Births on 23 August
2000s
Boryana Kaleyn
2000
Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
1900s
P. J. Washington
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Lil Yachty
1997
American rapper (born 1997)
Alejo Igoa
1996
Argentine YouTuber (born 1996)
Gabriela Lee
1995
Romanian tennis player (born 1995)
Cameron Norrie
1995
British professional tennis player (born 1995)
August Ames
1994
Canadian pornographic actress (1994–2017)
Jusuf Nurkić
1994
Bosnian basketball player (born 1994)
Taylor Decker
1993
American football player (born 1993)
Tyler Glasnow
1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Iván López (footballer, born 1993)
1993
Spanish footballer
Nicola Docherty
1992
Scottish footballer (born 1992)
Will Toledo
1992
Indie rock musician
Seth Curry
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Mike Yastrzemski
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Lianne La Havas
1989
British musician
Trixie Mattel
1989
American drag queen and musician (born 1989)
Heiko Schwarz
1989
German footballer
TeddyLoid
1989
Japanese DJ and music producer
Olga Govortsova
1988
Belarusian tennis player
Carl Hagelin
1988
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1988)
Jeremy Lin
1988
Taiwanese-American basketball player (born 1988)
Kim Matula
1988
American actress
Miles Mikolas
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Darren Collison
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Sky Blu (rapper)
1986
American singer (born 1986)
Neil Cicierega
1986
American musician, comedian and filmmaker (born 1986)
Ayron Jones
1986
American musician
Brett Morris
1986
Australia international rugby league footballer
Josh Morris (rugby league)
1986
Australia international rugby league footballer
Valeria Lukyanova
1985
Ukrainian model (born 1985)
Glen Johnson
1984
English footballer (born 1984)
Eric Tai
1984
Filipino actor
James Collins (footballer, born 1983)
1983
Welsh footballer
Athena Farrokhzad
1983
Iranian-Swedish poet and playwright
Sun Mingming
1983
Chinese former basketball player and actor
Tony Moll
1983
American football player (born 1983)
Fiona Onasanya
1983
English former politician
Bruno Spengler
1983
Canadian racing driver (born 1983)
Natalie Coughlin
1982
American swimmer (born 1982)
Scott Palguta
1982
American soccer player and coach (born 1982)
Cristian Tudor
1982
Romanian footballer
Carlos Cuéllar
1981
Spanish footballer (born 1981)
Jaime Lee Kirchner
1981
American actress, dancer and singer (born 1981)
Stephan Loboué
1981
Ivorian footballer (born 1981)
Denny Bautista
1980
Dominican baseball player (born 1980)
Nadine Jolie Courtney
1980
Circassian-American writer
Joanne Froggatt
1980
English actress (born 1980)
Rex Grossman
1980
American football player (born 1980)
Nenad Vučković (handballer)
1980
Serbian handball player (born 1980)
Jessica Bibby
1979
Australian sportswoman (born 1979)
Saskia Clark
1979
British sailor (born 1979)
Édgar Sosa (boxer)
1979
Mexican boxer
Zuzana Váleková
1979
Slovak tennis player
Kobe Bryant
1978
American basketball player (1978–2020)
Julian Casablancas
1978
American singer (born 1978)
Randal Tye Thomas
1978
American politician (1978–2014)
Andrew Rannells
1978
American actor (born 1978)
Douglas Sequeira
1977
Costa Rican footballer (born 1977)
Jared Fogle
1977
American spokesperson and sex offender (born 1977)
Scott Caan
1976
American actor (born 1976)
Pat Garrity
1976
American basketball player (born 1976)
Eliza Carthy
1975
English folk musician and singer (born 1975)
Sean Marks
1975
New Zealand-American basketball executive (born 1975)
Jarkko Ruutu
1975
Finnish ice hockey player
Lexi Alexander
1974
German Palestinian television director
Mark Bellhorn
1974
American baseball player (born 1974)
Benjamin Limo
1974
Kenyan track and field athlete
Konstantin Novoselov
1974
Russian–British physicist known for graphene work
Ray Park
1974
British actor and martial artist (born 1974)
Casey Blake
1973
American baseball player (born 1973)
Kerry Walmsley
1973
New Zealand cricketer (born 1973)
Mark Butcher
1972
English cricketer (born 1972)
Raúl Casanova
1972
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1972)
Anthony Calvillo
1972
Canadian-American football player and coach
Martin Grainger
1972
English footballer
Manuel Vidrio
1972
Mexican footballer and coach (born 1972)
Demetrio Albertini
1971
Italian footballer (born 1971)
Tim Gutberlet
1971
German footballer
Gretchen Whitmer
1971
Governor of Michigan since 2019
Lawrence Frank
1970
American basketball coach and executive (born 1970)
Jason Hetherington
1970
Australia international rugby league footballer
Jay Mohr
1970
American actor and comedian (born 1970)
River Phoenix
1970
