On This Day — October 23
3889 noted people were born and 1881 died on October 23 in our archive, including Felix Bloch, Humpy Wheeler and Philip Rosenthal.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 23
Felix Bloch
1905 – 1983
Humpy Wheeler
1938 – 2025
Philip Rosenthal
1916 – 2001
Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
1895 – 1966
André Chantemesse
1851 – 1919
Andrée Lajoie
b. 1933
Annie Lorrain Smith
1854 – 1937
Arthur William Rucker
1848 – 1915
Avraham Biran
1909 – 2008
Brigitte Baptiste
b. 1963
Bruno Durieux
b. 1944
Dirk Hilbert
b. 1971
Edgar J. Goodspeed
1871 – 1962
Edward Brooke Lee
1892 – 1984
Edwin Boring
1886 – 1968
George M. Woodwell
1928 – 2024
Hans Zehetmair
1936 – 2022
Hardy Cross Dillard
1902 – 1982
Henri Milne-Edwards
1800 – 1885
Hermann Usener
1834 – 1905
José María Lassalle
b. 1966
Jules Aubrun
1881 – 1959
Julius Kühn
1825 – 1910
Kent Douglas Syverud
b. 1956
Lionel Zinsou
b. 1954
Luigi Preti
1914 – 2009
Manolis Andronikos
1919 – 1992
Mari Elka Pangestu
b. 1956
Maury Maverick
1895 – 1954
Mikhail Menzbier
1855 – 1935
Okwui Enwezor
1963 – 2019
Onésime Gagnon
1888 – 1961
Pylyp Kozytskyi
1893 – 1960
Randy Pausch
1960 – 2008
Richard Schoen
b. 1950
Saionji Kinmochi
1849 – 1940
Sunil Mittal
b. 1957
Svetlana Orlova
b. 1954
Ted Fujita
1920 – 1998
Ward Christensen
1945 – 2024
William Abbott Oldfather
1880 – 1945
Aart van Rhijn
1892 – 1986
Abbas Ranjbar
b. 1961
Agata Wojtyszek
b. 1967
Alain Chenciner
b. 1943
Alexander Melik-Pashayev
1905 – 1964
Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
1868 – 1930
Alicia Borinsky
b. 1946
André Turcat
1921 – 2016
Andrés Couve
b. 1968
Antjie Krog
b. 1952
Asqar Mamin
b. 1965
Asra Garg
b. 1980
Barrett Wendell
1855 – 1921
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
1831 – 1924
Boris Lozhkin
b. 1971
Brian Ross
b. 1948
Charles Goodhart
b. 1936
Charles-Honoré Laverdière
1826 – 1873
Choo Mi-ae
b. 1958
Christopher Williams
b. 1983
Clinton Anderson
1895 – 1975
Danny Kruger
b. 1974
Darol Froman
1906 – 1997
David Fawcett
b. 1963
David Kinderlehrer
b. 1941
Djordje Vukadinović
b. 1962
Dmitry Pavlov
1897 – 1941
Douglas Dunn
b. 1942
Elina Valtonen
b. 1981
Emma Vyssotsky
1894 – 1975
Eveline Crone
b. 1975
Fatmir Sejdiu
b. 1951
Feisal Abdul Rauf
b. 1948
Fouad Twal
b. 1940
France Winddance Twine
b. 1960
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
1773 – 1850
Franz Schlegelberger
1876 – 1970
Frederick Martin
1882 – 1950
Frederick W. Lanchester
1868 – 1946
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
1813 – 1900
Gan Thiam Poh
b. 1963
Georg Klebs
1857 – 1918
Georg Limnäus
1554 – 1611
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
1770 – 1838
George Saintsbury
1845 – 1933
George Watterston
1783 – 1854
Georgette Chen
1906 – 1993
Gianni Rodari
1920 – 1980
Gjergj Fishta
1871 – 1940
Graham Mather
b. 1954
Grant Imahara
1970 – 2020
Guri Hjeltnes
b. 1953
Hermann Hauser
b. 1948
Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth
1890 – 1952
Horace Mann Towner
1855 – 1937
Hugo Wast
1883 – 1962
Igor Smirnov
b. 1941
Ionna Vautrin
b. 1979
Isaac Held
b. 1948
Isabelle Aboulker
b. 1938
Ivan Jablonka
b. 1973
J. C. Hayward
b. 1945
Jacques Savatier
b. 1952
James A. Hill
1923 – 2010
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
1861 – 1947
Jan Boeke
1874 – 1956
Jan Czochralski
1885 – 1953
Jean-Pierre Cot
b. 1937
Jeffrey Lam
b. 1951
Jim Bunning
1931 – 2017
John Gilbert
1871 – 1934
John Heinz
1938 – 1991
John Heisman
1869 – 1936
John Kaye
1955 – 2016
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham
1881 – 1949
John Verney
1699 – 1741
Joseph Tassé
1848 – 1895
José Manuel Maza Martín
1951 – 2017
Juan Cole
b. 1952
Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 2nd Marquis of Luca de Tena
1897 – 1975
Karl Aiginger
b. 1948
Kateřina Šimáčková
b. 1966
Katrin Sass
b. 1956
Kenneth B. Storey
b. 1949
Kenneth Feinberg
b. 1945
Kristofer Schipper
1934 – 2021
Lawren Harris
1885 – 1970
Leszek Kołakowski
1927 – 2009
Lev Kovpak
b. 1978
León Arslanián
b. 1941
Liv Signe Navarsete
b. 1958
Lothar Rendulic
1887 – 1971
Ludger Westrick
1894 – 1990
Manfred Weiß
1944 – 2017
Margaret A. Edwards
1902 – 1988
Mark Cardenas
b. 1986
Martha Rountree
1911 – 1999
Masayuki Naoshima
b. 1945
Maximilien de Furstenberg
1904 – 1988
Meir Vilner
1918 – 2003
Mel Martínez
b. 1946
Michael Crichton
1942 – 2008
Michael Eric Dyson
b. 1958
Michael Green
b. 1964
Michela Malpangotto
b. 1976
Mikołaj Dowgielewicz
b. 1972
Mohammad Rafiq
1943 – 2023
Mykhaylo Khmelko
1919 – 1996
Ngozi Odu
b. 1952
Nikolai Karotamm
1901 – 1969
Nikolay Durnovo
1876 – 1937
Nisha Katona
b. 1971
Noel Mason-Macfarlane
1889 – 1953
Ofer Zaitûnî
b. 1960
Patrick Hogan
1939 – 2023
Paul Andrew Hutton
b. 1949
Paul Kagame
b. 1957
Pavel Rybalko
1894 – 1948
Pelé
1940 – 2022
Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer
1801 – 1894
Philippe Gosselin
b. 1966
Pierre-Georges Roy
1870 – 1953
Radu R. Florescu
1925 – 2014
Robert Bridges
1844 – 1930
Robert McGowan Littlejohn
1890 – 1982
Ronald Oremland
1946 – 2021
Samuel Åkerhielm
1887 – 1976
Sanjay Gupta
b. 1969
Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet
1849 – 1923
Stepan Shakaryan
1935 – 2019
Stéphane Nomis
b. 1970
Syed Abul Maksud
1946 – 2021
Taner Akçam
b. 1953
Toshio Hosokawa
b. 1955
Ulyana Lopatkina
b. 1973
Valerian Gracias
1900 – 1978
Vicente Verdú
1942 – 2018
Victor J. Dzau
b. 1946
Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill
1864 – 1934
Vladimir Admoni
1909 – 1993
Vladimir Platov
1946 – 2012
William David Coolidge
1873 – 1975
William Grantham
1835 – 1911
William Havard
1889 – 1956
Yae Ibuka
1897 – 1989
Yasmina Baddou
b. 1962
Yen Chia-kan
1905 – 1993
Yuri Kondratiev
1953 – 2023
Zhu Rongji
1928 – 2026
Édouard Branly
1844 – 1940
"Weird Al" Yankovic
b. 1959
A. Srinivasa Raghavan
1905 – 1975
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
1947 – 2004
Adalbert Stifter
1805 – 1868
Adang Sudrajat
1962 – 2021
Adlai Stevenson I
1835 – 1914
Adnan Siddiqui
b. 1969
Adrian Perkins
b. 1985
Adriana Kugler
b. 1969
… and 3,689 more
Died on October 23
Ettore Marchiafava
1847 – 1935
Tullio Regge
1931 – 2014
Adriano Moreira
1922 – 2022
Bronislovas Lubys
1938 – 2011
Carl Eckart
1902 – 1973
David George Kendall
1918 – 2007
Edward Adelbert Doisy
1893 – 1986
Georg von Siemens
1839 – 1901
Hironobu Kachō
1905 – 1970
Leon Cooper
1930 – 2024
Maurice Lugeon
1870 – 1953
Reinhart Heinrich
1946 – 2006
Santos Juliá
1940 – 2019
Théophile Gautier
1811 – 1872
Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
1895 – 1971
William Joel Blass
1917 – 2012
Aleksandr Tikhomirov
1850 – 1931
András Hegedüs
1922 – 1999
André Mouëzy-Éon
1880 – 1967
Anthony Caro
1924 – 2013
Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner
1845 – 1932
Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee
1899 – 1981
Askanaz Mravyan
1885 – 1929
Aziz Ahmed
1906 – 1982
Bernhard Bauknecht
1900 – 1985
Bettino Ricasoli
1809 – 1880
Carl Edward Bailey
1894 – 1948
Charles Adler, Jr.
