23 May: today's birthdays

• Linden Ashby - American actor
• John Bardeen - American physicist, Nobel in Physics in 1956 and 1972
• Drew Carey - American comedian and actor
• Joan Collins - English actress, the sister of English novelist Jackie Collins
• Bernard Comrie - English-born American linguist
• Alicia de Larrocha - Catalan pianist
• Douglas Fairbanks - American actor, film director and author. The first actor in the role of Zorro in 1920
• Joseph Gomez - English professional footballer, born Joseph Dave Gomez and best known as Joe Gomez
• Alain Gourdon - French painter and sculptor
• Marvin Hagler - Former American boxer known as Marvelous
• Jewel - American singer, songwriter and poet, born Jewel Kilcher 
• Franz Kline - American painter, one of the major exponents of Abstract expressionism, a post World War II art movement 
• Pär Lagerkvist - Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951
• Ramiro Ledesma Ramos - Spanish writer, philosopher, journalist and politician
• József Rippl-Rónai - Hungarian painter. He was the first to introduce modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art
• Tom Tykwer - German film director and screenwriter. He directed Run Lola Run, Heaven, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer