October 23 - Deaths

Deaths

• 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
• 930 – Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
• 1456 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
• 1550 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic 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 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, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
• 1893 – Alexander Battenberg, prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857)
• 1910 – Chulalongkorn, King of 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)
• 1942 – Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21^st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 – Hana Brady, Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
• 1950 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (b. 1869)
• 1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
• 1959 – George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1959 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
• 1978 – Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909)
• 1983 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 1984 – James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
• 1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46^th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
• 1989 – Armida, Mexican actress (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 filmmaker (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
• 2001 – Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Soong May-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
• 2004 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (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 first lady (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
• 2007 – John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian-born Chinese businessman (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Kevin Finnegan, British boxer (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Francis Crippen, American long-distance swimmer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 1942)