Births on 23 May
2000s
Rayane Messi
2007
French footballer (born 2007)
Alexandra Eala
2005
Filipino tennis player (born 2005)
Brennan Johnson
2001
Wales international footballer (born 2001)
Felipe Drugovich
2000
Brazilian racing driver (born 2000)
Israel Reyes
2000
Mexican footballer (born 2000)
1900s
James Charles
1999
American internet personality (born 1999)
Trinidad Cardona
1999
American singer, songwriter and social media personality (born 1999)
Sandro Mamukelashvili
1999
Georgian basketball player (born 1999)
Sérgio Sette Câmara
1998
Brazilian racing driver (born 1998)
Salwa Eid Naser
1998
Bahraini sprinter
Luca de la Torre
1998
American soccer player (born 1998)
Pedro Chirivella
1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Coy Craft
1997
Former FC Dallas and USMNT player
Joe Gomez
1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Maximilian Kilman
1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Gustaf Nilsson (footballer, born 1997)
1997
Swedish footballer (born 1997)
Sam Timmins
1997
New Zealand basketball player (born 1997)
Katharina Schmid
1996
German ski jumper (born 1996)
Emmanuel Boateng (footballer, born 1996)
1996
Ghanaian footballer
Răzvan Marin
1996
Romanian footballer (born 1996)
Çağlar Söyüncü
1996
Turkish footballer (born 1996)
Laerte do Vando
1992
Brazilian politician (born 1992)
Aaron Donald
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Lena Meyer-Landrut
1991
German singer (born 1991)
César Pinares
1991
Chilean footballer (born 1991)
Dan Evans (tennis)
1990
British tennis player (born 1990)
Kristína Kučová
1990
Slovak tennis player (born 1990)
Oliver Venno
1990
Estonian volleyball player (born 1990)
Ezequiel Schelotto
1989
Argentine-Italian footballer (born 1989)
Rosanna Crawford
1988
Canadian biathlete
Angelo Ogbonna
1988
Italian footballer (born 1988)
Morgan Pressel
1988
American professional golfer
Gracie Otto
1987
Australian filmmaker
Bray Wyatt
1987
American professional wrestler (1987–2023)
Ryan Coogler
1986
American filmmaker (born 1986)
Alexei Sitnikov
1986
Russian and Azerbaijani ice dancer (born 1986)
Alice Tait
1986
Australian swimmer (born 1986)
Ruben Zadkovich
1986
Australian footballer (born 1986)
Sebastián Fernández (footballer, born 1985)
1985
Uruguayan footballer (born 1985)
Teymuraz Gabashvili
1985
Russian tennis player
Wim Stroetinga
1985
Dutch cyclist (born 1985)
Ross Wallace
1985
Scottish footballer
Hugo Almeida
1984
Portuguese footballer (born 1984)
Silvio Proto
1983
Belgian footballer (born 1983)
Tim Robinson
1981
American comedian (born 1981)
Theofanis Gekas
1980
Greek footballer (born 1980)
Chris Gethard
1980
American actor and comedian
Ben Ross
1980
Australian rugby league footballer
Rasual Butler
1979
American basketball player (1979–2018)
Brian Campbell
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Scott Raynor
1978
American drummer (born 1978)
Richard Ayoade
1977
British comedian and actor (born 1977)
Ilia Kulik
1977
Russian figure skater
Ricardinho (footballer, born May 1976)
1976
Brazilian footballer and manager
Andy Selva
1976
Sammarinese football manager and former player (born 1976)
Jewel (singer)
1974
American musician (born 1974)
Manuela Schwesig
1974
German politician (born 1974)
Maxwell (musician)
1973
American R&B singer (born 1973)
Rubens Barrichello
1972
Brazilian racing driver (born 1972)
Poppy King
1972
Australian entrepreneur (born 1972)
Martin Saggers
1972
English cricketer and umpire
George Osborne
1971
British newspaper editor and politician (born 1971)
Bryan Herta
1970
American race car driver (born 1970)
Guinevere Turner
1968
American actress and screenwriter
Luís Roberto Alves
1967
Mexican footballer (born 1967)
Anna Ibrisagic
1967
Swedish politician (born 1967)
Philip Selway
1967
English musician (born 1967)
H. Jon Benjamin
1966
American actor and comedian (born 1966)
Graeme Hick
1966
English cricketer
Gary Roberts (ice hockey)
1966
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1966)
Manolo Sanchís
1965
Spanish footballer
Tom Tykwer
1965
German film director
Melissa McBride
1965
American actress
Paul Sironen
1965
Australia international rugby league footballer
Ruth Metzler
1964
Swiss politician
Viviane Baladi
1963
Swiss mathematician (born 1963)
