Anniversaries 23 October

Birth

Ignatius of Loyola9

Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit… 1491–1556

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey4

British politician 1773–1850

Robert Seymour Bridges43

British writer 1844–1930

George Saintsbury14

British literary critic 1845–1933

Frederick W. Lanchester2

British polymath 1868–1946

Edwin Boring20

American psychologist 1886–1968

Margaret A. Edwards1

American librarian 1902–1988

Paul Twitchell1

American writer 1909–1971

Ali Al-Wardi39

Iraqi sociologist 1913–1995

Allen Wheelis1

American psychoanalyst 1915–2007

Peggy Moran3

actress 1918–2002

Ned Rorem4

American composer 1923–2022

Fred Shero15

Former ice hockey player and coach 1925–1990

Johnny Carson5

American talk show host and magician 1925–2005

Leszek Kolakowski45

Philosopher, historian of ideas 1927–2009

Paul Davidson2

Post Keynesian economist 1930

Pelé48

Brazilian association football player 1940–2022

Michael Crichton121

American author, screenwriter, film producer 1942–2008

Mahmoud al-Zahar2

Co-founder of Hamas 1945

John Milbank3

British philosopher 1952

Juan Cole4

American scholar 1952

Ang Lee4

Taiwanese-born American film director, screenwriter and fil… 1954

Graeme Revell2

New Zealand musician 1955

Martin Luther King III2

Civil right activist 1957

Robert Muhiirwa1

Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop 1958

"Weird Al" Yankovic17

American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, a… 1959

Sam Raimi1

American film director, producer, writer and actor 1959

Nancy Grace5

American legal commentator, television host, television jou… 1959

Randy Pausch83

American professor of computer science, human-computer inte… 1960–2008

Laurie Halse Anderson147

American children's writer 1961

Mylo Hubert Vergara1

Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church (born 1962) 1962

Gordon Korman24

Canadian American children's writer 1963

Robert Trujillo2

American bassist known for his role as the current bassist … 1964

Augusten Burroughs81

American writer 1965

Alex Flinn57

American children's writer 1966

Trudi Canavan14

Australian writer 1969

Sanjay Gupta4

journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeon 1969

Aravind Adiga12

Indian journalist and author 1974

Derek Landy167

Irish children's writer 1974

Cat Deeley2

English television presenter, actress, singer and model 1976

Meghan McCain2

Daughter of United States Senator John McCain 1984

Izabel Goulart1

Brazilian model 1984

Masiela Lusha26

Albanian actress, writer, author 1985

Death

Marcus Junius Brutus3

Roman politician -85–-42 BC

Théophile Gautier15

French writer 1811–1872

John Conington85

British classical scholar 1825–1869

Chulalongkorn2

King of Siam 1853–1910

John William Lloyd5

American anarchist, sexologist, utopian theorist and author… 1857–1940

Ernest Thompson Seton2

British/ American author, artist, and a founder of the scou… 1860–1946

Ahmed Shawqi1

Egyptian poet and dramatist 1868–1932

Zane Grey6

American novelist 1872–1939

Charles Demuth1

American painter 1883–1935

Soong Mei-ling6

Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China 1897–2003

Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee4

Indian educator, jurist, author, diplomat, and Islamic scho… 1899–1981

Clarice Cliff1

English ceramic artist 1899–1972

Carl Eckart9

American physicist 1902–1973

Christian Dior35

French fashion designer 1905–1957

Jack T. Chick39

Christian comics writer 1924–2016

Kurien Kunnumpuram33

Indian theologian 1931–2018

Isaac Abella1

physicist 1934–2016

Tony Hoagland3

American writer 1953–2018