April 23 in History

Famous Birthdays on April 23

1141

Malcolm IV of Scotland
1185

Afonso II of Portugal
1408

John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
1420

George of Poděbrady
1464

Joan of France, Duchess of Berry
1464

Robert Fayrfax
1484

Julius Caesar Scaliger
1500

Alexander Ales
1500

Johann Stumpf (writer)
1512

Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel
1516

Georg Fabricius
1564

William Shakespeare
1598

Maarten Tromp
1621

William Penn (Royal Navy officer)
1628

Johannes Hudde
1661

Issachar Berend Lehmann
1715

Johann Friedrich Doles
1720

Vilna Gaon
1744

Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
1748

Félix Vicq-d'Azyr
1791

James Buchanan
1792

Thomas Romney Robinson
1794

Wei Yuan
1805

Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz
1812

Frederick Whitaker
1813

Stephen A. Douglas
1813

Frédéric Ozanam
1819

Edward Stafford (politician)
1823

Abdülmecid I
1853

Winthrop M. Crane
1856

Granville Woods
1857

Ruggero Leoncavallo
1858

Max Planck
1858

Ethel Smyth
1860

Justinian Oxenham
1861

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
1861

John Peltz
1865

Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
1867

Johannes Fibiger
1876

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
1880

Michel Fokine
1882

Albert Coates (musician)
1888

Georges Vanier
1889

Karel Doorman
1893

Frank Borzage
1895

Ngaio Marsh
1898

Lucius D. Clay
1897

Folke Jansson
1897

Lester B. Pearson
1899

Bertil Ohlin
1899

Minoru Shirota
1900

Jim Bottomley
1900

Joseph Green (actor)
1901

E. B. Ford
1902

Halldór Laxness
1903

Guy Simonds
1904

Cliff Bricker
1904

Louis Muhlstock
1904

Duncan Renaldo
1907

Lee Miller
1907

Fritz Wotruba
1908

Myron Waldman
1910

Simone Simon
1911

Ronald Neame
1913

Diosa Costello
1915

Arnold Alexander Hall
1916

Yiannis Moralis
1916

Sinah Estelle Kelley
1917

Dorian Leigh
1917

Tony Lupien
1918

Maurice Druon
1919

Oleg Penkovsky
1920

Eric Grant Yarrow, 3rd Baronet
1921

Cleto Bellucci
1921

Janet Blair
1921

Warren Spahn
1923

Dolph Briscoe
1923

Avram Davidson
1924

Chuck Harmon
1924

Bobby Rosengarden
1926

J.P. Donleavy
1926

Rifaat el-Mahgoub
1928

Shirley Temple
1929

George Steiner
1930

Michael Bowen (bishop)
1932

Halston
1932

Jim Fixx
1933

Annie Easley
1934

George Canseco
1936

Roy Orbison
1937

Victoria Glendinning
1937

David Mills (cricketer)
1937

Barry Shepherd
1939

Jorge Fons
1939

Bill Hagerty
1939

Lee Majors
1939

Ray Peterson
1940

Michael Copps
1940

Dale Houston
1940

Michael Kadosh
1941

Jacqueline Boyer
1941

Arie den Hartog
1941

Paavo Lipponen
1941

Michael Lynne
1941

Ed Stewart
1941

Ray Tomlinson
1942

Sandra Dee
1943

Gail Goodrich
1943

Tony Esposito
1943

Frans Koppelaar
1943

Herve Villechaize
1944

Jean-François Stévenin
1946

Blair Brown
1946

Carlton Sherwood
1947

Robert Burgess (sociologist)
1947

Glenn Cornick
1947

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
1948

Pascal Quignard
1948

Serge Thériault
1949

Paul Collier
1949

David Cross (musician)
1949

John Miles (musician)
1950

Rowley Leigh
1950

Barbara McIlvaine Smith
1951

Martin Bayerle
1952

Narada Michael Walden
1953

James Russo
1954

Stephen Dalton
1954

Michael Moore
1955

Judy Davis
1955

Tony Miles
1955

Urmas Ott
1957

Neville Brody
1957

Jan Hooks
1958

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
1958

Ryan Walter
1960

Valerie Bertinelli
1960

Steve Clark
1960

Barry Douglas (musician)
1960

Léo Jaime
1960

Claude Julien (ice hockey)
1961

George Lopez
1961

Pierluigi Martini
1962

John Hannah (actor)
1962

Shaun Spiers
1963

Paul Belmondo
1963

Robby Naish
1964

Gianandrea Noseda
1965

Leni Robredo
1966

Joerg Deisinger
1967

Rheal Cormier
1967

Melina Kanakaredes
1968

Bas Haring
1968

Ken McRae
1968

Timothy McVeigh
1969

Martín López-Zubero
1969

Yelena Shushunova
1969

Richard Wolstencroft
1970

Egemen Bağış
1970

Dennis Culp
1970

Andrew Gee
1970

Hans Välimäki
1970

Tayfur Havutçu
1971

Uli Herzner
1972

Pierre Labrie
1972

Peter Dench
1973

Patrick Poulin
1974

Carlos Dengler
1974

Michael Kerr (rugby)
1975

Bobby Shaw
1976

Aaron Dessner
1977

John Cena
1977

Andruw Jones
1977

David Kidwell
1977

Willie Mitchell (ice hockey)
1977

John Oliver
1977

Kal Penn
1977

Bram Schmitz
1977

Lee Young-pyo
1978

Gezahegne Abera
1979

Barry Hawkins
1979

Jaime King
1979

Joanna Krupa
1979

Samppa Lajunen
1982

Tony Sunshine
1983

Daniela Hantuchová
1983

Ian Henderson (rugby league)
1983

Carl Higbie
1984

Alexandra Kosteniuk
1985

Angel Locsin
1986

Sven Kramer
1986

Alysia Montaño
1986

Rafael Fernandes (baseball)
1987

Michael Arroyo
1987

John Boye
1987

Emily Fox
1988

Victor Anichebe
1988

Alistair Brownlee
1988

Signe Ronka
1988

Lenka Wienerová
1989

Nicole Vaidišová
1990

Dev Patel
1991

Nathan Baker (footballer)
1991

Caleb Johnson (singer)
1991

Paul Vaughan (rugby league)
1994

Patrick Olsen
1995

Gigi Hadid

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