List of Famous people born on January 23rd
Alex Wubbels
Alexandra L. Wubbels is an American nurse and former Olympian. As an alpine ski competitor, she was the national champion in both the Slalom and Grand Slalom in 1999, and competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics as Alex Shaffer.
Cheam June Wei
Cheam June Wei is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the mixed doubles gold medalist at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
Henrique Mecking
Henrique Costa Mecking, also known as Mequinho, is a Brazilian chess grandmaster who reached his zenith in the 1970s and is still one of the strongest players in Brazil. He was a chess prodigy, drawing comparisons to Bobby Fischer, although he did not achieve the International Grandmaster title until 1972. He won the Interzonals of Petropolis 1973 and Manila 1976. His highest FIDE rating is 2635, achieved in 1977, when he was ranked number four in the world. He is the first Brazilian to become a grandmaster. Despite winning his first national championship at the age of 13, he played in very few tournaments. He won at Vršac in 1971 and finished third with Robert Byrne at Hastings in 1971–72. In 1975, he twice shared second place behind Ljubomir Ljubojević, firstly at Las Palmas with Ulf Andersson and Mikhail Tal and then at Manila with Lev Polugaevsky, Bent Larsen and Helmut Pfleger.
The Avener
Tristan Casara, known by his stage name The Avener, is a French deep house and electro music producer, born in Nice. He is best known for his 2014 single "Fade Out Lines", a deep house rework of "The Fade Out Line", a song by Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws.
Yasuhiro Takato
Yasuhiro Takato is a Japanese voice actor who works for Aoni Production.
Kalanag
Kalanag, born Helmut Ewald Schreiber, was a German film producer and magician in the German Reich and in the early Federal Republic of Germany.
Sergey Kara-Murza
Sergey Georgyevich Kara-Murza is a Soviet and Russian chemist, historian, political philosopher and sociologist.
Yevgeny Lukyanenko
Yevgeny Yuryevich Lukyanenko is a Russian pole vaulter.
Franco De Vita
Franco De Vita is a Venezuelan Latin Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter. His first album as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the CBS Records label in 1989, and in 1990, his album Extranjero had a song that reached No. 1 on the United States Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award. His 2004 album Stop reached the Top 10 throughout Latin America and on the United States Latin charts. In the United States alone, he has scored more than two dozen hits on the Billboard charts.
Alexander Baumjohann
Alexander Baumjohann is a German footballer most recently played for Sydney FC as an attacking midfielder. After developing as a star junior with Schalke 04, he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach and enjoyed great success with the Bundesliga club, earning a move to Bayern Munich in 2009.