December 23rd All Events |
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| December 23rd, 2007 (December 23 2007) | Death | Michael Kidd, American film and stage choreographer (born in 1915) | |
| December 23rd, 2007 (December 23 2007) | Death | Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (born in 1925) | |
| December 23rd, 2007 (December 23 2007) | Death | William Francis Ganong, American physiologist (born in 1924) | |
| December 23rd, 2006 (December 23 2006) | Death | Charlie Drake, English comedian (born in 1925) | |
| December 23rd, 2006 (December 23 2006) | Death | Marilyn Waltz, American actress and Playboy Playmate (born in 1931) | |
| December 23rd, 2006 (December 23 2006) | Death | Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (born in 1952) | |
| December 23rd, 2006 (December 23 2006) | Death | Johnny Vincent, English footballer for Birmingham City and Middlesbrough (born in 1947) | |
| December 23rd, 2005 (December 23 2005) | Event | Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people. | |
| December 23rd, 2005 (December 23 2005) | Event | Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead. | |
| December 23rd, 2005 (December 23 2005) | Death | Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (born in 1905) | Norman D. Vaughan Quotes |
| December 23rd, 2005 (December 23 2005) | Death | Lajos Baroti, Hungarian footballer and coach (born in 1914) | |
| December 23rd, 2004 (December 23 2004) | Event | Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. | |
| December 23rd, 2004 (December 23 2004) | Death | P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (born in 1921) | |
| December 23rd, 2003 (December 23 2003) | Event | PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234. | |
| December 23rd, 2002 (December 23 2002) | Event | A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat. | |
| December 23rd, 2000 (December 23 2000) | Death | Noor Jehan, Indian singer and actress (born in 1926) | |
| December 23rd, 2000 (December 23 2000) | Death | Billy Barty, American actor (born in 1924) | |
| December 23rd, 2000 (December 23 2000) | Death | Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (born in 1909) | |
| December 23rd, 1997 (December 23 1997) | Death | Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (born in 1908) | |
| December 23rd, 1994 (December 23 1994) | Death | Sebastian Shaw, English actor (born in 1905) | |
| December 23rd, 1992 (December 23 1992) | Death | Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (born in 1934) | |
| December 23rd, 1992 (December 23 1992) | Death | Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (born in 1950) | |
| December 23rd, 1990 (December 23 1990) | Event | History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88% of Slovenia s population vote for independence from Yugoslavia. | |
| December 23rd, 1990 (December 23 1990) | Birth | Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer | |
| December 23rd, 1988 (December 23 1988) | Birth | Eri Kamei, Japanese singer | |
| December 23rd, 1986 (December 23 1986) | Event | Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world. | |
| December 23rd, 1985 (December 23 1985) | Birth | Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly) | |
| December 23rd, 1985 (December 23 1985) | Birth | Luke O Loughlin, Australian actor | |
| December 23rd, 1983 (December 23 1983) | Birth | Michael Chopra, English footballer | |
| December 23rd, 1983 (December 23 1983) | Birth | Hanley Ramirez, Dominican baseball player | |
| December 23rd, 1983 (December 23 1983) | Death | Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (born in 1910) | |
| December 23rd, 1982 (December 23 1982) | Event | The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri. | |
| December 23rd, 1982 (December 23 1982) | Death | Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (born in 1920) | |
| December 23rd, 1981 (December 23 1981) | Birth | Beth, Spanish singer | |
| December 23rd, 1980 (December 23 1980) | Birth | Cody Ross, American baseball player | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Event | Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital. | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Birth | Summer Altice, American model and actress | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Birth | Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Birth | Holly Madison, American model | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Birth | Kenny Miller, Scottish football player | |
| December 23rd, 1979 (December 23 1979) | Death | Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (born in 1898) | |
| December 23rd, 1978 (December 23 1978) | Birth | Andra Davis, American football player | |
| December 23rd, 1978 (December 23 1978) | Birth | Esthero, Canadian musician and singer | |
| December 23rd, 1978 (December 23 1978) | Birth | Jodie Marsh, British glamour model | |
