May 23

May 23rd is the 143rd (144th in leap years) day of the modern Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1903: Ernst Klodwig (d. 1973)
* 1923: Joe James (d. 1952)
* 1940: Gérard Larrousse
* 1958: Tony Purnell
* 1972: Rubens Barrichello
* 1998: Sérgio Sette Câmara
==Deaths==
* 1965: Honoré Wagner, racing accident (b. 1921)
* 2021: Max Mosley, suicide (b. 1940)
==Races==
(races in italics are non-championship races)
* 1953: 
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* 1961: 
* 1971: 
* 1982: 
* 1993: 
* 2004: 
* 2021: 
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