August 23
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Contents |
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
- 1966 - Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
- 1968 - Chris DiMarco, American golfer
- 1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
- 1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
- 1969 - Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
- 1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
- 1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
- 1971 - BoneCrusher, American rapper
- 1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer
- 1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1974 - Ray Park, Scottish actor
- 1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
- 1974 - Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
- 1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
- 1975 - Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1976 - Scott Caan, American actor
- 1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
- 1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
- 1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician
- 1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
- 1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
- 1981 - Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
- 1981 - Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
- 1981 - Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress.
- 1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
- 1982 - YTCracker, American musician
- 1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
- 1986 - Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
- 1988 - Daniel Schwaab, German footballer
- 1996 - Eliza Pineda, Filipina child actress
Deaths
- 93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
- 634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
- 1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony
- 1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
- 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot
- 1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
- 1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
- 1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
- 1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar
- 1591 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
- 1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
- 1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
- 1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
- 1706 - Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
- 1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
- 1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
- 1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
- 1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
- 1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
- 1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
- 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
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "August 23" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.