August 23

For places named 23 August, see 23 August (disambiguation).

August 23 is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
• 406 – Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
• 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
• 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
• 1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
• 1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
• 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
• 1572 – Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
• 1595 – Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
• 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
• 1765 – Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
• 1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
• 1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
• 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
• 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
• 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
• 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
• 1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
• 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
• 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
• 1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
• 1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
• 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
• 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
• 1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
• 1923 – Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
• 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
• 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
• 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
• 1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• 1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• 1943 – World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
• 1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated.
• 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
• 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
• 1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
• 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
• 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
• 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
• 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
• 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
• 1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
• 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
• 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. Score was 115x120 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
• 1989 – Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
• 1989 – 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
• 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
• 1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
• 1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
• 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
• 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
• 2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
• 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.
• 2007 – The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
• 2010 – Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed
• 2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. The earthquake is felt as far north as Ontario, Canada, as far south as Miami, Florida, and as far west as Chicago, Illinois, Iowa, and Texas. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million - $300 million USD.
• 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
• 2012 – At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

Births

• 1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
• 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
• 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologian, historian, astronomer, and writer (d. 1675)
• 1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant (d. 1796)
• 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer (d. 1788)
• 1754 – Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
• 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775)
• 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist (d. 1832)
• 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852)
• 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
• 1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
• 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (d. 1877)
• 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
• 1836 – Marie Henriette of Austria (d. 1902)
• 1843 – William Southam, Canadian publisher (d. 1932)
• 1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
• 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
• 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
• 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian (d. 1883)
• 1852 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (d. 1913)
• 1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
• 1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
• 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist (d. 1966)
• 1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1946)
• 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer (d. 1959)
• 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian author (d. 1932)
• 1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general (d. 1953)
• 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Ogden L. Mills, American businessman and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
• 1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1971)
• 1900 – Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer (d. 1991)
• 1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Guy Bush, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1901 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician (d. 1991)
• 1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
• 1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (d. 1982)
• 1905 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (d. 1951)
• 1908 – Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor (d. 2008)
• 1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970)
• 1909 – Leila Danette, American actress
• 1910 – Lonny Frey, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• 1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
• 1911 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984)
• 1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 – Sam Cook, English cricketer (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Jean Darling, American actress and singer
• 1922 – Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter (d. 2011)
• 1922 – George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 – Robert Mulligan, American director (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator
• 1927 – Martial Solal, French pianist and composer
• 1928 – Marian Seldes, American actress
• 1929 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Vera Miles, American actress
• 1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France
• 1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Houari Boumediene, Algerian politician, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
• 1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian, singer, and pianist
• 1933 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – Pete Wilson, American politician, 36th Governor of California
• 1934 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
• 1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
• 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
• 1942 – Letta Mbulu, South African singer
• 1943 – Nelson DeMille, American novelist
• 1943 – Pino Presti, Italian musician
• 1944 – Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1945 – Bob Peck, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1945 – Rayfield Wright, American football player
• 1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (d. 1978)
• 1947 – Rex Allen, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – David Robb, English-Scottish actor
• 1947 – Willy Russell, English playwright and composer
• 1947 – Terje Rypdal, Norwegian guitarist and composer (The Vanguards)
• 1948 – Atef Bseiso, Palestinian PLO head of intelligence (d. 1992)
• 1948 – Andrei Pleşu, Romanian philosopher, journalist, and politician
• 1948 – Rudy Ruettiger, American football player
• 1948 – Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist
• 1949 – Geoff Capes, English strongman
• 1949 – Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
• 1949 – Shelley Long, American actress
• 1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot)
• 1951 – Allan Bristow, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Survivor)
• 1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (d. 2004)
• 1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
• 1952 – Georgios Paraschos, Greek footballer
• 1953 – Bobby G, English singer (Bucks Fizz)
• 1953 – Ernst Savkovic, German footballer
• 1954 – Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1956 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
• 1956 – Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
• 1956 – Robert L. Manahan, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1956 – Hans-Jürgen Salewski, German footballer
• 1956 – Skipp Sudduth, American actor
• 1957 – Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
• 1958 – Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player
• 1959 – George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
• 1960 – Rodney Greenblat, American graphic designer
• 1960 – Gary Hoey, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Heavy Bones)
• 1960 – Chris Potter, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Dean DeLeo, American guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Army of Anyone)
• 1961 – Alexandre Desplat, French composer
• 1961 – Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
• 1962 – Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor (Happy Mondays and Black Grape)
• 1963 – Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
• 1963 – Richard Illingworth, English cricketer
• 1963 – Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
• 1964 – Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
• 1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor, founded the City Harvest Church
• 1964 – Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese wrestler
• 1964 – Wendy Pepper, American fashion designer
• 1965 – Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer
• 1966 – Charley Boorman, English actor and writer
• 1966 – Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
• 1967 – Ant, American comedian and actor
• 1967 – Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer
• 1968 – Laura Claycomb, American soprano
• 1968 – Chris DiMarco, American golfer
• 1969 – Geneviève Brouillette, Canadian actress
• 1969 – Jeremy Schaap, American sportscaster and author
• 1969 – Keith Tyson, English painter and illustrator
• 1970 – KK, Indian singer and composer
• 1970 – Lawrence Frank, American basketball coach
• 1970 – Brad Mehldau, American pianist and composer
• 1970 – Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
• 1970 – River Phoenix, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 1971 – Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
• 1971 – Bone Crusher, American rapper
• 1971 – Tim Gutberlet, German footballer
• 1972 – Mark Butcher, England cricketer
• 1972 – Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1972 – Martin Grainger, English footballer
• 1972 – Manuel Vidrio, Mexican footballer
• 1973 – Casey Blake, American baseball player
• 1973 – Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
• 1973 – Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
• 1974 – Mark Bellhorn, American baseball player
• 1974 – Christian Beranek, American actor, writer, and producer
• 1974 – Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
• 1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist
• 1974 – Shifty Shellshock, American singer-songwriter and actor (Crazy Town)
• 1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (Blue Murder)
• 1975 – Sean Marks, New Zealand-American basketball player
• 1976 – Scott Caan, American actor
• 1976 – Pat Garrity, American basketball player
• 1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
• 1977 – Jelena Rozga, Croatian singer (Magazin)
• 1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
• 1978 – Andrew Rannells, American actor
• 1978 – Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter (The Strokes)
• 1979 – Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player
• 1979 – Ritchie Neville, English singer (Five)
• 1979 – Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
• 1979 – Zuzana Váleková, Slovak tennis player
• 1980 – Diamondog, Angolan rapper and journalist
• 1980 – Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
• 1980 – Rex Grossman, American football player
• 1980 – Nenad Vučković, Serbian handball player
• 1981 – Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
• 1981 – Ozzy Lusth, Mexican reality show contestant
• 1981 – Carmen Luvana, American porn actress
• 1982 – YTCracker, American DJ and computer hacker
• 1982 – Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
• 1982 – Scott Palguta, American soccer player
• 1982 – Cristian Tudor, Romanian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1982 – Trevor Wright, American actor
• 1983 – J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1983 – James Collins, Welsh footballer
• 1983 – Ruta Gedmintas, English actress
• 1983 – Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
• 1983 – Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player
• 1983 – Tony Moll, American football player
• 1983 – Bruno Spengler, Canadian racing driver
• 1984 – Kristy Bruce, English actress
• 1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer
• 1986 – SkyBlu, American singer and dancer (LMFAO)
• 1986 – Neil Cicierega, American animator, actor, director, and producer
• 1986 – Kim Feenstra, Dutch model
• 1986 – Brett Morris, Australian rugby player
• 1987 – Nikki Gil, Filipino actress and singer
• 1987 – Danny Page, Australian basketball coach
• 1988 – Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
• 1988 – Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 – Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
• 1988 – Kimberly Matula, American actress
• 1989 – Breanna Conrad, American fashion designer
• 1989 – Lianne La Havas, British singer/songwriter
• 1989 – Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
• 1990 – Wesley Singerman, American voice actor
• 1995 – Eliza Pineda, Filipino actress
• 1996 – Cesar Flores, Canadian actor
• 1996 – David Gore, American actor
• 2001 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor
• 2003 – Alana Mansour, Australian actress

Deaths

• 30 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier and eldest son of Marc Antony (b. 47 BC)
• 30 BC – Caesarion, Last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra (b. 47 BC)
• 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (b. 40)
• 406 – Radagaisus, Gothic king
• 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573)
• 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765)
• 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
• 1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
• 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish knight and landowner (b. 1272)
• 1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
• 1387 – Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
• 1507 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
• 1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
• 1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
• 1591 – Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
• 1618 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
• 1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
• 1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600)
• 1706 – Edward Nott, English statesman (b. 1654)
• 1723 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist, developed Coulomb's law (b. 1736)
• 1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
• 1831 – Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759)
• 1838 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790)
• 1853 – Alexander Calder, American politician (b. 1806)
• 1858 – Antal Reguly, Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1819)
• 1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
• 1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 – Heinrich Berté, Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (b. 1891)
• 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (b. 1888)
• 1933 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 – Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
• 1939 – Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, French fencer (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist, survivor of sinking of the Titanic (b. 1858)
• 1952 – Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Reginald Tate, English actor (b. 1896)
• 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American composer and producer (b. 1895)
• 1962 – Walter Anderson, German ethnologist (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (b. 1900)
• 1966 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and basketball coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890)
• 1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 – Didier Pironi, French race car driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
• 1990 – David Rose, American composer and pianist (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboard player (Skinny Puppy, Psyche, and Hilt) (b. 1964)
• 1996 – Margaret Tucker, Australian activist and writer (b. 1904)
• 1997 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1999 – James White, Irish author (b. 1928)
• 2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, American priest (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913)
• 2003 – John Geoghan, American priest (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpeter and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2008 – John Russell, English-American critic and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, Taiwanese bishop (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Jean-Luc Delarue, French television producer and host (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Aubrey Dunn, Sr., American politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – James Fogle, American author (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Edith Mastenbroek, Dutch politician (b. 1975)
• 2012 – Bob Myrick, American baseball player (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Col Campbell, New Zealand television presenter (Gardening Australia) (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Josepha Sherman, American author (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Steve Van Buren, American football player (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Black Ribbon Day
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Philip Benitius
  • Rose of Lima
  • Éogan of Ardstraw
  • Tydfil
  • Leave-Taking of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic Churches)
  • August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism (European Union)
• Father's Day (Nepal)
• Flag Day (Ukraine)
• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (International)
• Umhlanga Day (Swaziland)
• Vulcanalia (Roman Empire)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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