In the year 1923, the very first issue of the Time magazine is published, depicting Joseph G. Cannon on the cover (Mar 3), Lenin resigns for health reasons (Mar 9), the original Wembley Stadium opens its doors for the first time (Apr 28), the Hollywood sign is inaugurated in California, and the first dinosaur eggs are found in Mongolia (Jul 13), the Ottoman Empire ceases to exist (Jul 24), Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company (Oct 16), Kemal Atatürk becomes president of the new republic of Turkey (Oct 29), Adolf Hitler is arrested for leading an attack against the Bavarian government (Nov 15) - and all these fine people were born:

1923-0101 Barbara Baxley* actress/ singer - Porterville, CA USA (1990/67) 1923-0102 1923-0105 Virginia Halas McCaskey* (b Halas) Am. football executive/principal owner of the Chicago Bears - Chicago, IL USA (2025/102) 1923-0106 Leah Chase* chef/television personality - Madisonville, LA USA (2019/96) 1923-0106 Norman Kirk* politician/PM - Waimate, New Zealand (1974/51) 1923-0108 Caroline Rose Hunt* heiress/hotelier/philanthropist - El Dorado, AR USA (2018/95) 1923-0109 Eduard Kolmanovsky* composer - Mogilev, Belorus, Soviet Union (1994/71) YouTube 1923-0111 Paavo Lonkila* cross-country skier/OG - Kiuruvesi, Finland (2017/94) 1923-0112 Alice Miller* Swiss child psychologist/philosopher - Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland (2010/87) 1923-0118 Eino Lehtonen* actor/director - Hämeenlinna, Finland (2010/87) 1923-0119 Jean Stapleton* actress - New York, NY USA (2013/90) 1923-0119 Markus Wolf* Stasi chief in DDR - Hechingen, Prussia, Weimar Republic (2006/83) 1923-0122 Diana Douglas* (b Dill) actress/mother of Michael Douglas - Devonshire, Bermuda (2015/92) 1923-0125 1923-0127 Konstantin Buteyko* physician/creator of the Buteyko method for the treatment of breathing disorders - Ivanitsa, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2003/80) 1923-0131 Norman Mailer* author - Long Branch, NJ USA (2007/84) 1923-0201 Victor A. Lundy* architect - New York City, NY USA (2024/101) 1923-0201 Stig Mårtensson* racing cyclist - Skultuna, Sweden (2010/87) 1923-0202 James Dickey* poet/ novelist - Atlanta, GA USA (1997/73) 1923-0203 Barbara Hall* crossword puzzle editor/advice columnist/writer - Derby, England (2022/99) 1923-0205 Claude King* country singer/songwriter - Keithville, LA USA (2013/90) 1923-0208 Urpo Korhonen* cross-country skier/OG - Rautalampi, Finland (2009/86) 1923-0210 Cesare Siepi* opera singer - Milan, Kingdom of Italy (2010/87) 1923-0211 Rosita Fornés* Cuban American singer/actress - New York City, NY USA (2020/97) 1923-0212 Knox Martin* American painter/sculptor/muralist - Barranquilla, Colombia (2022/99) 1923-0212 Franco Zeffirelli* stage and film director/producer/politician - Florence, Kingdom of Italy (2019/96) 1923-0216 Samuel Willenberg* Holocaust survivor/artist/writer - Częstochowa, Poland (2016/93) 1923-0218 Perry J. Dahl* WW2 flying ace/Air Force colonel  - North Battleford, SK Canada (2024/101) 1923-0219 1923-0220 Matti Pihlaja* actor - Turku, Finland (1973/50) 1923-0224 Sabina Zimering* (b Szwarc) Polish-American ophthalmologist/ Holocaus lecturer&writer - Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland (2021/98) 1923-0227 Sigvard Jonsson* lumberjack/ cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Bodum, Sweden (1969/46) 1923-0228 Charles Durning* actor - Highland Falls, NY USA (2012/89) 1923-0302 György Pásztor* hockey player/pharmacist/sports administrator - Törökbálint, Kingdom of Hungary (2022/99) 1923-0303 Diana Kennedy* (b Southwood) food writer (Mexican cuisine) - Loughton, Essex, England (2022/99) 1923-0306 Ed McMahon* combat aviator/actor/game show host - Detroit, MI USA (2009/86) 1923-0309 Walter Kohn* theoretical physicist/theoretical chemist/N - Vienna, Austria (2016/93) 1923-0310 Val Logsdon Fitch* nuclear physicist/N - Merriman, NE USA (2015/91) 1923-0312 Wally Schirra* naval aviator/astronaut - Hackensack, NJ USA (2007/84) 1923-0331 1923-0401 Brigitte Askonas* immunologist - Vienna, Austria (2013/89) 1923-0402 Gloria Henry* (b McEniry) actress (Dennis the Menace) - New Orleans, LA USA (2021/98) 1923-0404 Gene