis player1915
Ben Johnson · American film actor1918
John Forbes Nash Jr. · American mathematician and economist1928
Malcolm McDowell · British actor1943
Ban Ki-moon · 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations1944
Paul L. Modrich · American biochemist1946
Tim Allen · American actor and comedian1953
Klaus Iohannis · President of Romania from 2014 to 20251959
Boyko Borisov · Prime Minister of Bulgaria1959
Félix Tshisekedi · President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo1963
Grigori Perelman · Russian mathematician1966
Chris Evans · American actor1981
Kat Dennings · American actress1986
Keisuke Honda · Japanese association football player1986
Måns Zelmerlöw · Swedish singer and television presenter1986
On this day in history
1805Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1850The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New York City.
2002The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2013Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
1971Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1981English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
1983Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
2000President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
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