January 23 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 23, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#243 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 23 birthdays
Ernst Abbe · German physicist1840
David Hilbert · German mathematician1862
Paul Langevin · French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue1872
Otto Diels · German chemist1876
Subhas Chandra Bose · Indian nationalist leader1897
Randolph Scott · American actor1898
Hideki Yukawa · Japanese theoretical physicist1907
Django Reinhardt · Romani-Belgian/French jazz musician1910
Gertrude B. Elion · American biochemist and pharmacologist1918
Marija Gimbutas · Lithuanian-American archaeologist1921
Jeanne Moreau · French actress, singer, screenwriter and director1928
Derek Walcott · Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright1930
Rutger Hauer · Dutch actor1944
Megawati Sukarnoputri · 5th President of Indonesia and 8th Vice President of Indonesia1947
Richard Dean Anderson · American actor1950
Mariska Hargitay · American actress1964
Magdalena Andersson · Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 20221967
Tiffani Thiessen · American actress1974
Arjen Robben · Dutch association football player1984
XXXTentacion · American rapper1998
On this day in history
1849Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York, making her the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
1957American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
1997Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time.
2003The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.
1789Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would become the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States.
1993The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.
2018The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.
2022Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba depose and detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid widespread anti-government protests.
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