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May 23, 1984 Adam Wylie, actor, Picket Fences
May 23, 1980 Sarah Louise Catherwood, Christchurch NZ, 4x200m swimmer 1996 Olympics
May 23, 1978 Silvia Colloca, Italian Actress
May 23, 1976 Kelly Marie Monaco, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, playmate, April, 1997
May 23, 1976 Melanie Joyce Bell, Vernon New Jersey, Miss America-New Jersey 1997
May 23, 1975 Vincent Goossens, soccer player, Dordrecht '90
May 23, 1974 Duane Clemons, linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings
May 23, 1974 Jewel [Kilcher], Alaska, folk/rock vocalist, Pieces of You
May 23, 1974 Kimber West, born in Atlanta, Georgia, playmate, Feb 1997
May 23, 1974 Jewel, American Musician
May 23, 1974 Jewel Kilcher, American Musician
May 23, 1974 Ken Jennings, American Celebrity
May 23, 1973 Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit, Curacao, 1997
May 23, 1972 Isabelle Fijalkowski, WNBA center and forward for the Cleveland Rockers
May 23, 1972 Marco van Hoogdalem, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC
May 23, 1972 Rene Ingoglia, running back for the Buffalo Bills
May 23, 1972 Shannon Brown, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons
May 23, 1971 Issac Booth, NFL cornerback and safety for the Cleveland Browns
May 23, 1971 Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
May 23, 1971 Marshall Boze, San Manual, Arizona, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers
May 23, 1970 Grahae Hick, cricketer
May 23, 1970 Ricky Gutierrez, born in Miami, Florida, infielder for the Houston Astros
May 23, 1969 Pat Hurst, San Leandro California, LPGA golfer, 1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year
May 23, 1969 Ramon Caraballo, baseball player
May 23, 1968 Daryl Hobbs, NFL wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders
May 23, 1968 Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson, Laguna Beach California, WPVA, Nationals-13th-1995
May 23, 1967 Craig John Monk, Auckland NZ, finn class yachter 1996 Olympics
May 23, 1967 Charlie Hunter, American Musician
May 23, 1966 Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing for the Calgary Flames
May 23, 1966 Graeme Hick, cricketer, in Zimbabwe Massive run-scorer for Worcs
May 23, 1966 Helena Bonham Carter, London, actress, Ft. Worth, Howards End
May 23, 1965 James Hasty, NFL cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs
May 23, 1965 Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star
May 23, 1965 Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer, Indian slow left-arm all-rounder
May 23, 1964 Kenny Gattison, NBA forward, Orlando Magic
May 23, 1964 Staci Greason, Denver, actress, Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives
May 23, 1962 Karen Duffy, [Duff], New York City, MTV VJ/actress, Meet Wally Sparks
May 23, 1962 Keith Brantley, Scott AFB, Illinois, marathoner 1996 Olympics
May 23, 1961 Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman, Vancouver Canucks
May 23, 1961 Drew Carey, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor/comedian, Drew-Drew Carey Show
May 23, 1961 Kevin Romine, baseball player
May 23, 1960 Theo Vogelaars, pop bassist, Trockener Kecks/Paid Love
May 23, 1959 Linden Ashby, actor, Mortal Kombat
May 23, 1959 Marcella Mesker, Netherlands, tennis star
May 23, 1958 Shelly West, born in Cleveland, Ohio, country singer, Red Hot, West by West
May 23, 1958 Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-22
May 23, 1958 Lea DeLaria, American Comedian
May 23, 1958 Mitch Albom, American Writer
May 23, 1957 Jimmy McShane, Pop singer, Baltimora-Tarzan Boy
May 23, 1955 John Stevens, MEP
May 23, 1954 Marvin Hagler, American Athlete
May 23, 1952 "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, New Jersey, middleweight boxing champ, 1982-83
May 23, 1952 Deborah Adair, actress, Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life
May 23, 1952 James Mankey, rocker, Concrete Blonde
May 23, 1951 Anatoli Karpov, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1975-85
May 23, 1951 Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer, Girls Ride Horses Too
May 23, 1950 Linda Thompson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Hee Haw
May 23, 1950 Martin McGuinness, Irish Politician
May 23, 1949 Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, 1985-90
May 23, 1948 Reggie Cleveland, baseball player
May 23, 1948 Gary McCord, American Athlete
May 23, 1947 Ann Hui, director, Boat People
May 23, 1947 Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor, Miss Saigon
May 23, 1946 Tom Dorris, horse trainer
May 23, 1945 Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire
May 23, 1945 Lauren Chapin, actress, Kathy-Father Knows Best
May 23, 1945 Misty Morgan, country keyboardist, duo with Jack Blanchard
May 23, 1944 General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club
May 23, 1944 Giles Smith, TV journalist
May 23, 1944 Olga Maitland, MP
May 23, 1944 Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, U.S. drummer, Funkadelic, Knee Deep
May 23, 1943 John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro, Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71
May 23, 1943 Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat
May 23, 1943 Norman Johnson, singer and songwriter
May 23, 1943 Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
May 23, 1941 Jackson Hill, composer
May 23, 1939 Ron Stevens, horse trainer
May 23, 1939 Robert A. M. Stern, American Architect
May 23, 1938 John R Miller, Rep-R-WA, 1985-
May 23, 1938 Peter Preston, editor, Guardian
May 23, 1938 Johnny Ball, British Entertainer
May 23, 1937 John Mazza, horse trainer
May 23, 1936 Charles Kimbrough, actor, Murphy Brown
May 23, 1936 Douglas John Gorman, businessman
May 23, 1936 Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
May 23, 1935 Juliet Campbell, British ambassador, to Luxembourg
May 23, 1935 Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
May 23, 1934 Malcolm Gill, deputy head, Bank for International Settlements
May 23, 1934 Robert A Moog, inventor, Moog Synthesizer
May 23, 1934 Robert Moog, American Inventor
May 23, 1933 Bruce A Peterson, U.S. test pilot, M2, HL-10
May 23, 1933 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture and land and fishing, CDA
May 23, 1933 Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress, Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch
May 23, 1933 Joan Collins, American Actress
May 23, 1932 James Lester, MP
May 23, 1932 John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master, Trinity Hall
May 23, 1931 Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress, Breaking Away, Barney Miller
May 23, 1931 Jose Telles Da Conceicao, Brazil, high jumper 1952 Olympics bronze
May 23, 1930 Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pennsylvania, painter
May 23, 1929 Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 1965-
May 23, 1929 Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress, One Summer of Happiness
May 23, 1928 Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor, Without a Clue, Masada
May 23, 1928 Nina Otkalenko, U.S.S.R., 800m runner, 9 world records
May 23, 1928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman, Coronet
May 23, 1924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host, Jim-Calamity the Cow
May 23, 1924 Michael McCrum, master, Corpus Christi College Cambridge
May 23, 1924 V N Swamy, cricketer, one Test India vs. NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45
May 23, 1923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist, Orquesta Sinfonica
May 23, 1923 Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler, 1949-52
May 23, 1922 Dennis Compton, author/crickleter
May 23, 1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor, It's Great to Be Young
May 23, 1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader
May 23, 1921 Loren Tindall, Oklahoma, actor, Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost
May 23, 1921 Montague Modlyn, broadcaster
May 23, 1921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
May 23, 1921 James Blish, American Author
May 23, 1920 Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer, Green Eyes, Anapola
May 23, 1920 Sid Melton, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas
May 23, 1919 Betty Garrett, St. Joseph, Missouri, actress, Irene-All in the Family
May 23, 1919 Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary
May 23, 1918 Bulent Arel, composer
May 23, 1918 Bumps Blackwell, rocker
May 23, 1918 Denis Compton, cricketer, England batsman 1938-56 and Arsenal forward
May 23, 1916 M Jean Francaix, composer
May 23, 1916 Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright, living legacy award 1995
May 23, 1915 Clyde Wiegand, physicist
May 23, 1914 Alec Dickson, founder, VSO
May 23, 1914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer, Only One Earth
May 23, 1914 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine
May 23, 1914 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
May 23, 1913 Ian Graeme, major-general
May 23, 1912 David Barran, CEO, Midland Bank, England
May 23, 1912 Jean Francaix, Le Mans France, composer, Naked King
May 23, 1912 John Payne, Roanoke, Virginia, actor, Restless Gun
May 23, 1912 Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor, Herr Palitz-Holocaust
