* 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 )

* 1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor ( d. 1975 )

* 1913 – Richard Stone, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

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.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

* December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1913 )

* German — Gottowt, John: The Black Lottery Ticket, or Pierrot's Last Night on the Town ( 1913 ); Löwenbein, Richard: Marionettes ( 1918 ); Piel, Harry: The Black Pierrot ( 1913, 1926 ); Wich, Ludwig von: The Cuckolded Pierrot ( 1917 ; view The Cuckolded Pierrot ).

: Mon Ami Pierrot: Songs and Fantasies ( 1917 ; illustrated by Will Bradley ); Beswick, Katherine: Columbine Wonders and Other Poems ( c. 1920 ); Bodenheim, Maxwell: " Pierrot Objects " ( 1920 ); Breed, Ida Marian: Poems for Pierrot ( 1939 ); Burt, Maxwell Struthers: " Pierrot at War " ( 1916 ); Burton, Richard: " Here Lies Pierrot " ( 1913 ); Chaplin, Ralph: Maybe, Pierrot ... ( c. 1918 ); Crane, Hart: " The Moth That God Made Blind " ( c. 1918, pub.

John Newton Mitchell ( September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988 ) was the Attorney General of the United States from 1969 to 1972 under President Richard Nixon.

In 1913, Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, the chamber of commerce was set up, a library opened as part of the school, and avocado trees were first planted.

There were only a handful of settlers in the area in 1913 when Ransom Eli Olds decided to purchase on the northern tip of Tampa Bay from Richard Peters in what is the present-day Oldsmar.

* Richard Nixon ( 1913 – 1994 ) and Pat Nixon ( 1912 – 1993 ), 37th President of the United States and his wife.

* Richard Nixon ( 1913 – 94 ), former Vice President and President of the United States of America who summered here when he was Vice President.

Richard McGarrah Helms ( March 30, 1913 – October 22, 2002 ) was the Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ), June 1966 to February 1973.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

In 1913, along with his brother, Richard B. Mellon, he established a memorial for his father, the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, as a department of the University of Pittsburgh.

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching ( 21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985 ), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was chairman of British Railways and a physicist and engineer.

* Richard L. Bare ( born 1913 ), American director of television shows and movies

Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Richard Skelton was the fourth son of Ida Mae ( née Fields ) and Joseph E. Skelton ( 1878 – 1913 ).

William Richard Tolbert, Jr. ( May 13, 1913 – April 12, 1980 ) was the 20th President of Liberia from 1971 to 1980.

Richard Dyer-Bennet ( October 6, 1913, Leicester, England-December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts ) was an English-born American folk singer ( or his own preferred term, " minstrel "), recording artist, and voice teacher.

Richard Simmons ( August 19, 1913 – January 11, 2003 ), also known as Dick Simmons, was an American actor.