1899 – 1980
Charles Glover Barkla
1877 – 1944
Charles Hubert Boulby Blount
1893 – 1940
Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
1658 – 1735
Charles Sims
1937 – 2017
Cleon Throckmorton
1897 – 1965
Corrado Böhm
1923 – 2017
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1799 – 1869
Edwin Klebs
1834 – 1913
Erich Köhler
1892 – 1958
Ernest Beaglehole
1906 – 1965
Ernest Thompson Seton
1860 – 1946
F. W. Walbank
1909 – 2008
Franco Reviglio
1935 – 2025
Franz Bopp
1791 – 1867
François Victor Alphonse Aulard
1849 – 1928
Frutos Saavedra Meneses
1823 – 1868
Gelasio Caetani
1877 – 1934
Georg August Wallin
1811 – 1852
George Bruce Cortelyou
1862 – 1940
George Fairbairn
1855 – 1943
Gilbert Stork
1921 – 2017
Gordon Ogilvie
1934 – 2017
Hans Grüneberg
1907 – 1982
Harold Hughes
1922 – 1996
Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan
1889 – 1963
Herbert A. Hauptman
1917 – 2011
Jack Gibson
1908 – 1994
Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche
1749 – 1800
Johann Alexander Döderlein
1675 – 1745
Johannes Olav Fallize
1844 – 1933
John Boyd Dunlop
1840 – 1921
John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore
1753 – 1815
John Greenlees Semple
1904 – 1985
John Joseph Kindred
1864 – 1937
John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
1766 – 1850
Joseph Sembratovych
1821 – 1900
Kurt Freund
1914 – 1996
Leonid Sandalov
1900 – 1987
Lert Shinawatra
1919 – 1997
Lucy Craft Laney
1854 – 1933
Ludwig Andreas Buchner
1813 – 1897
Marcel Bluwal
1925 – 2021
Marwan Kassab-Bachi
1934 – 2016
Max Askanazy
1865 – 1940
Mongi Slim
1908 – 1969
Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu
1876 – 1942
Oscar Stanley Dawson
1923 – 2011
Otto Folin
1867 – 1934
P. K. Kelkar
1909 – 1990
Peng Yigang
1932 – 2022
Pierre-Marie Termier
1859 – 1930
Pinchas Lapide
1922 – 1997
Ralph Belknap Baldwin
1912 – 2010
Renate Drucker
1917 – 2009
Richard Hakluyt
1552 – 1616
Robert Dussaut
1896 – 1969
Robert Foster
1898 – 1973
Sahib Singh Sokhey
1887 – 1971
Soong May-ling
1898 – 2003
Tony Hoagland
1953 – 2018
Valentyna Rakytianska
1948 – 2021
William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
1853 – 1911
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1857 – 1952
Yury Petrov
1939 – 2013
Álvaro José Brilhante Laborinho Lúcio
1941 – 2025
Abraham Geiger
1810 – 1874
Adolph Green
1914 – 2002
Al Jolson
1886 – 1950
Alexandr Vladimír Hrska
1890 – 1954
Alfonso Cossa
1833 – 1902
Alfred Neumann
1900 – 1968
Alfred Znamierowski
1940 – 2019
Alojz Rebula
1924 – 2018
Anna Airy
1882 – 1964
Anselmo Blanlot Holley
1860 – 1920
Anthony Hallam
1933 – 2017
Antonio Caggiano
1889 – 1979
Antonio Cicero
1945 – 2024
Arshad Sharif
1973 – 2022
Augusta Vera Duthie
1881 – 1963
Augustus Rhodes
1821 – 1918
Aşir Atlı
1881 – 1957
Benjamin F. Welty
1870 – 1962
Bernard Mayes
1929 – 2014
Bert Bandstra
1922 – 1995
Billy Nair
1929 – 2008
Birendra Nath Datta
1935 – 2023
Charles Addison Russell
1852 – 1902
Charles Beard Izard
1829 – 1904
Charles J. Plank
1915 – 1989
Charles Verlat
1824 – 1890
Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth
1675 – 1725
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
1610 – 1688
Christian Jacob Protten
1715 – 1769
Christopher Gable
1940 – 1998
Chulalongkorn
1853 – 1910
Claire Falkenstein
1908 – 1997
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
1893 – 1986
Cyrus D. Prescott
1836 – 1902
David Hogg
1886 – 1973
David Lewis
1917 – 2002
David Thompson
1961 – 2010
David Whitehead
1896 – 1992
David Wilde
1935 – 2025
Dayton Edward Phillips
1910 – 1980
Donald Logan
1917 – 2009
Douglas Young
1913 – 1973
Edith Houghton Hooker
1879 – 1948
Edward Everett Holland
1861 – 1941
Elias von Cyon
1842 – 1912
Elihu B. Washburne
1816 – 1887
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford
1906 – 2002
Elvira García y García
1862 – 1951
Elyse Dodgson
1945 – 2018
Eric Reece
1909 – 1999
Erik Axelsson Oxenstierna
1624 – 1656
Eugène Joors
1850 – 1910
Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini
1912 – 1993
Ewin L. Davis
1876 – 1949
Ezekiel A. Straw
1819 – 1882
Francis A. Sullivan
1922 – 2019
Francis Giraud
1932 – 2010
Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
1739 – 1815
Franciszek Jóźwiak
1895 – 1966
Frank A. Herda
1947 – 2023
Frank Holmes
1924 – 2011
Friedrich Ernst Moritz Saemisch
1869 – 1945
Geoff Capes
1949 – 2024
George Anderson Mercer
1835 – 1907
George F. Curtis
1906 – 2005
George H. White
1908 – 1975
George M. Rhodes
1898 – 1978
George Washington Flint
1844 – 1921
George William Gordon
1820 – 1865
Gerhard Braun
1923 – 2015
Giovanni Battista Marziali
1895 – 1948
Grace Macurdy
1866 – 1946
Grant Woods
1954 – 2021
Guillaume de Felice
1803 – 1871
Haroon Ahmed
1936 – 2024
Harry L. Maynard
1861 – 1922
Henry Barnard Kümmel
1867 – 1945
Henry D. Hatfield
1875 – 1962
Henry James Nicholas
1891 – 1918
Hippolyte Lazerges
1817 – 1887
Hugh McLellan Southgate
1871 – 1940
Ian Mudie
1911 – 1976
Ilya Lifshitz
1916 – 1982
Ismat T. Kittani
1929 – 2001
Ivan Milutinović
1901 – 1944
Ivan Yakovlev
1848 – 1930
Ivor David Fenton
1889 – 1986
Jack Comber
1919 – 1992
Jack Jones
1938 – 2024
Jack Underman
1925 – 1969
James Bertram
1872 – 1934
James McMahon Graham
1852 – 1945
James P. Liautaud
1936 – 2015
James W. Montgomery
1921 – 2019
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson
1915 – 2006
Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu
1841 – 1926
Jimmy Perry
1923 – 2016
Joe Greene
1920 – 1978
Johannes Theodor Reinhardt
1816 – 1882
John Beresford, 5th Marquess of Waterford
1844 – 1895
John Makini Kapena
1843 – 1887
John McCracken
1938 – 2017
John Mordaunt
1697 – 1780
John Robert Bennett
1866 – 1941
John S. Monagan
1911 – 2005
John Whitelocke
1757 – 1833
John of Capistrano
1386 – 1456
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