January 23

2024 Calendar

January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year (343 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

440 - Hanzei, Emperor of Japan
1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1199 – Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (b. 1160)
1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China
1570 – James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland
1622 - William Baffin, English explorer and navigator
1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1789 – John Cleland, novelist (b. 1709)
1800 – Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1752)
1805 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
1820 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
1837 – John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
1875 – Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
1883 – Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, United States Supreme Court (b. 1825)
1894 - Lebengula, King of Matabeleland (in what is now Zimbabwe) (b. 1833)

1901 – 2000

1921 - Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer (b. 1877)
1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian writer, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
1937 – Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress (b. 1896)
1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
1943 – Alexander Woollcott, actor, writer, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1899)
1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian director (b. 1893)
1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (b. 1871)
1973 – Kid Ory, jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1976 – Paul Robeson, actor, singer, social activist (b. 1898)
1976 – Paul Dupuis, French-Canadian movie and television actor (b. 1913)
1978 – Jack Oakie, actor (b. 1903)
1978 – Terry Kath, musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
1980 - Giovanni Michelotti, Italian sports car designer (b. 1921)
1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1986 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and performance artist (b. 1921)
1989 – Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 – Allen Collins, American musician (b. 1952)
1991 – Northrop Frye, literary critic (b. 1912)
1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, actor (b. 1924)
1993 – Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer (b. 1899)
1994 – Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (b. 1917)
1997 – Richard Berry, American composer, musician (b. 1935)
1999 - Joe D'Amato, Italian director and cinematographer (b. 1936)
1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)

From 2001

2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 – Robert Nozick, philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 – Nell Carter, singer, actress (b. 1948)
2004 – Bob Keeshan, actor (b. 1927)
2004 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)
2005 – Johnny Carson, American television personality (b. 1925)
2005 – Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2007 – Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2009 - Robert W. Scott, American politician and former Governor of South Carolina (b. 1929)
2010 – Earl Wild, American pianist (b. 1915)
2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutrition expert (b. 1914)
2013 - Jozef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
2013 - Janice Knickrehm, American actress (b. 1925)
2014 - Riz Ortolani, Italian composer (b. 1926)
2015 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924)
2015 - Ernie Banks, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2015 - Prosper Ego, Dutch activist (b. 1927)
2015 - Nol Heijerman, Dutch footballer (b. 1940)
2015 - Barrie Ingham, English actor (b. 1934)
2015 - Pedro Lemebel, Chilean writer (b. 1952)
2015 - Nick Koback, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2016 - A. C. Jose, Indian politician (b. 1937)
2016 - Barry Brickell, New Zealand ceramic artist (b. 1935)
2016 - Elisabeta Polihroniade, Romanian chess player (b. 1935)
2016 - Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player (b. 1921)
2017 - Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian-Israeli bicycle racer (b. 1985)
2017 - Gorden Kaye, English actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Ruth Samuelson, American politician (b. 1959)
2017 - Andrew Telegdi, Hungarian-Canadian politician (b. 1946)
2017 - Bimba Bosé, Italian-born Spanish model, designer and actress (b. 1975)
2017 - Ralph Guglielmi, American football player (b. 1933)
2017 - Erland Kolding Nielsen, Danish academic (b. 1947)
2017 - Leslie Koo, Taiwanese business executive (b. 1954)
2018 - Hugh Masekela, South African jazz trumpeter (b. 1939)
2018 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914)
2018 - Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist (b. 1928)
2018 - Lari White, American country singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1965)
2021 - Hal Holbrook, American actor (b. 1925)

Births

1901 – 1950

1903 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1907 – Dan Duryea, actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (d. 1981)
1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
1913 - Jean-Michel Atlan, French philosopher and painter (d. 1960)
1913 - Wally Parks, American racing executive (d. 2007)
1915 – W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-British economist (d. 1991)
1915 – Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1985)
1916 - David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and war reporter
1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist (d. 1999)
1919 - Frances Bay, Canadian-American actress (d. 2011)
1919 – Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist (d. 2013)
1919 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
1919 – Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (d. 1996)
1920 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (d. 2010)
1920 - Ray Abrams, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1992)
1920 - Henry Eriksson, Swedish runner (d. 2000)
1923 – Walter M. Miller Jr., American science fiction writer (d. 1996)
1924 - Frank Lautenberg, American politician and United States Senator for New Jersey (d. 2013)
1926 - Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1928 – Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game (d. 2005)
1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
1929 - John Polanyi, German-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
1930 – Derek Walcott, West Indies writer, Nobel Prize winner (d. 2017)
1930 - William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
1930 - Filaret, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
1930 - Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (d. 2017)
1933 - Bill Hayden, 21st Governor-General of Australia
1933 – Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
1936 - Brian Howe, Australian politician
1936 – Jerry Kramer, American football player
1938 – Shohei Baba, professional wrestler, founder of All-Japan Pro Wrestling (d. 1999)
1938 – Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
1939 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor
1939 – Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 – Johnny Russell, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1940 - Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (d. 2015)
1941 - Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, writer and academic (d. 2014)
1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1943 – Gil Gerard, actor
1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz musician
1944 - Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (d. 2013)
1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
1945 - Richard Dearlove, former Head of MI6
1945 - Mike Harris, 22nd Premier of Ontario
1946 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (d. 2013)
1946 - Arnoldo Aleman, former President of Nicaragua
1947 – Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1947 - Tom Carper, 71st Governor of Delaware
1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer
1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
1950 – Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band) (d. 2008)
1950 - John Greaves, English musician
1950 - Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentine musician (d. 2012)

1951 – 1975

1951 - David Patrick Kelly, American actor and musician
1951 – Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot
1952 - Omar Henry, South African cricketer
1953 - Robin Zander, American singer
1953 - Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukrainian politician
1953 - Alister McGrath, Northern Irish priest and academic
1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, former Mayor of Los Angeles, California
1954 – Franco De Vita, singer/songwriter
1954 - Richard Finch, American bassist (KC & the Sunshine Band)
1957 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1960 - Max Keiser, German journalist and filmmaker
1961 - Yelena Sinchukova, Russian long jumper
1962 - David Arnold, British movie score composer
1963 – Gail O'Grady, actress
1964 – Mariska Hargitay, American actress
1964 – Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of Guyana
1964 - Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Oleg Sakirkin, Kazakhstani triple jumper
1967 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1968 – Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1970 – Moreno Torricelli, Italian footballer
1970 - Oleg Ovsyannikov, Russian ice dancer
1970 - Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
1972 – Lisa Snowdon, English actress and model
1973 - Dee Caffari, English sailor
1973 - Youddiph, Russian singer
1974 – Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress

From 1976

1976 - Tony Lucca, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 - Dawn Porter, British television presenter
1981 - Julia Jones, American actress
1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1982 - Patrick Levis, American actor
1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 – Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model
1986 – José Enrique Sanchez, Spanish footballer
1986 – Steven Taylor, English footballer
1986 - Pablo Andujar, Spanish tennis player
1989 - April Pearson, British actress
1990 - Artjom Abramov, Estonian ice hockey player
1996 - Chachi Gonzales, American dancer

Deaths

Observances

National Pie Day (United States)
Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island)