On This Day
Saturday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
March 23 1968
Born on This Day
Abe Laboriel, Jr.🇺🇸
American drummer · b. 1971
Ado Kraemer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1898–1972) · 1898–1972
Days lived
27,122
Akira Kurosawa🇯🇵
deceasedwriter · 1910–1998
Days lived
32,309
Andrews Engelmann🇨🇭
deceasedactor (1901-1992) · 1901–1992
Days lived
33,211
Antônio Benedito da Silva🇧🇷
Brazilian association football player · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Arthur Benda🇦🇹
deceasedGerman photographer (1885–1969) · 1885–1969
Days lived
30,848
Asaf Avidan🇮🇱
Israeli singer, songwriter and musician · b. 1980
Craig Green🇳🇿
New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
Daniel Fathers🇬🇧
British actor · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Dietrich Eckart🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1868–1923
Days lived
20,365
Don Covay🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican musician (1938–2015) · 1938–2015
Days lived
28,072
Dora Gerson🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1899-1943) · 1899–1943
Days lived
16,033
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Erich Fromm🇨🇭
deceasedphilosopher · 1900–1980
Days lived
29,215
Ernst-Marcus Thomas🇩🇪
German television host · b. 1973
Eva de Goede
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1989
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Franco Battiato🇮🇹
deceasedsinger · 1945–2021
Days lived
27,815
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Franziska Walser🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Frederic Kimber Seward🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican lawyer (1878–1943) · 1878–1943
Days lived
23,999
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Frédéric Sammaritano🇫🇷
football player · b. 1986
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Geno Auriemma🇮🇹
Basketball coach · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Hakan Balta🇩🇪
football player · b. 1983
Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman landscape architect (1891–1973) · 1891–1973
Days lived
30,036
Heinz Linge🇩🇪
deceasedSS officer; valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler (1913–1980) · 1913–1980
Days lived
24,458
Hermann Staudinger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965) · 1881–1965
Days lived
30,849
Ilse Bing🇺🇸
deceasedGerman photographer (1899-1998) · 1899–1998
Days lived
36,146
Jason Kidd🇺🇸
American basketball player and coach · b. 1973
Jean E. Sammet🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer scientist (1928-2017) · 1928–2017
Days lived
32,565
Jimmy Miller🇺🇸
deceasedrapper · 1942–1994
Days lived
19,206
Joan Crawford🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1905–1977
Days lived
26,346
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José Manuel Durão Barroso🇵🇹
politician · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Julia Cohen🇺🇸
US female tennis player · b. 1989
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw🇮🇳
Founder and Chairperson, Biocon; billionaire · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Lale Andersen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman singer and actress (1905–1972) · 1905–1972
Days lived
24,631
Liu Yudong🇨🇳
Chinese basketball player · b. 1970
Louisiana Red🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer · 1932–2012
Days lived
29,193
Ludwig Quidde
deceasedNotable Trials · 1858–1941
Days lived
30,297
Mark Buehrle🇺🇸
film director · b. 1979
Mark Lombardi🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican neo-conceptual artist whose art depicted diagrams of the social networks underlying global conspiracies (1951–2000) · 1951–2000
Days lived
17,897
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Marti Pellow🇬🇧
singer · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Martin Schempp🇩🇪
deceasedGerman engineer (1905–1984) · 1905–1984
Days lived
28,963
Maurice Jones-Drew🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1985
Michael Anderson🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1966
Days alive
731
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Mo Farah🇬🇧
British track and field athlete · b. 1983
Motono Ichirō🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese noble (1862-1918) · 1862–1918
Days lived
20,631
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Nikolai Ilʹin
deceasedSoviet rocket scientist · 1901–1937
Days lived
13,308
Oscar Osthoff🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican sportsperson · 1883–1950
Days lived
24,732
Paul Hymans🇧🇪
deceasedBelgian politician (1865–1941) · 1865–1941
Days lived
27,743
Perez Hilton🇺🇸
Announcer · b. 1978
Philipp Zeller🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1983
Rafael Chimishkyan🇬🇪
deceasedathlete · 1929–2022
Days lived
34,154
Reggie Watts🇺🇸
Singer · b. 1972
Renjun (Huang Ren-jun)🇨🇳
K-pop Idol (NCT) · b. 2000
Rex Tillerson
Actor · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Roger Bannister🇬🇧
deceasedathlete · 1929–2018
Days lived
32,487
Rudolf Gamsjäger🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1909–1985
Days lived
27,705
Vanessa Morgan🇨🇦
Canadian actress, singer and model · b. 1992
Walter Krüger🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1892–1973
Days lived
29,694
Wayne Carpendale🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1977
Wernher von Braun🇺🇸
deceasedmilitary person · 1912–1977
Days lived
23,826
Yunho (Jeong Yun-ho)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (ATEEZ) · b. 1999
Zak Penn🇺🇸
American screenwriter (born 1968) · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Zygmunt Hübner🇵🇱
deceasedPolish actor (1930–1989) · 1930–1989
Days lived
21,480
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Died on This Day
Alina Margolis-Edelman🇵🇱
deceasedPolish physician (1922-2008) · 1922–2008
Days lived
31,386
Bertold Löffler🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian painter, printmaker, and designer (1874-1960) · 1874–1960
Days lived
31,222
Cristóbal Balenciaga🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish fashion designer (1895-1972) · 1895–1972
Days lived
28,185
Elizabeth Taylor🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1932–2011
Days lived
28,879
Gerhard Gesemann🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1888–1948
Days lived
21,646
Henry Jerome🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican musician (1917–2011) · 1917–2011
Days lived
34,099
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Jean Bartik🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011) · 1924–2011
Days lived
31,497
Joachim Müncheberg
deceasedGerman officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1918–1943) · 1918–1943
Days lived
8,848
Lee Kuan Yew
deceasedFounding Father of Singapore · 1923–2015
Days lived
33,426
Mihály Kovács🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian Piarist, physics teacher, scouter, pioneer of the esucation of informatics (1916-2006) · 1916–2006
Days lived
32,953
Otto Kumm🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Waffen-SS general · 1909–2004
Days lived
34,507
Otto Reche🇩🇪
deceasedGerman anthropologist (1879-1966) · 1879–1966
Days lived
31,714
Peter Lorre🇺🇸
deceasedFilm actor · 1904–1964
Days lived
21,820
Raoul Dufy🇫🇷
deceasedFrench painter (1877–1953) · 1877–1953
Days lived
27,686
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Said Nursî
deceasedTurkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960) · 1877–1960
Days lived
30,396
Sarah Bernhardt🇫🇷
deceasedStage actor · 1844–1923
Days lived
28,667
Takeuchi Meitarō🇯🇵
deceasedentrepreneur · 1860–1928
Days lived
24,839
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
42,084
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
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
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
49,755
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
47,928
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,625
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,198
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,640
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,606
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,240
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,684
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,336
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,135
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,649
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,667
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,336
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,688
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,231
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,141
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,118
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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