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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of August 0079 | EVENT | Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. |
| 23rd of August 1305 | EVENT | William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is hung, drawn and quartered for high treason by Edward I of England. |
| 23rd of August 1328 | EVENT | Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers. |
| 23rd of August 1514 | EVENT | Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder. |
| 23rd of August 1541 | EVENT | French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. |
| 23rd of August 1555 | EVENT | Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands. |
| 23rd of August 1572 | EVENT | Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris : St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. |
| 23rd of August 1595 | EVENT | Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni. |
| 23rd of August 1708 | EVENT | Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur. |
| 23rd of August 1775 | EVENT | King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion. |
| 23rd of August 1784 | EVENT | Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn't accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years. |
| 23rd of August 1793 | EVENT | French Revolution: a levee en masse is decreed by the National Convention. |
| 23rd of August 1799 | EVENT | Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. |
| 23rd of August 1813 | EVENT | At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bulow repulse the French army. |
| 23rd of August 1839 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of August 1858 | EVENT | 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'. |
| 23rd of August 1864 | EVENT | The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 23rd of August 1866 | EVENT | Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. |
| 23rd of August 1873 | EVENT | Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened. |
| 23rd of August 1896 | EVENT | First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila. |
| 23rd of August 1904 | EVENT | The automobile tire chain is patented. |
| 23rd of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. |
| 23rd of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal. |
| 23rd of August 1921 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of August 1923 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of August 1927 | EVENT | Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. |
| 23rd of August 1929 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of August 1938 | EVENT | English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia. |
| 23rd of August 1939 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. |
| 23rd of August 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Kharkov liberated. |
| 23rd of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Marseille liberated. |
| 23rd of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies (see King Michael's Coup) |
| 23rd of August 1944 | EVENT | Freckleton Air Disaster : A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people. |
| 23rd of August 1946 | EVENT | Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. |
| 23rd of August 1948 | EVENT | World Council of Churches is formed. |
| 23rd of August 1954 | EVENT | First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. |
| 23rd of August 1958 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. |
| 23rd of August 1966 | EVENT | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. |
| 23rd of August 1975 | EVENT | Successful Communist coup in Laos. |
| 23rd of August 1977 | EVENT | The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight. |
| 23rd of August 1979 | EVENT | Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States. |
| 23rd of August 1982 | EVENT | Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war. |
| 23rd of August 1985 | EVENT | Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. |
| 23rd of August 1989 | EVENT | Hungary: the last communist government opens the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11). |
| 23rd of August 1989 | EVENT | Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way). |
| 23rd of August 1989 | EVENT | 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. |
| 23rd of August 1990 | EVENT | Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. |
| 23rd of August 1990 | EVENT | Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 23rd of August 1990 | EVENT | West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3. |
| 23rd of August 1994 | EVENT | Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. |
| 23rd of August 1996 | EVENT | Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' |
| 23rd of August 2000 | EVENT | Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. |
| 23rd of August 2006 | EVENT | Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity. |
| 23rd of August 1486 | BIRTHDAY | Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566) |
| 23rd of August 1524 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590) |
| 23rd of August 1623 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist (d. 1675) |
| 23rd of August 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796) |
| 23rd of August 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse, French explorer (d. 1788) |
| 23rd of August 1754 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793) |
| 23rd of August 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775) |
| 23rd of August 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832) |
| 23rd of August 1783 | BIRTHDAY | William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852) |
| 23rd of August 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819) |
| 23rd of August 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893) |
| 23rd of August 1814 | BIRTHDAY | James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader (d. 1877) |
| 23rd of August 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920) |
| 23rd of August 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902) |
| 23rd of August 1843 | BIRTHDAY | William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932) |
| 23rd of August 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923) |
| 23rd of August 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927) |
| 23rd of August 1849 | BIRTHDAY | William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903) |
| 23rd of August 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883) |
| 23rd of August 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Climaco Calderon, President of Colombia. (d. 1913) |
| 23rd of August 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925) |
| 23rd of August 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936) |
| 23rd of August 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950) |
| 23rd of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966) |
| 23rd of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946) |
| 23rd of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932) |
| 23rd of August 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953) |
| 23rd of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949) |
| 23rd of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Ogden L. Mills, American Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937) |
