Notable Birthdays for October 23
Samuel More (1762-1843) - Engineer who was a pioneer in steamships.
John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886) - U.S. Boundary Commissioner responsible for surveying the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Isaac B. Woodbury (1819-1858) - Composer of Dulcimer: Or the New York Collection of Sacred Music.
Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965) - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Blanchan De Graff Doubleday (1865-1918) - Author and publisher of wild flowers and birds under the name Neltje Blanchan.
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John Heisman (1869-1936) - Pioneer in early college football and the person the Heisman Trophy Award is named after.
William D. Coolidge (1873-1975) -Inventor of the modern x-ray tube.
Gilbert N. Lewis (1875-1946) - Chemist who discovered the covalent bond using his own concept (Lewis dot structure) of electron pairs.
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Speckled Red (1892-1973) - Blues and boogie-woogie piano player known for his recordings The Dirty Dozen.
Milton "Gummo" Marx (1892-1977) - Comedian with the duo Marx Brothers.
Lilyan Tashman (1896-1934) - Silent film actress.
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Luther Evans (1902-1981) - Political scientist.
Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003) - First female swimmer to swim the English Channel.
Zellig Harris (1909-1992) - Linguist known for his work in structural linguistics and the discovery of transformational structure in language.
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Hayden Rorke (1910-1987) - Actor known for his character Colonel Alfred E. Bellows in I Dream of Genie.
Augusta Dabney (1918-2008) - Soap opera actress known for her role as Isabelle Alden on the daytime series Loving.
James Daly (1918-1978) - Actor who played Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center.
Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) - Architect who designed the Yale Art and Architecture Building.
Bob Montana (1920-1975) - Illustrator and creator of Archie Comics.
Coleen Gray (1922-2015) - Actress known for her roles in Nightmare Alley and Red River.
Ned Rorem (1923-2022) - Composer said to be one of the leading composers of all time.
Frank Sutton (1923-1974) - Actor who played Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter on Gomer Pyle.
Jim Bunning (1931-2017) - Professional baseball player turned politician.
Carol Fran (1933-2021) - Successful blues singer.
JacSue Kehoe (1935-2019) - Neuroscientist who discovered a neurotransmitter can have multiple types of receptors.
Philip Kaufman (1936-Still Living) - Film director of Rising Sun and The Right Stuff.
Johnny Carroll (1937-1955) - Rockabilly singer of Corrine, Corrina and Run Come See.
Ellie Greenwich (1940-2009) - Co-songwriter of Da Doo Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, and Leader of the Pack.
Brian Ross (1948-Still Living) - Investigative journalist.
Nick Tosches (1949-2019) - Author of Hellfire, the biography about Jerry Lee Lewis.
David Wills (1951-Still Living) - Country music songwriter of From Barrooms to Bedrooms.
Darrell Pace (1956-Still Living) - Olympic archer.
Dwight Yoakam (1956-Still Living) - Country music singer Little Ways, Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose, and Ain't That Lonely Yet.
Michael Eric Dyson (1958-Still Living) - Activist and author of Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X.
Wayne Rainey (1960-Still Living) - World champion motorcycle racer.
Eddy Cue (1964-Still Living) - Computer scientist and Senior VP of Services for Apple.
Robert Trujillo (1964-Still Living) - Bassist for the hard rock band Metallica.
Augusten Burroughs (1965-Still Living) - Author of Running with Scissors.
Al Leiter (1965-Still Living) - Former MLB baseball player and current sportscaster.
Dale Crover (1967-Still Living) - Former drummer of the band Nirvana.
Chris Horner (1971-Still Living) - Professional road racing cyclist.
Tiffeny Milbrett (1972-Still Living) - Former professional soccer player.
Meghan McCain (1984-Still Living) - Journalist, author, and daughter to the late John McCain.
Leah Van Dale (1987-Still Living) - WWE female wrestler named Carmella in the ring.
Memorable Events for October 23
1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, MA.
1864 - Union beats confederate soldiers just west of the Mississippi (Battle of Westport).
1684 - English King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter trading with other countries.
1760 - First Jewish prayer books printed.
1819 - The first ship sails through the Erie Canal to Utica.
1910 - The first woman (Blanche Scott) flies at a public event at Fort Wayne, IN.
1915 -The first National Horseshoe Tournament is held at Kellerton, IA.
1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival Giants uniform.
1923 - Sebastian Hinton receives a patent for a playground climbing structure known monkey bars.
1932 - The radio comedy program The Fred Allen Show airs.
1933 - The John Dillinger gang rob t$75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, IN.
1934 - Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen set the record for their hot air balloon flying 10.9 miles over Lake Erie.
1941 - Dumbo is released by Walt Disney.
1942 - U.S. Army Air Forces bomber strikes an American Airlines DC-3 airliner in California, killing 12 passengers and the crew.
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs contract with Montreal Royals, the minor league team of Brooklyn Dodgers.
1947 - NAACP submits a petition on racism to the UN entitled An Appeal to the World.
1956 - First video recording on magnetic tape televised across the country.
1964 - Champion boxer Joe Frazier beats German Hans Huber for the Olympic heavyweight gold medal.
1973 - President Nixon turns over White House tape recordings to the judge.
1982 - Authorities engage in a gun fight with members of a religious cult in Arizona, leaving 2 people dead and dozens injured.
1984 - The Ethiopianfamine is aired on NBC via the BBC.
1991 - Justice Clarence Thomas is sworn in as a United States Supreme Court Justice.
1991 - Two women commit suicide using Dr, Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine.
1997 - San Francisco experiences a power blackout at 6:11 a.m. as a result of to sabotage.
2001 - The iPod is released by Apple.
2007 - Astronaut Pamela Melroy becomes the second female space shuttle commander.
2019 - Google claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy.
2023 - New Orleans experiences a super fog causing a pile-up of 158 vehicles during commute.
