What happened on September 23 ?

480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)

63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)

1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)

1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)

1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)

1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)

1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)

1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)

1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)

1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)

1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)

1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)

1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)

1838 - Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)

1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)

1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)

1864 - Draga Ma?in, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)

1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)

1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)

1889 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)

1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)

1895 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (d. 1985)

1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)

1900 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)

1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

1911 - Frank Moss, American politician (d. 2003)

1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)

1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)

1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor

1923 - Timber Wolf, Chinese-Vietnamese revolutionary

1924 - Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)

1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)

1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)

1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)

1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician

1938 - Tom Lester, American actor

1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)

1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)

1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor

1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician

1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer

1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach

1945 - Paul Petersen, American actor

1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician

1947 - Mary Kay Place, American actress

1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter

1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)

1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer

1956 - Peter David, American writer

1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach

1959 - Jason Alexander, American actor

1959 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress

1960 - Jason Carter, British actor

1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)

1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)

1969 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)

1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer

1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver

1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician

1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality

1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler

1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model

1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress

1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality

1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player

1981 - Natalie Horler, singer

1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress

1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop idol

1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player

1988 - Paris Bennett, American singer