2023 (MMXXIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar , the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium , the 23rd year of the 21st century , and the 4th year of the 2020s decade .
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The year started with the continuation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in early 2022. In January, July and September, Islamist suicide bombers killed a total of over 200 people in Pakistan . In February, an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria , that killed more than 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century .[1] in April, India became the world's most populous country , overtaking China . In September, Storm Daniel killed nearly 7,000 people in Bulgaria , Greece , Libya and Turkey.[2] In September, Azerbaijan launched an offensive which ended the existence of the Republic of Artsakh , causing its Armenian inhabitants to move back to Armenia . Between October to December, over 23,000 Palestinians and 1,300 Israelis were killed during a war between Israel and Hamas .[3] [4]
Former King of Greece Constantine II , former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf , former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi , musicians Burt Bacharach , Tina Turner and Tony Bennett and footballer Bobby Charlton died.
January
January 1
January 4 – Mahas bombings in Mahas District , Hiran , Somalia .
January 5 – The funeral of Pope Benedict XVI is held at Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City .[8]
January 5–13 – Unrest follows the arrest of drug kingpin Ovidio Guzmán López in Sinaloa , Mexico , killing 10 soldiers and 19 cartel members.[9]
January 8
January 10 – Constantine II , the last King of Greece , dies aged 82.[15]
January 10-17 – A winter storm in Afghanistan begins, killing over 120 people.[16]
January 15 – A plane crash in Nepal kills all 72 people onboard.[17]
January 16 – Italian police arrest Matteo Messina Denaro , the head of Sicilian Mafia in Palermo , Sicily .[18] [19]
January 17 – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigns as President of Vietnam and is replaced by Võ Thị Ánh Xuân .[20]
January 18
January 19 – Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation as Prime Minister of New Zealand , months before the general election .[23] Three days later, Chris Hipkins is elected as her replacement.[24]
January 20 – Christine Kangaloo is elected as the 7th President of Trinidad and Tobago .[25]
January 21 – In a mass shooting at a Chinese New Year celebration, a gunman kills eleven people in Monterey Park, California , United States .[26] Two days later, seven others would be killed in another mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California .[27]
January 24 – A green comet makes its closest approach to the Earth .[28]
January 27 –28 – The second round of the 2023 Czech presidential election is held. Petr Pavel wins the election.[29]
January 30 – An Islamist suicide bomber kills over 80 people in a mosque in Peshawar , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan.[30]
February
February 3 – A train carrying hazardous materials runs off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio , United States. Several train cars burned for more than two days, and then emergency crews did a controlled burn of more cars. The fires released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the atmosphere .[31] [32] [33]
February 4 – The U.S. Government shoots down a Chinese spy balloon in U.S. territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina .[34] [35]
February 5 – The 2023 Cypriot presidential election is held, with Nikos Christodoulides elected president .[36]
February 6 – An earthquake in southeastern Turkey kills over 45,000 people in Turkey and over 6,000 in Syria.[37] [38]
February 20 – 2023 Daytona 500 .[ source? ]
February 21 – President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START , a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.[39]
February 25 – 2023 Nigerian general election : Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria 's president , defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi .[40]
