Deaths on 23 August
2000s
Dmitry Utkin
2023
Russian military officer (1970–2023)
Yevgeny Prigozhin
2023
Russian oligarch and mercenary leader (1961–2023)
Terry Funk
2023
American wrestler (1944–2023)
Elizabeth Blackadder
2021
Scottish painter and printmaker (1931–2021)
Augusta Chiwy
2015
Belgian nurse (1921–2015)
Guy Ligier
2015
French racing driver (1930–2015)
Enrique Reneau
2015
Honduran footballer (1971-2015)
Paul Royle
2015
Australian airman
Albert Ebossé Bodjongo
2014
Cameroonian footballer (1989-2014)
Annefleur Kalvenhaar
2014
Dutch cyclist and mountain biker (1994–2014
Birgitta Stenberg
2014
Swedish author, translator and illustrator (1932–2014)
Jaume Vallcorba Plana
2014
Spanish philologist
Richard J. Corman
2013
U.S. railroad services company founder
William Glasser
2013
American psychiatrist
Charles Lisanby
2013
American production designer
Konstanty Miodowicz
2013
Polish politician
Vesna Rožič
2013
Slovenian chess player (1987–2013)
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
2013
Russian sociologist and economist (1927–2013)
Jerry Nelson
2012
American puppeteer (1934-2012)
Josepha Sherman
2012
American novelist
John Russell (art critic)
2008
English art critic and journalist (1919–2008)
Maynard Ferguson
2006
Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1928–2006)
Brock Peters
2005
American actor (1927–2005)
Bobby Bonds
2003
American baseball player (1946–2003)
Jack Dyer
2003
Australian rules footballer (1913–2003)
Jan Sedivka
2003
Michael Kijana Wamalwa
2003
8th Vice President of Kenya
Hoyt Wilhelm
2002
American baseball player (1922–2002)
Kathleen Freeman
2001
American actress (1919–2001)
Peter Maas
2001
American journalist and author (1929–2001)
John Anthony Kaiser
2000
20th-century American Catholic priest and missionary
1900s
Norman Wexler
1999
American screenwriter, script doctor and playwright
James White (author)
1999
Northern Irish science fiction author (1928–1999)
Eric Gairy
1997
Grenadian politician (1974–79)
John Kendrew
1997
English biochemist & crystallographer (1917–1997)
Margaret Tucker
1996
Aboriginal Australian activist and writer
Alfred Eisenstaedt
1995
German-born American photojournalist (1898–1995)
Zoltán Fábri
1994
Hungarian film director
David Rose (songwriter)
1990
English-born American conductor and composer (1910–1990)
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy
1989
Post-colonial Sudanese writer and academic
R. D. Laing
1989
Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927–1989)
Didier Pironi
1987
French racing driver (1952–1987)
Stanford Moore
1982
American biochemist (1930–1982)
Naum Gabo
1977
Soviet sculptor (1890–1977)
Faruk Gürler
1975
15th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces from 1972 to 1973
Roberto Assagioli
1974
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888–1974)
Georges Berger
1967
Belgian racing driver (1918–1967)
Nathaniel Cartmell
1967
American athlete (1883–1967)
Francis X. Bushman
1966
American actor, director, writer (1883–1966)
Edmond Hogan
1964
Australian politician
Walter Anderson (folklorist)
1962
Baltic German folklorist (1885–1962)
Hoot Gibson
1962
American actor (1892–1962)
Oscar Hammerstein II
1960
American librettist (1895–1960)
Jaan Sarv
1954
Estonian mathematician
Helen Churchill Candee
1949
American novelist (1858–1949)
Abdülmecid II
1944
Ottoman caliph from 1922 to 1924
Stefan Filipkiewicz
1944
Polish artist (1879–1944)
Albert Roussel
1937
French composer (1869–1937)
Adolf Loos
1933
Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture
Sacco and Vanzetti
1927
Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
Sacco and Vanzetti
1927
Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
Rudolph Valentino
1926
Italian actor (1895–1926)
Heinrich Berté
1924
Austria-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas
Kuroda Kiyotaka
1900
Prime Minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889
1800s
Deodoro da Fonseca
1892
President of Brazil from 1889 to 1891
William Thompson (boxer)
1880
Boxer from Nottingham, England
Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy
1867
French poet (1796–1867)
Alexander Calder (mayor)
1853
American politician
Thomas R. Gray
1845
American attorney and author (1800–1845)
Ferenc Kazinczy
1831
Hungarian author (1759–1831)
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau
1831
Generalfeldmarschall of Prussian Army (1760–1831)
Oliver Hazard Perry
1819
United States Navy officer (1785–1819)
Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)
1813
Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
1806
French physicist (1736–1806)
Before 1800
Increase Mather
1723
Puritan minister, academic and activist (1639–1723)
Edward Nott
1706
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron
1652
English politician and army officer (1599–1652)
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
1628
English politician (1592–1628)
Gerbrand Bredero
1618
Dutch poet and playwright (1585–1618)
Luis de León
1591
Spanish poet and friar (1527–1591)
Ebussuud Efendi
1574
Ottoman chief jurist (1490–1574)
Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton
1568
English nobleman (1495–1568)
Guillaume Budé
1540
French scholar, humanist and administrator (1467–1540)
Philibert Berthelier (Geneva patriot)
1519
Swiss patriot
Jean Molinet
1507
French poet (1435–1507)
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
1498
Queen of Portugal from 1497 to 1498
Thomas de Littleton
1481
English judge (c. 1407–1481)
Johannes Pullois
1478
Franco-Flemish composer
Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz
1367
14th-century Spanish cardinal and archbishop
Chen Youliang
1363
Founder and first emperor of Chen Han (r. 1360–63)
John de Stratford
1348
English clergyman and official (c.1275–1348)
Heilwige Bloemardinne
1335
Christian mystic (1265?–1335)
Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine
1329
Duke of Lorraine from 1312 to 1328
Nicolaas Zannekin
1328
14th-century Flemish peasant and leader of a 1323-28 revolt in Flanders
William Wallace
1305
Scottish knight (1270–1305)
Emperor Rokujō
1176
Emperor of Japan from 1165 to 1168
Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1106
Duke of Saxony
Volkold
992
Bishop of Meissen
Abu Bakr
634
First caliph of Rashidun Caliphate from 632 to 634
Radagaisus
406
Gothic king (died 406)
AD 93
93
Calendar year
Caesarion
-30
Pharaoh of Egypt from 44 to 30 BC
Marcus Antonius Antyllus
-30
Son of Roman Triumvir Marc Antony (47–30 BC)