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What happend on 23. August in History
In our data base we found 364 events happened on 23. August:
• 79: Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. [category: Events]
• 93: Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (b. 40) [category: Deaths]
• 406: Radagaisus, Gothic king [category: Deaths]
• 406: Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho. [category: Events]
• 476: Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops. [category: Events]
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• 634: Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573) [category: Deaths]
• 818: Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765) [category: Deaths]
• 1106: Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045) [category: Deaths]
• 1176: Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164) [category: Deaths]
• 1305: William Wallace, Scottish knight and landowner (b. 1272) [category: Deaths]
• 1305: Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London. [category: Events]
• 1328: Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers. [category: Events]
• 1387: Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370) [category: Deaths]
• 1486: Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566) [category: Births]
• 1507: Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435) [category: Deaths]
• 1514: The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder. [category: Events]
• 1519: Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465) [category: Deaths]
• 1524: François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590) [category: Births]
• 1540: Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467) [category: Deaths]
• 1541: French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. [category: Events]
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• 1572: Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. [category: Events]
• 1591: Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527) [category: Deaths]
• 1595: Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni. [category: Events]
• 1618: Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585) [category: Deaths]
• 1623: Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologian, historian, astronomer, and writer (d. 1675) [category: Births]
• 1628: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592) [category: Deaths]
• 1650: Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards. [category: Events]
• 1652: John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600) [category: Deaths]
• 1706: Edward Nott, English statesman (b. 1654) [category: Deaths]
• 1723: Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639) [category: Deaths]
• 1724: Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant (d. 1796) [category: Births]
• 1741: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer (d. 1788) [category: Births]
• 1754: Louis XVI of France (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1757: Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775) [category: Births]
• 1765: Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War. [category: Events]
• 1769: Georges Cuvier, French biologist (d. 1832) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1783: William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1785: Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819) [category: Births]
• 1799: Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power. [category: Events]
• 1805: Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893) [category: Births]
• 1806: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist, developed Coulomb's law (b. 1736) [category: Deaths]
• 1813: Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766) [category: Deaths]
• 1813: At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army. [category: Events]
• 1814: James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1819: Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785) [category: Deaths]
• 1829: Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1831: Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759) [category: Deaths]
• 1836: Marie Henriette of Austria (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1838: Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1843: William Southam, Canadian publisher (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1846: Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1847: Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1849: William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1852: Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1852: Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1853: Alexander Calder, American politician (b. 1806) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1858: Antal Reguly, Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 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'. [category: Events]
• 1864: Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1864: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas. [category: Events]
• 1866: Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. [category: Events]
• 1867: Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1873: Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens. [category: Events]
• 1875: Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1875: William Eccles, English physicist (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1877: István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1880: Alexander Grin, Russian author (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1883: Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1884: Ogden L. Mills, American businessman and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1884: Will Cuppy, American author and critic (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1890: Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1892: Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 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). [category: Events]
• 1898: The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London. [category: Events]
• 1900: Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1900: Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1900: Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: Guy Bush, American baseball player (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1901: John Sherman Cooper, American politician (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1903: William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1904: The automobile tire chain is patented. [category: Events]
• 1905: Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1908: Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1909: Leila Danette, American actress [category: Births]
• 1909: Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1910: Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1910: Lonny Frey, American baseball player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1911: Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1912: Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1914: World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. [category: Events]
• 1914: World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal. [category: Events]
• 1917: Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1919: Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1921: Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1921: Sam Cook, English cricketer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 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 4 survive. [category: Events]
• 1922: George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1922: Jean Darling, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1922: Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1922: Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1923: Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. [category: Events]
