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Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996
More Notable Birthdays on April 23:
1940 - Lee Majors, born in Michigan, TV actor, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man
1936 - Roy Orbison, Vernon, Texas, rocker, Pretty Woman
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, novelist, Lolita, Ada
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918
1791 - James Buchanan, Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, 15th U.S. president, 1857-61