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