13 July: today's birthdays

• Albert Ayler - American musician, singer and composer
• ​Diana Bacosi - Italian shooter. She won a gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics
• Catherine Breillat - French film director, screenwriter and author. She directed the film A Real Young Girl (Une vraie jeune fille) 
• Patrice de Mac-Mahon - French politician
• Harrison Ford - American actor. He starred in the Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones saga and Blade Runner
• La Goulue - Stage name of French cancan dancer Louise Weber
• Madeleine Leininger - American nurse and anthropologist
• Ma Ying-jeou - Taiwanese lawyer and politician, born in Hong Kong. He is the current President of the Republic of China, a country best known as Taiwan, where the official language is Chinese.
   
  Taiwan was once called Formosa, from Portuguese ilha formosa, which means beautiful island.
  
  Ma Ying-jeou was elected to a second term in 2012: he is the 12th and 13th President of the Republic of China
   
   
• Ernõ Rubik - Hungarian architect, designer and inventor. He invented the famous Rubik's Cube
• Wole Soyinka - Nigerian writer, poet and playwright of Yorubo decent. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. He wrote The Lion and the Jewel and The Trials of Brother Jero.
• Simone Veil - French lawyer and politician of Jewish descent, born Simone Jacob. She survived from the Auschwitz concentration camp