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Deaths on May 23

1423 : Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies
1498 : Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45
1568 : Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27
1627 : Luis de G¢ngora y Argote, poet/writer, dies
1648 : Luis de Nain, painter, dies
1668 : Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried
1684 : Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48
1701 : William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock
1754 : John Wood, architect/town planner, dies
1783 : James Otis, American lawyer, dies
1785 : William Woollett, engraver, dies
1834 : Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76
1838 : John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75
1841 : Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76
1842 : Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
1851 : Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69
1860 : Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
1867 : Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74
1875 : Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
1881 : Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies
1881 : Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies
1883 : Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
1887 : Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
1891 : Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
1895 : Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96
1897 : Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34
1905 : Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75
1906 : Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78
1908 : Fran‡ois Copp‚e, French poet, dies
1926 : Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
1934 : Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
1934 : Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
1937 : John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla
1938 : Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70
1940 : Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1940 : Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
1941 : Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
1941 : Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45
1945 : Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1947 : C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68
1952 : Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85
1954 : H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies
1960 : Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
1961 : Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
1965 : David Smith, sculptor, dies
1966 : Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
1967 : Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58
1967 : Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
1968 : James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81
1968 : Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
1969 : Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79
1969 : Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
1969 : Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
1970 : Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
1973 : Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57
1974 : Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies
1975 : Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81
1979 : Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79
1981 : George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83
1982 : Louis J N G‚rardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69
1983 : Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
1986 : Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
1987 : Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
1988 : David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73
1990 : Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies
1991 : Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
1991 : Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
1991 : William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
1992 : Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
1992 : Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
1993 : James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77
1994 : Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82
1994 : Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
1996 : Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81
1996 : Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61
1996 : Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77
1125 : Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
1153 : David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68

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