Famous people born on 23 March

• Akira KurosawaJapanese filmmaker · 1910–1998
  88 yrs
• Pierre-Simon LaplaceFrench mathematician and astronomer · 1749–1827
  77 yrs
• Wernher von BraunGerman and later American aerospace engineer and space architect · 1912–1977
  65 yrs
• Erich FrommGerman-American sociologist and psychoanalyst · 1900–1980
  79 yrs
• Joan CrawfordAmerican actress · 1905–1977
  72 yrs
• Roger Martin du GardFrench writer · 1881–1958
  77 yrs
• Emmy NoetherGerman Jewish mathematician · 1882–1935
  53 yrs
• Hermann StaudingerGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry · 1881–1965
  84 yrs
• Daniel Bovet ↗Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist · 1907–1992
  85 yrs
• Juan Gris ↗Spanish artist · 1887–1927
  40 yrs
• Viktor Korchnoi ↗Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster · 1931–2016
  85 yrs
• Vasily Zaytsev ↗Soviet sniper · 1915–1991
  76 yrs
• Ludwig Quidde ↗German politician · 1858–1941
  82 yrs
• Roger Bannister ↗English physician and athlete · 1929–2018
  88 yrs
• Schuyler Colfax ↗Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 · 1823–1885
  61 yrs
• Philip Zimbardo ↗American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment · 1933–2024
  91 yrs
• Ama Ata Aidoo ↗Ghanaian author, writer, politician, and academic · 1942–2023
  81 yrs
• Moses Malone ↗American basketball player · 1955–2015
  60 yrs
• Ugo Tognazzi ↗Italian film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter · 1922–1990
  68 yrs
• Ziya Gökalp ↗Turkish sociologist and writer · 1876–1924
  48 yrs
• Franco Battiato ↗Italian singer-songwriter and musician · 1945–2021
  76 yrs
• Lale Andersen ↗German singer and actress · 1905–1972
  67 yrs
• Felix Yusupov ↗Russian prince · 1887–1967
  80 yrs
• Calouste Gulbenkian ↗Armenian businessman, art collector and philanthropist · 1869–1955
  86 yrs
• William Smith ↗English geologist · 1769–1839
  70 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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