| December 23rd, 1978 (December 23 1978) | Birth | Victor Martinez, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| December 23rd, 1978 (December 23 1978) | Birth | Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress | |
| December 23rd, 1977 (December 23 1977) | Birth | Alge Crumpler, American football player | |
| December 23rd, 1977 (December 23 1977) | Birth | Jari Maenpaa, Finnish guitarist and singer | |
| December 23rd, 1977 (December 23 1977) | Birth | Paul Shirley, American basketball player | |
| December 23rd, 1976 (December 23 1976) | Birth | Brad Lidge, American baseball player | |
| December 23rd, 1976 (December 23 1976) | Birth | Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer | |
| December 23rd, 1976 (December 23 1976) | Birth | Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler | |
| December 23rd, 1975 (December 23 1975) | Birth | Sky Lopez, American actress | |
| December 23rd, 1975 (December 23 1975) | Birth | Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player | |
| December 23rd, 1974 (December 23 1974) | Birth | Agustin Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| December 23rd, 1973 (December 23 1973) | Death | Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (born in 1892) | |
| December 23rd, 1973 (December 23 1973) | Death | Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (born in 1901) | |
| December 23rd, 1972 (December 23 1972) | Event | The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000. | |
| December 23rd, 1972 (December 23 1972) | Event | The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism. | |
| December 23rd, 1972 (December 23 1972) | Death | Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (born in 1888) | |
| December 23rd, 1971 (December 23 1971) | Birth | Corey Haim, Canadian actor | |
| December 23rd, 1971 (December 23 1971) | Birth | Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter | |
| December 23rd, 1971 (December 23 1971) | Birth | Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer | |
| December 23rd, 1971 (December 23 1971) | Birth | Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite | |
| December 23rd, 1971 (December 23 1971) | Birth | Wim Vansevenant, Belgian cyclist | |
| December 23rd, 1970 (December 23 1970) | Birth | Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater | |
| December 23rd, 1970 (December 23 1970) | Birth | Raymont Harris, American football player | |
| December 23rd, 1970 (December 23 1970) | Death | Charles Ruggles, American actor (born in 1886) | |
| December 23rd, 1969 (December 23 1969) | Birth | Greg Biffle, American racecar driver | |
| December 23rd, 1969 (December 23 1969) | Birth | Martha Byrne, American actress | |
| December 23rd, 1969 (December 23 1969) | Birth | Rob Pelinka, American sports agent | |
| December 23rd, 1968 (December 23 1968) | Event | The United States won the release of 82 sailors by issuing a writing apology to North Korea for spying on the Communist country. | |
| December 23rd, 1968 (December 23 1968) | Birth | Quincy Jones III, Swedish-American musician | |
| December 23rd, 1967 (December 23 1967) | Birth | Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer | |
| December 23rd, 1967 (December 23 1967) | Birth | Tim Fountain, British playwright | |
| December 23rd, 1964 (December 23 1964) | Birth | Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam) | |
| December 23rd, 1963 (December 23 1963) | Birth | Jim Harbaugh, American football player | |
| December 23rd, 1963 (December 23 1963) | Birth | Donna Tartt, American author | Donna Tartt Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1962 (December 23 1962) | Birth | Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver | |
| December 23rd, 1962 (December 23 1962) | Birth | Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director | |
| December 23rd, 1962 (December 23 1962) | Birth | Keiji Muto, Japanese professional wrestler | |
| December 23rd, 1961 (December 23 1961) | Birth | Carol Smillie, British television personality | |
| December 23rd, 1961 (December 23 1961) | Death | Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (born in 1910) | |
| December 23rd, 1959 (December 23 1959) | Birth | Geoff Willis, British engineer | |
| December 23rd, 1958 (December 23 1958) | Event | Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world s highest self-supporting iron tower. | |
| December 23rd, 1958 (December 23 1958) | Birth | Victoria Williams, American singer | |
| December 23rd, 1958 (December 23 1958) | Birth | Joan Severance, American actress | |
| December 23rd, 1958 (December 23 1958) | Birth | Dave Murray, English musician (Iron Maiden) | |
| December 23rd, 1957 (December 23 1957) | Birth | Dan Bigras, Canadian singer | |
| December 23rd, 1957 (December 23 1957) | Birth | Trisha Goddard, English television presenter | |
