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 until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 63 BC - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general (d. 12 BC)
- 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
- 1516 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)
- 1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian Jesuit composer (d. 1712)
- 1713 - Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
- 1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
- 1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
- 1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
- 1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1857)
- 1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
- 1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
- 1815 - Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
- 1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
- 1835 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
- 1844 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
- 1857 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (d. 1899)
- 1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
- 1871 - Gjergj Fishta, Albanian poet (d. 1940)
- 1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
- 1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
- 1893 – Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1896 - Roman Jakobson, Russian-born linguist (d. 1982)
- 1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
- 1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
- 1910 - Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
- 1910 - Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1919 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1992)
- 1920 - Bob Montana, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
- 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 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
- 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 – Pele, Brazilian footballer
- 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 – Kim Larsen, Danish musician
- 1947 - Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (d. 1989)
- 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
- 1957 - Martin Luther King III, American activist
- 1957 - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
- 1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director
- 1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
- 1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)
- 1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
- 1962 - Stefano Colantuono, Italian footballer and coach
- 1964 – Robert Trujillo, American musician (Metallica)
- 1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian author
- 1971 - Bohuslav Sobotka, Czech politician
- 1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
- 1975 - Yoon Sun-ha, South Korean actress and singer
- 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
- 1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
- 1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
- 1985 - Masiela Lusha, Albanian-born American writer and actress
- 1985 - Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
- 1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
- 1986 - Jessica Stroup, American actress
- 1990 – Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer
- 1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
- 1997 - Daphne Blunt, American actress and singer
- 1998 - Amandla Stenberg, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus (suicide) (b. 85 BC)
- 877 - Ignatius, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 797)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
- 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)
- 1994 - Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2000 - Rodney Adnoa'i, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
- 2003 – Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898)
- 2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
- 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)
- 2012 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1934)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain.
- 1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 1915 - 25,000 to 33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate their right to vote.
- 1929 – Great Depression: The first signs of panic show.
- 1940 - Norwegian Hurtigruten passenger steamer Prinsesse Ragnhild sinks after an explosion off northern Norway.
- 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.
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Henderson Field begins in the Guadalcanal Campaign, lasting until October 26.
- 1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Hungary.
- 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
- 1946 – In New York, the UN General Assembly meets for the first time.
- 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet rule begins.
- 1958 - The Smurfs cartoons appear for the first time.
- 1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump mining disaster in Nova Scotia, killing 74 people, with 100 surviving the accident.
- 1973 - A UN-sanctioned ceasefire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
- 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.
- 1989 - The Philips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 people.
- 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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