The 23t o October is the 296t day o the year (297t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 69 days bidin.
Memorial in Budapest for 1956 Uprisin
Pelé
- 1715 - Tsar Peter II o Roushie (d. 1730)
- 1770 - George Ramsay, 9t Yerl o Dawhoosie, Scots sodger an colonial admeenistrator (d. 1858)
- 1773 - Francis Jeffrey, Laird Jeffrey, Scots juidge an leeterar creetic (d. 1850)
- 1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss politeecian (d. 1857)
- 1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German splorer (d. 1848)
- 1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss pheesicist (d. 1983)
- 1908 - Ilya Frank, Roushie pheesicist (d. 1990)
- 1925 - Johnny Carson, American telly host an comedian (d. 2005)
- 1931 - David Mathers, Scots fitbawer
- 1940 - Pelé, Brazilian fitbawer
- 1942 - Michael Crichton, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director
- 1957 - Paul Kagame, Preses o Rwanda
- 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American actor an muisicker
- 1961 - Andoni Zubizarreta, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1964 - Robert Trujillo, American muisicker (Metallica)
- 1971 - Bohuslav Sobotka, umwhile Prime meenister o the Czech Republic
- 1972 - Colin Cameron, Scots fitbawer
- 1973 - Christian Dailly, Scots fitbawer
- 1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
- 1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
- 1986 - Emilia Clarke, Inglis actress
- 1986 - Josh Strauss, Sooth African-born Scots rugby union player
- 1992 - Alvaro Morata, Spaingie fitbawer
- 42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman politeecian (b. 85 BC)
- 1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14t Yerl o Derby, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1799)
- 1910 - Chulalongkorn, Keeng o Siam (b. 1853)
- 1915 - Tom Gracie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1889)
- 1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scots inventor (b. 1840)
- 1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
- 2011 - Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
- 2012 - Michael Marra, Scots sangster (b. 1952)
- 2014 - Alvin Stardust, Inglis sangster (b. 1942)
- 2016 - Pete Burns, Inglis sangster (b. 1959)
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