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)