Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 23

Births

 * 1737 - John Hancock, American Revolutionist (d. 1793) (pictured)
 * 1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
 * 1832 - Édouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
 * 1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
 * 1991 - Anna Sorokin, Russian-born German fraudster

Deaths

 * 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
 * 1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
 * 1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
 * 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
 * 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
 * 2005 - Johnny Carson, American television legend (b. 1925)