October 23
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[edit] Births
- 1835 - Adlai E. Stevenson
- 1940 - Pele, Brazilian soccer player
- 1938 - H. John Heinz III
- 1991 - Anne D. Pennington
[edit] Deaths
- 42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, suicide
- AD 1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- 1910 - Chulalongkorn (Rama V), king of Thailand
- 1915 - W. G. Grace, cricketer
- 1939 - Zane Grey, American author
- 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor
- 1975 - Charles Brokaw, journalist
- 1983 - Jessica Savitch, journalist
- 1990 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
- 1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, physician
- 2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British commercial artist
- 2003 - Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
- 2003 - Soong May-ling, widow of Chiang Kai-shek
- 2004 - Friedel Neuber, German bank manager (WestLB)
- 2004 - Dorothy Comstock Riley, Michigan state supreme court justice
- 2004 - Lucie Famo, Finland artist