Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 23

Births

 * 1835 - Adlai Stevenson I, Vice President of the United States
 * 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923) (pictured)
 * 1892 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
 * 1925 - Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
 * 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
 * 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
 * 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist

Deaths

 * 42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
 * 1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
 * 1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
 * 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)