13 August: today's birthdays

• Jeanine Áñez - Bolivian politician and lawyer, born Jeanine Áñez Chávez, currently serving as the interim President of Bolivia.
   
• William Bernbach - American advertising executive
• Tomás Borge Martínez - Nicaraguan revolutionary, politician and writer
• Fidel Castro - 17th President of Cuba, the brother of Raúl Castro, born Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. Líder Máximo was his nickname
• Paul Greengrass - English film director, screenwriter and former journalist
• Alfred Hitchcock - English-born American film director, born Alfred Joseph Hitchcock. He won an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968. He directed Notorious, Psycho, and The Birds
• Líder Máximo - Appellative given to Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician, born Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
• Karl Liebknecht - German politician
• Friedrich Miescher - Swiss biologist
• Lucas Moura - Brazilian professional footballer, born Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva 
• Thomas Pogge - German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Yale University
• Herb Ritts - American photographer
• Manuel Valls - French politician of Spanish descent, born Manuel Carlos Valls i Galfetti. He was Prime Minister of France
• Janet Yellen - American economist