What happened on March 23 ?

1103 - Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)

1369 - King Peter I of Castile (b. 1334)

1548 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen

1555 - Pope Julius III, (b. 1487)

1559 - Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)

1596 - Henry Unton, English diplomat

1606 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)

1618 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician

1653 - Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)

1680 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)

1742 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)

1747 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)

1748 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)

1754 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)

1783 - Charles Caroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)

1801 - Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)

1842 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)

1927 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)

1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters

1955 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)

1960 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b. 1881)

1964 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)

1965 - Mae Murray, American actress (b. 1889)

1968 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (b. 1918)

1970 - Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)

1972 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)

1979 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the United States (b. 1932)

1979 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)

1992 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)

2002 - Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)

2002 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)

2003 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)

2004 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)