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August 23 is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 130 days remain until the end of the year. August 23rd is a day filled with many important events throughout history, from ancient times to today. It's a day when empires changed, new discoveries were made, and famous people were born or passed away. Let's explore some of the key moments that happened on this date.

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Events

Early History (Before 1600)

30 BC – After taking over Egypt, Octavian ordered the execution of Caesarion. Caesarion was the last king of Egypt's Ptolemaic Kingdom and the only son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
79 – Mount Vesuvius, a famous volcano, started to show signs of activity. This happened on the special day for Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
476 – Odoacer, a leader of Germanic tribes, was declared the "King of Italy" by his soldiers.
1244 – During the Siege of Jerusalem, the city's main fortress, the Tower of David, gave up to the Khwarazmiyya army.
1268 – The Battle of Tagliacozzo marked a big change in power. The Hohenstaufen family lost their control over the Holy Roman Empire and Sicily. This led to the Angevin family taking over in Southern Italy.
1328 – At the Battle of Cassel, French soldiers stopped a revolt by farmers in Flanders.
1382 – The Golden Horde, led by Tokhtamysh, attacked Moscow, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ended with a big win for Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. They defeated Shah Ismail I, who founded the Safavid dynasty.
1521 – Christian II of Denmark was removed as king of Sweden. Instead, Gustav Vasa was chosen to rule as regent.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier landed near Quebec City in Canada. This was during his third trip to the country.
1572 – During the French Wars of Religion, many Huguenots (French Protestants) were attacked in Paris. This terrible event is known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1595 – In the Long Turkish War, Michael the Brave, a prince from Wallachia, faced the Ottoman army. He won a key battle at Battle of Călugăreni.
1600 – The Battle of Gifu Castle saw the eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat western Japanese clans. This battle destroyed Gifu Castle and was a step towards the bigger Battle of Sekigahara.

Modern History (1601–1900)

1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, was killed by John Felton.
1655 – In the Battle of Sobota, the Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1703 – The Edirne event led to Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire being removed from power.
1775 – During the American Revolutionary War, King George III announced that the American colonies were openly rebelling.
1782 – British forces, led by Edward Despard, took back the Black River settlements on the Mosquito Coast from the Spanish.
1784 – Western North Carolina (which is now eastern Tennessee) declared itself an independent state called Franklin. It was not recognized by the United States and lasted only four years.
1799 – Napoleon I of France left Egypt to return to France. He was on his way to take control of the country.
1813 – At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow pushed back the French army.
1831 – Nat Turner's rebellion of enslaved Virginians was stopped.
1839 – The United Kingdom took control of Hong Kong. This was a base as they prepared for the First Opium War with Qing China.
1864 – During the American Civil War, the Union Navy captured Fort Morgan, Alabama. This broke the Confederate control of most ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 – The Austro-Prussian War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – The Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London officially opened.
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British trip to the Antarctic during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, left London.

Recent History (1901–Present)

1904 – The automobile tire chain was given its patent.
1914 – World War I: The British and French armies began their Great Retreat as the German Army advanced.
1914 – World War I: Japan declared war on Germany.
1921 – The British airship R-38 broke apart over Hull, England, and crashed. Only four of its 49 crew members survived.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter made history. They performed the first mid-air refueling on a De Havilland DH-4B plane. This set a new flight endurance record of 37 hours.
1929 – The Hebron Massacre took place during the 1929 Palestine riots. Attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in many deaths. The remaining Jewish residents were forced to leave the city.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. A secret part of the agreement divided Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania into German and Soviet areas of influence.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began.
1943 – World War II: Kharkiv was freed by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille was liberated by the Allied forces.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania removed the pro-Nazi government. Romania then switched sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – The Freckleton air disaster occurred. A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashed into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
1945 – World War II: The USSR State Defense Committee issued a decree about handling Japanese Army Prisoners of War.
1946 – The British Military Government created the German states of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – The World Council of Churches was formed. It included 147 churches from 44 countries.
1954 – The Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft had its first flight.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis began. The People's Liberation Army started bombing Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 – The Salad Bowl strike began. Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, it was the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history.
1973 – A bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, turned into a hostage situation. Over five days, the hostages started to feel sympathy for their captors. This led to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1975 – The Wave Hill walk-off began in Australia. This was a landmark event for Indigenous land rights in Australia, lasting eight years.
1975 – The Pontiac Silverdome opened in Pontiac, Michigan.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, a top counter-spy for West Germany, moved to East Germany.
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed a human chain. They stood on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with Western "guests" (who were actually hostages). He hoped to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 – Armenia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West and East Germany announced they would reunite on October 3.
1991 – The World Wide Web was made available to the public.
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, was given a posthumous commission. He became a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashed into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143 people.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been taken at age ten, escaped from her captor after eight years.
2007 – The remains of Russia's last royal family members, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia, were found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2011 – A moderate earthquake happened in Virginia. It caused damage to monuments and buildings in Washington, D.C.
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown. Forces of the National Transitional Council took control of the Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2023 – The Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed on the Moon. This was the first Moon landing in Indian history.
2023 – A business jet carrying members of the Russian private military company Wagner Group crashed. All ten people on board died.

Births

Born Before 1600

1482 – Jo Gwang-jo, a Korean philosopher.
1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, a Slovenian historian and diplomat.
1498 – Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal.
1524 – François Hotman, a French lawyer.
1579 – Thomas Dempster, a Scottish scholar and historian.

Born Between 1601 and 1900

1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, a Polish astronomer and theologian.
1724 – Abraham Yates Jr., an American lawyer.
1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a French admiral and explorer.
1754 – Louis XVI of France.
1768 – Astley Cooper, a British surgeon.
1769 – Georges Cuvier, a French biologist.
1783 – William Tierney Clark, an English engineer who designed the Hammersmith Bridge.
1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, an American commander.
1800 – Evangelos Zappas, a Greek philanthropist and businessman.
1805 – Anton von Schmerling, an Austrian judge and politician.
1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, an American archbishop.
1829 – Moritz Cantor, a German mathematician and historian.
1843 – William Southam, a Canadian publisher.
1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, a Scottish-American sculptor.
1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, an American physicist and astronomer.
1849 – William Ernest Henley, an English poet.
1850 – John Cockburn, a Scottish-Australian politician and former Premier of South Australia.
1852 – Radha Gobinda Kar, an Indian physician.
1852 – Clímaco Calderón, a Colombian lawyer and former President of Colombia.
1852 – Arnold Toynbee, an English economist and historian.
1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, a Polish-German pianist and composer.
1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, a Greek lawyer and former Prime Minister of Greece.
1867 – Edgar de Wahl, a Ukrainian-Estonian linguist.
1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, an American author and poet.
1872 – Tanguturi Prakasam, an Indian lawyer and former Chief Minister of Andhra.
1875 – William Eccles, an English physicist and engineer.
1875 – Eugene Lanceray, a Russian painter and sculptor.
1877 – István Medgyaszay, a Hungarian architect.
1880 – Alexander Grin, a Russian author.
1882 – Volin, a Russian anarchist thinker.
1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, an American general.
1884 – Will Cuppy, an American author.
1884 – Ogden L. Mills, an American lawyer and former Secretary of the Treasury.
1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, an American businessman who co-founded Newsday.
1891 – Roy Agnew, an Australian pianist and composer.
1891 – Minna Craucher, a Finnish socialite and spy.
1894 – John Auden, an English solicitor and soldier.
1897 – Henry F. Pringle, an American historian and journalist.
1900 – Frances Adaskin, a Canadian pianist.
1900 – Ernst Krenek, an Austrian-American composer.
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, an American singer-songwriter and activist.

