The Birthday Gazette

Born on July 13

July 13 birthdays & history

If you were born on July 13, you share a birthday with Marie Andrieu, Harrison Ford and Wole Soyinka. July 13 babies are Cancer, with ruby as their birthstone and the larkspur as their birth flower. July 13 is the 195th day of the year in leap years (194th in other years).

Famous people born on July 13

  • 1851Marie Andrieu, French anarchist, cartomancer and spiritualist
  • 1942Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
  • 1934Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 2007Lamine Yamal, Spanish footballer
  • 1940Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer
  • 1590Pope Clement X, Head of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676
  • 1894Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright
  • 1950Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China
  • 1918Alberto Ascari, Italian racing driver
  • 1985Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer

What happened on July 13

  • 1249Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
  • 1830The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
  • 1831Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic, which engendered a period of reforms that provided for the westernization of the local society.
  • 1914Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) as Iglesia ni Kristo with the government of the Philippines.
  • 1930The first FIFA World Cup was opened in Uruguay.
  • 1951Vuoristorata, one of the oldest still-operating wooden roller coasters in Europe, is opened at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland.
  • 1956The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
  • 1985The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
  • 1985Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
  • 1995Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-70 to deploy the TDRS-7 satellite.
  • 2011United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
  • 2014Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against Argentina, with Mario Götze scoring the game's only goal in the extra time.

Also observed on July 13

  • Statehood Day (Montenegro)

Questions, answered

What star sign is July 13?

People born on July 13 are Cancer. Their birthstone is ruby and their birth flower is the larkspur.

Which famous people were born on July 13?

Marie Andrieu (1851), Harrison Ford (1942), Wole Soyinka (1934), Lamine Yamal (2007), Patrick Stewart (1940), Pope Clement X (1590) were all born on July 13.

What happened on July 13 in history?

Among other things: in 1995, Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-70 to deploy the TDRS-7 satellite; in 2011, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations; in 2014, Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against Argentina, with Mario Götze scoring the game's only goal in the extra time.

Can I get a newspaper front page from July 13?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any July 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, “July 13”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.