23 August
Notable Births
Boryana Kaleyn
b. 2000
Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
P. J. Washington
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Lil Yachty
b. 1997
American rapper (born 1997)
Alejo Igoa
b. 1996
Argentine YouTuber (born 1996)
Gabriela Lee
b. 1995
Romanian tennis player (born 1995)
Cameron Norrie
b. 1995
British professional tennis player (born 1995)
August Ames
b. 1994
Canadian pornographic actress (1994–2017)
Jusuf Nurkić
b. 1994
Bosnian basketball player (born 1994)
Taylor Decker
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Tyler Glasnow
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Will Toledo
b. 1992
Indie rock musician
Seth Curry
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Mike Yastrzemski
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Lianne La Havas
b. 1989
British musician
Trixie Mattel
b. 1989
American drag queen and musician (born 1989)
Olga Govortsova
b. 1988
Belarusian tennis player
Carl Hagelin
b. 1988
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1988)
Jeremy Lin
b. 1988
Taiwanese-American basketball player (born 1988)
Kim Matula
b. 1988
American actress
Miles Mikolas
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Dmitry Utkin
d. 2023
Russian military officer (1970–2023)
Yevgeny Prigozhin
d. 2023
Russian oligarch and mercenary leader (1961–2023)
Terry Funk
d. 2023
American wrestler (1944–2023)
Elizabeth Blackadder
d. 2021
Scottish painter and printmaker (1931–2021)
Augusta Chiwy
d. 2015
Belgian nurse (1921–2015)
Guy Ligier
d. 2015
French racing driver (1930–2015)
Albert Ebossé Bodjongo
d. 2014
Cameroonian footballer (1989-2014)
Annefleur Kalvenhaar
d. 2014
Dutch cyclist and mountain biker (1994–2014
Birgitta Stenberg
d. 2014
Swedish author, translator and illustrator (1932–2014)
Jaume Vallcorba Plana
d. 2014
Spanish philologist
William Glasser
d. 2013
American psychiatrist
Charles Lisanby
d. 2013
American production designer
Konstanty Miodowicz
d. 2013
Polish politician
Vesna Rožič
d. 2013
Slovenian chess player (1987–2013)
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
d. 2013
Russian sociologist and economist (1927–2013)
Jerry Nelson
d. 2012
American puppeteer (1934-2012)
Maynard Ferguson
d. 2006
Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1928–2006)
Brock Peters
d. 2005
American actor (1927–2005)
Bobby Bonds
d. 2003
American baseball player (1946–2003)
Jack Dyer
d. 2003
Australian rules footballer (1913–2003)
On This Day in History
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2023
Chandrayaan-3 mission initiated first Moon landing in Indian history.
Chandrayaan-3
2023
A business jet carrying key leadership members of the Russian private military company Wagner Group crashes, killing all ten people on board.
Wagner Group
2013
A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
2013 Palmasola prison riot
2012
A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2012 Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash
2011
A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at 200 million–300 million USD.
2011 Virginia earthquake
2011
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
Muammar Gaddafi
2010
The Manila hostage crisis occurred near the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Philippines killing 9 people including the perpetrator while injuring 9 others.
Manila hostage crisis
2007
The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
2006
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
Natascha Kampusch
2000
Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
Gulf Air Flight 072
1994
Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
Eugene Bullard
1991
The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
World Wide Web
1990
Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein
1990
Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
Armenia
1990
West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
German reunification
1989
Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
Singing Revolution
1985
Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
Hans Tiedge
1975
The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.
Wave Hill walk-off
1975
The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
Pontiac Silverdome
1973
A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
Norrmalmstorg robbery