| 23rd of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Bush, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | John Sherman Cooper, American politician (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982) |
| 23rd of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951) |
| 23rd of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Frank, Scottish artist (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970) |
| 23rd of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Lonny Frey, American baseball player (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979) |
| 23rd of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984) |
| 23rd of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner |
| 23rd of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Darling, American child actress |
| 23rd of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Gauvreau, French Canadian painter, television writer and producer |
| 23rd of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 23rd of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mulligan, American film director (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006) |
| 23rd of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator |
| 23rd of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Martial Solal, French jazz pianist and composer |
| 23rd of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Seldes, American actress |
| 23rd of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Miles, American actress |
| 23rd of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Rocard, French politician |
| 23rd of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 23rd of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Russell, American comedian and political commentator |
| 23rd of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 23rd of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Wilson, American politician |
| 23rd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Eden, American actress and singer |
| 23rd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Jurgensen, American football player |
| 23rd of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson DeMille, American novelist |
| 23rd of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General |
| 23rd of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rayfield Wright, American football player |
| 23rd of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Moon, English musician (The Who) (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Russell, British playwright |
| 23rd of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Robb, British actor |
| 23rd of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Plesu, Romanian writer, essayist |
| 23rd of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ruettiger, American motivational speaker |
| 23rd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer |
| 23rd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Capes, English strongman |
| 23rd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Long, American actress |
| 23rd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor |
| 23rd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Bristow, American basketball head coach |
| 23rd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Noor of Jordan |
| 23rd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor) |
| 23rd of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician |
| 23rd of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz) |
| 23rd of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Savkovic, German footballer |
| 23rd of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen |
| 23rd of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Jurgen Salewski, German footballer |
| 23rd of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Skipp Sudduth, American actor |
| 23rd of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician |
| 23rd of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician |
| 23rd of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player |
| 23rd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player |
| 23rd of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist |
| 23rd of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Hoey, American Guitarist |
| 23rd of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Potter, Canadian actor |
| 23rd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) |
| 23rd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Mabbutt, English footballer |
| 23rd of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician |
| 23rd of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Ryder, English musician |
| 23rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player |
| 23rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Illingworth, England cricketer |
| 23rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Wallace, American race car driver |
| 23rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter |
| 23rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist |
| 23rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor |
| 23rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 23rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Pepper, American designer |
| 23rd of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer |
| 23rd of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player |
| 23rd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer |
| 23rd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Chris DiMarco, American golfer |
| 23rd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Claycomb, American operatic soprano |
| 23rd of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Tyson, English artist |
| 23rd of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter |
| 23rd of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Genevieve Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress |
| 23rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Frank, American basketball coach |
| 23rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | "KK" Krishnakumar Kunnath, Indian singer |
| 23rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Mehldau, American pianist |
| 23rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian |
| 23rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 23rd of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer |
| 23rd of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | BoneCrusher, American rapper |
| 23rd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Grainger, English footballer |
| 23rd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 23rd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Butcher, England cricketer |
| 23rd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Blake, American baseball player |
| 23rd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer |
| 23rd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model |
| 23rd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Park, Scottish actor |
| 23rd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Binzer, aka Shifty Shellshock, American musician (Crazy Town) |
| 23rd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner |
| 23rd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor |
| 23rd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler |
