Birthdays In History 1923

1923 Valentina Cortese Italian actress (d. 2019)

1923 Milt Jackson American jazz vibraphonist and composer (d. 1999)

1923 Hank Stram American football coach and sportscaster (d. 2005)

1923 Sam Phillips American radio host and producer founded Sun Records (d. 2003)

1923 Vladimir Kazantsev Russian runner (d. 2007)

1923 Norman Kirk New Zealand engineer and politician 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)

1923 Jacobo Timerman Argentinian journalist and author (d. 1999)

1923 Hugh Kenner Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)

1923 Larry Storch American actor and comedian(d. 2022)

1923 Giorgio Tozzi American opera singer and actor (d. 2011)

1923 Johnny Wardle English cricketer (d. 1985)

1923 Jerome Bixby American author and screenwriter (d. 1998)

1923 Ernst Nolte German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)

1923 Carroll Shelby American race car driver engineer and businessman founded Carroll Shelby International (d. 2012)

1923 Ira Hayes American marine who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)

1923 Daniil Shafran Russian cellist (d. 1997)

1923 Willem Slijkhuis Dutch runner (d. 2003)

1923 Gerald Arpino American dancer and choreographer (d. 2008)

1923 Fred Beckey American mountaineer and author (d. 2017)

1923 Ivor Cutler Scottish pianist songwriter and poet (d. 2006)

1923 Lee Teng-hui Taiwanese economist and politician fourth President of the Republic of China (d. 2020)

1923 Gene Feist American director and playwright co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)

1923 Anthony Hecht American poet (d. 2004)

1923 Rangeya Raghav Indian author and playwright (d. 1962)

1923 John Graham General Officer Commanding (GOC) Wales (d. 2012)

1923 Gerrit Voorting Dutch cyclist (d. 2015)

1923 Jean Stapleton American actress and singer (d. 2013)

1923 Slim Whitman American country and western singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013)

1923 Lola Flores Spanish singer dancer and actress (d. 1995)

1923 Alberto de Mendoza Argentine actor (d. 2011)

1923 Pahiño Spanish footballer (d. 2012)

1923 Diana Douglas British-American actress (d. 2015)

1923 Horace Ashenfelter American runner (d. 2018)

1923 Cot Deal American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)

1923 Walter M. Miller Jr. American soldier and author (d. 1996)

1923 Arvid Carlsson Swedish pharmacologist and physician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

1923 Shirley Ardell Mason American psychiatric patient (d. 1998)

1923 Sally Starr American actress and television host (d. 2013)

1923 Jean Taittinger French politician French Minister of Justice (d. 2012)

1923 Patrick J. Hannifin American admiral (d. 2014)

1923 Anne Jeffreys American actress and singer (d. 2017)

1923 Paddy Chayefsky American author and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1923 Eddie Taylor American electric blues guitarist and singer (d. 1985)

1923 Marianne Ferber Czech-American economist and author (d. 2013)

1923 Jean Babilée French dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)

1923 James Dickey American poet and novelist (d. 1997)

1923 Svetozar Gligorić Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster (d.2012)

1923 Bonita Granville American actress and producer (d. 1988)

1923 Red Schoendienst American baseball player coach and manager (d. 2018)

1923 Liz Smith American journalist and author (d. 2017)

1923 Clem Windsor Australian rugby player and surgeon (d. 2007)

1923 Conrad Bain Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)

1923 Claude King American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

1923 James E. Bowman American physician and academic (d. 2011)

1923 Dora Bryan English actress and restaurateur (d. 2014)

1923 Tonie Nathan American radio host producer and politician (d. 2014)

1923 Allie Sherman American football player and coach (d. 2015)

1923 Antony Flew English philosopher and academic (d. 2010)

1923 Michael Anthony Bilandic American soldier judge and politician 49th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2002)

