The 103rd day of the year, the 104th in a leap year
Born on 13 April
Every 13 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 13 April in any year.
Which weekday 13 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 13 April falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 13 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,708 babies were born on 13 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 360th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 13 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson | 1743–1826 | Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906–1989 | Irish writer |
| Garry Kasparov | 1963– | Russian chess grandmaster and activist |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939–2013 | Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | 1940– | French writer and Nobel Prize winner |
| Julius Nyerere | 1922–1999 | President of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985 |
| Catherine de' Medici | 1519–1589 | queen-consort and regent of France |
| Jacques Lacan | 1901–1981 | French psychoanalyst and writer |
| Christopher Hitchens | 1949–2011 | English American author and journalist |
| Carles Puyol | 1978– | Spanish footballer |
| Guy Fawkes | 1570–1606 | English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 |
| György Lukács | 1885–1971 | Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic |
| Rudi Völler | 1960– | German footballer and manager |
| Claudio Bravo | 1983– | Chilean association football player |
| Richard Trevithick | 1771–1833 | British inventor and mining engineer |
| Ron Perlman | 1950– | American actor |
| Anderson | 1988– | Brazilian association football player |
| James Ensor | 1860–1949 | Belgian painter |
Died on 13 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621–1695 | French poet, fabulist and writer |
| Günter Grass | 1927–2015 | German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936–2025 | Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer |
| Boris Godunov | 1552–1605 | Russian Tsar (1598–1605); died 13 April in the Julian calendar, which is 23 April in the Gregorian |
| Eduardo Galeano | 1940–2015 | Uruguayan writer and journalist |
| Nicolas Chamfort | 1741–1794 | French journalist and moralistic author |
| Annie Jump Cannon | 1863–1941 | American astronomer |
| Ernst Cassirer | 1874–1945 | German philosopher |
| John Archibald Wheeler | 1911–2008 | American physicist |
| Emil Nolde | 1867–1956 | German artist |
| Lavr Kornilov | 1870–1918 | Imperial Russian Army general |
| Georges Duhamel | 1884–1966 | French writer |
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