August 23rd All Events |
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| August 23rd, 2007 (August 23 2007) | Death | Robert Symonds, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| August 23rd, 2006 (August 23 2006) | Event | Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity. | |
| August 23rd, 2006 (August 23 2006) | Death | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born in 1928) | |
| August 23rd, 2005 (August 23 2005) | Event | TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41. | |
| August 23rd, 2005 (August 23 2005) | Death | Brock Peters, American actor (born in 1927) | |
| August 23rd, 2005 (August 23 2005) | Death | Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (born in 1973) | |
| August 23rd, 2003 (August 23 2003) | Death | Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (born in 1946) | |
| August 23rd, 2003 (August 23 2003) | Death | Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (born in 1913) | |
| August 23rd, 2003 (August 23 2003) | Death | John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (born in 1935) | |
| August 23rd, 2002 (August 23 2002) | Death | Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (born in 1922) | |
| August 23rd, 2001 (August 23 2001) | Death | Kathleen Freeman, American actress (born in 1919) | |
| August 23rd, 2001 (August 23 2001) | Death | Peter Maas, American novelist (born in 1929) | |
| August 23rd, 2000 (August 23 2000) | Event | A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. | |
| August 23rd, 2000 (August 23 2000) | Event | Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne. | |
| August 23rd, 2000 (August 23 2000) | Death | John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (born in 1932) | |
| August 23rd, 1999 (August 23 1999) | Death | Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926) | |
| August 23rd, 1999 (August 23 1999) | Death | James White, Northern Irish writer (born in 1928) | |
| August 23rd, 1997 (August 23 1997) | Death | John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born in 1917) | |
| August 23rd, 1996 (August 23 1996) | Event | Osama bin Laden issues message entitled A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places. | Osama bin Laden Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1995 (August 23 1995) | Birth | Eliza Pineda, Filipina child actress | |
| August 23rd, 1995 (August 23 1995) | Death | Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(born in 1964) | |
| August 23rd, 1993 (August 23 1993) | Death | Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (born in 40) | |
| August 23rd, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Event | Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Event | Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. | |
| August 23rd, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Event | West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3. | |
| August 23rd, 1990 (August 23 1990) | Death | David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (born in 1910) | |
| August 23rd, 1989 (August 23 1989) | Event | Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way). | |
| August 23rd, 1989 (August 23 1989) | Event | All of Australia s 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. | |
| August 23rd, 1989 (August 23 1989) | Death | Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (born in 1944) | |
| August 23rd, 1989 (August 23 1989) | Death | R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (born in 1927) | |
| August 23rd, 1988 (August 23 1988) | Birth | Daniel Schwaab, German footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1987 (August 23 1987) | Birth | Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer | |
| August 23rd, 1987 (August 23 1987) | Death | Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (born in 1952) | |
| August 23rd, 1986 (August 23 1986) | Birth | Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician | |
| August 23rd, 1985 (August 23 1985) | Event | Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. | |
| August 23rd, 1984 (August 23 1984) | Birth | Glen Johnson, English footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1983 (August 23 1983) | Birth | Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Event | Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Birth | Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Birth | YTCracker, American musician | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Birth | Scott Palguta, professional soccer player | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Death | Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1913) | |
| August 23rd, 1981 (August 23 1981) | Birth | Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant | |
| August 23rd, 1981 (August 23 1981) | Birth | Stephan Loboue, Ivorian footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1981 (August 23 1981) | Birth | Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress. | |
| August 23rd, 1981 (August 23 1981) | Birth | Carlos Cuellar, Spanish footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1980 (August 23 1980) | Birth | Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player | |
| August 23rd, 1980 (August 23 1980) | Birth | Rex Grossman, American football player | |
