Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 23

Births

 * 1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
 * 1824 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
 * 1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
 * 1933 - Joan Collins, English actress
 * 1958 - Drew Carey, American actor and comedian
 * 1974 - Ken Jennings, American game show contestant and host
 * 1974 - Jewel, American singer

Deaths

 * 1701 - Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
 * 1868 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
 * 1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
 * 1906 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1828)
 * 1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (b. 1839)
 * 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
 * 2002 - Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)

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