January 13: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is January 13th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 13th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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January 13th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 13th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American Impressionist painter Lilla Cabot Perry (The Lack Hat, Lady with a Bowl of Violets and Snowy Monday) was born on January 13, 1848.

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter (Banks of a Canal, Panorama of The Hague and View of Dordrecht), was born on January 13, 1596.

January 13th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional baseball player Robert Herbert (Bob) Forsch (Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals) was born on January 13, 1950.

Thomas Joseph (Tom) Gola, American professional basketball player (New York Knicks, Philadelphia Warriors and San Francisco Warriors), was born on January 13, 1933.

Meinhard Nehmer, German bobsledder and Olympic gold medalist (1976), was born on January 13, 1941.

Paul Smart, American yachtsman and Olympic gold medalist (1948), was born on January 13, 1892.

American professional football player William Thomas (Bill) Stanfill (Miami Dolphins) was born on January 13, 1947.

Peter Sundelin, Swedish yachtsman and Olympic gold medalist (1968), was born on January 13, 1947.

American professional baseball player Michael Ray (Mike) Tyson (Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals) was born on January 13, 1950.

January 13th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American author and Unitarian minister Horatio Alger (Cast Upon the Breakers, Joe the Hotel Boy, Luck and Pluck, Paul the Peddler, Phil the Fiddler, Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom) was born on January 13, 1832. Horatio Alger wrote more than 100 books, inspiring working-class readers to reach for the American dream of hard work and prosperity.