Born on December 23
December 23 birthdays & history
If you were born on December 23, you share a birthday with Akihito, Jean-François Champollion and Carla Bruni. December 23 babies are Capricorn, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 23 is the 358th day of the year in leap years (357th in other years).
Famous people born on December 23
- 1933Akihito, Emperor of Japan
- 1790Jean-François Champollion, French philologist, orientalist, and scholar
- 1967Carla Bruni, Italian-French singer-songwriter and model
- 1804Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French author, critic, and academic
- 1896Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian lieutenant and author
- 1950Vicente del Bosque, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1962Stefan Hell, Romanian-German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1963Donna Tartt, American author
- 2002Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician
- 1964Eddie Vedder, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
What happened on December 23
- 583Yohl Ikʼnal acceded to the throne of the Maya city-state of Palenque.
- 1815Jane Austen's novel Emma was first published, the last novel released during her lifetime.
- 1823The poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," is published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel.
- 1876First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
- 1893The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
- 1905The Tampere conference, where Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin meet for the first time, is held in Tampere, Finland.
- 1913The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
- 1936Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1947The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
- 1957Leading the Australia national cricket team, Ian Craig became the youngest-ever Test cricket captain at the time.
- 1958Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened.
- 1997The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display.
Also observed on December 23
- Birthday of the Queen Silvia, an official flag flying day (Sweden)
- Children's Day (South Sudan and Sudan)
- Day of all level operational control structures servicemen (Ukraine)
- Festivus, a secular holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld
- HumanLight (Secular humanism in United States)
- Kisan Diwas (Uttar Pradesh, India)
Questions, answered
What star sign is December 23?
People born on December 23 are Capricorn. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.
Which famous people were born on December 23?
Akihito (1933), Jean-François Champollion (1790), Carla Bruni (1967), Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Vicente del Bosque (1950) were all born on December 23.
What happened on December 23 in history?
Among other things: in 1957, Leading the Australia national cricket team, Ian Craig became the youngest-ever Test cricket captain at the time; in 1958, Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened; in 1997, The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display.
Can I get a newspaper front page from December 23?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 23 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 23”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.