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Bonnie Parker's exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.
Notable Deaths on May 23
1934 — Bonnie Parker
American criminal (born 1910)
May 23 has 92 recorded notable deaths across history, from 230 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
92 source records
230 – 2024
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Major events on May 23
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- 1949 Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany. Source
- 1915 World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London. Source
- 2022 Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule. Source
- 1793 Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. Source
Did you know
Clyde Barrow's exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.
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John D. Rockefeller became an assistant bookkeeper at age 16 and went into several business partnerships beginning at age 20, concentrating his business on oil refining.
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Morgan Spurlock directed 23 films and was the producer of nearly 70 films throughout his career.
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In 2014 Ibsen was considered the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
More major people who died on May 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1934
Clyde Barrow
American criminal (born 1909)
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow were outlaws who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies,…
1937
John D. Rockefeller
American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (born 1839)
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in history.
2024
Morgan Spurlock
American filmmaker (born 1970)
Morgan Valentine Spurlock was an American documentary filmmaker, writer and television producer. He directed 23 films and was the producer of nearly 70 films throughout his career.
1906
Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (born 1828)
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama".
2021
Eric Carle
American children's book designer, illustrator, and writer best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (born 1929)
Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books.
2002
Sam Snead
American golfer and journalist (born 1912)
Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for the better part of four decades and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
1886
Leopold von Ranke
German historian and academic (born 1795)
Leopold von Ranke was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history.
1670
Ferdinando II de' Medici
Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1610)
Ferdinando II de' Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de' Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria.
2021
Ron Hill
English long-distance runner (born 1938)
Ronald Hill MBE was a British runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, and laid claim to the marathon world record.
1752
William Bradford
English-American printer (born 1663)
William Bradford was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America.
2008
Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
Spanish mountaineer (born 1967)
Iñaki Ochoa de Olza was a Spanish climber. Ochoa de Olza took part in more than thirty separate climbing expeditions in the Himalayas over the course of his career, and was involved in more than 200 expeditions as a…
2017
Roger Moore
English actor (born 1927)
Sir Roger George Moore was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions/MGM Studios film series, playing the character in seven feature…
1783
James Otis Jr.
American lawyer and politician (born 1725)
James Otis Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and activist who was an early supporter of patriotic causes in the Province of Massachusetts Bay at the beginning of the American Revolution.
2015
Anne Meara
American actress, comedian and playwright (born 1929)
Anne Meara was an American comedian and actress. With her husband Jerry Stiller, she was half of the 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller.
1986
Sterling Hayden
American actor (born 1916)
Sterling Walter Hayden was an American actor. A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in Westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's…
1981
George Jessel
American actor, singer, and producer (born 1898)
George Albert "Georgie" Jessel was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer.
1304
Jehan de Lescurel
French poet and composer
Jehan de Lescurel was a composer-poet of late medieval music. Jehan's extensive surviving oeuvre is an important and rare examples of the formes fixes before the time of Guillaume de Machaut; it consists of 34 works: 20…
1981
David Lewis
Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1909)
David Lewis was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician.
1949
Jan Frans De Boever
Belgian painter and illustrator (born 1872)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre.