The Birthday Gazette

Born on April 13

April 13 birthdays & history

If you were born on April 13, you share a birthday with Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Beckett and Garry Kasparov. April 13 babies are Aries, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 13 is the 104th day of the year in leap years (103rd in other years).

Famous people born on April 13

  • 1743Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States
  • 1906Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1963Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author
  • 1939Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1940J. M. G. Le Clézio, Breton French-Mauritian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1519Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France
  • 1901Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
  • 1949Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist
  • 1978Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
  • 1885György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic

What happened on April 13

  • 1742The first performance of the oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel took place in Dublin.
  • 1829The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.
  • 1849Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.
  • 1870The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
  • 1941A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
  • 1943The Neoclassical Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
  • 1953The CIA began Project MKUltra, an illegal, covert human research program into mind control.
  • 1960The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
  • 1964At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
  • 1997In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score.
  • 2009Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and later concluded on the same day in 2016.
  • 2011The board of Rosendale, New York, voted 3–2 to approve the purchase of Joppenbergh Mountain.

Also observed on April 13

  • Songkran Songkran (Thailand)
  • Songkran Water-Sprinkling Festival
  • Vaisakhi (between 1902 and 2011)

Questions, answered

What star sign is April 13?

People born on April 13 are Aries. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.

Which famous people were born on April 13?

Thomas Jefferson (1743), Samuel Beckett (1906), Garry Kasparov (1963), Seamus Heaney (1939), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Catherine de' Medici (1519) were all born on April 13.

What happened on April 13 in history?

Among other things: in 1997, In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score; in 2009, Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and later concluded on the same day in 2016; in 2011, The board of Rosendale, New York, voted 3–2 to approve the purchase of Joppenbergh Mountain.

Can I get a newspaper front page from April 13?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 13 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 13”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.