October 23rd Birthdays
If you were born on October 23rd, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Ang Lee
Academy Award-winning Taiwanese producer, screenwriter & director of movies (Sense and Sensibility; Brokeback Mountain; Life of Pi; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Ride with the Devil; Hulk; Eat Drink Man Woman; Taking Woodstock), born October 23, 1954. (Ang Lee 2009 Photo: nicolas genin)
Dwight Yoakam
Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter (Honky Tonk Man; Guitars, Cadillacs; Streets of Bakersfield; Little Sister), actor of movies (Sling Blade; Cran; Panic Room) and TV (Goliath), born October 23, 1956. (Dwight Yoakam 1986 Photo: Otto Felix / Warner Bros Records)
Weird Al Yankovic (nee Alfred Matthew Yankovic)
Grammy Award-winning American satirist, actor, parody songwriter & singer (Another One Rides the Bus; Eat It; Like a Surgeon; Smells Like Nirvana; Achy Breaky Song; White & Nerdy; Canadian Idiot; Pretty Fly for a Rabbi; Jurassic Park), born October 23, 1959. (Weird Al Yankovic 2016 Photo: Chris Favero)
Sam Raimi (nee Samuel M. Raimi; son-in-law of Lorne Greene)
American producer, screenwriter, & director of TV (Xena: Warrior Princess; Young Hercules; Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) and movies (The Evil Dead; Spider-Man films; A Simple Plan; The Gift; The Hudsucker Proxy; Timecop), born October 23, 1959. (Sam Raimi 2012 Photo: Keith McDuffee)
Doug Flutie (nee Douglas Richard Flutie)
Canada & College Football Hall of Fame American quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, 3-time CFL Grey Cup champion (Calgary Stampeders 1992; Toronto Argonauts 1996 & 1997), & NFL player, born October 23, 1962. (Doug Flutie 2009: Craig Michaud at English Wikipedia)
Gordon Korman
Canadian-American young adult fiction author (I Want to Go Home!; Don’t Care High; Born to Rock; The Zucchini Warriors; Macdonald Hall Goes HOllywood; Swindle; Hideout; The Quarterback Exchange; One False Note) born October 23, 1963. (Gordon Korman 2011 Photo: Craig Pennington)
Kate del Castillo (nee Kate del Castillo Negrete Trillo)
Mexican-American actress of TV (La Reina del Sur; Muchachitas; Dueños del Paraiso; Ramona Moreno; La Mentira; Bajo la misma piel; Azul) and films (K-11; The Black Pimpernel; Bad Boys For Life; Julia; Down for Life; Without Men), born October 23, 1972. (Kate del Castillo 2012 Photo: Richard Sandoval)
(Johnny Carson 1965: NBC Television | Hayden Rorke 1968: NBC Television)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on October 23rd!
Remember These October 23rd Famous Birthdays
Chi Chi Rodriguez (nee Juan Antonio Rodriguez)
World Golf Hall of Fame Puerto Rican professional golfer, 8-time PGA Tour title winner, Senior PGA Tour golfer, 1989 Bob Jones & Old Tom Morris Award-winner, 12X Puerto Rican World Cup Team player, philanthropist (Youth Foundation), and U. S. Army veteran of the Korean War (born Oct. 23, 1935 – died Aug. 8, 2024; age 88). (Chi Chi Rodriguez 1960s: Craig Hartley)
Pelé (nee Edson Arantes do Nascimento; aka “O Re / The King“)
IFFHS World & FIFA Player of the Century, IOC Athlete of the Century Brazilian football player, soccer forward (Santos 1956-1974; National 1957-1971; New York Cosmos 1975-1977), 3X FIFA World Cup winner (Brazilian National Team 1958, 1962, 1970), Brazilian Minister of Sports (1995-1998) (born Oct. 23, 1940 – died Dec. 29, 2022; age 82). (Pelé 1970: El Grafico)
Johnny Carson (nee John William Carson; “King of Late Night TV“)
American Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedian, TV talk & game show host and personality (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; The Johnny Carson Show; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In; Who Do You Trust) (born Oct. 23, 1925 – died Jan. 23, 2005; age 79). Ex-partner of Sally Field, Morgan Fairchild, Angie Dickinson. (Johnny Carson 1961 To Tell the Truth)
Michael Crichton (ex of Anne-Marie Martin)
American sci-fi, thriller, and medical fiction author (Jurassic Park; The Andromeda Strain; Timeline; The Great Train Robbery; Rising Sun), Emmy Award-winning producer, director and screenwriter (Coma; Westworld) (born Oct. 23, 1942 – died Nov. 4, 2008; age 66). Michael Crichton died of lymphoma. (Michael Crichton 2002 Photo: Jon Chase | Harvard News Office)
Hayden Rorke (nee William Henry Rorke)
American actor of TV (Dr. Alfred Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie; Mr. Adams and Eve; Perry Mason; No Time for Sergeants; Dr. Kildare) and movies (Project Moon Base; Tammy Tell Me True; Francis Goes to the Races; When Worlds Collide) (born Oct. 23, 1910 – died Aug. 19, 1987; age 76). Hayden Rorke died of multiple myeloma. (Hayden Rorke 1968 I Dream of Jeannie: NBC TV)
Warren Burton
Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor of TV (Phillip Hamilton on Santa Barbara; Mitch Henry on Valley of the Dolls; All My Children; Jason Dunlap on Another World; Guiding Light), movies (Poison Ivy; Gettysburg), and voice actor (born Oct. 23, 1944 – died Oct. 2, 2017; age 72). Warren Burton’s cause of death is unknown. (Warren Burton Photo: Imperium-7)
Ellie Greenwich (nee Eleanor Louise Greenwich; ex of Jeff Barry)
Songwriters and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame American songwriter with Ben Raleigh (Tell Laura I Love Her), Tony Powers (Today I Met the Boy I’m Gonna Marry), and husband Jeff Barry (Be My Baby; Leader of the Pack; Da Doo Ron Ron) (born Oct. 23, 1940 – died Aug. 26, 2009; age 68). Ellie Greenwich died of a heart attack. (Ellie Greenwich 1985 Photo: AP Newsfeatures Photo)
James Daly (father of Tyne Daly & Tim Daly)
Emmy Award-winning American host & actor of radio, TV (Dr. Paul Lochner on Medical Center; Foreign Intrigue; The F.B.I.; Dr. Kildare; Mission: Impossible; The Fugitive) and movies (The Big Bounce; Planet of the Apes; The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell) (born Oct. 23, 1918 – died July 3, 1978; age 59). James Daly died of heart failure. (James Daly 1957 The Young Stranger Trailer)
Diana Dors (nee Diana Mary Fluck; “The English Marilyn Monroe“)
British movie actress (Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?; Value for Money; Yield to the Night; The Weak and the Wicked; The Love Specialist; On the Double; Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys; Berserk; The Long Haul; Hannie Caulder) (born Oct. 23, 1931 – died May 4, 1984; age 52). Ex of Richard Dawson, Alan Lake. Diana Dors died of ovarian cancer. (Diana Dors 1957 The Unholy Wife Trailer)
Robert Bray
American actor of TV (Corey Stuart on Lassie; Stagecoach West; The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp; The Lone Ranger; Perry Mason) and movies (My Gun is Quick; Bus Stop; The Accursed; Return of the Bad Men; The Arizona Ranger) (born Oct. 23, 1917 – died Mar. 7, 1983; age 65). Robert Bray died of an accidental gunshot wound. (Robert Bray 1960 Stagecoach West)
Lilyan Tashman (married Edmund Lowe; ex of Al Lee)
American actress of silent films (Manhandled; So This is Paris; Manhandled; For Alimony Only) & 1930s movies (The Wiser Sex; Girls About Town; The Road to Reno; Murder by the Clock; The Cat Creeps; Frankie and Johnnie; The Marriage Playground; The Mad Parade) (born Oct. 23, 1896 – died Mar. 21, 1934; age 37). Lilyan Tashman died of cancer. (Lilyan Tashman 1932: Cine-Mundial)
