| 47041 | April 23 | Death | 1951 – Jules Berry, French actor and director (b. 1883) |
| 47042 | April 23 | Death | 1951 – Charles G. Dawes, American banker and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) |
| 47043 | April 23 | Death | 1965 – George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891) |
| 47044 | April 23 | Death | 1966 – George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893) |
| 47045 | April 23 | Death | 1975 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908) |
| 47046 | April 23 | Death | 1979 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-English educator and activist (b. 1946) |
| 47047 | April 23 | Death | 1981 – Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897) |
| 47048 | April 23 | Death | 1983 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908) |
| 47049 | April 23 | Death | 1984 – Red Garland, American pianist (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1923) |
| 47050 | April 23 | Death | 1985 – Sam Ervin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1896) |
| 47051 | April 23 | Death | 1986 – Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905) |
| 47052 | April 23 | Death | 1986 – Jim Laker, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1922) |
| 47053 | April 23 | Death | 1986 – Otto Preminger, Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1906) |
| 47054 | April 23 | Death | 1990 – Paulette Goddard, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1910) |
| 47055 | April 23 | Death | 1991 – Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers) (b. 1952) |
| 47056 | April 23 | Death | 1992 – Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 47057 | April 23 | Death | 1992 – Tanka Prasad Acharya, Nepalese politician, 27th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1912) |
| 47058 | April 23 | Death | 1993 – Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (b. 1927) |
| 47059 | April 23 | Death | 1995 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1895) |
| 47060 | April 23 | Death | 1995 – Howard Cosell, American lawyer and journalist (b. 1918) |
| 47061 | April 23 | Death | 1995 – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist (b. 1904) |
| 47062 | April 23 | Death | 1995 – John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician (b. 1904) |
| 47063 | April 23 | Death | 1996 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (b. 1913) |
| 47064 | April 23 | Death | 1996 – P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (b. 1899) |
| 47065 | April 23 | Death | 1997 – Denis Compton, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1918) |
| 47066 | April 23 | Death | 1998 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 172nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907) |
| 47067 | April 23 | Death | 1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928) |
| 47068 | April 23 | Death | 1998 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek singer-songwriter and lyra player (b. 1920) |
| 47069 | April 23 | Death | 2003 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer (b. 1910) |
| 47070 | April 23 | Death | 2005 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (b. 1911) |