Famous Birthdays for April 23William 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, 1564 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 (Traveling Wilburys) 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") Steve Clark (Stephen Maynard Clark) 1943 - Musician (Def Leppard) 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 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") 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 Kal Penn 1977 - Actor ("House M.D.") Daniela Hantuchova 1983 - Tennis player Rachel Skarsten 1985 - Actress Camryn Walling 1990 - Actor ("The Agency") Dev Patel 1977 - Actor ("Slumdog Millionaire") |
