Famous people born on 13 January

• Wilhelm WienGerman physicist · 1864–1928
  64 yrs
• Sydney BrennerSouth African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 · 1927–2019
  92 yrs
• George Gurdjieff ↗Philosopher, mystic, and writer · 1866–1949
  83 yrs
• Michael III ↗Byzantine emperor from 842 to 867 · AD 840–867
  27 yrs
• Paul Feyerabend ↗Austrian-born philosopher of science · 1924–1994
  70 yrs
• Marco Pantani ↗Italian road racing cyclist · 1970–2004
  34 yrs
• Chaïm Soutine ↗Belarusian-French painter · 1893–1943
  50 yrs
• Cabu ↗French comic strip artist and caricaturist · 1938–2015
  76 yrs
• Zhou Youguang ↗Chinese linguist, sinologist · 1906–2017
  111 yrs
• Jan van Goyen ↗Dutch landscape painter · 1596–1656
  60 yrs
• Lev Kuleshov ↗Soviet filmmaker and film theorist · 1899–1970
  71 yrs
• Michael Bond ↗British writer · 1926–2017
  91 yrs
• Elazar Shach ↗Lithuanian-Jewish Haredi leader · 1898–2001
  103 yrs
• Gertrude the Great ↗Roman Catholic Saint · 1256–1301
  45 yrs
• Emperor Guangwu of Han ↗Emperor and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (5 BC - AD 57) (r. AD 25 - AD 57) · 5 BC–AD 57
  61 yrs
• Kostis Palamas ↗Greek poet · 1859–1943
  84 yrs
• Marinus van der Lubbe ↗Dutch communist · 1909–1934
  24 yrs
• Robert Stack ↗American actor · 1919–2003
  84 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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