May 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#346 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 13 birthdays
Alphonse Daudet · French novelist, playwright, and poet1840
Ronald Ross · British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist1857
Georges Braque · French painter and sculptor1882
Daphne du Maurier · British writer1907
Joe Louis · American boxer1914
Bea Arthur · American actress and comedienne1922
Harvey Keitel · American actor1939
Stevie Wonder · American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter1950
Dennis Rodman · American basketball player1961
Stephen Colbert · American comedian and writer1964
Ronnie Coleman · American IFBB professional bodybuilder1964
Scott Morrison · Prime Minister of Australia from 2018 to 20221968
Sunny Leone · American-Canadian actress1981
Yaya Touré · Ivorian association football player1983
Robert Pattinson · English actor and film producer1986
Lena Dunham · American writer, director, actress, and producer1986
Alexander Rybak · Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist1986
Candice King · American actress and singer1987
Debby Ryan · American singer and actress1993
Romelu Lukaku · Belgian footballer1993
On this day in history
1967Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India.
1998India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2012Mexican authorities discovered 49 dismembered bodies in Cadereyta Jiménez.
2017Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal won the contest for the first time, with the song "Amar pelos dois," performed by Salvador Sobral.
1958The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) by land and sea.
1960Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1992Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China.
1995Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen.
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