205 notable people in our database were born on October 13, including Paul Simon, Margaret Thatcher and Jerry Rice.
Famous people born on October 13
Paul Simon
Born October 13, 1941
American singer-songwriter known for Simon & Garfunkel classics and his landmark solo album Graceland.
Paul Simon is an American singer-songwriter from Newark, New Jersey, known for bringing a literary, poetic quality to popular music. He first rose to fame alongside Art Garfunkel in the folk-pop duo Simon & Garfunkel, whose breakthrough came with "The Sounds of Silence" in 1965. Their album Bridge Over Troubled Water won the Grammy for Album of the Year. As a solo artist, Simon won that award again for Still Crazy After All These Years and for Graceland, a record that blended American pop with sounds from other musical cultures. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, received Kennedy Center Honors in 2002, and was the first winner of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Sources: Britannica / singout.org
Margaret Thatcher
Born October 13, 1925
British Conservative politician who served as the United Kingdom's first female prime minister, from 1979 to 1990.
Margaret Thatcher was a British politician and the first woman to serve as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, she studied chemistry at Oxford and later trained as a barrister. She entered Parliament in 1959 as the Conservative member for Finchley and served as education secretary in the early 1970s. In 1975 she won the Conservative Party leadership, and after the 1979 election she led the government until 1990. Her policies, often called "Thatcherism," included selling state-owned industries, reforming trade unions, cutting taxes, and letting council tenants buy their homes. She also led Britain during the Falklands conflict and worked closely with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Her firm style earned her the nickname "the Iron Lady."
Sources: gov.uk / margaretthatcher.orgPhoto: Rob Bogaerts / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons
Jerry Rice
Born October 13, 1962
American football wide receiver who starred for the San Francisco 49ers and won three Super Bowls.
Jerry Rice is a former American football wide receiver from Starkville, Mississippi. At Mississippi Valley State University he earned All-America honors and set 18 Division I-AA records. He joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1985 and spent 16 seasons with the team, helping it win three Super Bowl titles, and he was named most valuable player of Super Bowl XXIII. He later played for the Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks and briefly joined the Denver Broncos. Known for his tireless workouts and long career, Rice retired holding the NFL career marks for catches (1,549) and receiving yards (22,895), and he was the first player to pass 200 career touchdowns. He entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010.
Sources: Britannica / Biography.comMore famous birthdays on October 13
- Alexandria Ocasio-CortezBorn 1989
- Sacha Baron CohenBorn 1971
Everyone else born on October 13 (200)
Names and birth years only, in order of birth. Profiles are being added.
Before 180112
- Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei467
- Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel1381
- Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales1453
- Mariotto Albertinelli1474
- Francis Caracciolo1563
- Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork1566
- Luisa de Guzmán1613
- John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey1696
- Andrea Belli1703
- Allan Ramsay1713
- James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier1756
- Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin1768
1801–190022
- John William Dawson1820
- Rudolf Virchow1821
- Charles Frederick Worth1825
- Ernest Myers1844
- Lillie Langtry1853
- Mary Kingsley1862
- Jacques Inaudi1867
- Albert Jay Nock1870
- Leon Leonwood Bean1872
- Georgios Kafantaris1873
- József Klekl1874
- Rube Waddell1876
- Patrick Joseph Hartigan1878
- Edward Hennig1879
- Sasha Chorny1880
- Jozef Tiso1887
- Conrad Richter1890
- Irene Rich1891
- Kurt Reidemeister1893
- Mike Gazella1895
- Piero Dusio1899
- Gerald Marks1900
1901–195077
- Arna Bontemps1902
- Karl Leichter1902
- Wilfred Pickles1904
- Coloman Braun-Bogdan1905
- John Rinehart Blue1905
- Yves Allégret1905
- Art Tatum1909
- Herblock1909
- Ashok Kumar1911
- Millosh Gjergj Nikolla1911
- Cornel Wilde1912
- Igor Torkar1913
- Terry Frost1915
- George Osmond1917
- Reed Erickson1917
- Robert Walker1918
- Laraine Day1920
- Yves Montand1921
- Gilberto Mendes1922
- Nathaniel Clifton1922
- Faas Wilkes1923
- John C. Champion1923
- Rosemary Anne Sisson1923
- Moturu Udayam1924
- Roberto Eduardo Viola1924
- Terry Gibbs1924
- Armand Mouyal1925
- Gustav Winckler1925
- Lenny Bruce1925
- Eddie Yost1926
- Killer Kowalski1926
- Ray Brown1926
- Tommy Whittle1926
- Anita Kerr1927
- Lee Konitz1927
- Turgut Özal1927
- Richard Howard1929
- Walasse Ting1929
- Bruce Geller1930
- Eddie Mathews1931
- Raymond Kopa1931
- Johnny Lytle1932
- Liliane Montevecchi1932
- Raynald Fréchette1933
- Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill1933
- Nana Mouskouri1934
- Bruce Morrow1935
- Etterlene DeBarge1935
- Chitti Babu1936
- Hugo Young1938
- Shirley Caesar1938
- Larry Bowie1939
- Melinda Dillon1939
- Chris Farlowe1940
- Pharoah Sanders1940
- Jim Price1941
- John Snow1941
- Neil Aspinall1941
- Bob Bailey1942
- Jerry Jones1942
- Rutanya Alda1942
- Walter McGowan1942
- Peter Sauber1943
- Robert Lamm1944
