* 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 )

* Ranko Marinković ( 1913 – 2001 ), Croatian poet born in Vis ;

* Miroslav Kraljević ( 1885 – 1913 ), born in Gospić, family originally from Požega area, painter, among the founders of Croatian modern painting, created his most important works in Požega

Mirko Seljan ( April 5, 1871 – c. 1913 ) and Stevo Seljan ( August 19, 1875 – June 7, 1936 ), also croatized Stjepan, were Croatian explorers.

* Ivan Goran Kovačić ( 1913 – 1943 ), Croatian poet

* 1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright ( d. 1995 )

* 1913 – Boris Pahor, Italian author

Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.

* 1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author ( d. 2002 )

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.

* 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician ( d. 2008 )

* 1913 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian author and psychoanalyst ( d. 2012 )

The term lucid dreaming was coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article " A Study of Dreams ".

* 1913 – Godfried Bomans, Flemish author and television personality ( d. 1971 )

* 2002 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author ( b. 1913 )

* 2006 – Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek author ( b. 1913 )

* 2012 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author ( b. 1913 )

** Irwin Shaw, American author ( b. 1913 )

* May 21 – T. B. Ilangaratne, Sri Lankan author, dramatist, actor and politician ( b. 1913 )

* August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, American author ( b. 1913 )

* Mira Lobe ( 1913 – 1995 ), Austrian author

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM ( 28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995 ), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was a British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics ; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.

* Morton Freedgood ( 1913 – 2006 ), author of the novel The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

" ( Sallie was also the author, under her own name, of Pickett and His Men, published in 1913.

William Stuart Baring-Gould ( 1913 – 1967 ) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of the world's first consulting detective.

* Stefan Heym ( 1913 – 2001 ), author

Robert " Rex " King-Clark MBE MC ( 27 November 1913 – 29 December 2007 ) was a British soldier, pilot, racer, photographer, author, and diarist.

Wells's 1913 Little Wars, where the author develops a " melee rule " in his war game.