On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
January 23 1968
Born on This Day
Andrew House🇬🇧
British businessman · b. 1965
Days alive
1,095
Ángela Carrasco🇩🇴
Dominican Republic singer · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Anna Sorokin
Socialite & Fraudster · b. 1991
Arjen Robben
Dutch association football player (born 1984) · b. 1984
Armin Maiwald🇩🇪
German author, television director and children's television personality · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Arnaud Anastassowa🇫🇷
football player · b. 1988
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Bal Thackeray🇮🇳
deceasedjournalist · 1926–2012
Days lived
31,710
Britta Thomsen🇩🇰
politician · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Carlos Hernández🇺🇸
American boxer · b. 1971
Chairon Isenia
Dutch baseball player · b. 1979
David Hilbert
deceasedphilosopher · 1862–1943
Days lived
29,606
Django Reinhardt🇫🇷
deceasedRomani-Belgian /French jazz musician (1910–1953) · 1910–1953
Days lived
15,819
Erich Neumann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer, psychologist and philosopher (1905-1960) · 1905–1960
Days lived
20,375
Eva Lohse🇩🇪
politician · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Gerald Jatzek🇦🇹
author · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
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Giant Baba🇯🇵
deceasedfilm director · 1938–1999
Days lived
22,288
Gottfried Böhm🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1920-2021) · 1920–2021
Days lived
37,028
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Greg Benson🇺🇸
Film director · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Herbert Runge🇩🇪
deceasedboxer (1913–1986) · 1913–1986
Days lived
26,710
Irene Sharaff🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican costume designer for stage and screen (1910-1993) · 1910–1993
Days lived
30,515
Jacqueline Wong🇨🇦
actor · b. 1989
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Jeanne Moreau🇫🇷
deceasedmusician · 1928–2017
Days lived
32,697
Josef Silný
deceasedathlete · 1902–1981
Days lived
28,967
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Joško Gvardiol
association football player · b. 2002
Karl Peters🇩🇪
deceasedGerman lawyer (1904–1998) · 1904–1998
Days lived
34,494
Larry Hughes🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1979
Li Fengying🇨🇳
Taiwanese weightlifter · b. 1975
Ludwig Schupmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1851–1920) · 1851–1920
Days lived
25,454
Marc Nelson🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1971
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
Mariska Hargitay🇺🇸
Television actor · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Nina Dumbadze🇺🇦
deceasedathlete · 1919–1983
Days lived
23,457
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Norman Slater🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican rugby union player (1894-1979) · 1894–1979
Days lived
31,082
Oceana🇩🇪
German singer of German–Martiniquen descent · b. 1982
Otto Diels🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1876–1954
Days lived
28,532
Özhan Canaydın🇹🇷
deceasedTurkish sports executive (1943–2010) · 1943–2010
Days lived
24,530
Paul Langevin🇫🇷
deceasedFrench physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946) · 1872–1946
Days lived
27,358
Paul Peter Ewald🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1888–1985
Days lived
35,640
Peter Karlsson🇸🇪
Swedish sprinter · b. 1970
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Philippe Yacé🇫🇷
deceasedIvorian politician (1920–1998) · 1920–1998
Days lived
28,800
Rildo da Costa Menezes🇧🇷
deceasedfootball player · 1942–2021
Days lived
28,968
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Rob Friend🇨🇦
Canadian footballer · b. 1981
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Rob Stolk
deceasedartist · 1946–2001
Days lived
20,156
Saigō Takamori
deceasedNotable Trials · 1828–1877
Days lived
18,142
Subhas Chandra Bose
deceasedwriter · 1897–1945
Days lived
17,738
Susen Tiedtke🇩🇪
German long jumper · b. 1969
Swen Swenson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor · 1930–1993
Days lived
23,162
Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1955
Days alive
4,748
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Tiffani Thiessen
television actor · b. 1974
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Uwe Bohm🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1962–2022) · 1962–2022
Days lived
21,990
William Jennings Gardner🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator, law-enforcement agent (1884-1965) · 1884–1965
Days lived
29,728
Władysław Raczkiewicz🇵🇱
deceasedmilitary person · 1885–1947
Days lived
22,778
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Wolfgang Abraham🇩🇪
deceasedGerman footballer (1942-2013) · 1942–2013
Days lived
25,944
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XXXTentacion
deceasedrapper · 1998–2018
Days lived
7,451
XXXTentacion🇺🇸
deceasedRapper · 1998–2018
Days lived
7,451
Zaiga Ikere
scientist · b. 1945
Days alive
8,400
Died on This Day
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia🇸🇦
deceasedpolitician · 1924–2015
Days lived
33,047
Alexander Korda🇭🇺
deceasedBritish film director (1893–1956) · 1893–1956
Days lived
22,773
Bernd Schramm🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and voice actor (1951–2005) · 1951–2005
Days lived
19,685
Dantsig Baldayev🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet writer (1925-2005) · 1925–2005
Days lived
28,890
Douglas J. Martin🇳🇿
deceasedMormon leader (1927–2010) · 1927–2010
Days lived
30,229
Edvard Munch🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian painter. (1863–1944) · 1863–1944
Days lived
29,261
Erwin Planck
deceasedGerman politician (1893-1945) · 1893–1945
Days lived
18,944
Eugenio Lucas Villaamil🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish painter (1858-1918) · 1858–1918
Days lived
21,923
Frank Farian🇮🇹
deceasedrapper · 1941–2024
Days lived
30,139
Franz Mazura🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1924–2020
Days lived
34,974
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Friedrich von Georgi🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian general (1852-1926) · 1852–1926
Days lived
27,024
Gusztáv Götz🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1900–1970
Days lived
25,471
Joaquín Luque Roselló🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish painter (1865-1932) · 1865–1932
Days lived
24,223
Johnny Carson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican talk show host and comedian (1925–2005) · 1925–2005
Days lived
28,947
Larry King
deceasedactor · 1933–2021
Days lived
31,842
Melanie🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1947–2024
Days lived
28,113
Pierre Bonnard🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1867–1947
Days lived
28,966
Riz Ortolani🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film composer (1926-2014) · 1926–2014
Days lived
32,081
Roger Pierre🇫🇷
deceasedFrench comedic actor (1923-2010) · 1923–2010
Days lived
31,558
Salvador Dalí🇪🇸
deceasedactor · 1904–1989
Days lived
30,938
Thierry Mugler🇫🇷
deceasedFrench fashion designer and photographer (1945–2022) · 1945–2022
Days lived
27,792
Top Topham🇬🇧
deceasedBritish musician (1947–2023) · 1947–2023
Days lived
27,598
Wilhelm Koppers🇩🇪
deceasedAustrian anthropologist (1886–1961) · 1886–1961
Days lived
27,377
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
42,024
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
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
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
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
49,695
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
47,868
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,565
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,138
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,580
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,546
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,180
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,624
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,276
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,075
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,589
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,607
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,276
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,628
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,171
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,081
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,058
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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