What happened on May 23 ?

1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)

1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)

1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)

1617 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)

1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)

1718 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d.1783)

1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)

1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)

1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)

1795 - Charles Barry , English architect (d. 1860)

1810 - Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)

1820 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)

1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)

1834 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)

1844 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)

1848 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)

1865 - Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (d.1942)

1875 - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)

1879 - Dezs? Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)

1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)

1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)

1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)

1888 - Zack Wheat, baseball player (d. 1972)

1890 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)

1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)

1898 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)

1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)

1908 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)

1910 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d. 1999)

1910 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)

1910 - Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)

1912 - Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)

1912 - John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)

1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist

1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)

1919 - Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer

1920 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993)

1921 - James Blish, American author (d. 1975)

1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, British musician

1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1928 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)

1928 - Nigel Davenport , English actor

1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)

1931 - Barbara Barrie, American actress

1933 - Joan Collins, English actress

1934 - Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)

1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer

1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor

1938 - Peter Preston, British journalist and author

1939 - Reinhard Hauff, German film director

1939 - Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)

1944 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player

1945 - Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)

1946 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor

1947 - Bernard Comrie, English linguist

1951 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player

1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer

1952 - Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer

1955 - Luka Bloom, Irish Singer/Songwriter

1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician

1956 - Buck Showalter, baseball player and manager

1958 - Mitch Albom, American writer

1958 - Drew Carey, American actor and comedian

1961 - Karen Duffy, American actress

1963 - Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer

1964 - Allan Kayser, American actor

1964 - Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council

1967 - Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)

1970 - Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin

1971 - Charmaine Sinclair, Playboy model

1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver

1974 - Ken Jennings, American game show contestant

1974 - Jewel, American singer

1974 - Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer

1974 - Richard Jones (Stereophonics), Welsh musician

1976 - Kelly Monaco, American soap opera, General Hospital, star

1977 - Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater

1978 - Scott Raynor, original drummer for San Diego Pop-punk trio Blink-182

1982 - Malene Mortensen, Danish singer

1983 - Patrick Martin, professional wrestler, more commonly known as Alex Shelley

1983 - Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes)

1984 - Adam Wylie, American actor