Birthdays in History on October 23

Marcus Agrippa (c. 63-12 BC)

Roman general (Battle of Actium), born in an uncertain location but possibly in Arpino, Istria or Asisium [or 64 BC]

1491 Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish-Basque nobleman, priest, and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) religious order, born in Azpeitia, Spain (d. 1556)
1516 Charlotte of Valois, Princess of France as second daughter of King Francis I and his wife Claude, born in Château d'Amboise, France (d. 1524)
1543 Juan de la Cueva, Spanish dramatist, born in Sevilla, Spain (d. 1612)
1634 Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden by marriage to Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1654-60) (d. 1715)
1698 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde), born in Paris (d. 1782)
1705 Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1757)
1713 Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1778)
1715 Peter II Alexeyevich, Tsar of Russia (1727-30), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1730)
1762 Samuel Morey, American inventor (early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships), born in Hebron, Connecticut (d. 1843)
1766 Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French general and marshal, born in Paris (d. 1847)
1767 Benjamin Constant [de Rebeque], French politician and writer (Adolphe), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1830)
1771 Jean-Andoche Junot, French general under Napoleon, born in Bussy-le-Grand, France (d. 1813)
1790 Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1796 Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
1797 John Jacob Rochussen, Dutch governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51), born in Etten, Batavian Republic (d. 1871)
1805 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
1805 John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1810 William Leidesdorff, Mixed-race early Californian businessman, born in Christiansted, Virgin Islands, Danish West Indies (d. 1848)

Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848)

German explorer of northern and central Australia, born in Trebatsch, Prussia

1815 João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1820 James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1889)
1824 Thomas Gamble Pitcher, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Rockport, Indiana (d. 1895)
1828 Turner Ashby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1835 Adlai Stevenson I, American politician (D), 23rd Vice President of the United States (1893-97), born in Christian County, Kentucky (d. 1914)
1844 Robert Bridges, English poet (Testament of beauty) and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), born in Walmer, Kent (d. 1930)
1852 Jean-Louis Forain, French impressionist etcher and lithographer, born in Reims, France (d. 1931)
1865 Neltje Blanchan, American nature writer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1918)
1868 Frederick Lanchester, English Engineer who built the first British petrol automobile (1896), born in London, England (d. 1946)
1870 Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
1873 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (modern x-ray tube), born in Hudson, Massachusetts (d. 1975)
1875 Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (theory of covalent bonding), born in Weymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1876 Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1885 Lawren Harris, Canadian landscape painter, born in Brantford, Ontario (d. 1970)
1888 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec (d. 1961)
1893 Ernest Julius Öpik, Kunda, Estonian Astronomer and Astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos
1896 André Lévêque, French engineer, born in Beauvais, France (d. 1930)
1905 Felix Bloch, Swiss-American nuclear physicist (1st Director of CERN, Nobel Prize for Physics 1952), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1983)
1908 Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank, Russian Physicist and Nobel Laureate (Cherenkov radiation), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1990
1909 Zellig S. Harris, Russian-American linguist, born in Balta, Russia (d. 1992)
1914 Dick Durrance, American skier, born in Tarpon Springs, Florida (d. 2004)
1919 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece, born in Bursa, Ottoman Empire (d. 1992)
1920 Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1921 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus)
1922 Stuart Sloan, British war hero and pilot, born in Whitecraig, Scotland (d. 1994)
1927 Edward Kienholz, American sculptor (Roxy), born in Fairfield, Washington (d. 1994)
1927 Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (Conversations with the Devil), born in Radom, Poland (d. 2009)
1932 Vasily Belov, Russian author, poet and playwright (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), born in Northern Krai, USSR (d. 2012)
1936 Philip Kaufman, American director (Right Stuff, Henry & June), born in Chicago, Illinois
1938 John Heinz, American businessman and Republican politician (Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-1991), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
1941 Igor Smirnov, Transnistrian politician, President of breakaway region of Moldova, born in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Soviet Union
1942 Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop), born in Littlehampton, West Sussex (d. 2007) [1]

Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

American novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker) and filmmaker (Jurassic Park, ER), born in Chicago, Illinois

1946 Mel Martinez, American politician (Senator-R-Florida 2005-9), born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba
1948 Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur (Acorn Computers), born in Vienna, Austria
1949 Nick Tosches, American writer (bio of Jerry Lee Lewis), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2019)
1951 Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovar politician, First President of Kosovo (2006-10), born in Pakashticë, Yugoslavia

Paul Kagame (65 years old)

1957 Rwandan leader, head of Rwandan Patriotic Front, President of Rwanda (2000-), born in Tambwe, Ruanda-Urundi

1958 Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author, born in Detroit, Michigan
1960 Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
1961 Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer (Speak), born in Potsdam, New York
1962 Daria Scagliola, Italian-Dutch photographer (vuurtorenpostzegels)
1965 Augusten Burroughs [Christopher Richter Robison], American writer (Running with Scissors), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1970 Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster, born in Lod Angeles, California (d. 2020)
1974 Derek Landy, Irish author (Skulduggery Pleasant series), born in Lusk, Ireland
1983 Josh Strickland, American entertainer, born in Charleston, South Carolina
1985 James Kotecki, American political blogger, born in Syracuse, New York
1991 Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan