September 23rd, 1953

Born on September 23rd, 1953

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What happened on September 23rd?

September 23rd, 2019

The British travel company Thomas Cook Group ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving around 600,000 tourists stranded around the world.

September 23rd, 2016

Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany.

September 23rd, 2010

Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.

September 23rd, 2008

A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before committing suicide.

September 23rd, 1952

U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech (pictured), one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.

September 23rd, 1920

The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.

September 23rd, 1913

The United Mine Workers of America begin a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, sparking the deadly and protracted Colorado Coalfield War.

September 23rd, 1884

The French steamship Arctique ran aground on the northern coast of Cape Virgenes in Argentina; gold was discovered during the rescue effort, triggering the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.

September 23rd, 1803

Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.

September 23rd, 1780

American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army general Benedict Arnold to hand over West Point, New York.

September 23rd, 1642

First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ended in a Royalist victory.

September 23rd, 1122

Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman emperor Henry V agreed to the Concordat of Worms (pictured), ending the Investiture Controversy.

September 23rd, 2008

Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.

September 23rd, 2004

Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

September 23rd, 1983

Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.

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

Born on September 23rd, 1953

70

Sam Karmann

French actor and film director

*September 23rd, 1953, Port Said

70

Kika Mirylees

British actress

*September 23rd, 1953, Union of South Africa

70

Kenny Burns

Scottish footballer (born 1953)

*September 23rd, 1953, Glasgow

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Who's birthday is on September 23rd?

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

69

George C. Wolfe

American playwright

*September 23rd, 1954, Frankfort

37

Kaylee DeFer

American actress

*September 23rd, 1986, Tucson

64

Jason Alexander

American actor, comedian, director and television host

*September 23rd, 1959, Newark

45

Anthony Mackie

American actor

*September 23rd, 1978, New Orleans

61

Indra Gunawan

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1947, Surakarta City †June 7th, 2009

40

Emma Johansson

Swedish road racing cyclist

*September 23rd, 1983, Sollefteå

70

Myriam Ullens

Belgian entrepreneur

*September 23rd, 1952, Cologne †March 29th, 2023, Lasne

43

Romy Schneider

German-French actress (1938–1982)

*September 23rd, 1938, Vienna †May 29th, 1982, 7th arrondissement of Paris

66

Kumar Sanu

Indian playback singer

*September 23rd, 1957, Kolkata

66

Rosalind Chao

American actress

*September 23rd, 1957, Anaheim

93

Mickey Rooney

American actor (1920–2014)

*September 23rd, 1920, Brooklyn †April 6th, 2014, Studio City

47

Anya Marina

American musician

*September 23rd, 1976, Ann Arbor

73

Ray Charles

American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004)

*September 23rd, 1930, Albany †June 10th, 2004, Beverly Hills

39

Anneliese van der Pol

American actress and singer

*September 23rd, 1984, Amsterdam

39

Dylan Moscovitch

Canadian pair skater

*September 23rd, 1984, Toronto

69

Patrick O. Brown

American biochemist, inventor and entrepreneur

*September 23rd, 1954, Washington, D.C.

59

Bruno Solo

French actor

*September 23rd, 1964, Paris

90

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr

Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)

*September 23rd, 1880, Kilmaurs †June 25th, 1971, Brechin

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Born in 1953

70

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

69

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president

*July 15th, 1953, Port-Salut

70

Hans Krankl

Austrian footballer

*February 14th, 1953, Vienna

70

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

69

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

70

Peter-Michael Kolbe

West German rower

*August 2nd, 1953, Hamburg

70

Tonnus Oosterhoff

Dutch poet and writer

*March 18th, 1953, Leiden

70

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

President of Mexico since 2018

*November 13th, 1953, Tepetitán

70

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

70

Heiner Lauterbach

German actor and voice actor

*April 10th, 1953, Cologne

70

Pierce Brosnan

Irish actor

*May 16th, 1953, Drogheda

70

Frances Conroy

American actress

*November 13th, 1953, Monroe

70

Jeb Bush

43rd governor of Florida

*February 11th, 1953, Midland

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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