On this day: 23 August
Events, births and deaths on 23 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Taiwanese referendum
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Rudolph Valentino
- Births · Clifford Geertz
- Births · Gyula Hernádi
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1106 · Deaths · Magnus
Events · 30
- 1268(Julian date)Battle of Tagliacozzo — 1268 battle in Italy
- 1328Battle of Cassel — 1328 battle of the Flemish Coast Uprising
- 1382Siege of Moscow — 1382 siege
- 1514(Julian date)Battle of Chaldiran — 1514 battle during the Ottoman–Persian Wars
- 1572(Julian date)St. Bartholomew's Day massacre — massacre of the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) by the French government, 1572
- 1595Battle of Călugăreni — 1595 battle of the Ottoman Long War
- 1655Battle of Sobota — 1655 battle of the Second Northern War
- 1813(Julian date)Battle of Großbeeren — 1813 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1866Peace of Prague — peace treaty 1866
- 1884Battle of Fuzhou — 1884 battle between China and France
- 1914Battle of Mons — 1914 battle during World War I
- 1927Sacco and Vanzetti — Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
- 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact — 1939 neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
- 1942Battle of Stalingrad — 1942 major battle of World War II
- 1944King Michael's Coup — 1944 coup d'état led by Romanian King Michael I
- 1944Freckleton Air Disaster — 1944 bomber crash killed 61 in England
- 1946substate of Hanover — German substate in 1946
- 1948World Council of Churches — worldwide inter-church organization founded in 1948
- 1958Second Taiwan Strait Crisis — 1958 conflict between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in which the PRC shelled Kinmen and Matsu
- 1960Invasion of South Kasai — 1960 Congolese military action
- 1970Salad Bowl strike — strike
- 1973Norrmalmstorg robbery — 1973 bank robbery
- 1989Baltic Way — 1989 peaceful demonstration in the form of a human chain
- 2000Gulf Air Flight 072 — aviation accident in Bahrain on 23 Aug. 2000
- 2010Manila hostage crisis — mass murder in Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines on August 23, 2010
- 20112011 Virginia earthquake — earthquake in United States
- 20122012 Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash — hot air balloon crash in 2012 in Slovenia
- 20132013 Palmasola prison riot — riot in Palmasola prison, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- 20232023 Wagner Group plane crash — 23 August 2023 accident involving the private jet of Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia
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Births · 60
- 1741Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse — French Navy officer and explorer (1741–1788)
- 1754Louis XVI of France — King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 (1754-1793)
- 1769Georges Cuvier — French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
- 1776Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński — Polish philosopher
- 1836Marie Henriette of Austria — queen consort of Belgium
- 1849William Ernest Henley — English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)
- 1864Eleftherios Venizelos — Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1864–1936)
- 1868Edgar Lee Masters — American writer (1868–1950)
- 1910Giuseppe Meazza — Italian association football player and manager (1910-1979)
- 1911Betty Robinson — athletics competitor (1911-1999)
- 1912Gene Kelly — American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer (1912–1996)
- 1921Kenneth Arrow — American economist (1921–2017)
- 1922Nazik Al-Malaika — Iraqi poet (1922–2007)
- 1924Robert Solow — American economist (1924–2023)
- 1924Ephraim Kishon — Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director (1924–2005)
- 1925Robert Mulligan — American director (1925-2008)
- 1926Clifford Geertz — American anthropologist
- 1927Dick Bruna — Dutch graphic designer (1927-2017)
- 1929Zoltán Czibor — Hungarian footballer (1929-1997)
- 1930Michel Rocard — French politician (1930–2016)
- 1930Vera Miles — American actress (born 1929)
- 1931Hamilton Smith — American microbiologist (1931–2025)
- 1931Barbara Eden — American actress and singer (1931–)
- 1932Houari Boumédiène — Head of State of Algeria from 1965 to 1978
- 1933Robert Curl — American chemist (1933–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 93Gnaeus Julius Agricola — Roman governor and general, AD 40-93 (40-93)
- 406Radagaisus — Gothic king
- 634Abu Bakr — 1st Rashidun Caliph and father-in-law of Muhammad
- 1106(Julian date)Magnus — duke of Saxony (1072-1106)
- 1176(Julian date)Rokujō — 79th Emperor of Japan
- 1305(Julian date)William Wallace — Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence
- 1329(Julian date)Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine — French noble
- 1367(Julian date)Gil Álvarez de Albornoz — 14th century Spanish cardinal, archbishop, Chancellor of Toledo and ecclesiastical leader
- 1498(Julian date)Isabel of Aragon — queen consort of Portugal (1470-1498)
- 1574(Julian date)Ebussu'ud Efendi — Ottoman Grand Mufti
- 1591Luis de León — Spanish poet and Augustinian friar (1527-1591)
- 1618Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero — Dutch poet and playwright (1585-1618)
- 1628George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham — politician from England (1592-1628)
- 1723(Julian date)Increase Mather — Puritan minister, academic, activist (1639-1723)
- 1806Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — French physicist (1736-1806)
- 1813Alexander Wilson — Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)
- 1819Oliver Hazard Perry — United States Naval Officer (1785-1819)
- 1831Ferenc Kazinczy — Hungarian linguist and writer (1759-1831)
- 1831August Neidhardt von Gneisenau — Prussian field marshal (1760-1831)
- 1857Carl Ludwig Koch — German entomologist and arachnologist (1778–1857)
- 1888Philip Henry Gosse — English naturalist (1810-1888)
- 1892Deodoro da Fonseca — President of Brazil (1827-1892)
- 1900Kuroda Kiyotaka — Japanese general (1840-1900)
- 1926Rudolph Valentino — Italian actor (1895–1926)
- 1933Adolf Loos — Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)
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