Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 23

Births

• 1835 - Adlai Stevenson I, Vice President of the United States
• 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923) (pictured)
• 1892 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1925 - Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
• 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
• 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
• 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist

Deaths

• 42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
• 1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
• 1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
• 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)