Famous people died on May 23

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Elliot Rodger 49

Aleksey Mozgovoy 5

Ali Raymi 6

Morgan Spurlock 9

American Director

Owen Hart 30

Canadian Wrestler

Caleb Carr 17

American Novelist

Jo Beverley 6

British Writer

Roh Moo-hyun 7

South Korean Politician

Sebastiao Salgado 17

Brazilian Photographer

Giovanni Falcone 3

Italian Judge

Utah Phillips 14

American Activist

Eric Carle 14

American Author

John Forbes Nash 41

American Mathematician

Roger Moore 53

English Actor

Alan Brien 3

English Novelist

Paul Fussell 13

American Historian

Lloyd Bentsen 4

American Politician

Sterling Hayden 13

American Actor

John Gates 2

American Activist

Sam Snead 14

American Golfer

Kenneth Allott 2

Irish Poet

Rayner Heppenstall 1

British Writer

W. W. Hansen 1

American Physicist

Telford Taylor 2

American Lawyer

David Smith 30

American Educator

Heinrich Himmler 35

Moms Mabley 2

American Comedian

Henri de Regnier 2

French Poet

John D. Rockefeller 44

American Businessman

Henrik Ibsen 104

Norwegian Playwright

Kit Carson 11

American Explorer

Mark Lemon 2

Leopold von Ranke 7

German Historian

Augustin Louis Cauchy 7

French Mathematician

Mason Weems 3

Biographer

James Otis 27

American Lawyer

William Kidd 7

Scottish Explorer

Luis de Góngora 6

Girolamo Savonarola 14

Italian Clergyman

See also: Famous people born on May 23