February 27 – The United Kingdom and the European Union reach an agreement about changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol .[41]
February 28 – A head-on train crash in Tempi , Larissa , Thessaly , Greece, kills at least 57 people .[42] [43]
July
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September
September 2
September 4 – Saudi Pro League clubs will now play Champions League matches in Iran as both nations resume home-and-away games.[103]
September 4 – 12 – Storm Daniel [104]
September 8 – 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake : A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes western Morocco 's Marrakesh -Safi province. Atleast 2946 people killed and more than 5,650 injured.[105]
September 9 – At the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi , India, the African Union is announced as the 21st permanent member of the G20.[106]
September 10 – Storm Daniel : A Mediterranean storm resembling a tropical cyclone struck Libya , causing a significant loss of life, with at least 5,000 people losing their lives. Libyan authorities reported a vast number of people missing, ranging from 10,000 to as many as 100,000. Additionally, in the city of Derna , two dams gave way, leading to the destruction of a quarter of the city.[107]
September 18 – Iran releases five Americans as the United States unfreezes $ 6 billion of Iran which was blocked in South Korea while also releasing five Iranians in a prisoner exchange deal.[108] [109]
September 23 – 2023 Beledweyne bombing in Somalia
September 24 – OSIRIS-REx returns with samples from the asteroid Bennu .[110]
September 25 – Berkadzor fuel depot explosion in Berkadzor , Nagorno-Karabakh .[111]
September 26
Qaraqosh wedding fire : More than 100 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in Qaraqosh , Nineveh Governorate , Iraq .[112]
Saudi Arabia to resume flights to Canada as relations between the two countries normalize after 2018 dispute .[113]
September 27 – Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps puts 'Noor-3 ', an imaging satellite , 450 kms into an orbit above the earth.[114]
September 29
2023 Mastung bombing : A suicide bombing takes place killing at least 59 and injuring more than 70 people at a gathering in Mastung District of Balochistan , Pakistan.[115]
Hangu mosque bombing in Hangu , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
September 30 – 2023 Slovak parliamentary election .[116]
October
November
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December
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January
Constantine II of Greece
Gina Lollobrigida
January 2 – Ken Block , American rally driver (b. 1967 )[142] [143]
January 3 – Abdelsalam Majali , 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925 )[144]
January 4
Rosi Mittermaier , German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1950 )[145]
Marie Kovarova , Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1927 )
January 6
January 7 - Modeste M'bami , Cameroonian footballer and Olympic champion
January 9 - K. Alex Müller , Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1927 )[148]
January 10
January 13 – Klas Lestander , Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (b. 1931 )[152]
January 16
January 17 – Lucile Randon , French supercentenarian (b. 1904 )[155]
January 18 – David Crosby , American musician (b. 1941 )[156]
January 23 – Álvaro Colom , 47th President of Guatemala (b. 1951 )[157]
January 24 – B. V. Doshi , Indian architect (b. 1927 )[158]
January 30 – Bobby Hull , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939 )[159]
February
Pervez Musharraf
Burt Bacharach
Raquel Welch
February 2 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille , French F1 driver (b. 1942 )[160]
February 3 – Paco Rabanne , Spanish-French fashion designer (b. 1934 )[161]
February 4 – Sherif Ismail , 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955 )[162]
February 5 – Pervez Musharraf , 10th President of Pakistan (b. 1943 )[163]
February 6
February 8
February 10
