23 June: today's birthdays

• Anna Achmatova (Akhmatova) - Pseudonym adopted by Russian poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
• Jean Anouilh - French writer, dramatist and, stage director. The play Antigone is considered his major work
• Richard Bach - American writer. He wrote one of the bestselling books of all time Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Joel Edgerton -  Australian actor and film director
• Giuseppina di Beauharnais - First wife of Napoleon Bonaparte
• Alfred Kinsey - American biologist, entomologist and sexologist. He wrote two books: Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male and Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female 
• James Levine - American pianist and conductor
• Frances McDormand - American actress, born Frances Louise McDormand. She is married to filmmaker Joel Coen. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1997 for her leading role in the film Fargo
• Jason Mraz - American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
• David Ogilvy - English advertising executive. He was considered The Father of Advertising
• Carl Reinecke - German composer and conductor
• Wilma Rudolph - American athlete
• Arno Stern - German-born French pedagogue
• Stuart Sutcliffe - English bassist and painter
• Yann Tiersen - French composer
• Patrick Vieira - Senegalese-born French soccer player
• Joss Whedon - American writer, film director and cartoonist
• Billy Wirth - American actor
• Zinédine Zidane - Former French soccer player