Curated category
1913 births
- Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the 22nd of November 1913. His father Robert Victor Britten worked as a…
- Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was born on the 9th of January 1913, in a small house built by his father on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California.
- Vivien LeighVivian Mary Hartley arrived in the world on the 5th of November 1913 within the British Indian hill station of Darjeeling.
- Dr. HepcatAlbert Lavada Durst arrived in Austin, Texas on the 12th of January 1913. He learned to play piano while still a child growing up in that city.
- Albert CamusAlbert Camus was born on the 7th of November 1913 in a working-class neighborhood called Mondovi, now known as Dréan. He lived in French Algeria with his…
- Ralph EllisonRalph Waldo Ellison was born on the 1st of March 1913 in Oklahoma City. His father Lewis Alfred worked as a construction foreman and small-business owner…
- Robert R. GilruthRobert Rowe Gilruth was born on the 8th of October 1913 in Nashwauk, Minnesota. He moved to Duluth when he was nine years old and graduated from Duluth…
- William Barrett (philosopher)William Christopher Barrett entered the City College of New York at fifteen years old. This precocious start marked a life dedicated to ideas from an early…
- Willy BrandtHerbert Ernst Karl Frahm was born on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck. His mother Martha Luise Wilhelmine Frahm worked as a cashier for a…
- Jacobo ÁrbenzIn 1932, Jacobo Árbenz entered the Polytechnic School of Guatemala as a cadet. He was twenty years old and had just lost his family's fortune when his father…
- Alexey IvakhnenkoAleksey Ivakhnenko entered the world on the 30th of March 1913 in Kobelyaky, Poltava Governorate. His family background was rooted in education as both…
- Sergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov entered the world on the 27th of August 1913 within a noble family in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov…
- Leônidas (footballer, born 1913)Leônidas da Silva began his professional journey at the São Cristóvão club in Rio de Janeiro. He moved to Sírio e Libanez under coach Gentil Cardoso.
- Vince LombardiVincent Thomas Lombardi entered the world on the 11th of June 1913, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. His parents Enrico and Matilda had both…