The 143rd day of the year, the 144th in a leap year
Born on 23 May
Every 23 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 23 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 May falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 23 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,860 babies were born on 23 May in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 62nd 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Linnaeus | 1707–1778 | Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist |
| Pär Lagerkvist | 1891–1974 | Swedish writer |
| John Bardeen | 1908–1991 | American physicist and engineer |
| Anatoly Karpov | 1951– | Russian chess player |
| Lena Meyer-Landrut | 1991– | German singer |
| Alan García | 1949–2019 | President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011) |
| Hans Frank | 1900–1946 | German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal |
| Rubens Barrichello | 1972– | Brazilian racing driver |
| Philip I of France | 1052–1108 | king of the Franks from 1060 to 1108 |
| Otto Lilienthal | 1848–1896 | German aviation pioneer |
| Douglas Fairbanks | 1883–1939 | American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer |
| Joan Collins | 1933– | English actress, author and columnist |
| Margaret Fuller | 1810–1850 | American writer and women's activist |
| Joshua Lederberg | 1925–2008 | American molecular biologist |
| Antonis Samaras | 1951– | Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015 |
| Daniele Massaro | 1961– | Italian association football player |
| ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | 1844–1921 | son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith |
| Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1790–1842 | French Navy officer and explorer |
Died on 23 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828–1906 | Norwegian playwright and theatre director |
| Heinrich Himmler | 1900–1945 | German Nazi politician, head of the SS and one of the main architects of the Holocaust |
| John Forbes Nash Jr. | 1928–2015 | American mathematician and economist |
| John D. Rockefeller | 1839–1937 | American industrialist and philanthropist |
| Roger Moore | 1927–2017 | English actor |
| Girolamo Savonarola | 1452–1498 | Italian Dominican friar and preacher |
| Roh Moo-hyun | 1946–2009 | President of South Korea from 2003 to 2008 |
| Pope Urban I | died 230 | Pope from 222 to 230 |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | 1789–1857 | French mathematician |
| Ismail I | 1487–1524 | founder and first shah of Safavid Iran |
| Leopold von Ranke | 1795–1886 | German historian and founder of modern source-based history |
| Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor | 1086–1125 | King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty |
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