On This Day
Saturday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
December 23 1967
Born on This Day
Al Tuck🇨🇦
singer · b. 1966
Days alive
365
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Andrea Prader🇨🇭
deceasedscientist · 1919–2001
Days lived
29,748
Andrée Putman🇫🇷
deceasedFrench interior and product designer (1925–2013) · 1925–2013
Days lived
31,804
Anna J. Harrison🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican organic chemist (1912–1998) · 1912–1998
Days lived
31,274
Benjamin Strecker🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1982
Bill Rodgers🇺🇸
athlete · b. 1947
Days alive
7,305
Brian Teacher🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1954
Days alive
4,748
Brice Dja Djédjé
football player · b. 1990
Bryce Lawrence🇳🇿
New Zealand rugby union referee · b. 1970
Carl Ruck🇩🇪
deceasedfield hockey player (1912–1980) · 1912–1980
Days lived
24,480
Carla Bruni🇮🇹
singer · b. 1967
Days alive
0
Carlos Pazos🇪🇸
artist · b. 1949
Days alive
6,574
Chet Baker🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1929–1988
Days lived
21,326
Dino Risi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1916-2008) · 1916–2008
Days lived
33,404
Eddie Vedder🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1964
Days alive
1,095
Erich Cuntz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player (1916–1975) · 1916–1975
Days lived
21,344
Ernest Payne🇬🇧
deceasedfootball player · 1884–1961
Days lived
28,019
Esther Phillips🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican singer (1935–1984) · 1935–1984
Days lived
17,760
Ewa Wiśnierska🇵🇱
German paraglider pilot · b. 1971
Fabian Halbig🇩🇪
actor · b. 1992
Finn Wolfhard
actor · b. 2002
Fokke Jelsma
deceasedDutch baseball player (1943–2012) · 1943–2012
Days lived
24,960
Friedrich Wolf
deceasedGerman writer (1888-1953) · 1888–1953
Days lived
23,661
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa🇮🇹
deceasedSicilian Prince and writer (1896-1957) · 1896–1957
Days lived
22,126
Graham Bonnet🇬🇧
singer · b. 1947
Days alive
7,305
Hans Freiherr von Funck🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1891–1979
Days lived
31,829
Heinrich Schneidereit🇩🇪
deceasedGerman weightlifter (1884-1915) · 1884–1915
Days lived
11,237
Helmut Reichmann🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1941–1992
Days lived
18,340
Helmut Schmidt🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1918–2015
Days lived
35,386
Jack Ham🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1948
Days alive
6,939
Jesús Colomé🇩🇴
film director · b. 1977
Johannes Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1890–1967) · 1890–1967
Days lived
28,030
Jorma Kaukonen🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1940
Days alive
9,861
Ken Paxton🇺🇸
Lawyer · b. 1962
Days alive
1,826
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Kenny Miller🇬🇧
football player · b. 1979
Lars-Erik Berenett🇸🇪
deceasedactor · 1942–2017
Days lived
27,069
Leon Wessel-Masannek🇩🇪
actor · b. 1992
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Luka Jović
association football player · b. 1997
Maria Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedAdolf Hitler's love interest (1909-1992) · 1909–1992
Days lived
30,168
Marta Dahlig🇵🇱
Polish painter · b. 1985
Martin Krämer🇩🇪
German chess player · b. 1987
Matthäus Hetzenauer🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian sniper (1924–2004) · 1924–2004
Days lived
29,139
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Michael Diekmann🇩🇪
entrepreneur · b. 1953
Days alive
5,113
Nigo
Designer · b. 1970
Paul Hornung🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1935–2020) · 1935–2020
Days lived
31,007
Peter Lawson Jones
Actor · b. 1952
Days alive
5,478
René Tretschok🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1968
Renée Weibel🇨🇭
Swiss actors · b. 1986
Sass Jordan🇨🇦
deceasedSinger · 1960–2026
Days lived
24,024
Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–1975
Days lived
29,001
Stefan Saliger🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1967
Days alive
0
Stephen Muchoki🇰🇪
Kenyan boxer · b. 1956
Days alive
4,017
Sunny Ozell🇺🇸
Composer · b. 1978
Tadeusz Dembończyk🇵🇱
deceasedPolish weightlifter · 1955–2004
Days lived
17,582
Waldemar Steffen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman high and long jumper (1872–1965) · 1872–1965
Days lived
33,653
William Bates🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1860–1931
Days lived
25,765
William Henry Moody🇺🇸
deceasedUS Supreme Court justice from 1906 to 1910 · 1853–1917
Days lived
23,201
Wolfgang Neuss🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1923–1989
Days lived
23,875
Died on This Day
Anthony Fokker🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1890–1939
Days lived
18,157
Arthur Eichengrün🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1867–1949
Days lived
30,082
Desi Bouterse
deceasedmilitary person · 1945–2024
Days lived
28,926
Eliezer Shulman🇮🇱
deceasedRomanian theologian · 1923–2006
Days lived
30,481
Ernst Francke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1852-1921) · 1852–1921
Days lived
25,244
Fred Russell🇳🇿
deceasedNew Zealand lawn bowls competitor (1890-1972) · 1890–1972
Days lived
30,075
Gertrude Blom🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss Mesoamericanists (1901–1993) · 1901–1993
Days lived
33,772
Hank Mizell🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1923–1992
Days lived
25,247
Hideki Tojo
deceasedNotable Trials · 1884–1948
Days lived
23,368
James P. McGranery🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican politician and United States Army officer (1895-1962) · 1895–1962
Days lived
24,639
Josep Puig i Cadafalch🇪🇸
deceasedCatalan architect (1867-1957) · 1867–1956
Days lived
32,574
Kōki Hirota
deceasedNotable Trials · 1878–1948
Days lived
25,879
Meto Jovanovski
deceasedMacedonian writer (1928–2016) · 1928–2016
Days lived
32,369
Mike Daski🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian ice hockey player and basketball player (1929–2021) · 1929–2021
Days lived
33,816
Rainer Bertram🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and television director (1932-2004) · 1932–2004
Days lived
26,302
Rainer Zepperitz🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1930–2009
Days lived
28,975
Shyam Benegal🇮🇳
deceasedIndian director and screenwriter (1934–2024) · 1934–2024
Days lived
32,882
Vasili Eroshenko🇬🇧
deceasedwriter · 1890–1952
Days lived
22,990
Wilhelm Spiegelberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Egyptologist (1870–1930) · 1870–1930
Days lived
22,095
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
41,993
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Edward Roberts
deceasedBritish priest · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,236
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,664
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,837
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,534
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,107
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,549
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,515
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,149
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,593
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,245
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,044
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,558
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,576
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,245
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,597
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,140
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,050
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,027
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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