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Born on March 23

March 23 birthdays & history

If you were born on March 23, you share a birthday with Akira Kurosawa, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Wernher von Braun. March 23 babies are Aries, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 23 is the 83rd day of the year in leap years (82nd in other years).

Famous people born on March 23

  • 1910Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter
  • 1749Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer
  • 1912Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle
  • 1900Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist
  • 1881Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1882Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic
  • 1956José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister of Portugal
  • 1881Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1942Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter
  • 1952Rex Tillerson, American businessman, engineer and diplomat; 69th United States Secretary of State

What happened on March 23

  • 1848The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
  • 1857Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
  • 1868Governor of California Henry Huntly Haight signed a law establishing the University of California, today a public university system that is considered a model for public institutions across the United States.
  • 1888Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, eventually resulting in the establishment of the Football League.
  • 1889Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.
  • 1909Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • 1935Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
  • 1940The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
  • 1993The demolition of Kowloon Walled City, a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
  • 1996Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
  • 2001The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean.
  • 2021A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days.

Also observed on March 23

  • Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland)
  • Day of the Sea (Bolivia)
  • Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day (Azerbaijan)
  • Pakistan Day (Pakistan)
  • Promised Messiah Day (Ahmadiyya)
  • World Meteorological Day

Questions, answered

What star sign is March 23?

People born on March 23 are Aries. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.

Which famous people were born on March 23?

Akira Kurosawa (1910), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Wernher von Braun (1912), Erich Fromm (1900), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Emmy Noether (1882) were all born on March 23.

What happened on March 23 in history?

Among other things: in 1996, Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan; in 2001, The Russian space agency deorbited the space station Mir, causing it to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and break up over the Pacific Ocean; in 2021, A container ship ran aground and obstructed the Suez Canal for six days.

Can I get a newspaper front page from March 23?

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