May 23, 1912 Samuel Curran, vice chancellor, Strathclyde University
May 23, 1911 Boris Kremenliev, composer
May 23, 1911 Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society
May 23, 1910 Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], New York City, bandleader, Come'on my House
May 23, 1910 Franz Jozef Kline, U.S. expressionist painter
May 23, 1910 Hugh Casson CH, architect
May 23, 1910 Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute, Indiana, actor, Zapped, Shining
May 23, 1910 Franz Kline, American Artist
May 23, 1910 Hugh Casson, British Architect
May 23, 1909 Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
May 23, 1909 Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant
May 23, 1909 Mary Cheney, American Celebrity
May 23, 1908 Christian GK Baeta, Togolese chairman, International Mission Council
May 23, 1908 John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972
May 23, 1908 Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building
May 23, 1907 Kenneth Allen, engineer
May 23, 1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
May 23, 1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
May 23, 1903 Walter Reisch, U.S., screenwriter, Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic
May 23, 1902 Mark Lothar, composer
May 23, 1900 Hans Frank, German Public Servant
May 23, 1898 Frank McHugh, actor, Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young
May 23, 1898 Joseph Hazen, lawyer
May 23, 1891 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951
May 23, 1890 Herbert Marshall, London, actor, Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes
May 23, 1890 Virginia Eames, Ft. Davis, Texas, entertainer
May 23, 1888 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet, Raged and Tired
May 23, 1886 Hermann Neiáe, writer
May 23, 1883 Douglas Fairbanks, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood
May 23, 1882 James Gleason, New York City, writer and actor, Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool
May 23, 1875 Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman
May 23, 1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism
May 23, 1871 Sigurd Lie, composer
May 23, 1866 Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
May 23, 1864 Louis Glass, composer
May 23, 1862 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
May 23, 1851 Antoni Stolpe, composer
May 23, 1849 Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Premier of Hungary, 1910-12
May 23, 1848 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff, WW I
May 23, 1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
May 23, 1844 'Abdu'l-Baha, early Baha'i leader, 'Azamat 7, 1
May 23, 1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
May 23, 1837 James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1892
May 23, 1832 Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer
May 23, 1828 Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed, Amherst College
May 23, 1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers
May 23, 1820 James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis
May 23, 1813 Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
May 23, 1812 Henri A. Esquiros, French poet and writer, Les Vierges Folles
May 23, 1810 Margaret Fuller, American Critic
May 23, 1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt
May 23, 1795 Charles Barry, architect
May 23, 1794 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
May 23, 1790 Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville, explorer
May 23, 1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
May 23, 1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
May 23, 1754 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter, Napoleon
May 23, 1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
May 23, 1741 Andrea Lucchesi, composer
May 23, 1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer
May 23, 1735 Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
May 23, 1734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist, Mesmerism
May 23, 1729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno
May 23, 1718 William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
May 23, 1710 Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor, garden sculptures
May 23, 1707 Carolus Linnaeus, Sweden, biological classifier
May 23, 1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
May 23, 1644 Thomas Eisenhut, composer
May 23, 1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
May 23, 1617 Elias Ashmole, antiquary
May 23, 1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized



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