August 23 is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt , Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus , eldest son of Mark Antony , and Caesarion , the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra .
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan , and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan , the Roman god of fire.
406 – Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves .
476 – Odoacer , chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati ), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy ") by his troops.
634 – Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate .
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem : The city's citadel, the Tower of David , surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire .
1268 – Battle of Tagliacozzo : The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy .
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 – Battle of Cassel : French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 – Siege of Moscow : The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow .
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I , Ottoman Empire , over the Shah Ismail I , founder of the Safavid dynasty .
1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent .
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 – French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre .
1592 – Japanese invasions of Korea : The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by Itō Suketaka.
1595 – Long Turkish War : Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory .
1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle : The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori , leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara .
1614 – Fettmilch Uprising : Jews are expelled from Frankfurt , Holy Roman Empire , following the plundering of the Judengasse .
1614 – The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic .
1628 – George Villiers , the first Duke of Buckingham , is assassinated by John Felton .
1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards .
1655 – Battle of Sobota : The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth .
1703 – Edirne event : Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1765 – Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War .
1775 – American Revolutionary War : King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 – At the Battle of Großbeeren , the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China . The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War .
1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country , England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan , Alabama , thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas .
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague .
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin , the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City ), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition , the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration , departs from London.
1901 – 600 American school teachers, Thomasites , arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas .
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao , China .
1914 – World War I: Battle of Mons : The British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary . Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B , setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots : Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine , continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia .
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact . In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states , Finland, Romania , and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad .
1943 – World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk .
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu , who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies .
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster : A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton , England killing 61 people.
1945 – Soviet–Japanese War : The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War ".
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein .
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War : The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army 's bombardment of Quemoy .
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon .
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez , the Salad Bowl strike , the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
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 ".
1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 – Hans Tiedge , top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany .
1987 – The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis . The final score was 120–115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
1989 – Singing Revolution : Two million people from Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius –Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way ).
1989 – One thousand six hundred forty-five Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute .
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War .
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union .
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3 .
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW , World Wide Web to new users.
1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida , the first known asteroid moon .
