June 23: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is June 23rd your birthday? Was someone special to you born on June 23rd? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. June 23rd was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

June 23rd Birthdays: Famous Artists

Bob Fosse, American choreographer and stage/film director (The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, All That Jazz, Cabaret, Chicago, Damn Yankees, Kiss Me Kate, The Little Prince, The Pajama Game, Pippin and Sweet Charity) and Academy Award winner (1972), was born on June 23, 1927.

Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (Folke Filbyter, Gustaf Vasa, Orfeus, Poseidon and Wedding of Rivers) was born on June 23, 1875.

Henri Pousseur, Belgian composer (Homo Habitis, La Paganania and Votre Faust) was born on June 23, 1929.

June 23rd Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Barbara Jordan, American softball outfielder and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on June 23, 1966.

Gyorgy Karpati, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist (1952, 1956 and 1964) was born on June 23, 1935.

Able Kiviat, American runner and Olympic gold medalist (1912), was born on June 23, 1892.

Wilma Rudolph, American runner and Olympic gold medalist (1960), was born on June 23, 1940.

American Kent Steffes, beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist (1996) was born on June 23, 1968.

June 23rd Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Jean-Marie Anouilh, French dramatist (Antigone, Becket, The Lark, Mademoiselle Colombe, Thieves' Carnival and Traveler Without Luggage), was born on June 23, 1910.

American author Richard David Bach (The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull) was born on June 23, 1936.

American humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (Exit Laughing, Old Judge Priest, Paths of Glory, Rd Likker and Speaking of Operations) was born on June 23, 1876.

Award-winning American journalist Edward Paddock Morgan was born on June 23, 1910.

Anthony Veiller, American author (Night of the Iguana and Moulin Rouge), was born on June 23, 1903.