Famous People Born in 1923

• Arbus, Diane (March 14)

  New York photographer of oddball humans

• Attenborough, Richard (August 29)

  The director and producer of the movie Gandhi

• Barker, Bob (December 12)

  The host of TV's The Price Is Right, 1972-2007

• Berrigan, Philip (October 5)

  Blood-pouring, missile-hammering ex-priest

• Dee, Ruby (October 27)

  Veteran actress and wife of Ossie Davis

• Dole, Bob (July 22)

  The 1996 Republican candidate for president

• Gordimer, Nadine (November 20)

  The Nobel-winning South African author who wrote July's People

• Gordon, Dexter (February 27)

  Long, tall tenor sax jazz legend

• Heller, Joseph (May 1)

  The author of Catch-22

• Heston, Charlton (October 4)

  Moses in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments

• Hingle, Pat (July 19)

  Jim Gordon in the Batman film series

• King Fahd

  Ruler of Saudi Arabia, 1982-2005

• Kissinger, Henry (May 27)

  U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford

• Knight, Ted (December 7)

  Newscaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Lawford, Peter (September 7)

  British "Rat Pack" member and Kennedy in-law

• Levertov, Denise (October 24)

  The politically-active poet who wrote With Eyes at the Back of our Heads

• Lichtenstein, Roy (October 27)

   The Pop Art master who did the comic-style Whaam!

• Mailer, Norman (January 31)

  Pugnacious author of The Naked and the Dead

• Mandino, Og

  Author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

• Mason, Shirley (January 25)

  The woman whose story was told in Sybil

• Maxwell, Robert (June 10)

  Disgraced publisher of the Daily Mirror

• McMahon, Ed (March 6)

  Johnny Carson's Tonight Show sidekick

• Merrill, Dina (December 9)

  The sophisticated blond in 'Operation Petticoat'

• Murphy, Bridey (April 27)

  Hypnotic regression celebrity of the 1950s

• Nidetch, Jean (October 12)

  Founder of the Weight Watchers diet program

• Page, Bettie (April 22)

  1950s pinup model with black hair and bangs

• Peres, Shimon (August 2)

  The 8th prime minister of Israel

• Prince Rainier III (May 31)

  Ruler of Monaco and husband of Princess Grace

• Robertson, Cliff (September 9)

  The Oscar-winning star of the 1968 film Charly

• Sete, Bola (July 16)

  1960s Brazilian jazzman

• Shepard, Alan (November 18)

  The first American in space

• Sheppard, Sam (December 29)

  The Ohio doctor who inspired TV's The Fugitive

• Watson, Doc (March 2)

  The blind folk guitarist with the distinctive flat-picking style

• Williams, Esther (August 8)

  The swimming beauty who was a movie star in the 1940s

• Williams, Hank (September 17)

  The country singer who did "Your Cheatin' Heart"

• Yeager, Chuck (February 13)

  The pilot who broke the sound barrier

• Yew, Lee Kuan (September 16)

  The first prime minister of modern Singapore

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