Karen Duffy
1962
American model, actress (born 1961)
Daniele Massaro
1961
Italian footballer (born 1961)
Norrie May-Welby
1961
First legally genderless person
Linden Ashby
1960
American actor (born 1960)
Marcella Mesker
1959
Dutch tennis player
Mitch Albom
1958
American author and journalist (born 1958)
Drew Carey
1958
American comedian (born 1958)
Lea DeLaria
1958
American comedian, actress and singer (born 1958)
Andrea Pazienza
1956
Italian artist (1956–1988)
Ursula Plassnik
1956
Austrian diplomat and politician
Buck Showalter
1956
American baseball manager (born 1956)
Luka Bloom
1955
Irish folk singer-songwriter
Gerry Armstrong (footballer)
1954
Northern Irish footballer
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1954
American boxer (1954–2021)
Martin Parr
1952
British documentary photographer (1952–2025)
Anatoly Karpov
1951
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1951)
Antonis Samaras
1951
Prime Minister of Greece (2012–2015)
Martin McGuinness
1950
Irish republican politician and IRA leader (1950–2017)
Richard Chase
1950
American serial killer and cannibal (1950–1980)
Daniel DiNardo
1949
American Catholic cardinal (born 1949)
Alan García
1949
President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
Myriam Boyer
1948
French actress (b.1948)
Jane Kenyon
1947
American poet, translator
David Graham (golfer)
1946
Australian professional golfer (born 1946)
Padmarajan
1945
Indian film maker and author
John Newcombe
1944
Australian tennis player
Peter Kenilorea
1943
Prime Minister of Solomon Islands (1943–2016)
Gabriel Liiceanu
1942
Romanian philosopher
K. Raghavendra Rao
1942
Indian film director (born 1942)
Zalman King
1941
American director, writer, producer, actor (1941–2012)
Rod Thorn
1941
American basketball player (born 1941)
Bjørn Johansen (musician)
1940
Norwegian jazz musician
Gérard Larrousse
1940
French racing driver (born 1940)
Cora Sadosky
1940
Argentine mathematician
Michel Colombier
1939
French composer, arranger, conductor (1939–2004)
Reinhard Hauff
1939
German film director (born 1939)
Ingeborg Hallstein
1936
German coloratura soprano (born 1936)
Charles Kimbrough
1936
American actor (1936–2023)
Lasse Strömstedt
1935
Swedish writer (1935–2009)
Robert Moog
1934
American electronic music pioneer (1934–2005)
Joan Collins
1933
English actress and writer (born 1933)
Ove Fundin
1933
Swedish motorcycle speedway rider
Kevork Ajemian
1932
Lebanese-Armenian writer
Barbara Barrie
1931
American actress and author
Friedrich Achleitner
1930
Austrian poet and architecture critic (1930–2019)
Ulla Jacobsson
1929
Swedish actress (1929–1982)
Rosemary Clooney
1928
American singer and actress (1928–2002)
Nigel Davenport
1928
English actor (1928–2013)
Nina Otkalenko
1928
Soviet distance runner
Basil Salvadore D'Souza
1926
Indian Roman Catholic Bishop
Joe Slovo
1926
South African politician (born 1926-1995)
Aileen Hernandez
1926
American union organizer and civil rights activist
Joshua Lederberg
1925
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
Karlheinz Deschner
1924
German writer and activist (1924–2014)
Alicia de Larrocha
1923
Spanish pianist (1923–2009)
Irving Millman
1923
Humphrey Lyttelton
1921
English trumpeter and broadcaster (1921–2008)
Helen O'Connell
1920
American actress and singer (1920–1993)
Robert Bernstein (comics)
1919
American writer (1919–1988)
Ruth Fernández
1919
Puerto Rican politician and singer
Betty Garrett
1919
American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (1919–2011)
Denis Compton
1918
English cricketer (1918–1997)
Edward Norton Lorenz
1917
American mathematician (1917–2008)
S. Donald Stookey
1915
American inventor and materials scientist (1915–2014)
Harold Hitchcock
1914
English painter
Celestine Sibley
1914
American writer (1914–1999)
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
1914
British economist; life peer
Jean Françaix
1912
French composer (1912–1997)
John Payne (actor)
1912
American actor (1912–1989)
Lou Brouillard
1911
Canadian boxer (1911–1984)
Paul Augustin Mayer
1911
German Cardinal
Betty Nuthall
1911
English tennis player
Margaret Wise Brown
1910
American writer of children's books (1910–1952)
Hugh Casson
1910
British architect (1910–1999)
Scatman Crothers
1910