- Dési Bouterse1945
- Poure Puobe VII1945
- Edwina Currie1946
- Lacy J. Dalton1946
- Levon Ananyan1946
- Joe Dolce1947
- Sammy Hagar1947
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan1948
- Patrick Nève1949
- Tom Mees1949
- Annegret Richter1950
- Mollie Katzen1950
- Simon Nicol1950
1951 onward89
- Stephen Bayley1951
- Beverly Johnson1952
- John Lone1952
- Mundo Earwood1952
- Pat Day1953
- Claude Ribbe1954
- George Frazier1954
- Chris Carter1956
- Joseph Toal1956
- Sinan Sakić1956
- Reggie Theus1957
- Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells1958
- Maria Cantwell1958
- Marie Osmond1959
- Eric Joyce1960
- Joey Belladonna1960
- Derek Harper1961
- Doc Rivers1961
- Rachel De Thame1961
- Kelly Preston1962
- T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh1962
- Chip Foose1963
- Colin Channer1963
- Christopher Judge1964
- Doug Emhoff1964
- Fanie de Villiers1964
- Marco Travaglio1964
- Matt Walsh1964
- Nie Haisheng1964
- Johan Museeuw1965
- Baja Mali Knindža1966
- John Regis1966
- Larry Collmus1966
- Aleksander Čeferin1967
- Javier Sotomayor1967
- Kate Walsh1967
- Scott Cooper1967
- Steve Vickers1967
- Trevor Hoffman1967
- Tisha Campbell-Martin1968
- Cady McClain1969
- Nancy Kerrigan1969
- Paul Potts1970
- Rob Howley1970
- Serena Altschul1970
- Billy Bush1971
- Pyrros Dimas1971
- Summer Sanders1972
- Brian Dawkins1973
- Matt Hughes1973
- Antonio Di Natale1977
- Benjamin Clapp1977
- Gareth Batty1977
- Justin Peroff1977
- Paul Pierce1977
- Jermaine O'Neal1978
- Mamadou Niang1979
- Wes Brown1979
- Ashanti1980
- David Haye1980
- Magne Hoseth1980
- Scott Parker1980
- Kele Okereke1981
- Taylor Buchholz1981
- Antonio Pavanello1982
- Ian Thorpe1982
- Andrej Meszároš1985
- Brian Hoyer1985
- Gabriel Agbonlahor1986
- Sergio Pérez Moya1986
- Adrian Poparadu1987
- Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi1987
- Norris Cole1988
- Scott Jamieson1988
- Brace Belden1989
- Clive Rose1989
- Adrián Sardinero1990
- Jakob Silfverberg1990
- Igor Ozhiganov1992
- Shelby Rogers1992
- Tiffany Trump1993
- Ryan Matterson1994
- Yuta Watanabe1994
- Jimin1995
- Joshua Wong1996
- Andrew Capobianco1999
- Caleb McLaughlin2001
- Cam Thomas2001
- De'Von Achane2001
On this day: October 13 in history
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- 54Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adopted son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.Europe
- 409Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.Europe
- 1269The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.Europe
- 1307Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.Europe
- 1332Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.Asia
- 1399Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.Europe
- 1644A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.Europe
- 1710Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.Europe
- 1775The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).North America
- 1792In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.North America
- 1793French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.Europe
- 1812War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.EuropeNorth America
- 1821The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.Latin America
- 1843In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.North America
- 1881First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.Middle East
- 1885The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.North America
- 1892Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.North America
- 1903The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.North America
- 1908Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.Europe
- 1911Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.North America
- 1915First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.Europe
- 1917The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.Europe
- 1921Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.EuropeMiddle East
- 1923Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.Middle East
- 1943World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.Europe
- 1944World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.Europe
- 1946France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.Europe
- 1962The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six people die.North America
- 1972The flag of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, was officially adopted.Asia
- 1972Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.Europe
- 1972Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.Latin America
- 1976The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.North America
- 1976A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crashes after takeoff from El Trompillo Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, killing 91.Latin America
- 1977Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.Middle East
- 1983Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.North America
- 1990Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.Middle East
- 1993At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a series of earthquakes rock the Finisterre Range, triggering massive landslides.Oceania
- 2010The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.Latin America
- 2013A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.Asia
- 2016The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.Asia
- 2019Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.AfricaNorth America
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