13 March: today's birthdays

• Charles Bonnet - Swiss naturalist and philosopher
• Carme Chacón - Spanish politician, born Carme Chacón Piqueras
• Mircea Eliade - Romanian writer and historian of religion. He was fluent fluent in five languages (Romanian, French, German, Italian, and English) and could read Hebrew, Persian, and Sanskrit. He wrote The Forbidden Forest
• Henry Damián Giménez Báez - Uruguayan soccer player
• Emile Hirsch - American actor
• Lafayette Ronald Hubbard - American science fiction writer. He is the founder of Scientology
• Mariano Julio Izco - Argentine soccer player
• ​George MacKay - English actor who stars in the movie 1917.
• William H. Macy - American actor
• Paul Morand - French diplomat and novelist
• Douglas Ricardo Packer - Brazilian soccer player
• Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio - Italian politician
• Paolo Piva - Italian architect and designer
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel - German architect and painter
• Giorgos Seferis - Pseudonym adopted by Greek poet and essayist Giorgos Seferiádis, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963
• André Téchiné - French actor, film director and screenwriter
• Reinhard Zinkann - German businessman. Along with Carl Miele, he was the founder of the appliances company Miele