American actor (1970–1993)
Tinus Linee
1969
South African rugby union player
Jack Lopresti
1969
British politician (born 1969)
Jeremy Schaap
1969
American sportswriter and author
Keith Tyson
1969
English artist (born 1969)
Laura Claycomb
1968
American opera singer (born 1968)
Chris DiMarco
1968
American professional golfer
Cortez Kennedy
1968
American football player (1968–2017)
Jim Murphy
1967
Former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
Richard Petrie
1967
New Zealand cricketer (born 1967)
Rik Smits
1966
Dutch basketball player (born 1966)
Roger Avary
1965
Canadian producer, screenwriter and director (born 1965)
Ray Ferraro
1964
Canadian ice hockey player & broadcaster (born 1964)
Kong Hee
1964
Religious leader and convicted criminal in Singapore
Park Chan-wook
1963
South Korean filmmaker (born 1963)
Glória Pires
1963
Brazilian actress (born 1963)
Richard Illingworth
1963
Cricket umpire
Kenny Wallace
1963
American racing driver (born 1963)
Martin Cauchon
1962
Canadian politician
Shaun Ryder
1962
British singer (born 1962)
Dean DeLeo
1961
American guitarist (born 1961)
Alexandre Desplat
1961
French film composer (born 1961)
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
1961
Iranian terrorist, politician and former pilot (born 1961)
Gary Mabbutt
1961
English footballer
Hitomi Takahashi (actress)
1961
Japanese actress
Gary Hoey
1960
American musician
Edwyn Collins
1959
Scottish musician (born 1959)
George Kalovelonis
1959
Greek tennis player (born 1959)
Julio Franco
1958
Dominican baseball player (born 1958)
Tasos Mitropoulos
1957
Greek footballer and politician
Andreas Floer
1956
German mathematician
Valgerd Svarstad Haugland
1956
Norwegian politician (born 1956)
Skipp Sudduth
1956
American actor
David Learner
1955
British actor (born 1955)
Charles Busch
1954
American dramatist
Halimah Yacob
1954
President of Singapore from 2017 to 2023
Bobby G
1953
British singer
Santillana (footballer)
1952
Spanish footballer (born 1952)
Georgios Paraschos
1952
Greek footballer and manager
Mark Hudson (musician)
1951
American songwriter and record producer (born 1951)
Jimi Jamison
1951
American singer (1951–2014)
Akhmad Kadyrov
1951
Chechen militant and revolutionary (1951–2004)
Queen Noor of Jordan
1951
Queen of Jordan from 1978 to 1999
Luigi Delneri
1950
Italian footballer and manager
Vicky Leandros
1949
Greek singer (born 1952)
Shelley Long
1949
American actress and comedian (born 1949)
Rick Springfield
1949
Musician and actor (born 1949)
Atef Bseiso
1948
Palestinian intelligence officer (1948–1992)
Andrei Pleșu
1948
Romanian philosopher (born 1948)
Rudy Ruettiger
1948
American football player and motivational speaker (born 1948)
Lev Zelyony
1948
Russian physicist (born 1948)
David Robb
1947
Scottish actor (born 1947)
Willy Russell
1947
British dramatist, lyricist and composer
Linda Thompson (singer)
1947
British singer-songwriter (born 1947)
Keith Moon
1946
English rock drummer (1946–1978)
Rayfield Wright
1945
American football player (1945–2022)
Antonia Novello
1944
14th Surgeon General of the United States
Dale Campbell-Savours
1943
British politician (born 1943)
Nelson DeMille
1943
American author (1943–2024)
Peter Lilley
1943
British politician (born 1943)
Pino Presti
1943
Italian musician
Rodney Alcala
1943
American serial killer (1943–2021)
Nancy Richey
1942
American tennis player
Onora O'Neill
1941
British philosopher & college principal (born 1941)
Galen Rowell
1940
American wilderness photographer, mountaineer, and author (1940–2002)
Richard Sanders (actor)
1940
American actor (born 1940)
Giacomo Bini
1938
Franciscan priest (1938–2014)
Roger Greenaway
1938
English singer, songwriter and record producer
Rudy Lewis
1936
American singer (1936–1964)
Henry Lee Lucas
1936
American murderer (1936–2001)
Roy Strong
1935
British art historian
Sonny Jurgensen
1934
American football player (1934–2026)
Robert Curl
1933
American chemist (1933–2022)
Don Talbot
1933
Australian Olympic swimming coach and sport administrator(1933–2020)
Pete Wilson
1933
American politician (born 1933)
Houari Boumédiène
1932
Head of State of Algeria from 1965 to 1978
Enos Nkala
1932
Zimbabwean politician (1932-2013)
Mark Russell
1932
American political satirist and comedian (1932–2023)
Barbara Eden
1931
American actress and singer (born 1931)
Hamilton O. Smith
1931
American biologist (1931–2025)
Michel Rocard
1930
88th Prime Minister of France (1930–2016)
Vera Miles
1930
American actress (born 1930)
Vladimir Beekman
1929
Estonian writer, poet and translator (1929–2009)
Zoltán Czibor
1929
Hungarian footballer (1929–1997)
Peter Thomson (golfer)
1929
Australian professional golfer (1929–2018)
Marian Seldes
1928
American actress (1928–2014)
