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August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days
remaining.
Events
upto 1899
1900-1949
1950-
Births
upto 1899
- 1754 - King Louis XVI
of France (d. 1792)
- 1769 - Georges Cuvier,
biologist, statesman
- 1783 - William
Tierney Clark, civil engineer (d. 1852)
- 1785 - Oliver Hazard
Perry, US naval officer (Battle of Lake Erie)
- 1829 - Moritz Cantor,
mathematician
- 1852 - Arnold Toynbee,
economist, social reformer
- 1864 - Eleftherios
Venizalos, prime minister of Greece (1910-1915, 1928-1932)
- 1869 - Edgar Lee
Masters, author (d. 1950)
- 1875 - William Eccles,
radio pioneer
- 1883 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient
1900-1929
- 1900 - Ernst Krenek, composer (d.
1991)
- 1901 - John Sherman
Cooper, Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
- 1905 - Constant Lambert,
composer (d. 1951)
- 1912 - Gene Kelly, dancer, actor (d.
1996)
- 1914 - Harold Truscott, composer (d. 1992)
- 1917 - Tex Williams, singer
- 1921 - Eadie Del Rubio (d. 1996), Elena Del Rubio (d. 2001), and Milly Del Rubio, the Del Rubio Triplets, singers, musicians, actresses
- 1922 - George Kell, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1924 - Ephraim Kishon,
Israeli writer
- 1927 - Houari Boumendienne, president of Algeria (1965-1978)
- 1927 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
- 1929 - Vera Miles, actress
- 1929 - Peter Thompson,
golfer
1930-
- 1930 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
- 1932 - Mark Russell, comedian,
musician, political commentator
- 1933 - Pete Wilson, governor of
California
- 1934 - Barbara Eden, actress
- 1934 - Sonny Jurgensen,
professional football player
- 1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, serial killer(† 2001)
- 1943 - Nelson DeMille,
novelist
- 1947 - Keith Moon, singer, drummer
(The Who) (d. 1978)
- 1949 - Shelley Long, actress
- 1949 - Rick Springfield, singer, actor
- 1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
- 1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
- 1952 - Vicky Leandros,
singer
- 1970 - Jay Mohr, actor, comedian
- 1970 - River Phoenix, actor (d. 1993)
- 1972 - Dave Chappelle, actor,
comedian
- 1978 - Kobe Bryant, NBA basketball
player
Deaths
- 93 - Gnaeus Julius
Agricola, Roman governor of
Britain
- 634 - Abu Bakr, Muslim Caliph
- 1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, physicist
- 1813 - Alexander Wilson,
ornithologist
- 1926 - Rudolph
Valentino, actor
- 1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, murderers
- 1937 - Albert Roussel,
composer
- 1960 - Oscar
Hammerstein II, lyricist
- 1962 - Hoot Gibson, actor
- 1965 - John Bata, shoe manufacturer
- 1966 - Francis X.
Bushman, actor
- 1982 - Stanford Moore, biochemist
- 2001 - Peter Maas, novelist
Holidays and observances
August 22 - August 24 -
July 23 - September 23 --
listing of all days
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