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Famous people born on April 13

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Well-known people born on April 13 include Thomas Jefferson (1743), Samuel Beckett (1906), Garry Kasparov (1963) and Seamus Heaney (1939). Our list below has 102 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1597 (Giovan Battista Hodierna) and the most recent is 2002 (Karl Jakob Hein). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.

Who was born on April 13?

  1. Thomas Jefferson 1743 Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809
  2. Samuel Beckett 1906 Irish writer
  3. Garry Kasparov 1963 Russian chess grandmaster and activist
  4. Seamus Heaney 1939 Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
  5. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 1940 French writer and Nobel Prize winner
  6. Julius Nyerere 1922 Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania
  7. Jacques Lacan 1901 French psychoanalyst and writer
  8. Christopher Hitchens 1949 English American author and journalist
  9. Carles Puyol 1978 Spanish footballer
  10. Georg Lukács 1885 Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic
  11. Claudio Bravo 1983 Chilean association football player
  12. Rudi Völler 1960 German footballer and manager
  13. Stanisław Ulam 1909 Polish-American mathematician
  14. Brigitte Macron 1953 French teacher, spouse of French statesman Emmanuel Macron
  15. Richard Trevithick 1771 British inventor and mining engineer
  16. Ron Perlman 1950 American actor
  17. Anderson 1988 Brazilian association football player
  18. James Ensor 1860 Belgian painter
  19. Antonio Meucci 1808 Italian inventor and telephone pioneer
  20. Michael Stuart Brown 1941 American geneticist and Nobel laureate
  21. Margrethe Vestager 1968 Danish politician
  22. Stanley Donen 1924 American film director and choreographer
  23. Eudora Welty 1909 American short story writer, novelist and photographer
  24. Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 1732 British statesman and Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
  25. Anders Lindegaard 1984 Danish footballer
  26. Alessandro Bastoni 1999 Italian association football player
  27. Amy Goodman 1957 American journalist
  28. Paul Sorvino 1939 American actor
  29. Josephine Butler 1828 British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution
  30. Ruben Östlund 1974 Swedish film director and screenwriter
  31. Alfred Schütz 1899 American sociologist
  32. Joseba Sarrionandia 1958 Basque writer
  33. Al Green 1946 American singer
  34. Edivaldo Martins Fonseca 1962 Brazilian association football player
  35. Brandon Hardesty 1987 American actor
  36. Arthur Fadden 1894 Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia
  37. Jonathan Brandis 1976 American actor
  38. William Sadler 1950 American actor
  39. Edward Fox 1937 English actor
  40. Neco Williams 2001 Welsh association football player
  41. Safet Sušić 1955 Bosnian footballer
  42. Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans 1747 French duke
  43. Marko Grujić 1996 Serbian association football player
  44. Ignazio Cassis 1961 99th President of the Swiss Confederation
  45. Howard Keel 1919 American actor and singer
  46. Khea 2000 Argentinian rapper
  47. Gurban Gurbanov 1972 Azerbaijani footballer
  48. Ángelo Henríquez 1994 Chilean footballer
  49. Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr 1764 Marshal of France
  50. John Swinney 1964 Scottish politician
  51. Leopold Fitzinger 1802 Austrian zoologist
  52. Roberto Dinamite 1954 Brazilian footballer, politician
  53. Joachim Streich 1951 East German association football player and manager
  54. Liam Cosgrave 1920 Irish politician
  55. Hillel Slovak 1962 Israeli-American musician
  56. András Schäfer 1999 Hungarian association football player
  57. Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet 1892 Royal Air Force air marshal and writer
  58. Don Adams 1923 American actor
  59. Baron Davis 1979 American basketball player
  60. Karl Jakob Hein 2002 Estonian association football player
  61. Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy 1618 French writer
  62. Lou Bega 1975 German singer
  63. Anastasija Sevastova 1990 Latvian female tennis player
  64. Robert Watson-Watt 1892 Physicist
  65. Demyan Bedny 1883 Russian poet
  66. Drago Jančar 1948 Slovenian writer
  67. Eusebio Sacristán 1964 Spanish football player and manager
  68. Madalyn Murray O'Hair 1919 American atheist activist
  69. Ty Dolla Sign 1982 American singer and rapper
  70. Kyle Walker-Peters 1997 English association football player
  71. Max Mosley 1940 President FIA; former race car driver and British lawyer
  72. Irina Khakamada 1955 Russian politician (born in 1955)
  73. Bill Conti 1942 American composer and conductor
  74. Caroline Rhea 1964 Canadian actress
  75. Gabriel Ramanantsoa 1906 President of Madagascar
  76. Ricky Schroder 1970 American actor
  77. Dan Gurney 1931 American racing driver, constructor and team owner
  78. Gustavo Adrián López 1973 Argentine footballer
  79. Michael Halliday 1925 Australian linguist
  80. Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy 1885 Dutch politician
  81. Peter Davison 1951 English actor
  82. Jeanne Balibar 1968 French actress and singer
  83. Giovan Battista Hodierna 1597 Italian astronomer
  84. Ivano Bordon 1951 Italian footballer
  85. Orhan Veli Kanık 1914 Turkish poet
  86. Bokeem Woodbine 1973 American actor
  87. Bob Casey 1960 American lawyer and politician
  88. Marta Jandová 1974 Czech singer
  89. Petteri Koponen 1988 Finnish basketball guard
  90. Maurice Ronet 1927 French actor
  91. Erick Avari 1952 Indian actor
  92. David W. Panuelo 1964 President of the Federated States of Micronesia (2019-present)
  93. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia 1866 Russian grand duke and naval officer; fifth son of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of…
  94. Ricardo Blázquez Pérez 1942 Spanish cardinal
  95. Peabo Bryson 1951 American singer
  96. Michal Bílek 1965 Czech footballer
  97. Kehriba nene 1994 Egyptian association football player
  98. Juhan Kukk 1885 Estonian politician
  99. Robert Biedroń 1976 Polish politician, member of the European Parliament, and LGBT rights activist
  100. Tatiana Navka 1975 Russian ice dancer
  101. Victoria Villarruel 1975 Vice President of Argentina since 2023
  102. Nicole Cooke 1983 Welsh cyclist

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 13 share the 13th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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