| December 23rd, 1956 (December 23 1956) | Birth | Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (died in 2001) | |
| December 23rd, 1954 (December 23 1954) | Event | The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. | Al Murray Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1954 (December 23 1954) | Death | Rene Iche, French sculptor (born in 1897) | |
| December 23rd, 1953 (December 23 1953) | Birth | Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia | |
| December 23rd, 1953 (December 23 1953) | Death | Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (born in 1899) | |
| December 23rd, 1952 (December 23 1952) | Birth | William Kristol, American political commentator | |
| December 23rd, 1951 (December 23 1951) | Birth | Anthony Phillips, British musician (Genesis) | |
| December 23rd, 1950 (December 23 1950) | Birth | Michael C. Burgess, American politician | |
| December 23rd, 1950 (December 23 1950) | Birth | Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author | |
| December 23rd, 1949 (December 23 1949) | Birth | Adrian Belew, American musician | |
| December 23rd, 1948 (December 23 1948) | Event | Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. | |
| December 23rd, 1948 (December 23 1948) | Birth | Jack Ham, American football player | |
| December 23rd, 1948 (December 23 1948) | Birth | Leslie Moonves, American television executive | |
| December 23rd, 1948 (December 23 1948) | Death | Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (born in 1884) | |
| December 23rd, 1948 (December 23 1948) | Death | Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (born in 1883) | |
| December 23rd, 1947 (December 23 1947) | Event | The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. | |
| December 23rd, 1946 (December 23 1946) | Birth | Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano | |
| December 23rd, 1946 (December 23 1946) | Birth | Susan Lucci, American actress | |
| December 23rd, 1946 (December 23 1946) | Death | John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (born in 1873) | |
| December 23rd, 1945 (December 23 1945) | Birth | Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly) | |
| December 23rd, 1944 (December 23 1944) | Birth | Wesley Clark, American military officer | Wesley Clark Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1943 (December 23 1943) | Birth | Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician | |
| December 23rd, 1943 (December 23 1943) | Birth | Harry Shearer, American actor | |
| December 23rd, 1943 (December 23 1943) | Birth | Ron Allen, American baseball player | |
| December 23rd, 1943 (December 23 1943) | Birth | Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (died in 1987) | |
| December 23rd, 1943 (December 23 1943) | Birth | Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden | |
| December 23rd, 1942 (December 23 1942) | Birth | John Peterman, American fashion designer | |
| December 23rd, 1941 (December 23 1941) | Event | World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island. | |
| December 23rd, 1941 (December 23 1941) | Birth | Ron Bushy, American musician | |
| December 23rd, 1941 (December 23 1941) | Birth | Tim Hardin, American musician (died in 1980) | |
| December 23rd, 1941 (December 23 1941) | Birth | Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (died in 1975) | |
| December 23rd, 1940 (December 23 1940) | Event | World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (?-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta. | |
| December 23rd, 1940 (December 23 1940) | Birth | Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) | |
| December 23rd, 1940 (December 23 1940) | Birth | Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician | |
| December 23rd, 1940 (December 23 1940) | Birth | Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (died in 2005) | |
| December 23rd, 1939 (December 23 1939) | Death | Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (born in 1890) | |
| December 23rd, 1938 (December 23 1938) | Event | Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. | |
| December 23rd, 1938 (December 23 1938) | Birth | Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer | |
| December 23rd, 1937 (December 23 1937) | Event | First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber. | |
| December 23rd, 1937 (December 23 1937) | Birth | Barney Rosenzweig, American television producer | |
| December 23rd, 1936 (December 23 1936) | Event | Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| December 23rd, 1936 (December 23 1936) | Birth | Frederic Forrest, American actor | |
| December 23rd, 1935 (December 23 1935) | Birth | Paul Hornung, American football player | |
| December 23rd, 1935 (December 23 1935) | Birth | Esther Phillips, American singer (died in 1984) | |
| December 23rd, 1933 (December 23 1933) | Birth | Akihito, Emperor of Japan | |
