* 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 )

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

His ballets were L ' après-midi d ' un faune ( The Afternoon of a Faun, based on Claude Debussy's Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune ) ( 1912 ), Jeux ( 1913 ), Till Eulenspiegel ( 1916 ).

* Claude Simon ( 1913 – 2005 ), novelist

Another Claude Renoir ( 1913 / 14-93 ), the son of Pierre, was a cinematographer who worked on some of some of his uncle's films.

Claude Debussy | Debussy's Jeux, premiered under Monteux in 1913

Louis Charles Auguste Claude Trenet, known as Charles Trenet (; 18 May, 1913 – 19 February, 2001 ) was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s.

* Claude Renoir ( 1913 ( or 1914 )– 1993 ), French cinematographer and son of Pierre Renoir, grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

* Ondine, a piano prelude by Claude Debussy, 1911 – 1913

** Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature ( born 1913 )

Modernist painter Henry Fitch Taylor, a student of Claude Monet, lived in the LaTourette House from 1913 to 1915 with his wife, Clara Sidney Davidge.

Syrinx, L. 129, is a piece of music for solo flute which Claude Debussy wrote in 1913.

The theatre opened on April 2, 1913, with a gala concert featuring five of France's most renowned composers conducting their own works: Claude Debussy ( Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune ), Paul Dukas ( L ' apprenti sorcier ), Gabriel Fauré ( La naissance de Vénus ), Vincent d ' Indy ( Le camp from Wallenstein ), and Camille Saint-Saëns ( Phaeton and excerpts from his choral work La lyre et la harpe ).

* Préludes ( Debussy ), two sets of piano pieces by Claude Debussy, written between 1909 and 1913

Claude Batley ( 1879 in Ipswich-March 20, 1956, Bombay ) was an English architect who left for India in 1913 and started a successful practice there in 1917 with Gregson and King, a firm of architects which is still extant under the name of Gregson, Batley and King.

Claude himself wrote in 1913 that, in addition to a source of neon gas, there were two principal inventions that made neon lighting practicable.

* Claude Debussy: Syrinx ( 1913 )