Dick Bruna
1927
Dutch author and artist (1927–2017)
Allan Kaprow
1927
American performance artist, installation artist, painter (1927–2006)
Martial Solal
1927
French jazz pianist and composer (1927–2024)
Clifford Geertz
1926
American anthropologist (1926–2006)
Gyula Hernádi
1926
Hungarian writer and screenwriter
Robert Mulligan
1925
American director, producer (1925–2008)
Ephraim Kishon
1924
Israeli author and filmmaker (1924–2005)
Madeleine Riffaud
1924
French poet, journalist and Resistance member (1924–2024)
Robert Solow
1924
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1924–2023)
Nazik Al-Malaika
1922
Iraqi modernist poet
Jean Darling
1922
American child actress and writer (1922–2015)
George Kell
1922
American baseball player (1922–2009)
Kenneth Arrow
1921
American economist (1921–2017)
Sam Cook (cricketer, born 1921)
1921
English cricketer
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
1919
Soviet mathematician (1919–1984)
Tex Williams
1917
American singer-songwriter (1917–1985)
Bob Crosby
1913
American singer and bandleader (1913–1993)
Gene Kelly
1912
American actor, dancer, singer, and producer (1912–1996)
Igor Troubetzkoy
1912
French aristocrat and athlete (1912–2008)
Betty Robinson
1911
American Olympic champion
J. V. Cunningham
1911
American poet (1911–1985)
Lonny Frey
1910
American baseball player (1910–2009)
Giuseppe Meazza
1910
Italian footballer (1910–1979)
Syd Buller
1909
English cricketer and umpire
Hannah Frank
1908
British artist
Zoltan Sarosy
1906
Hungarian–Canadian chess master
Ernie Bushmiller
1905
American cartoonist (1905–1982)
Constant Lambert
1905
British composer, conductor, and author (1905–1951)
William Primrose
1904
Scottish violist and teacher (1904–1982)
Guy Bush
1901
American baseball player (1901–1985)
John Sherman Cooper
1901
American politician, jurist, and diplomat (1901–1991)
Frances Adaskin
1900
Canadian pianist
Ernst Krenek
1900
Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)
Malvina Reynolds
1900
American singer and songwriter
1800s
Henry F. Pringle
1897
American historian and writer (1897–1958)
John Auden
1894
Roy Agnew
1891
Australian composer
Minna Craucher
1891
Finnish socialite and spy
Harry F. Guggenheim
1890
American politician and businessman (1890–1971)
Will Cuppy
1884
American writer
Ogden L. Mills
1884
American politician (1884–1937)
Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)
1883
American WWII army general captured by Japanese
Volin
1882
Russian anarchist and historian of anarchism (1882–1945)
Alexander Grin
1880
Russian writer (1880–1932)
István Medgyaszay
1877
Hungarian architect (1877–1959)
William Eccles (physicist)
1875
English physicist (1875–1966)
Eugene Lanceray
1875
Russian artist (1875–1946)
Tanguturi Prakasam
1872
Chief Minister of Andhra State from 1953 to 1954
Edgar Lee Masters
1868
American poet (1868–1950)
Edgar de Wahl
1867
Estonian educator, inventor of Interlingue
Eleftherios Venizelos
1864
Prime Minister of Greece (1910–20; 1928–33)
Moritz Moszkowski
1854
German composer, pianist and teacher
Radha Gobinda Kar
1852
Indian physician and philanthropist (1852–1918)
Clímaco Calderón
1852
15th president of Colombia
Arnold Toynbee (historian, born 1852)
1852
English economic historian (1852–1883)
John Cockburn (Australian politician)
1850
Australian politician (1850–1929)
William Ernest Henley
1849
English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)
Sarah Frances Whiting
1847
American physicist and astronomer
Alexander Milne Calder
1846
Scottish-American sculptor (1846–1923)
William Southam
1843
Canadian newspaper publisher
Moritz Cantor
1829
German historian of mathematics
James Roosevelt Bayley
1814
American Catholic bishop (1814–1877)
Anton von Schmerling
1805
Austrian statesman (1805–1893)
Evangelos Zappas
1800
Greek philanthropist and businessman (1800–1865)
Before 1800
Oliver Hazard Perry
1785
United States Navy officer (1785–1819)
William Tierney Clark
1783
English civil engineer (1783–1852)
Georges Cuvier
1769
French paleontologist (1769–1832)
Astley Cooper
1768
British surgeon and anatomist (1768–1841)
Louis XVI
1754
King of France from 1774 to 1792
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
1741
French Navy officer and explorer (1741–1788)
Abraham Yates Jr.
1724
American lawyer, civil servant, and pamphleteer (1724–1796)
Stanisław Lubieniecki
1623
Thomas Dempster
1579
Scottish scholar and historian (1579–1625)
François Hotman
1524
French lawyer and writer (1524–1590)
Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal
1498
Iberian heir apparent (1498–1500)
Sigismund von Herberstein
1486
Carniolan writer and diplomat (1486–1566)
Cho Kwangjo
1482
Korean Neo-Confucian scholar (1482–1520)