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On this day: October 23

What happened in the Turkic world on October 23? Famous people born and died on this day, key events and national days.

Events

  1. 2011 Van earthquake of 2011 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Van in eastern Turkey on October 23, 2011

Births

  1. 1922 Manshuk Mametova Soviet Kazakh machine gunner and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1922-1943)
  2. 1965 Asqar Mamin former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
  3. 1983 Valentin Demyanenko Ukrainian-Azerbaijani canoeist
  4. 1992 Yuliya Galysheva Kazakhstani freestyle skier
  5. 1994 Patimat Abakarova Azerbaijani taekwondo practitioner
  6. 1994 Shavkat Rakhmonov Kazakhstani mixed martial arts fighter

Deaths

  1. 1929 Askanaz Mravyan Soviet politician (1886-1929)
  2. 1930 Ivan Yakovlev Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer (1848–1930)
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Source: Wikidata and Wikipedia. Names link to the Wikipedia article.

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