Famous people born on 13 October

• VirgilRoman poet (1st century BC) · 70–19 BC
  50 yrs
• Margaret ThatcherPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 · 1925–2013
  87 yrs
• Jamal KhashoggiSaudi journalist · 1958–2018
  59 yrs
• Turgut Özal8th President of the Republic of Turkey · 1927–1993
  65 yrs
• Rudolf VirchowGerman doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician · 1821–1902
  80 yrs
• Cemal Gürsel4th President of the Republic of Turkey · 1895–1966
  70 yrs
• Yves MontandFrench-Italian actor and singer · 1921–1991
  70 yrs
• Desi Bouterse ↗Leader of Suriname · 1945–2024
  79 yrs
• Lucas Cranach the Elder ↗German painter and printmaker · 1472–1553
  81 yrs
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ↗Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali · 1948–1997
  48 yrs
• Jozef Tiso ↗Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945 · 1887–1947
  59 yrs
• Raymond Kopa ↗French footballer · 1931–2017
  85 yrs
• Kelly Preston ↗American actress · 1962–2020
  57 yrs
• Shigeyoshi Suzuki ↗Japanese association football player and manager · 1902–1971
  69 yrs
• Christine Nöstlinger ↗Austrian children's and young adult's writer · 1936–2018
  81 yrs
• Claude of France ↗Duchess of Brittany; queen consort of France · 1499–1524
  24 yrs
• Lenny Bruce ↗American comedian and social critic · 1925–1966
  40 yrs
• Mary Kingsley ↗British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer · 1862–1900
  37 yrs
• Roberto Eduardo Viola ↗Military officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina · 1924–1994
  69 yrs
• Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ↗Saxon anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist · 1771–1853
  82 yrs
• Ibn Tumart ↗Amazigh religious scholar, teacher and politician · 1078–1130
  51 yrs
• Bogd Khan ↗Great Khan of Outer Mongolia · 1869–1924
  54 yrs
• Cornel Wilde ↗Hungarian-American actor and film director · 1912–1989
  77 yrs
• Melinda Dillon ↗American actress · 1939–2023
  83 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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