March 23 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 23, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#303 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 23 birthdays
Roger Martin du Gard · French writer1881
Hermann Staudinger · German chemist1881
Emmy Noether · German Jewish mathematician1882
Erich Fromm · German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst1900
Daniel Bovet · Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist1907
Akira Kurosawa · Japanese filmmaker1910
Wernher von Braun · German and later American aerospace engineer and space1912
Philip Zimbardo · American social psychologist1933
Michael Haneke · Austrian film director and screenwriter1942
Kim Stanley Robinson · American science fiction writer1952
Rex Tillerson · 69th United States Secretary of State1952
Chaka Khan · American singer1953
Moses Malone · American basketball player1955
José Manuel Barroso · Portuguese politician1956
Hope Davis · American actress1964
Gianni Infantino · Swiss-Italian-Lebanese football administrator1970
Jason Kidd · American basketball player and coach1973
Michelle Monaghan · American actress1976
Keri Russell · American actress1976
Kyrie Irving · American basketball player1992
On this day in history
1977British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.
1991The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
1996Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
2021A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days.
1993The demolition of Kowloon Walled City, a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
2001The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean.
2010The Affordable Care Act becomes law in the United States.
2018President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
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