February 13 – José María Gil-Robles , 8th President of the European Parliament (b. 1935 )[172]
February 14 – Shoichiro Toyoda , Japanese businessman (b. 1925 )[173]
February 15
February 17 – Stella Stevens , American actress (b. 1938 )[176]
February 18 – Petar Zhekov , Bulgarian footballer (b. 1944 )[177]
February 21 – Amancio , Spanish footballer (b. 1939 )[178]
February 22 – Ahmed Qurei , 2nd Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (b. 1937 )[179]
February 23 – John Motson , English football commentator (b. 1945 )[180]
February 24 – Walter Mirisch , American film producer (b. 1921 )[181]
February 26 – Bob Richards , American pole vaulter and Olympic champion (b. 1926 )[182]
February 27 – Gérard Latortue , 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1934 )[183]
March
Just Fontaine
Kenzaburō Ōe
Chaim Topol
Lance Reddick
Dubravka Ugrešić
March 1 – Just Fontaine , French footballer (b. 1933 )[184]
March 2
March 3
March 5
Klaus Bonsack , German luger and Olympic champion (b. 1941 )[188]
Gary Rossington , American guitarist (b. 1951 )[189]
Shozo Sasahara , Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1929 )[190]
March 6 – Josef Vojta , Czechoslovakian football player (b. 1935 )
March 7 – Pat McCormick , American diver and Olympic champion (b. 1930 )[191]
March 8
Satish Kaushik , Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1956 )
Chaim Topol , Israeli actor, singer, and illustrator (b. 1935 )
March 9
March 11 – Ignacio López Tarso , Mexican actor (b. 1925 )
March 14 – Bobby Caldwell , American musician (b. 1951 )
March 17
March 18 – Pedro Solbes , Spanish economist and politician (b. 1942 )
March 19 – Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa , 17th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1951 )
March 20 – Osvaldo Héctor Cruz , Argentine footballer (b. 1931 )
March 21
March 22 – Vera T. Sós , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1930 )
March 24
Jean-Jacques Favier , French astronaut (b. 1949 )
Gordon Moore , American businessman, engineer and philanthropist (b. 1929 )
March 25 – Pascoal Mocumbi , 2nd Prime Minister of Mozambique
March 26
March 28 – Ryuishi Sakamoto , Japanese composer (b. 1952 )
March 31 – Rabbie Namaliu , 4th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1947 )
April
Harry Belafonte
Jerry Springer
April 1
Klaus Teuber , German board game designer (b. 1952 )[192]
Włodzimierz Schmidt , Polish chess grandmaster (b. 1943 )[193]
April 5
April 7
April 10 - Fernando Sánchez Dragó , Spanish writer (b. 1936 )[195]
April 11 - Anne Perry , British writer and convicted murderer (b. 1938 )
April 13
April 14
Murray Melvin , English actor (b. 1932 )
Mark Sheehan , Irish guitarist (b. 1976 )
April 16 – Ahmad Jamal , American jazz pianist (b. 1930 )[197]
April 19 - Moon Bin , South Korean singer, actor, dancer and model (b. 1998 )[198]
April 20 – Josep Maria Fusté , Spanish footballer (b. 1941 )
April 21 – Juan Carlos Sarnari , Argentine footballer (b. 1942 )
April 22 - Mudar Badran , 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934 )
April 23 - Herb Douglas , American athlete (b. 1922 )
April 25 - Harry Belafonte , American singer, activist and actor
April 27
Jean-Paul Costa , French jurist (b. 1941 )
Giovanni Lombardo Radice , Italian actor (b. 1954 )
Jerry Springer , American TV show host (b. 1944 )
April 28 – Harold Kushner , American rabbi and author (b. 1935 )
April 30 – Ralph Boston , American athlete (b. 1939 )
May
Jim Brown
Tina Turner
May 1 - Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938 )
May 2
May 3 – Nikica Valentić , 5th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1950 )
May 9
May 10 - Rolf Harris , Australian entertainer and sex offender
May 11 – András Adorján , Hungarian chess grandmaster and author (b. 1950 )
May 13 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda , Japanese athlete (b. 1933 )
May 14
Doyle Brunson , American poker player (b. 1933 )
Ingrid Haebler , Austrian pianist (b. 1929 )
Ferran Olivella , Spanish footballer (b. 1936 )
May 15 – Robert Lucas Jr. , American economist (b. 1937 )
May 17 – "Superstar" Billy Graham , American professional wrestler (b. 1943 )
