November 23
November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
- 955 – Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
- 1407 - Louis I, Duke of Orleans (b. 1372)
- 1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
- 1499 - Perkin Warbeck, English pretender, executed
- 1503 - Margaret of York (b. 1446)
- 1572 - Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
- 1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
- 1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
- 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States (b. 1744)
- 1826 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
- 1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician (b. 1762)
- 1864 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German-born Russian astronomer (b. 1793)
- 1866 - Cave Johnson, American politician (b. 1793)
- 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
1901 – 2000
- 1902 – Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
- 1910 - Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
- 1923 - Urmuz, Romanian judge and author (b. 1883)
- 1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
- 1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
- 1941 - Horace F. Graham, American politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1862)
- 1965 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (b. 1876)
- 1966 – Séan T Ó Ceallaigh, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician (b. 1910)
- 1972 - Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director and producer (b. 1889)
- 1974 - Massacre of Sixty in Ethiopia:
- Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
- Aman Andom, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
- Aklilu Habte-Wold, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
- Asrate Medhin-Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
- Endelkachew Makonnen, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
- 1976 - André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
- 1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
- 1983 – Tom Evans, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh writer (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
- 1992 - Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
- 1992 - Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
- 1995 - Louis Malle, French director (b. 1932)
- 1995 - Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
From 2001
- 2001 - Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (b. 1928)
- 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
- 2005 - Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
- 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
- 2006 - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 2010 - Ingrid Pitt, British actress (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Montserrat Figueras, Spanish operatic soprano (b. 1942)
- 2012 - Larry Hagman, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2013 - Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1963)
- 2014 - Marion Barry, American politician, Mayor of Washington, DC (b. 1936)
- 2014 - Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)
- 2014 - Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1943)
- 2015 - Yoram Tsafrir, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1938)
- 2015 - Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian politician (b. 1980)
- 2015 - Douglass North, American economist (b. 1920)
- 2015 - Dan Fante, American author and playwright (b. 1944)
- 2016 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, Iranian cleric and jurist (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Rita Barbera, Spanish politician, former Mayor of Valencia (b. 1948)
- 2016 - Andrew Sachs, German-born English actor (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Kevin Austin, English-Trinidadian footballer (b. 1973)
- 2018 - Betty Bumpers, former First Lady of Arkansas (b. 1925)
- 2018 - Menahem Degani, Israeli basketball player (b. 1927)
- 2018 - Mick McGeough, Canadian ice hockey referee (b. 1956)
- 2018 - Bob McNair, American businessman (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director (b. 1928)
- 2018 - George Ty, Filipino banker (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Gerard Unger, Dutch graphic and type designer (b. 1942)
- 2019 - Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
- 2019 - Francesc Gambús, Spanish politician (b. 1974)
- 2019 - Barbara Hillary, American adventurer (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Catherine Small Long, American politician (b. 1924)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
- 1906 - Betti Alver, Estonian poet (d. 1989)
- 1907 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
- 1914 - Richard Percival Lister, English author, poet and artist (d. 2014)
- 1914 - Emmett Ashford, American baseball umpire (d. 1980)
- 1916 – Michael Gough, British actor (d. 2011)
- 1919 - P. F. Strawson, British philosopher (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
- 1922 - Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician (d. 2008)
- 1922 - Joan Fuster, Spanish writer (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, President of Spanish Galicia (d. 2012)
- 1923 - Daniel Brewster, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
- 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian religious and spiritual leader (d. 2011)
- 1927 - Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
- 1930 - Herberto Hélder, Portuguese poet (d. 2015)
- 1930 - Geeta Dutt, Indian singer (d. 1972)
- 1931 - Tosiwo Nakayama, Micronesian politician, 1st President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 2007)
- 1932 - Renato Martino, Italian cardinal
- 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
- 1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
- 1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1935 - Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian religious leader (d. 2014)
- 1935 - Jeremy Stone, American scientist and arms control activist (d. 2017)
- 1938 - Patrick Kelly, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool
- 1939 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Luis Tiant, Cuban baseballer
- 1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
- 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
- 1943 - David Nolan, American activist (d. 2010)
- 1943 - Günther Beckstein, German politician, former Prime Minister of Bavaria
- 1943 - Sue Nicholls, English actress
- 1944 - Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director (d. 2019)
- 1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American writer
- 1944 - James Toback, American screenwriter and movie director
- 1945 - Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Jim Doyle, American politician, former Governor of Wisconsin
- 1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (d. 2018)
- 1946 - Bobby Rush, American politician
- 1947 - Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host
- 1948 - Reiner Calmund, German football official
- 1949 - Sandra Stevens, British singer
- 1950 - Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician
1951 – 1975
- 1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1953 - Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, conductor and composer
- 1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American singer, songwriter and pianist
- 1954 – Ross Brawn, British Formula 1 team principal
- 1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
- 1955 - Mary Landrieu, American politician
- 1956 - Shane Gould, Australian swimmer
- 1957 - William Kaelin Jr., American physician and Nobel laureate
- 1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1962 - Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela
- 1963 - Andreas Schmidt, German actor (d. 2017)
- 1964 - Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
- 1965 - Sergio Vázquez, Argentine footballer
- 1966 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
- 1966 - Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer
- 1966 - Russell Watson, English tenor
- 1968 - Robert Denmark, English athlete
- 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish television presenter
- 1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian linguist and lexicographer
- 1970 – Karsten Müller, German chess player and writer
- 1970 - Zoë Ball, English television presenter
- 1971 - Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1971 - Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor and TV host
- 1971 - Sajid Khan, Indian movie actor and director
- 1972 – Alf-Inge Haaland, Norwegian footballer
- 1974 - Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976
- 1978 - Tommy Marth, American musician (d. 2012)
- 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer
- 1979 – Kelly Brook, British actress and model
- 1979 - Ivica Kostelic, Croatian skier
- 1980 - Paulie Malignaggi, American boxer
- 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican runner
- 1983 - Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer and songwriter
- 1984 - Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
- 1985 - Victor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
- 1985 - Scott Brash, Scottish equestrian show-jumper
- 1987 - Kasia Struss, Polish model
- 1987 - Snooki, Chilean-born American reality television personality and author
- 1990 - Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
- 1990 - Eddie Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer (Hannah Montana)
- 1992 - Go Eun-bi, South Korean singer (d. 2014)
- 1996 - James Maddison, English footballer
- 1996 - Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
- 1998 - Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
Deaths
Holidays and observances
- Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Qawl (Speech) – First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar
- Georgia – St George's Day
- Japan – Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
- Slovenia – Rudolf Maister Day