The 13th day of the year
Born on 13 January
Every 13 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Friday16 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 January in any year.
Which weekday 13 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 13 January falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Friday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Wednesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 13 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,748 babies were born on 13 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 351st 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm Wien | 1864–1928 | German physicist |
| Orlando Bloom | 1977– | English actor and model |
| Sydney Brenner | 1927–2019 | South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 |
| Liam Hemsworth | 1990– | Australian actor |
| Patrick Dempsey | 1966– | American actor and racecar driver |
| Luis Díaz | 1997– | Colombian association football player |
| Eric Betzig | 1960– | American physicist |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | 1961– | American actress |
| Paul Feyerabend | 1924–1994 | Austrian-born philosopher of science |
| Marco Pantani | 1970–2004 | Italian road racing cyclist |
| Akira Kaji | 1980– | Japanese association football player |
| Michael Peña | 1976– | American actor |
| Shonda Rhimes | 1970– | American television producer, television and film writer, and author |
| Natalia Dyer | 1995– | American actress |
| Rakesh Sharma | 1949– | First Indian astronaut |
| Chaïm Soutine | 1893–1943 | Belarusian-French painter |
| Carles Rexach | 1947– | Spanish footballer |
| Stephen Hendry | 1969– | Scottish snooker player |
Died on 13 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James Joyce | 1882–1941 | Irish novelist and poet |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552–1599 | English poet |
| Hubert Humphrey | 1911–1978 | vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969 |
| Gaius Marius | 157–86 BC | Roman general, statesman and military reformer |
| Maria Sibylla Merian | 1647–1717 | German-Dutch entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator |
| Aleksandr Popov | 1859–1906 | Russian physicist |
| Rauf Denktaş | 1924–2012 | Turkish Cypriot politician, President of Northern Cyprus from 1983 to 2005 |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | 1910–1988 | President of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988 |
| Schuyler Colfax | 1823–1885 | Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 |
| Æthelwulf, King of Wessex | died 858 | King of Wessex |
| George Fox | 1624–1691 | English Dissenter and a founder of the Quakers |
| Sylvanus Olympio | 1902–1963 | President of Togo |
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