| August 23rd, 1979 (August 23 1979) | Event | Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. | |
| August 23rd, 1979 (August 23 1979) | Event | Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States. | |
| August 23rd, 1979 (August 23 1979) | Birth | Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer | |
| August 23rd, 1978 (August 23 1978) | Birth | Kobe Bryant, American basketball player | Kobe Bryant Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1978 (August 23 1978) | Birth | Julian Casablancas, American musician | Julian Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1977 (August 23 1977) | Event | The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. | |
| August 23rd, 1977 (August 23 1977) | Birth | Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1976 (August 23 1976) | Birth | Scott Caan, American actor | |
| August 23rd, 1975 (August 23 1975) | Event | Successful Communist coup in Laos. | |
| August 23rd, 1975 (August 23 1975) | Birth | Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler | |
| August 23rd, 1975 (August 23 1975) | Birth | Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player | |
| August 23rd, 1974 (August 23 1974) | Birth | Ray Park, Scottish actor | |
| August 23rd, 1974 (August 23 1974) | Birth | Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town) | |
| August 23rd, 1974 (August 23 1974) | Birth | Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner | |
| August 23rd, 1974 (August 23 1974) | Birth | Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor | |
| August 23rd, 1974 (August 23 1974) | Death | Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (born in 1888) | |
| August 23rd, 1973 (August 23 1973) | Event | The Intelsat communication satellite is launched. | |
| August 23rd, 1973 (August 23 1973) | Birth | Casey Blake, American baseball player | |
| August 23rd, 1972 (August 23 1972) | Birth | Martin Grainger, English footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1972 (August 23 1972) | Birth | Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| August 23rd, 1971 (August 23 1971) | Birth | Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1971 (August 23 1971) | Birth | BoneCrusher, American rapper | |
| August 23rd, 1971 (August 23 1971) | Death | The original Shamu, Sea World orca | |
| August 23rd, 1970 (August 23 1970) | Birth | Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian | |
| August 23rd, 1970 (August 23 1970) | Birth | River Phoenix, American actor (died in 1993) | River Phoenix Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1970 (August 23 1970) | Birth | Brad Mehldau, American pianist | |
| August 23rd, 1969 (August 23 1969) | Birth | Keith Tyson, English artist | |
| August 23rd, 1969 (August 23 1969) | Birth | Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter | |
| August 23rd, 1969 (August 23 1969) | Birth | Genevieve Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress | |
| August 23rd, 1968 (August 23 1968) | Birth | Chris DiMarco, American golfer | |
| August 23rd, 1967 (August 23 1967) | Death | Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (born in 1918) | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Event | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Birth | Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Death | Francis X. Bushman, American actor (born in 1883) | |
| August 23rd, 1965 (August 23 1965) | Birth | Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer | |
| August 23rd, 1964 (August 23 1964) | Birth | Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist | |
| August 23rd, 1964 (August 23 1964) | Birth | Kong Hee, Singaporean, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia | |
| August 23rd, 1963 (August 23 1963) | Birth | Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player | |
| August 23rd, 1963 (August 23 1963) | Birth | Kenny Wallace, American race car driver | |
| August 23rd, 1963 (August 23 1963) | Birth | Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter | |
| August 23rd, 1963 (August 23 1963) | Death | Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (born in 1900) | |
| August 23rd, 1962 (August 23 1962) | Event | First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite. | |
| August 23rd, 1962 (August 23 1962) | Birth | Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician | |
| August 23rd, 1962 (August 23 1962) | Death | Walter Anderson, German folklorist (born in 1885) | |
| August 23rd, 1962 (August 23 1962) | Death | Hoot Gibson, American actor (born in 1892) | |
| August 23rd, 1961 (August 23 1961) | Birth | Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) | |
| August 23rd, 1961 (August 23 1961) | Birth | Gary Mabbutt, English footballer | |
| August 23rd, 1960 (August 23 1960) | Birth | Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist | |
| August 23rd, 1960 (August 23 1960) | Birth | Chris Potter, Canadian actor | |
| August 23rd, 1960 (August 23 1960) | Death | Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (born in 1895) | |
| August 23rd, 1959 (August 23 1959) | Birth | George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player | |
| August 23rd, 1958 (August 23 1958) | Event | Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People s Liberation Army s bombardment of Quemoy. | |
