Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 23
Births
[edit]- 1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582) (pictured)
- 1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
- 1894 - Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
- 1894 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
- 1912 - Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
- 1929 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
- 1948 - Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
- 1963 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
- 1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
Deaths
[edit]- AD 79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. AD 9)
- 1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
- 1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 2009 - Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality, (b. 1923)