October 23
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Art and culture
Births
- 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
- 1936 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
- 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
- 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
- 1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director
- 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
Deaths
- 1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- 1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
- 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
- 1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
- 1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
Notes
- Daniel Wildenstein
- Restif de la Bretonne
- Théophile Gautier
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet
- Al Jolson
- Christian Dior
- Marcel Brion
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Philip Kaufman
- Edward Kienholz
- Zane Grey
- Bert Haanstra
- Alexander Afanasyev
- Adalbert Stifter
Philip Kaufman (1936 - )
Ang Lee (1954 - ) Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese film director. Lee won the 2006 Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
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