Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 23
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[edit] Births
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- 63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
- 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (pictured) (d. 1294)
- 1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
- 1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary
- 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
- 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
- 1916 - [[Aldo - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
[edit] Deaths
- 79 - Pope Linus
- 1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
- 1889 - Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)
- 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
- 1981 - Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)
- 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
