| 46801 | April 23 | Birth | 1888 – Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1967) |
| 46802 | April 23 | Birth | 1889 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942) |
| 46803 | April 23 | Birth | 1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1953) |
| 46804 | April 23 | Birth | 1893 – Frank Borzage, American actor and director (d. 1952) |
| 46805 | April 23 | Birth | 1894 – Cow Cow Davenport, American singer and pianist (d. 1955) |
| 46806 | April 23 | Birth | 1895 – Johnny Hyde, Russian-American talent agent (d. 1950) |
| 46807 | April 23 | Birth | 1895 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author and director (d. 1982) |
| 46808 | April 23 | Birth | 1897 – Lucius D. Clay, American general (d. 1978) |
| 46809 | April 23 | Birth | 1897 – Folke Jansson, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1965) |
| 46810 | April 23 | Birth | 1897 – Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) |
| 46811 | April 23 | Birth | 1899 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 46812 | April 23 | Birth | 1899 – Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (d. 1982) |
| 46813 | April 23 | Birth | 1900 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1959) |
| 46814 | April 23 | Birth | 1900 – Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996) |
| 46815 | April 23 | Birth | 1901 – E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist (d. 1988) |
| 46816 | April 23 | Birth | 1902 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 46817 | April 23 | Birth | 1903 – Guy Simonds, English-Canadian general (d. 1974) |
| 46818 | April 23 | Birth | 1904 – Cliff Bricker, Canadian runner (d. 1980) |
| 46819 | April 23 | Birth | 1904 – Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter (d. 2001) |
| 46820 | April 23 | Birth | 1904 – Duncan Renaldo, Romanian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1985) |
| 46821 | April 23 | Birth | 1907 – Lee Miller, American model and photographer (d. 1977) |
| 46822 | April 23 | Birth | 1907 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor, designed the Wotruba Church (d. 1975) |
| 46823 | April 23 | Birth | 1908 – Myron Waldman, American animator and director (d. 2006) |
| 46824 | April 23 | Birth | 1910 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005) |
| 46825 | April 23 | Birth | 1911 – Ronald Neame, English-American director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 46826 | April 23 | Birth | 1913 – Diosa Costello, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer (d. 2013) |
| 46827 | April 23 | Birth | 1915 – Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer, academic, and businessman (d. 2000) |
| 46828 | April 23 | Birth | 1916 – Yiannis Moralis, Greek painter and educator (d. 2009) |
| 46829 | April 23 | Birth | 1917 – Dorian Leigh, American model (d. 2008) |
| 46830 | April 23 | Birth | 1917 – Tony Lupien, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004) |