| August 23rd, 1958 (August 23 1958) | Birth | Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history | |
| August 23rd, 1957 (August 23 1957) | Birth | Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician | |
| August 23rd, 1956 (August 23 1956) | Birth | Andreas Floer, German mathematician (died in 1991) | |
| August 23rd, 1956 (August 23 1956) | Birth | Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician | |
| August 23rd, 1956 (August 23 1956) | Birth | Skipp Sudduth, American actor | |
| August 23rd, 1955 (August 23 1955) | Death | Reginald Tate, British actor (born in 1896) | |
| August 23rd, 1954 (August 23 1954) | Event | First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. | |
| August 23rd, 1954 (August 23 1954) | Birth | Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen | |
| August 23rd, 1953 (August 23 1953) | Birth | Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz) | |
| August 23rd, 1952 (August 23 1952) | Event | The Arab League is formed. | |
| August 23rd, 1952 (August 23 1952) | Birth | Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician | |
| August 23rd, 1951 (August 23 1951) | Birth | Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (died in 2004) | |
| August 23rd, 1951 (August 23 1951) | Birth | Queen Noor of Jordan | |
| August 23rd, 1951 (August 23 1951) | Birth | Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor) | |
| August 23rd, 1949 (August 23 1949) | Birth | Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer | |
| August 23rd, 1949 (August 23 1949) | Birth | Geoff Capes, English Strongman | |
| August 23rd, 1949 (August 23 1949) | Birth | Shelley Long, American actress | |
| August 23rd, 1949 (August 23 1949) | Birth | Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor | |
| August 23rd, 1948 (August 23 1948) | Event | World Council of Churches is formed. | |
| August 23rd, 1948 (August 23 1948) | Birth | Andrei Plesu, Romanian writer, essayist | |
| August 23rd, 1948 (August 23 1948) | Birth | Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend | |
| August 23rd, 1947 (August 23 1947) | Birth | Willy Russell, British playwright | |
| August 23rd, 1947 (August 23 1947) | Birth | David Robb, British actor | |
| August 23rd, 1946 (August 23 1946) | Event | Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. | |
| August 23rd, 1946 (August 23 1946) | Birth | Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (died in 1978) | |
| August 23rd, 1945 (August 23 1945) | Birth | Rayfield Wright, American football player | |
| August 23rd, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Event | World War II: Marseille liberated. | |
| August 23rd, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Event | World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrestedied in Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. | |
| August 23rd, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Event | Freckleton Air DisasterA United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people. | |
| August 23rd, 1944 (August 23 1944) | Birth | Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General | |
| August 23rd, 1943 (August 23 1943) | Event | World War II: Kharkov liberated. | |
| August 23rd, 1943 (August 23 1943) | Birth | Nelson DeMille, American novelist | |
| August 23rd, 1942 (August 23 1942) | Event | World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. | |
| August 23rd, 1942 (August 23 1942) | Event | World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky. | |
| August 23rd, 1940 (August 23 1940) | Event | World War II: The Germans start bombing London. | |
| August 23rd, 1939 (August 23 1939) | Event | 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, Ukraine and Poland are divided between the two nations. | |
| August 23rd, 1937 (August 23 1937) | Death | Albert Roussel, French composer (born in 1869) | |
| August 23rd, 1936 (August 23 1936) | Birth | Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (died in 2001) | |
| August 23rd, 1934 (August 23 1934) | Birth | Barbara Eden, American actress and singer | |
| August 23rd, 1934 (August 23 1934) | Birth | Sonny Jurgensen, American football player | |
| August 23rd, 1933 (August 23 1933) | Birth | Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| August 23rd, 1933 (August 23 1933) | Birth | Pete Wilson, Governor of California | |
| August 23rd, 1932 (August 23 1932) | Birth | Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (died in 1978) | |
| August 23rd, 1932 (August 23 1932) | Birth | Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator | |
| August 23rd, 1931 (August 23 1931) | Birth | Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| August 23rd, 1930 (August 23 1930) | Birth | Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France | |
| August 23rd, 1929 (August 23 1929) | Event | Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron. | |
| August 23rd, 1929 (August 23 1929) | Birth | Vera Miles, American actress | |
| August 23rd, 1928 (August 23 1928) | Birth | Marian Seldes, American actress | |
| August 23rd, 1927 (August 23 1927) | Birth | Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator | |
