October 23 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
  • 877 – Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople (b. 797)
  • 891 – Yazaman al-Khadim, Turkish military leader
  • 930 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (b. 885)
  • 1456 – John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (b. 1386)
  • 1550 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (b. 1480)
  • 1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
  • 1616 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
  • 1688 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
  • 1730 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
  • 1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
  • 1774 – Michel Benoist, French missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
  • 1867 – Franz Bopp, German linguist (b. 1791)
  • 1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
  • 1872 – Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
  • 1885 – Charles S. West, American jurist and politician (b. 1829)
  • 1893 – Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
  • 1910 – Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
  • 1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848)
  • 1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
  • 1934 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1877)
  • 1938 – Jean-Guy Gautier, French rugby player (b. 1875)
  • 1939 – Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
  • 1942 – Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
  • 1943 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
  • 1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
  • 1944 – Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
  • 1950 – Al Jolson, Russian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
  • 1953 – Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
  • 1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A. (b. 1905)
  • 1959 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
  • 1959 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
  • 1978 – Maybelle Carter, American guitarist (Carter Family) (b. 1909)
  • 1983 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
  • 1984 – James Petrillo, American union leader (b. 1892)
  • 1984 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
  • 1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
  • 1988 – Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
  • 1989 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
  • 1990 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
  • 1994 – Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 1996 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
  • 1997 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch director (b. 1916)
  • 1998 – Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
  • 2000 – Yokozuna, Samoan-American wrestler (b. 1966)
  • 2001 – Josh Kirby, English illustrator (b. 1928)
  • 2001 – Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and historian (b. 1917)
  • 2002 – Adolph Green, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1915)
  • 2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor (b. 1944)
  • 2003 – Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
  • 2004 – Robert Merrill, American opera singer (b. 1919)
  • 2004 – Bill Nicholson, English footballer (b.1919)
  • 2005 – William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
  • 2005 – John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
  • 2005 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo, 10th First Lady of Nigeria (b. 1945)
  • 2006 – Lebo Mathosa, South African singer (Boom Shaka) (b. 1977)
  • 2007 – John Ilhan, Turkish-Australian businessman, founded Crazy John's (b. 1965)
  • 2007 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian-Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
  • 2008 – Kevin Finnegan, English boxer (b. 1948)
  • 2010 – Francis Crippen, American swimmer (b. 1984)
  • 2010 – Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (b. 1942)
  • 2010 – Stanley Tanger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
  • 2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927)
  • 2011 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
  • 2012 – William Joel Blass, American judge (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Wilhelm Brasse, Polish photographer (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Michael Marra, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
  • 2012 – Hughie Hay, Scottish footballer

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)