November 23
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[edit] Births
- 912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
- 1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
- 1749 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)
- 1760 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
- 1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
- 1819 - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, U.S. general (d. 1901)
- 1820 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (d. 1884)
- 1860 - Billy the Kid, American bandit (d. 1881)
- 1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Swedish statesman, winner of Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1925)
- 1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
- 1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
- 1887 - Boris Karloff, actor (d. 1969)
- 1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, dancer (d. 1943)
- 1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
- 1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
- 1892 - Erté, artist (d. 1990)
- 1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, writer (d. 1999)
- 1901 - Marieluise Fleisser, author (d. 1974)
- 1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
- 1909 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian, writer (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
- 1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor
- 1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, Scottish-born anthropologist
- 1925 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
- 1928 - Pierre Etaix, actor, film director and writer
- 1929 - Günter Gaus, publicist and politician
- 1931 - Dervla Murphy, traveller, author
- 1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
- 1934 - Robert Towne, writer, director, producer, and actor
- 1935 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
- 1938 - Herbert Achternbusch, author and film director
- 1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
- 1944 - Joe Eszterhas, producer and writer
- 1944 - James Toback, writer and director
- 1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor
- 1954 - Bruce Hornsby, musician
- 1955 - Steven Brust, author
- 1956 - Steve Harvey, actor and comedian
- 1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, actor
- 1959 - Dominique Dunne, actress (d. 1982)
- 1970 - Zoë Ball, television and radio presenter
- 1974 - Jamie Sharper, American football player
- 1977 - Myriam Boileau, diver
