| 79561 | July 13 | Birth | 1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1999) |
| 79562 | July 13 | Birth | 1922 – Leslie Brooks, American actress and singer (d. 2011) |
| 79563 | July 13 | Birth | 1922 – Louis R. Harlan, American historian and academic (d. 2010) |
| 79564 | July 13 | Birth | 1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark |
| 79565 | July 13 | Birth | 1922 – Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) |
| 79566 | July 13 | Birth | 1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2014) |
| 79567 | July 13 | Birth | 1924 – Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer |
| 79568 | July 13 | Birth | 1926 – Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (d. 2008) |
| 79569 | July 13 | Birth | 1927 – Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of the European Parliament |
| 79570 | July 13 | Birth | 1928 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian-American mobster (d. 2000) |
| 79571 | July 13 | Birth | 1928 – Bob Crane, American actor and radio host (d. 1978) |
| 79572 | July 13 | Birth | 1928 – Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (d. 2008) |
| 79573 | July 13 | Birth | 1929 – Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (d. 2006) |
| 79574 | July 13 | Birth | 1930 – Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (d. 2014) |
| 79575 | July 13 | Birth | 1930 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004) |
| 79576 | July 13 | Birth | 1931 – Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach |
| 79577 | July 13 | Birth | 1932 – Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author |
| 79578 | July 13 | Birth | 1933 – David Storey, English author, playwright, and screenwriter |
| 79579 | July 13 | Birth | 1933 – Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (d. 1963) |
| 79580 | July 13 | Birth | 1934 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (d. 2002) |
| 79581 | July 13 | Birth | 1934 – Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager |
| 79582 | July 13 | Birth | 1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 79583 | July 13 | Birth | 1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut |
| 79584 | July 13 | Birth | 1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (d. 2009) |
| 79585 | July 13 | Birth | 1935 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright |
| 79586 | July 13 | Birth | 1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist |
| 79587 | July 13 | Birth | 1936 – Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1970) |
| 79588 | July 13 | Birth | 1937 – Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist |
| 79589 | July 13 | Birth | 1937 – Jack Purvis, English actor (d. 1997) |
| 79590 | July 13 | Birth | 1939 – Prakash Mehra, Indian director and producer (d. 2009) |