May 18
Helmut Berger , Austrian actor (b. 1944 )
Jim Brown , American professional football player and actor (b. 1936 )
May 19
Martin Amis , British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter (b. 1949 )
Dževad Karahasan , Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher (b. 1953 )
Andy Rourke , English bassist (b. 1964 )
May 21 - Ray Stevenson , Northern Irish actor (b. 1964 )
May 24 - Tina Turner , American singer and actress (b. 1939 )
May 28
June
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Astrud Gilberto
Ted Kaczynski
Silvio Berlusconi
Alan Arkin
June 2 – Kaija Saariaho , Finnish composer (b. 1952 )
June 4
June 5
June 6 – Françoise Gilot , French painter (b. 1921 )
June 7 - The Iron Sheik , Iranian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1942 )
June 8 – Pat Robertson , American religious broadcaster and political commentator (b. 1930 )
June 9 – Alain Touraine , French sociologist (b. 1925 )
June 10 - Ted Kaczynski , American mathematician and domestic terrorist (b. 1942 )
June 12
June 15
June 16 – Gino Mäder , Swiss racing cyclist (b. 1997 )
June 18 - Stockton Rush , American businessman (b. 1962 )
June 19 – Karolis Chvedukas , Lithuanian professional footballer (b. 1991 )
June 22
June 23 – Frederic Forrest , American actor (b. 1936 )
June 24 – Dean Smith , American athlete (b. 1932 )
June 25 – John B. Goodenough , American materials scientist (b. 1922 )
June 26 Lloyd Erskine Sandiford , 4th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1937 )
June 29
July
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Milan Kundera
Tony Bennett
July 1 - Dilano van 't Hoff , Dutch racing driver (b. 2004 )
July 2 - Milan Milutinović , former president of Serbia (b. 1942 )
July 4 - Tabare Gomez Laborde , Uruguayan cartoonist (b. 1948 )
July 6
July 7 - Nikki McCray , American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1971 )
July 9 - Luis Suárez , Spanish football player and manager (b. 1935 )
July 11 - Milan Kundera , Czech-French writer (b. 1929 )
July 16 - Jane Birkin , English-born French singer and actress (b. 1946 )
July 21 - Tony Bennett , American singer (b. 1926 )
July 25 – Bo Goldman , American screenwriter and playwright (b. 1932 )
July 26
July 28 - José Paulino Gomes , Brazilian supercentenarian (b. 1895 )
July 30 - Paul Reubens , American actor (b. 1952 )
July 31
August
William Friedkin
Yevgeny Prigojin
August 1 – Henri Konan Bédié , 2nd President of Ivory Coast (b. 1934 )
August 4 – Boniface Alexandre , Interim President of Haiti (b. 1936 )
August 7 – William Friedkin , American director and screenwriter (b. 1935 )
August 8 – Sixto Rodriguez , American folk musician (b. 1942 )[201]
August 9 – Robbie Robertson , Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1943 )
August 14 – Boris Dubrovsky , Soviet-Russian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1939 )[202]
August 16 – Renata Scotto , Italian operatic soprano (b. 1934 )
August 18 – Jørn Riel , Danish writer (b. 1931 )[203]
August 22 – Toto Cutugno , Italian singer (b. 1943 )[204]
August 23 – Yevgeny Prigozhin , Russian oligarch (b. 1961 )[205]
August 23 – Terry Funk , American professional wrestler (b. 1944 )
August 24 – Bray Wyatt , American professional wrestler (b. 1987 )
August 26 - Bob Barker , American game show host (b. 1923 )[206]
August 30 – Jan Jongbloed , Dutch football player (b. 1940 )
August 31 – Anatoli Sass , Soviet Olympic champion and rower (b. 1935 )[207]
September
Giorgio Napolitano
Michael Gambon
September 1 – Jimmy Buffett , American singer-songwriter (b. 1946 )
September 4
September 5 – Albert Azaryan , Armenian gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1929 )[208]
September 8 – Whitey Von Nieda , American basketball player (b. 1922 )
September 10 – Ian Wilmut , British embryologist (b. 1944 )[209]
September 13 – Mircea Snegur , 1st President of Moldova (b. 1940 )
September 15 – Fernando Botero , Colombian painter (b. 1932 )
September 16 – Abdul Ati al-Obeidi , 14th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1939 )[210]
September 22 – Giorgio Napolitano , 11th President of Italy (b. 1925 )
