Birthday facts

Born on June 23.

Everyone born on June 23 is a Cancer — ruled by the Moon, homebody, loyal, feels everything. The stone is pearl, the flower rose, and the day is shared with Alan Turing and Zinedine Zidane.

Sun sign

Cancer ♋︎

the Crab · ruled by the Moon · homebody, loyal, feels everything

Birthstone

Pearl

June

Birth flower

Rose

& honeysuckle

Your book

Born on June 23? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Cancer, June 21 to July 22.

The Crab, ruled by the Moon, and the books make it the sign of home — the one who remembers your birthday, keeps the photographs, and knows where everything is. A water sign, credited with loyalty, intuition and a memory that forgets nothing, kind or otherwise. The shell is the point: soft inside, and it takes a while to get there. Its people are said to feel everything, which is a talent as much as a burden.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on June 23.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1912

Alan Turing

English mathematician and computer scientist

1972

Zinedine Zidane

French footballer and manager

1894

Edward VIII

King of the United Kingdom

1948

Clarence Thomas

American lawyer and jurist

1940

Stuart Sutcliffe

Scottish painter and musician

1943

Vint Cerf

American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

1957

Frances McDormand

American actress and winner of the Triple Crown of Acting

1956

Randy Jackson

American bass player and producer

On this day

What June 23 has seen.

It is Grand Duke's Official Birthday in Luxembourg.

1726On the First Sunday after Trinity, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 (page pictured), one of a few new cantatas written that year.

1865Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces.

1887The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act, creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national park.

1926The College Board administered the first Scholastic Aptitude Test, a major standardized test for university and college admissions in the United States.

1991The first instalment of the video-game series Sonic the Hedgehog was released in North America.

The calendar

When June 23 falls.

A Tuesday in 2026, a Wednesday in 2027, a Friday in 2028, a Saturday in 2029, and a Sunday in 2030.