List of Famous people born on October 13rd

Marianne Plehn was a German zoologist. She was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at the ETH Zurich and the first woman to be appointed as professor in Bavaria in 1914. Plehn is commemorated in the names of three polyclads and 12 disease agents of fishes. The breadth of her research on diseases of fishes defined the scientific study in this area. She published 114 scientific papers on the subject. She worked with Bruno Hofer and has been honoured as one of the founders of fish pathology.

Douglass Rupert Dumbrille was a Canadian actor who appeared regularly in films from the early 1930s.

Richard Cubitt Johnson was an English cricketer who played in two matches for Cambridge University that are now considered to have been first-class. He was born at Lavenham, Suffolk and died at Cambridge.

Giorgio Massari was an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice.

Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.