23 August Deaths

Published : 23 Aug 2019, 11:12

Sahos Desk

August 23 is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

30 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (b. 47 BC)
30 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier (b. 47 BC)
AD 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and politician (b. AD 40)
406 – Radagaisus, Gothic king
634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573)
818 – Ali al-Ridha, Iranian 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765)
992 – Volkold, bishop of Meissen[5]
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)
1387 – Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
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)
1831 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
1853 – Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
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 actor (b. 1895)
1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (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)
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)
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)
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 and boat 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)
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)
2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (b. 1932)
2001 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (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 – 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 (b. 1927)
2006 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928)
2008 – John Russell, English-American author and critic (b. 1919)
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)
2013 – Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (b. 1955)
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 – 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 – Enrique Reneau, Honduran footballer (b. 1971)
2015 – Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914)
2016 – Steven Hill, American actor (b. 1922)

Source: wikipedia

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