13 April: today's birthdays

• Samuel Beckett - Irish author, poet and playwright, born Samuel Barclay Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He wrote the play Waiting for Godot (En Attendant Godot)
• Ludwig Binswanger - Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist
• Michel Deville - French film director
• Stanley Donen - American film director and choreographer
• Guy Fawkes - English soldier, the planner of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. His face is the mask used during protests
• Al Green - American singer
• Séamus Heaney - Irish poet and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995
• Christopher Hitchens - British-born American journalist and author
• Garry Kasparov - Russian chess player
• Jacques Lacan - French philosopher and psychoanalyst
• Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008
• György Lukács - Hungarian philosopher and literary critic
• Antonio Meucci - Italian inventor
• Carles Puyol - Catalan footballer
• Alfred Schütz - Austrian philosopher and sociologist