1923 Jay Hebert American golfer (d. 1997)

1923 Samuel Willenberg Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2016)

1923 Buddy DeFranco American clarinet player and bandleader (d. 2014)

1923 Victor G. Atiyeh American businessman and politician 32nd Governor of Oregon (d. 2014)

1923 Forbes Burnham Guyanese lawyer and politician 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)

1923 Rena Vlahopoulou Greek actress (d. 2004)

1923 Bleddyn Williams Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2009)

1923 François Cavanna French author and editor (d. 2014)

1923 Rafael Addiego Bruno Uruguayan jurist and politician President of Uruguay (d. 2014)

1923 Harry Clarke English international footballer (d. 2000)

1923 Ioannis Grivas Greek judge and politician 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)

1923 Dante Lavelli American football player (d. 2009)

1923 Clarence D. Lester African-American fighter pilot (d.1986)

1923 Mary Francis Shura American author (d. 1991)

1923 Dexter Gordon American saxophonist composer and actor (d. 1990)

1923 Basil Hume English cardinal (d. 1999)

1923 Robert H. Michel American soldier and politician (d. 2017)

1923 Dave Strack American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)

1923 Barney Martin American police officer and actor (d. 2005)

1923 Doc Watson American bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2012)

1923 Russell Freeburg American journalist and author

1923 Francis King English author and poet (d. 2011)

1923 Patrick Moore English astronomer and television host (d. 2012)

1923 Juan A. Rivero Puerto Rican biologist and academic (d. 2014)

1923 Laurence Tisch American businessman co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003)

1923 James L. Buckley American lawyer judge and politician

1923 André Courrèges French fashion designer (d. 2016)

1923 Walter Kohn Austrian-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)

1923 Val Logsdon Fitch American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

1923 Hjalmar Andersen Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013)

1923 Norbert Brainin Austrian violinist (d. 2005)

1923 Wally Schirra American captain pilot and astronaut (d. 2007)

1923 Mae Young American wrestler (d. 2014)

1923 Dimitrios Ioannidis Greek general (d. 2010)

1923 Diane Arbus American photographer (d. 1971)

1923 Heinz Wallberg German conductor (d. 2004)

1923 Andy Granatelli American race car driver and businessman (d. 2013)

1923 Pamela Britton American actress (d. 1974)

1923 Benito Jacovitti Italian illustrator (d. 1997)

1923 Henry Morgentaler Polish-Canadian physician and activist (d. 2013)

1923 Con Martin Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1923 Shaukat Siddiqui Pakistani journalist author and activist (d. 2006)

