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Famous people born on October 13
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 13 include Margaret Thatcher (1925), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989), Turgut Özal (1927) and Jamal Khashoggi (1958). Our list below has 84 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 13 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1680 (Catherine Opalińska) and the most recent is 1996 (Joshua Wong). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on October 13?
- Margaret Thatcher 1925 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1989 American politician
- Turgut Özal 1927 8th President of the Republic of Turkey
- Jamal Khashoggi 1958 Saudi journalist
- Sacha Baron Cohen 1971 British comedian and actor
- Rudolf Virchow 1821 German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian,…
- Cemal Gürsel 1895 4th President of the Republic of Turkey
- Yves Montand 1921 French-Italian actor and singer
- Nana Mouskouri 1934 Greek singer
- Paul Simon 1941 American singer-songwriter
- Antonio Di Natale 1977 Italian association football player
- Desi Bouterse 1945 Leader of Suriname (1980–1987, 2010–2020)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1948 Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali
- Jimin 1995 South Korean singer and dancer (BTS)
- Ian Thorpe 1982 Australian swimmer
- Raymond Kopa 1931 French footballer
- Jozef Tiso 1887 Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
- Kelly Preston 1962 American actress
- Tiffany Trump 1993 American socialite, research assistant and reality television personality
- Wes Brown 1979 English association football player
- Shigeyoshi Suzuki 1902 Japanese association football player and manager
- Scott Parker 1980 English association football manager and former player
- Paul Pierce 1977 American basketball player
- Kate Walsh 1967 American actress
- Javier Sotomayor 1967 Cuban high jumper
- Aleksander Čeferin 1967 Slovenian football administrator
- Mordechai Vanunu 1954 Israeli activist
- Gabriel Agbonlahor 1986 English association football player
- Václav Pilař 1988 Czech footballer
- Lenny Bruce 1925 American comedian and social critic
- Doug Emhoff 1964 Second Gentleman of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- John G. Thompson 1932 American mathematician
- Mary Kingsley 1862 British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer
- Joshua Wong 1996 Hong Kong politician
- Roberto Eduardo Viola 1924 Military officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina
- Jerry Rice 1962 American football player
- Akemi Noda 1969 Japanese association football player
- Shiori Miyake 1995 Japanese association football player
- Christopher Judge 1964 American actor
- David Haye 1980 British boxer
- Tadahiro Akiba 1975 Japanese association football player and manager
- Melinda Dillon 1939 American actress
- Bogd Khan 1869 Great Khan of Outer Mongolia
- Cornel Wilde 1912 Hungarian-American actor and film director
- Kári Árnason 1982 Icelandic association football player
- Yuka Miyazaki 1983 Japanese association football player
- Slimane 1989 French singer-songwiter
- Nana Alexandria 1949 Georgian chess player
- Abderrahmane Sissako 1961 Mauritanian film director and film producer
- Jermaine O'Neal 1978 American basketball player
- Kurt Schumacher 1895 German politician
- Ashok Kumar 1911 Indian actor
- Dritëro Agolli 1931 Albanian poet, writer, and politician
- Aleksandr Yerokhin 1989 Russian footballer
- Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia 1832 Russian grand duke and field marshal; the fourth son and seventh child of Nicholas I…
- Ray Brown 1926 American jazz musician
- Maria Cantwell 1958 American politician and businesswoman
- Dušan Makavejev 1932 Serbian film director
- Adalet Ağaoğlu 1929 Turkish novelist
- Robert Walker 1918 American actor
- Laraine Day 1920 American actress
- Luis Tosar 1971 Spanish actor
- Kiele Sanchez 1977 American actress
- Nie Haisheng 1964 Chinese astronaut
- Omari Tetradze 1969 Russian footballer
- Massimo Bonini 1959 Sammarinese footballer
- Nancy Kerrigan 1969 American figure skater
- Pharoah Sanders 1940 American jazz saxophonist
- Himesh Patel 1990 British actor
- Faas Wilkes 1923 Dutch footballer
- Yves Allégret 1905 French film director
- Takiji Kobayashi 1903 Japanese writer
- Carlos Marín 1968 Spanish singer
- John Lone 1952 American actor
- Lee Konitz 1927 American jazz musician
- Sammy Hagar 1947 American rock singer
- Shelby Rogers 1992 American tennis player
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards 1835 Anglo-French zoologist
- Arthur Maia 1992 Brazilian association football player
- Breno Borges 1989 Brazilian footballer
- Charles Frederick Worth 1825 English fashion designer
- Viggo Brun 1885 Norwegian mathematician
- Catherine Opalińska 1680 Polish queen
- Mamadou Niang Babacar Ndiaye 1979 Senegalese and French association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 13 share the 13th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.