1994 – Eugene Bullard , the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force .
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain , killing 143.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch , who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil , after eight years of captivity.
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.
2010 – Manila hostage crisis , in which eight hostages were killed.
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 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War .
2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana , killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz , Bolivia , kills 31 people.
Births
1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein , Slovenian historian and diplomat (d. 1566)
1524 – François Hotman , French lawyer and jurist (d. 1590)
1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki , Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (d. 1675)
1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr. , American lawyer and civil servant (d. 1796)
1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse , French admiral and explorer (d. 1788)
1754 – Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann , German actress (d. 1775)
1769 – Georges Cuvier , French biologist and academic (d. 1832)
1783 – William Tierney Clark , English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852)
1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry , American commander (d. 1819)
1805 – Anton von Schmerling , Austrian judge and politician (d. 1893)
1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley , American archbishop (d. 1877)
1829 – Moritz Cantor , German mathematician and historian (d. 1920)
1836 – Marie Henriette of Austria (d. 1902)
1843 – William Southam , Canadian publisher (d. 1932)
1846 – Alexander Milne Calder , Scottish-American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting , American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 – William Ernest Henley , English poet and critic (d. 1903)
1852 – Radha Gobinda Kar , Indian physician and philanthropist (d. 1918)
1852 – Clímaco Calderón , Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (d. 1913)
1852 – Arnold Toynbee , English economist and historian (d. 1883)
1854 – Moritz Moszkowski , Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1925)
1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos , Greek lawyer, jurist, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
1867 – Edgar de Wahl , Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and academic (d. 1948)
1868 – Edgar Lee Masters , American lawyer, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1950)
1872 – Tanguturi Prakasam , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Andhra (d. 1957)
1875 – William Eccles , English physicist and engineer (d. 1966)
1875 – Eugene Lanceray , Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1946)
1877 – István Medgyaszay , Hungarian architect and academic (d. 1959)
1880 – Alexander Grin , Russian sailor and author (d. 1932)
1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright , American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1953)
1884 – Will Cuppy , American author and critic (d. 1949)
1884 – Ogden L. Mills , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim , American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1971)
1891 – Roy Agnew , Australian pianist and composer (d. 1944)
1894 – John Auden , English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (d. 1959)
1897 – Henry F. Pringle , American historian and journalist (d. 1958)
1900 – Ernst Krenek , Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991)
1900 – Malvina Reynolds , American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)
1901 – Guy Bush , American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1901 – John Sherman Cooper , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 2nd United States Ambassador to East Germany (d. 1991)
1903 – William Primrose , Scottish viola player and educator (d. 1982)
1905 – Ernie Bushmiller , American cartoonist (d. 1982)
1905 – Constant Lambert , English composer and conductor (d. 1951)
1908 – Hannah Frank , Scottish sculptor and illustrator (d. 2008)
1909 – Syd Buller , English cricketer and umpire (d. 1970)
1909 – Leila Danette , American actress (d. 2012)
1910 – Lonny Frey , American baseball player and soldier (d. 2009)
1910 – Giuseppe Meazza , Italian footballer and manager (d. 1979)
1911 – Birger Ruud , Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998)
1912 – Gene Kelly , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1917 – Tex Williams , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin , Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (d. 1984)
1921 – Kenneth Arrow , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 – Sam Cook , English cricketer and umpire (d. 1996)
1922 – Nazik Al-Malaika , Iraqi poet and academic (d. 2007)
1922 – Jean Darling , American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1922 – George Kell , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1923 – Edgar F. Codd , English-American computer scientist and programmer (d. 2003)
1924 – Ephraim Kishon , Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert Solow , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 – Robert Mulligan , American director and producer (d. 2008)
1926 – Clifford Geertz , American anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
1926 – Gyula Hernádi , Hungarian author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1927 – Dick Bruna , Dutch author and illustrator