Albert Stratton
American actor of movies & TV (Lester Saxton on For Richer, For Poorer; The New Perry Mason; Love is a Many Splendored Thing; Eric Kane on All My Children; Baywatch; Knots Landing; Kennedy; The Adams Chronicles) (born Oct. 23, 1937 – died Apr. 26, 2011; age 73). Cause of death for Albert Stratton is unknown. (Albert Stratton 1974 F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles)
Chris Alcaide (nee John Thomas Berger;)
American actor of movies &TV (The Rifleman; Death Valley Days; Rawhide; Zane Grey Theatre; The Big Valley; Laramie; Rawhide; Have Gun – Will Travel; Tales of Wells Fargo; Gunsmoke; Daniel Boone; Perry Mason; Stagecoach West; Broken Arrow) (born Oct. 23, 1922 – died June 30, 2004; age 81). Ex of Georgia Pelham aka Georgia Holt (mother of Cher). (Chris Alcaide 1960 Bonanza)
Al Christie (nee Alfred Ernest Christie; brother of Charles Christie)
Pioneering Canadian film short producer & director of “Christie Comedies” silent films and other movies (Half A Sinner; Hamlet and Eggs; Pixilated; Dental Follies; Montague the Magnificent; The Framing of the Shrew; Beware of Blondes; Going Spanish; Meet the Wife; Charley’s Aunt; The Chemist) (born Oct. 23, 1881 – died Apr. 14, 1951; age 69). (Al Christie 1916 Photo: Motion Picture News)
American youth actress of silent films (Dick Whittington and His Cat; The Jarr Family Discovers Harlem; Mr. Santa Claus; Java Head; Darkness and Daylight; A Close Call; Seeing Things; Memories in Men’s Souls; When Society Calls; The Crucible of Fate; The Arrival of Josie; The Jarr’s Visit Arcadia) (born Oct. 23, 1906 – died Mar. 20, 1996; age 89) (Audrey Berry 1919: Motion Picture Magazine)
Lawren Harris (father of Lawren P. Harris)
Canadian Group of Seven artist, abstract expressionism & landscape painter (Mountain Forms; Mountain and Glacier; The Old Stump; Winter Landscape; Bylot Island I; Pine Tree and Red House, Algoma Hill; South Shore, Baffin Island), co-founder & President of the Federation of Canadian Artists (born Oct. 23, 1885 – died Jan. 29, 1970; age 84). (Lawren Harris c. 1916-1918)
Sally O’Neil (nee Virginia Louise Concepta Noonal; sister of Molly O’Day)
American 1926 WAMPAS Baby Star, actress of stage, silent movies (Sally, Irene and Mary; Jazz Heaven; Hardboiled; The Battle of the Sexes) & 1930s films (The Brat; Sixteen Fathoms Deep; By Appointment Only; Beggar’s Holiday; Salvation Nell; Too Tough to Kill; Broadway Scandals; Ladies Must Love; Sisters) (born Oct. 23, 1908 – died June 18, 1968; age 59). (Sally O’Neil 1926: C.S. Bull)
College Football Hall of Fame American coach of football, baseball, & basketball (Oberlin; Buchtel; Auburn; Clemson; Georgia Tech; University of Pennsylvania; Rice) instrumental in many football rule changes, sportswriter (Atlanta Constitution; Collier’s Weekly), Heisman Trophy namesake (born Oct. 23, 1869 – died Oct. 3, 1936; age 66). (John Heisman 1895-1899)
Gloria Grey (nee Maria Dragomanovich)
American silent film actress (Lucky Star; Blake of Scotland Yard; The Hidden Way; Little Robinson Crusoe; A Girl of the Limberlost; The Thrill Seekers; Dante’s Inferno; The Broncho Buster; The Millionaire Cowboy; The Night Watch; Married in Hollywood) & 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star (born Oct. 23, 1909 – died Nov. 22, 1947; age 38). Bloria Grey died of influenza. (Gloria Grey 1926)
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