* 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 )

Formerly, state legislatures appointed the U. S. Senators from their respective states until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913 required the direct election of Senators by a state's voters.

With McKinley's candidacy needing little of his attention, Hanna spent much of his time working to secure Sherman's re-election by the Ohio Legislature ( senators were elected by state legislatures until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913 ) by raising funds to gain the election of Republican candidates.

On October 1, 1913, he married Margarete Georgen with whom he had three sons, Heinz Günter ( born Aug 2nd 1914 to 2004 ) and Kurt ( born 17th September 1918 to 1984 ), Ronald Mach Dornaldt Guderian ( born 15th May 1919 to 1995 ).

In fact, it was not until the year 1913 that the 17th Amendment was passed, which " mandated that Senators would be elected by popular vote rather than chosen by the State legislatures ".

The 16th Amendment authorized a federal income tax, while the 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, mandated the direct election of U. S. Senators by the people, replacing the prior system established in the original Constitution, in which they were selected by state legislatures.

Among his works are monographs on Gustave Flaubert ( 1899 ), André Chénier ( 1902 ), Émile Zola ( 1903 ); an admirably concise Histoire de la littérature française depuis le XVII ' siècle jusqu ' a nos jours ; series of literary studies on the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries ; Questions politiques ( 1899 ); Propos littéraires ( 3 series, 1902 – 1905 ); Le Libéralisme ( 1902 ); and L ' Anticléricalisme ( 1906 ); Vie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1911 ); Petite histoire de la littérature française ( 1913 ).

The locally quarried gritstone has weathered nicely over the past 90 years and the house looks as though it belongs to the 17th Century. In 1913 the house was bought by the famous electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, whose seventh and last child, Yvonne, was born at the Hall in July 1914. That the Ferranti ’ s were happy here is clear from Mrs de Ferranti ’ s charming biography of her husband, but it is equally evident that life at the Hall had its hazards, largely because ‘ Basti ’( as Mrs Ferranti affectionately called her husband ), could not confine his passion for electricity to working hours.

He won or shared first at Munich 1900 ( the 12th DSB Congress ), Coburg 1904 ( the 14th DSB Congress ), Ostend 1906, Stockholm 1906, in the Vienna 1908 chess tournament, in the Prague 1908 chess tournament, in the Hamburg 1910 chess tournament ( the 17th DSB Congress ), and thrice in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna ( 1911, 1912, 1913 ).

In 1914, Overman became the first U. S. senator from North Carolina to be elected by popular vote, after passage of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913 standardized popular election of senators.

* the US Senate was indirectly elected by state legislatures until, after a number of attempts over the previous century, the 17th amendment to the constitution was ratified in 1913.

Forrest Howard Anderson ( January 30, 1913 – July 20, 1989 ) was an American politician and judge who served as the 17th Governor of Montana from 1969 to 1973.

He resigned that post in 1913, becoming the last Tennessean elected to the U. S. Senate by the Tennessee General Assembly prior to the 17th Amendment coming into effect.

The Senate underwent several significant changes during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, the most profound of which was the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, which provided for election of senators by popular vote rather than appointment by the state legislatures.

Though the 17th Amendment to the Constitution was not ratified until 1913, the Montana legislature provided for the direct election of US Senators in 1911 in anticipation of the amendments ratification.

After more than twelve years of its approval, the shrine was finally unveiled on December 30, 1913 during Rizal ’ s 17th death anniversary.

With the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, the U. S. Senate elections of 1914 was the first time that all seats up for election were popularly elected instead of chosen by their state legislatures.

Four years later, he briefly contemplated running for the United States Senate, since popular election of senators had recently been introduced by means of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913.

He was New Jersey's first directly elected senator following ratification of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913.

Behind the fountain is a stone monument, erected by the city of Palma, Mallorca to thank and honour the local fishermen who, On the 17th January 1913, rescued victims of the shipwrecked steamboat ‘ Mallorca ’ which had run aground on a reef near the rocky inlet of Redona at Punta Arabí.

File: SS Mallorca. jpg | The SS Mallorca which sank on the 17th January 1913 after running aground on a reef around Illa Rodona

The special election was held on September 16, and Durkin won handily, defeating Wyman by nearly 28, 000 votes — ending what is still the closest Senate election since the people gained the right to directly elect Senators with the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913.