August 23 - Deaths

Deaths

• 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
• 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 578)
• 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
• 1176 – Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
• 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot (b. 1272)
• 1387 – King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
• 1507 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
• 1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
• 1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
• 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)
• 1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1^st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1924 – Heinrich Berté, Austrian operetta composer (b. 1856)
• 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, SeaWorld orca
• 1974 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
• 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)
• 1996 – Margaret Tucker Indigenous Australian activist and autobiographer (b. 1904)
• 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)
• 2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
• 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)
• 2008 – John Russell, British-born American art critic and author (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese director of anime films (b. 1963)