13 September: today's birthdays

• Sherwood Anderson - American novelist
• Luis Eduardo Aute - Catalan musician, singer-songwriter, film director, poet and painter
• Jacqueline Bisset - English actress, born Winnifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset
• Claudette Colbert - French-born American actress
• Roald Dahl - English children's author and screenwriter. He wrote James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Matilda
• Jonathan de Guzmán - Canadian-born Dutch professional footballer
• Ferdinand de Lanoye - French writer, born Ferdinand Tugnot de Lanoye
• Alain Ducasse - French-born Monégasque chef
  
• Niall Horan - Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist, born Niall James Horan. He is a member of the boy band One Direction
• Lord Burghley - English politician
• Thomas Müller - German footballer 
• Arnold Schönberg - Austrian composer