Born After 1900

1901 – Guy Bush, an American baseball player.
1901 – John Sherman Cooper, an American lawyer and politician.
1904 – William Primrose, a Scottish viola player.
1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, an American cartoonist.
1905 – Constant Lambert, an English composer and conductor.
1906 – Zoltan Sarosy, a Hungarian-Canadian chess master.
1908 – Hannah Frank, a Scottish sculptor and illustrator.
1909 – Syd Buller, an English cricketer.
1910 – Lonny Frey, an American baseball player.
1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, an Italian footballer.
1911 – Betty Robinson, an American sprinter.
1911 – J.V. Cunningham, an American poet.
1912 – Gene Kelly, an American actor, singer, and dancer.
1912 – Igor Troubetzkoy, a Russian race car driver.
1913 – Bob Crosby, an American swing singer.
1917 – Tex Williams, an American singer-songwriter.
1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, an Azerbaijani mathematician.
1921 – Kenneth Arrow, an American economist and Nobel Prize winner.
1921 – Sam Cook, an English cricketer.
1922 – Nazik Al-Malaika, an Iraqi poet.
1922 – Jean Darling, an American actress.
1922 – George Kell, an American baseball player.
1924 – Ephraim Kishon, an Israeli author and director.
1924 – Robert Solow, an American economist and Nobel Prize winner.
1925 – Robert Mulligan, an American director.
1926 – Clifford Geertz, an American anthropologist.
1926 – Gyula Hernádi, a Hungarian author.
1927 – Dick Bruna, a Dutch author and illustrator.
1927 – Allan Kaprow, an American painter.
1927 – Martial Solal, an Algerian-French pianist.
1928 – Marian Seldes, an American actress.
1929 – Vladimir Beekman, an Estonian poet.
1929 – Zoltán Czibor, a Hungarian footballer.
1929 – Vera Miles, an American actress.
1929 – Peter Thomson, an Australian golfer.
1930 – Michel Rocard, a French politician and former Prime Minister.
1931 – Barbara Eden, an American actress and singer.
1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, an American microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner.
1932 – Houari Boumediene, an Algerian colonel and former President.
1932 – Enos Nkala, a Zimbabwean soldier and politician.
1932 – Mark Russell, an American comedian.
1933 – Robert Curl, an American chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
1933 – Don Talbot, an Australian swim coach.
1933 – Pete Wilson, an American politician and former Governor of California.
1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, an American football player.
1935 – Roy Strong, an English historian.
1936 – Rudy Lewis, an American R&B singer.
1936 – Chuck Brown, an American musician, known as "The Godfather of Go-Go".
1938 – Giacomo Bini, an Italian priest.
1938 – Roger Greenaway, an English singer-songwriter.
1940 – Galen Rowell, an American mountaineer and photographer.
1940 – Richard Sanders, an American actor.
1941 – Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, a British philosopher and politician.
1942 – Nancy Richey, an American tennis player.
1943 – Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours, an English businessman and politician.
1943 – Nelson DeMille, an American author.
1943 – Peter Lilley, an English politician.
1943 – Pino Presti, an Italian musician.
1944 – Antonia Novello, a Puerto Rican-American physician and former Surgeon General of the United States.
1945 – Rayfield Wright, an American football player.
1946 – Keith Moon, an English drummer.
1947 – David Robb, a Scottish actor.
1947 – Willy Russell, an English playwright.
1947 – Linda Thompson, an English folk-rock singer.
1948 – Andrei Pleșu, a Romanian journalist and politician.
1948 – Rudy Ruettiger, an American football player.
1948 – Lev Zeleny, a Russian physicist.
1949 – Vicky Leandros, a Greek singer and politician.
1949 – Shelley Long, an American actress.
1949 – Rick Springfield, an Australian-American singer-songwriter.
1950 – Luigi Delneri, an Italian footballer and manager.
1951 – Mark Hudson, an American record producer and musician.
1951 – Jimi Jamison, an American singer-songwriter.
1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, a Chechen cleric and former President.
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan.
1952 – Santillana, a Spanish footballer.
1952 – Georgios Paraschos, a Greek footballer.
1953 – Bobby G, an English singer-songwriter.
1954 – Charles Busch, an American actor.
1954 – Halimah Yacob, a Singaporean politician and former President.
1955 – David Learner, a British actor.
1956 – Andreas Floer, a German mathematician.
1956 – Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, a Norwegian educator and politician.
1956 – Skipp Sudduth, an American actor.
1957 – Tasos Mitropoulos, a Greek footballer and politician.
1958 – Julio Franco, a Dominican baseball player.
1959 – Edwyn Collins, a Scottish singer-songwriter.
1959 – George Kalovelonis, a Greek tennis player.
1960 – Gary Hoey, an American guitarist.
1961 – Dean DeLeo, an American guitarist.