1923 Louis-Edmond Hamelin Canadian geographer author and academic (d. 2020)

1923 Nizar Qabbani Syrian poet publisher and diplomat (d. 1998)

1923 Nirmala Srivastava Indian religious leader founded Sahaja Yoga (d. 2011)

1923 Rezső Nyers Hungarian politician (d. 2018)

1923 Marcel Marceau French mime and actor (d. 2007)

1923 Angelo Ingrassia American soldier and judge (d. 2013)

1923 Bonnie Guitar American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)

1923 Wim van Est Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)

1923 Gert Bastian German general and politician (d. 1992)

1923 Bob Elliott American comedian actor and screenwriter (d. 2016)

1923 Shūsaku Endō Japanese author (d. 1996)

1923 Louis Simpson Jamaican-American poet translator and academic (d. 2012)

1923 Paul C. Donnelly American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)

1923 Thad Jones American trumpet player and composer (d. 1986)

1923 Geoff Duke English-Manx motorcycle racer (d. 2015)

1923 Betty Binns Fletcher American lawyer and judge (d. 2012)

1923 Bob Haymes American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1989)

1923 Milton Acorn Canadian poet and playwright (d. 1986)

1923 Don Barksdale American basketball player (d. 1993)

1923 François Sermon Belgian footballer (d. 2013)

1923 Gloria Henry actress (d. 2021)

1923 Johnny Paton Scottish footballer coach and manager (d. 2015)

1923 G. Spencer-Brown English mathematician psychologist and author (d. 2016)

1923 Daniel Hoffman American poet and academic (d. 2013)

1923 Peter Vaughan English actor (d. 2016)

1923 Gene Reynolds American actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 2020)

1923 Ernest Mandel German-born Belgian Marxist economist Trotskyist activist and theorist (d. 1995)

1923 Michael V. Gazzo American actor (d. 1995)

1923 Herb Thomas American race car driver (d. 2000)

1923 George Fisher American cartoonist (d. 2003)

1923 Edward Mulhare Irish-American actor (d. 1997)

1923 Leonard Levy American historian and author (d. 2006)

1923 George J. Maloof Sr. American businessman (d. 1980)

1923 Ann Miller American actress singer and dancer (d. 2004)

1923 Don Adams American actor and director (d. 2005)

1923 A. H. Halsey English sociologist and academic (d. 2014)

1923 Warren Barker American composer (d. 2006)

1923 Arch A. Moore Jr. American sergeant lawyer and politician 28th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2015)

1923 John Mortimer English lawyer and author (d. 2009)

1923 Peter Kane Dufault American soldier pilot and poet (d. 2013)

1923 Aaron Spelling American actor producer and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1923 Dolph Briscoe American lieutenant and politician 41st Governor of Texas (d. 2010)

