Editing April 23 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1605]] &ndash; [[Boris Godunov]], Russian ruler (b. 1551)
*[[1616]] &ndash; [[William Shakespeare]], English playwright and poet (b. 1564)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Death of Shakespeare |url=https://www.britannica.com/story/400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-death |website=Britannica |access-date=23 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1616 &ndash; [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega]], Spanish writer and historian (b. 1539)<ref>{{cite web |title=Homenaje al Inca Garcilaso (1539-1616) en su cuarto centenario |date=June 16, 2016 |url=https://www.rae.es/noticia/homenaje-al-inca-garcilaso-1539-1616-en-su-cuarto-centenario |website=RAE Energy |access-date=26 April 2023 |language=es |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619010319/https://www.rae.es/noticia/homenaje-al-inca-garcilaso-1539-1616-en-su-cuarto-centenario |archive-date= Jun 19, 2021 }}</ref>
<!---Note:Cervantes has been removed because he almost certainly did not die on April 23; see [[Miguel de Cervantes]] for further information--->
*[[1625]] &ndash; [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]] (b. 1567)
*[[1695]] &ndash; [[Henry Vaughan]], Welsh poet and author (b. 1621)
*[[1702]] &ndash; [[Margaret Fell]], English religious leader, founded the [[Religious Society of Friends]] (b. 1614)
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[James Abercrombie (British Army officer, born 1706)|James Abercrombie]], Scottish general and politician (b. 1706)
*[[1784]] &ndash; [[Solomon I of Imereti]] (b. 1735)
*[[1792]] &ndash; [[Karl Friedrich Bahrdt]], German theologian and author (b. 1741)
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes]], French lawyer and politician (b. 1721)
*[[1827]] &ndash; [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], Greek general (b. 1780)
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin]], French admiral and explorer (b. 1768)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[William Wordsworth]], English poet and author (b. 1770)
*1850 – [[John Joel Glanton]], American outlaw, soldier, mercenary, and Texas ranger (b. ~1819)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=The Life and Legacy of John Joel Glanton: Soldier, Outlaw, and Bounty Hunter |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/glanton-john-joel |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Silas Soule]], American soldier and whistleblower of the [[Sand Creek Massacre]] (b. 1838)<ref>{{cite web|title=The Life of Silas Soule - Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site |url=https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/historyculture/the-life-of-silas-soule.htm|website=National Park Service|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior|access-date=14 July 2017|archive-date=16 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716071009/https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/historyculture/the-life-of-silas-soule.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly]], French author and critic (b. 1808)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Carl Ludwig]], German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)