148,583 People died wen i was born! gosh! [spoiler]People who died on September 23, 1992 (the exact day you were born) James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general People who died on September 23 (various years) 2006 - Etta Baker, US-American blues guitarist (b.1913) 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter 2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor 2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary 2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer 2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman 2002 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster 2000 - Carl Rowan, US-American journalist 2000 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player 1998 - Mary Frann, US-American actress 1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress 1994 - Robert Bloch, US-American author 1994 - Jerry Barber, US-American golfer 1988 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer 1987 - Bob Fosse, US-American dancer, choreographer, and actor 1981 - Chief Dan George, Canadian actor 1978 - Lyman Bostock, US-American baseball player (murdered) 1974 - Cliff Arquette, US-American comedian and actor 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate 1971 - Billy Gilbert, US-American actor 1971 - J. W. Alexander, US-American mathematician 1970 - Bourvil, French actor and singer 1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint 1950 - Sam Barry, US-American basketball player and coach 1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist 1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist 1935 - the first two victims of the Cleveland Torso Murderer 1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1917 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot 1900 - William Marsh Rice, US-American philanthropist and university founder 1889 - Wilkie Collins, British author 1877 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician 1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer 1871 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician 1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French author 1850 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero 1846 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia 1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman 1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer 1789 - John Rogers, US-American Continental Congressman 1773 - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist 1764 - Robert Dodsley, English writer 1738 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician 1728 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist 1675 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française 1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet 1573 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord 1571 - John Jewel, English bishop 1535 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden 1390 - John I, Duke of Lorraine 1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician 79 - Pope Linus [/spoiler]