October 23

2023 Calendar

October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus (suicide) (b. 85 BC)
877 - Ignatius, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 797)
891 - Yazaman al-Khadim, Arab military leader
930 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (b. 885)
1157 - Sweyn III of Denmark (b. 1120)
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
1872 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
1885 - Charles S. West, Texan jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1893 - Alexander Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857)
1896 - Columbus Delano, American politician (b. 1809)

1901 – 2000

1910 – Chulalongkorn (Rama V), King of Siam (now Thailand) (b. 1853)
1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840)
1930 - Vicente Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada (b. 1854)
1938 - Jean-Guy Gautier, French rugby^{[disambiguation needed]} player (b. 1875)
1939 – Zane Grey, American writer (b. 1872)
1940 - George R. Cortelyou, American politician (b. 1862)
1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (b. 1877)
1944 - Hana Brady, Czech Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
1948 - Carl Edward Bailey, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1894)
1950 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1979 - Antonio Caggiano, Argentine cardinal (b. 1889)
1983 – Jessica Savitch, journalist (b. 1947)
1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
1988 - Asashio Taro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1929)
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1911)
1990 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (b. 1918)
1994 - Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2000 - Rodney Adnoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)

From 2001

2003 – Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster (b. 1944)
2003 – Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898)
2004 - George Silk, New Zealand-American photographer (b. 1916)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
2010 – David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
2011 - Nusrat Bhutto, former First Lady of Pakistan (b. 1929)
2011 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning chemist (b. 1917)
2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
2011 - Bronislovas Lubys, former Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1938)
2012 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1934)
2012 - Wilhelm Brasse, Polish photographer (b. 1917)
2013 - Bill Mazer, American TV and radio presenter (b. 1920)
2013 - Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
2014 - Alvin Stardust, British singer (b. 1942)
2014 - Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1922)
2014 - John Bramlett, American football player (b. 1941)
2014 - Bernard Mayes, British author and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2014 - André Piters, Belgian footballer (b. 1931)
2014 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist (b. 1931)
2015 - Krunoslav Hulak, Croatian chess player (b. 1951)
2015 - Leon Bibb, American folk singer (b. 1922)
2015 - Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2015 - Jimmy Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1946)
2016 - Jimmy Perry, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2016 - Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2016 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, former Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
2017 - Walter Lassally, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (b. 1926)
2017 - Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1932)
2018 - Skip Campbell, American politician (b. 1948)
2018 - James Karen, American actor (b. 1923)
2018 - Alojz Rebula, Italian-Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist (b. 1924)
2018 - Laurens van Ravens, Belgian football referee (b. 1922)
2019 - Santos Juliá, Spanish historian and sociologist (b. 1940)
2019 - James W. Montgomery, American Episcopalian prelate (b. 1921)
2019 - Alfred Znamierowski, Polish vexillologist (b. 1940)

Births

1901 – 1950

1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (d. 1983)
1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
1905 - Yen Chia-han, President of the Republic of China (d. 1993)
1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
1910 - Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
1910 - Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
1911 - Jack Keller, American hurdler (d. 1978)
1918 - James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
1919 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
1920 - Lygia Clark, Brazilian artist (d. 1988)
1920 - Bob Montana, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
1922 - Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018)
1922 - Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)
1923 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice President of India (d. 2010)
1925 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
1925 – Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
1927 - Barron Hilton, American businessman (d. 2019)
1927 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
1927 - Dezso Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2013)
1928 - Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1929 - Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist (d. 2006)
1931 - Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
1936 – Philip Kaufman, American director
1938 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (d. 1991)
1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer and art collector
1941 - Lawrence Foster, American conductor
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
1942 - Bernd Erdmann, German footballer
1942 – Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008)
1942 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (d. 2007)
1945 - Maggi Hambling, British painter and sculptor
1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish musician and singer (d. 2018)
1945 - Michel Vautrot, French football referee
1947 - Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (d. 1989)
1947 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas (d. 2004)
1948 - Gerry Robinson, Irish businessman and television presenter
1949 – Michael Burston (Wurzel), British musician (Motorhead) (d. 2011)

1951 – 1975

1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, former President of Kosovo
1951 - Angel de Andres Lopez, Spanish actor (d. 2016)
1952 - Ken Tipton, American entrepreneur, actor, director, writer and producer
1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese movie director
1954 - Uli Stein, German footballer
1956 - Dianne Reeves, American jazz singer
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1957 - Martin Luther King III, American activist
1957 - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
1959 - Sam Raimi, American movie director
1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and writer (d. 2008)
1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
1962 - Stefano Colantuono, Italian footballer and coach
1963 - Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (d. 2012)
1964 – Robert Trujillo, American musician (Metallica)
1967 - Omar Linares, Cuban baseball player
1968 - Maria Darling, English voice actress
1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
1970 - Matthew Barzun, American diplomat
1971 - Bohuslav Sobotka, Czech politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
1975 - Yoon Sun-ha, South Korean actress and singer

From 1976

1976 - Cat Deeley, British television personality
1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 – Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 - John Lackey, American baseball player
1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1984 - Meghan McCain, American columnist and author
1985 - Masiela Lusha, Albanian-born American writer and actress
1985 - Lachlan Gillespie, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1985 - Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
1986 - Jessica Stroup, American actress
1986 - Emilia Clarke, English actress
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer
1988 - Jordan Crawford, American basketball player
1989 - Andriy Yarmolenko, Ukrainian footballer
1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer
1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
1992 - Alvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
1993 - Taylor Spreitler, American actress
1994 - Georgia Toffolo, English television personality
1997 - Daphne Blunt, American actress and singer
1998 - Amandla Stenberg, American actress

Deaths

Observances

Mole Day (Chemists)
Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)
National Day of Hungary
Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle