* 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 )

The proceedings of the Swedish parliament adopted the new spelling from the year 1913.

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

In 1913 Karen Dinesen became engaged to her second-cousin, the Swedish Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, after a failed love affair with his brother.

In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios, cast as Sweedie, The Swedish Maid, a masculine character in drag.

Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval ( May 9, 1845-February 2, 1913 ) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and, more importantly, dairy machinery.

From 1913 to 1952 he held the sixth of 18 chairs as an elected member of the Swedish Academy.

* Keen, Gregory B., The Descendants of Joran Kyn of New Sweden, ( Swedish Colonial Society ; Philadelphia, PA, 1913 ).

His first publication ( Uppsala, 1913 ) was a Swedish translation of an English work by Alexander Whyte on Jakob Böhme.

Erik Tengström ( 1913 – 1996 ), Swedish astronomer and geodesist.

* The Miracle ( 1913 film ), a Swedish silent film

* Nordisk Familjebok, 2n ed., vol 19 ( 1913 ), col. 940ff ( in Swedish )

The 1912-13 season in Swedish football, starting August 1912 and ending July 1913:

The 1913-14 season in Swedish football, starting August 1913 and ending July 1914:

Arne Nyberg ( 20 June 1913 – 12 August 1970 ) was a Swedish football striker born in Säffle.

Other writings include ‘ Svensk musikkultur ’ ( Swedish musical culture, 1911 ) which includes clearsighted and satirical attacks on the prevailing musical establishment, ‘ Richard Wagner som kulturföreteelse ’ ( Richard Wagner as a cultural phenomenon, 1913 ) as well as translations of Tristan und Isolde ( for a 1909 production in Stockholm ), and Nietzsche ’ s The Birth of Tragedy ( 1902 ) and Also sprach Zarathustra ( 1919 ).

Per Johan Valentin Anger ( 7 December 1913 – 26 August 2002 ) was a Swedish diplomat who participated in numerous efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews from arrest and deportation by the Nazis during World War II.

Born to an aristocratic Swedish family, he married his Danish second-cousin Karen Blixen ( also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ) in 1913.

Taylor then went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital where she obtained a diploma in Swedish massage, returning to Newfoundland in August 1913.