| August 23rd, 1927 (August 23 1927) | Death | Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (born in 1891) | |
| August 23rd, 1927 (August 23 1927) | Death | Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (born in 1888) | |
| August 23rd, 1926 (August 23 1926) | Birth | Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (died in 2006) | |
| August 23rd, 1926 (August 23 1926) | Death | Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (born in 1895) | |
| August 23rd, 1925 (August 23 1925) | Birth | Robert Mulligan, American movie and television director | |
| August 23rd, 1924 (August 23 1924) | Birth | Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (died in 2005) | |
| August 23rd, 1924 (August 23 1924) | Birth | Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| August 23rd, 1923 (August 23 1923) | Event | 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. | |
| August 23rd, 1923 (August 23 1923) | Birth | Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (died in 2003) | |
| August 23rd, 1922 (August 23 1922) | Birth | George Kell, baseball player | |
| August 23rd, 1922 (August 23 1922) | Birth | Jean Darling, American child actress | |
| August 23rd, 1922 (August 23 1922) | Birth | Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer | |
| August 23rd, 1921 (August 23 1921) | Birth | Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner | |
| August 23rd, 1919 (August 23 1919) | Birth | Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (died in 1984) | |
| August 23rd, 1917 (August 23 1917) | Birth | Tex Williams, American singer (died in 1985) | |
| August 23rd, 1914 (August 23 1914) | Event | World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. | |
| August 23rd, 1914 (August 23 1914) | Event | World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal. | |
| August 23rd, 1912 (August 23 1912) | Birth | Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (died in 1996) | |
| August 23rd, 1911 (August 23 1911) | Birth | Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (died in 1998) | |
| August 23rd, 1910 (August 23 1910) | Birth | Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (died in 1979) | |
| August 23rd, 1908 (August 23 1908) | Birth | Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor | |
| August 23rd, 1905 (August 23 1905) | Birth | Constant Lambert, British composer (died in 1951) | Constant Lambert Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1904 (August 23 1904) | Event | The automobile tire chain is patented. | |
| August 23rd, 1903 (August 23 1903) | Birth | William Primrose, Scottish violist (died in 1982) | |
| August 23rd, 1901 (August 23 1901) | Birth | John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (died in 1991) | |
| August 23rd, 1900 (August 23 1900) | Birth | Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (died in 1991) | |
| August 23rd, 1900 (August 23 1900) | Birth | Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (died in 1978) | |
| August 23rd, 1896 (August 23 1896) | Event | First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila. | |
| August 23rd, 1892 (August 23 1892) | Death | Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (born in 1827) | |
| August 23rd, 1889 (August 23 1889) | Event | First wireless message from a ship to the shore received. | |
| August 23rd, 1884 (August 23 1884) | Birth | Will Cuppy, American humorist (died in 1949) | Will Cuppy Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1884 (August 23 1884) | Birth | Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1927-1932 (died in 1937) | |
| August 23rd, 1883 (August 23 1883) | Birth | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (died in 1953) | |
| August 23rd, 1880 (August 23 1880) | Birth | Alexander Grin, Russian writer (died in 1932) | |
| August 23rd, 1875 (August 23 1875) | Birth | William Eccles, English radio pioneer (died in 1966) | |
| August 23rd, 1875 (August 23 1875) | Birth | Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (died in 1946) | Gene Ray Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1868 (August 23 1868) | Birth | Edgar Lee Masters, American author (died in 1950) | Edgar Lee Masters Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1867 (August 23 1867) | Death | Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy, French poet (born in 1796) | |
| August 23rd, 1866 (August 23 1866) | Event | Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. | |
| August 23rd, 1864 (August 23 1864) | Event | The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| August 23rd, 1864 (August 23 1864) | Birth | Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d.1936) | |
| August 23rd, 1854 (August 23 1854) | Birth | Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (died in 1925) | |
| August 23rd, 1853 (August 23 1853) | Death | Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (born in 1806) | |
| August 23rd, 1852 (August 23 1852) | Birth | Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (died in 1883) | Arnold Toynbee Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1852 (August 23 1852) | Birth | Climaco Calderon, President of Colombia. (died in 1913) | |
| August 23rd, 1849 (August 23 1849) | Birth | William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (died in 1903) | |
