Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: Dec-23

Died on This Day (Dec-23)

Person Person Description Age Anniv
  Sophie Hediger Sophie Hediger is a Swiss snowboarder. She competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, in women's snowboard cross, and in the mixed team snowboard cross. Swiss snowboarder 26 1
George Cohen George Cohen George Reginald Cohen MBE is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back. English footballer 83 3
Joan Didion Joan Didion Joan Didion was an American writer. Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. American writer 87 4
Kay Purcell Kay Purcell Kay Purcell was an English actress. She was known for her roles as Cynthia Daggert in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale , Candice Smilie in the school-based drama series Waterloo Road , Gina Conway in the CBBC children's drama series Tracy Beaker Returns and its spin-off series The Dumping Ground , and Mrs. English actress 57 5
  Yendris Rodriguez Valdez Yendris Rodríguez Váldez was a Cuban professional middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight boxer, based in the Miami, Florida, area, whose career ended when he was shot to death during a dispute at work. Cuban boxer 30 6
Honey Lantree Honey Lantree The Honeycombs were an English beat group, founded in 1963 in North London, best known for their chart-topping 1964 hit, the million selling "Have I the Right?"The band featured Honey Lantree on drums, one of the few female drummers in bands at that time. English drummer 75 7
Anis Amri Anis Amri On 19 December 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, leaving 12 people dead and 56 others injured. Tunisian Islamic terrorist 24 9
Don Howe Don Howe Donald Howe was an English football player, coach, manager and pundit. English football player, coach, manager 80 10
K. Karunakaran K. Karunakaran Kannoth Karunakaran was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress . Indian politician 92 15
Edward Schillebeeckx Edward Schillebeeckx Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx OP was a Belgian Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. Belgian theologian 95 16
Billy Barty Billy Barty Billy Barty was an American actor and activist. In adult life, he stood 3 ft 9 in tall, due to cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism. American actor 76 25
Helen Andersen Helen Andersen Helen Andersen was a Canadian artist. While best known for expressionist paintings about Pacific Northwest coast Indigenous peoples, she worked in varied styles. Canadian artist 76 30
Foy D. Kohler Foy D. Kohler Foy David Kohler was an American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. American diplomat 82 35
Ferhat Abbas Ferhat Abbas Ferhat Abbas was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting Chief of State after independence. President of Algeria 86 40
Astri Taube Astri Taube Astrid "Astri" Linnéa Matilda Taube, née Bergman was a Swedish sculptor and artist known for her child portraits and sculptures in public venues. Swedish sculptor 82 45
Richard Welch Richard Welch Richard Skeffington Welch was a career Central Intelligence Agency officer. Central Intelligence Agency officer 46 50
Walton Walker Walton Walker Walton Harris Walker was a United States Army four-star general who served with distinction in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, where he commanded the Eighth United States Army before dying in a jeep accident. United States Army general 61 75
Okano Keijirō Okano Keijirō Okano Keijiro was a legal scholar, a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. Japanese politician 60 100
Theodore L. Poole Theodore L. Poole Theodore Lewis Poole was a U.S. Representative from New York. American politician 60 125
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges was a French playwright, who was born and died in Paris. French librettist 76 150