List of Famous people born on April 23rd
Carl Higbie
Carlton Milo Higbie IV is an American. He was director of advocacy for America First Policies, a group that promotes Donald Trump's policy agenda. In August 2017, Higbie was selected to serve as the chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service, but resigned in January 2018 after racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, and anti-LGBT comments and comments about fellow veterans with PTSD came to light. Before that he served as a spokesperson for Great America PAC, which supported Trump's presidential candidacy and assisted his transition info office, and he also became known for promoting the false birther conspiracy theory about Barack Obama.
Frederic Pryor
Frederic LeRoy Pryor was an American economist. While studying in Berlin during the partition of the city in 1961, he was imprisoned in East Germany for six months, then released in a Cold War "spy swap" that also involved downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. He spent the bulk of his career as a member of the Swarthmore College faculty, as a professor of economics.
Allison Krause
Allison Beth Krause was an American honor student at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, when she was killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting against the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 345 ft (106 m). Krause was shot in the left side of her chest at about 330 feet (101 m), from which she received a fatal wound. A subsequent autopsy found that a single rifle bullet entered and exited her upper left arm, and then entered the left side of her chest, fragmenting on impact and causing massive internal trauma. She died from her wounds later the same day.
Callum O'Dowda
Callum Joshua Ryan O'Dowda is a professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Bristol City and the Irish national team.
Ihlas Bebou
Ihlas Bebou is a Togolese footballer who plays as a winger for Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.
Paul Smart
Paul Smart was an English short circuit motorcycle road racer who later entered Grands Prix.
Jamie Hayter
Paige Wooding is an English professional wrestler, best known by the ring name Jamie Hayter, who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She is best known for her work on the independent circuit in England with various promotions including Pro-Wrestling: EVE and RevPro where she is a former RevPro British Women's Champion. She also frequents Stardom, where she is the former Goddess of Stardom Champion and is the former SWA World Champion.
Michel Nihoul
Jean-Michel Nihoul better known as Michel Nihoul was a Belgian businessman and radio host. During the 1990s and 2000s, he was the subject of a media and legal case in connection with the Marc Dutroux Affair, but was acquitted with a Nolle prosequi in 2010 for alleged involvement in child abduction. But Nihoul was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for drug trafficking and criminal association.
Dieter Kürten
Dieter Kürten is a German sports journalist.
Steve Clark
Stephen Maynard Clark was an English musician. He was the principal songwriter and lead guitarist for the English hard rock band Def Leppard, until 1991, when he died from alcohol poisoning. In 2007, Clark was ranked No. 11 on Classic Rock Magazine's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". In 2019, Clark was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Def Leppard.