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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of April 1014 | EVENT | Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. |
| 23rd of April 1016 | EVENT | Edmund Ironside succeeds his father AEthelred the Unready as king of England, |
| 23rd of April 1343 | EVENT | Estonia: St. George's Night Uprising. |
| 23rd of April 1348 | EVENT | The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day. |
| 23rd of April 1521 | EVENT | Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros. |
| 23rd of April 1635 | EVENT | The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 23rd of April 1660 | EVENT | Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland. |
| 23rd of April 1661 | EVENT | King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey. |
| 23rd of April 1815 | EVENT | The Second Serbian Uprising : a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire. |
| 23rd of April 1910 | EVENT | Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech. |
| 23rd of April 1918 | EVENT | World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. |
| 23rd of April 1920 | EVENT | The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. |
| 23rd of April 1920 | EVENT | The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. |
| 23rd of April 1927 | EVENT | Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday. |
| 23rd of April 1932 | EVENT | The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later. |
| 23rd of April 1935 | EVENT | The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. |
| 23rd of April 1940 | EVENT | The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people. |
| 23rd of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht. |
| 23rd of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Baedeker Blitz : German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lubeck. |
| 23rd of April 1949 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy. |
| 23rd of April 1955 | EVENT | The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour. |
| 23rd of April 1961 | EVENT | Singer Judy Garland performed her legendary concert at Carnegie Hall. |
| 23rd of April 1961 | EVENT | Algiers putsch by French generals. |
| 23rd of April 1967 | EVENT | Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: ???? 1, Union 1) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov. |
| 23rd of April 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. |
| 23rd of April 1985 | EVENT | Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months. |
| 23rd of April 1987 | EVENT | 28 construction workers die when the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut. |
| 23rd of April 1990 | EVENT | Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 23rd of April 1993 | EVENT | Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum. |
| 23rd of April 1997 | EVENT | Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed. |
| 23rd of April 2003 | EVENT | Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus. |
| 23rd of April 2009 | EVENT | The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe. |
| 23rd of April 1170 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190) |
| 23rd of April 1185 | BIRTHDAY | King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223) |
| 23rd of April 1464 | BIRTHDAY | Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, queen of France (d. 1505) |
| 23rd of April 1484 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian philosopher (d. 1558) |
| 23rd of April 1500 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565) |
| 23rd of April 1516 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571) |
| 23rd of April 1564 | BIRTHDAY | William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (d. 1616) (traditional approximate birth date in Julian calendar based on April 26 baptism) |
| 23rd of April 1598 | BIRTHDAY | Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653) |
| 23rd of April 1621 | BIRTHDAY | William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670) |
| 23rd of April 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704) |
| 23rd of April 1676 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751) |
| 23rd of April 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797) |
| 23rd of April 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755) |
| 23rd of April 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794) |
| 23rd of April 1775 | BIRTHDAY | J. M. W. Turner, English painter (d. 1851) |
| 23rd of April 1791 | BIRTHDAY | James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868) |
| 23rd of April 1792 | BIRTHDAY | John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882) |
| 23rd of April 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856) |
| 23rd of April 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879) |
| 23rd of April 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853) |
| 23rd of April 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861) |
| 23rd of April 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Abd-ul-Mejid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861) |
| 23rd of April 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867) |
| 23rd of April 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920) |
| 23rd of April 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919) |
| 23rd of April 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) |
| 23rd of April 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Mary Smyth, English composer (d. 1944) |
| 23rd of April 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (d. 1936) |
| 23rd of April 1861 | BIRTHDAY | John Peltz, American baseball player (d. 1906) |
| 23rd of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943) |
| 23rd of April 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928) |
| 23rd of April 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951) |
| 23rd of April 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925) |
| 23rd of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942) |
| 23rd of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Coates, British composer (d. 1953) |
| 23rd of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967) |
| 23rd of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942) |
| 23rd of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (d. 1953) |
| 23rd of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952) |
| 23rd of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955) |
| 23rd of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982) |
| 23rd of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Hyde, Russian-born American talent agent (d. 1950) |
| 23rd of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Lucius D. Clay, American general (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1972) |
| 23rd of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979) |
| 23rd of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (d. 1982) |
| 23rd of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959) |
| 23rd of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988) |
| 23rd of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Halldor Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d. 1974) |
| 23rd of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Miller, American photographer & model (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006) |
