On this day: 23 April
Events, births and deaths on 23 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Banhan Sinlapa-acha
- Deaths · Inge King
100 years ago1926
- Births · J. P. Donleavy
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1016 · Deaths · Æthelred the Unready
- 997 · Deaths · Adalbert of Prague
- 1124 · Deaths · Alexander I of Scotland
Events · 29
- 1014(Julian date)Battle of Clontarf — 1014 middle ages battle
- 1343(Julian date)St. George's Night Uprising — unsuccessful Estonian rebellion (1343–1345)
- 1467(Julian date)Siege of Krujë — 1467 Ottoman siege of the Albanian resistance in Krujë
- 1521Battle of Villalar — 1521 battle during the Revolt of the Comuneros
- 1635Boston Latin School — first public school in the United States
- 1655Siege of Santo Domingo — 1655 siege of the Anglo-Spanish War
- 1815Second Serbian Uprising — 1815–1817 revolt in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire
- 1891Battle of Caldera Bay — 1891 battle
- 1895Triple Intervention — diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany, and France on 23 April 1895
- 19091909 Benavente earthquake — earthquake struck Benavente, Portugal on 23 April 1909
- 1918Zeebrugge Raid — 1918 naval battle in WW1
- 1918First Ostend Raid — first of two attacks by the Royal Navy on the German-held port of Ostend during the First World War
- 1919Riigikogu — unicameral legislature of Estonia
- 1920Grand National Assembly of Turkey — Parliament of the Republic of Turkey
- 19271927 FA Cup Final — English football championship
- 19457th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 1945 congress
- 1949People's Liberation Army Navy — maritime service branch of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
- 1966Aeroflot Flight 2723 — aviation accident
- 1968Columbia University protests of 1968 — 1968 student demonstrations against racism and the Vietnam War
- 1971
- 1982ZX Spectrum — series of personal home computers
- 1993assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali — 1993 shooting of Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali
- 1999NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters — NATO action during the 1999 NATO aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia
- 2007death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin — Russian burial ceremony in 2007
- 2010Arizona SB 1070 — 2010 anti-illegal immigration legislative Act
- 2013April 2013 Bachu unrest — terrorist attack in April 2013
- 20132013 Hawija clashes — masacres in Iraq
- 20182018 Toronto van attack — April 2018 vehicular ramming attack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 20242024 Lumut mid-air collision — mid-air collision in Manjung, Perak, Malaysia
Births · 60
- 1185Afonso II of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1420George of Poděbrady — king of Bohemia
- 1464(Julian date)Joan of Valois — French queen who entered religious life, became a nun and later an abbess who founded the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary (canonized 1950)
- 1484(Julian date)Julius Caesar Scaliger — Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484-1558)
- 1720Gaon of Vilnius — Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)
- 1791James Buchanan — president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
- 1804Marie Taglioni — Italian ballet dancer (1804-1884)
- 1813Stephen A. Douglas — American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
- 1857Ruggero Leoncavallo — Italian composer (1857–1919)
- 1858Max Planck — German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
- 1861Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby — British Army general (1861-1936)
- 1867Johannes Fibiger — Danish physician
- 1876Arthur Moeller van den Bruck — German historian (1876–1925)
- 1880(Julian date)Michel Fokine — Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1880–1942)
- 1891Sergei Prokofiev — Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
- 1894Frank Borzage — American film director and actor (1894-1962)
- 1895Ngaio Marsh — New Zealand writer (1895–1982)
- 1897Lester B. Pearson — 14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968 (1897–1972)
- 1899Bertil Ohlin — Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979)
- 1902Halldór Laxness — Icelandic author (1902-1998)
- 1907Lee Miller — American photographer and photojournalist (1907–1977)
- 1910Simone Simon — French actress
- 1918Maurice Druon — French novelist
- 1919Oleg Penkovsky — British spy in the USSR (1919–1963)
- 1928Shirley Temple — American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
Deaths · 60
- 303(Julian date)Saint George — Christian saint and martyr (died 303)
- 725(Julian date)Wihtred of Kent — king of Kent from 670 – 725
- 997(Julian date)Adalbert of Prague — Bohemian missionary and saint (c.956–997)
- 1014(Julian date)Brian Boru — High King of Ireland
- 1016(Julian date)Æthelred the Unready — King of England
- 1124Alexander I of Scotland — King of the Scots (1078-1124)
- 1151(Julian date)Adeliza of Louvain — Queen of England from 1121 to 1135
- 1196(Julian date)Béla III of Hungary — King of Hungary and Croatia from 1172 to 1196
- 1200(Julian date)Zhu Xi — Chinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty (1130–1200)
- 1217(Julian date)Inge II of Norway — King of Norway
- 1307(Julian date)Joan of Acre — English princess
- 1554(Julian date)Gaspara Stampa — Italian poet (1523-1554)
- 1605Boris Godunov — Russian Tsar (1598–1605)
- 1616(Julian date)William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
- 1616Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
- 1616Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — Spanish chronicler (1539-1616)
- 1620Hayyim ben Joseph Vital — Rabbi and kabbalist (1542-1620)
- 1625Maurice of Nassau — Dutch Republic stadtholder and Prince of Orange (1567-1625)
- 1695Henry Vaughan — Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet (1621–1695)
- 1827(Julian date)Georgios Karaiskakis — Greek revolutionary (1782–1827)
- 1850William Wordsworth — English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
- 1889Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly — French writer (1808-1889)
- 1895Carl Ludwig — German physiologist (1816-1895)
- 1915Rupert Brooke — English poet (1887–1915)
- 1936Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo — Venezuelan novelist (1889–1936)
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