List of Famous people born on July 13rd

Carl Groos Jockusch Jr. is an American mathematician. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1959, attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and transferred to Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania in 1960, where he received his B.A. in 1963 with Highest Honors. He then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Oleg Serebrian is a Moldovan politician, writer, diplomat and political scientist (geopolitician), President of the Latin Union between 2010 and 2012.

Jānis Porziņģis is a Latvian former professional basketball player. At a height of 2.02 m, he played at the small forward position. He is the older brother of Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porziņģis.

Arnd Schmitt is a German fencer and Olympic champion in the épée competition.

George Driver "Pinky" Nelson is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and retired NASA astronaut.

James Michael "Jim" Poterba, FBA is an American economist, Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and current NBER president and chief executive officer.