Famous people born on 13 August

• Fidel CastroCuban politician, author and revolutionary · 1926–2016
  90 yrs
• Alfred HitchcockBritish filmmaker · 1899–1980
  80 yrs
• Frederick SangerBritish biochemist · 1918–2013
  95 yrs
• Karl LiebknechtGerman socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League · 1871–1919
  47 yrs
• John Logie BairdScottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television · 1888–1946
  57 yrs
• SrideviIndian actress · 1963–2018
  54 yrs
• Richard WillstätterGerman chemist · 1872–1942
  69 yrs
• Anders Jonas Ångström ↗Swedish physicist · 1814–1874
  59 yrs
• Makarios III ↗Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus · 1913–1977
  63 yrs
• Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet ↗Irish mathematician and physicist · 1819–1903
  83 yrs
• Salvador Luria ↗Italian American microbiologist · 1912–1991
  78 yrs
• Nikolaus Lenau ↗Austrian poet · 1802–1850
  48 yrs
• Hissène Habré ↗5th president of Chad · 1942–2021
  79 yrs
• Maria Carolina of Austria ↗Queen of Naples and Sicily from 1768 to 1814 · 1752–1814
  62 yrs
• Gyoji Matsumoto ↗Japanese association football player · 1934–2019
  85 yrs
• Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen ↗Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837 · 1792–1849
  57 yrs
• Antonio Salandra ↗Prime Minister of Italy · 1853–1931
  78 yrs
• Lucy Stone ↗American abolitionist and suffragist · 1818–1893
  75 yrs
• Friedrich Miescher ↗Swiss biochemist · 1844–1895
  51 yrs
• Ivan Sechenov ↗Russian physiologist · 1829–1905
  76 yrs
• Annie Oakley ↗American exhibition sharpshooter · 1860–1926
  66 yrs
• Giovanni Agnelli ↗Italian entrepreneur · 1866–1945
  79 yrs
• Go-Toba ↗Emperor of Japan · 1180–1239
  58 yrs
• Christian Krohg ↗Norwegian painter and writer · 1852–1925
  73 yrs
• Felix Wankel ↗German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine · 1902–1988
  86 yrs
• Said bin Taimur Al Said ↗Sultan of Muscat and Oman · 1910–1972
  62 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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