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People who died on September 23, 1970 (the exact day you were born)

• Bourvil, French actor and singer

Natural disasters in 1970

• 1970 Bhola cyclone
• 1970 Ancash earthquake

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
• 1992 - James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general
• 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
• 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

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