1961 – Alexandre Desplat, a French composer.
1961 – Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, an Iranian commander and politician.
1961 – Gary Mabbutt, an English footballer.
1961 – Hitomi Takahashi, a Japanese actress.
1962 – Martin Cauchon, a Canadian lawyer and politician.
1962 – Shaun Ryder, an English singer-songwriter.
1963 – Park Chan-wook, a South Korean director.
1963 – Glória Pires, a Brazilian actress.
1963 – Richard Illingworth, an English cricketer.
1963 – Kenny Wallace, an American race car driver.
1964 – Ray Ferraro, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1964 – Kong Hee, a Singaporean minister.
1965 – Roger Avary, a Canadian director.
1966 – Rik Smits, a Dutch-American basketball player.
1967 – Jim Murphy, a Scottish lawyer and politician.
1967 – Richard Petrie, a New Zealand cricketer.
1968 – Laura Claycomb, an American soprano.
1968 – Chris DiMarco, an American golfer.
1968 – Cortez Kennedy, an American football player.
1969 – Tinus Linee, a South African rugby player.
1969 – Jack Lopresti, an English soldier and politician.
1969 – Jeremy Schaap, an American journalist.
1969 – Keith Tyson, an English painter.
1970 – Lawrence Frank, an American basketball coach.
1970 – Jason Hetherington, an Australian rugby league player.
1970 – Jay Mohr, an American actor.
1970 – River Phoenix, an American actor.
1971 – Demetrio Albertini, an Italian footballer.
1971 – Tim Gutberlet, a German footballer.
1971 – Gretchen Whitmer, the 49th Governor of Michigan.
1972 – Mark Butcher, an English cricketer.
1972 – Raul Casanova, a Puerto Rican-American baseball player.
1972 – Anthony Calvillo, a Canadian football player.
1972 – Martin Grainger, an English footballer.
1972 – Manuel Vidrio, a Mexican footballer.
1973 – Casey Blake, an American baseball player.
1973 – Kerry Walmsley, a New Zealand cricketer.
1974 – Lexi Alexander, an American film director.
1974 – Mark Bellhorn, an American baseball player.
1974 – Benjamin Limo, a Kenyan runner.
1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, a Russian-English physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
1974 – Ray Park, a Scottish actor and stuntman.
1975 – Eliza Carthy, an English folk musician.
1975 – Sean Marks, a New Zealand basketball player.
1975 – Jarkko Ruutu, a Finnish ice hockey player.
1976 – Scott Caan, an American actor.
1976 – Pat Garrity, an American basketball player.
1976 – Melanie Gabriel, an English singer.
1977 – Douglas Sequeira, a Costa Rican footballer.
1978 – Kobe Bryant, an American basketball player.
1978 – Julian Casablancas, an American singer-songwriter.
1978 – Andrew Rannells, an American actor.
1979 – Jessica Bibby, an Australian basketball player.
1979 – Saskia Clark, an English sailor.
1979 – Edgar Sosa, a Mexican boxer.
1979 – Zuzana Váleková, a Slovak tennis player.
1980 – Denny Bautista, a Dominican baseball player.
1980 – Nadine Jolie Courtney, an American journalist and author.
1980 – Joanne Froggatt, an English actress.
1980 – Rex Grossman, an American football player.
1980 – Nenad Vučković, a Serbian handball player.
1981 – Carlos Cuéllar, a Spanish footballer.
1981 – Jaime Lee Kirchner, an American actress.
1981 – Stephan Loboué, an Ivorian footballer.
1982 – Natalie Coughlin, an American swimmer.
1982 – Scott Palguta, an American soccer player.
1982 – Cristian Tudor, a Romanian footballer.
1983 – James Collins, a Welsh footballer.
1983 – Athena Farrokhzad, an Iranian-Swedish poet.
1983 – Sun Mingming, a Chinese basketball player.
1983 – Tony Moll, an American football player.
1983 – Bruno Spengler, a Canadian race car driver.
1984 – Glen Johnson, an English footballer.
1984 – Eric Tai, a New Zealand rugby player.
1985 – Valeria Lukyanova, a Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer.
1986 – Sky Blu, an American rapper.
1986 – Neil Cicierega, an American comedian and musician.
1986 – Ayron Jones, an American musician.
1986 – Brett Morris, an Australian rugby league player.
1986 – Josh Morris, an Australian rugby league player.
1987 – Darren Collison, an American basketball player.
1988 – Olga Govortsova, a Belarusian tennis player.
1988 – Carl Hagelin, a Swedish ice hockey player.
1988 – Jeremy Lin, an American basketball player.
1988 – Kim Matula, an American actress.
1988 – Miles Mikolas, an American baseball player.
1989 – Lianne La Havas, a British singer.
1989 – Trixie Mattel, an American drag queen and singer.
1989 – Heiko Schwarz, a German footballer.
1989 – TeddyLoid, a Japanese musician.
1990 – Seth Curry, an American basketball player.
1990 – Mike Yastrzemski, an American baseball player.
1992 – Nicola Docherty, a Scottish footballer.
1993 – Taylor Decker, an American football player.
1993 – Tyler Glasnow, an American baseball player.
1993 – Iván López, a Spanish footballer.
1994 – Jusuf Nurkić, a Bosnian basketball player.
1995 – Gabriela Lee, a Romanian tennis player.
1995 – Cameron Norrie, a British tennis player.
1997 – Lil Yachty, an American rapper.
1998 – P. J. Washington, an American basketball player.

