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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of May 1430 | EVENT | Siege of Compiegne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiegne. |
| 23rd of May 1498 | EVENT | Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI. |
| 23rd of May 1533 | EVENT | The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void. |
| 23rd of May 1568 | EVENT | The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain. |
| 23rd of May 1568 | EVENT | Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War. |
| 23rd of May 1609 | EVENT | Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place. |
| 23rd of May 1618 | EVENT | The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War. |
| 23rd of May 1701 | EVENT | After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London. |
| 23rd of May 1706 | EVENT | Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi. |
| 23rd of May 1788 | EVENT | South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state. |
| 23rd of May 1805 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan. |
| 23rd of May 1813 | EVENT | South American independence leader Simon Bolivar enters Merida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator"). |
| 23rd of May 1829 | EVENT | Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna. |
| 23rd of May 1844 | EVENT | Declaration of the Bab: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Baha'i Faith, and Baha'is celebrate the day as a holy day. |
| 23rd of May 1846 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States. |
| 23rd of May 1873 | EVENT | The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. |
| 23rd of May 1900 | EVENT | American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863. |
| 23rd of May 1907 | EVENT | The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session. |
| 23rd of May 1911 | EVENT | The New York Public Library is dedicated. |
| 23rd of May 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary. |
| 23rd of May 1934 | EVENT | American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana. |
| 23rd of May 1934 | EVENT | The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melee between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. |
| 23rd of May 1939 | EVENT | The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day. |
| 23rd of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody. |
| 23rd of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichsprasident Karl Donitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany. |
| 23rd of May 1948 | EVENT | Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem. |
| 23rd of May 1949 | EVENT | The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed. |
| 23rd of May 1951 | EVENT | Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China. |
| 23rd of May 1958 | EVENT | Explorer 1 ceases transmission. |
| 23rd of May 1967 | EVENT | Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War. |
| 23rd of May 1995 | EVENT | The first version of the Java programming language is released. |
| 23rd of May 1995 | EVENT | Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded. |
| 23rd of May 1998 | EVENT | The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes. |
| 23rd of May 2002 | EVENT | The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland. |
| 23rd of May 2004 | EVENT | Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others. |
| 23rd of May 2006 | EVENT | Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts. |
| 23rd of May 2008 | EVENT | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. |
| 23rd of May 1052 | BIRTHDAY | King Philip I of France (d. 1108) |
| 23rd of May 1100 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161) |
| 23rd of May 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682) |
| 23rd of May 1617 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692) |
| 23rd of May 1707 | BIRTHDAY | Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778) |
| 23rd of May 1718 | BIRTHDAY | William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783) |
| 23rd of May 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799) |
| 23rd of May 1734 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d. 1815) |
| 23rd of May 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801) |
| 23rd of May 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842) |
| 23rd of May 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870) |
| 23rd of May 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860) |
| 23rd of May 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850) |
| 23rd of May 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzo Sawyer, American jurist (d. 1891) |
| 23rd of May 1820 | BIRTHDAY | James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887) |
| 23rd of May 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Ambrose Burnside, American Union Civil War general (d. 1881) |
| 23rd of May 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890) |
| 23rd of May 1844 | BIRTHDAY | `Abdu'l-Baha, Iranian religious figure (d. 1921) |
| 23rd of May 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896) |
| 23rd of May 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Ford, English feminist and union activist (d. 1924) |
| 23rd of May 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Epitacio Pessoa, Brazilian politician (d. 1942) |
| 23rd of May 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred P. Sloan, American automotive executive (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand paediatrician (d. 1963) |
| 23rd of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Dezso Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939) |
| 23rd of May 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965) |
| 23rd of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963) |
| 23rd of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972) |
| 23rd of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967) |
| 23rd of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974) |
| 23rd of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Smith, English footballer (d. 1956) |
| 23rd of May 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989) |
| 23rd of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Terboven, German Nazi official (d. 1945) |
| 23rd of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Frank, German lawyer and Nazi official (d. 1946) |
| 23rd of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Pran Nath Thapar, Indian military officer (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Boucher, French aviatrix (d. 1934) |
| 23rd of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952) |
| 23rd of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d. 1999) |
| 23rd of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986) |
| 23rd of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Mayer, German Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Francaix, French composer (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | John Payne, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 23rd of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Astell, English actress (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Fernandez, Puerto Rican singer |
| 23rd of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Avraham Drori, Polish-born Israeli politician (d. 1964) |
| 23rd of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bernstein, American comic book writer (d. 1988) |
| 23rd of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (d. 2011) |
| 23rd of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993) |
| 23rd of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | James Blish, American author (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Wolfrum, German fighter pilot |
| 23rd of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Karlheinz Deschner, German researcher and writer |
| 23rd of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Wiseman, American musician |
| 23rd of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian |
| 23rd of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002) |
| 23rd of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Davenport, English actor |
| 23rd of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982) |
| 23rd of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Achleitner, German poet |
| 23rd of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Barrie, American actress |
| 23rd of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Collins, English actress |
| 23rd of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lasse Stromstedt, Swedish writer (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer |
| 23rd of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Kimbrough, American actor |
| 23rd of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Preston, English journalist and author |
| 23rd of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Hauff, German film director |
| 23rd of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jack McCarthy, American poet |
| 23rd of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Giles Gordon, Scottish literary agent (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director |
| 23rd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher |
| 23rd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | General Norman Johnson, American singer (Chairmen of the Board) |
| 23rd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Walden, American rock music manager and promoter |
| 23rd of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Newcombe, Australian tennis player |
| 23rd of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor |
| 23rd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist |
| 23rd of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Hui, Hong Kong film director |
| 23rd of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Comrie, English linguist |
| 23rd of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Cleveland, Canadian baseball player |
| 23rd of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Garcia, Peruvian politician |
| 23rd of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel DiNardo, American Roman Catholic cardinal |
| 23rd of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Martin McGuinness, Northern Irish politician |
| 23rd of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Antonis Samaras, Greek politician |
| 23rd of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player |
| 23rd of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Marie David, French singer |
| 23rd of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Stellingwerf, Dutch politician |
| 23rd of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Kruize, Dutch field hockey player |
| 23rd of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Hagler, American boxer |
| 23rd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Luka Bloom, Irish singer/songwriter |
| 23rd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer |
| 23rd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician |
| 23rd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager |
| 23rd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Voorn, Dutch equestrian |
| 23rd of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy McShane, Northern Irish singer (Baltimora) (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Arnold, American actor |
| 23rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Carey, American actor, comedian, and game show host |
| 23rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Albom, American writer |
| 23rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Street, American author and historian |
| 23rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Feldman, French singer |
| 23rd of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist |
| 23rd of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player |
| 23rd of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Linden Ashby, American actor |
| 23rd of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Duffy, American actress |
| 23rd of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Imran Anwar, Pakistani internent technologist |
| 23rd of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer |
| 23rd of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Hughes, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show) |
| 23rd of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Metzler-Arnold, Swiss politician |
| 23rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Tykwer, German film director |
| 23rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Sanchis Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Athanasios Skourtopoulos, Greek basketball player and coach |
| 23rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Dutch TV host and producer |
| 23rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Hick, English cricketer |
| 23rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician |
| 23rd of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead) |
| 23rd of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Guinevere Turner, American actress |
| 23rd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin |
| 23rd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Flynn, American musician |
| 23rd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nanette Burstein, American director/producer |
| 23rd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Herta, American race car driver |
| 23rd of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Laurel Holloman, American actress |
| 23rd of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | George Osborne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| 23rd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian racing driver |
| 23rd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Maxwell, American singer |
| 23rd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mirjam Sterk, Dutch politician |
| 23rd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jacopo Gianninoto, Italian musician |
| 23rd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Jennings, American game show contestant |
| 23rd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jewel, American singer |
| 23rd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer |
| 23rd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer |
| 23rd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor |
| 23rd of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Monaco, American actress |
| 23rd of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 23rd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater |
| 23rd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Annabel Kosten, Dutch freestyle swimmer |
| 23rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gonzalez, American baseball player |
| 23rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player |
| 23rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Raynor, American drummer (blink-182) |
| 23rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | 2D (Gorillaz), English vocalist for the animated band Gorillaz |
