List of Famous people born on April 23rd

Hitoshi "Mel" Wakabayashi is a former All-American ice hockey player, a right-handed center, who played for the 1964 NCAA champion Michigan Wolverines hockey team. He was also named Player of the Year in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in 1966. He went on to play 11 season in the Japan Ice Hockey League and to coach the Japan men's national ice hockey team at international competitions, including the 1980 Winter Olympics. After his hockey career ended, Wakabayashi became the President of Seibu Canada. In 2001, Wakabayashi was selected by the WCHA as one of the Top 50 Players in 50-year history of the conference. He was also inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 2006.

Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo (1499–1562) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.

William Francis Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew, CBE, C.St.J, was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bermuda, Sir Thomas Astley-Cubbitt, between 1931 and 1936.

George Randolph Hearst Sr. was an American heir and media executive. He was the son of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the vice president of the Hearst Corporation.

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by the pen name Źmitrok Biadula, was a Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer, translator, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement. He is considered one of the fathers of modern Belarusian literature.

Henrik Steffens Hagerup was a Norwegian naval officer and politician who served as Minister of the Navy from 1856 to 1859 with certain interruptions.