1927 – Allan Kaprow , American painter and author (d. 2006)
1927 – Martial Solal , Algerian-French pianist and composer
1928 – Marian Seldes , American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1929 – Vladimir Beekman , Estonian poet and translator (d. 2009)
1929 – Zoltán Czibor , Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)
1929 – Vera Miles , American model and actress, Miss Kansas 1948
1930 – Michel Rocard , French civil servant and politician, 160th Prime Minister of France
1931 – Barbara Eden , American actress and singer
1931 – Hamilton O. Smith , American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Houari Boumediene , Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 – Enos Nkala , Zimbabwean soldier and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (d. 2013)
1932 – Mark Russell , American comedian, singer, and pianist
1933 – Robert Curl , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Pete Wilson , American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
1934 – Sonny Jurgensen , American football player and sportscaster
1935 – Roy Strong , English historian, curator, and author
1936 – Henry Lee Lucas , American serial killer (d. 2001)
1938 – Giacomo Bini , Italian priest and missionary (d. 2014)
1938 – Roger Greenaway , English singer-songwriter and producer (The Kestrels , Brotherhood of Man , and The Pipkins )
1940 – Galen Rowell , American mountaineer and photographer (d. 2002)
1940 – Richard Sanders , American actor and screenwriter
1941 – Jim Ford , American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1941 – Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve , Irish philosopher, academic, and politician
1942 – Letta Mbulu , South African-American singer and actress
1943 – Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours , English businessman and politician
1943 – Nelson DeMille , American lieutenant and author
1943 – Peter Lilley , English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1943 – Pino Presti , Italian bass player, composer, conductor, and producer
1944 – Saira Banu , Indian actress
1944 – Antonia Novello , Puerto Rican-American physician and admiral, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
1945 – Rita Pavone , Italian singer and actress
1945 – Bob Peck , English actor (d. 1999)
1945 – Rayfield Wright , American football player and coach
1946 – Keith Moon , English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and Plastic Ono Band ) (d. 1978)
1947 – Rex Allen, Jr. , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – David Robb , English-Scottish actor
1947 – Willy Russell , English playwright and composer
1947 – Terje Rypdal , Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (The Vanguards )
1948 – Atef Bseiso , Palestinian intelligence officer (d. 1992)
1948 – Andrei Pleșu , Romanian journalist and politician, 95th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1948 – Rudy Ruettiger , American football player
1948 – Lev Zeleny , Russian physicist and academic
1949 – William Lane Craig , American apologist and theologian
1949 – Geoff Capes , English shot putter and strongman
1949 – Vicky Leandros , Greek singer and politician
1949 – Shelley Long , American actress and producer
1949 – Rick Springfield , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot )
1950 – Alan Tam , Hong Kong singer and actor (The Wynners )
1951 – Allan Bristow , American basketball player and coach
1951 – Jimi Jamison , American singer-songwriter (Survivor ) (d. 2014)
1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov , Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (d. 2004)
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
1952 – Santillana , Spanish footballer
1952 – Georgios Paraschos , Greek footballer and manager
1953 – Bobby G , English singer-songwriter (Bucks Fizz )
1953 – Kheira Bouziane , French politician
1953 – John Rocha , Hong Kong-Irish fashion designer
1954 – Charles Busch , American actor and screenwriter
1956 – Andreas Floer , German mathematician and academic (d. 1991)
1956 – Valgerd Svarstad Haugland , Norwegian educator and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
1956 – Robert L. Manahan , American actor (d. 2000)
1956 – Skipp Sudduth , American actor and director
1957 – Tasos Mitropoulos , Greek footballer and politician
1958 – Julio Franco , Dominican baseball player and manager
1958 – Joanna Storm , American porn actress
1959 – Edwyn Collins , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Orange Juice )
1959 – George Kalovelonis , Greek tennis player and coach
1960 – Rodney Greenblat , American painter and graphic designer
1960 – Gary Hoey , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Heavy Bones )
1960 – Chris Potter , Canadian actor, singer, and director
1961 – Dean DeLeo , American guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots , Talk Show , and Army of Anyone )
1961 – Alexandre Desplat , French composer and conductor
1961 – Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf , Iranian commander and politician, 54th Mayor of Tehran
1961 – Gary Mabbutt , English footballer and actor
1961 – Hitomi Takahashi , Japanese actress
1962 – Martin Cauchon , Canadian lawyer and politician, 46th Canadian Minister of Justice
1962 – Shaun Ryder , English singer-songwriter and actor (Happy Mondays and Black Grape )
1963 – Park Chan-wook , South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Richard Illingworth , English cricketer and umpire
1963 – Kenny Wallace , American race car driver
1964 – Johan Bruyneel , Belgian cyclist and manager