| August 23rd, 1847 (August 23 1847) | Birth | Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (died in 1927) | |
| August 23rd, 1846 (August 23 1846) | Birth | Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (died in 1923) | |
| August 23rd, 1843 (August 23 1843) | Birth | William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (died in 1932) | |
| August 23rd, 1839 (August 23 1839) | Event | The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War. | |
| August 23rd, 1836 (August 23 1836) | Birth | Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (died in 1902) | |
| August 23rd, 1829 (August 23 1829) | Birth | Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (died in 1920) | |
| August 23rd, 1819 (August 23 1819) | Death | Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (born in 1785) | Oliver Hazard Perry Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1814 (August 23 1814) | Birth | James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (died in 1877) | |
| August 23rd, 1813 (August 23 1813) | Event | At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bulow repulse the French army. | |
| August 23rd, 1813 (August 23 1813) | Death | Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (born in 1766) | |
| August 23rd, 1806 (August 23 1806) | Death | Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (born in 1736) | |
| August 23rd, 1805 (August 23 1805) | Birth | Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (died in 1893) | |
| August 23rd, 1799 (August 23 1799) | Event | Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. | |
| August 23rd, 1793 (August 23 1793) | Event | French Revolution: a levee en masse was decreed by the National Convention. | |
| August 23rd, 1785 (August 23 1785) | Birth | Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval officer (died in 1819) | Oliver Hazard Perry Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1784 (August 23 1784) | Event | Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years. | |
| August 23rd, 1783 (August 23 1783) | Birth | William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (died in 1852) | |
| August 23rd, 1775 (August 23 1775) | Event | King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion. | |
| August 23rd, 1769 (August 23 1769) | Birth | Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (died in 1832) | |
| August 23rd, 1754 (August 23 1754) | Birth | King Louis XVI of France (died in 1793) | |
| August 23rd, 1741 (August 23 1741) | Birth | Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse, French explorer (died in 1788) | |
| August 23rd, 1724 (August 23 1724) | Birth | Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (died in 1796) | Abraham Quotes |
| August 23rd, 1723 (August 23 1723) | Death | Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (born in 1639) | |
| August 23rd, 1708 (August 23 1708) | Event | Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur. | |
| August 23rd, 1706 (August 23 1706) | Death | Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (born in 1654) | |
| August 23rd, 1652 (August 23 1652) | Death | John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (born in 1600) | |
| August 23rd, 1628 (August 23 1628) | Death | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (born in 1592) | |
| August 23rd, 1623 (August 23 1623) | Birth | Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (died in 1675) | |
| August 23rd, 1618 (August 23 1618) | Death | Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (born in 1585) | |
| August 23rd, 1595 (August 23 1595) | Event | Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni. | |
| August 23rd, 1591 (August 23 1591) | Death | Luis Ponce de Leon, Spanish poet and mystic (born in 1527) | |
| August 23rd, 1555 (August 23 1555) | Event | Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands. | |
| August 23rd, 1541 (August 23 1541) | Event | French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. | |
| August 23rd, 1540 (August 23 1540) | Death | Guillaume Bude, French scholar | |
| August 23rd, 1524 (August 23 1524) | Birth | Francois Hotman, French lawyer and writer (died in 1590) | |
| August 23rd, 1519 (August 23 1519) | Death | Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot | |
| August 23rd, 1507 (August 23 1507) | Death | Jean Molinet, French writer (born in 1435) | |
| August 23rd, 1486 (August 23 1486) | Birth | Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (died in 1566) | |
| August 23rd, 1387 (August 23 1387) | Death | King Olav IV of Norway (born in 1370) | |
| August 23rd, 1328 (August 23 1328) | Event | Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers. | |
| August 23rd, 1305 (August 23 1305) | Event | William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England. | |
| August 23rd, 1305 (August 23 1305) | Death | William Wallace, Scottish patriot | |
| August 23rd, 1176 (August 23 1176) | Death | Emperor Rokujo of Japan (born in 1164) | |
| August 23rd, 1106 (August 23 1106) | Death | Magnus, Duke of Saxony | |
| August 23rd, 0686 (August 23 0686) | Birth | Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (died in 741) | Charlemagne Quotes |
| August 23rd, 0634 (August 23 0634) | Death | Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph | |
