April 13 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, scientists and politicians, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Loretta Anne Rogers was an English-born Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist who was a director of Rogers Communications. She was the wife of Ted Rogers, the company's founding president and CEO. In 2015, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$5.5 billion.
Share of the 41 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors37% (15 people)
Scientists20% (8 people)
Athletes15% (6 people)
Creators15% (6 people)
Entrepreneurs15% (6 people)
Politicians15% (6 people)
Artists10% (4 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Belgium1 (1 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
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Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. From 1797 to 1801, he served as the second vice president under John Adams.
Rembrandt Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kevin Maxwell Warsh is an American financier and attorney who has served as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2026. Warsh previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011.
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker.
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013.
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
John Paul Jones DeJoria is an American billionaire businessman, best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patrón Spirits Company.
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1846–1911 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William McGregor was a Scottish association football administrator in the Victorian era who was the founder of the Football League, the first organised association football league in the world.
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William Hunt "Bill" Gross is an American investor and retired fund manager, who co-founded Pacific Investment Management Co. PIMCO is a global fixed income investment company.
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
Sean O'Connor, cropped by Sabahrat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alessandro Bastoni is an Italian professional footballer who plays primarily as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team. Regarded as one of the best centre-backs in the world, he is best known for his passing, speed, and versatility.
Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, commonly known as Anderson, is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who most recently was assistant manager of Adana Demirspor.
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Glenn Russell Dubin is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and the Principal of Dubin & Co. LP, a private investment company. He is the co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management, founder of Engineers Gate, and a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation.
Ruben Östlund is a Swedish filmmaker best known for his satirical black comedy films Force Majeure (2014), The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022).
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Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 1998, and the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
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Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish-American mathematician who made important contributions in advancing the understanding of nuclear physics and computer science.
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy.
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
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Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age.
John Linnell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
Glen Keane is an American animator, director, author, and illustrator. As a character animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for 38 years (1974–2012), he worked on feature films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan, and Tangled.
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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was a Soviet and Russian composer and founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2000 became the National Anthem of the Russian Federation.
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Alfred Schutz was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions. Schutz is gradually being recognized as one of the 20th century's leading philosophers of social science.
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Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
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Joseba Sarrionandia Uribelarrea is a Basque writer who has published a large number of books of poetry and short stories, as well as novels. He has been awarded on numerous occasions for his work, and is nowadays a respected literary personality in the Basque Country.
Maria Emilie Snethlage was a German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage collected in Brazil from 1905 until her death. She was the director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi from 1914 to 1922.
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This page lists 41 people born on April 13, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2019. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 13. Read the full methodology.
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