October 23 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 23, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#167 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 23 birthdays
Adlai Stevenson I · American politician1835
Gilbert N. Lewis · American physical chemist1875
Felix Bloch · Swiss physicist1905
Ilya Frank · Soviet physicist1908
Gianni Rodari · Italian writer and journalist1920
Johnny Carson · American talk show host and comedian1925
Zhu Rongji · 5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 20031928
Pelé · Brazilian footballer1940
Michael Crichton · American author, screenwriter, film director1942
Ang Lee · Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer1954
Paul Kagame · President of Rwanda since 20001957
"Weird Al" Yankovic · American comedy musician1959
Sam Raimi · American filmmaker1959
Randy Pausch · American professor of computer science1960
Robert Trujillo · American bass guitarist1964
Ryan Reynolds · Canadian-American actor1976
Prabhas · Indian film actor1979
Masiela Lusha · Albanian American actress and author1985
Álvaro Morata · Spanish footballer1992
Margaret Qualley · American actress and model1994
On this day in history
1850The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by American activist Paulina Wright Davis, began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1942World War II: Japanese troops began an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from American forces.
1957A screening of Mother India, one of the most influential Indian films in history, was held for President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru two days before its release.
2018An escalator accident in Rome left 24 people injured, mostly fans of the CSKA Moscow football team who were in town for a UEFA Champions League match against Roma.
1956The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration that attracted thousands while marching through central Budapest to the parliament building.
1995The runway show for Alexander McQueen's collection The Hunger was staged at London's Natural History Museum.
2001Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-world and mature-content video games.
2015Hurricane Patricia, the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Western Hemisphere, peaked with maximum sustained winds of 215 mph (345 km/h) south of Mexico.
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