Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 23

Births

 * 480 BC - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
 * 63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. AD 14)
 * 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (pictured) (d. 1294)
 * 1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
 * 1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary
 * 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
 * 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
 * 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
 * 1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor (d. 2014)
 * 1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
 * 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
 * 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter

Deaths

 * AD 79 - Pope Linus
 * 1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
 * 1889 - Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)
 * 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
 * 1981 - Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)
 * 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)