The 225th day of the year, the 226th in a leap year
Born on 13 August
Every 13 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 August in any year.
Which weekday 13 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 13 August falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 13 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,816 babies were born on 13 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 165th 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 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Fidel Castro | 1926–2016 | Cuban politician, author and revolutionary |
| Alfred Hitchcock | 1899–1980 | British filmmaker |
| Frederick Sanger | 1918–2013 | British biochemist |
| Karl Liebknecht | 1871–1919 | German socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League |
| John Logie Baird | 1888–1946 | Scottish inventor who demonstrated the first mechanical television system |
| Janet Yellen | 1946– | American economist, Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018 and United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2021 to 2025 |
| Sridevi | 1963–2018 | Indian actress |
| Alan Shearer | 1970– | English footballer |
| Richard Willstätter | 1872–1942 | German chemist |
| Anders Jonas Ångström | 1814–1874 | Swedish physicist |
| Makarios III | 1913–1977 | Archbishop of Cyprus and the first President of Cyprus |
| Sebastian Stan | 1982– | Romanian and American actor |
| Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet | 1819–1903 | Irish mathematician and physicist |
| Salvador Luria | 1912–1991 | Italian American microbiologist |
| Lucas Moura | 1992– | Brazilian association football player |
| Niko Kranjčar | 1984– | Croatian footballer |
| Hissène Habré | 1942–2021 | 5th president of Chad |
| Alfonso XI of Castile | 1311–1350 | King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1312 to 1350 |
Died on 13 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| H. G. Wells | 1866–1946 | English writer |
| Florence Nightingale | 1820–1910 | English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing |
| Eugène Delacroix | 1798–1863 | French painter |
| Eduard Buchner | 1860–1917 | German chemist (1907 Nobel Prize) |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | 1818–1865 | Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures |
| Tigran Petrosian | 1929–1984 | Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion |
| Julia Child | 1912–2004 | American chef |
| Jules Massenet | 1842–1912 | French composer |
| Maximus the Confessor | 579–662 | Christian monk, theologian, scholar and saint |
| René Laennec | 1781–1826 | French physician, inventor of stethoscope |
| Hayato Ikeda | 1899–1965 | Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964 |
| Julien Green | 1900–1998 | American author |
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