Deaths on 23 May
2000s
Caleb Carr
2024
American military historian and author (1955–2024)
Morgan Spurlock
2024
American filmmaker (1970–2024)
Ron Hill
2021
British long-distance runner (1938–2021)
Eric Carle
2021
American author and illustrator (1929–2021)
Hana Kimura
2020
Japanese joshi puroresu wrestler (1997–2020)
Roger Moore
2017
English actor (1927–2017)
Anne Meara
2015
American comedian and actress (1929–2015)
Aleksey Mozgovoy
2015
Pro-Russian rebel and warlord in Eastern Ukraine
Alicia Nash
2015
Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)
John Forbes Nash Jr.
2015
American mathematician and Nobel Laureate (1928–2015)
Mikhail Alekseev (linguist)
2014
Madhav Mantri
2014
Indian cricketer (1921–2014)
Epy Guerrero
2013
Hayri Kozakçıoğlu
2013
Turkish politician
Georges Moustaki
2013
Musical artist
Flynn Robinson
2013
American basketball player (1941–2013)
Paul Fussell
2012
American cultural and literary historian (1924–2012)
Xavier Tondo
2011
Spanish cyclist (1978–2011)
José Lima
2010
Dominican baseball player (1972–2010)
Simon Monjack
2010
English screenwriter, film director and producer (1970–2010)
Roh Moo-hyun
2009
President of South Korea from 2003 to 2008
Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
2008
Spanish mountaineer (1967–2008)
Utah Phillips
2008
American labor organizer, folk singer, and poet (1935–2008)
Lloyd Bentsen
2006
American politician (1921–2006)
Kazimierz Górski
2006
Polish footballer (1921–2006)
Big Bill Neidjie
2002
Last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language (1913–2002)
Sam Snead
2002
American professional golfer (1912–2002)
1900s
Owen Hart
1999
Canadian-American professional wrestler (1965–1999)
Telford Taylor
1998
American lawyer (1908–1998)
Kronid Lyubarsky
1996
Soviet dissident
Olav H. Hauge
1994
Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet
Kostas Davourlis
1992
Greek footballer
Giovanni Falcone
1992
Italian judge (1939–1992)
Wilhelm Kempff
1991
German pianist (1895–1991)
Jean Van Houtte
1991
Belgian politician
Fletcher Markle
1991
Canadian entertainer (1921–1991)
Georgy Tovstonogov
1989
Soviet theatre director
Karl Koch (hacker)
1989
German hacker (1965-c. 1989)
Sterling Hayden
1986
American actor (1916–1986)
Gene Green (baseball)
1981
American baseball player (1933–1981)
Rayner Heppenstall
1981
British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer
George Jessel (actor)
1981
American vaudeville performer, actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer (1898–1981)
David Lewis (Canadian politician)
1981
Canadian lawyer and politician (1909–1981)
S. Selvanayagam
1979
Ceylon Tamil academic
Moms Mabley
1975
American comedian and actress (1897–1975)
David Smith (sculptor)
1965
American sculptor and painter
August Jakobson
1963
Estonian writer and politician
Louis Coatalen
1962
Georges Claude
1960
French engineer, inventor & Nazi collaborator (1870–1960)
Gustav Suits
1956
Estonian poet
Jan Frans De Boever
1949
Belgian Symbolist painter
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
1947
Swiss writer
Heinrich Himmler
1945
German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)
Panagiotis Toundas
1942
Greek composer
Frederick Ruple
1938
Swiss-American painter
John D. Rockefeller
1937
American business magnate (1839–1937)
Bonnie and Clyde
1934
American bank robbers in the 1930s
Mihkel Martna
1934
Estonian politician and journalist
Bonnie and Clyde
1934
American bank robbers in the 1930s
August Nilsson
1921
Swedish athlete
Svetozar Boroević
1920
Austro-Hungarian field marshal (1856–1920)
François Coppée
1908
French poet and novelist (1842–1908)
Henrik Ibsen
1906
Norwegian playwright (1828–1906)
1800s
Franz Ernst Neumann
1895
German physicist and mineralogist (1798–1895)
Anton von Schmerling
1893
Austrian statesman (1805–1893)
Leopold von Ranke
1886
German historian (1795–1886)
Kit Carson
1868
American frontiersman and guide (1809–1868)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
1857
French mathematician (1789–1857)
Charles Robert Malden
1855
British naval officer, surveyor and educator
Franz Xaver von Baader
1841
German philosopher and theologian (1765–1841)
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
1815
United States botanist and Lutheran clergyman (1753-1815)
Géraud Duroc
1813
French general, Grand marshal of the palace
Before 1800
James Otis Jr.
1783
American lawyer and activist
John Wood, the Elder
1754
English architect (1704–1754)
William Bradford (printer, born 1663)
1752
Early English-born printer in North America
Abraham ben Abraham
1749
Purported Polish nobleman
William Kidd
1701
Scottish privateer (1654–1701)
Adrien Auzout
1691
French astronomer (1622–1691)
Ferdinando II de' Medici
1670
Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670
John Gauden
1662
17th century English Anglican cleric (1605–1662)
John Blitheman
1591
English composer and organist
Ismail I
1524
Shah of Safavid Iran from 1501 to 1524
Ashikaga Yoshitane
1523
Military ruler of Japan (1490–1493, 1508–1521)
Girolamo Savonarola
1498
De facto ruler of Florence from 1494 to 1498; Dominican friar and reformer
Antipope Benedict XIII
1423
Antipope from 1394 to 1423
Toghon Temür
1370
Emperor of Yuan dynasty from 1333 to 1368
Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel
1338
English noblewoman
Jehan de Lescurel
1304
14th-century medieval French composer
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1125
Holy Roman Emperor from 1111 to 1125
Wicbert
962
Medieval European saint
Li Sizhao
922
Chinese military general and politician
Pope Urban I
230
Head of the Catholic Church from 222 to 230