| December 23rd, 1931 (December 23 1931) | Birth | Ronnie Schell, American actor | |
| December 23rd, 1931 (December 23 1931) | Death | Wilson Bentley, American scientist (born in 1865) | |
| December 23rd, 1929 (December 23 1929) | Birth | Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (died in 1988) | |
| December 23rd, 1929 (December 23 1929) | Birth | Dick Weber, American professional tenpin bowler (died in 2005) | |
| December 23rd, 1928 (December 23 1928) | Birth | Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer | |
| December 23rd, 1926 (December 23 1926) | Birth | Robert Bly, American poet | |
| December 23rd, 1923 (December 23 1923) | Birth | Gunther Schifter, Austrian music journalist | |
| December 23rd, 1923 (December 23 1923) | Birth | Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor | |
| December 23rd, 1923 (December 23 1923) | Birth | James Stockdale, American admiral (died in 2005) | |
| December 23rd, 1923 (December 23 1923) | Birth | Onofre Marimon, Argentine racing driver (died in 1954) | |
| December 23rd, 1922 (December 23 1922) | Birth | Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (died in 2001) | |
| December 23rd, 1921 (December 23 1921) | Event | Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated. | |
| December 23rd, 1921 (December 23 1921) | Birth | Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (died in 2001) | |
| December 23rd, 1919 (December 23 1919) | Birth | Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (died in 2006) | |
| December 23rd, 1918 (December 23 1918) | Birth | Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany | |
| December 23rd, 1918 (December 23 1918) | Birth | Jose Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (died in 2001) | |
| December 23rd, 1918 (December 23 1918) | Birth | Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor | |
| December 23rd, 1916 (December 23 1916) | Event | World War I: Battle of MagdhabaAllied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt s Sinai peninsula. | |
| December 23rd, 1916 (December 23 1916) | Birth | Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter | |
| December 23rd, 1914 (December 23 1914) | Event | World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. | |
| December 23rd, 1913 (December 23 1913) | Event | The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve. | |
| December 23rd, 1912 (December 23 1912) | Death | Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (born in 1850) | |
| December 23rd, 1911 (December 23 1911) | Birth | Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died in 1994) | |
| December 23rd, 1911 (December 23 1911) | Birth | James Gregory, American actor (died in 2002) | |
| December 23rd, 1910 (December 23 1910) | Birth | Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (died in 1961) | |
| December 23rd, 1908 (December 23 1908) | Birth | Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (died in 2002) | |
| December 23rd, 1907 (December 23 1907) | Birth | Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (died in 1942) | |
| December 23rd, 1902 (December 23 1902) | Birth | Norman Maclean, American author (died in 1990) | |
| December 23rd, 1902 (December 23 1902) | Death | Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1821) | |
| December 23rd, 1900 (December 23 1900) | Birth | Otto Soglow, American comics artist (died in 1975) | |
| December 23rd, 1891 (December 23 1891) | Birth | Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (died in 1956) | |
| December 23rd, 1885 (December 23 1885) | Birth | Pierre Brissaud, French artist (died in 1964) | |
| December 23rd, 1878 (December 23 1878) | Birth | Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (died in 1972) | |
| December 23rd, 1867 (December 23 1867) | Birth | Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (died in 1919) | |
| December 23rd, 1864 (December 23 1864) | Birth | Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (died in 1890) | |
| December 23rd, 1854 (December 23 1854) | Birth | Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (died in 1926) | |
| December 23rd, 1846 (December 23 1846) | Death | Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (born in 1780) | |
| December 23rd, 1843 (December 23 1843) | Birth | Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (died in 1924) | |
| December 23rd, 1834 (December 23 1834) | Death | Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (born in 1766) | Thomas Malthus Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1822 (December 23 1822) | Birth | Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (died in 1875) | |
| December 23rd, 1819 (December 23 1819) | Birth | Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (died in 1889) | |
| December 23rd, 1805 (December 23 1805) | Birth | Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (died in 1844) | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1805 (December 23 1805) | Death | Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (born in 1723) | |
