August 23
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Art and culture
- 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
- 1833 - Slavery abolished in the British colonies.
Births
- 1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
- 1963 - Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
- 1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
- 1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
Deaths
- 1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
- 1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
- 1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
- 1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
- 1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
- 1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
- 1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
- 1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
- 1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
- 1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
- 1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
- 1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
- 1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
- 1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
- 1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
- 1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
- 1990 - David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
- 1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
- 1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
- 1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
- 1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
- 2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
- 2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
- 2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
- 2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
- 2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
- 2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
Notes
- Félicien Rops
- Allan Kaprow
- Académie des Beaux-Arts
- Park Chan-wook
- Rodolphe Töpffer
- James Bulger
- Stockholm syndrome
- Norrmalmstorg robbery
- Roy Strong
- Louis XVI of France
- Arthur Adamov
- R. D. Laing
- Rudolph Valentino
- Gabriel von Max
- Clifford Geertz
- River Phoenix
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