The 44th day of the year
Born on 13 February
Every 13 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The Earth Rooster in 2029
Five new years fell on 13 February at nineteen-year steps: 1907, the Fire Goat; 1926, the Fire Tiger; 1945, the Wood Rooster; 1964, the Wood Dragon; and 1983, the Water Pig. The next is 13 February 2029, the first day of the Earth Rooster, and it is the only new year on this date the engine finds before 2100.
By 13 February the new year has usually arrived: in 83 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 it came on or before this date. The 24 in which it did not are the years in which a 13 February birthday takes the animal of the year before. The most recent was 2026, when the new year came on 17 February, so 13 February 2026 belongs to the Wood Snake of 2025; before that came 2018, when it waited until 16 February, and 13 February 2018 belongs to the Fire Rooster of 2017.
The sign was Aquarius on every one of those birthdays, everywhere.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 13 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 13 February in 24 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 83 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1926, 1945, 1964 and 1983.
Shaded: 13 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 13 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 13 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 13 February falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Monday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Saturday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 13 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 13 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,761 babies were born on 13 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 335th 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 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Robert Malthus | 1766–1834 | British political economist |
| William Shockley | 1910–1989 | American physicist and inventor |
| Robbie Williams | 1974– | British singer |
| Ivan Krylov | 1769–1844 | Russian writer |
| Georges Simenon | 1903–1989 | Belgian writer |
| Pope Alexander VII | 1599–1667 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667 |
| Paul Biya | 1933– | Cameroonian politician |
| Peter Gabriel | 1950– | British singer and musician |
| Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet | 1805–1859 | German mathematician |
| Memphis Depay | 1994– | Dutch association football player |
| Sarojini Naidu | 1879–1949 | Indian poet and politician, governor of the United Provinces from 1947 to 1949 |
| Khalid of Saudi Arabia | 1913–1982 | King of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1982 |
| Aung San | 1915–1947 | Burmese revolutionary leader |
| Kim Novak | 1933– | American actress |
| Rafael Márquez | 1979– | Mexican association football player |
| Feodor Chaliapin | 1873–1938 | Russian opera singer and actor |
| Mirza Ghulam Ahmad | 1835–1908 | Indian religious leader |
| Mena Suvari | 1979– | American actress, fashion designer, model |
Died on 13 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Wagner | 1813–1883 | German composer |
| Pope Honorius II | died 1130 | Pope from 1124 to 1130 |
| Catherine Howard | died 1542 | fifth wife of Henry VIII of England |
| Benvenuto Cellini | 1500–1571 | Florentine sculptor and goldsmith |
| Charles X Gustav | 1622–1660 | King of Sweden |
| Roger Joseph Boscovich | 1711–1787 | Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician and Jesuit priest |
| Kim Jong-nam | 1971–2017 | Oldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il |
| Andronikos II Palaiologos | 1259–1332 | Byzantine Emperor from 1282 to 1328 |
| Antonin Scalia | 1936–2016 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016 |
| Prince Henrik of Denmark | 1934–2018 | Prince consort of Denmark from 1972 to 2018 |
| Martin Balsam | 1919–1996 | American actor |
| Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia | 1596–1662 | Electress of the Palatinate and Queen of Bohemia |
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