On this day: 23 November
Events, births and deaths on 23 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Andrew Sachs
- Deaths · Rita Barberá Nolla
- Deaths · Joe Esposito
100 years ago1926
- Births · Sathya Sai Baba
- Births · R. L. Burnside
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 955 · Deaths · Edred of England
- 947 · Deaths · Berthold
Events · 13
- 17331733 slave insurrection on St. John — slave revolt in St. John
- 1808Battle of Tudela — 1808 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1944
- 1963Doctor Who — British science fiction television series
- 1974Massacre of the Sixty — 1974 execution occured in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 19801980 Irpinia earthquake — November 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy
- 1985EgyptAir Flight 648 — airliner hijacking in November 1985
- 1996Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 — 1996 hijacking, water ditching of aircraft
- 2001Convention on Cybercrime — international treaty seeking to address Internet and computer crime (cybercrime) by harmonizing national laws, improving investigative techniques, and increasing cooperation among nations.
- 2006
- 2009Maguindanao massacre — 2009 political violence in the Philippines
- 2010Bombardment of Yeonpyeong — 2010 artillery engagement between the North Korean military and South Korean forces
- 20212021 Bulgaria bus crash — bus crash
Births · 60
- 912(Julian date)Otto I the Great — Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973
- 1190(Julian date)Clement IV — Pope (1265-1268)
- 1221(Julian date)Alfonso X of Castile and Leon — King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
- 1616(Julian date)John Wallis — English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)
- 1632Jean Mabillon — French Benedictine monk, medievist, paleographer, diplomatics and theologian (1632-1707)
- 1760François-Noël Babeuf — French political agitator and journalist (1760-1797)
- 1804Franklin Pierce — president of the United States from 1853 to 1857
- 1837Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
- 1859Billy the Kid — American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)
- 1860Hjalmar Branting — Prime Minister of Sweden (1860-1925)
- 1869Valdemar Poulsen — Danish engineer (1869-1942)
- 1875Anatoly Lunacharsky — Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer (1875–1933)
- 1876Manuel de Falla — Spanish composer (1876–1946)
- 1878Ernest King — United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (1878-1956)
- 1882John Rabe — German businessman (1882–1950)
- 1883José Clemente Orozco — Mexican artist (1883–1949)
- 1887Boris Karloff — British actor (1887–1969)
- 1887Henry Moseley — English physicist
- 1888Harpo Marx — American comedian
- 1890El Lissitzky — Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect (1890–1941)
- 1896Klement Gottwald — 5th President of Czechoslovakia
- 1897Karl Gebhardt — German physician and convicted war criminal (1897–1948)
- 1906Betti Alver — Estonian novelist and poet (1906-1989)
- 1916Michael Gough — English actor (1916–2011)
- 1920Paul Celan — French-Romanian poet and translator (1920–1970)
Deaths · 60
- 386Emperor Fei of Jin — Emperor of the Jin Dynasty from 365 to 372
- 615(Julian date)Columbanus — Irish missionary and saint (540-615)
- 947(Julian date)Berthold — Duke of Bavaria
- 955(Julian date)Edred of England — King of England (r. 946–955)
- 1407(Julian date)Louis I, Duke of Orléans — French prince, regent of France
- 1457Ladislaus the Posthumous — King of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, Duke of Austria
- 1464Blessed Margaret of Savoy — Marchioness of Montferrat, Princess of Achaea Roman Catholic saint
- 1499(Julian date)Perkin Warbeck — Imposter-pretender to the throne of England
- 1503(Julian date)Margaret of York — sister of Edward IV of England, consort of Charles, Duke of Burgundy (1446-1503)
- 1503(Julian date)Bona of Savoy — Duchess of Milan
- 1535(Julian date)Beatriz Galindo — Spanish educator and writer
- 1572(Julian date)Bronzino — Italian Mannerist painter (1503-1572)
- 1585Thomas Tallis — English composer
- 1616Richard Hakluyt — English author, editor and translator (1553–1616)
- 1682Claude Lorrain — French painter, draughtsman and etcher (1600–1682)
- 1814Elbridge Gerry — vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814
- 1833Jean-Baptiste Jourdan — Marshal of France (1762-1833)
- 1844Thomas James Henderson — Scottish lawyer, astronomer and mathematician (1798-1844)
- 1864Hong Rengan — Chinese politician (1822-1864)
- 1890William III of the Netherlands — King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817-1890)
- 1896Ichiyō Higuchi — Japanese writer
- 1910Hawley Harvey Crippen — American executed homeopath (1862–1910)
- 1934Giovanni Brunero — Italian racing cyclist (1898–1934)
- 1937Jagadish Chandra Bose — Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
- 1937George Albert Boulenger — Belgian-British zoologist (1858–1937), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino from 1900
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