What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every April birthday · battle April 23 against another date · all rankings
Who shares April 23
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1977 · United States
John Felix Anthony Cena is an American actor, former professional wrestler, and former rapper. He is signed to WWE as a brand ambassador. Cena wrestled for WWE for 24 years, becoming a record-setting 17-time world champion, before transitioning fully into his acting career.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1928–2014 · United States
Shirley Jane Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, politician, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1791–1868 · United States
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. A northern Democrat, he sought to resolve the sectional crisis through a pro-slavery interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, which alienated abolitionists in the North.
From Brady daguerreotype (Mathew Brady) (1822-1896), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1936–1988 · United States
Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison's most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s.
Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1858–1947 · German Reich
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
American molecular biologist and immunologist
1961 · United States
Mary Elizabeth Brunkow is an American molecular biologist, immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for co-identifying the gene later named FOXP3 as the cause of the scurfy mouse phenotype, a finding that became foundational for modern regulatory T cell biology.
US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1964 · United States
Sir William Felix Browder, is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was formerly the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1996 · Spain
Álex Márquez Alentà is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who races for the Ducati satellite team Gresini Racing in MotoGP. He finished as championship runner-up in the 2025 season.
TeamEG00, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1970 · United States
Aerin Rebecca Lauder Zinterhofer is an American billionaire heiress and businesswoman.
Entrepreneur
1910–1993 · United States
Samuel Addison Boyd was an American entrepreneur, casino manager and developer.
Entrepreneur · manufacturing
1972 · Czech Republic
Czech businesswoman
April 23 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1990 · United Kingdom
Dev Patel is a British actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Patel was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
Ariela Ortiz Barrantes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1977 · United States
Kalpen Suresh Modi, known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration.
Office of Public Engagement, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1977 · United States
John William Oliver is a British and American comedian, political commentator, actor, and television personality. He hosts Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and started his career as a stand-up comedian in the United Kingdom.
Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1962 · United Kingdom
John Hannah is a Scottish actor and narrator. He came to prominence in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as Matthew.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1954 · United States
Michael Francis Moore is a progressive American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Moore's work frequently addresses various social, political, and economic topics.
David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1775–1851 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic and regarded as one of the greatest and most influential British painters. He elevated the status of landscape painting and is considered a precursor of Impressionism.
J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1907–1977 · United States
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there.
U.S. Army Official Photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1942–2005 · United States
Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials and then film in her teenage years.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1955 · Australia
Judith Davis is an Australian actress. Regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation, she is known for her work across both screen and stage, often in roles of brittle, neurotic women in independent media.
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
American businessman
1931–2023 · Ireland
Charles Francis Feeney was an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, the travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong.
Politician
1897–1972 · Canada
Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1958 to 1968 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1958 to 1963.
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1977 · Sweden
Arash Labbaf is an Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer, and producer.
Daniel Kruczynski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1902–1998 · Iceland
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1844–1926 · United States
Sanford Ballard Dole was a lawyer and jurist. He lived through the periods when Hawaii was a kingdom, provisional government, republic, and territory. Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · Slovakia
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak tennis commentator and retired player.
Diliff, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1941–2016 · United States
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who invented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; it was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET.
Andreu Veà, WiWiW.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1929–2020 · United States
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust.
TheNexusInstitute (youtube), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1856–1910 · United States
Granville Tailer Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.
William J. Simmons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1988 · Nigeria
Victor Chinedu Anichebe is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Actor
1894–1962 · United States
Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards.
James R. Quirk, editor - Photoplay Publishing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1857–1919 · Kingdom of Italy
Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs, but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success.
Schaarwächter, J.C. (1847-1904), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1986 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Sven Kramer is a retired Dutch long track speed skater who has won an all-time record nine World Allround Championships as well as a record ten European Allround Championships.
Actor
1943 · Spain
María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Cervera y Fernández de la Guerra, Dowager Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, popularly known as Carmen "Tita" Cervera or Carmen "Tita" Thyssen, is a Spanish socialite, and art dealer, collector and beauty pageant titleholder.
Maximo88, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1918–2009 · France
Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.
Studio Harcourt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1961 · Ukraine
Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts.
TimDuncan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1804–1884 · Kingdom of Italy
Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in the Austrian Empire and France.
Grévedon, Henri (Pierre Louis Grévedon, dit) (Paris, 17–10–1776 - Paris, 01–06–1860), dessinateur-lithographe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1941 · France
Eliane Ducos, known professionally as Jacqueline Boyer, is a French singer and actress. She is also the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer.
Politician
1967 · Philippines
Geraldine Batista Roman is a Filipina journalist and politician who served as the Representative of Bataan's 1st district from 2016 to 2025. She is the first transgender person elected to the Congress of the Philippines.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1899–1979 · Sweden
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965.
Gunnar Lantz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1948 · France
Pascal Quignard is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure. In 1980 his novel Carus was awarded the Prix des Critiques. In 2002 Les Ombres errantes won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. Terrasse à Rome, received the French Academy prize in 2000.
France Culture au Palais de Tokyo (8625234486).jpg : Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France derivative work: LllC, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on April 23, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 23. Read the full methodology.
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