The 174th day of the year, the 175th in a leap year
Born on 23 June
Every 23 June birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Cancer, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CancerWater, cardinal, ruled by the Moon.
- Birthstone
- Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
- Birth flower
- Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 23 June in any year.
Which weekday 23 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 June falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 23 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,830 babies were born on 23 June in each year of the twenty, making it the 128th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 23 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Turing | 1912–1954 | English computer scientist |
| Zinedine Zidane | 1972– | French association football player and coach |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889–1966 | Russian poet |
| Edward VIII | 1894–1972 | King of the United Kingdom in 1936 |
| Martti Ahtisaari | 1937–2023 | President of Finland from 1994 to 2000 |
| Frances McDormand | 1957– | American actress |
| Oda Nobunaga | 1534–1582 | Japanese samurai and warlord |
| Giambattista Vico | 1668–1744 | Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist |
| Jean Anouilh | 1910–1987 | French playwright |
| Joséphine de Beauharnais | 1763–1814 | Empress of the French from 1804 to 1810 |
| Richard Bach | 1936– | American spiritual writer |
| Armen Sarkissian | 1953– | President of Armenia from 2018 to 2022, physicist and diplomat |
| Patrick Vieira | 1976– | French association football player and coach |
| Alfred Kinsey | 1894–1956 | American sexologist |
| Caesarion | 47–30 BC | last pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 44 to 30 BC |
| Bob Fosse | 1927–1987 | American choreographer, dancer, and director |
| Joss Whedon | 1964– | American director, screenwriter, and producer |
| Francesca Schiavone | 1980– | Italian tennis player |
Died on 23 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jonas Salk | 1914–1995 | American virologist who developed one of the first polio vaccines |
| Wilhelm Eduard Weber | 1804–1891 | German physicist |
| Boris Vian | 1920–1959 | French writer and musician |
| Peter Falk | 1927–2011 | American actor |
| Richard Matheson | 1926–2013 | American fiction writer |
| Matthias Jakob Schleiden | 1804–1881 | German botanist and philosopher |
| James Mill | 1773–1836 | Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher |
| Andreas Papandreou | 1919–1996 | Greek economist and politician |
| Maureen O'Sullivan | 1911–1998 | Irish-American actress |
| John McAfee | 1945–2021 | British-American programmer and businessman |
| Mathurin Jacques Brisson | 1723–1806 | French zoologist and natural philosopher |
| Reinhold Glière | 1875–1956 | Russian and Soviet composer |
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