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Born on January 23

January 23 birthdays & history

If you were born on January 23, you share a birthday with David Hilbert, Stendhal and Édouard Manet. January 23 babies are Aquarius, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in leap years.

Famous people born on January 23

  • 1862David Hilbert, German mathematician and academic
  • 1783Stendhal, French novelist
  • 1832Édouard Manet, French painter
  • 1947Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician, 5th president of Indonesia
  • 1907Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1984Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
  • 1918Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1928Jeanne Moreau, French actress
  • 1876Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1944Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer

What happened on January 23

  • 1368The Hongwu Emperor ascended the throne, initiating the Ming dynasty, which would rule China for three centuries.
  • 1571Queen Elizabeth I opened the Royal Exchange in London, giving it its royal title.
  • 1789Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would become the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States.
  • 1849Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York, making her the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
  • 1899The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first president.
  • 1912The First International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • 1922The first successful treatment with insulin is given to 14-year-old diabetic Leonard Thompson.
  • 1950The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
  • 1957American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
  • 1993The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.
  • 1997Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time.
  • 2003The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.

Also observed on January 23

  • Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands)
  • Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Assam, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India)
  • World Freedom Day (Taiwan and South Korea)

Questions, answered

What star sign is January 23?

People born on January 23 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.

Which famous people were born on January 23?

David Hilbert (1862), Stendhal (1783), Édouard Manet (1832), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Arjen Robben (1984) were all born on January 23.

What happened on January 23 in history?

Among other things: in 1993, The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser; in 1997, Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time; in 2003, The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.

Can I get a newspaper front page from January 23?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 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, “January 23”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.