1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events [edit] January [edit] February  March 4: Wilson sworn in as the 28th president of the United States. [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 1 – Shek Kin, Hong Kong veteran actor (d. 2009)
- January 2 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
- January 5 – Jack Haig, British actor (d. 1989)
- January 6 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
- January 6 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
- January 9 – Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
- January 10 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician (d. 1991)
- January 15 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (Sea Hunt) (d. 1998)
- January 15 – Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff with 10,000 casualties (d. 1963)
- January 18 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- January 18 – George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII (d. 2006)
- January 22 – William Cardinal Conway, Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
- January 22 – Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
- January 22 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst
- January 24 – Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008)
- January 25 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
- January 25 – Huang Hua (politician), Foreign minister of China
- January 26 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (d. 1990)
- January 28 – Wally Parks, founder of the NHRA {d. 2007)
- January 29 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
- February 2 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
- February 4 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
- February 6 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
- February 10 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
- February 13 – George Barker, British poet (d. 1991)
- February 14 – Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
- February 14 – Jimmy Hoffa, American labor leader (disappeared 1975)
- February 14 – Woody Hayes, National Football League coach (d. 1987)
- February 20 – Tommy Henrich, American baseball player
- February 25 – Jim Backus, American actor (Gilligan's Island) (d. 1989)
- February 25 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (Goldfinger) (d. 1988)
- February 27 – T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician (d. 1992)
- February 27 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
- February 27 – Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
- February 27 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
[edit] March–April - March 1 – R. S. R. Fitter, British writer (d. 2005)
- March 2 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
- March 4 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- March 13 – William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1987)
- March 13 – Smoky Dawson, Australian singer (d. 2008)
- March 13 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and lyricist (d. 2009)
- March 18 – René Clément, French film director (d. 1996)
- March 21 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
- March 26 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
- March 26 – Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist
- March 29 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
- March 30 – Richard Helms, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 2002)
- March 30 – Frankie Laine, American singer (Mule Train) (d. 2007)
- March 30 – Ċensu Tabone, Maltese politician
- March 31 – Etta Baker, American musician (d. 2006)
- April 3 – Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
- April 7 – Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
- April 8 – Carlton Skinner, Governor of Guam (d. 2004)
- April 11 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
- April 14 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
- April 21 – Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (d. 1985)
- April 27 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, writer, and editor (d. 2004)
[edit] May–June - May 1 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- May 1 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
- May 5 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
- May 8 – Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (d. 1937)
- May 11 – Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist (d. 1994)
- May 13 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (d. 1980)
- May 16 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
- May 20 – William Hewlett, American businessman (d. 2001)
- May 26 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
- May 29 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
- June 6 – Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
- June 10 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
- June 11 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
- June 11 – Risë Stevens, American mezzosoprano
- June 18 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (d. 2008)
- June 18 – Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
- June 25 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
- June 26 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
- June 26 – Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist
- June 27 – Richard Pike Bissell, author of short stories and novels (d. 1977)
- June 28 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
- June 30 – Alfonso López Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)
[edit] July–August - July 3 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1965)
- July 7 – Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician
- July 12 – Philip Mayer Kaiser, American diplomat (d. 2007)
- July 12 – Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- July 13 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate
- July 14 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
- July 17 – Roger Garaudy, French Holocaust denier
- July 18 – Red Skelton, American comedian (d. 1997)
- July 22 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
- July 22 – Licia Albanese, Italian-born soprano
- July 23 – Michael Foot, British politician
- August 8 – John Facenda, American sports announcer (d. 1984)
- August 8 – Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U.S Representative and U.S. Senator (d. 2006)
- August 10 – Wolfgang Pauli, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- August 13 – Fred Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1998)
- August 13 – Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d. 1977)
- August 16 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
- August 17 – W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant (d. 2008)
- August 17 – Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
- August 19 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
- August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
- August 27 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
- August 28 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
- August 28 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
- August 28 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
- August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer
- August 30 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- August 31 – Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
- August 31 – Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer
[edit] September–October - September 1 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1979)
- September 2 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
- September 4
- September 10 – Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat
- September 11 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
- September 12 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
- September 14 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
- September 15 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
- September 19 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
- September 23 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
- September 24 – Wilson Rawls, American author (d. 1984)
- September 25 – Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, engineer (d. 1970)
- September 28 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
- September 29
- September 30 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975)
- October 10
- October 18 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (d. 1993)
- October 22 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (d. 1954)
- October 22 – Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
- October 27 – Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
[edit] November–December - November 2 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (Elmer Gantry) (d. 1994)
- November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1967)
- November 7 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- November 7 – Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Canadian sculptor (d. 2009)
- November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
- November 10 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (d. 2005)
- November 13 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (d. 1985)
- November 15 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
- November 18 – Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter (d. 1999)
- November 21
- November 22
- November 23 – Michael Gough, English actor
- November 25 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
- December 6
- December 8 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
- December 9 – Frances Reid, American actress
- December 10
- December 13 – Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general (d. 2002)
- December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980)
- December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace (d. 1989)
- December 18
- December 21 – Arnold Friberg, American artist
- December 30 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 2 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (b. 1833)
- February 17 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (b. 1840)
- February 22 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
- February 26 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
- March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
- March 11 – John Shaw Billings, American military and medical leader (b. 1838)
- March 18 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
- March 22 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1882)
- March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (b. 1837)
- May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
- May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
- June 2 – Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate (b. 1835)
- June 5 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born brewer and baseball owner
- June 8 – Emily Davison, British suffragette (b. 1872)
- June 28 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian president (b. 1841)
[edit] July–December - July 3 – Horatio Nelson Young, American Civil War naval hero (b. 1845)
- July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
- July 19 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
- July 29 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1838)
- August 7 – Samuel Franklin Cody, American/British aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
- September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor (b. 1858)
- October 5 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
- October 16 – Ralph Rose, American athlete (b. 1885)
- November 7 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist (b. 1823)
- November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1837)
- December 7
- December 12 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
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