April 23




Birthdays


William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar", "Romeo and Juliet", "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1616

James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck

- More information here - Today in U.S. President History

Serbei Prokofiev 1891 - Pianist, composer ("Peter and the Wolf")

(Charles Burnham) Bud Wilkinson 1916 - Football player

Janet Blair (Martha Jane Lafferty) 1921 - Actress ("My Sister Eileen", "The Fabulous Dorseys")

Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker", "Heidi", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")

Alan Oppenheimer 1930 - Actor ("Murphy Brown", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman")

Halston (Roy Frowick) 1932 - Fashion designer, created the pillbox hat that was worn by Jackie Kennedy at President Kennedy's inauguration

Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer

Don Massengale 1937 - Golfer

Ray Peterson 1939 - Singer

David Birney 1939 - Actor ("Oh, God! Book 2", "St. Elsewhere")

Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man", "Big Valley", "The Bionic Woman")

Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck) 1942 - Actress ("Gidget")

Hervé Villechaize 1943 - Actor ("Fantasy Island")

Tony Esposito 1944 - Hockey player

Marty Fleckman 1944 - Golfer

Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) 1948 - Irish civil rights leader

Blair Brown 1948 - Actress

Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress ("Three's Company)

Paul Brickman 1949 - Director, writer

Narada Michael Walden 1952 - Musician (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report), record producer, songwriter

James Russo 1953 - Actor

Captain Sensible 1954 - Musician (Damned)

Michael Moore 1954 - Director

Judy Davis 1955 - Actress

Jan Hooks 1957 - Actress ("Designing Women", "Saturday Night Live", "Batman Returns")

Craig Sheffer 1960 - Actor

Valerie Bertinelli 1960 - Actress ("One Day at a Time"), married to Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)

Steve Clark 1960 - Musician (Def Leppard)

George Lopez 1961 - Actor

Gen 1964 - Musician (Jesus Jones)

Melina Kanakaredes 1967 - Actress ("Providence", "Guiding Light", "CSI: New York")

Tim Womack 1968 - Musician (Sons of the Desert)

Stan Frazier 1968 - Musician (Sugar Ray)

Scott Bairstow 1970 - Actor

Andruw Jones 1977 - Baseball player

Daniela Hantuchova 1983 - Tennis player

Rachel Skarsten 1985 - Actress

Camryn Walling 1990 - Actor ("The Agency")