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Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the handsome astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Notable Deaths on November 23
2012 — Larry Hagman
American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)
November 23 has 109 recorded notable deaths across history, from 386 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
109 source records
386 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on November 23
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- 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. Source
- 1944 World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War. Source
- 1934 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. Source
- 1924 Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times. Source
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Established in 1917, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia.
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Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe.
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Mary Whitehouse was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the BBC.
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Albert had bequeathed all his realms to his future son on his deathbed, but only the estates of Austria accepted his last will.
More major people who died on November 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1937
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (born 1858)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction.
1973
Sessue Hayakawa
Japanese actor, director, and producer (born 1889)
Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s.
2001
Mary Whitehouse
English educator and activist (born 1910)
Constance Mary Whitehouse was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
1457
Ladislaus the Posthumous
Hungarian king (born 1440)
Ladislaus the Posthumous, known as Ladislaus V, was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He was the posthumous son of Albert II of Germany with Elizabeth of Luxembourg.
1976
André Malraux
French theorist and author (born 1901)
Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.
2006
Willie Pep
American boxer and referee (born 1922)
Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, was an American professional boxer who held the World Featherweight Championship twice between the years of 1942 and 1950.
2024
Rico Carty
Dominican baseball player (born 1939)
Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty was a Dominican professional baseball player.
2014
Pat Quinn
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1943)
John Brian Patrick Quinn was a Canadian ice hockey player, head coach, and executive.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold was an Ethiopian statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Ethiopia during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I from 1961 to 1974 until his resignation due to the civil…
2005
Frank Gatski
American football player and soldier (born 1919)
Frank "Gunner" Gatski was an American professional football center who played for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League (NFL) in the 1940s and 1950s.
955
Eadred
English king (born 923)
Eadred was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife, Eadgifu.
1503
Margaret of York (born 1446)
Margaret of York, also known as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy from 1468 to 1477 as the third wife of Charles the Bold, and after his death (1477) acted as a protector of the Burgundian State.
2015
Manmeet Bhullar
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1980)
Manmeet Singh Bhullar was a Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta who represented the constituency of Calgary-Greenway as a Progressive Conservative.
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Leul Ras Aserate Kassa GCVO was a Viceroy of Eritrea and a member of the nobility of the Ethiopian Empire. He was the fourth son of Ras Kassa Haile Darge, and his wife Princess (Le'ult) Tsige Mariam Beshah.
1992
Roy Acuff
American singer-songwriter and fiddler (born 1903)
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter.
1682
Claude Lorrain
French-Italian painter and engraver (born 1604)
Claude Lorrain was a painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era originally from the Duchy of Lorraine.
1966
Seán T. O'Kelly
Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (born 1882)
Seán Thomas O'Kelly, originally John T. O'Kelly, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the president of Ireland from June 1945 to June 1959.
1499
Perkin Warbeck
pretender to the English throne (born c. 1474)
Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower".
1974
Notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
Lij Endelkachew Makonnen was an Ethiopian politician. Born in Addis Ababa, his father, Ras Betwoded Makonnen Endelkachew, served as Prime Minister of Ethiopia in the 1950s.