Anniversaries 23 May

Birth

Carl Linnaeus23

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist 1707–1778

Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne1

Prince of Ligne 1735–1814

Thomas Hood50

British writer 1799–1845

Margaret Fuller116

American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

John Ross Macduff6

Scottish religious writer 1818–1895

Frances Fuller Victor5

American writer 1826–1902

`Abdu'l-Bahá7

Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith 1844–1921

Charles E. Nash3

American politician 1844–1913

Otto Lilienthal16

German aviation pioneer 1848–1896

Alfred P. Sloan47

American businessman 1875–1966

Corrado Gini2

Italian statistician 1884–1965

Dennis Holme Robertson3

British economist 1890–1963

Scott O'Dell2

American children's writer 1898–1989

Hans Frank22

German war criminal 1900–1946

Charles W. Morris15

American philosopher 1903–1979

John Bardeen2

American physicist and engineer 1908–1991

Artie Shaw2

American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader 1910–2004

Margaret Wise Brown9

American children's writer and editor 1910–1952

Franz Kline20

American painter 1910–1962

Edward Norton Lorenz2

American mathematician and meteorologist 1917–2008

Samuli Paronen2

1917–1974

Virgil John Tangborn13

1920–1944

James Blish30

American author 1921–1975

Humphrey Lyttelton6

English jazz trumpeter 1921–2008

Karlheinz Deschner17

German writer and activist 1924–2014

Lucian Mureșan1

Catholic cardinal 1931

Marisa Merz1

Italian artist 1931–2019

Joan Collins1

English actress, author and columnist 1933

Dr. Moog1

electronic music pioneer and inventor from the United States 1934–2005

Susan Cooper23

English fantasy writer 1935

M. Scott Peck26

American psychiatrist 1936–2005

William Weigand1

Catholic bishop 1937

Susan Polis Schutz3

American poet 1944

Jane Kenyon2

American poet, translator 1947–1995

Michael E. Porter13

American engineer and economist 1947

Ann Hui2

Hong Kong film director 1947

Vinod Rai8

Comptroller and Auditor General of India 1948

Alan García2

Peruvian politician 1949–2019

Anatoly Karpov4

Russian chess player 1951

Neil Fligstein40

American sociologist 1951

Drew Carey5

American actor, comedian, game show host, libertarian and p… 1958

Lea DeLaria7

American actress and singer 1958

Mitch Albom289

American author 1958

Rubens Barrichello2

Brazilian racing driver 1972

lino1

French rapper 1974

Jewel5

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress, a… 1974

Alexandra Robbins2

American journalist 1976

Tim Aker3

British politician 1985

Gavin Free26

English filmmaker 1988

Paul Rey3

Swedish singer 1992

Death

Girolamo Savonarola11

Italian Dominican friar and preacher 1452–1498

Luis de Góngora6

Spanish Baroque lyric poet 1561–1627

James Otis Jr.13

Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts 1725–1783

Mason Weems3

fictionalizing biographer of George Washington 1759–1825

Augustin Louis Cauchy5

French mathematician (1789–1857) 1789–1857

Kit Carson8

American frontiersman and Union Army general 1809–1868

Mark Lemon2

British magazine editor 1809–1870

Henrik Ibsen69

Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906

John D. Rockefeller29

American business magnate and philanthropist 1839–1937

Rudolf Pannwitz1

German writer and philosopher 1881–1969

Moms Mabley2

American comedian and actress 1894–1975

Heinrich Himmler24

Nazi officer, Commander of the SS 1900–1945

David Smith24

American visual artist (1906-1965) 1906–1965

Telford Taylor2

American lawyer 1908–1998

W. W. Hansen2

American physicist 1909–1949

Rayner Heppenstall1

British writer 1911–1981

Kenneth Allott2

Irish poet 1912–1973

Sterling Hayden8

American actor 1916–1986

Lloyd Bentsen3

American politician 1921–2006

Paul Fussell15

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1924–2012

Roger Moore2

British actor 1927–2017

John Nash23

American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928–2015

Utah Phillips9

American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet 1935–2008

Roh Moo-hyun6

9th President of the Republic of Korea 1946–2009

Ali Raymi6

Boxing Knockout Artist 1973–2015

Aleksey Mozgovoy5

pro-Russian rebel and warlord in Eastern Ukraine 1975–2015

Elliot Rodger52

American spree killer 1991–2014