23 March: today's birthdays

• Damon Albarn - English singer and musician
• ​Nathalie Arthaud - French politician
• Franco Battiato - Italian songwriter, composer, filmmaker, musician, writer and painter.
• Joan Crawford - American actress. She won an Oscar for starring in Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Roger Martin du Gard - French author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1937
• Jerzy Henryk Dudek - Polish soccer player
• Erich Fromm - German sociologist and psychoanalyst. He wrote The Art of Loving
• Ziya Gökalp - Turkish sociologist and writer
• Michael Haneke - Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed The Piano Teacher, based on the homonymous novel written by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek. He won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for directing Amour, in  2013
• Akira Kurosawa - Japanese film director and screenwriter. He won two Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film
• Pierre-Simon Laplace - French mathematician, physicist and astronomer
• Joseph Christian Leyendecker - German-born American illustrator
• Moses Malone - American basketball player
• Michael Nyman - English composer and pianist
• Amanda Plummer - American actress
• Steven Redgrave - English athlete
• Keri Russell - American actress, born Keri Lynn Russell 
• Walter Adrián Samuel - Argentine soccer player
• Rex Tillerson - American businessmanand CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, born Rex Wayne Tillerson