Reynolds* actor/director/ producer - Cleveland, Oh USA (2020/96) 1923-0404 Peter Vaughan* actor - Wem, Shropshire, England (2016/93) 1923-0405 Timur Frunze* WW2 fighter pilot/Soviet hero - Harkov, Ukraine, Soviet Union (1942/18) 1923-0405 M. Sarada Menon* psychiatrist/ social worker/founder of SCARF  - Mangalore, British India (2021/98) 1923-0409 Arthur Batanides* actor - Tacoma, WA USA (2000/76) 1923-0411 Nina G. Garsoïan* French-American historian - Paris, France (2022/99) 1923-0412 Raija Uosikkinen* porcelain designer - Hollola, Finland (2004/80) 1923-0413 Don Adams* actor (Get Smart) - New York City, NY USA (2005/82) 1923-0417 Neville McNamara* air force commander - Toogoolawah, QLD, Australia (2014/91) 1923-0419 Lygia Fagundes Telles* lawyer/ novelist/writer - São Paulo, Brazil (2022/98) 1923-0422 Robert Ludwig Kahn* German-American scholar of German studies/poet - Nuremberg, Bavaria, Weimar Republic (1970/46) 1923-0422 Aaron Spelling* actor/TV-producer - Dallas, TX USA (2006/83) 1923-0429 Walter Deutsch* Austrian pianist/musicologist - Bozen, South Tyrol, Kingdom of Italy (2025/101) 1923-0501 Joseph Heller* author - Brooklyn, NY USA (/1999/76) 1923-0507 Anne Baxter* actress - Michigan City, IN USA (1985/62) 1923-0510 1923-0513 Betty Webb* (b Vine-Stevens) code breaker during WW2 - England (2025/101) 1923-0521 Armand Borel* mathematician - La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (2003/80) 1923-0526 James Arness* actor - Minneapolis, MN USA (2011/88) 1923-0526 Horst Tappert* actor - Elberfeld, Weimar Republic (2008/85) 1923-0527 Henry Kissinger* German-American politician - Fürth, Bayern, Weimar Republic (2023/100) 1923-0530 Jimmy Lydon* actor/ television producer - Harrington Park, NJ  USA (2022/98) 1923-0601 1923-0605 1923-0610 Robert Maxwell* British media proprietor/MP/ fraudster - Slatinské Doly, Czechoslovakia (1991/68) 1923-0613 Lloyd Conover* chemist/ inventor - Orange, NJ USA (2017/93) 1923-0614 Judith Kerr* British writer/illustrator - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2019/95) 1923-0615 Erland Josephson* actor/ author - Stockholm, Sweden (2012/88) 1923-0618 Robert Ellenstein* actor - Neward, NJ USA (2010/87) 1923-0620 Bjørn Watt-Boolsen* actor - Rudkøbing, Denmark (1998/75) 1923-0621 Johann Eyfells* Icelandic-American architect/sculptor/to U.S. in his twenties - Reykjavik, Iceland (2019/96) 1923-0629 Olav Thon* real estate magnate - Ål, Hallingdal, Norway (2024/101) 1923-0629 Chou Wen-chung* Chinese-American composer - Yantai, Shandong, China (2019/96) 1923-0630 Gad Beck* German-Israeli holocaust survivor/lecturer/educator - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2012/88) 1923-0701 Scotty Bowers* party bartender/Hollywood pimp/sexual pioneer - Ottawa, IL USA (2019/96) 1923-0702 Wislawa Szymborska* poet/ essayist/translator/N - Prowent, Poland (2012/88) 1923-0709 Jill Knight* (b Christie) politician - Bristol, England (2022/98) 1923-0717 Edward J. Ruppelt* U.S. Air Force officer/credited for coining the term UFO - Iowa USA (1960/37) 1923-0720 Elisabeth Becker* concentration camp guard - Neuteich, Free City of Danzig (1946/22) 1923-0721 Olavi Ahonen* actor/ comedian - Tikkakoski, Finland (2000/77) 1923-0721 Rudolph A. Marcus* chemist/N - Montreal, QC Canada ******* 1923-0722 Bob Dole* lawyer/ politician - Russell, KS USA (2021/98) 1923-0725 Estelle Getty* actress/ comedian - New York, NY USA (2008/84) 1923-0725 David Lam* Chinese-Canadian real estate entrepreneur/ politician/ philanthropist - Hong Kong (2010/87) 1923-0802 Shimon Peres* politician/ P/N - Wiszniew, Poland (2016/93) 1923-0803 1923-0804 Reg Grundy* entrepreneur/ media mogul/television producer - Sydney, Australia (2016/92) 1923-0806 Paul Hellyer* engineer/ politician/ufologist - Waterford, ON Canada (2021/98) 1923-0814 Kuldip Nayar* journalist/author/human rights activist - Sialkot, Punjab, British India (2018/95) 1923-0820 Jim Reeves* country singer/songwriter - Galloway, TX USA (1964/40) 1923-0823 Zofia Posmysz* concentration camp survivor/journalist/ author - Krakow, Poland (2022/98) 1923-0829 Richard Attenborough* actor/ filmmaker/politician - Cambridge, England (2014/90) 1923-0830 William Duell* actor/singer - Corinth, NY USA (2011/88) 1923-0831 Ed Grady* actor/ teacher - Kinston, NC USA (2012/89) 1923-0901 Rocky Marciano* boxer - Brockton, MA USA (1969/45) 1923-0903 Glen Bell* entrepreneur (Taco Bell) - Lynwood, CA USA (2010/86) 1923-0903 Mort Walker* comic strip writer - El Dorado, KS USA (2018/94) 1923-0904 John H. Noble* Gulag prisoner/author - Detroit, MI USA (2007/84) 1923-0907 Peter Lawford* actor/producer/ socialite - London, England (1984/61) 1923-0909 Charles Grier Sellers* historian - Charlotte, NC USA  (2021/98) 1923-0910 1923-0916 Sakari Jurkka* actor/theater manager - Oulu, Finland (2012/89) 1923-0916 Ki. Rajanarayanan* Tamil language folklorist/writer - Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, British India (2021/97) 1923-0917 Hank Williams* singer/ songwriter/musician - Georgiana, AL USA (1953/29) 1923-0920 1923-0922 Dannie Abse* physician/ poet – Cardiff, Wales (2014/91) Oh Brother 1923-0923 Kim Williams* naturalist/writer/guest commentator on NPR radio show All Things Considered - Gallatin Township, NY USA (1986/62) 1923-0928 William Windom* actor  - New York, NY USA (2012/88) 1923-0930 Max Jakobson* journalist/ diplomat/father of Linda Jakobson - Viipuri, Finland (2013/89) 1923-1001 1923-1002 Eugenio Cruz Vargas* poet/painter - Santiago, Chile (2014/90) 1923-1004 Charlton Heston* actor/activist - Evanston, IL USA (2008/84) 1923-1004 Charles Lazarus* entrepreneur/founder of Toys R US - Washington D.C. USA (2018/94) 1923-1008 Wilhelm Knabe* ecologist/pacifist/a founding member of the Green Party in Germany - Arnsdorf, Saxony, Weimar Republic (2021/97) 1923-1010 Jack Hemingway* Canadian-American fly fisherman/conservationist/writer/son of Ernest Hemingway - Toronto, ON Canada (2000/77) 1923-1010 Nicholas Parsons* actor/television presenter - Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (2020/96) 1923-1015 1923-1018 Boris Sagal* Russian-American television and film director - Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Soviet Union (1981/57) 1923-1020 Otfried Preußler* German children’s books author - Reichenberg, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia (2013/89) 1923-1024 Denise Levertov* British-American poet/to U.S. at age 24 - Ilford, Essex, England (1997/74) 1923-1030 1923-1101 1923-1105 Biserka Cvejić* (b Katušić) opera singer - Jesenice, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (2021/97) 1923-1106 Aleksandra Chudina* field hockey player/athlete (long jump/OS & javelin/OS & high jump/OB)/volleyball player/WG - Kurkinsky District, Russia, Soviet Union (1990/66) 1923-1118 Alan Shepard* astronaut/5Moon1971 - Derry, NH USA (1998/74) 1923-1120 Nadine Gordimer* writer/activist/N - Springs, Union of South Africa (2014/90) 1923-1122 Arthur Hiller* film director - Edmonton, AB Canada (2016/92) 1923-1125 Mauno Koivisto* politician/9th president - Turku, Finland (2017/93) 1923-1128 James Karen* actor - Wilkes-Barre, PA USA (2018/94) 1923-1201 1923-1202 Shih Chun-jen* Taiwanese neurosurgeon - Gosei, Taiwan, Empire of Japan (2017/93) 1923-1209 Ruth Williams Khama* wife of Botswana’s first president Sir Seretse Khama/First Lady - Blackheath, London, England (2002/78) 1923-1210 Harold Gould* actor - Schenectady, NY USA  (2010/86) 1923-1211 1923-1212 Bob Barker* television game show host (The Price Is Right) - Darrington, WA USA (2023/99) 1923-1212 Joseph Bernard* actor/ acting teacher/co-founder of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute - Brooklyn, NY USA (2006/82) 1923-1213 Philip W. Anderson* theoretical physicist/N - Indianapolis, IN USA (2020/96) 1923-1215 Freeman Dyson* theoretical physicist/mathematician - Crowthorne, Berkshire, England (2020/96) 1923-1219 Krista Kostial-Šimonović* Croatian physician - Osijek, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (2018/94) 1923-1220 1923-1221 Wataru Misaka* basketball player/the first non-white player in NBA - Ogden, UT USA (2019/95) 1923-1224 George Patton IV* general - Boston, MA USA (2004/80) 1923-1229 Sam Sheppard* physician/ neurosurgeon/exonerated inmate - Cleveland, OH USA  (1970/46) 1923-1231 1923-0 1923-0 1923-0 Updated 2025-0512 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here