1923 Avram Davidson American soldier and author (d. 1993)

1923 Gus Bodnar Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)

1923 Doris Burn American author and illustrator (d. 2011)

1923 Francis Graham-Smith English astronomer and academic

1923 Melissa Hayden Canadian ballerina (d. 2006)

1923 Albert King African-American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (d. 1992)

1923 Betty Mae Tiger Jumper Seminole chief (d. 2011)

1923 Carolyn Cassady American author (d. 2013)

1923 William Guarnere American sergeant (d. 2014)

1923 Irvin Kershner American actor director and producer (d. 2010)

1923 Percy Heath American bassist (d. 2005)

1923 Kagamisato Kiyoji Japanese sumo wrestler the 42nd Yokozuna (d. 2004)

1923 Joseph Heller American novelist short story writer and playwright (d. 1999)

1923 Antônio Maria Mucciolo Italian-Brazilian archbishop (d. 2012)

1923 Marcel Rayman Polish soldier (d. 1944)

1923 Patrick Hillery Irish physician and politician 6th President of Ireland (d. 2008)

1923 Albert Nordengen Norwegian banker and politician (d. 2004)

1923 George Hadjinikos Greek pianist conductor and educator (d. 2015)

1923 Ralph Hall American lieutenant lawyer and politician (d. 2019)

1923 Stanley Biber American soldier and physician (d. 2006)

1923 Ed Cassidy American jazz and rock drummer (d. 2012)

1923 Assi Rahbani Lebanese composer and producer (d. 1986)

1923 Eric Sykes British actor and comedian (d. 2012)

1923 John Toner American football player and coach (d. 2014)

1923 William C. Campbell American golfer (d. 2013)

1923 James Gilbert Scottish television producer and director (d. 2016)

1923 Cathleen Synge Morawetz Canadian mathematician (d. 2017)

1923 Richard Wollheim English philosopher and academic (d. 2003)

1923 Harry Watson Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)

1923 Anne Baxter American actress (d. 1985)

1923 Jim Lowe American singer-songwriter disc jockey and radio host (d. 2016)

1923 Bülent Ulusu Turkish admiral and politician 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)

1923 Heydar Aliyev Azerbaijan general and politician President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)

1923 Otar Korkia Georgian basketball player and coach (d. 2005)

1923 Ruth Adler Schnee German-American textile designer and interior designer (d. 2023)

1923 Adnan Pachachi Iraqi politician Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2019)

1923 Mrinal Sen Bangladeshi-Indian director producer and screenwriter (d. 2018)

1923 Richard Avedon American sailor and photographer (d. 2004)

1923 John Lanchbery English-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2003)

1923 Victoria Fromkin American linguist and academic (d. 2000)

1923 Merton Miller American economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)

1923 Peter Underwood English parapsychologist and author (d. 2014)

1923 Michael Beetham English commander and pilot (d. 2015)

1923 Edith Fellows American actress (d. 2011)

1923 Sam Selvon Trinidad-born writer (d. 1994)

1923 Vernon Biever American photographer (d. 2010)

1923 Armand Borel Swiss-American mathematician and academic (d. 2003)

1923 Ara Parseghian American football player and coach (d. 2017)

1923 Dorothy Hewett Australian feminist poet novelist and playwright (d. 2002)

1923 Evelyn Ward American actress (d. 2012)

1923 Alicia de Larrocha Catalan-Spanish pianist (d. 2009)

1923 Irving Millman American virologist and microbiologist (d. 2012)

1923 Siobhán McKenna Irish actress (d. 1986)

1923 James Arness American actor (d. 2011)

1923 Roy Dotrice English actor (d. 2017)

1923 Sumner Redstone American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2020)

1923 György Ligeti Hungarian-Austrian composer and educator (d. 2006)

1923 N. T. Rama Rao Indian actor director producer and politician 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 1996)

1923 Bernard Clavel French author (d. 2010)

1923 John Parker 6th Earl of Morley English colonel and politician Lord Lieutenant of Devon (d. 2015)

1923 Eugene Wright American jazz bassist (d. 2020)

1923 Ellsworth Kelly American painter and sculptor (d. 2015)

1923 Claudio Matteini Italian football player (d. 2003)

1923 Lloyd Shapley American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)

1923 Igor Shafarevich Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 2017)

1923 Elizabeth Jolley English-Australian author and academic (d. 2007)

1923 Masutatsu Ōyama Japanese karateka (d. 1994)

1923 Jorge Daponte Argentinian racing driver (d. 1963)

1923 Daniel Pinkham American organist and composer (d. 2006)

1923 V. C. Andrews American author illustrator and painter (d. 1986)

1923 Jean Pouliot Canadian broadcaster (d. 2004)

1923 Jules Deschênes Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2000)

1923 Gerald Götting German politician (d. 2015)

1923 Paul Brunelle Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)

1923 Robert Maxwell Czech-English captain publisher and politician (d. 1991)

1923 Lloyd Conover American chemist and inventor (d. 2017)

1923 Judith Kerr German-English author and illustrator (d. 2019)

1923 Green Wix Unthank American soldier lawyer and judge (d. 2013)

1923 Erland Josephson Swedish actor and director (d. 2012)

1923 Ninian Stephen English-Australian lieutenant judge and politician 20th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2017)

1923 Ron Flockhart Scottish race car driver (d. 1962)

1923 Elroy Hirsch American football player (d. 2004)

1923 Arnold S. Relman American physician and academic (d. 2014)

1923 Dale C. Thomson Canadian historian and academic (d. 1999)

1923 Bob Hank Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)

1923 Peter Gay German-American historian author and academic (d. 2015)

1923 Jerzy Nowak Polish actor and educator (d. 2013)

1923 Jacques Hébert Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2007)

1923 José Giovanni French-Swiss director and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1923 Peter Corr Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2001)