| 23rd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Marks, New Zealander-born basketball player |
| 23rd of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Caan, American actor |
| 23rd of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Garrity, American basketball player |
| 23rd of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer |
| 23rd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kobe Bryant, American basketball player |
| 23rd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Casablancas, American singer (The Strokes) |
| 23rd of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer |
| 23rd of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ritchie Neville, British musician |
| 23rd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player |
| 23rd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Grossman, American football player |
| 23rd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Diamondog, Angolan rapper |
| 23rd of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stephan Loboue, Ivorian footballer |
| 23rd of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress |
| 23rd of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Cuellar, Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer |
| 23rd of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Palguta, American soccer player |
| 23rd of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | YTCracker, American musician and computer hacker |
| 23rd of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player |
| 23rd of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Moll, American football player |
| 23rd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Johnson, English footballer |
| 23rd of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician |
| 23rd of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Gil, Filipina actress and host |
| 23rd of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Lin, American basketball player |
| 23rd of August 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor |
| 23rd of August 0093 | DEATH | Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (Born 40) |
| 23rd of August 0634 | DEATH | Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (Born 578) |
| 23rd of August 1106 | DEATH | Magnus, Duke of Saxony (Born 1045) |
| 23rd of August 1176 | DEATH | Emperor Rokujo of Japan (Born 1164) |
| 23rd of August 1305 | DEATH | William Wallace, Scottish patriot (Born 1272) |
| 23rd of August 1387 | DEATH | King Olav IV of Norway (Born 1370) |
| 23rd of August 1507 | DEATH | Jean Molinet, French writer (Born 1435) |
| 23rd of August 1519 | DEATH | Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (Born 1465) |
| 23rd of August 1540 | DEATH | Guillaume Bude, French scholar (Born 1467) |
| 23rd of August 1591 | DEATH | Luis Ponce de Leon, Spanish poet and mystic (Born 1527) |
| 23rd of August 1618 | DEATH | Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (Born 1585) |
| 23rd of August 1628 | DEATH | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (Born 1592) |
| 23rd of August 1652 | DEATH | John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (Born 1600) |
| 23rd of August 1706 | DEATH | Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (Born 1654) |
| 23rd of August 1723 | DEATH | Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (Born 1639) |
| 23rd of August 1806 | DEATH | Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (Born 1736) |
| 23rd of August 1813 | DEATH | Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (Born 1766) |
| 23rd of August 1819 | DEATH | Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (Born 1785) |
| 23rd of August 1853 | DEATH | Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (Born 1806) |
| 23rd of August 1867 | DEATH | Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy, French poet (Born 1796) |
| 23rd of August 1892 | DEATH | Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (Born 1827) |
| 23rd of August 1924 | DEATH | Heinrich Berte, Austrian operetta composer (Born 1856) |
| 23rd of August 1926 | DEATH | Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (Born 1895) |
| 23rd of August 1927 | DEATH | Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (Born 1891) |
| 23rd of August 1927 | DEATH | Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (Born 1888) |
| 23rd of August 1937 | DEATH | Albert Roussel, French composer (Born 1869) |
| 23rd of August 1955 | DEATH | Reginald Tate, British actor (Born 1896) |
| 23rd of August 1960 | DEATH | Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (Born 1895) |
| 23rd of August 1962 | DEATH | Walter Anderson, German folklorist (Born 1885) |
| 23rd of August 1962 | DEATH | Hoot Gibson, American actor (Born 1892) |
| 23rd of August 1963 | DEATH | Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (Born 1900) |
| 23rd of August 1966 | DEATH | Francis X. Bushman, American actor (Born 1883) |
| 23rd of August 1967 | DEATH | Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of August 1971 | DEATH | The original Shamu, SeaWorld orca |
| 23rd of August 1974 | DEATH | Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (Born 1888) |
| 23rd of August 1977 | DEATH | Naum Gabo, Russian artist (Born 1890) |
| 23rd of August 1982 | DEATH | Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of August 1987 | DEATH | Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (Born 1952) |
| 23rd of August 1989 | DEATH | Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (Born 1944) |
| 23rd of August 1989 | DEATH | R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of August 1990 | DEATH | David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of August 1995 | DEATH | Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(Born 1964) |
| 23rd of August 1996 | DEATH | Margaret Tucker Indigenous Australian activist and autobiographer (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of August 1997 | DEATH | John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Born 1917) |
| 23rd of August 1999 | DEATH | Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (Born 1926) |
| 23rd of August 1999 | DEATH | James White, Northern Irish writer (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of August 2000 | DEATH | John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (Born 1932) |
| 23rd of August 2001 | DEATH | Kathleen Freeman, American actress (Born 1919) |
| 23rd of August 2001 | DEATH | Peter Maas, American novelist (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of August 2002 | DEATH | Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (Born 1922) |
| 23rd of August 2003 | DEATH | John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (Born 1935) |
| 23rd of August 2003 | DEATH | Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of August 2003 | DEATH | Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of August 2005 | DEATH | Brock Peters, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of August 2005 | DEATH | Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (Born 1973) |
| 23rd of August 2006 | DEATH | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of August 2007 | DEATH | Robert Symonds, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 23rd of August 2008 | DEATH | John Russell, British-born American art critic and author (Born 1919) |
| 23rd of August 2010 | DEATH | Satoshi Kon, Japanese director of anime films (Born 1963) |