ON THIS DAY
Born in 1923
1321 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Henry Kissinger
diplomat, autobiographer
- Richard Attenborough
politician, university teacher
- Kuan Yew Lee
philosopher, statesperson
- Robert Maxwell
politician, publisher
- Charlton Heston
civil rights advocate, voice actor
- Maria Meneghini Callas
actor, opera singer
- Hank Williams
recording artist, composer
- Bob Barker
actor, television actor
- Shimon Peres
minister, writer
- Estelle Getty
actor, stage actor
- Carroll Shelby
Formula One driver, aircraft pilot
- Rocky Marciano
boxer
- N. T. Rama Rao
politician, writer
- Anne Baxter
television actor, film actor
- Alan Shepard
entrepreneur, astronaut
- James Arness
actor, producer
- Norman Mailer
director, poet
- Irma Grese
concentration camp guard, nurse
- Bob Dole
jurist, politician
- Dev Anand
film actor, director
- Cliff Robertson
glider pilot, actor
- Gloria Grahame
singer, musician
- Charles Durning
film actor, stage actor
- Glynis Johns
television actor, actor
- Chuck Yeager
fighter pilot, test pilot
- Peter Lawford
film producer, television actor
- Jean Stapleton
film actor, television actor
- Joseph Colombo
gangster
- Bettie Page
erotic photography model, model
- Aaron Spelling
director, actor
- Italo Calvino
novelist, screenwriter
- René Girard
philosopher, philologist
- Peter II of Yugoslavia
monarch
- Roy Lichtenstein
architectural drafter, painter
- Peter Vaughan
film actor, actor
- Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist, physicist
- Linda Darnell
film actor, stage actor
- Don Adams
voice actor, screenwriter
- Dina Merrill
television actor, film actor
- Ed McMahon
radio personality, actor
- Heydar Aliyev
politician, intelligence officer
- Conrad Bain
film actor, actor
- Rose Marie
actor, comedian
- Ted Knight
actor, television actor
- Franco Zeffirelli
television producer, politician
- V. C. Andrews
writer, novelist
- Marcel Marceau
actor, mime
- Ann Miller
singer, film actor
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao
stage actor, film producer
- Dale Robertson
boxer, actor
- Bert Trautmann
association football player, association football coach
- Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
military personnel, politician
- Diana Douglas
actor, script
- Diane Arbus
fashion photographer, artist
- Joseph Heller
screenwriter, novelist
- Wojciech Jaruzelski
military personnel, politician
- Mukesh
playback singer, film actor
- Jim Reeves
country musician, songwriter
- Eugene Sledge
writer, university teacher
- William Windom
television actor, stage actor
- Ahmet Ertegün
entrepreneur, composer
- Rhonda Fleming
film actor, television actor
- Murray Hamilton
actor
- Ram Jethmalani
politician, lawyer
- Lee Teng-hui
politician, agricultural economist
- Tito Puente
musician, recording artist
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
biologist, physician
- George Patton IV
military personnel
- V. N. Janaki
politician, actor
- Harold Gould
actor, film actor
- Jack Hemingway
autobiographer, fisher
- Linda Christian
film actor, actor
- Albert King
composer, basketball player
- Jean Hagen
stage actor, film actor
- Wally Schirra
test pilot, United States Naval Aviator
- Paddy Chayefsky
screenwriter, science fiction writer
- Alice Ghostley
stage actor, film actor
- Nadine Gordimer
poet, scientific editor
- George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
businessperson, author
- William Guarnere
paratrooper, veteran
- Irvin Kershner
film actor, film director
- James Stockdale
soldier, aircraft pilot
- Roy Dotrice
screenwriter, film actor
- Gordon Jackson
stage actor, television actor
- Brendan Behan
poet, playwright
- Larry Storch
film actor, stage actor
- Betsy Blair
dancer, film actor
- The Fabulous Moolah
professional wrestler
- Doc Watson
guitarist, composer
- Wes Montgomery
jazz musician, guitarist
- Betsy Drake
film actor, stage actor
- Ira Hayes
paratrooper
- Inge Morath
photojournalist, photographer
- Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
politician
- Bonita Granville
actor, television producer
- Ted Stevens
lawyer, politician
- Dick Shawn
actor
- György Ligeti
conductor, musician
- Wisława Szymborska
writer, translator
- Frank Sutton
television actor, actor
- Mother Angelica
religious sister
- Sam Sheppard
professional wrestler, neurosurgeon
- Chaleo Yoovidhya
businessperson
- Dexter Gordon
jazz musician, recording artist
- Virginia Halas McCaskey
businessperson, athlete
- Robert Kuok
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Richard Avedon
photographer, fashion photographer
- James Karen
voice actor, actor
- Boris Sagal
film director, television director
- Al Lewis
radio personality, film actor
- Lydia Clarke
stage actor, film actor
- Eric Sykes
television director, television actor
- Patrick Moore
science fiction writer, television presenter
- Paula Fox
writer, novelist
- Mas Oyama
karateka, writer
- V. S. Achuthanandan
politician, trade unionist
- Michael V. Gazzo
screenwriter, teacher
- Sumner Redstone
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Earl Hamner, Jr.
television producer, writer
- Markus Wolf
writer, journalist
- John Mortimer
poet lawyer, screenwriter
- Ruth Williams Khama
politician
- Jack Kilby
inventor, physicist
- Mrinal Sen
writer, author
- Elisabeth Becker
cook, female guards in Nazi concentration camps
- Stephanie L. Kwolek
chemist, inventor
- Allan Melvin
television actor, comedian
- Mae Young
professional wrestler
- Valentina Cortese
actor, stage actor
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
patriarch, presbyter
- Edward Mulhare
actor, film actor
- Devan Nair
politician
- Shūsaku Endō
playwright, screenwriter
- Lindsay Anderson
television director, theatre manager
- Palden Thondup Namgyal
monarch
- Donald Sinden
actor, stage actor
- Bob Elliott
film actor, voice actor
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
partisan, resistance fighter
- Murray Walker
pundit, reporter
- Joan Vollmer
writer, muse
- Barney Martin
actor, film actor
- Somnath Sharma
military officer
- Barbara Graham
perpetrator, prostitute
- Yuriko, Princess Mikasa
princess
- Glen Bell
entrepreneur
- Ara Parseghian
American football player, basketball player
- Elroy Hirsch
American football player, film actor
- Ousmane Sembène
film producer, prose writer
- Nirmala Srivastava
yoga instructor
- Andrew Duggan
television actor, actor