Famous people born on 23 September

• Ray CharlesAmerican singer, pianist and songwriter · 1930–2004
  73 yrs
• Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate · 1901–1986
  84 yrs
• Aldo MoroItalian politician · 1916–1978
  61 yrs
• John ColtraneAmerican jazz saxophonist · 1926–1967
  40 yrs
• Paolo RossiItalian footballer · 1956–2020
  64 yrs
• Mickey RooneyAmerican actor · 1920–2014
  93 yrs
• Romy SchneiderGerman-French actress · 1938–1982
  43 yrs
• Grigory ZinovievRussian revolutionary · 1883–1936
  52 yrs
• Ferdinand VI of Spain ↗King of Spain, lived · 1713–1759
  45 yrs
• Clifford Shull ↗American physicist · 1915–2001
  85 yrs
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ↗German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier · 1486–1535
  48 yrs
• Leo VI the Wise ↗Byzantine Emperor · AD 866–912
  45 yrs
• Hippolyte Fizeau ↗French physicist · 1819–1896
  76 yrs
• Victoria Woodhull ↗American suffragist, editor · 1838–1927
  88 yrs
• Walter Lippmann ↗American journalist and political commentator · 1889–1974
  85 yrs
• Asima Chatterjee ↗Indian chemist · 1917–2006
  89 yrs
• John Boyd Orr ↗Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization · 1880–1971
  90 yrs
• Tokutaro Ukon ↗Japanese association football player · 1913–1944
  30 yrs
• Robert Bosch ↗German industrialist, inventor, engineer · 1861–1942
  80 yrs
• Suzanne Valadon ↗French painter · 1865–1938
  72 yrs
• Emperor Kōkaku ↗Emperor of Japan from 1780 to 1817 · 1771–1840
  69 yrs
• Johann Franz Encke ↗German astronomer · 1791–1865
  73 yrs
• Shyla Stylez ↗Canadian pornographic actress · 1982–2017
  35 yrs
• Typhoid Mary ↗Infected houseworker in New York City · 1869–1938
  69 yrs
• Quini ↗Spanish footballer · 1949–2018
  68 yrs
• Paul Delvaux ↗Belgian painter · 1897–1994
  96 yrs
• William C. McCool ↗U.S. Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia which was destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003 · 1961–2003
  41 yrs
• František Kupka ↗Czech painter and graphic artist · 1871–1957
  85 yrs
• Per Olov Enquist ↗Swedish writer · 1934–2020
  85 yrs
• Go-Sakuramachi ↗Empress regnant of Japan · 1740–1813
  73 yrs
• Valentín Paniagua ↗Peruvian politician · 1936–2006
  70 yrs
• Walter Pidgeon ↗Canadian actor · 1897–1984
  87 yrs

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