September 25 – David McCallum , Scottish actor (b. 1933 )
September 26 – Geof Motley , Australian football player and coach (b. 1935 )[211]
September 27 – Michael Gambon , Irish actor (b. 1940 )
September 29 – Dianne Feinstein , American politician (b. 1933 )
October
Piper Laurie
Martti Ahtisaari
Bobby Charlton
Li Keqiang
Matthew Perry
October 1
Theresa Kufuor , former First Lady of Ghana (b. 1937 )[212]
John Waring , English cricketer (b. 1942 )[213]
October 2 – Francis Lee , English footballer (b. 1944 )[214]
October 5 – Dick Butkus , American football player (b. 1942 )[215]
October 8
October 10 – Terry Dischinger , American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1946 )[218]
October 13
October 14
October 15
October 16 – Martti Ahtisaari , 10th President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1937 )[225]
October 19 – Anfisa Reztsova , Russian biathlete and Olympic Champion (b. 1964 )[226]
October 20 – Hiba Abu Nada , Palestinian poet and novelist (b. 1991 )[227]
October 21
October 22 – Raul Machado , Portuguese footballer (b. 1937 )[230]
October 23 – Bishan Singh Bedi , Indian cricketer (b. 1946 )
October 24
October 25
Zdeněk Mácal , Czech conductor (b. 1936 )
Anderl Molterer , Austrian alpine skier (b. 1931 )
October 26 – Richard Moll , American actor (b. 1943 )
October 27
October 28 – Matthew Perry , American-Canadian actor (b. 1969 )[234]
October 31 – Ken Mattingly , American astronaut (b. 1936 )
November
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Rosalynn Carter
Henry Kissinger
November 1 – Bob Knight , American basketball player and coach (b. 1940 )[235]
November 2
November 3 – Oleg Protopopov , Russian pair skater (b. 1932 )[239]
November 6 – Antoni Martí , 6th Prime Minister of Andorra (b. 1963 )[240]
November 7 - Frank Borman , American astronaut (b. 1928 )[241]
November 11 - Dimitrie Popescu , Romanian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1961 )[242]
November 12 - Rahim Huseynov , 3rd Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1936 )[243]
November 16 - A. S. Byatt , English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer (b. 1936 )[244]
November 18 - Ruud Geels , Dutch football player (b. 1948 )[245]
November 19
November 25 - Terry Venables , English soccer player and coach (b. 1943 )[249]
November 27
November 29 - Henry Kissinger , American political scientist and politician (b. 1923 )[250]
November 30
December
Sandra Day O'Connor
Ryan O'Neal
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Wolfgang Schäuble
Tom Wilkinson
December 1 - Sandra Day O'Connor , American jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1981–2006) (b. 1930 )[254]
December 2
December 5
December 6
December 7
December 8 - Ryan O'Neal , American actor (b. 1941 )[260]
December 9 – Maxim Gustik , 35, Belarusian Olympic freestyle skier (2018, 2022), traffic collision (b. 1988 )[261]
December 10 – Mahmoud Mashhoun [ fa ] , 82, Iranian basketball player and former president, cardiac arrest (b. 1941 )[262]
December 11
December 12
December 13 – Derek Stirling , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1961 )[265]
December 14 – George McGinnis , American basketball player (b. 1950 )
December 15 – Abdulaziz Al-Babtain , 87, Kuwaiti poet and businessman (b. 1936 )[266]
December 16
December 18 – Abderrahim Ouakili , 53, Moroccan footballer, (national team ), (b. 1970 )[268]
December 19 – Mark Elvin , 85, Australian Sinologist (b. 1938 )[269]
December 20 – Torben Ulrich , 95, Danish tennis player, (b. 1928 )[270] (death announced on this date)
December 21
Robert Solow , American economist (b. 1924 )
Alexei Starobinsky , Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist (b. 1948 )
December 23 – Mike Nussbaum , American actor, (Fatal Attraction , Field of Dreams , Men in Black ) (b. 1923 )[271]
December 24 – Kamar de los Reyes , Puerto Rican actor (b. 1967 )
December 25 – Sayyed Razi Mousavi , Iranian major general , Israeli airstrike.[272]
December 26 – Wolfgang Schäuble , German politician and statesman (b. 1942 )
December 27
December 29 – Gil de Ferran , French-born Brazilian professional racing driver (b. 1967 )
December 30