Today's Birthday Horoscope — July 13, 2026
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
Your Year of the Brave First Step. This is the year the thing you began before you felt ready turns out to have been the right move all along, the way you half-suspected and didn't dare say. Watch how much you bring back from every room you pass through this year. A casual coffee in spring hands you a phrase you'll be living by come fall. By midsummer, something you absorbed almost by accident becomes the exact wisdom a friend needs from you, and you give it without a moment's hesitation. The work you started shakily finds its footing, and one quiet afternoon you realize it has become solid under you. Keep gathering what each room offers. You carry the warmth of every place forward, and the year ahead is built to receive everything you've been quietly collecting.
Begin scared. Begin anyway.
Born Today
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Also Born July 13
- Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller — Danish businessman (died 2012), born 1913
- William F. Quinn — American lawyer (died 2006), born 1919
- Stan Coveleski — American baseball player (died 1984), born 1889
- Ivan Triesault — Estonian-born American actor (died 1980), born 1898
- Anker Jørgensen — Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2016), born 1922
- Marcia Brown — American author and illustrator (died 2015), born 1918
- Tim Spencer — American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (died 1974), born 1908
- Loren Pope — American journalist and author (died 2008), born 1910
- Ronald Bladen — American painter and sculptor (died 1988), born 1918
- Jonni Myyrä — Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower (died 1955), born 1892
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