23 January: today's birthdays

• Richard Dean Anderson - American actor
• Georg Baselitz - German painter and sculptor, born Hans-Georg Rem
• Boris Berezovskij (Berezovsky) - Russian entrepreneur
• Henri Beyle - French writer best known as Stendhal. He wrote The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma
• Johannes Martin Bijvoet - Dutch chemist
• Mariska Hargitay - American actress and activist, born Mariska Magdolina Hargitay. She is best known for starring as the detective Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV series.
• Rutger Hauer - Dutch actor and environmentalist, born Rutger Oelsen Hauer. He starred in the cult film Blade Runner as the replicant Roy Batty
• Édouard Manet - French painter. He painted The Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe)
• Joseph Saidu Momoh - Sierra Leone politician
• Jeanne Moreau - French actress, film director and screenwriter
• William G. Morgan - American phisical education teacher and inventor of volleyball
• Django Reinhardt - Belgium jazz guitarist and composer. Incredibly talented even though he had two fingers of his left hand paralyzed
• Stendhal - Pseudonym of French writer Henri Beyle. He wrote The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.

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• Chesley Sullenberger - American retired airline captain who executed an emergency water landing in the Hudson River, New York, saving all his 155 passengeres and crew
• Derek Walcott - Saint Lucian poet, author and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992