What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every May birthday · battle May 23 against another date · all rankings
Who shares May 23
Share of the 46 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
Creator
1986 · United States
Ryan Kyle Coogler is an American filmmaker. His accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ten Black Reel Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image Awards.
Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Inventor
1908–1991 · United States
John Bardeen was an American physicist.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1891–1974 · Sweden
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ateljé Uggla, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1925–2008 · United States
Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/B/B/Q/C/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1933 · United Kingdom
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author and columnist. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1707–1778 · Sweden
Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".
Alexander Roslin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · United Artists · entertainment
1883–1939 · United States
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films. One of the biggest stars of the silent era, Fairbanks was referred to as "The King of Hollywood".
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1824–1881 · United States
Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well as being an inventor and industrialist.
Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · LaSalle · automotive
1875–1966 · United States
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a longtime president, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors (GM).
Artist: S. J. Woolf (Samuel Johnson Woolf, 1880-1948), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · AstraZeneca · pharmaceuticals
1959 · France
Sir Pascal Claude Roland Soriot is a French-born Australian businessman and chief executive of the British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company AstraZeneca.
Virginia Office of the Governor, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1933 · United States
Robert Warren Miller is an American-British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS Group, and sailing champion.
Entrepreneur
1968 · Nigeria
Alkiviades "Alki" David is a Cypriot-British businessman. By 2008, he was the majority shareholder of Leventis-David Group, which owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in 28 countries.
May 23 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1928–2002 · United States
Rosemary Clooney was an American pop and jazz singer and actress.
Bud Fraker, for Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1958 · United States
Drew Allison Carey is an American comedian, game show host, and actor.
Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1974 · United States
Jewel Kilcher is an American singer-songwriter. She has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide as of 2024.
Davidwbaker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1951 · Russia
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician.
Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1997 · United Kingdom
Joseph David Gomez is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender and serves as vice-captain for Premier League club Liverpool. He is Liverpool’s longest-serving player, having joined the club from Charlton Athletic in 2015.
Timmy96, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1972 · Brazil
Rubens Gonçalves Barrichello is a Brazilian racing driver and broadcaster, who competes in the Stock Car Pro Series for Scuderia Bandeiras.
Bahia Notícias from Salvador, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
0701–0762 · Tang dynasty
Li Bai, also known by his courtesy name of Taibai, was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the best and most important poets of the Tang dynasty, and even in the whole of Chinese poetry.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1971 · United Kingdom
George Gideon Oliver Osborne is a British former politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and First Secretary of State from 2015 to 2016 in the Cameron government.
Actor
1991 · Germany
Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut, also known by the mononym Lena, is a German singer. She rose to fame after representing Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, winning the event with the song "Satellite".
Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1949–2019 · Peru
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms, from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011.
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores from Perú, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1810–1850 · United States
Sarah Margaret Fuller, sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.
Chappel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
0905–0959 · Byzantine Empire
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, and the nephew of his predecessor Alexander.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1734–1815 · Holy Roman Empire
Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism.
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/ba/51/9882ede007fb4936a25f0f517683.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1934–2005 · United States
Robert Arthur Moog was an American electronics engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964.
Moog Music / Norlin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1844–1921 · Qajar Iran
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, born ʻAbbás, was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, who designated him to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921.
User:Qian.neewan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1965 · Germany
Tom Tykwer is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009).
Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1944 · Australia
John David Newcombe AO OBE is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles. Newcombe won a combined 26 major titles: seven in singles, a former record 17 in men's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1848–1896 · Kingdom of Prussia
Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality.
Photographer: A. Regis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1947 · United States
Michael Eugene Porter is an American businessman and professor at Harvard Business School. He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group and FSG, a social impact consultancy.
Yesicavaldez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1961 · Italy
Daniele Emilio Massaro is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
User:Mbx, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1988 · Italy
Obinze Angelo Ogbonna is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
--Steindy (talk) 16:11, 29 August 2019 (UTC), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1984 · Portugal
Hugo Miguel Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward, currently a manager.
Steindy (talk) 12:09, 21 July 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1917–2008 · United States
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.
Politician
1951 · Greece
Antonis Samaras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015.
European People's Party, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1790–1842 · France
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1842–1910 · Russian Empire
Maria Konopnicka was a Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence. She used pseudonyms, including Jan Sawa. She was one of the most important poets of Poland's Positivist period.
Aleksander Regulski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1952 · France
Anne-Marie David is a French singer. She has represented both Luxembourg and France at the Eurovision Song Contest, winning in 1973 and placing third in 1979.
Anne Marie David (subject) and Dave Goodliffe (photographer), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1880–1932 · Soviet Union
Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky, better known by his pen name Alexander Green or Grin, was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist · United Nations Environment Programme
1958 · Kingdom of Denmark
Inger Andersen is a Danish economist and environmentalist. In February 2019, she was appointed as the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
UN Biodiversity, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1982 · North Macedonia
Stevica "Stevo" Ristić is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Yugoslavia, he represented the Macedonia national team.
Amarhgil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on May 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 May 23. Read the full methodology.
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