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October 23, 1944

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Notable Births

Mike Harding

1944Mike Harding, English singer-songwriter and comedian[†]

Mike Harding is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, writer, broadcaster and musician.

Notable Deaths

Charles Barkla

1944Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)[†]

Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of characteristic X-rays.

Hana Brady

1944Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (born 1931)[†]

Hana "Hanička" Brady was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase, written by Karen Levine.

Historical Events

Battle of Leyte Gulf

1944World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.[†]

The Battle of Leyte Gulf 23–26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.