Born on February 13
February 13 birthdays & history
If you were born on February 13, you share a birthday with Thomas Robert Malthus, William Shockley and Robbie Williams. February 13 babies are Aquarius, with amethyst as their birthstone and the violet as their birth flower. February 13 is the 44th day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on February 13
- 1766Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar
- 1910William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1974Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter
- 1769Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright
- 1903Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author
- 1933Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon
- 1599Pope Alexander VII, Head of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
- 1950Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1805Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic
- 1879Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist
What happened on February 13
- 1849The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
- 1867Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city.
- 1880Thomas Edison observes thermionic emission.
- 1913The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiates a period of almost four decades of independence.
- 1914Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- 1920The Negro National League is formed.
- 1931The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
- 1961Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within.
- 1967American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
- 1984Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1987Federal agents began to issue indictments against county-level supervisors in Mississippi after Operation Pretense exposed massive corruption in the state's local governments.
- 2012The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
Also observed on February 13
- Black Love Day (United States)
- Children's Day (Myanmar)
- World Radio Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is February 13?
People born on February 13 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is amethyst and their birth flower is the violet.
Which famous people were born on February 13?
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), William Shockley (1910), Robbie Williams (1974), Ivan Krylov (1769), Georges Simenon (1903), Paul Biya (1933) were all born on February 13.
What happened on February 13 in history?
Among other things: in 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; in 1987, Federal agents began to issue indictments against county-level supervisors in Mississippi after Operation Pretense exposed massive corruption in the state's local governments; in 2012, The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
Can I get a newspaper front page from February 13?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any February 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, “February 13”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.