In the year 1913, the future leaders of their respective countries, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito and Adolf Hitler all live in Vienna in January 1913 (Jan), Grand Central Terminal in New York City reopens as the world’s largest railroad station (Feb 1), Woodrow Wilson is sworn is as the 28th U.S. President (Mar 4), the release of a first full-length Indian feature film marks the beginning of the Indian film industry (May 5), stainless steel in invented in Sheffield, England (Aug 13), the Little Mermaid statue is finished in Copenhagen, Denmark (Aug 23) - and all these fine people were born:

1913-xxxx Z. A. Suleri* Pakistani political journalist/Pakistan Movement activist - Quadina, British India (1999/86) 1913-0101 1913-0106 Loretta Young* actress - Salt Lake City, UT USA (2000/87) 1913-0109 Richard Nixon* politician/37usp - Yorba Linda, CA USA (1994/81) 1913-0111 Lona Cohen* (b Leontine Petka) communist spy/wife of Morris Cohen /w Polish background - Adams, MA USA (1992/79) 1913-0112 1913-0115 Lloyd Bridges* actor - San Leandro, CA USA (1998/85) 1913-0122 Kalervo Toivonen* athlete/javelin - Salo, GD of Finland (2006/93) 1913-0204 Rosa Parks* Civil Rights activist - Tuskegee, AL USA (2005/92) 1913-0205 1913-0206 Mary Leakey* (b Nicol) paleoanthropologist/ active in Kenya/m to Louis Leakey - London, England (1996/83) 1913-0207 Ramón Mercader* assassin of Trotsky - Barcelona, Spain (1978/65) 1913-0214 James Hoffa* labor union leader - Brazil, IN USA (disappeared 1975) 1913-0301 R. S. R. Fitter* naturalist/ writer - Streatham, London, England (2005/92) 1913-0301 Ólafur Jóhannesson* politician - Skagalfjörður, Iceland (1984/71) 1913-0304 John Garfield* (b Garfinkle) actor - Manhattan, NY USA (1952/39) 1913-0310 1913-0313 William J. Casey* director of the CIA - New York City, NY USA (1987/74) 1913-0313 Tessie O’Shea* actress/ entertainer - Cardiff, Wales (1995/82) 1913-0315 John L. Chapin* soldier/ WW2 war hero - El Paso, TX USA (1944/30) 1913-0317 Jorma Karhunen* fighter pilot/Mannerheim knight/writer - Pyhäjärvi, GD of Finland (2002/88) 1913-0318 René Clément* screenwriter/film director - Bordeaux, France (1996/82) 1913-0318 Reinhard Hardegen* U-boat commander - Bremen, Germany (2018/105) 1913-0320 1913-0326 Paul Erdős* Hungarian mathematician - Budapest, Austria-Hungary (1996/83) 1913-0329 R. S. Thomas* poet/Anglican priest/noted for dislike of the anglicisation of Wales - Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (2000/87) 1913-0330 Frankie Laine* (b LoVecchio) singer/ songwriter/actor - Chicago, IL USA (2007/93) 1913-0401 Robert Hart* horticulturist/forest gardener - London, England (2000/86) 1913-0404 Muddy Waters* (b McKinley Morganfield) blues singer/musician - Issaquena County, MS USA (1983/70) 1913-0410 1913-0412 Keiko Fukuda* Japanese-American martial artist - Tokyo, Japan (2013/99) 1913-0420 1913-0427 Luz Long* athlete (long jump) - Leipzig, Germany (1943/30) 1913-0430 1913-0501 Louis Nye* actor/ comedian - Hartford, CT USA (2005/92) 1913-0506 Stewart Granger* actor - Kensington, London, England (1993/80) 1913-0508 Saima Harmaja* poet/writer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1937/23) 1913-0508 Charles Scorsese* actor/father of Martin Scorsese - New York City, NY USA (1993/80) 1913-0510 1913-0511 Robert Jungk* (b Baum) Austrian journalist/writer/peace campaigner - Berlin, German Empire (1994/81) 1913-0520 Teodoro “Lolo” Fernández* football player - Cañete, Peru (1996/83) 1913-0520 Bill Hewlett* businessman/ co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company - Ann Arbor, MI USA (2001/87) 1913-0526 Peter Cushing* actor - Kenley, Surrey, England (1994/81) 1913-0526 Karin Ekelund* actress - Ystad, Sweden (1976/63) 1913-0531 1913-0601 1913-0602 Ada Williams* actress - Louisville, KY USA (1975/62) 1913-0611 Kalervo Nissilä* actor/theater director - Kälviä, GD of Finland (1997/83) 1913-0612 Maurice Ohana* French composer - Casablanca, Morocco (1992/79) 1913-0620 1913-0625 Taimi Mattsson* (b Lästinen) fencer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1993/79) 1913-0627 Elton Britt* country music singer/musician - Marshall, AR USA (1972/58) 1913-0712 Reino Helismaa* singer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1965/51) 1913-0712 Willis Lamb* physicist/N - Los Angeles, CA USA (2008/94) 1913-0714 Gerald Ford* politician/38usp - Omaha, NE USA (2006/93) 1913-0718 Red Skelton* stand-up comedian/television show host - Vincennes, IN USA (1997/84) 1913-0720 Ingrid Björnberg* royal nanny - Essunga, Sweden (1994/80) 1913-0721 1913-0731 Bryan Hextall* hockey player/grandfather of Ron Hextall - Grenfell, SK Canada (1984/70) 1913-0801 1913-0810 Noah Beery Jr.