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| November 23rd, 2007 (November 23 2007) | Event | MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. | |
| November 23rd, 2007 (November 23 2007) | Death | Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (born in 1979) | |
| November 23rd, 2007 (November 23 2007) | Death | Oscar Carmelo Sanchez, Bolivian footballer (born in 1971) | |
| November 23rd, 2007 (November 23 2007) | Death | Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (born in 1936) | |
| November 23rd, 2006 (November 23 2006) | Death | Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (born in 1948) | |
| November 23rd, 2006 (November 23 2006) | Death | Betty Comden, American lyricist (born in 1917) | |
| November 23rd, 2006 (November 23 2006) | Death | Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (born in 1962) | |
| November 23rd, 2006 (November 23 2006) | Death | Philippe Noiret, French actor (born in 1930) | |
| November 23rd, 2006 (November 23 2006) | Death | Anita O Day, American singer (born in 1919) | |
| November 23rd, 2006 (November 23 2006) | Death | Willie Pep, American boxer (born in 1922) | |
| November 23rd, 2005 (November 23 2005) | Event | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country. | |
| November 23rd, 2005 (November 23 2005) | Death | Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (born in 1910) | |
| November 23rd, 2005 (November 23 2005) | Death | Frank Gatski, American football player (born in 1919) | |
| November 23rd, 2004 (November 23 2004) | Death | Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (born in 1928) | |
| November 23rd, 2003 (November 23 2003) | Event | Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. | Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes |
| November 23rd, 2002 (November 23 2002) | Death | Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (born in 1911) | |
| November 23rd, 2001 (November 23 2001) | Event | Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. | |
| November 23rd, 2001 (November 23 2001) | Death | Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (born in 1936) | |
| November 23rd, 2001 (November 23 2001) | Death | O.C. Smith, American singer (born in 1932) | |
| November 23rd, 2001 (November 23 2001) | Death | Mary Whitehouse, Clean up TV campaigner | |
| November 23rd, 1998 (November 23 1998) | Event | Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh. | |
| November 23rd, 1997 (November 23 1997) | Death | Jorge Mas Canosa, anti-Castro activist (born in 1939) | |
| November 23rd, 1996 (November 23 1996) | Event | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123. | |
| November 23rd, 1996 (November 23 1996) | Event | The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization. | |
| November 23rd, 1996 (November 23 1996) | Death | Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (born in 1943) | |
| November 23rd, 1996 (November 23 1996) | Death | Art Porter, Jr., American jazz musician (born in 1961) | |
| November 23rd, 1995 (November 23 1995) | Death | Louis Malle, French film director (born in 1932) | |
| November 23rd, 1995 (November 23 1995) | Death | Jr. Walker, American musician (born in 1931) | |
| November 23rd, 1994 (November 23 1994) | Death | Art Barr, American professional wrestler (born in 1966) | |
| November 23rd, 1994 (November 23 1994) | Death | Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (born in 1939) | |
| November 23rd, 1993 (November 23 1993) | Event | Rachel Whiteread wins both the ?20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the ?40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year. | |
| November 23rd, 1992 (November 23 1992) | Birth | Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer | Miley Cyrus Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1992 (November 23 1992) | Death | Roy Acuff, American country musician (born in 1903) | |
| November 23rd, 1992 (November 23 1992) | Death | Jean-Francois Thiriart, Belgian politician (born in 1922) | |
| November 23rd, 1991 (November 23 1991) | Birth | Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion | |
| November 23rd, 1991 (November 23 1991) | Death | Klaus Kinski, German actor (born in 1926) | Klaus Kinski Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1990 (November 23 1990) | Event | The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek. | |
| November 23rd, 1990 (November 23 1990) | Death | Roald Dahl, British author (born in 1916) | |
| November 23rd, 1990 (November 23 1990) | Death | Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (born in 1953) | |
| November 23rd, 1987 (November 23 1987) | Birth | Nicklas Backstrom, Swedish ice hockey player | |
| November 23rd, 1985 (November 23 1985) | Event | Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid. | |
| November 23rd, 1985 (November 23 1985) | Birth | Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater | |
| November 23rd, 1984 (November 23 1984) | Birth | Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer | |
| November 23rd, 1983 (November 23 1983) | Death | Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (born in 1899) | |
| November 23rd, 1982 (November 23 1982) | Birth | Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player | |
| November 23rd, 1982 (November 23 1982) | Birth | Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter | |
| November 23rd, 1981 (November 23 1981) | Event | Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1980 (November 23 1980) | Event | A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people. | |
| November 23rd, 1980 (November 23 1980) | Birth | David Britz, American nano-technologist | |
| November 23rd, 1980 (November 23 1980) | Birth | Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player | |
| November 23rd, 1979 (November 23 1979) | Event | In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. | |
| November 23rd, 1979 (November 23 1979) | Birth | Kelly Brook, English actress/model | |
| November 23rd, 1979 (November 23 1979) | Death | Merle Oberon, British actress (born in 1911) | |
| November 23rd, 1979 (November 23 1979) | Death | Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (born in 1944) | |
| November 23rd, 1978 (November 23 1978) | Birth | Kayvan Novak, English actor | |
| November 23rd, 1977 (November 23 1977) | Birth | Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver | |
| November 23rd, 1977 (November 23 1977) | Birth | Adam Eaton, American baseball player | |
| November 23rd, 1976 (November 23 1976) | Event | Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment. | |
| November 23rd, 1976 (November 23 1976) | Birth | Page Kennedy, American actor | |
| November 23rd, 1976 (November 23 1976) | Death | Andre Malraux, French author (born in 1901) | Andre Malraux Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1974 (November 23 1974) | Birth | Jamie Sharper, American football player | |
| November 23rd, 1974 (November 23 1974) | Birth | Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player | |
| November 23rd, 1974 (November 23 1974) | Death | Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (born in 1920) | |
| November 23rd, 1973 (November 23 1973) | Birth | Trick Daddy, American rapper | |
| November 23rd, 1973 (November 23 1973) | Death | Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (born in 1889) | |
| November 23rd, 1972 (November 23 1972) | Birth | Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God) | |
| November 23rd, 1972 (November 23 1972) | Death | Marie Wilson, American actress (born in 1916) | |
| November 23rd, 1971 (November 23 1971) | Event | The representatives of the People s Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China s representatives (See China and the United Nations). | |
| November 23rd, 1971 (November 23 1971) | Birth | Lisa Arch, American actress | |
| November 23rd, 1970 (November 23 1970) | Birth | Zoe Ball, British television and radio presenter | |
| November 23rd, 1970 (November 23 1970) | Birth | Oded Fehr, Israeli actor | |
| November 23rd, 1970 (November 23 1970) | Death | Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (born in 1910) | |
| November 23rd, 1969 (November 23 1969) | Birth | Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer | |
| November 23rd, 1968 (November 23 1968) | Birth | Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer | |
| November 23rd, 1968 (November 23 1968) | Birth | Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist | |
| November 23rd, 1966 (November 23 1966) | Birth | Vincent Cassel, French actor | |
| November 23rd, 1966 (November 23 1966) | Birth | Jerry Kelly, American professional golfer | |
| November 23rd, 1966 (November 23 1966) | Death | Sean T. O Kelly, President of Ireland (born in 1882) | |
| November 23rd, 1965 (November 23 1965) | Birth | Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian | |
| November 23rd, 1964 (November 23 1964) | Birth | Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete | |
| November 23rd, 1963 (November 23 1963) | Birth | Joe Ahearne, British television director | |
| November 23rd, 1963 (November 23 1963) | Birth | Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (died in 2004) | |
| November 23rd, 1961 (November 23 1961) | Birth | Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer | |
| November 23rd, 1961 (November 23 1961) | Birth | Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author | |
| November 23rd, 1960 (November 23 1960) | Birth | Robin Roberts, American television reporter | |
| November 23rd, 1959 (November 23 1959) | Event | General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals." | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1959 (November 23 1959) | Birth | Maxwell Caulfield, British actor | |
| November 23rd, 1959 (November 23 1959) | Birth | Dominique Dunne, American actress (died in 1982) | |
| November 23rd, 1955 (November 23 1955) | Event | The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia. | |
| November 23rd, 1955 (November 23 1955) | Birth | Steven Brust, American author | |
| November 23rd, 1955 (November 23 1955) | Birth | Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist | |
| November 23rd, 1955 (November 23 1955) | Birth | Mary Landrieu, American politician, senior senator of Louisiana | |
