What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every October birthday · battle October 23 against another date · all rankings
Who shares October 23
Share of the 48 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
Politician
1940–2022 · Brazil
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history, he was among the most successful and popular sports figures of the 20th century.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1976 · Canada
Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian and American actor, entrepreneur, and film producer. Known for starring in comedic and superhero films, he was the world's second-highest-paid actor in 2020 and 2024.
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1994 · United States
Sarah Margaret Qualley is an American actress. A daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballet dancer in her youth.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1986 · United Kingdom
Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke is an English actress. She achieved international recognition for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards.
https://vimeo.com/condenastrussia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1959 · United States
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1959 · United States
Samuel M. Raimi is an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the Evil Dead trilogy (1981–1993) and directing the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Bharti Airtel · telecommunications
1957 · India
Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, a conglomerate with interests in telecommunications, satellite communications, digital infrastructure, financial services, real estate, and hospitality.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1961 · Spain
Andoni Zubizarreta Urreta is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Pepito, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1928–2026 · People's Republic of China
Zhu Rongji was a Chinese politician who served as the premier of China from 1998 to 2003 under CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1992 to 2002.
Entrepreneur
1927–2019 · United States
William Barron Hilton was an American business magnate, philanthropist and sportsman. The second son and successor of hotelier Conrad Hilton, he was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation and chairman emeritus of the Conrad N.
Deveram, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1893–1977 · United States
Milton "Gummo" Marx was an American vaudeville performer, theatrical agent and businessman. He was the fourth-born of the five Marx Brothers. Born in Manhattan, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, leaving the act when he was drafted into the U.S.
NBC Television-photo by Ethel Kirsner, NBC Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Lanchester Motor Company · automotive
1868–1946 · United Kingdom
Frederick William Lanchester, was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research.
Birmingham Museums Trust, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
October 23 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1979 · India
Uppalapati Venkata Suryanarayana Prabhas Raju, known mononymously as Prabhas, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Indian cinema and has been featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2015.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1942–2008 · United States
John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.
Jon Chase photo/Harvard News Office, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1925–2005 · United States
John William Carson was an American television host, comedian, and writer. He was best known as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, the third installment of The Tonight Show, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1992.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1985 · United States
Masiela Lusha is an Albanian-born American actress and author. She gained recognition for playing Carmen Lopez on the globally syndicated ABC sitcom George Lopez, a role that earned her two consecutive Young Artist Awards for Leading Young Actress in a Comedy or Drama.
LightClicks Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Spain
Álvaro Borja Morata Martín is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Segunda División club Leganés, on loan from Serie A club Como.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1954 · Taiwan
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed and hidden emotions.
nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1975 · India
Malaika Arora is an Indian actress, dancer, model, video jockey, and television personality who appears in Hindi-language films. Known for her various supporting roles and item numbers since the late 1990s, Arora is cited in the media as a fitness icon.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1964 · United States
Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz is an American musician, best known as the fourth and current bassist for heavy metal band Metallica.
4TheWynne, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1999 · United Kingdom
Mary-Belle Kirschner, better known as Belle Delphine, is a British social media personality, pornographic actress, model, and YouTuber. Her social media accounts feature erotic and cosplay modelling, sometimes blending the two.
Cold Ones Clips, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1993 · Brazil
Fábio Henrique Tavares, known as Fabinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor and the Brazil national team. A versatile player, he can also be deployed as a centre-back.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1991 · Sweden
Emil Peter Forsberg is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1989 · Ukraine
Andriy Mykolayovych Yarmolenko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv and captains the Ukraine national team.
--Steindy (talk) 22:38, 13 October 2019 (UTC), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1960–2008 · United States
Randolph Frederick Pausch was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Randy Pausch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1947–1989 · Poland
Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, due to his excellent vision.
Scientist
1875–1946 · United States
Gilbert Newton Lewis was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.
Author
1927–2009 · Poland
Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of contemporary Marxist thought and theory, as in his three-volume history of Marxist philosophy Main Currents of Marxism (1976).
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1974 · India
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-born Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Scientist
1905–1983 · United States
Felix Bloch was a Swiss–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith."
Unbekannt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · The Body Shop · retail
1942–2007 · United Kingdom
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, The Body Shop International Limited, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products which shaped ethical consumerism.
Politician
1849–1940 · Japan
Prince Saionji Kinmochi was a Japanese statesman and diplomat who twice served as Prime Minister of Japan, in 1906–1908 and 1911–1912.
published by 東京合資會社冨山房 (The Fuzanbo Publishing Co. Tokyo,Japan), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1920–1980 · Italy
Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably Il romanzo di Cipollino. For his lasting contribution as a children's author, he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1970.
famiglia Rodari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1925–1994 · Greece
Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers of all time.
Nikos D. Karabelas, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1805–1868 · Austrian Empire
Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, poet, painter and pedagogue of German Bohemian origin. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world.
Josef Grandauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1929–2015 · United States
Mervyn Lee Adelson was an American real estate developer and television producer who co-founded Lorimar Television.
Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1971 · Czech Republic
Bohuslav Sobotka is a Czech politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from January 2014 to December 2017 and leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from 2010 until his resignation in June 2017.
EU2017EE Estonian Presidency, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1885–1953 · Poland
Jan Czochralski was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski method, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers. It is still used in over 90 percent of all electronics in the world that use semiconductors.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1923–2013 · Germany
Otfried Preußler was a German children's book author.
Markus Schlaf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1908–1990 · Soviet Union
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1887–1964 · Soviet Union
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults. He translated the sonnets and some other of the works of William Shakespeare, English poetry, and poetry from other languages.
Sergei Strunnikov (1907-1944), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1965 · Kazakhstan
Asqar Ūzaqbaiūly Mamin is a Kazakh politician and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2022, resigning due to pressure from the 2022 Kazakh unrest. He served as First Deputy Prime Minister from 9 September 2016 to 21 February 2019.
Пресс-служба Премьер-министра Республики Казахстан, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on October 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 October 23. Read the full methodology.
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