* actor - New York, NY USA (1994/81) 1913-0814 Fred Davis* snooker player - Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England (1998/84) 1913-0815 Maria Kwaśniewska* athlete (javelin/OB)/member of the Polish resistance movement - Łódź, Russian Empire (2007/94) 1913-0816 Menachem Begin* politician - Brest-Litovsk (now Belorus) Russia (1992/78) 1913-0817 Mark Felt* law enforcement officer for the FBI/known later as the “Deep Throat” in the Watergate scandal - Twin Falls, ID USA (2008/95) 1913-0820 Roger Wolcott Sperry* neuropsychologist/ neurobiologist/N - Hartford, CT USA (1994/80) 1913-0822 Arthur M. Sackler* biological psychiatrist/medical advertiser - Brooklyn, NY USA (1987/73) 1913-0831 Helen Levitt* photographer (New York City streets)/cinematographer - Brooklyn, NY USA (2009/95) 1913-0831 Bernard Lovell* physicist/ radio astronomer - Oldland Common, Bristol, England (2012/98) 1913-0901 Ludwig Merwart* Austrian painter/graphic artist - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1979/65) 1913-0904 Stanford Moore* biochemist/N - Chicago, IL USA (1982/68) 1913-0907 Anthony Quayle* actor - Ainsdale, Lancashire, England (1989/76) 1913-0912 Jesse Owens* athlete (OG in sprint/longjump) - Oakville, AL (1980/66) 1913-0915 John N. Mitchell* lawyer/attorney general - Detroit, MI USA (1988/75) 1913-0921 Capitola Dickerson* notable piano instructor - Urbana, OH USA (2012/98) 1913-0921 Taito Mäkelä* actor - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1974/60) 1913-0922 1913-0923 Carl-Henning Pedersen* painter/married to Else Alfelt - Copenhagen, Denmark (2007/93) 1913-0928 Haane Manahi* Maori soldier/traffic inspector - Ohinemutu, New Zealand (1986/72) 1913-1003 Aale Tynni* poet/critic/translator - Ylä-Sakoska, Inkerinmaa, Russia (1997/84) 1913-1010 Claude Simon* novelist/critic/N - Antananarivo, Madagascar (2005/91) 1913-1025 Klaus Barbie* SS and Gestapo functionary - Godesberg, German Empire (1991/77) 1913-1026 Helvi Dagmar Kissala* (b Leppänen) once oldest living Finn - GD of Finland (2024/110) 1913-1102 Burt Lancaster* actor - Manhattan, NY USA (1994/80) 1913-1105 Vivian Leigh* actress - Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India (53) 1913-1107 Albert Camus* philosopher/author - Mondovi, French Algeria (1960/46) 1913-1120 Libertas Schulze-Boysen* German resistance fighter (Rote Kapelle) - Paris, France (1942/29) 1913-1122 Benjamin Britten* pianist/composer/conductor - Suffolk, England (1976/63) 1913-1124 Howard Duff* actor - Charleston, WA USA (1990/76) 1913-1201 Mary Martin* actress/singer - Weatherford, TX USA (1990/76) 1913-1206 Nikolai Amosov* Russian-Ukrainian heart surgeon/inventor/author - Olkhovo, Novgorod, Russian Empire (2002/89) 1913-1209 Cynthia Chalk* (b Jennings) photographer - Ottawa, ON Canada (2018/104) 1913-1210 1913-1216 Nikolai Amosov* Russian heart surgeon/inventor/best-selling author - Olkhovo, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire (2002/89) 1913-1217 Burt Baskin* businessman/ co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain - Streator, IL USA (1967/54) 1913-1218 Willy Brandt* politician/statesman - Lübeck, German Empire (1992/78) 1913-1219 Ansa Ikonen* Finnish actress - Petrograd, (St.Petersburg) Russia (1989/75) 1913-1226 Elizabeth David* (b Gwynne) cookery writer - Sussex, England (1992/78) 1913-1228 Charles Maxwell* actor - Long Island, NY USA (1993/79) 1913-1231 1913-0 1913-0 1913-0 Updated 2025-0503 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here