Notable Deaths on December 23

Q: Who died on December 23?

Notable people who died on December 23 include: Ming Yuan Di, Huneric, Gabriel of Beth Qustan, Dagobert II, Gaubald.

Q: What is Peggy Guggenheim known for?

Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (born 1898)

1979 — Peggy Guggenheim

American-Italian art collector (born 1898)

December 23 has seen 108 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 423 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · December 23 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 108 people 423 – 2024

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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, and is one of the most visited attractions in the city.

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Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R

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Guggenheim collected art in Europe and America between 1938 and 1946

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In 1949, she settled in Venice, where she lived and exhibited her collection for the rest of her life

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Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite

Ming Yuan Di

ruler of Northern Wei (born 392)

Emperor Mingyuan of Northern Wei ( 魏明元帝), Chinese name Tuoba Si (拓跋嗣), Xianbei name Mumo (木末), was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. He was the oldest son of the founding emperor Emperor…

423

Huneric

Vandal king

Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric was king of the Vandals and Alans and the second king of the North African Vandal Kingdom, ruling from 477–484 AD, and the oldest son of his predecessor Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial…

484

Gabriel of Beth Qustan

bishop and saint (born 594)

Saint Gabriel of Beth Qustan, also known as Saint Gabriel of Qartmin, was the Bishop of Tur Abdin until his death in 648. He is venerated as a saint in the Oriental Orthodox Church and his feast day is 23 December.

668

Dagobert II

Frankish king (probable; b. 650)

Year 679 (DCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 679 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent…

679

Gaubald

Frankish bishop (born 700)

Gaubald was the first bishop of Regensburg after the foundation of the diocese of Regensburg. He has been beatified. His name is also spelled Gawibald, Geupald, or Gaibald.

761

Solomon II

bishop of Constance

Solomon II was the Bishop of Constance from 875 until his death. He was a relative of his predecessor and namesake Solomon I and stood in the middle of an "episcopal dynasty." He was commended for his life when the…

889

Naum of Preslav

Bulgarian missionary and scholar

Naum, also known as Naum of Ohrid or Naum of Preslav, was a medieval Bulgarian writer and missionary among the Slavs, considered one of the Seven Apostles of the First Bulgarian Empire. He was among the disciples of…

910

Conrad I

king of East Francia (born 890)

Conrad I, called the Younger, was the king of East Francia from 911 to 918. He was the first king not of the Carolingian dynasty, the first to be elected by the nobility and the first to be anointed. He was chosen as…

918

Ar-Radi

Abbasid caliph (born 909)

Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Muqtadir, usually simply known by his regnal name al-Radi bi'llah, was the twentieth Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from 934 to his death. He died on 23 December 940 at the…

940

Ugo Ventimiglia

Italian cardinal

Ugo Ventimiglia was an Italian cardinal. His name is listed also as Ottone. He was born in Ventimiglia. He was ordained Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina by Pope Alexander III in the consistory celebrated in Sens in 1164.…

1172

Thorlak

patron saint of Iceland (born 1133)

Thorlak Thorhallsson is the patron saint of Iceland. He was Bishop of Skálholt from 1178 until his death. Thorlak's relics were translated to the Cathedral of Skalholt in 1198, not long after his successor, Páll…

1193

Berengaria of Navarre

queen of England (born 1165)

Berengaria of Navarre was Queen of England as the wife of Richard I of England. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile. As is the case with many of the medieval English queens, little…

1230

Matilda of Habsburg

duchess regent of Bavaria (born 1253)

Matilda of Habsburg or Melchilde was a duchess consort of Bavaria. She was regent of Upper Bavaria during the minority of her younger son, Louis IV in 1294–1301.

1304

Beatrice of Bourbon

Queen of Bohemia (born 1320)

Beatrice of Bourbon was by marriage Queen of Bohemia and Countess of Luxembourg. Initially betrothed to Philip, Despot of Romania, she later married King John of Bohemia. By 1337 she had given birth to a son,…

1383

Thomas Preljubović

ruler of Epirus

Thomas Preljubović was ruler of the Despotate of Epirus in Ioannina from 1367 to his death in 1384. Thomas was an unpopular ruler and is appraised very negatively by his contemporaries. On December 23, 1384 he was…

1384

Isabella of Castile

duchess of York (born 1355)

Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York was the daughter of King Peter and his mistress María de Padilla. She accompanied her elder sister, Constance, to England after Constance's marriage to John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of…

1392

Nicholas Udall

English cleric, playwright, and educator (born 1504)

Nicholas Udall was an English playwright, cleric, schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language.

1556

Johann Sylvan

German theologian (executed; date of birth unknown)

Johann Sylvan was a Reformed German theologian who was executed for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.

