Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

Famous Deaths on 23 Dec

1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1588 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550)
1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
1652 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)
1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1793 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
1902 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
1931 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
1939 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884)
1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883)
1953 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899)
1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
1961 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (b. 1910)
1970 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888)
1973 - Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901)
1973 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (b. 1892)
1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
1982 - Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920)
1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
1992 - Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (b. 1934)
1994 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
1997 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
2000 - Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
2000 - Noor Jehan, Indian singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
2005 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914)
2005 - Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (b. 1905)
2006 - Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
2006 - Johnny Vincent, English footballer for Birmingham City and Middlesbrough (b. 1947)
2006 - Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (b. 1952)
2006 - Marilyn Waltz, American actress and Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
2007 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
2007 - Michael Kidd, American film and stage choreographer (b. 1915)
2007 - William Francis Ganong, American physiologist (b. 1924)
679 - Dagobert II, King of Austrasia (b. c 650).(murdered)
910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
913 - Conrad of Franconia
918 - Conrad I of Germany