September 13 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 13, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#19 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 13 birthdays
Clara Schumann · German musician and composer1819
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach · Austrian writer1830
Arnold Schoenberg · Austrian-Jewish American composer1874
Sherwood Anderson · American writer1876
Claudette Colbert · American actress1903
Roald Dahl · British writer and poet1916
Richard Kiel · American actor1939
Óscar Arias · President of Costa Rica1941
Ahmet Necdet Sezer · 10th President of Turkey1941
Jacqueline Bisset · English actress1944
Salva Kiir · President of South Sudan since 20111951
Jean Smart · American actress1951
Dave Mustaine · American musician1961
Michael Johnson · American sprinter1967
Tyler Perry · American actor and filmmaker1969
Fabio Cannavaro · Italian association football player and manager1973
Fiona Apple · American musician1977
Thomas Müller · German association football player1989
Lili Reinhart · American actress1996
Playboi Carti · American rapper1996
On this day in history
1964South Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader Nguyễn Khánh.
1971State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
1985Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling video games in history, was first released in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
1993Nirvana released their third and final studio album, In Utero, which went on to sell more than 15 million copies.
1937Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts for distance education.
1948Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1959The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon, the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.
1962An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
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