* 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 )

* Percy Hamilton Stewart ( 1867 – 1951 ), mayor of Plainfield in 1912 and 1913, represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district from 1931-1933.

The world record for the first person to cover in 1 hour was set by Percy E. Lambert at Brooklands, on 15 February 1913 when driving his 4. 5 litre sidevalve Talbot.

Mirror view in a diascope of a 1913 Autochrome of Percy MacKaye, photographed by Arnold Genthe.

* Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ( 1913 – 1963 )

* Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ( 1913 – 1963 ), soldier, playwright

* Charles Percy Parkhurst ( 1913 – 2008 ), American museum curator who recovered works stolen by Nazis

He was elected president of the Climbers ' Club in 1913, and he organised the Pen-y-Pass gatherings that propelled the advancement of rock climbing and included such technical luminaries as J. M. Archer Thompson, George Leigh Mallory, Siegfried Herford, John Percy Farrar and Oscar Eckenstein.

Percy John Thrower MBE ( 30 January 1913 – 18 March 1988 ) was a British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer born at Horwood House in the village of Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire.

* Black-Eyed Susan ( film ), a 1913 film adaptation directed by Percy Nash

Percy Edgar Lambert ( 1881-31 October 1913 ) was the first person to drive an automobile a hundred miles in an hour.

Percy held office until 1913.

After his return from exile in India and Sikkim during January 1913, he assumed control of foreign relations and dealt directly with the Maharaja and the British Political officer in Sikkim and the king of Nepal rather than letting the Kashag or parliament do it.

During 1900 it was adopted by Germany, by Russia in 1904, the British West Indies in 1905, Spain in 1906, Belgium in 1909, Argentina in 1912, and Romania in 1913.

* 1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

It was fixed in a 1913 treaty between the Ottoman Empire and British officials acting on behalf of Kuwait's ruling family, which in 1899 had ceded control over foreign affairs to Britain.

* 1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.

* 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist ( d. 1913 )

Despite the Kuwaiti government's desire to either be independent or under British rule, in the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, the British concurred with the Ottoman Empire in defining Kuwait as an autonomous caza of the Ottoman Empire and that the Shaikhs of Kuwait were not independent leaders, but rather qaimmaqams ( provincial sub-governors ) of the Ottoman government.

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.

In 1913, Germany responded to the British challenge laying down two Bayern class battleships.

By 1913 there were four planes, now including a British Sopwith and long term plans to create six naval air stations by 1918.

Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC ( 23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010 ) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.

* By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

* 1999 – Max Beloff, British historian ( b. 1913 )

* 1913 – Benjamin Britten, British composer ( d. 1976 )

" It was coined in 1913 at the suggestion of British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner.

In 1913, representatives of Great Britain, China and Tibet attended a conference in Simla regarding the borders between Tibet, China and British India.

The world's first patent for an underwater echo ranging device was filed at the British Patent Office by English meteorologist Lewis Richardson a month after the sinking of the Titanic, and a German physicist Alexander Behm obtained a patent for an echo sounder in 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.

British diplomat Alfred Mitchell-Innes was Minister to Uruguay throughout the crucial years of World War I ( 1913 – 1919 ).