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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of October 0425 | EVENT | Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6. |
| 23rd of October 0502 | EVENT | The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius. |
| 23rd of October 1086 | EVENT | At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI. |
| 23rd of October 1157 | EVENT | The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country. |
| 23rd of October 1295 | EVENT | The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris. |
| 23rd of October 1641 | EVENT | Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. |
| 23rd of October 1642 | EVENT | Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War. |
| 23rd of October 1694 | EVENT | British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French. |
| 23rd of October 1707 | EVENT | The first Parliament of Great Britain meets. |
| 23rd of October 1739 | EVENT | War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain. |
| 23rd of October 1812 | EVENT | Claude Francois de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris. |
| 23rd of October 1850 | EVENT | The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. |
| 23rd of October 1861 | EVENT | U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases. |
| 23rd of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Westport : Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City. |
| 23rd of October 1867 | EVENT | 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate. |
| 23rd of October 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory. |
| 23rd of October 1906 | EVENT | Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France. |
| 23rd of October 1911 | EVENT | First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War. |
| 23rd of October 1912 | EVENT | First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. |
| 23rd of October 1915 | EVENT | Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote. |
| 23rd of October 1917 | EVENT | Lenin calls for the October Revolution. |
| 23rd of October 1929 | EVENT | Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic. |
| 23rd of October 1929 | EVENT | The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California. |
| 23rd of October 1935 | EVENT | Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. |
| 23rd of October 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow. |
| 23rd of October 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: : At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt. |
| 23rd of October 1942 | EVENT | All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii"). |
| 23rd of October 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26. |
| 23rd of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf : The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines. |
| 23rd of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary. |
| 23rd of October 1946 | EVENT | The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City. |
| 23rd of October 1956 | EVENT | Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4). |
| 23rd of October 1958 | EVENT | The Springhill Mine Bump : An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. |
| 23rd of October 1958 | EVENT | The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute a six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou. |
| 23rd of October 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands). |
| 23rd of October 1970 | EVENT | Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. |
| 23rd of October 1972 | EVENT | Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months. |
| 23rd of October 1973 | EVENT | A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria. |
| 23rd of October 1973 | EVENT | The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations. |
| 23rd of October 1983 | EVENT | Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. |
| 23rd of October 1989 | EVENT | The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Matyas Szuros, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic. |
| 23rd of October 1989 | EVENT | Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314. |
| 23rd of October 1992 | EVENT | Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil. |
| 23rd of October 1993 | EVENT | Shankill Road bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. |
| 23rd of October 1998 | EVENT | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement. |
| 23rd of October 2001 | EVENT | Apple releases the iPod. |
| 23rd of October 2002 | EVENT | Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. |
| 23rd of October 2004 | EVENT | A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. |
| 23rd of October 2007 | EVENT | A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta Jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig. |
| 23rd of October 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539) |
| 23rd of October 1516 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524) |
| 23rd of October 1634 | BIRTHDAY | Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715) |
| 23rd of October 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (d. 1782) |
| 23rd of October 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757) |
| 23rd of October 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Peter II of Russia (d. 1730) |
| 23rd of October 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843) |
| 23rd of October 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847) |
| 23rd of October 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813) |
| 23rd of October 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860) |
| 23rd of October 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857) |
| 23rd of October 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851) |
| 23rd of October 1805 | BIRTHDAY | John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886) |
| 23rd of October 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848) |
| 23rd of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Mauricio Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889) |
| 23rd of October 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875) |
| 23rd of October 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, and 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914) |
| 23rd of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930) |
| 23rd of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918) |
| 23rd of October 1869 | BIRTHDAY | John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936) |
| 23rd of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948) |
| 23rd of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946) |
| 23rd of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970) |
