September 23 is the birthday of 51 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, authors, politicians and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
$12.5Breported estimate as of August 2025 · Forbes
Otto Toto Sugiri is an Indonesian billionaire businessman. He is the CEO of Data Center Indonesia (DCI), a company that provides data center services and solutions in Indonesia.
Jørgen Mads Clausen is a Danish businessman and philanthropist. He was the CEO of Danfoss, the Danish heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning company, from 1996 to 2009 then chairman until 2022.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Nicknamed "the Boss", Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most feature the E Street Band, his backing band since 1972.
Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors22% (11 people)
Politicians22% (11 people)
Actors20% (10 people)
Athletes20% (10 people)
Musicians20% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (9 people)
Creators14% (7 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
Japan5 (5 people)
Austria2 (2 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Prussia2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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~18Mickey RooneyReceived the Academy Juvenile Award (1938)
Ray Charles Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius".
William Morris Agency (management)/Photo by Maurice Seymour, New York., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek film and theatre director. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, he has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Lion, as well as nominations for six Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era.
Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man".
Hana Hamplová, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a British teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his…
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Clifford Glenwood Shull was an American physicist.
Photo is from US Atomic Energy Commission or Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Article rights are T. E. Mason et al. 2013 (, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is a Spanish singer and songwriter. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages.
Fred Chase Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as…
Ernst Streeruwitz was an Austrian military officer, businessman, political scientist and politician.
Berth. Bing = Berthold Bing (1871–?) Berthold Bing was born in Vienna, 1871-10-25 and worked as a photographer until his, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexandre Soares dos Santos was a Portuguese businessman. He led the Portuguese retailer Jerónimo Martins until November 2013, 45 years after taking over the company from his father.
Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Pakistan since 2024, being the only person to hold it for two consecutive terms, having previously been in the role between 2022 and 2023.
Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jason Alexander is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career, he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards.
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Anthony Dwane Mackie is an American actor. His accolades include nominations for three Critics' Choice Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, known professionally as Romy Schneider, was a German and French actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s.
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paolo Rossi was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker. He led Italy to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot as top goalscorer, and the Golden Ball for the player of the tournament.
The original uploader was Snake90 at Italian Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Matthew Moore Hardy is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a five-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with brother Jeff. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.
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Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1917 and a leading figure in the early Soviet government.
Moisei Nappelbaum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Juan Martín del Potro is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), in August 2018.
Yerry Fernando Mina González is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Cagliari and the Colombia national team.
Fotografía oficial de la Presidencia de Colombia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, poet and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 2016 to 2019. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff.
Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums. DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influences from punk, funk, hip-hop and jazz.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, alchemist, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer.
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William Cameron "Willie" McCool was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise, was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty, he was very well read, leading to his epithet.
Unknown, 13th-century author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon was a French painter who was born at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
Didier Descouens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.
Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine. Her most notable work includes research on vinca alkaloids, the development of anti-epileptic drugs, and development of anti-malarial drugs.
Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau was a French physicist who, in 1849, measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment.
Charles Reutlinger, b.1816, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Masashi Nakayama, nicknamed "Gon" during his playing career, is a Japanese professional football manager and former player. He was the J.League Most Valuable Player in 1998, J.League Top Scorer in 1998 and 2000, and J.League Best XI in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002.
Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the surrealist movement.
Harvey Kneeslapper, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fábio Henrique Simplício is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He appeared in 243 Serie A games for three clubs and scored 43 goals, having played for nearly a decade in the country.
Salvo da Palermo at Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cynthia Ikponmwenosa Morgan, popularly known by her previous stage name Cynthia Morgan, now Madrina, is a Nigerian born songwriter and singer. Her music is a fusion of pop, hip hop, dancehall and rap.
Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn.
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This page lists 51 people born on September 23, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of August 2025. 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 September 23. Read the full methodology.
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