August 23rd Deaths |
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| August 23rd, 2007 (August 23 2007) | Death | Robert Symonds, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| August 23rd, 2006 (August 23 2006) | Death | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born in 1928) | |
| 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) | 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, 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) | Death | David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (born in 1910) | |
| 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, 1987 (August 23 1987) | Death | Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (born in 1952) | |
| August 23rd, 1982 (August 23 1982) | Death | Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1913) | |
| August 23rd, 1974 (August 23 1974) | Death | Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (born in 1888) | |
| August 23rd, 1971 (August 23 1971) | Death | The original Shamu, Sea World orca | |
| August 23rd, 1967 (August 23 1967) | Death | Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (born in 1918) | |
| August 23rd, 1966 (August 23 1966) | Death | Francis X. Bushman, American actor (born in 1883) | |
| 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) | Death | Walter Anderson, German folklorist (born in 1885) | |
| August 23rd, 1962 (August 23 1962) | Death | Hoot Gibson, American actor (born in 1892) | |
| August 23rd, 1960 (August 23 1960) | Death | Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (born in 1895) | |
| August 23rd, 1955 (August 23 1955) | Death | Reginald Tate, British actor (born in 1896) | |
| August 23rd, 1937 (August 23 1937) | Death | Albert Roussel, French composer (born in 1869) | |
| 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) | Death | Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (born in 1895) | |
| August 23rd, 1892 (August 23 1892) | Death | Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (born in 1827) | |
| August 23rd, 1867 (August 23 1867) | Death | Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy, French poet (born in 1796) | |
| August 23rd, 1853 (August 23 1853) | Death | Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (born in 1806) | |
| August 23rd, 1819 (August 23 1819) | Death | Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (born in 1785) | Oliver Hazard Perry Quotes |
| 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, 1723 (August 23 1723) | Death | Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (born in 1639) | |
| 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, 1618 (August 23 1618) | Death | Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (born in 1585) | |
| August 23rd, 1591 (August 23 1591) | Death | Luis Ponce de Leon, Spanish poet and mystic (born in 1527) | |
| August 23rd, 1540 (August 23 1540) | Death | Guillaume Bude, French scholar | |
| 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, 1387 (August 23 1387) | Death | King Olav IV of Norway (born in 1370) | |
| 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, 0634 (August 23 0634) | Death | Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph | |
