List of Famous people born on April 13rd
Sylvie Meis
Sylvie Françoise Meis, formerly known as Sylvie van der Vaart, is a Dutch television personality and model based in Germany.
Nirupama Rajapaksa
Nirupama Deepika Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former deputy minister.
Paul Warner Powell
Paul Warner Powell was an American man convicted and executed for the murder and attempted rape of a 16-year-old acquaintance in 1999. He also raped and severely injured the girl's 14-year-old sister, who unexpectedly survived. After his capital murder conviction was vacated on appeal, he wrote letters boasting about his crimes under the mistaken belief that he was exempt from punishment by the principle of double jeopardy. His letters were used as evidence against him in a second trial that resulted in his execution in 2010.
Victoria Villarruel
Victoria Eugenia Villarruel is an Argentinian lawyer and activist who is the founder and president of the Centro de Estudios Legales sobre el Terrorismo y sus Víctimas, known as CELTYV.
Shinsaburō Tawata
Shinsaburō Tawata is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Irina Khakamada
Irina Mutsuovna Khakamada is a Russian economist, political activist, journalist, publicist and politician who ran in the 2004 Russian presidential election.
Joseph Paul Franklin
Joseph Paul Franklin was an American white supremacist and serial killer who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Mikhail Shufutinsky
Mikhail Zakharovich Shufutinsky is a Russian pop singer. He was born in Moscow on 13 April 1948. He was once a citizen of the United States from 1990 to 2003, but now lives in Russia. He is currently the pre-eminent singer of Russian chanson music. He was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of Russia in 2013.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist, journalist, and columnist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays on culture, politics, and literature. He became an American citizen in 2007.
Howard Keel
Harold Clifford Keel, known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer with a rich bass-baritone singing voice. He starred in a number of MGM musicals in the 1950s and in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981–1991.