December 13 is the birthday of 39 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, musicians and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Clive Ian Calder is a South African-British billionaire record executive and businessman primarily known for co-founding the Zomba Group with Ralph Simon, and its subsidiary Jive Records.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in popular culture, Swift is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions.
Share of the 39 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors28% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs28% (11 people)
Musicians26% (10 people)
Actors23% (9 people)
Politicians18% (7 people)
Scientists18% (7 people)
Creators13% (5 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Ancient Rome1 (1 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Czech Republic1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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~21Taylor SwiftReceived the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (2010)
Richard Wayne Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. His work spans screen and stage, and his awards include six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award.
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television.
Steven Vincent Buscemi is an American actor, director, and producer. His accolades include two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two Independent Spirit Awards.
Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Marlon Bishop, known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, singer, and film producer. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color from 1991 to 1994.
John Bauld from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, known simply as Aga Khan IV, was the 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam from 1957 until his death in 2025. He inherited the Nizari imamate and the title of Aga Khan at the age of 20 upon the death of his grandfather, Sultan Muhammad Shah.
Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch is an American and British businessman. He is the younger son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and the former chief executive officer (CEO) of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to 2019.
George Pratt Shultz was an American economist, businessman, diplomat, and statesman who served in various positions under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ernst Werner Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens.
Entrepreneur · Commodore International · entertainment
1928–2012 · United States
Jack Tramiel was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known for founding Commodore International. The PET, VIC-20, and Commodore 64 are some home computers produced while he was running the company.
Jack_Tramiel.jpg: Alex Handy from Oakland, Nmibia, derivative work Lämpel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carla Bruni-Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is an Italian and French singer, songwriter and fashion model who served as the first lady of France from 2008—when she married then president Nicolas Sarkozy—to 2012.
Diana Guylene, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Matthew DeLonge is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band Blink-182 across three stints.
Santiago Cazorla González is a Spanish former professional footballer. Cazorla operated primarily as an attacking midfielder, but also played as a winger, central midfielder or as a deep-lying playmaker.
Ronnie Macdonald, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ben Shalom Bernanke is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.
United States Federal Reserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Miles is a retired English actress. She is known for her roles in films The Servant (1963), Blowup (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), White Mischief (1987), and Hope and Glory (1987).
Merlin Energy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man.
Clarence Sinclair Bull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was best known for playing a Luftwaffe General based upon Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General.
George Pólya was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.
Thane Plambeck from Palo Alto, California, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Warren Anderson was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems."
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš is a Latvian and American politician who served as the prime minister of Latvia from 2019 until 2023. A linguist and businessman by profession, he previously served as Latvia's minister of Economics and a Member of the European Parliament.
Foto-AG Gymnasium Melle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp.
Schmidt, Weimar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Hargreaves was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. Hargreaves is credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764.
John Angel James Wilcox / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Trygve Magnus Haavelmo, born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1989.
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Enrico Forlanini was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aeroplanes, hydrofoils and dirigibles.
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Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus was a German mathematician, scientist, and natural philosopher residing in the Russian Empire. Aepinus is best known for his researches, theoretical and experimental, in electricity and magnetism.
Franz Aepinus (1724-1802), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 39 people born on December 13, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 July 2026. 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 December 13. Read the full methodology.
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