| November 23rd, 1954 (November 23 1954) | Event | For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash. | |
| November 23rd, 1954 (November 23 1954) | Birth | Bruce Hornsby, American musician | |
| November 23rd, 1954 (November 23 1954) | Birth | Glenn Brummer, American baseball player | |
| November 23rd, 1954 (November 23 1954) | Birth | Ross Brawn, British Honda Racing F1 team principal | |
| November 23rd, 1953 (November 23 1953) | Birth | Francis Cabrel, French singer | |
| November 23rd, 1952 (November 23 1952) | Birth | Bill Troiano, musician | |
| November 23rd, 1951 (November 23 1951) | Birth | David Rappaport, English actor (died in 1990) | |
| November 23rd, 1950 (November 23 1950) | Birth | Chuck Schumer, American politician | |
| November 23rd, 1948 (November 23 1948) | Birth | Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer | |
| November 23rd, 1948 (November 23 1948) | Death | Hack Wilson, American baseball player (born in 1900) | |
| November 23rd, 1946 (November 23 1946) | Event | The Workers Party of South Korea is founded. | |
| November 23rd, 1946 (November 23 1946) | Birth | Bobby Rush, American politician | |
| November 23rd, 1946 (November 23 1946) | Birth | Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer | |
| November 23rd, 1946 (November 23 1946) | Birth | Diana Quick, English actress | |
| November 23rd, 1945 (November 23 1945) | Birth | Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter | |
| November 23rd, 1945 (November 23 1945) | Birth | Steve Landesberg, American actor | |
| November 23rd, 1945 (November 23 1945) | Birth | Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer | |
| November 23rd, 1945 (November 23 1945) | Birth | Jerry Harris, American sculptor | |
| November 23rd, 1944 (November 23 1944) | Birth | Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer | |
| November 23rd, 1944 (November 23 1944) | Birth | James Toback, American writer and director | |
| November 23rd, 1943 (November 23 1943) | Event | World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstra?e in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyedied in It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. | |
| November 23rd, 1943 (November 23 1943) | Event | World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. | |
| November 23rd, 1943 (November 23 1943) | Birth | Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (died in 1964) | |
| November 23rd, 1943 (November 23 1943) | Birth | Sue Nicholls, British actress | |
| November 23rd, 1942 (November 23 1942) | Birth | Susan Anspach, American actress | |
| November 23rd, 1941 (November 23 1941) | Birth | Franco Nero, Italian actor | |
| November 23rd, 1940 (November 23 1940) | Birth | Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player | |
| November 23rd, 1939 (November 23 1939) | Birth | Betty Everett, American singer (died in 2001) | |
| November 23rd, 1938 (November 23 1938) | Birth | Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor | |
| November 23rd, 1937 (November 23 1937) | Death | Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (born in 1858) | |
| November 23rd, 1937 (November 23 1937) | Death | George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (born in 1858) | |
| November 23rd, 1936 (November 23 1936) | Event | The first edition of Life is published. | |
| November 23rd, 1936 (November 23 1936) | Birth | Robert Barnard, British mystery writer | |
| November 23rd, 1935 (November 23 1935) | Birth | Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (died in 1971) | |
| November 23rd, 1934 (November 23 1934) | Event | An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. | |
| November 23rd, 1934 (November 23 1934) | Birth | Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director | |
| November 23rd, 1934 (November 23 1934) | Birth | Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (died in 1994) | |
| November 23rd, 1934 (November 23 1934) | Death | Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (born in 1895) | |
| November 23rd, 1933 (November 23 1933) | Birth | Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer | |
| November 23rd, 1932 (November 23 1932) | Birth | Michel David-Weill, French investment banker | |
| November 23rd, 1931 (November 23 1931) | Birth | Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author | |
| November 23rd, 1931 (November 23 1931) | Birth | Gloria Lynne, American singer | |
| November 23rd, 1930 (November 23 1930) | Birth | Jack McKeon, American baseball manager | |
| November 23rd, 1929 (November 23 1929) | Birth | Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer | |
| November 23rd, 1928 (November 23 1928) | Birth | Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer | |
| November 23rd, 1927 (November 23 1927) | Birth | Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (died in 2005) | |
| November 23rd, 1926 (November 23 1926) | Birth | Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher | Sathya Sai Baba Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1925 (November 23 1925) | Birth | Johnny Mandel, American songwriter | |
| November 23rd, 1925 (November 23 1925) | Birth | Jose Napoleon Duarte, Salvadorian politician (died in 1990) | |