1923 Elroy Schwartz American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)

1923 Doris Johnson American politician

1923 Jerry Rullo American professional basketball player (d. 2016)

1923 Giuseppina Tuissi Italian communist and Partisan (d. 1945)

1923 Margaret Olley Australian painter and philanthropist (d. 2011)

1923 Sam Francis American soldier and painter (d. 1994)

1923 Dorothy Gilman American author (d. 2012)

1923 Jamshid Amouzegar 43rd Prime Minister of Iran (d. 2016)

1923 Franz-Paul Decker German conductor (d. 2014)

1923 Ed Bearss American military historian and author (d. 2020)

1923 Jacques Berthier French organist and composer (d. 1994)

1923 Elmo Hope American pianist and composer (d. 1967)

1923 Pete Candoli American trumpet player (d. 2008)

1923 Adolfo Schwelm Cruz Argentinian racing driver (d. 2012)

1923 Gaye Stewart Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)

1923 Chou Wen-chung Chinese-American composer and educator (d. 2019)

1923 Andy Jack English footballer

1923 Scotty Bowers American marine author and pimp (d. 2019)

1923 Cyril M. Kornbluth American soldier and author (d. 1958)

1923 Wisława Szymborska Polish poet and translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)

1923 Rudolf Friedrich Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 2013)

1923 George Moore Australian jockey (d. 2008)

1923 Mitsuye Yamada Japanese American activist

1923 Liviu Ciulei Romanian actor director and screenwriter (d. 2011)

1923 Whitney North Seymour Jr. American politician (d. 2019)

1923 Eduardo Falú Argentinian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)

1923 Harrison Dillard American sprinter and hurdler (d. 2019)

1923 Val Bettin American actor (d. 2021)

1923 Amalia Mendoza Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)

1923 John Bradley American soldier (d. 1994)

1923 Suzanne Cloutier Canadian actress and producer (d. 2003)

1923 G. A. Kulkarni Indian author and academic (d. 1987)

1923 Richard Pipes Polish-American historian and academic (d. 2018)

1923 Tun Tun Indian actress and comedian (d. 2003)

1923 Ashley Bryan American children's book author and illustrator (d. 2022)

1923 René Favaloro Argentine surgeon and cardiologist (d. 2000)

1923 Dale Robertson American actor (d. 2013)

1923 Robert Zildjian American businessman founded Sabian (d. 2013)

1923 Francisco de Andrade Portuguese sailor

1923 Jeanne Block American psychologist (d. 1981)

1923 John Cooper English car designer co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000)

1923 Jerome H. Lemelson American engineer and businessman (d. 1997)

1923 Michael Medwin English actor (d. 2020)

1923 Theo Barker English historian (d. 2001)

1923 Alex Hannum American basketball player and coach (d. 2002)

1923 Joseph Hansen American author and poet (d. 2004)

1923 William A. Rusher American lawyer and journalist (d. 2011)

1923 Lon Simmons American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)

1923 Stanisław Albinowski Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)

1923 Rudolph A. Marcus Canadian-American chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate

1923 Queenie Watts English actress and singer (d. 1980)

1923 César Fernández Ardavín Spanish director producer and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1923 Luis Aloma Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997)

1923 Morris Halle Latvian-American linguist and academic (d. 2018)

1923 Amalia Mendoza Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)

1923 Edgar Gilbert American mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)

1923 Maria Gripe Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)

1923 Jan Berenstain American author and illustrator (d. 2012)

1923 Bernice Rubens Welsh author (d. 2004)

1923 Mas Oyama South Korean-Japanese martial artist (d. 1994)

1923 Ray Ellis American conductor and producer (d. 2008)

1923 George Burditt American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)

1923 Edgar Cortright American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)

1923 Jim Marshall English businessman founded Marshall Amplification (d. 2012)

1923 Gordon Mitchell American bodybuilder and actor (d. 2003)

1923 Ahmet Ertegun Turkish-American songwriter and producer founded Atlantic Records (d. 2006)

1923 Stephanie Kwolek American chemist and engineer invented Kevlar (d. 2014)

1923 Ike Williams American boxer (d. 1994)

1923 Jean Hagen American actress (d. 1977)

1923 Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (d. 2012)

1923 Devan Nair Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician 3rd President of Singapore (d. 2005)

1923 Jess Collins American painter (d. 2004)

1923 Paul Hellyer Canadian engineer and politician 16th Canadian Minister of Defence (d. 2021)

1923 Bill Doolittle American football player and coach (d. 2014)

1923 Rhonda Fleming American actress (d. 2020)

1923 Fred Ridgway English cricketer and footballer (d. 2015)

1923 SM Sultan Bangladeshi painter and illustrator (d. 1994)

1923 Stan Chambers American journalist and actor (d. 2015)

1923 John Holt Jamaican cricketer (d. 1997)

1923 Alice Ghostley American actress (d. 2007)

1923 Rose Marie American actress and singer (d. 2017)

1923 Millôr Fernandes Brazilian journalist and playwright (d. 2012)

1923 Carlos Cruz-Diez Venezuelan artist (d. 2019)

1923 Larry Rivers American painter and sculptor (d. 2002)

1923 Katherine Victor American actress (d. 2004)

1923 Edgar F. Codd English computer scientist inventor of relational model of data (d. 2003)

1923 Jim Reeves American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)

1923 Keith Allen Canadian-American ice hockey player coach and manager (d. 2014)

1923 Arthur Jensen American psychologist and academic (d. 2012)

1923 Álvaro Mutis Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)

