Famous Birthdays on 23st May

1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)1598 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)1617 - Elias Ashmole, antiquary1620 - Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized1644 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer1707 - Carolus Linneus, Sweden, biological classifier1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)1710 - Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)1718 - William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno)1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)1735 - Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author1737 - Louis Francois Chambray, composer1741 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer1753 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer1754 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon)1756 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer1759 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)1794 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer1795 - Charles Barry, architect1799 - Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)1812 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)1813 - Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 18951820 - James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)1820 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)1824 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)1828 - Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)1832 - Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer1834 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)1837 - James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 18921843 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer1844 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)1848 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I)1848 - Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator1851 - Antoni Stolpe, composer1862 - William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 991864 - Louis Glass, composer1865 - Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)1866 - Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist1871 - Sigurd Lie, composer1873 - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)1875 - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)1879 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)1882 - James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool)1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)1888 - Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)1890 - Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)1890 - Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)1898 - Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)1898 - Joseph Hazen, lawyer1898 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)1901 - Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]1902 - Mark Lothar, composer1903 - Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)1906 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer1907 - Kenneth Allen, engineer1907 - Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant1908 - John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)1908 - Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)1909 - Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat1910 - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)1910 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter1910 - Hugh Casson CH, architect1910 - Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining)1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)1911 - Boris Kremenliev, composer1911 - Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society)1912 - David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)1912 - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun)1912 - Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)1912 - Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)1913 - Ian Graeme, major-general1913 - Ruth Fernandez legendary singer from Puerto Rico1914 - Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)1914 - Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)1914 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)1914 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher1915 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist1916 - M Jean Francaix, composer1916 - Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995)1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)1918 - Bulent Arel, composer1918 - Bumps Blackwell, rocker1918 - Denis Compton, cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward)1919 - Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family)1919 - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary1920 - Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)1920 - Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young)1921 - James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)1921 - Loren Tindall, OK, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost)1921 - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster1921 - Sanderson Temple, circuit judge1922 - Dennis Compton, author/crickleter1923 - Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)1923 - Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52)1924 - Desmond Carrington, British radio host (Jim-Calamity the Cow)1924 - Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)1924 - V N Swamy, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45)1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)1925 - Mac Wiseman, American musician1928 - Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)1928 - Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records)1928 - Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)1928 - Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)1929 - Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- )1929 - Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)1930 - Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pa, painter1930 - Friedrich Achleitner, German poet1931 - Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)1932 - James Lester, MP1932 - John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall)1933 - Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10)1933 - Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)1933 - Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch)1934 - Malcolm Gill, deputy head (Bank for Intl Settlements)1934 - Robert A Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer)1935 - Juliet Campbell, British ambassador (to Luxembourg)1935 - Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank1936 - Charles Kimbrough, actor (Murphy Brown)1936 - Douglas John Gorman, businessman1936 - Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer1937 - John Mazza, horse trainer1938 - John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985- )1938 - Peter Preston, editor (Guardian)1939 - Ron Stevens, horse trainer1939 - Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)1941 - Jackson Hill, composer1942 - K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director1942 - Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher1943 - John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)1943 - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat1943 - Norman Johnson, singer/songwriter1943 - Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands1944 - General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club)1944 - Giles Smith, TV journalist1944 - Olga Maitland, MP1944 - Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)1945 - Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire1945 - Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)1945 - Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)1945 - Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)1946 - Tom Dorris, horse trainer1946 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor1946 - H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist1947 - Ann Hui, director (Boat People)1947 - Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon)1947 - Bernard Comrie, English linguist1947 - Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)1948 - Reggie Cleveland, baseball player1949 - Alan Garcia Perez, pres of Peru (1985-90)1950 - Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)1951 - Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)1951 - Judy Rodman, Riverside Calif, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)1951 - Antonis Samaras, Greek politician1952 - "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)1952 - Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life)1952 - James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer1955 - John Stevens, MEP1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician1956 - Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer1956 - Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager1957 - Jimmy McShane, Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy)1957 - Mark Arnold, American actor1958 - Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)1958 - Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)1958 - Mitch Albom, American writer1958 - François Feldman, French singer1959 - Linden Ashby, actor (Mortal Kombat)1959 - Marcella Mesker, Netherlands, tennis star1961 - Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)1961 - Drew Carey, Cleve Oh, actor/comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show)1961 - Kevin Romine, baseball player1962 - Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV VJ/actress (Meet Wally Sparks)1962 - Keith Brantley, Scott AFB Ill, marathoner (Olympics-96)1962 - Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality1964 - Kenny Gattison, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)1964 - Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)1964 - Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council1965 - James Hasty, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)1965 - Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star1965 - Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder)1965 - Tom Tykwer, German film director1965 - Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer1966 - Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)