What happened on January 23 ?

1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)

1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)

1737 - John Hancock, American Revolutionist (d. 1793)

1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)

1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)

1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)

1813 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)

1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)

1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)

1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)

1857 - Andrija Mohorovi?i?, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)

1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)

1872 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)

1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)

1872 - Joze Ple?nik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)

1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)

1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956)

1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)

1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)

1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)

1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)

1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)

1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh Conductor & Organist (d. 1988)

1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)

1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)

1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)

1915 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

1915 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)

1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)

1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist

1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)

1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)

1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)

1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress

1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1930 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1933 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer

1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football player

1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)

1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor

1943 - Gil Gerard, American actor

1943 - Millie Jackson, American singer

1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor

1947 - Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator from Delaware.

1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, President of Indonesia

1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer

1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor

1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band)

1953 - Antonio Villaragoisa, American politician

1953 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)

1954 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter

1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco

1959 - Clive Bull Radio talk show host

1963 - Gail O'Grady, American actress

1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress

1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born, Turkish weightlifter

1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer

1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player

1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer

1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress

1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist

1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player

1983 - David Firth, British animator/musician

1983 - George Foreman III, American reality series star; son of George Foreman

1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer

1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel