April 23
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Art and culture
- 1988 – Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.
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Births
- 1564 – William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (d. 1616)
- 1775 – J. M. W. Turner, English painter (d. 1851)
- 1805 – Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
- 1893 – Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952)
- 1907 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
- 1907 – Lee Miller, American photographer & model (d. 1977)
- 1910 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Maurice Druon, French author (d. 2009)
- 1926 – J. P. Donleavy, Irish American author (d. 2017)
- 1928 – Shirley Temple, American actress and politician (d. 2014)
- 1929 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (d. 2020)
- 1936 – Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
- 1943 – Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993)
- 1952 – Narada Michael Walden, American musician and producer
- 1954 – Michael Moore, American filmmaker
- 1955 – Judy Davis, Australian actress
- 1957 – Neville Brody, English graphic designer, typographer and art director
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Deaths
- 303 – Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr
- 1616 – Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
- 1616 – William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (date according to the Julian calendar, hence 10 days later than death of Cervantes or Garcilaso, by the Gregorian calendar)
- 1850 – William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
- 1889 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
- 1895 – Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
- 1986 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b. 1906)
- 1990 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)
- 1991 – Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
- 1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
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