| 23rd of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Neame, British film producer (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Druon, French author (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent (d. 1963) |
| 23rd of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jack May, British actor (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Avram Davidson, American writer (d. 1993) |
| 23rd of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Harmon, American baseball player |
| 23rd of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | J. P. Donleavy, Irish American author |
| 23rd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Temple, American actress and politician |
| 23rd of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Oppenheimer, American actor and voice actor |
| 23rd of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990) |
| 23rd of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (d. 1984) |
| 23rd of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | George Canseco, Filipino music composer (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bunky Green, American musician |
| 23rd of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988) |
| 23rd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Fons, Mexican film director |
| 23rd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Peterson, American singer (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Majors, American actor |
| 23rd of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Copps, American Federal Government official |
| 23rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003 |
| 23rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Boyer, French singer |
| 23rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lynne, American film executive |
| 23rd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gail Goodrich, American basketball player |
| 23rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter |
| 23rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Herve Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993) |
| 23rd of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Cornick, British musician (Jethro Tull) |
| 23rd of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician |
| 23rd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Quignard, French author |
| 23rd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Theriault, French-Canadian comedian and actor |
| 23rd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | David Cross, British violinist (King Crimson) |
| 23rd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce DeWitt, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Narada Michael Walden, American musician and producer |
| 23rd of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Moore, American filmmaker |
| 23rd of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Davis, Australian actress |
| 23rd of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Fumi Hirano, Japanese voice actress and essayist |
| 23rd of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Neville Brody, English graphic designer, typographer and art director |
| 23rd of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Hooks, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer |
| 23rd of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer |
| 23rd of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Bertinelli, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Julien, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 23rd of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | George Lopez, American actor and comedian |
| 23rd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Hannah, Scottish actor |
| 23rd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Belmondo, French actor and racing driver |
| 23rd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Ver Magnusson, Icelandic powerlifter |
| 23rd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rheal Cormier, Canadian baseball player |
| 23rd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Hee-ae, South Korean actress |
| 23rd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Melina Kanakaredes, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein of Jordan |
| 23rd of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Zein bint Al Hussein of Jordan |
| 23rd of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast |
| 23rd of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Thames, American actor |
| 23rd of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wolstencroft, Australian filmmaker |
| 23rd of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish swimmer |
| 23rd of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Bairstow, Canadian actor |
| 23rd of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 23rd of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sadao Abe, Japanese actor |
| 23rd of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter |
| 23rd of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Uli Herzner, German American designer |
| 23rd of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Charmaine Sinclair, English model |
| 23rd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet |
| 23rd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sonya Smith, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer |
| 23rd of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Poulin, French-Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Watson, American actor |
| 23rd of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol) |
| 23rd of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kerr, New Zealand-born German rugby player |
| 23rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jon ?or Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Ros) |
| 23rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Shaw, American football player |
| 23rd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor |
| 23rd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andruw Jones, Curacaoan baseball player |
| 23rd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kal Penn, American actor |
| 23rd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John Oliver, British comedian |
| 23rd of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Young-Pyo, Korean footballer |
| 23rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Fratelli, Scottish bassist (The Fratellis) |
| 23rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yana Gupta, Indian actress & model |
| 23rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lauri Ylonen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus) |
| 23rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime King, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Krupa, Polish/American model and actress |
| 23rd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Henn, American baseball player |
| 23rd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sharma, American rock climber/boulderer |
| 23rd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakian tennis player |
| 23rd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Taio Cruz, British singer-songwriter |
| 23rd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess player |
| 23rd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Seka Aleksic, Serbian turbofolk singer |
| 23rd of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Angel Locsin, Filipina actress |
| 23rd of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater |
| 23rd of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Stam, Canadian model |
| 23rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Fox, American cup stacker and basketball player |
| 23rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Boaz Mauda, Israeli singer |
| 23rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | John Boye, Ghanaian football player |
| 23rd of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer |
| 23rd of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Burnett, American actress |
| 23rd of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Buaben, Ghanaian football player |
| 23rd of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Vaidisova, Czech tennis player |
| 23rd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Dev Patel, British actor |
| 23rd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Underwood, American actor |
| 23rd of April 0303 | DEATH | Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr |
| 23rd of April 0725 | DEATH | Wihtred, King of Kent |
| 23rd of April 0871 | DEATH | Ethelred of Wessex |
| 23rd of April 0997 | DEATH | Saint Adalbert of Prague, bishop (Born c. 956) |
| 23rd of April 1014 | DEATH | Brian Boru, High King of Ireland |
| 23rd of April 1016 | DEATH | Ethelred II of England |
| 23rd of April 1124 | DEATH | King Alexander I of Scotland (Born 1078) |
| 23rd of April 1151 | DEATH | Queen Adeliza of England (Born 1103) |
| 23rd of April 1217 | DEATH | King Inge II of Norway (Born 1185) |
| 23rd of April 1407 | DEATH | Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (Born 1326) |
| 23rd of April 1605 | DEATH | Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (Born c. 1550) |
| 23rd of April 1616 | DEATH | William Shakespeare, English dramatist and actor (Born 1564) (according to the Julian calendar) |
| 23rd of April 1616 | DEATH | El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (Born 1539) |
| 23rd of April 1616 | DEATH | Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (Born 1547) |
| 23rd of April 1625 | DEATH | Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (Born 1567) |
| 23rd of April 1702 | DEATH | Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (Born 1614) |
| 23rd of April 1740 | DEATH | Thomas Tickell, English writer (Born 1685) |
| 23rd of April 1781 | DEATH | James Abercrombie, British general (Born 1706) |
| 23rd of April 1784 | DEATH | King Solomon I of Imereti (Born 1735) |
| 23rd of April 1792 | DEATH | Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (Born 1741) |
| 23rd of April 1794 | DEATH | Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (Born 1721) |
| 23rd of April 1827 | DEATH | Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek War of Independence figure |
| 23rd of April 1839 | DEATH | Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (Born 1768) |
| 23rd of April 1850 | DEATH | William Wordsworth, English poet (Born 1770) |
| 23rd of April 1889 | DEATH | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (Born 1808) |
| 23rd of April 1895 | DEATH | Carl Ludwig, German physician (Born 1815) |
| 23rd of April 1905 | DEATH | Gedeon Ouimet, Quebec politician (Born 1823) |
| 23rd of April 1907 | DEATH | Alferd Packer, American prospector and accused cannibal (Born 1842) |
| 23rd of April 1915 | DEATH | Rupert Brooke, English poet (Born 1887) |
| 23rd of April 1936 | DEATH | Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (Born 1889) |
| 23rd of April 1951 | DEATH | Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1865) |
| 23rd of April 1952 | DEATH | Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (Born 1887) |
| 23rd of April 1965 | DEATH | George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist (Born 1891) |
| 23rd of April 1975 | DEATH | William Hartnell, English actor (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of April 1979 | DEATH | Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of April 1981 | DEATH | Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and writer (Born 1897) |
| 23rd of April 1983 | DEATH | Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of April 1984 | DEATH | Red Garland, American jazz pianist (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of April 1985 | DEATH | Sam Ervin, American politician (Born 1896) |
| 23rd of April 1986 | DEATH | Harold Arlen, American composer (Born 1905) |
| 23rd of April 1986 | DEATH | Jim Laker, English cricketer (Born 1922) |
| 23rd of April 1986 | DEATH | Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (Born 1906) |
| 23rd of April 1990 | DEATH | Paulette Goddard, American actress (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of April 1991 | DEATH | Johnny Thunders, American musician (Born 1952) |
| 23rd of April 1992 | DEATH | Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of April 1992 | DEATH | Tanka Prasad Acharya, Nepalese statesman (Born 1912) |
| 23rd of April 1993 | DEATH | Cesar Chavez, American labor activist (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of April 1995 | DEATH | Howard Cosell, American attorney and sportscaster (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of April 1995 | DEATH | John C. Stennis, American politician (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of April 1996 | DEATH | Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian military officer (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of April 1996 | DEATH | P. L. Travers, Australian author (Born 1899) |
| 23rd of April 1997 | DEATH | Denis Compton, English cricketer (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of April 1998 | DEATH | Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (Born 1907) |
| 23rd of April 1998 | DEATH | Thanassis Skordalos, Greek musician (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of April 1998 | DEATH | James Earl Ray, American assassin (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of April 2003 | DEATH | Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of April 2003 | DEATH | James H. Critchfield, American Central Intelligence agent (Born 1917) |
| 23rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Al Grassby, Australian immigration minister (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Romano Scarpa, Italian-born comic artist (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Austrailian politician (Born 1911) |
| 23rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Sir John Mills, English actor (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Earl Wilson, American baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of April 2006 | DEATH | Phil Walden, American rock group manager (Born 1940) |
| 23rd of April 2006 | DEATH | Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (Born 1912) |
| 23rd of April 2007 | DEATH | David Halberstam, American journalist and author (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of April 2007 | DEATH | Paul Erdman, American economist and author (Born 1932) |
| 23rd of April 2007 | DEATH | Peter Randall, British George Medal recipient (Born 1930) |
| 23rd of April 2007 | DEATH | Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician (Born 1931) |
| 23rd of April 2011 | DEATH | Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of April 2011 | DEATH | John Sullivan, British comedy writer (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of April 2011 | DEATH | Tom King, American songwriter and musician (Born 1943) |