Historical Births Today: 23 September

Births

• 480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)


• 63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)


• 1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)


• 1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)


• 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)


• 1434 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)


• 1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)


• 1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)


• 1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)


• 1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)


• 1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)


• 1759 - Clothilde of France, queen of piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)


• 1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)


• 1781 - Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)


• 1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)


• 1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)


• 1838 - Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)


• 1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)


• 1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)


• 1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)


• 1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)


• 1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)


• 1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid


• 1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)


• 1889 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)


• 1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)


• 1895 - Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)


• 1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)


• 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)


• 1899 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)


• 1900 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)


• 1900 - William Stone, British serviceman (Royal Navy) (At 107 years of age he is one of the last surviving veterans of the World War II


• 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)


• 1902 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)


• 1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)


• 1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)


• 1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)


• 1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)


• 1912 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)


• 1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)


• 1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)


• 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)


• 1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor


• 1924 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)


• 1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)


• 1925 - Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress


• 1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)


• 1929 - Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)


• 1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)


• 1930 -Sehba Akhtar,poet of Pakistan (d.1996)


• 1930 - Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)


• 1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)


• 1934 - Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan


• 1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician


• 1938 - Tom Lester, American actor


• 1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)


• 1939 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator


• 1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)


• 1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor


• 1939 - Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive


• 1941 - Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player


• 1941 - George Jackson, American civil-rights activist


• 1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician


• 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer


• 1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach


• 1944 - Eric Bogle, Scottish-born Australian singer and songwriter


• 1945 - Paul Petersen, American actor


• 1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician


• 1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician


• 1947 - Mary Kay Place, American actress


• 1947 - Jerry Corbetta, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)


• 1947 - Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper)


• 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter


• 1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)


• 1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer


• 1956 - Peter David, American writer


• 1957 - Rosalind Chao, American actress


• 1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player


• 1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician


• 1958 - Lita Ford, English-born singer (The Runaways)


• 1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach


• 1958 - Larry Mize, American golfer


• 1959 - Jason Alexander, American actor


• 1959 - Martin Page, English singer and songwriter


• 1959 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress


• 1960 - Jason Carter, British actor


• 1961 - Chi McBride, American actor


• 1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)


• 1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer


• 1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)


• 1964 - Larry Krystkowiak, Former American basketball player and head coach


• 1966 - Pete Harnisch, Former American Baseball player


• 1966 - LisaRaye, American actress


• 1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter


• 1969 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)


• 1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer


• 1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver


• 1969 - Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician


• 1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer


• 1971 - Eric Montross, Former American Basketball Player


• 1972 - Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper


• 1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality


• 1973 - Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist


• 1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler


• 1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model


• 1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress


• 1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)


• 1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality


• 1975 - Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player


• 1976 - Faune A. Chambers, American actress


• 1976 - Kip Pardue, American actor and model


• 1976 - Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer and current WBA Bantamweight champion


• 1977 - Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter


• 1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1978 - Worm Miller, American filmmaker


• 1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress


• 1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player


• 1980 - Cameron Litvack, American television producer


• 1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver


• 1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)


• 1981 - Misti Traya, American actress


• 1982 - Billie Piper, British singer and actress


• 1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress


• 1984 - Louie Stephens, American musician (Rooney)


• 1984 - Nathan Jendrick, American author


• 1984 - Matt Kemp, American baseball player


• 1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer


• 1985 - Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)


• 1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player


• 1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player


• 1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer


• 1985 - Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player


• 1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer


• 1989 - Brandon Jennings, American basketball player