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Famous people born on December 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 13 include Taylor Swift (1989), Heinrich Heine (1797), Christopher Plummer (1929) and Jamie Foxx (1967). Our list below has 84 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1678 (Yongzheng Emperor) and the most recent is 2003 (Jhon Durán). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on December 13?
- Taylor Swift 1989 American singer-songwriter
- Heinrich Heine 1797 German poet, writer and literary critic
- Christopher Plummer 1929 Canadian actor
- Jamie Foxx 1967 American actor, comedian, and singer
- Ben Bernanke 1953 American economist
- Steve Buscemi 1957 American actor
- Philip W. Anderson 1923 American physicist
- Amy Lee 1981 American singer, pianist and songwriter
- Werner von Siemens 1816 German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist
- Santi Cazorla 1984 Spanish association football player
- Talcott Parsons 1902 American sociologist
- Valery Bryusov 1873 Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian
- Mary Todd Lincoln 1818 First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- George Pólya 1887 Hungarian mathematician
- Trygve Haavelmo 1911 Norwegian economist and econometrician
- Aga Khan IV 1936 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism Muslims
- Dick Van Dyke 1925 American actor and comedian
- George Shultz 1920 American politician
- Emma Corrin 1995 British actor
- Krišjānis Kariņš 1964 Latvian politician
- Yongzheng Emperor 1678 Emperor of Qing-dynasty China from 1722 to 1735
- Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner 1780 German chemist
- Tom DeLonge 1975 American rock musician
- Toru Yoshikawa 1961 Japanese association football player
- Curd Jürgens 1915 German-Austrian actor
- Herman Cain 1945 American businessman
- Michal Kadlec 1984 Czech association football player
- Antoni Tàpies 1923 Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
- Võ Văn Thưởng 1970 President of Vietnam
- Mikael Lustig 1986 Swedish association football player
- Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark 1906 Duchess of Kent from 1934 to 1968
- Tamaki Uchiyama 1972 Japanese association football player
- B. J. Vorster 1915 Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978
- José Eduardo Agualusa 1960 Angolan journalist, writer
- Hide 1964 Japanese musician
- Emily Carr 1871 Canadian painter and writer
- Kaysone Phomvihane 1920 First General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (r. 1955-1992)
- Tatsuya Nakadai 1932 Japanese actor, director, singer, narrator, and voice actor
- Ross Macdonald 1915 American writer
- Hellen Obiri 1989 Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Wendie Malick 1950 American film, television and voice actress
- Ella Josephine Baker 1903 African-American civil rights and human rights activist
- Ted Nugent 1948 American rock musician
- Weverton 1987 Brazilian footballer
- Hans-Joachim Marseille 1919 German officer and fighter pilot during World War II
- Osman Bukari 1998 Ghanaian association football player
- Dávid Hancko 1997 Slovak association football player
- Pau López 1994 Spanish association football player
- Geneviève Page 1927 French actress
- Pierino Prati 1946 Italian footballer
- Kristian Birkeland 1867 Norwegian scientist
- Jack Tramiel 1928 American businessman
- Danielle Collins 1993 American tennis player
- James Hargreaves 1720 English cotton weaver; inventor of the spinning jenny
- Franz von Lenbach 1836 German painter
- Olzhas Bektenov 1980 Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Alvin York 1887 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Tom Vilsack 1950 40th Governor of Iowa; 30th and 32nd United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Svetozar Boroević 1856 Austro-Hungarian field marshal
- Harry Gregson-Williams 1961 British composer, conductor and producer
- Dieter Eilts 1964 German football player and coach
- Hisanori Shirasawa 1964 Japanese association football player
- Mark Paston 1976 New Zealand association football player
- William Hamilton 1730 Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist
- Luis González Macchi 1947 46th President of Paraguay
- Maria Riva 1924 American actress
- Ricardo Gomes 1964 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Jhon Durán 2003 Colombian footballer
- Félix Sánchez Bas 1975 Football manager from Spain
- Albert Adomah 1987 Ghanaian-British association football player
- Yaragudipati Venkata Mahalakshmi 1952 Indian actress
- Janeth Jepkosgei 1983 Kenyan athletics competitor
- Otylia Jędrzejczak 1983 Polish swimmer
- Sibel Siber 1960 Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus
- María Dolores de Cospedal 1965 Spanish politician
- Frida Hansdotter 1985 Swedish female alpine skier
- Larry Parks 1914 American stage and movie actor
- Arantxa Rus 1990 Dutch tennis player
- Franz Aepinus 1724 German-Russian mathematician
- Heino 1938 German Schlager singer
- Radosław Sobolewski 1976 Polish footballer
- J.Y. Park 1971 South Korean singer and producer
- Lucía Sánchez Saornil 1895 Spanish poet, journalist, sindicalist, anarchist and feminist
- Mikel Landa 1989 Spanish road cyclist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 13 share the 13th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.