Famous Deaths on August 23, Who Died on August 23
Here is a list who died on August 23. Famous deaths for the 23rd of August. See which celebrities, musicians, actors, historical figures, scientists and other famous people were died on August 23. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 0030 | Caesarion, Egyptian king (b. 47 BC) |
| 0093 | Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and politician (b. AD 40) |
| 1106 | Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045) |
| 1176 | Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164) |
| 1305 | William Wallace, Scottish rebel commander (b. 1272) |
| 1328 | Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel) |
| 1329 | Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) |
| 1335 | Heilwige Bloemardinne, Christian mystic (b. c. 1265) |
| 1348 | John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1363 | Chen Youliang, founder of the Dahan regime (b. 1320) |
| 1367 | Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Spanish cardinal (b. 1310) |
| 1478 | Johannes Pullois, Franco-Flemish composer (b. c. 1420?) |
| 1481 | Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (b. c. 1407) |
| 1498 | Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1470) |
| 1507 | Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (b. 1435) |
| 1519 | Philibert Berthelier, Swiss soldier (b. 1465) |
| 1540 | Guillaume Budé, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1467) |
| 1568 | Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (b. 1495) |
| 1574 | Ebussuud Efendi, Turkish lawyer and jurist (b. 1490) |
| 1591 | Luis de León, Spanish poet and academic (b. 1527) |
| 1618 | Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1585) |
| 1628 | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1592) |
| 1652 | John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (b. 1600) |
| 1706 | Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654) |
| 1723 | Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639) |
| 1806 | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736) |
| 1813 | Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766) |
| 1819 | Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785) |
| 1831 | Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759) |
| 1853 | Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806) |
| 1867 | Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (b. 1796) |
| 1880 | William Thompson, British boxer (b. 1811) |
| 1892 | Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827) |
| 1900 | Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840) |
| 1924 | Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856) |
| 1926 | Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895) |
| 1927 | Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891) |
| 1933 | Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870) |
| 1937 | Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869) |
| 1944 | Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868) |
| 1949 | Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858) |
| 1954 | Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877) |
| 1960 | Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895) |
| 1962 | Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885) |
| 1964 | Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883) |
| 1966 | Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883) |
| 1967 | Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918) |
| 1974 | Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888) |
| 1975 | Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913) |
| 1977 | Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890) |
| 1982 | Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) |
| 1987 | Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952) |
| 1989 | Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944) |
| 1990 | David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910) |
| 1994 | Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917) |
| 1995 | Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898) |
| 1996 | Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (b. 1904) |
| 1997 | Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922) |
| 1999 | Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926) |
| 2000 | John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (b. 1932) |
| 2001 | Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919) |
| 2002 | Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922) |
| 2003 | Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946) |
| 2005 | Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927) |
| 2006 | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928) |
| 2008 | John Russell, English-American author and critic (b. 1919) |
| 2012 | Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934) |
| 2013 | Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (b. 1955) |
| 2014 | Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989) |
| 2015 | Augusta Chiwy, Congolese-Belgian nurse (b. 1921) |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker (b. 1931) |
| 406 | Radagaisus, Gothic king |
| 634 | Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573) |
| 992 | Volkold, bishop of Meissen |
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