| 23rd of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rasual Butler, American basketball player |
| 23rd of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Saarloos, American baseball player |
| 23rd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Brackett, American football player |
| 23rd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Garrison, American actor |
| 23rd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer |
| 23rd of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gwenno Saunders, Welsh dancer and singer (The Pipettes) |
| 23rd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer |
| 23rd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Prettyman, American musician |
| 23rd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Malene Mortensen, Danish singer |
| 23rd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes) |
| 23rd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Shelley, American professional wrestler |
| 23rd of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Milby, Filipino-American actor and commercial model |
| 23rd of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Wylie, American actor |
| 23rd of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer |
| 23rd of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Wim Stroetinga, Dutch racing cyclist |
| 23rd of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer |
| 23rd of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Pressel, American golfer |
| 23rd of May 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer |
| 23rd of May 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Jillian Ward, Filipino actress |
| 23rd of May 1125 | DEATH | Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1081) |
| 23rd of May 1304 | DEATH | Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer |
| 23rd of May 1498 | DEATH | Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (Born 1452) |
| 23rd of May 1523 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (Born 1466) |
| 23rd of May 1524 | DEATH | Ismail I, Shah of Persia (Born 1487) |
| 23rd of May 1662 | DEATH | John Gauden, English bishop and writer (Born 1605) |
| 23rd of May 1670 | DEATH | Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1610) |
| 23rd of May 1691 | DEATH | Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (Born 1622) |
| 23rd of May 1701 | DEATH | Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate (Born 1645) |
| 23rd of May 1749 | DEATH | Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish Jewish nobleman |
| 23rd of May 1752 | DEATH | William Bradford, English-born printer (Born 1663) |
| 23rd of May 1754 | DEATH | John Wood, the Elder, English architect (Born 1704) |
| 23rd of May 1783 | DEATH | James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (Born 1725) |
| 23rd of May 1786 | DEATH | Moric Benyovszky Hungarian count (Born 1746) |
| 23rd of May 1813 | DEATH | Geraud Duroc, French general (Born 1772) |
| 23rd of May 1815 | DEATH | Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (Born 1753) |
| 23rd of May 1825 | DEATH | Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia |
| 23rd of May 1841 | DEATH | Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (Born 1765) |
| 23rd of May 1846 | DEATH | Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (Born 1778) |
| 23rd of May 1855 | DEATH | Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (Born 1797) |
| 23rd of May 1857 | DEATH | Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (Born 1789) |
| 23rd of May 1868 | DEATH | Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (Born 1809) |
| 23rd of May 1886 | DEATH | Leopold von Ranke, German historian (Born 1795) |
| 23rd of May 1893 | DEATH | Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (Born 1805) |
| 23rd of May 1895 | DEATH | Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (Born 1798) |
| 23rd of May 1906 | DEATH | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (Born 1828) |
| 23rd of May 1908 | DEATH | Francois Coppee, French poet and novelist (Born 1842) |
| 23rd of May 1920 | DEATH | Svetozar Boroevic, Austrian field marshal (Born 1856) |
| 23rd of May 1934 | DEATH | Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (Born 1909) |
| 23rd of May 1934 | DEATH | Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of May 1937 | DEATH | John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (Born 1839) |
| 23rd of May 1945 | DEATH | Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (Born 1900) |
| 23rd of May 1949 | DEATH | Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (Born 1872) |
| 23rd of May 1965 | DEATH | Earl Webb, American baseball player (Born 1897) |
| 23rd of May 1966 | DEATH | Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (Born 1902) |
| 23rd of May 1967 | DEATH | Lionel Groulx, French Canadian priest and historian (Born 1878) |
| 23rd of May 1975 | DEATH | Moms Mabley, American comedian (Born 1894) |
| 23rd of May 1981 | DEATH | Gene Green, American baseball player (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of May 1981 | DEATH | Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (Born 1911) |
| 23rd of May 1981 | DEATH | David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (Born 1909) |
| 23rd of May 1981 | DEATH | George Jessel, American actor (Born 1898) |
| 23rd of May 1986 | DEATH | Sterling Hayden, American actor (Born 1916) |
| 23rd of May 1988 | DEATH | Aya Kito, Japanese diarist (Born 1962) |
| 23rd of May 1989 | DEATH | Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (Born 1915) |
| 23rd of May 1989 | DEATH | Karl Koch, West German hacker (Born 1965) |
| 23rd of May 1991 | DEATH | Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (Born 1895) |
| 23rd of May 1992 | DEATH | Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (Born 1948) |
| 23rd of May 1992 | DEATH | Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (Born 1939) |
| 23rd of May 1994 | DEATH | Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (Born 1951) |
| 23rd of May 1994 | DEATH | Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of May 1996 | DEATH | Patrick Cargill, English actor (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of May 1999 | DEATH | Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1965) |
| 23rd of May 2002 | DEATH | Sam Snead, American golfer (Born 1912) |
| 23rd of May 2003 | DEATH | Jean Yanne, French actor and director (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of May 2004 | DEATH | Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (Born 1919) |
| 23rd of May 2005 | DEATH | Fat-Tone, American rapper |
| 23rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Clifford Antone, American businessman (Born 1949) |
| 23rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Ian Copeland, American music promoter |
| 23rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Kazimierz Gorski, Polish footballer (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of May 2008 | DEATH | Inaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (Born 1967) |
| 23rd of May 2008 | DEATH | Utah Phillips, American folksinger and activist (Born 1935) |
| 23rd of May 2009 | DEATH | Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of May 2010 | DEATH | Jose Lima, Dominican baseball player (Born 1972) |
| 23rd of May 2010 | DEATH | Simon Monjack, English actor, producer, & writer (Born 1970) |
| 23rd of May 2010 | DEATH | Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess Of Russia (Born 1914) |
| 23rd of May 2010 | DEATH | Gane Todorovoski, Macedonian literary critic, poet, & publicist (Born 1929) |