March 23rd, 1887

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Born on March 23rd, 1887 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 23rd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 23rd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1887)

Born on March 23rd, 1887

Weekday

Wednesday

March 23rd, 1887 was a Wednesday.

Age

137

People born on March 23rd, 1887 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 137 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

March 21st, 1887 - April 20th, 1887

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 50,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 926 days, exactly on November 9th, 2026, people who were born on March 23rd, 1887 will be 51,000 days old!

50,074 Days

7,153 Weeks

1,645 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 23rd?

March 23rd, 2007

The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.

March 23rd, 1996

Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

March 23rd, 1994

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

March 23rd, 1993

The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

March 23rd, 1989

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited.

March 23rd, 1977

British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.

March 23rd, 1933

The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

March 23rd, 1931

Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.

March 23rd, 1919

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

March 23rd, 1908

American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.

March 23rd, 1905

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.

March 23rd, 1889

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

March 23rd, 1888

Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Football League.

March 23rd, 1862

American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.

March 23rd, 1839

An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Born on March 23rd, 1887

Josef Čapek

Czech painter and writer (1887-1945)

*March 23rd, 1887, Hronov †April 1st, 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Juan Gris

Spanish artist (1887–1927)

*March 23rd, 1887, Madrid †May 11th, 1927, Boulogne-Billancourt

Sidney Hillman

American labor leader

*March 23rd, 1887, Žagarė †July 10th, 1946, Point Lookout

Rudolf Kinau

German writer (1887-1975)

*March 23rd, 1887, Finkenwerder †November 19th, 1975, Finkenwerder

Anthony van Hoboken

Dutch musicologist

*March 23rd, 1887, Rotterdam †November 1st, 1983, Zürich

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 23rd?

Cedric Gibbons

American art director (1890–1960)

*March 23rd, 1893, Dublin †July 26th, 1960, Hollywood

Hans Thirring

Austrian physicist (1888-1976)

*March 23rd, 1888, Vienna †March 22nd, 1976, Vienna

Paul Valentine

American actor (1919-2006)

*March 23rd, 1919, New York City †January 27th, 2006, Los Angeles

Joan Crawford

American actress (1904–1977)

*March 23rd, 1904, San Antonio †May 10th, 1977, New York City

Roger Martin du Gard

French writer

*March 23rd, 1881, Neuilly-sur-Seine †August 22nd, 1958, Château du Tertre

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

*March 23rd, 1881, Worms †September 8th, 1965, Freiburg im Breisgau

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

Wernher von Braun

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

*March 23rd, 1912, Wyrzysk †June 16th, 1977, Alexandria

JP Saxe

Canadian musician and singer

*March 23rd, 1994, Toronto

Gianni Infantino Riovaldi

Swiss-Italian football administrator

*March 23rd, 1970, Brig-Glis

Frank Irons

Athletics competitor (1886-1942)

*March 23rd, 1886, Des Moines †June 19th, 1942, Palatine

Emmy Noether

German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)

*March 23rd, 1882, Erlangen †April 14th, 1935, Bryn Mawr

Steve Redgrave

British rower

*March 23rd, 1962, Marlow

Amanda Plummer

American actress

*March 23rd, 1957, New York City

Roger Bannister

English physician and athlete

*March 23rd, 1929, London Borough of Harrow †March 3rd, 2018, Oxford

Hope Davis

American actress

*March 23rd, 1964, Englewood

Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson

Icelandic association football player

*March 23rd, 2003, Sutton Coldfield

Mo Farah

British track and field athlete

*March 23rd, 1983, Gabiley

Roque González Garza

President of Mexico (1885-1962)

*March 23rd, 1885, Saltillo †November 12th, 1962, Mexico City

Akira Kurosawa

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

*March 23rd, 1910, Shinagawa-ku †September 6th, 1998, Setagaya-ku

Same year
Born in 1887

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886-1965)

*October 6th, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds †August 27th, 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Pierre Taittinger

French politician

*October 4th, 1887, 18th arrondissement of Paris †January 22nd, 1965, Paris

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

*May 31st, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre †September 20th, 1975, Hyères

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

*August 12th, 1887, Vienna †January 4th, 1961, Vienna

Marc Chagall

Belarusian-born French artist (1887–1985)

*July 14th, 1887, Vitebsk †March 28th, 1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

*January 28th, 1887, Łódź †December 20th, 1982, Geneva

John Reed

American journalist, poet, and communist activist

*October 22nd, 1887, Portland †October 17th, 1920, Moscow

Hermann Hammerschmidt

*August 21st, 1887, Cottbus †November 30th, 1944

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George Abbott

American writer and director (1887-1995)

*June 25th, 1887, Chautauqua County †January 31st, 1995, Miami Beach

Lynn Fontanne

British actress (1887–1983)

*December 6th, 1887, London †July 30th, 1983, Waukesha County

Josef Lada

Czech illustrator, painter, caricaturist, scenographer and writer (1887-1957)

*December 17th, 1887, Hrusice †December 14th, 1957, Prague

Joseph Lamb

American composer of ragtime music

*December 6th, 1887, Montclair †September 3rd, 1960, Brooklyn

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

*January 15th, 1887, San José †May 14th, 1949, Mexico City

Lajos Áprily

Hungarian poet/translator/recipient:1954 Attila József Prize

*November 14th, 1887, Brașov †August 6th, 1967, Budapest

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese politician and military leader (1887–1975)

*October 31st, 1887, Xikou †April 5th, 1975, Taipei

Huntley Gordon

Canadian actor (1887-1956)

*October 8th, 1887, Montreal †December 7th, 1956, Van Nuys

Carlos Dávila

Chilean diplomat, journalist and politician (1887-1955)

*September 15th, 1887, Los Ángeles †October 19th, 1955, Washington, D.C.

Boris Karloff

English actor (1887–1969)

*November 23rd, 1887, Dulwich †February 2nd, 1969, Midhurst

Georgia O'Keeffe

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

*November 15th, 1887, Sun Prairie †March 6th, 1986, Santa Fe

Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

*July 18th, 1887, Fyresdal †October 24th, 1945, Akershus Fortress

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 23rd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 23rd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIII.III.MDCCCLXXXVII

23.3.1887

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1887 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1887

March 1887

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March 23rd, 1887

Born on March 23rd, 1887

Weekday

Wednesday

Age

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 50,000 days old!

50,074 Days

7,153 Weeks

1,645 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 23rd?

The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.

Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited.

British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.

The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Football League.

American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.

An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Born on March 23rd, 1887

Czech painter and writer (1887-1945)

Spanish artist (1887–1927)

American labor leader

German writer (1887-1975)

Dutch musicologist

Same Day Who's birthday is on March 23rd?

Same year Born in 1887

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 23rd

Gregory the Illuminator (Episcopal Church)

Gwinear

Joseph Oriol

Ottone Frangipane

Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Maronite Church)

Turibius of Mogrovejo

Victorian, Frumentius and Companions

March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland)

Day of the Sea (Bolivia)

Family Day (South Africa)

Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day (Azerbaijan)

Pakistan Day (Pakistan)

Promised Messiah Day (Ahmadiyya)

World Meteorological Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

23.3.1887

Legend

Leap year

Calendar March 1887

March 1887

Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 50,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 23rd?

Same year
Born in 1887

Calendar
March 1887

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
9		1	2	3	4	5	6
10	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
11	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
12	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
13	28	29	30	31