Deaths

Died Before 1600

30 BC – Caesarion, an Egyptian king.
30 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, a Roman soldier.
93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, a Roman general.
406 – Radagaisus, a Gothic king.
634 – Abu Bakr, an Arabian caliph.
992 – Volkold, a bishop of Meissen.
1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony.
1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan.
1305 – William Wallace, a Scottish knight and rebel leader.
1328 – Nicolaas Zannekin, a Flemish peasant leader.
1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine.
1335 – Heilwige Bloemardinne, a Christian mystic.
1348 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury.
1363 – Chen Youliang, founder of the Dahan regime.
1367 – Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, a Spanish cardinal.
1478 – Johannes Pullois, a Franco-Flemish composer.
1481 – Thomas de Littleton, an English judge.
1498 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal.
1507 – Jean Molinet, a French poet.
1519 – Philibert Berthelier, a Swiss soldier.
1540 – Guillaume Budé, a French philosopher.
1568 – Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton.
1574 – Ebussuud Efendi, a Turkish lawyer.
1591 – Luis de León, a Spanish poet.

Died Between 1601 and 1900

1618 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, a Dutch poet and playwright.
1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, an English politician.
1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, an English soldier.
1706 – Edward Nott, an English politician and Colonial Governor of Virginia.
1723 – Increase Mather, an American minister.
1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, a French physicist.
1813 – Alexander Wilson, a Scottish-American poet and ornithologist.
1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, an American commander.
1831 – Ferenc Kazinczy, a Hungarian author.
1831 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, a Prussian field marshal.
1853 – Alexander Calder, an American lawyer.
1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, a French poet.
1880 – William Thompson, a British boxer.
1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, a Brazilian field marshal and former President.
1900 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, a Japanese general and former Prime Minister.