| November 23rd, 1924 (November 23 1924) | Birth | Paula Raymond, American actress (died in 2003) | |
| November 23rd, 1924 (November 23 1924) | Birth | Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (died in 1994) | |
| November 23rd, 1924 (November 23 1924) | Birth | Anita Linda, Filipino actress | |
| November 23rd, 1923 (November 23 1923) | Birth | R. L. Burnside, American musician (died in 2005) | |
| November 23rd, 1923 (November 23 1923) | Birth | Daniel Brewster, American democrat (died in 2007) | |
| November 23rd, 1923 (November 23 1923) | Birth | Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (died in 1986) | |
| November 23rd, 1923 (November 23 1923) | Death | Urmuz, Romanian writer (born in 1883) | |
| November 23rd, 1922 (November 23 1922) | Birth | Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia | |
| November 23rd, 1921 (November 23 1921) | Birth | Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (died in 1960) | |
| November 23rd, 1920 (November 23 1920) | Birth | Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (died in 1970) | |
| November 23rd, 1920 (November 23 1920) | Birth | Wayne Thiebaud, American painter | |
| November 23rd, 1915 (November 23 1915) | Birth | John Dehner, American actor (died in 1992) | |
| November 23rd, 1914 (November 23 1914) | Event | The US Army retreats from Mexico. | |
| November 23rd, 1914 (November 23 1914) | Birth | Roger Avon, Durham actor (died in 1998) | |
| November 23rd, 1914 (November 23 1914) | Birth | Michael Gough, English actor | |
| November 23rd, 1912 (November 23 1912) | Birth | George O Hanlon, American actor (died in 1989) | |
| November 23rd, 1909 (November 23 1909) | Birth | Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (died in 2000) | |
| November 23rd, 1908 (November 23 1908) | Birth | Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (died in 2006) | |
| November 23rd, 1907 (November 23 1907) | Birth | Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (died in 1986) | |
| November 23rd, 1903 (November 23 1903) | Event | Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners strike. | |
| November 23rd, 1902 (November 23 1902) | Birth | Victor Jory, Canadian actor (died in 1982) | |
| November 23rd, 1902 (November 23 1902) | Death | Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (born in 1851) | |
| November 23rd, 1897 (November 23 1897) | Birth | Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (died in 1999) | |
| November 23rd, 1897 (November 23 1897) | Birth | Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (died in 1948) | |
| November 23rd, 1892 (November 23 1892) | Birth | Erte, French artist (died in 1990) | |
| November 23rd, 1890 (November 23 1890) | Event | King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir. | William King Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1890 (November 23 1890) | Event | General elections in Italy. | |
| November 23rd, 1890 (November 23 1890) | Birth | El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (died in 1941) | |
| November 23rd, 1890 (November 23 1890) | Death | King William III of the Netherlands (born in 1817) | William King Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1889 (November 23 1889) | Event | The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. | |
| November 23rd, 1888 (November 23 1888) | Birth | Harpo Marx, American comedian (died in 1964) | Harpo Marx Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1887 (November 23 1887) | Birth | Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (died in 1943) | |
| November 23rd, 1887 (November 23 1887) | Birth | Boris Karloff, British actor (died in 1969) | |
| November 23rd, 1887 (November 23 1887) | Birth | Henry Moseley, English physicist (died in 1915) | |
| November 23rd, 1883 (November 23 1883) | Birth | Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (died in 1949) | |
| November 23rd, 1876 (November 23 1876) | Event | Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. | |
| November 23rd, 1876 (November 23 1876) | Birth | Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (died in 1946) | |
| November 23rd, 1875 (November 23 1875) | Birth | Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (died in 1933) | |
| November 23rd, 1869 (November 23 1869) | Event | In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launchedone of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day. | |
| November 23rd, 1869 (November 23 1869) | Birth | Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (died in 1942) | |
| November 23rd, 1867 (November 23 1867) | Event | The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail. | |
| November 23rd, 1864 (November 23 1864) | Birth | Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (died in 1936) | |
| November 23rd, 1863 (November 23 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga beginsUnion forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1861 (November 23 1861) | Birth | Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (died in 1939) | |
| November 23rd, 1860 (November 23 1860) | Birth | Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1925) | |
