* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

* Clinton B. Ford ( 1913 – 1992 ), who specialized in the observation of variable stars.

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

* 1913 – Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer ( d. 1993 )

* 1913 – Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist

* 1864 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet ( d. 1913 )

* 1913 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg ( d. 2006 )

* 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.

* 1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

* 1913 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus ( d. 1977 )

* 1913 – Fred Davis, English snooker player ( d. 1998 )

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.

* 1913 – Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1972 – Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek musician and composer ( b. 1913 )

* 1977 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus ( b. 1913 )

* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )

* 1913 – Paul Dean, American baseball player ( d. 1981 )

* Adrian Quist ( 1913 – 1991 ), Australian male tennis player

* 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan ( modern day Tohoku University ) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.

* 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.

* 1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1992 )

* 1913 – Richard L. Bare, American director

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

* 1913 – John Argyris, Greek scientist ( d. 2004 )

* Aimé Morot ( 1850 – 1913 ), painter

Aimé Fernand David Césaire ( 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008 ) was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique.

Aimé Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique in 1913.

* 1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor ( d. 2008 )

Aviron Bayonnais is the city's rugby union club, founded in 1904 and French champions three times, in 1913, 1934 and 1943.

French Indochina in 1913.

* 1913 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director ( d. 2001 )

* 1913 – Jean Marais, French actor ( d. 1998 )

Also that year he wrote on Husserl's Ideen ( 1913 ) a long review published by a French journal.

* 2001 – Charles Trenet, French singer ( b. 1913 )

Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.

* 1913 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher ( d. 2005 )

Gilbert Cesbron ( 13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris ) was a French novelist.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.

By 1913 the French and British had plans in place for joint naval action against Germany, and France moved its Atlantic fleet from Brest to Toulon, replacing British ships.

* 1913 – Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter ( d. 2001 )

* 1913 – Pierre Daninos, French writer and humorist ( d. 2005 )

* 1913 – René Clément, French film director and screenwriter ( d. 1996 )

* 1913 – Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter ( d. 1999 )

* 2000 – Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader ( b. 1913 )

* 1913 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1960 )

* 1998 – Jean Marais, French actor ( b. 1913 )

* 1913 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 2005 )

The ozone layer was discovered in 1913 by the French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson.

The extent of French Equatorial Africa circa 1913.

* 1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician ( d. 1913 )

** Charles Trenet, French singer ( b. 1913 )