7 notable people died on October 23, including Charles Glover Barkla, Edward A. Doisy, Herbert A. Hauptman.
21st Century
1 death
Herbert A. Hauptman
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985)
20th Century
3 deaths
Charles Glover Barkla
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1917)
Edward A. Doisy
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1943)
Ina Lange
pianistwriter
Finnish pianist (1846-1930)
19th Century
1 death
Jessie Catherine Couvreur
journalistnovelist
Australian writer; raised in Tasmania, resident of Belgium and England as a novelist (1848-1897)
18th Century
1 death
María Andresa Casamayor
mathematicianschool teacher
Spanish mathematician and teacher
17th Century
1 death
Theodore Beza
Bible translatorhistorian
French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar (1519-1605)
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