September 23

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). There are 99 days remaining.

Births:

• 1713?: [Ferdinand VI]? (King of Spain)
• 1889: [Walter Lippmann]? (journalist)
• 1920: [Mickey Rooney]? (actor)
• 1926: [John Coltrane]? (saxophonist, composer)
• 1949: [Bruce Springsteen]? (singer)
• 1959: Jason Alexander (actor)
• 1959: [Lita Ford]? (singer, guitarist)
• 1959: [Elizabeth Peña]? (actress)

Deaths:

• 1835: Vincenzo Bellini, aged 33, Italian composer (Norma?)
• 1939: Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist
• 1973: Pablo Neruda, poet

Events:

• 1846: Discovery of Neptune by German astronomer [Johann Gottfried Galle]?
• An equinox usually occurs on this date.

Holidays:

• Feast of Saint Adomnan of Iona

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