Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 23-Oct

Died on This Day (23-Oct)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Jerry Jeff Walker	Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country music and folk singer-songwriter.	American country music singer	78	1
	Walter Lassally	Walter Lassally was a German-born British cinematographer.	British-Greek cinematographer	90	4
	Alvin Stardust	Bernard William Jewry , known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor.	English rock singer and stage actor	72	7
	Sunil Gangopadhyay	Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata.	Indian Bengali language writer	78	9
	Bruno Lauzi	Bruno Lauzi was an Italian singer-songwriter, poet and writer.	Italian musician and writer	69	15
	Robert Merrill	Robert Merrill was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit.	American opera singer	85	17
	Harold Hughes	Harold Everett Hughes was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969, and a United States senator from Iowa from 1969 until 1975.	American politician	74	25
	Reg Butler	Reginald Cotterell Butler was an English sculptor.	British artist	68	40
	Ernest Thompson Seton	Ernest Thompson Seton was an author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 , and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.	American author	86	75
	Charles Frederick Crisp	Charles Frederick Crisp was a United States political figure.	Speaker of the US House of Representatives	51	125

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Tony Hoagland	Anthony Dey Hoagland was an American poet. His poetry collection, What Narcissism Means to Me , was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.	American poet	64	3
	Jimmy Perry	James Perry, was an English script writer and actor.	English actor and scriptwriter	93	5
	Bhau Kalchuri	Bhau Kalchuri , born Vir Singh Kalchuri, was an Indian author, poet, trust administrator, and one of Meher Baba's mandali .	Author	86	8
	Herbert A. Hauptman	Herbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate.	American mathematician	94	10
	Reginald R. Myers	Colonel Reginald Rodney Myers was a United States Marine Corps officer who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Korea as a major — for fearlessly leading 250 United Nations troops to victory over 4,000 of the enemy in November 1950 during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.	US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient	85	16
	Ken Aston	Kenneth George Aston, MBE was an English teacher, soldier, and football referee, who was responsible for many important developments in football refereeing - including the yellow and red penalty card system.	Football referee	86	20
	Conrad O'Brien-ffrench	Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench, 2nd Marquis de Castelthomond was a distinguished British Secret Intelligence Officer, Captain in the Tipperary Rangers of the Royal Irish Regiment and 16th The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal North-West Mounted Police.	British Secret Intelligence Service Officer	92	35
	Jesse Petty	Jesse Lee Petty a.k.a. The Silver Fox , was a professional baseball pitcher in the major leagues from 1921 to 1930, for the Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.	American baseball player	76	50
	John Boyd Dunlop	Johnny Sins was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland.	Scottish inventor	58	100
	Alexander Afanasyev	Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world.	Russian folklorist	45	150