American entertainer (1910–1986)
Franz Kline
1910
American painter (1910–1962)
Artie Shaw
1910
American clarinetist and bandleader (1910–2004)
John Bardeen
1908
American condensed matter physicist (1908–1991)
Hélène Boucher
1908
French pilot (1908–1934)
Tomiko Itooka
1908
Japanese supercentenarian (1908–2024)
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
1908
Swiss writer, journalist and photographer (1908–1942)
Hans Frank
1900
German politician and war criminal (1900–1946)
Franz Neumann (political scientist)
1900
German Marxist activist, political scientist, and lawyer (1900–1954)
1800s
Jeralean Talley
1899
American supercentenarian (1899–2015)
Scott O'Dell
1898
American writer (1898–1989)
Josef Terboven
1898
German Nazi politician (1898–1945)
Jimmie Guthrie
1897
Scottish motorcycle racer
Felix Steiner
1896
Waffen-SS commander (1896–1966)
Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
1892
British peer and grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales (1892–1975)
Pär Lagerkvist
1891
Swedish writer (1891-1974)
Herbert Marshall
1890
English actor (1890–1966)
Ernst Niekisch
1889
German National-Bolshevik politician (1889–1967)
Adriaan Roland Holst
1888
Dutch writer (1888–1976)
Zack Wheat
1888
American baseball player (1888–1972)
Thoralf Skolem
1887
Norwegian mathematician
Nikolai Vekšin
1887
Estonian sailor
C. R. M. F. Cruttwell
1887
British historian (1887–1941)
Corrado Gini
1884
Italian statistician (1884–1965)
Douglas Fairbanks
1883
American actor and filmmaker (1883–1939)
William Halpenny
1882
Canadian pole vaulter (1882–1960)
Alfred P. Sloan
1875
American business executive (1875–1966)
Epitácio Pessoa
1865
President of Brazil from 1919 to 1922
William O'Connor (fencer)
1864
American fencer (1864–1939)
Władysław Horodecki
1863
Polish architect (1863–1930)
József Rippl-Rónai
1861
Hungarian painter (1861–1927)
Isabella Ford
1855
English social reformer (1855–1924)
Otto Lilienthal
1848
German aviation pioneer (1848–1896)
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
1844
Head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 to 1921
George Throssell
1840
Australian politician
Amaldus Nielsen
1838
Norwegian painter (1838–1932)
Anatole Mallet
1837
Józef Wieniawski
1837
Polish pianist, composer and conductor (1837 - 1912)
Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis
1834
Latvian architect
Carl Bloch
1834
Danish painter (1834–1890)
Ambrose Burnside
1824
American general and politician (1824–1881)
James Buchanan Eads
1820
American civil engineer and inventor
Lorenzo Sawyer
1820
American judge (1820–1891)
Manuel Robles Pezuela
1817
President of Mexico from 1858 to 1859
Margaret Fuller
1810
American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega
1800
President of Mexico in 1855
Before 1800
Charles Barry
1795
English architect (1795–1860)
Ignaz Moscheles
1794
Bohemian pianist and composer (1794–1870)
Jules Dumont d'Urville
1790
French explorer and naval officer (1790–1842)
James Pradier
1790
Swiss-French sculptor (1790–1852)
Franz Schlik
1789
Andrea Luchesi
1741
Italian composer
Franz Mesmer
1734
German physician (1734–1815)
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia
1730
Prussian prince (1730–1813)
Giuseppe Parini
1729
Italian poet (1729–1799)
William Hunter (anatomist)
1718
Scottish physician (1718–1783)
Carl Linnaeus
1707
Swedish biologist and physician (1707–1778)
William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
1629
Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Elias Ashmole
1617
English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist
Bertholet Flemalle
1614
Liège Baroque painter (1614-1675)
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
1606
Spanish philosopher, writer, mathematician and Catholic clergyman (1606–1682)
Paul Siefert
1586
German composer and organist (1586–1666)
Gongmin of Goryeo
1330
King of Goryeo from 1351 to 1374
Uijong of Goryeo
1127
King of Goryeo from 1146 to 1170
Emperor Qinzong
1100
Emperor of Song China from 1126 to 1127
Philip I of France
1052
King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108
Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar II
675
Indian king (705–745)
Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II
635
Ajaw