Drago Jančar (born April 13, 1948) Slovenian novelist, playwright, essayist
Seamus Heaney (born April 13, 1939) Irish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1995)
Eudora Welty (born April 13, 1909) U.S. novelist, short story writer – One Writer’s Beginnings
Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906) Irish playwright, novelist, poet – Waiting for Godot