Deaths in History on October 23

Roman senator and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar, commits suicide at about 42/43 (b. 85 BC)

930 Daigo, 60th Emperor of Japan (897-930), dies at 45
1260 Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1456 Saint John of Capistrano, Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo, dies at 70
1550 Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer, dies at 52
1602 Franciscus Junius, French-Dutch calvinist theologist and vicar, dies at 57
1616 Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 Charles du Fresne, du Cange, French philologist and scholar, dies at 77
1764 Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist, dies at 59
1799 William Paca, American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 58
1856 Alexander Ross, Canadian fur trader, dies at 73
1868 Cullen Whipple, American inventor (pointed screw machine), dies at 67

14th Earl of Derby, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68), dies at 70

1872 Théophile Gautier, French writer, historian and poet (Albertus, La Chanson de Roland, Émaux et camées), dies at 61
1874 Abraham Geiger, German theologian and leader of Reform Judaism, dies at 64
1885 Charles S. West, American jurist and politician, dies at 56
1890 Charles Verlat, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1892 Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), murdered at 52
1899 Penn Symons, British Major General during Second Boer War, dies in battle during the Battle Of Talana Hill at 56
1901 Georg von Siemens, German banker and politician (Deutsche Bank), dies at 62
1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot, American theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1910 Rama V [Chulalongkorn], King of Thailand (1868-1910), dies at 57
1913 Edwin Klebs, German physician and bacteriologist (bacterial theory of infection, diphtheria bacillus), dies at 79
1921 John B. Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1928 François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1929 Thomas Frederick Tout, British historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
1939 Zane Grey, American western novelist (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1942 Georg Stumme, German general, commandant of African corps, dies at 56
1944 Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for X-ray scattering), dies at 67
1944 Hana Brady, Jewish Czech Holocaust victim (Hanna's Suitcase), dies at 13
1953 Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83

French fashion designer (New Look), dies of a heart attack at 52

1986 Edward A Doisy Sr, American bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943), dies at 92
1990 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
1991 Lance Baker, dies at 31
1992 Kees Spermon, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies
1996 Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
1996 Lin Onus, Australian Aboriginal artist (Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute), dies at 47
1996 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, British sailor, dies at 68
1997 Luther Simjian, Armenian-American Inventor (teleprompter and first self-posing portrait camera), dies at 92
1998 Barnett Slepian, American physician, murdered by anti-abortionist James Charles Kopp at 52
2001 Ronald William Kirby, British artist, dies at 72
2002 Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, British historian, dies at 96
2002 Richard Helms, American intelligence official (CIA head 1966-73), dies at 89

Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China (1948-75), dies at 106

2005 John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2005 Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2006 Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 (Mustaf) "John" Ilhan, Turkish-Australian entrepreneur (Crazy John's mobile phones), dies of a hereditary heart condition at 42
2007 Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian Chinese businessman (Founder of Genting Group), dies at 89
2010 Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), dies at 68
2013 Bill Mazer, American sports broadcaster (New York institution in sports reporting; sports trivia expert), dies at 92
2016 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1972-95), dies at 84
2016 Tom Hayden, American civil rights and antiwar activist and politician (Rep-D-Ca), dies at 76
2020 David Barnes, New Zealand sailor (470 world champion 1981, 83, 84), dies from multiple sclerosis at 62