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Famous People Born in 1913
Born in 1913? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
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The 1910s
The most famous people born in 191338
1913–1960Albert Camus
French-Algerian writer of The Stranger and The Plague who explored the absurd and won the Nobel Prize in Literature at 44
Photo: Photograph by United Press International · Public domain
1913–1994Richard Nixon
37th US President who opened relations with China but resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal, the only president to do so
Photo: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual · Public domain
1913–2006Gerald Ford
38th US President, the only one never elected president or vice president, who took office after Nixon resigned and pardoned him
Photo: David Hume Kennerly · Public domain
1913–2005Rosa Parks
African American activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955 sparked a historic boycott
Photo: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
1913–1992Willy Brandt
Former Mayor of West Berlin who became chancellor, knelt at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial and won the Nobel Peace Prize
Photo: Engelbert Reineke · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
1913–1967Vivien Leigh
British actress famous for her role in Gone with the Wind
Photo: Fawcett Publications · Public domain
1913–1980Jesse Owens
American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics
Photo: Acme News Photos · Public domain
1913–1992Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Photo: Menachem Begin 1978.jpg : USAF personnel derivative work: Ladislav Faigl ( talk ) · Public domain
Born in 1913, month by month
- January
- Loretta Young (January 6) · Oscar-winning American actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Richard Nixon (January 9) · 37th US President who opened relations with China but resigned in 1974 over the Watergate scandal, the only president to do so
- Gustáv Husák (January 10) · Long-serving leader of Communist Czechoslovakia during the Cold War era
- Motoo Tatsuhara (January 14) · Early Japanese international footballer and Olympian
- Amrita Sher-Gil (January 30) · Pioneer of modern Indian painting
- February
- Rosa Parks (February 4) · African American activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955 sparked a historic boycott
- Mary Leakey (February 6) · British palaeoanthropologist who discovered significant early hominid fossils in Africa
- Paul Ricœur (February 27) · French philosopher who developed theories on interpretation and narrative
- Sergey Mikhalkov (February 28) · Author who wrote the lyrics for the Russian national anthem
- March
- Sabiha Gökçen (March 22) · Turkish aviator and the world’s first female fighter pilot
- Paul Erdős (March 26) · Hungarian mathematician known for his prolific collaborative work
- April
- Muddy Waters (April 4) · Musician who pioneered the electric blues sound of post-war Chicago
- May
- Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (May 19) · Indian politician who served as the sixth President of India
- Peter Cushing (May 26) · English actor famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Grand Moff Tarkin
- July
- Willis Lamb (July 12) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the Lamb shift in hydrogen
- Gerald Ford (July 14) · 38th US President, the only one never elected president or vice president, who took office after Nixon resigned and pardoned him
- Roger Garaudy (July 17) · French philosopher and writer who served in the French Resistance
- August
- Wolfgang Paul (August 10) · Physicist who co-developed the ion trap for capturing individual atoms
- Makarios III (August 13) · Archbishop and first president of the Republic of Cyprus
- Menachem Begin (August 16) · Prime Minister of Israel and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Roger Sperry (August 20) · Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychologist known for his split-brain research
- Richard Stone (August 30) · Nobel Prize-winning economist who developed the system of national accounts
- September
- Bill Shankly (September 2) · Scottish football manager who led Liverpool to major domestic success
- Kenzō Tange (September 4) · Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
- Stanford Moore (September 4) · American biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Leônidas (September 6) · Pioneering Brazilian footballer who popularised the bicycle kick
- Jesse Owens (September 12) · American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics
- Jacobo Árbenz (September 14) · President of Guatemala ousted in a CIA-backed coup in 1954
- October
- Claude Simon (October 10) · Nobel Prize-winning French novelist associated with the Nouveau Roman movement
- Robert Capa (October 22) · War photographer who co-founded the Magnum Photos agency
- Bảo Đại (October 22) · The final Emperor of Vietnam and the Nguyen dynasty
- Klaus Barbie (October 25) · Gestapo officer in France known as the Butcher of Lyon
- November
- Burt Lancaster (November 2) · Oscar-winning American actor known for From Here to Eternity
- Vivien Leigh (November 5) · British actress famous for her role in Gone with the Wind
- Albert Camus (November 7) · French-Algerian writer of The Stranger and The Plague who explored the absurd and won the Nobel Prize in Literature at 44
- Benjamin Britten (November 22) · Influential English composer of operas including Peter Grimes
- December
- Jean Marais (December 11) · Influential French actor and long-term collaborator of director Jean Cocteau
- Willy Brandt (December 18) · Former Mayor of West Berlin who became chancellor, knelt at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial and won the Nobel Peace Prize