1964 – Kong Hee , Singaporean pastor, founded the City Harvest Church
1964 – Wendy Pepper , American fashion designer
1964 – Yoshikazu Taru , Japanese wrestler
1965 – Roger Avary , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Charley Boorman , English actor and producer
1966 – Rik Smits , Dutch-American basketball player
1967 – Ant , American comedian and actor
1967 – Jim Murphy , Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe
1967 – Richard Petrie , New Zealand cricketer
1967 – Kazumi Totaka , Japanese voice actor and composer
1968 – Laura Claycomb , American soprano
1968 – Chris DiMarco , American golfer
1969 – Geneviève Brouillette , Canadian actress
1969 – Tinus Linee , South African rugby player and coach (d. 2014)
1969 – Jack Lopresti , English soldier and politician
1969 – Jeremy Schaap , American journalist and author
1969 – Keith Tyson , English painter and illustrator
1970 – KK , Indian singer-songwriter
1970 – Lawrence Frank , American basketball player and coach
1970 – Jason Hetherington , Australian rugby player
1970 – Brad Mehldau , American pianist and composer
1970 – Jay Mohr , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – River Phoenix , American actor and singer (d. 1993)
1970 – Lee Sung-jae , South Korean actor
1971 – Demetrio Albertini , Italian footballer and manager
1971 – Bone Crusher , American rapper, producer, and actor
1971 – Tim Gutberlet , German footballer
1972 – Mark Butcher , English cricketer and singer
1972 – Raul Casanova , Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 – Martin Grainger , English footballer and manager
1972 – Manuel Vidrio , Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
1973 – Casey Blake , American baseball player
1973 – Kerry Walmsley , New Zealand cricketer
1974 – Mark Bellhorn , American baseball player
1974 – Christian Beranek , American actor, producer, and author
1974 – Benjamin Limo , Kenyan runner
1974 – Konstantin Novoselov , Russian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1974 – Ray Park , Scottish actor and martial artist
1974 – Shifty Shellshock , American singer-songwriter and actor (Crazy Town )
1975 – Eliza Carthy , English singer-songwriter and fiddler (Blue Murder )
1975 – Sean Marks , New Zealand-American basketball player and manager
1975 – Bünyamin Sudaş , Turkish weightlifter
1976 – Scott Caan , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1976 – Pat Garrity , American basketball player
1977 – Jelena Rozga , Croatian singer (Magazin )
1977 – Douglas Sequeira , Costa Rican footballer and manager
1978 – Kobe Bryant , American basketball player and rapper
1978 – Julian Casablancas , American singer-songwriter (The Strokes and Julian Casablancas + The Voidz )
1978 – Andrew Rannells , American actor and singer
1978 – Randal Tye Thomas , American journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1979 – Jessica Bibby , Australian basketball player
1979 – Saskia Clark , English sailor
1979 – Ritchie Neville , English singer and actor (Five )
1979 – Edgar Sosa , Mexican boxer
1979 – Zuzana Váleková , Slovak tennis player
1980 – Diamondog , Angolan rapper and journalist
1980 – Denny Bautista , Dominican baseball player
1980 – Rex Grossman , American football player
1980 – Nenad Vučković , Serbian handball player
1981 – Carlos Cuéllar , Spanish footballer
1981 – Stephan Loboué , Ivorian footballer
1981 – Ozzy Lusth , Mexican-American reality show contestant on Survivor: Cook Islands
1981 – Carmen Luvana , American porn actress
1982 – YTCracker , American rapper and DJ
1982 – Natalie Coughlin , American swimmer
1982 – Scott Palguta , American soccer player
1982 – Cristian Tudor , Romanian footballer (d. 2012)
1982 – Trevor Wright , American actor
1983 – J. C. Bailey , American wrestler (d. 2010)
1983 – James Collins , Welsh footballer
1983 – Athena Farrokhzad , Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic
1983 – Ruta Gedmintas , English actress
1983 – Annie Ilonzeh , American actress
1983 – Sun Mingming , Chinese basketball player
1983 – Tony Moll , American football player
1983 – Bruno Spengler , Canadian race car driver
1983 – Marianne Steinbrecher , German-Brazilian volleyball player
1984 – Kristy Bruce , English actress
1984 – Glen Johnson , English footballer
1984 – Eric Tai , New Zealand rugby player and actor
1985 – Valeria Lukyanova , Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer
1986 – Sky Blu , American rapper and producer (LMFAO )
1986 – Neil Cicierega , American comedian, actor, singer, and director
1986 – Kim Feenstra , Dutch model and actress
1986 – Khosi Mokhesi , Lesotho swimmer
1986 – Brett Morris , Australian rugby player
1986 – Vic Wild , American-Russian snowboarder
1987 – Nikki Gil , Filipino actress and singer
1988 – Olga Govortsova , Belarusian tennis player
1988 – Carl Hagelin , Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Jeremy Lin , American basketball player
1988 – Kim Matula , American actress
1989 – Breanna Conrad , American fashion designer
1989 – Lianne La Havas , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Heiko Schwarz , German footballer
1990 – Wesley Singerman , American actor
1991 – Isabella Tobias , American-Lithuanian ice dancer
1995 – Vlada Kubassova , Estonian footballer
1995 – Eliza Pineda , Filipino actress and singer
2001 – Zaijian Jaranilla , Filipino actor
Deaths
30 BC – Caesarion , Egyptian king (b. 47 BC)
30 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus , Roman soldier (b. 47 BC)
93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola , Roman general and politician (b. 40)
406 – Radagaisus , Gothic king
634 – Abu Bakr , Arabian caliph (b. 573)