1923 Allyre Sirois Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2012)

1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch German pianist and conductor (d. 2013)

1923 Jimmy Greenhalgh English footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1923 Barbara Ansell English physician and author (d. 2001)

1923 Charmian Clift Australian journalist and author (d. 1969)

1923 Kenneth Thomson 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006)

1923 René Thom French mathematician biologist and academic (d. 2002)

1923 Ramón Valdés Mexican actor and comedian (d. 1988)

1923 Glen Bell American businessman founded Taco Bell (d. 2010)

1923 Alice Gibson Belizean chief librarian and educator (d. 2021)

1923 Fred Hawkins American golfer (d. 2014)

1923 Mort Walker American cartoonist (d. 2018)

1923 Ram Kishore Shukla Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

1923 David Hamer Australian captain and politician (d. 2002)

1923 Ken Meuleman Australian cricketer (d. 2004)

1923 Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)

1923 Nancy Keesing Australian author and poet (d. 1993)

1923 Peter Lawford English-American actor (d. 1984)

1923 Rasul Gamzatov Russian poet (d. 2003)

1923 Wilbur Ware American double-bassist (d. 1979)

1923 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek American physician and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)

1923 Glen P. Robinson American businessman founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)

1923 Betsy Drake American actress (d. 2015)

1923 Vasilije Mokranjac Serbian composer and academic (d. 1984)

1923 Édouard Boubat French photographer and journalist (d. 1999)

1923 Nicholas Georgiadis Greek painter and costume designer (d. 2001)

1923 Anton Heiller Austrian organist composer and conductor (d. 1979)

1923 Ralph Sharon English-American pianist composer and conductor (d. 2015)

1923 Queen Anne of Romania (d. 2016)

1923 Peter Smithson English architect co-designed Robin Hood Gardens (d. 2003)

1923 Bertha Wilson Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist 60th Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2007)

1923 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)

1923 Maurice Sauvé Canadian economist academic and politician (d. 1992)

1923 Fred Hunt British jazz pianist (d. 1986)

1923 Dannie Abse Welsh physician poet and author (d. 2014)

1923 Mohamed Hassanein Heikal Egyptian journalist (d. 2016)

1923 Vello Helk Estonian-Danish historian and author (d. 2014)

1923 Louis Edmonds American actor (d. 2001)

1923 Fats Navarro American trumpet player and composer (d. 1950)

1923 Raoul Bott Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 2005)

1923 Robert Laxalt American author and academic (d. 2001)

1923 Sam Rivers American saxophonist clarinet player and composer (d. 2011)

1923 Dev Anand Indian actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 2011)

1923 Hugh Griffiths Baron Griffiths English cricketer lawyer and judge (d. 2015)

1923 James Hennessy English businessman and diplomat

1923 Tuli Kupferberg American singer poet and writer (d. 2010)

1923 William Windom American actor (d. 2012)

1923 Stan Berenstain American author and illustrator (d. 2005)

1923 Bum Phillips American football player and coach (d. 2013)

1923 Donald Swann Welsh-English pianist and composer (d. 1994)

1923 Edward Oliver LeBlanc Dominican lawyer and politician 1st Premier of Dominica (d. 2004)

1923 Philip Berrigan American priest and activist (d. 2002)

1923 Stig Dagerman Swedish journalist and author (d. 1954)

1923 Albert Guðmundsson Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)

1923 Glynis Johns South African-born British actress and singer

1923 Kailashpati Mishra Indian lawyer and politician 18th Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)

1923 Robert Kuok Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor

1923 Yaşar Kemal Turkish journalist and author (d. 2015)

1923 Irma Grese German SS officer (d. 1945)

1923 Břetislav Pojar Czech animator and director (d. 2012)

1923 Jean-Paul Riopelle Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)

1923 Donald Sinden English actor (d. 2014)

1923 Louis Gottlieb American singer and bass player (d. 1996)

1923 Nicholas Parsons English actor and game show host (d. 2020)

1923 Murray Walker English journalist and sportscaster (d. 2021)

1923 Jean Nidetch American businesswoman co-founded Weight Watchers (d. 2015)

1923 Goody Petronelli American boxer trainer and manager (d. 2012)

1923 John C. Champion American screenwriter and producer (d. 1994)

1923 Rosemary Anne Sisson English author and playwright (d. 2017)

1923 Faas Wilkes Dutch footballer (d. 2006)

1923 Joel Barnett English accountant and politician Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014)

1923 Italo Calvino Italian novelist short story writer and journalist (d. 1985)

1923 Antonio Fontán Spanish journalist and politician (d. 2010)

1923 Eugene Patterson American journalist and activist (d. 2013)

1923 Lindsay Thompson Australian politician 40th Premier of Victoria (d. 2008)

1923 Linda Darnell American actress (d. 1965)

1923 Bert Kaempfert German conductor and composer (d. 1980)

1923 Bill McLaren Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)

1923 Barney Kessel American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)

1923 Charles McClendon American football player and coach (d. 2001)

1923 Jessie Mae Hemphill American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)

1923 Ruth Carter Stevenson American art collector founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (d. 2013)

1923 Baby Dalupan Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 2016)

1923 Robert Craft American conductor and musicologist (d. 2015)

1923 Samuel Khachikian Iranian director screenwriter and author (d. 2001)

1923 Bert Trautmann German footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1923 Aslam Farrukhi Indian-Pakistani linguist author and scholar (d. 2016)

1923 Ned Rorem American composer and author (d. 2022)

1923 Frank Sutton American actor (d. 1974)

1923 Robin Day English lieutenant and journalist (d. 2000)

1923 Denise Levertov British-born American poet (d. 1997)

1923 Robert Hinde English zoologist and academic (d. 2016)

1923 Roy Lichtenstein American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)

1923 Ned Wertimer American actor (d. 2013)

1923 John Connell American actor (d. 2015)

1923 Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Dutch runner hurdler and long jumper (d. 2015)

1923 Gloria Oden American poet and academic (d. 2011)

1923 Victoria de los Ángeles Spanish soprano and actress (d. 2005)

1923 Gordon R. Dickson Canadian-American author (d. 2001)

1923 Menachem Elon German-Israeli academic and jurist (d. 2013)

1923 Carlos Páez Vilaró Uruguayan painter and sculptor (d. 2014)

1923 Tibor Rosenbaum Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (d. 1980)

1923 Violetta Elvin Russian ballerina (d. 2021)

1923 Tomás Ó Fiaich Irish cardinal (d. 1990)

1923 Yamaguchi Hitomi Japanese author and critic (d. 1995)

1923 Freddy Heineken Dutch businessman (d. 2002)

1923 Howie Meeker Canadian ice hockey player coach and politician (d. 2020)

1923 Eugene Sledge American soldier author and academic (d. 2001)

1923 Rudolf Augstein German soldier and journalist co-founder of Der Spiegel (d. 2002)

1923 Gene Callahan American art director and production designer (d. 1990)

1923 Yisrael Friedman Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017)

1923 Alice Coachman American high jumper (d. 2014)

1923 Elizabeth Hawley American-Nepali journalist and historian (d. 2018)

1923 James Schuyler American poet and author (d. 1991)

1923 Hachikō Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner (d. 1935)

1923 Vicco von Bülow German humorist actor and director (d. 2011)

1923 Ian Graham English archaeologist and explorer (d. 2017)

1923 Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Mexican poet and scholar (d. 2013)

1923 Leonard Boyle Irish and Canadian medievalist and palaeographer (d. 1999)

1923 Linda Christian Mexican-American actress (d. 2011)

1923 Văn Cao Vietnamese composer poet and painter (d. 1995)

1923 Samuel Klein Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014)

1923 Hubertus Brandenburg Swedish bishop (d. 2009)

1923 Mike Garcia American baseball player (d. 1986)

1923 Aristides Pereira Cape Verdean politician first President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)

1923 Bert Sutcliffe New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 2001)

1923 Ted Stevens American politician (d. 2010)

1923 Louis D. Rubin Jr. American author critic and academic (d. 2013)

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