Died After 1900

1924 – Heinrich Berté, a Slovak-Austrian composer.
1926 – Rudolph Valentino, an Italian actor.
1927 – Nicola Sacco, an Italian anarchist.
1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, an Italian anarchist.
1933 – Adolf Loos, an Austrian architect.
1937 – Albert Roussel, a French composer.
1944 – Abdülmecid II, an Ottoman sultan.
1944 – Stefan Filipkiewicz, a Polish painter.
1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, an American author.
1954 – Jaan Sarv, an Estonian mathematician.
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, an American director and composer.
1962 – Walter Anderson, a Russian-German ethnologist.
1962 – Hoot Gibson, an American actor.
1964 – Edmond Hogan, an Australian politician.
1966 – Francis X. Bushman, an American actor.
1967 – Georges Berger, a Belgian race car driver.
1967 – Nathaniel Cartmell, an American runner and coach.
1974 – Roberto Assagioli, an Italian psychiatrist.
1975 – Faruk Gürler, a Turkish general.
1977 – Naum Gabo, a Russian sculptor.
1982 – Stanford Moore, an American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
1987 – Didier Pironi, a French race car driver.
1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, a Sudanese poet.
1989 – R. D. Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist.
1990 – David Rose, an American pianist and composer.
1994 – Zoltán Fábri, a Hungarian director.
1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, a German-American photographer.
1996 – Margaret Tucker, an Australian author and activist.
1997 – Eric Gairy, a Grenadian politician and former Prime Minister.
1997 – John Kendrew, an English biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
1999 – Norman Wexler, an American screenwriter.
1999 – James White, an Irish author.
2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, an American priest.
2001 – Kathleen Freeman, an American actress.
2001 – Peter Maas, an American journalist.
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, an American baseball player.
2003 – Bobby Bonds, an American baseball player.
2003 – Jack Dyer, an Australian footballer.
2003 – Jan Sedivka, a Czech-Australian violinist.
2003 – Michael Kijana Wamalwa, a Kenyan lawyer and former Vice President.
2005 – Brock Peters, an American actor.
2006 – Maynard Ferguson, a Canadian trumpet player.
2008 – John Russell, an English-American author and critic.
2012 – Jerry Nelson, an American puppeteer.
2012 – Josepha Sherman, an American author.
2013 – Richard J. Corman, an American businessman.
2013 – William Glasser, an American psychiatrist.
2013 – Charles Lisanby, an American production designer.
2013 – Konstanty Miodowicz, a Polish ethnographer and politician.
2013 – Vesna Rožič, a Slovenian chess player.
2013 – Tatyana Zaslavskaya, a Russian sociologist.
2014 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, a Cameroonian footballer.
2014 – Annefleur Kalvenhaar, a Dutch cyclist.
2014 – Birgitta Stenberg, a Swedish author.
2014 – Jaume Vallcorba Plana, a Spanish philologist.
2015 – Augusta Chiwy, a Congolese-Belgian nurse.
2015 – Guy Ligier, a French rugby player and race car driver.
2015 – Enrique Reneau, a Honduran footballer.
2015 – Paul Royle, an Australian pilot.
2021 – Elizabeth Blackadder, a Scottish painter.
2023 – Dmitry Utkin, a Russian army officer.
2023 – Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman.

Holidays and observances

Battle of Kursk Day (Russia)
Christian feast day:
- Ascelina
- Asterius, Claudius, and Neon
- Éogan of Ardstraw
- Lupus (Luppus) of Novae
- Philip Benitius
- Quiriacus and companions, of Ostia
- Rose of Lima
- Tydfil
- Zacchaeus of Jerusalem
- August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day (European Union and other countries), and related observances:
- Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
National Day for Physicians (Iran)