page_title: 1913
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1913 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: Roger Wolcott Sperry
context_page_description: 1913 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 913th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1913, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: August 8
  John Facenda, American sports announcer (d. 1984)
  Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U.S Representative and U.S. Senator (d. 2006)
  August 9 – Tadeusz Kotz, Polish World War II fighter ace (d. 2008)
  August 10
  Noah Beery Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
  Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (d. 1993)
  August 13
  Fred Davis, English snooker, billiards player (d. 1998)
  Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (d. 1977)
  August 16
  Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
  Helen F. Holt, American politician (d. 2015)
  August 17
  W. Mark Felt, American FBI Associate Director, Deep Throat Watergate informant (d. 2008)
  Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
  August 18 – Nils Löfgren, Swedish chemist (d. 1967)
  August 19 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
  August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
  August 22 – James W. Downing, American naval officer and author (d. 2018)
  August 25 – Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
  August 26 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
  August 27 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
  August 28
  Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (d. 1995)
  Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
  August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist, composer (d. 2014)
  August 30 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
  August 31
  Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
  Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer (d. 2012)
  Michael Gover, English actor (d. 1987)
caption: Roger Wolcott Sperry
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