23 April: today's birthdays

• James Buchanan - Former American president
• Sandra Dee - American actress
• Jorge Fons - Mexican film director
• André Gaudreault - Canadian historian of art and cinematography
• Gigi Hadid - American supermodel, born Jelena Noura Hadid
• Melina Kanakaredes - American actress of Greek descent
• Reinhart Koselleck - German philosopher and historian
• Halldór Laxness - Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955
• Timothy McVeigh - American terrorist
• Michael Moore - American film director and producer. He won an Oscar for Documentary Feature for his documentary Bowling for Columbine
• Dev Patel - English actor of Indian descent
• Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev (Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev) - Russian composer and musician
• Pascal Quignard - French writer
• William Shakespeare - English dramatist and poet. He wrote Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
• George Steiner - French-born American novelist, essayist and philosopher, of German descent
• Shirley Temple - American actress, singer and dancer. She became famous as Enfant prodige. She won an Honorary Juvenile Award in 1935
• Arnold van Gennep - German-born French anthropologist of Dutch descent