List of Famous people born on March 13rd

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electrons in magnetic solids.

Ferdinand Oliver Porsche, son of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche and great-grandson of automotive pioneer Ferdinand Porsche is an Austrian-German entrepreneur and member of the Supervisory Boards within the Volkswagen Group. He completed his legal studies with a Doctor's Degree in Law from the University of Salzburg, subsequently taking his MBA at the University of Toronto.

William James Glackens was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid-down by the conservative National Academy of Design. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His dark-hued, vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist. His later work was brighter in tone and showed the strong influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City.

Alex Alberto Cano Ardila is a Colombian road racing cyclist, who is currently suspended from the sport, after a biological passport violation. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.

Charles Oscar Brink was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University.

Philip John Currie is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs. He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, and his areas of expertise include theropods, the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior. He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park.