Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 23 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 23
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 23
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 423 | Ming Yuan Di, ruler of Northern Wei (b. 392) |
| 484 | Huneric, Vandal king |
| 668 | Gabriel of Beth Qustan, bishop and saint (b. 594) |
| 679 | Dagobert II, Frankish king (probable; |
| 761 | Gaubald, Frankish bishop (b. 700) |
| 889 | Solomon II, bishop of Constance |
| 910 | Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian missionary and scholar |
| 918 | Conrad I, king of East Francia (b. 890) |
| 940 | Ar-Radi, Abbasid caliph (b. 909) |
| 1172 | Ugo Ventimiglia, Italian cardinal |
| 1193 | Thorlak, patron saint of Iceland (b. 1133) |
| 1230 | Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England (b. 1165) |
| 1304 | Matilda of Habsburg, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 1253) |
| 1383 | Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1320) |
| 1384 | Thomas Preljubović, ruler of Epirus |
| 1392 | Isabella of Castile, duchess of York (b. 1355) |
| 1556 | Nicholas Udall, English cleric, playwright, and educator (b. 1504) |
| 1572 | Johann Sylvan, German theologian (executed; date of birth unknown) |
| 1575 | Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese samurai (b. 1531) |
| 1588 | Henry I, duke of Guise (b. 1550) |
| 1631 | Michael Drayton, English poet and playwright (b. 1563) |
| 1638 | Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1552) |
| 1646 | François Maynard, French poet and academic (b. 1582) |
| 1652 | John Cotton, English minister and theologian (b. 1585) |
| 1675 | Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French general and diplomat (b. 1602) |
| 1722 | Pierre Varignon, French mathematician and academic (b. 1654) |
| 1761 | Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish spy (b. 1725) |
| 1779 | Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1724) |
| 1795 | Henry Clinton, English general and politician (b. 1730) |
| 1805 | Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and author (b. 1723) |
| 1834 | Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer (b. 1766) |
| 1884 | John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824) |
| 1889 | Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (b. 1858) |
| 1892 | Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General in the Regular United States Army, brother in law to President Ulysses S. Grant. |
| 1902 | Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (b. 1821) |
| 1906 | Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, last emperor of the Gaza Empire (b. c.1850) |
| 1912 | Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (b. 1850) |
| 1926 | Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856) |
| 1930 | Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay, Turkish lieutenant and educator (b. 1906) |
| 1931 | Wilson Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1865) |
| 1939 | Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890) |
| 1946 | John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (b. 1873) |
| 1948 | Akira Mutō, Japanese general (b. 1883) |
| 1950 | Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (b. 1878) |
| 1954 | René Iché, French soldier and sculptor (b. 1897) |
| 1961 | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author (b. 1875) |
| 1970 | Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886) |
| 1972 | Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888) |
| 1973 | Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892) |
| 1979 | Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898) |
| 1982 | Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
| 1983 | Colin Middleton, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1910) |
| 1984 | Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896) |
| 1992 | Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934) |
| 1994 | Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905) |
| 1995 | Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911) |
| 1998 | Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1927) |
| 2000 | Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924) |
| 2001 | Bola Ige, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Oyo State (b. 1930) |
| 2004 | P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921) |
| 2005 | Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1914) |
| 2006 | Charlie Drake, English actor (b. 1925) |
| 2007 | William Francis Ganong, Jr., American physiologist and academic (b. 1924) |
| 2009 | Robert L. Howard, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1939) |
| 2010 | Fred Hargesheimer, American soldier and pilot (b. 1916) |
| 2011 | Aydın Menderes, Turkish economist and politician (b. 1946) |
| 2012 | Jean Harris, American educator and murderer (b. 1923) |
| 2013 | Chryssa, Greek-American sculptor (b. 1933) |
| 2014 | Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944) |
| 2015 | Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1941) |
| 2017 | Maurice Hayes, Irish educator and politician (b. 1927) |
| 2020 | Leslie West, American singer and guitarist (b. 1945) |
| 2021 | Joan Didion, American writer (b. 1934) |
| 2022 | Brandon Montrell, American TikTok personality and stand-up comedian (b. 1979) |
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