• 1924: Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1924: Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1924: Heinrich Berté, Austrian composer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Robert Mulligan, American director (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1926: Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1926: Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1926: Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1927: Martial Solal, French pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1927: Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. [category: Events]
• 1928: Marian Seldes, American actress [category: Births]
• 1929: Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1930: Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France [category: Births]
• 1930: Vera Miles, American actress [category: Births]
• 1931: Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1932: Houari Boumediene, Algerian politician, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1932: Mark Russell, American comedian, singer, and pianist [category: Births]
• 1933: Pete Wilson, American politician, 36th Governor of California [category: Births]
• 1933: Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1933: Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Barbara Eden, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1934: Sonny Jurgensen, American football player [category: Births]
• 1936: Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1937: Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia. [category: Events]
• 1939: Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, French fencer (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: World War II: 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. [category: Events]
• 1942: Letta Mbulu, South African singer [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. [category: Events]
• 1943: Nelson DeMille, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1943: Pino Presti, Italian musician [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. [category: Events]
• 1944: Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States [category: Births]
• 1944: Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: Marseille is liberated. [category: Events]
• 1945: Bob Peck, English actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1945: Rayfield Wright, American football player [category: Births]
• 1946: Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1946: Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. [category: Events]
• 1947: David Robb, English-Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Rex Allen, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1947: Terje Rypdal, Norwegian guitarist and composer (The Vanguards) [category: Births]
• 1947: Willy Russell, English playwright and composer [category: Births]
• 1948: Andrei Pleşu, Romanian philosopher, journalist, and politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Atef Bseiso, Palestinian PLO head of intelligence (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1948: Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist [category: Births]
• 1948: Rudy Ruettiger, American football player [category: Births]
• 1948: World Council of Churches is formed. [category: Events]
• 1949: Geoff Capes, English strongman [category: Births]
• 1949: Rick Springfield, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot) [category: Births]
• 1949: Shelley Long, American actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician [category: Births]
• 1949: Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist, survivor of sinking of the Titanic (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1951: Allan Bristow, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1951: Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Survivor) [category: Births]
• 1951: Queen Noor of Jordan [category: Births]
• 1952: Georgios Paraschos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1952: Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Bobby G, English singer (Bucks Fizz) [category: Births]
• 1953: Ernst Savkovic, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1954: Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1954: First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. [category: Events]
• 1955: Reginald Tate, English actor (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1956: Hans-Jürgen Salewski, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1956: Robert L. Manahan, American actor (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1956: Skipp Sudduth, American actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician [category: Births]
• 1957: Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1958: Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. [category: Events]
• 1959: George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player [category: Births]
• 1960: Chris Potter, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Gary Hoey, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Heavy Bones) [category: Births]
• 1960: Rodney Greenblat, American graphic designer [category: Births]
• 1960: Oscar Hammerstein II, American composer and producer (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Alexandre Desplat, French composer [category: Births]
• 1961: Dean DeLeo, American guitarist (Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Army of Anyone) [category: Births]
• 1961: Gary Mabbutt, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1962: Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1962: Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor (Happy Mondays and Black Grape) [category: Births]
• 1962: Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Walter Anderson, German ethnologist (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1963: Kenny Wallace, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1963: Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1963: Richard Illingworth, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1963: Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1964: Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor, founded the City Harvest Church [category: Births]
• 1964: Wendy Pepper, American fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1964: Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1965: Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1966: Charley Boorman, English actor and writer [category: Births]
• 1966: Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1967: Ant, American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1967: Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and basketball coach (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Chris DiMarco, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1968: Laura Claycomb, American soprano [category: Births]
• 1969: Geneviève Brouillette, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Jeremy Schaap, American sportscaster and author [category: Births]
• 1969: Keith Tyson, English painter and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1970: Brad Mehldau, American pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1970: Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1970: KK, Indian singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1970: Lawrence Frank, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1970: River Phoenix, American actor and singer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1970: Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins. [category: Events]
• 1971: Bone Crusher, American rapper [category: Births]
• 1971: Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Tim Gutberlet, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Manuel Vidrio, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Mark Butcher, England cricketer [category: Births]
• 1972: Martin Grainger, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Casey Blake, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1973: Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model [category: Births]