818 – Ali al-Ridha , Iranian 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765)
1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 – William Wallace , Scottish commander (b. 1272)
1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1387 – Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
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)
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-American 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 , 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)
1831 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau , Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
1853 – Alexander Calder , American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
1858 – Antal Reguly , Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1819)
1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy , French poet and author (b. 1796)
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-American actor (b. 1895)
1927 – Nicola Sacco , Italian murderer (b. 1891)
1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti , Italian murderer (b. 1888)
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)
1944 – Stefan Filipkiewicz , Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
1949 – Helen Churchill Candee , American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
1954 – Jaan Sarv , Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
1955 – Reginald Tate , English actor (b. 1896)
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II , American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
1962 – Walter Anderson , Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
1962 – Hoot Gibson , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
1963 – Glen Gray , American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra ) (b. 1900)
1966 – Francis X. Bushman , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1967 – Georges Berger , Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
1967 – Nathaniel Cartmell , American runner and coach (b. 1883)
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 driver (b. 1952)
1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai , Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
1989 – R. D. Laing , Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
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)
1995 – Dwayne Goettel , Canadian keyboard player (Skinny Puppy , Psyche , and Hilt ) (b. 1964)
1996 – Margaret Tucker , Australian author and activist (b. 1904)
1997 – Eric Gairy , Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
1997 – John Kendrew , English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
1999 – Norman Wexler , American screenwriter (b. 1926)
1999 – James White , Irish author (b. 1928)
2000 – John Anthony Kaiser , American priest and missionary (b. 1932)
2001 – Kathleen Freeman , American actress and singer (b. 1919)
2001 – Peter Maas , American journalist and author (b. 1929)
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm , American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
2003 – Bobby Bonds , American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003 – Jack Dyer , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1913)
2003 – John Geoghan , American priest (b. 1935)
2003 – Jan Sedivka , Czech-Australian violinist and educator (b. 1917)
2003 – Michael Kijana Wamalwa , Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (b. 1944)
2005 – Brock Peters , American actor and producer (b. 1927)
2006 – Maynard Ferguson , Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau ) (b. 1928)
2007 – Robert Symonds , American actor (b. 1926)
2008 – Ruth Cohen , American actress (b. 1930)
2008 – John Russell , English-American author and critic (b. 1919)
2012 – Col Campbell , New Zealand radio and television host (b. 1933)
2012 – Jean-Luc Delarue , French television host and producer (b. 1964)
2012 – Byard Lancaster , American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1942)
2012 – Merv Neagle , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
2012 – Jerry Nelson , American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934)
2012 – Josepha Sherman , American anthologist and author (b. 1946)
2012 – Steve Van Buren , Honduran-American football player (b. 1920)
2013 – Richard J. Corman , American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (b. 1955)
2013 – David Garrick , English singer (b. 1945)
2013 – William Glasser , American psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
2013 – Charles Lisanby , American production designer and set director (b. 1924)
2013 – Konstanty Miodowicz , Polish ethnographer and politician (b. 1951)
2013 – Vesna Rožič , Slovenian chess player (b. 1987)
2013 – Tatyana Zaslavskaya , Russian sociologist and economist (b. 1927)
2014 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo , Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989)
2014 – Inga Juuso , Norwegian singer and actress (b. 1945)
2014 – Annefleur Kalvenhaar , Dutch cyclist (b. 1994)
2014 – Dan Magill , American swimmer, tennis player, and coach (b. 1921)
2014 – Birgitta Stenberg , Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1932)
2014 – Jaume Vallcorba Plana , Spanish philologist and publisher (b. 1949)
2015 – Augusta Chiwy , Congolese-Belgian nurse (b. 1921)
2015 – Guy Ligier , French rugby player and race car driver (b. 1930)
2015 – Yosi Piamenta , Israeli-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
2015 – Enrique Reneau , Honduran footballer (b. 1971)
2015 – Paul Royle , Australian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914)
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