1572

Akiyama Nobutomo

Japanese samurai (born 1531)

Akiyama Nobutomo was a samurai during the Sengoku period in Japan. He is known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen". Nobutomo also served under Shingen's son, Takeda Katsuyori.

1575

Henry I

duke of Guise (born 1550)

Henri I de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Prince of Joinville, Count of Eu, sometimes called Le Balafré ('Scarface'), was the eldest son of François, Duke of Guise, and Anna d'Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II…

1588

Michael Drayton

English poet and playwright (born 1563)

Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era, continuing to write through the reign of James I and into the reign of Charles I. Many of his works consisted of historical poetry. He…

1631

Barbara Longhi

Italian painter (born 1552)

Barbara Longhi was an Italian painter. She was much admired in her lifetime as a portraitist, although most of her portraits are now lost or unattributed. Her work, such as her many Madonna and Child paintings, earned…

1638

François Maynard

French poet and academic (born 1582)

François Maynard, sometimes seen as "de Maynard" was a French poet who spent much of his life in Toulouse.

1646

John Cotton

English minister and theologian (born 1585)

John Cotton was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He studied for five years at Trinity College, Cambridge, and…

1652

Caesar

duc de Choiseul, French general and diplomat (born 1602)

César de Choiseul, 1st Duke of Choiseul, comte du Plessis-Praslin was a Marshal of France and French diplomat, generally known for the best part of his life as the Maréchal (Marshal) du Plessis-Praslin.

1675

Pierre Varignon

French mathematician and academic (born 1654)

Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year.

1722

Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell

Scottish spy (born 1725)

Alastair Roy MacDonell of Glengarry (ca 1725–1761; Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair Ruadh MacDomhnaill, was the 13th chief of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry. Brought up as a Catholic and largely educated in France, he was…

1761

Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (born 1701)

Marguerite d'Youville, SGM was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the "Grey Nuns". She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1990, becoming the first native-born…

1771

Augustus Hervey

3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1724)

Vice-Admiral Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, PC was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He commanded the sixth-rate HMS Phoenix at the Battle of Minorca in May 1756 as well as the third-rate HMS Dragon at…

1779

Charles-Michel de l'Épée

French priest and educator (born 1712)

Charles-Michel de l'Épée was an 18th-century French Catholic priest and philanthropic educator who advocated for sign language as the preferred method of teaching deaf people, and has become known as the "Father of the…

1789

Henry Clinton

English general and politician (born 1730)

General Sir Henry Clinton, KB was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1772 and 1795. He is best known for his service as a general during the American War of…

1795

Pehr Osbeck

Swedish explorer and author (born 1723)

Pehr Osbeck was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was born in the parish of Hålanda on Västergötland and studied at Uppsala with Carolus Linnaeus.

1805

Thomas Robert Malthus

English economist and demographer (born 1766)

Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.

1834

John Chisum

American businessman and poker player (born 1824)

John Simpson Chisum was a wealthy cattle baron on the frontier in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century. As a rancher, he established large herds throughout the New Mexico territory, becoming known as the…

1884

Constance Naden

English poet and philosopher (born 1858)

Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden was an English writer, poet and philosopher. She studied, wrote and lectured on philosophy and science, alongside publishing two volumes of poetry. Several collected works were…

1889

Frederick Tracy Dent

Brigadier General in the Regular United States Army, brother in law to President Ulysses S. Grant.

Frederick Tracy Dent was an American general.

1892

Frederick Temple

English archbishop and academic (born 1821)

Frederick Temple was an English academic, teacher and churchman, who served as Bishop of Exeter (1869–1885), Bishop of London (1885–1896) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1896–1902).

1902

Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo

last emperor of the Gaza Empire (born c.1850)

Ngungunyane, also known as Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, N'gungunhana, or Gungunhana Reinaldo Frederico Gungunhana, was a king of the Gaza Empire and vassal of the Portuguese Empire, who rebelled, was defeated by…

1906

Otto Schoetensack

German anthropologist and academic (born 1850)

Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, having retired from the chemical firm which he had founded. During a 1908 archeological dig, he oversaw the worker Daniel…

1912

Swami Shraddhanand

Indian monk, missionary, and educator (born 1856)

Shraddhanand, born Munshi Ram, was an Indian independence activist and Arya Samaj sannyasi who propagated the teachings of Dayananda Saraswati. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the…

1926

Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay

Turkish lieutenant and educator (born 1906)

Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay was a Turkish military officer and teacher. He is a symbolic figure of the series of events known as the Kubilay Incident, which began with the killing of lieutenant Kubilay, guard Hasan, and guard…

1930

Wilson Bentley

American meteorologist and photographer (born 1865)

Wilson Alwyn Bentley, also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. He perfected a…

1931

Anthony Fokker

Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (born 1890)

Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the…

1939

John A. Sampson

American gynecologist and academic (born 1873)

John Albertson Sampson was a gynecologist who studied endometriosis.

1946