Famous Deaths on 23 Feb

Famous Deaths on 23 Feb

1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
1270 - Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (b. 1225)
1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies
1554 - Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (bc. 1515)
1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer
1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
1704 - Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)
1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1766 - Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
1859 - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
1930 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
1931 - Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano (b. 1861)
1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
1944 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (b. 1863)
1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
1957 - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
1960 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)
1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
1970 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1976 - LS Lowry, English artist (b. 1887)
1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
1983 - Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
1990 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
1992 - Markos Vafiadis, Greek politician (b. 1906)
1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)
1997 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)
1999 - Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)
2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
2001 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2007 - Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007 - John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (b. 1916)
943 - Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)