| December 23rd, 1804 (December 23 1804) | Birth | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (died in 1869) | |
| December 23rd, 1795 (December 23 1795) | Death | Henry Clinton, British general (born in 1730) | |
| December 23rd, 1793 (December 23 1793) | Event | The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendee during the French Revolution. | |
| December 23rd, 1793 (December 23 1793) | Death | Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (born in 1699) | |
| December 23rd, 1793 (December 23 1793) | Death | Antoine Francois Prevost, French author and novelist (born in 1697) | |
| December 23rd, 1790 (December 23 1790) | Birth | Jean Francois Champollion, French Egyptologist (died in 1832) | |
| December 23rd, 1789 (December 23 1789) | Death | Charles-Michel de l Epee, French philanthropist (born in 1712) | |
| December 23rd, 1783 (December 23 1783) | Event | George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. | George Washington Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1779 (December 23 1779) | Death | Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (born in 1724) | |
| December 23rd, 1777 (December 23 1777) | Birth | Tsar Alexander I of Russia (died in 1825) | |
| December 23rd, 1771 (December 23 1771) | Death | Marie-Marguerite d Youville, Canadian saint (born in 1701) | |
| December 23rd, 1761 (December 23 1761) | Death | Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy | |
| December 23rd, 1758 (December 23 1758) | Birth | Nathan Wilson U.S. Represenative from New York | |
| December 23rd, 1750 (December 23 1750) | Birth | King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (died in 1827) | |
| December 23rd, 1743 (December 23 1743) | Birth | Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (died in 1803) | |
| December 23rd, 1732 (December 23 1732) | Birth | Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (died in 1792) | |
| December 23rd, 1722 (December 23 1722) | Death | Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (born in 1654) | |
| December 23rd, 1689 (December 23 1689) | Birth | Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (died in 1755) | |
| December 23rd, 1675 (December 23 1675) | Death | Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (born in 1602) | |
| December 23rd, 1652 (December 23 1652) | Death | John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (born in 1585) | |
| December 23rd, 1646 (December 23 1646) | Death | Francois Maynard, French poet (born in 1582) | |
| December 23rd, 1631 (December 23 1631) | Death | Michael Drayton, English poet (born in 1563) | Michael Drayton Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1621 (December 23 1621) | Birth | Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (died in 1678) | |
| December 23rd, 1621 (December 23 1621) | Birth | Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (died in 1682) | |
| December 23rd, 1613 (December 23 1613) | Birth | Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (died in 1676) | |
| December 23rd, 1597 (December 23 1597) | Birth | Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (died in 1639) | |
| December 23rd, 1588 (December 23 1588) | Death | Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (born in 1550) | |
| December 23rd, 1582 (December 23 1582) | Birth | Severo Bonini, Italian composer (died in 1663) | |
| December 23rd, 1575 (December 23 1575) | Death | Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (born in 1531) | |
| December 23rd, 1568 (December 23 1568) | Death | Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England | Roger Ascham Quotes |
| December 23rd, 1556 (December 23 1556) | Death | Nicholas Udall, English playwright (born in 1504) | |
| December 23rd, 1537 (December 23 1537) | Birth | King John III of Sweden (died in 1592) | |
| December 23rd, 1513 (December 23 1513) | Birth | Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (died in 1577) | |
| December 23rd, 1493 (December 23 1493) | Event | Georg Alt s German translation of Hartmann Schedel s Nuremberg Chronicle is published. | |
| December 23rd, 1230 (December 23 1230) | Death | Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England | |
| December 23rd, 1173 (December 23 1173) | Birth | Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (died in 1231) | |
| December 23rd, 0962 (December 23 0962) | Event | Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. | |
| December 23rd, 0918 (December 23 0918) | Death | Conrad I of Germany | |
| December 23rd, 0913 (December 23 0913) | Death | Conrad of Franconia | |
| December 23rd, 0910 (December 23 0910) | Death | Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar | |
| December 23rd, 0679 (December 23 0679) | Death | Dagobert II, King of Austrasia (born in c 650).(murdered) | |
