Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 23

Births

 * 1905 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
 * 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
 * 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977) (pictured)
 * 1929 – Sir Roger Bannister, British runner (d. 2018)
 * 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress

Deaths

 * 1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
 * 1842 – Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
 * 1964 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)