23 December Deaths

December 23 is the 357th day of the year (358th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are eight days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

423 – Ming Yuan Di, ruler of Northern Wei (b. 392)
484 – Huneric, Vandal king
668 – Mor Gabriel, Turkish bishop and saint (b. 594)
679 – Dagobert II, Frankish king (b. 650)
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)
1332 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto (b. 1278)
1383 – Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1320)
1384 – Thomas Preljubović, ruler of Epirus
1332 – Philip I, prince of Taranto (b. 1278)
1392 – Isabella of Castile, duchess of York (b. 1355)
1556 – Nicholas Udall, English cleric, playwright, and educator (b. 1504)
1568 – Roger Ascham, English scholar and academic (b. 1515)
1575 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese samurai (b. 1531)
1588 – Henry I, duke of Guise (b. 1550)
1631 – Michael Drayton, English poet and playwright (b. 1563)
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)
1763 – Antoine François Prévost, French novelist and translator (b. 1697)
1771 – Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (b. 1701)
1779 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1724)
1789 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (b. 1712)
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)
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)
1948 – Hideki Tojo, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
1948 – Seishirō Itagaki, Japanese general (b. 1885)
1948 – Heitarō Kimura, Japanese general (b. 1888)
1948 – Iwane Matsui, Japanese general (b. 1878)
1948 – Kenji Doihara, Japanese general (b. 1883)
1948 – Kōki Hirota, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1950 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (b. 1878)
1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1899)
1954 – René Iché, French soldier and sculptor (b. 1897)
1961 – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author (b. 1875)
1961 – Kurt Meyer, German general (b. 1910)
1970 – Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
1970 – Aleksander Warma, Estonian lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1890)
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)
1973 – Irna Phillips, American screenwriter, created Guiding Light and As the World Turns (b. 1901)
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)
2000 – Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor (b. 1909)
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)
2006 – Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (b. 1952)
2006 – Johnny Vincent, English footballer (b. 1947)
2007 – William Francis Ganong, Jr., American physiologist and academic (b. 1924)
2007 – Michael Kidd, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1915)
2007 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
2009 – Robert L. Howard, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1939)
2009 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan general and politician (b. 1910)
2009 – Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian theologian and academic (b. 1914)
2010 – Fred Hargesheimer, American soldier and pilot (b. 1916)
2010 – K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1918)
2011 – Aydın Menderes, Turkish economist and politician (b. 1946)
2012 – Jean Harris, American educator and murderer (b. 1923)
2012 – Eduardo Maiorino, Brazilian mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1979)
2012 – Capital STEEZ, American rapper (b. 1993)
2013 – Chryssa, Greek-American sculptor (b. 1933)
2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919)
2013 – Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (b. 1920)
2013 – Ricky Lawson, American drummer and composer (b. 1954)
2013 – José Ortiz, Spanish illustrator (b. 1932)
2013 – G. S. Shivarudrappa, Indian poet and educator (b. 1926)
2013 - Kerimbubu Shopokova, Kyrgyzstani collective farm worker of the Soviet era (b. 1917)
2013 – Robert W. Wilson, American philanthropist and art collector (b. 1928)
2014 – Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944)
2014 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924)
2014 – Jeremy Lloyd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2015 – Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1941)
2015 – Don Howe, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2015 – Jean-Marie Pelt, French biologist, pharmacist, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 – Bülent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923)

Source: wikipedia