| 23rd of October 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959) |
| 23rd of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970) |
| 23rd of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Onesime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961) |
| 23rd of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Leveque, French engineer (d. 1930) |
| 23rd of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958) |
| 23rd of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) |
| 23rd of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990) |
| 23rd of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Zellig Harris, American linguist (d. 1992) |
| 23rd of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993) |
| 23rd of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | James Daly, American actor (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (d. 1992) |
| 23rd of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Coleen Gray, American actress |
| 23rd of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet |
| 23rd of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Rorem, American composer |
| 23rd of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 23rd of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994) |
| 23rd of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Shero, Canadian hockey player and coach (d. 1990) |
| 23rd of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Leszek Ko?akowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (d. 1971) |
| 23rd of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician |
| 23rd of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | William P. Clark, American jurist, and 44th United States Secretary of the Interior |
| 23rd of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984) |
| 23rd of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez, Puerto Rican golfer |
| 23rd of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Kaufman, American film director |
| 23rd of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (d. 1971) |
| 23rd of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ellie Greenwich, American singer (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol "superstar" |
| 23rd of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pele, Brazilian footballer |
| 23rd of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician |
| 23rd of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Erdmann, German football player and manager |
| 23rd of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Harding, English singer and comedian |
| 23rd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Maggi Hambling, English sculptor and painter |
| 23rd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Larsen, Danish singer |
| 23rd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Martinez, American politician |
| 23rd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur |
| 23rd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Ross, American journalist |
| 23rd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Tosches, American writer |
| 23rd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British musician (Motorhead) |
| 23rd of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Charly Garcia, Argentine singer |
| 23rd of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Fatmir Sejdiu, former (2nd) President of Kosovo |
| 23rd of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director |
| 23rd of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Yoakam, American singer |
| 23rd of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Luther King III, American human rights advocate |
| 23rd of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Nabinger, German singer |
| 23rd of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author |
| 23rd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Grace, American former prosecutor |
| 23rd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Raimi, American film director |
| 23rd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist |
| 23rd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist |
| 23rd of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer |
| 23rd of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Flutie, American football player |
| 23rd of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Korman, Canadian-American Author |
| 23rd of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Trujillo, American bassist (Metallica) |
| 23rd of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Augusten Burroughs, American writer |
| 23rd of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Al Leiter, American baseball player |
| 23rd of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver |
| 23rd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont) |
| 23rd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Theiss, American actress |
| 23rd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Trudi Canavan, Australian writer |
| 23rd of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Zoe Wiseman, American Model and Photographer |
| 23rd of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster |
| 23rd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Forlivesi, Italian composer |
| 23rd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Horner, American cyclist |
| 23rd of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jasmin St. Claire, Former pornographic actress |
| 23rd of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Pratt, Missouri Politician |
| 23rd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer |
| 23rd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer |
| 23rd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Beadle, American television personality |
| 23rd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jessicka, American artist |
| 23rd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Odalys Garcia, Cuban actress |
| 23rd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Van Horn, American basketball player |
| 23rd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor |
| 23rd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cat Deeley, English model and television personality |
| 23rd of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Haddin, Australian cricket player |
| 23rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Harmison, English cricketer |
| 23rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Bullard, English footballer |
| 23rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Thompson, Australian footballer |
| 23rd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Davies, Welsh footballer |
| 23rd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer |
| 23rd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Castro, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 23rd of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player |
| 23rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Francisco, American baseball player |
| 23rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver |
| 23rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shoo, South Korean singer and actress |
| 23rd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer |
| 23rd of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer |
| 23rd of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Strickland, American entertainer |
| 23rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model |
| 23rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Masini, Italian footballer |
| 23rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Meghan McCain, American author and daughter of John McCain |
| 23rd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American writer and actress |
| 23rd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Spinetti, Italian footballer |
| 23rd of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Briana Evigan, American actress |
| 23rd of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Stroup, American actress |
| 23rd of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Robinson, English footballer |
| 23rd of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play) |
| 23rd of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Stevie Brock, American singer |
| 23rd of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Walker, Australian/New Zealand recording artist and actor. |
| 23rd of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan |
| 23rd of October 0930 | DEATH | Daigo, Emperor of Japan (Born 885) |
| 23rd of October 1456 | DEATH | Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (Born 1386) |
| 23rd of October 1550 | DEATH | Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (Born 1480) |
| 23rd of October 1581 | DEATH | Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (Born 1529) |
| 23rd of October 1616 | DEATH | Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (Born 1563) |
| 23rd of October 1688 | DEATH | Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (Born 1610) |
| 23rd of October 1730 | DEATH | Anne Oldfield, English actress (Born 1683) |
| 23rd of October 1764 | DEATH | Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (Born 1683) |
| 23rd of October 1774 | DEATH | Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (Born 1715) |
| 23rd of October 1869 | DEATH | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1799) |
| 23rd of October 1872 | DEATH | Theophile Gautier, French writer (Born 1811) |
| 23rd of October 1885 | DEATH | Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (Born 1829) |
| 23rd of October 1893 | DEATH | Alexander Battenberg, prince of Bulgaria (Born 1857) |
| 23rd of October 1910 | DEATH | Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (Born 1853) |
| 23rd of October 1915 | DEATH | W. G. Grace, English cricketer (Born 1848) |
| 23rd of October 1921 | DEATH | John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (Born 1840) |
| 23rd of October 1939 | DEATH | Zane Grey, American author (Born 1872) |
| 23rd of October 1942 | DEATH | Ralph Rainger, American composer (Born 1901) |
| 23rd of October 1943 | DEATH | Wakashima Gonshiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (Born 1876) |
| 23rd of October 1944 | DEATH | Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1877) |
| 23rd of October 1944 | DEATH | Hana Brady, Holocaust victim (Born 1931) |
| 23rd of October 1950 | DEATH | Al Jolson, American singer and actor (Born 1886) |
| 23rd of October 1953 | DEATH | Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (Born 1869) |
| 23rd of October 1957 | DEATH | Christian Dior, French fashion designer (Born 1905) |
| 23rd of October 1959 | DEATH | George Bouzianis, Greek painter (Born 1885) |
| 23rd of October 1959 | DEATH | Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (Born 1871) |
| 23rd of October 1978 | DEATH | Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (Born 1909) |
| 23rd of October 1983 | DEATH | Jessica Savitch, American journalist (Born 1947) |
| 23rd of October 1984 | DEATH | Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (Born 1922) |
| 23rd of October 1984 | DEATH | James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (Born 1892) |
| 23rd of October 1986 | DEATH | Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1893) |
| 23rd of October 1988 | DEATH | Asashio Taro III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of October 1989 | DEATH | Armida, Mexican actress (Born 1911) |
| 23rd of October 1990 | DEATH | Louis Althusser, French philosopher (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of October 1994 | DEATH | Robert Lansing, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of October 1996 | DEATH | Bob Grim, American baseball player (Born 1930) |
| 23rd of October 1997 | DEATH | Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (Born 1916) |
| 23rd of October 1998 | DEATH | Barnett Slepian, American physician (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of October 2000 | DEATH | Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (Born 1966) |
| 23rd of October 2001 | DEATH | Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (Born 1917) |
| 23rd of October 2001 | DEATH | Ronald William Kirby, British artist (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of October 2002 | DEATH | Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (Born 1915) |
| 23rd of October 2003 | DEATH | Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (Born 1944) |
| 23rd of October 2003 | DEATH | Soong May-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek (Born 1897) |
| 23rd of October 2004 | DEATH | Robert Merrill, American baritone (Born 1919) |
| 23rd of October 2004 | DEATH | Bill Nicholson, English Footballer (Born1919) |
| 23rd of October 2005 | DEATH | William Hootkins, American actor (Born 1948) |
| 23rd of October 2005 | DEATH | John Muth, American economist (Born 1930) |
| 23rd of October 2005 | DEATH | Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (Born 1945) |
| 23rd of October 2006 | DEATH | Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (Born 1977) |
| 23rd of October 2007 | DEATH | Lim Goh Tong, Malaysian-born Chinese businessman (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of October 2007 | DEATH | John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur (Born 1965) |
| 23rd of October 2008 | DEATH | Kevin Finnegan, British boxer (Born 1948) |
| 23rd of October 2010 | DEATH | Francis Crippen, American long-distance swimmer (Born 1984) |
| 23rd of October 2010 | DEATH | Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 1942) |