October 23
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October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining after October 23 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
- 1516 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)
- 1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
- 1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
- 1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
- 1835 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
- 1857 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (d. 1899)
- 1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
- 1893 – Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
- 1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
- 1925 – Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
- 1927 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
- 1936 – Philip Kaufman, American director
- 1938 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (d. 1991)
- 1940 – Pele, Brazilian footballer
- 1942 – Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (d. 2007)
- 1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish musician
- 1947 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leader of Hamas (d. 2004)
- 1949 – Michael Burston (Wurzel), British musician (Motorhead) (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Charly Garcia, Argentine singer
- 1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, former President of Kosovo
- 1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director
- 1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
- 1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)
- 1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
- 1964 – Robert Trujillo, American musician (Metallica)
- 1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
- 1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
- 1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
- 1978 – Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
- 1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
- 1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer
- 1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
[change] Deaths
- 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus (suicide) (b. 85 BC)
- 930 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (b. 885)
- 1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
- 1869 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
- 1872 – Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- 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)
- 1939 – Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872)
- 1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
- 1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
- 1983 – Jessica Savitch, journalist (b. 1947)
- 1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
- 1990 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898)
- 2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
- 2010 – David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
- 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)
[change] Events
- 425 – Valentinian III becomes Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
- 1295 – Scotland and France sign the first treaty of the 'Auld Alliance' in Paris, against England.
- 1642 – English Civil War: The Battle of Edgehill proves indecisive.
- 1707 – The first parliament of Great Britain meets.
- 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an aircraft in the first heavier-than-air flight, in Paris.
- 1912 – The Battle of Kumanovo between Russian and Ottoman forces begins.
- 1929 – Great Depression: The first signs of panic show.
- 1941 – World War II: Georgy Zhukov takes command of the Red Army operation to prevent the Nazis' further advances into Russia.
- 1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein takes place, as the British Eighth Army begins an offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
- 1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Hungary.
- 1946 – In New York, the UN General Assembly meets for the first time.
- 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet rule begins.
- 1983 – A truck bomb hits a US barracks in Lebanon, killing 241 troops. On the same day, another truck bomb hits a French barracks, killing 58 military personnel.
- 1989 – The Hungarian Republic is declared.
- 1992 – Akihito becomes the first Japanese Emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
- 2001 – The iPod is released.
- 2002 – The Moscow Theatre siege begins, as Chechen terrorists take around 700 theatregoers hostage.
- 2004 – An earthquake in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan kills 35 people and injures around 2,200.
- 2005 – Hurricane Wilma hits the Yucatan, in Mexico.
- 2005 – Lech Kaczynski is elected President of Poland, ahead of Donald Tusk.
- 2011 – New Zealand wins the Rugby World Cup, defeating France 8-7 in Auckland.
- 2011 – Motorcycle rider Marco Simoncelli is killed at the Malaysian Moto GP.
- 2011 – A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits Van Province, in eastern Turkey.
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