• 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". [category: Events]
• 1974: Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner [category: Births]
• 1974: Christian Beranek, American actor, writer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1974: Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1974: Mark Bellhorn, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist [category: Births]
• 1974: Shifty Shellshock, American singer-songwriter and actor (Crazy Town) [category: Births]
• 1974: Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Eliza Carthy, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (Blue Murder) [category: Births]
• 1975: Sean Marks, New Zealand-American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Pat Garrity, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Scott Caan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Jelena Rozga, Croatian singer (Magazin) [category: Births]
• 1977: Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. [category: Events]
• 1978: Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter (The Strokes) [category: Births]
• 1978: Kobe Bryant, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer [category: Births]
• 1979: Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Ritchie Neville, English singer (Five) [category: Births]
• 1979: Zuzana Váleková, Slovak tennis player [category: Births]
• 1980: Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Diamondog, Angolan rapper and journalist [category: Births]
• 1980: Nenad Vučković, Serbian handball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Rex Grossman, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Carmen Luvana, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Ozzy Lusth, Mexican reality show contestant [category: Births]
• 1981: Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Cristian Tudor, Romanian footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1982: Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1982: Scott Palguta, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1982: Trevor Wright, American actor [category: Births]
• 1982: YTCracker, American DJ and computer hacker [category: Births]
• 1982: Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. [category: Events]
• 1983: Annie Ilonzeh, American actress [category: Births]
• 1983: J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1983: James Collins, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Ruta Gedmintas, English actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Tony Moll, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Glen Johnson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Kristy Bruce, English actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. [category: Events]
• 1986: Brett Morris, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1986: Kim Feenstra, Dutch model [category: Births]
• 1986: Neil Cicierega, American animator, actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1986: SkyBlu, American singer and dancer (LMFAO) [category: Births]
• 1987: Danny Page, Australian basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1987: Nikki Gil, Filipino actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Didier Pironi, French race car driver (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. Score was 115x120 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team". [category: Events]
• 1988: Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1988: Jeremy Lin, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Kimberly Matula, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1989: Breanna Conrad, American fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1989: Heiko Schwarz, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Lianne La Havas, British singer/songwriter [category: Births]
• 1989: Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. [category: Events]
• 1989: Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way). [category: Events]
• 1990: Wesley Singerman, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1990: David Rose, American composer and pianist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1990: Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. [category: Events]
• 1990: West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3. [category: Events]
• 1993: The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. [category: Events]
• 1994: Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. [category: Events]
• 1995: Eliza Pineda, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1995: Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboard player (Skinny Puppy, Psyche, and Hilt) (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Cesar Flores, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1996: David Gore, American actor [category: Births]
• 1996: Margaret Tucker, Australian activist and writer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' [category: Events]
• 1997: John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: James White, Irish author (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: John Anthony Kaiser, American priest (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. [category: Events]
• 2001: Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor [category: Births]
• 2001: Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Alana Mansour, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 2003: Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: John Geoghan, American priest (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpeter and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity. [category: Events]
• 2007: Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia. [category: Events]
• 2008: John Russell, English-American critic and author (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed [category: Events]
• 2011: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs in Virginia. The earthquake is felt as far north as Ontario, Canada, as far south as Miami, Florida, and as far west as Chicago, Illinois, Iowa, and Texas. [category: Events]
• 2011: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war. [category: Events]
• 2012: Aubrey Dunn, Sr., American politician (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bob Myrick, American baseball player (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Edith Mastenbroek, Dutch politician (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: James Fogle, American author (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jean-Luc Delarue, French television producer and host (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Josepha Sherman, American author (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Merv Neagle, Australian footballer (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, Taiwanese bishop (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Steve Van Buren, American football player (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. [category: Events]
• 30_bc: Caesarion, Last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra (b. 47 BC) [category: Deaths]
• 30_bc: Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier and eldest son of Marc Antony (b. 47 BC) [category: Deaths]
• _: August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Black Ribbon Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism (European Union) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Father's Day (Nepal) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Flag Day (Ukraine) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Leave-Taking of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic Churches) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Philip Benitius [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Rose of Lima [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Tydfil [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Umhlanga Day (Swaziland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Vulcanalia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Éogan of Ardstraw [category: Holidays and observances]