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
• Thomas Jefferson - American politician and scientist who served as the third President of the United States. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the country. Along with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, his portrait appears carved on Mount Rushmore
• 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