List of Famous people who born in 1913

Gustav Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II he earned the nickname Svarta nejlikan for helping hundreds of Norwegian Jews, SOE agents, and saboteurs escape from the Germans. During the early 1970s he was stationed in Santiago, Chile, and became known as the "Raoul Wallenberg of the 1970s" when he helped over 1,200 Chileans, hundreds of Cuban diplomats and civilians, and 67 Uruguayan and Bolivian refugees escape persecution by dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Mira Lobe was an Austrian writer of more than 100 children's books.

Fritz-Julius Lemp was a captain in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of U-28, U-30 and U-110.

Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor and theatre director. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974), and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was knighted in the 1985 New Years Honours List.

Helge Sivertsen was a Norwegian school administrator and elected official. He was best known as a champion discus thrower in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Nína Tryggvadóttir was born Jónína Tryggvadóttir in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. She is one of Iceland's most important abstract expressionist artists and one of very few Icelandic female artists of her generation.

Falk Harnack was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Greece. Harnack was from a family of scholars, artists and scientists, several of whom were active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and paid with their lives.

Mouloud Feraoun was an Algerian writer and supporter of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and German. He was assassinated by the French OAS on 15 March 1962.

Alice Marble was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships (1936–1940): five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles.

José Bispo Clementino dos Santos was a Brazilian samba singer known as Jamelão. He began in music as a tamborim player, but later became known as the official singer at samba school Mangueira's carnaval parades, performing in every Carnaval from 1949 to 2006. He also toured Europe as a solo performer.