People born on April 13

Thomas Jefferson

President of the United States from 1801 to 1809

Samuel Beckett

Nobel-winning Irish writer (1906–1989)

Garry Kasparov

Russian chess grandmaster and activist

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French writer and Nobel Prize winner

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Julius Nyerere

Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922-1999) and Servant of God

Jacques Lacan

French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)

Christopher Hitchens

English American author and journalist (1949–2011)

Carles Puyol

Spanish association football player

Georg Lukács

Marxist philosopher and literary critic (1885–1971)

Claudio Bravo

Chilean association football player

Rudi Völler

German footballer and manager

Stanisław Ulam

Polish-American mathematician

Numa Pompilius

Legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus

Richard Trevithick

British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833)