| November 23rd, 1859 (November 23 1859) | Birth | Billy The Kid, American outlaw (died in 1881(?)) | |
| November 23rd, 1844 (November 23 1844) | Event | Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark. | |
| November 23rd, 1837 (November 23 1837) | Birth | Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1923) | |
| November 23rd, 1833 (November 23 1833) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (born in 1762) | |
| November 23rd, 1820 (November 23 1820) | Birth | Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (died in 1884) | |
| November 23rd, 1814 (November 23 1814) | Death | Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (born in 1744) | |
| November 23rd, 1807 (November 23 1807) | Death | Jean-Francois Rewbell, French politician (born in 1747) | |
| November 23rd, 1804 (November 23 1804) | Birth | Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (died in 1869) | Franklin Pierce Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1804 (November 23 1804) | Death | Richard Graves, British writer (born in 1715) | |
| November 23rd, 1803 (November 23 1803) | Death | Roger Newdigate, British politician (born in 1719) | |
| November 23rd, 1785 (November 23 1785) | Birth | Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (died in 1853) | |
| November 23rd, 1783 (November 23 1783) | Death | Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (born in 1714) | |
| November 23rd, 1769 (November 23 1769) | Death | Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (born in 1711) | |
| November 23rd, 1763 (November 23 1763) | Death | Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (born in 1673) | |
| November 23rd, 1760 (November 23 1760) | Birth | Francois-Noel Babeuf, French revolutionary (died in 1797) | |
| November 23rd, 1749 (November 23 1749) | Birth | Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (died in 1800) | |
| November 23rd, 1719 (November 23 1719) | Birth | Spranger Barry, Irish actor (died in 1777) | |
| November 23rd, 1715 (November 23 1715) | Birth | Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (died in 1799) | |
| November 23rd, 1705 (November 23 1705) | Birth | Thomas Birch, English historian (died in 1766) | |
| November 23rd, 1682 (November 23 1682) | Death | Claude Lorrain, French painter (born in 1604) | |
| November 23rd, 1654 (November 23 1654) | Event | French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life. | Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1644 (November 23 1644) | Event | Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published. | John Milton Quotes |
| November 23rd, 1641 (November 23 1641) | Birth | Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (died in 1720) | |
| November 23rd, 1632 (November 23 1632) | Birth | Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (died in 1707) | |
| November 23rd, 1616 (November 23 1616) | Birth | John Wallis, English mathematician (died in 1703) | |
| November 23rd, 1616 (November 23 1616) | Death | Richard Hakluyt, English writer (born in 1552) | |
| November 23rd, 1585 (November 23 1585) | Death | Thomas Tallis, English composer (born in 1505) | |
| November 23rd, 1572 (November 23 1572) | Death | Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (born in 1503) | |
| November 23rd, 1553 (November 23 1553) | Birth | Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died in 1617) | |
| November 23rd, 1531 (November 23 1531) | Event | The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. | |
| November 23rd, 1503 (November 23 1503) | Death | Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (born in 1446) | |
| November 23rd, 1503 (November 23 1503) | Death | Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (born in 1449) | |
| November 23rd, 1499 (November 23 1499) | Event | Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. | |
| November 23rd, 1499 (November 23 1499) | Death | Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (born in 1474) | |
| November 23rd, 1457 (November 23 1457) | Death | King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (born in 1440) | |
| November 23rd, 1417 (November 23 1417) | Birth | William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died in 1487) | |
| November 23rd, 1407 (November 23 1407) | Death | Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (born in 1372) | |
| November 23rd, 1402 (November 23 1402) | Birth | Jean de Dunois, French soldier (died in 1468) | |
| November 23rd, 1248 (November 23 1248) | Event | Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. | |
| November 23rd, 1227 (November 23 1227) | Event | Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gasawa. | |
| November 23rd, 1221 (November 23 1221) | Birth | King Alfonso X of Castile (died in 1284) | Alfonso X of Castile Quotes |
| November 23rd, 0955 (November 23 0955) | Death | Edred, King of England (born in c. 923) | |
| November 23rd, 0947 (November 23 0947) | Death | Berthold, Duke of Bavaria | |
| November 23rd, 0912 (November 23 0912) | Birth | Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (died in 973) | |
| November 23rd, 0800 (November 23 0800) | Event | Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III. | Charlemagne Quotes |
