August 23
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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.
Births [change]
- 686 – Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
- 1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
- 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
- 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
- 1724 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
- 1740 – Tsar Ivan VI of Russia (d. 1764)
- 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
- 1754 – King Louis XVI of France (d. 1792)
- 1756 – Francois Chabot, French priest and politician (d. 1794)
- 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775)
- 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
- 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
- 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
- 1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician and jurist (d. 1893)
- 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
- 1836 – Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of Belgium (d. 1902)
- 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
- 1849 – William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
- 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
- 1852 – Climaco Calderon, President of Colombia (d. 1913)
- 1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
- 1869 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
- 1875 – William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
- 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
- 1883 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
- 1884 – Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
- 1896 – Jacques Rueff, French politician (d. 1978)
- 1900 – Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
- 1901 – John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
- 1902 – Ida Siekmann, German victim of the Berlin Wall (d. 1961)
- 1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
- 1905 – Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
- 1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
- 1911 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
- 1911 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (d. 1999)
- 1912 – Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
- 1919 – Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984)
- 1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 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 movie director (d. 2008)
- 1926 – leo Leandros, Greek singer, composer and music producer
- 1927 – Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
- 1929 – Vera Miles, American actress
- 1930 – Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France
- 1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist
- 1932 – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
- 1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
- 1933 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 – Pete Wilson, former Governor of California
- 1934 – Barbara Eden, American actress
- 1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
- 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Donald Kalpokas, former Prime Minister of Vanuatu
- 1943 – Raul Cubas Grau, former President of Paraguay
- 1943 – Nelson DeMille, American novelist
- 1943 – Pino Presti, Italian bass player, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer
- 1947 – Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
- 1947 – David Robb, British actor
- 1947 – Willy Russell, British playwright
- 1949 – Shelley Long, American actress
- 1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
- 1950 – Luigi Delneri, Italian football manager
- 1950 – Roza Otunbayeva, former President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
- 1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
- 1952 – Vicky Leandros, Greek singer
- 1952 – Santillana, Spanish footballer
- 1956 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
- 1959 – Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer
- 1962 – Shaun Ryder, British musician
- 1963 – Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
- 1966 – Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
- 1966 – Charley Boorman, British actor and adventurer
- 1967 – Jim Murphy, British politician
- 1967 – Ant, American comedian and actor
- 1968 – Chris DiMarco, American golfer
- 1968 – Laura Claycomb, American operatic soprano
- 1970 – Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
- 1970 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1971 – Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
- 1972 – Mark Butcher, English cricketer
- 1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-British physicist
- 1974 – Ray Park, British actor
- 1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
- 1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
- 1978 – Julian Casablancas, musician
- 1980 – Nenad Vuckovic, Serbian handball player
- 1981 – Carlos Cuellar, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Trevor Wright, American actor
- 1983 – James Collins, Welsh footballer
- 1983 – J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer
- 1986 – SkyBlu, American rapper (LMFAO)
- 1988 – Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 – Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter
- 1990 – Reimond Manco, Peruvian footballer
- 1994 – Roberto Bellarosa, Belgian singer
Deaths [change]
- 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
- 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
- 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
- 1176 – Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
- 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot (executed) (b. 1272)
- 1387 – King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
- 1498 – Isabella, Princess of Asturias (b. 1470)
- 1507 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
- 1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
- 1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar
- 1591 – Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
- 1618 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
- 1627 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
- 1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
- 1723 – Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
- 1806 – Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
- 1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
- 1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
- 1838 – Ferenc Kolcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790)
- 1865 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmueller, Austrian painter (b. 1793)
- 1866 – Auguste Barthelemy, French poet (b. 1796)
- 1883 – Sarah Yorke Jackson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1805)
- 1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
- 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
- 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891)
- 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888)
- 1937 – Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
- 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
- 1962 – Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
- 1962 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
- 1966 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
- 1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
- 1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1987 – Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
- 1997 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
- 2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)
- 2003 – Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
- 2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper (b. 1961)
- 2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese movie director (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (b. 1934)
Events [change]
- 1305 – William Wallace is executed.
- 1328 – Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
- 1328 – King Philip VI of France is crowned.
- 1540 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- 1566 – Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands
- 1614 – The University of Groningen is established
- 1617 – In London, the first one-way street is established
- 1651 – Charles II enters Worcester and starts a battle.
- 1784 – Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by Congress one year later
- 1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
- 1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power
- 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren,the Prussians under Von Bulow repulse the French army.
- 1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain
- 1833 – Slavery abolished in the British colonies
- 1839 – The UK captures Hong Kong
- 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico
- 1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague
- 1889 – First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
- 1896 - Start of the Philippines Revolution.
- 1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 1913 – A statue of the Little Mermaid is put up in Copenhagen.
- 1914 – Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- 1924 – The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
- 1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1929 – Arabs attack Jews in Israel
- 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, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations.
- 1940 – World War II: The Germans start bombing London.
- 1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
- 1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated.
- 1944 – World War II: Marseille liberated.
- 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
- 1944 – A US Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
- 1944 – World War II: Ion Antonescu, prime minister of Romania, is arrested and a new government is established. Romania exits the war against Russia joining the Allies.
- 1947 – The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.
- 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
- 1952 – The Arab League goes into effect.
- 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
- 1960 – In Equatorial Guinea, the world's largest frog (3.3 kg) is caught.
- 1962 – First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
- 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 1968 – Ringo Starr temporarily quits The Beatles
- 1973 – The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
- 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile, named Augusto Pinochet as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. Just 19 days later, Pinochet takes power in a coup, overthrowing Allende, who is killed.
- 1975 – Successful Communist coup in Laos
- 1976 – A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people.
- 1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 1987 – Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
- 1989 – Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic way).
- 1989 – All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to sack 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.
- 1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.
- 1999 – The Federal Republic of Germany is governed from Berlin from this day.
- 2000 – A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143
- 2000 – Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This basically replaced the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms as a tropical depression.
- 2006 – In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages to escape from 8 years of captivity. Her captor Wolfgang Priklopil commits suicide soon after.
- 2010 – Nine people, including the hostage taker, are killed in a hostage crisis on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.
- 2011 - 2011 Virginia earthquake: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Mineral, Virginia, and is felt all the way along the eastern seaboard of the United States. No one is killed, but damage is reported on buildings, including monuments in Washington, DC.
