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<html> <head> <title>Died on April 23rd</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died on April 23rd LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/857/000090587/">Harold Arlen</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1986</tt></td> <td>Wrote score to Wizard of Oz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000196200/">Yitzhak Ben-Zvi</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1963</tt></td> <td>President of Israel, 1952-63</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000174604/">Jules Berry</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1951</tt></td> <td>Le Jour se lève</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000029702/">Joh Bjelke-Petersen</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2005</tt></td> <td>Former Premier of Queensland, Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/178/000113836/">Brian Boru</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>940 AD</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1014</tt></td> <td>High King of Ireland, 1002-14</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000115308/">Rupert Brooke</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1915</tt></td> <td>1914 and Other Poems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000089042/">Cesar Chavez</a></td> <td><center>Labor Leader</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1993</tt></td> <td>Mastermind of the California grape boycott</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000048174/">Howard Cosell</a></td> <td><center>Sports Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1995</tt></td> <td>Straight-shooting, toupee-wearing commentator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/572/000078338/">Buster Crabbe</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1983</tt></td> <td>Flash Gordon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/746/000091473/">Charles G. Dawes</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1951</tt></td> <td>US Vice President, 1925-29</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/098/000132699/">Paul Erdman</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2007</tt></td> <td>The Billion Dollar Sure Thing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000109899/">Sam Ervin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1985</tt></td> <td>US Senator from North Carolina, 1954-74</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/746/000093467/">King Ethelred II</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 968 AD</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1016</tt></td> <td>King of England 978-1013 & 1014-16</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/121/000278284/">Stanley Fields</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td>Way Out West</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000096156/">St. George</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-303 AD</tt></td> <td>Patron saint of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000044159/">Paulette Goddard</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1990</tt></td> <td>Reap the Wild Wind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/797/000023728/">David Halberstam</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2007</tt></td> <td>The Powers That Be</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/138/000208511/">L. B. Hanna</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1948</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Dakota, 1913-17</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/752/000023683/">William Hartnell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1975</tt></td> <td>The First Doctor Who</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/069/000350016/">Jennifer Jayne</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2006</tt></td> <td>The Crawling Eye</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000099231/">Max von Laue</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1960</tt></td> <td>X-ray crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000096102/">Maurice of Nassau</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1567</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1625</tt></td> <td>Prince of Orange</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/701/000030611/">John Mills</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2005</tt></td> <td>Ryan's Daughter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000115323/">Alferd Packer</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1842</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1907</tt></td> <td>Celebrated cannibal killer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/049/000177515/">Karl Polanyi</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td>The Great Transformation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/456/000026378/">Otto Preminger</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1986</tt></td> <td>Anatomy of a Murder</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000034580/">James Earl Ray</a></td> <td><center>Assassin</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1998</tt></td> <td>Pled guilty in Martin Luther King's assassination</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000268637/">Satyajit Ray</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1992</tt></td> <td>Pather Panchali</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000279831/">Selena Royle</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Nov-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1983</tt></td> <td>The Fighting Sullivans</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000079181/">Charles Edward Russell</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td>The Greatest Trust in the World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000022388/">William Shakespeare</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1564</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1616</tt></td> <td>Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/254/000205636/">Herb Shriner</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1970</tt></td> <td>Two for the Money</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000134926/">Kent Smith</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1985</tt></td> <td>Cat People</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000130308/">John C. Stennis</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1995</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Mississippi, 1947-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000048935/">Max van der Stoel</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2011</tt></td> <td>Two-time Dutch Foreign Minister</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000086502/">Johnny Thunders</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1991</tt></td> <td>New York Dolls guitarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000104464/">Henry Vaughan</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1622</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1695</tt></td> <td>Silex Scintillans</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/667/000121304/">Clifton R. 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