August 23
The August 23 is the 235th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 236th in leap years ), thus remain 130 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 237 BC Chr .: Pharaoh Ptolemy III. had the temple of Edfu built according to a floor plan determined by him .
- 153 BC BC: The Roman consul Quintus Fulvius Nobilior is attacked by the Celtiberians in the Spanish War near Numantia and loses an entire legion .
- 476: The Germanic leader Odoacer rises against the Roman army master Orestes and his son, the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus .
- 634: After the death of Abu Bakr , Umar ibn al-Khattab becomes caliph .
- 1244: Khorezm mercenaries in the service of the Ayyubids conquer Jerusalem from the crusaders and sack the city.
- 1268: The victory of Karl von Anjous in the battle of Tagliacozzo seals the downfall of the last Hohenstaufen king, Konradin .
- 1305: The Scottish national hero William Wallace is tortured to death in public in Smithfield near London by means of cruel torture.
- 1328: At the Battle of Cassel , insurgent Flemings are defeated by a French army . The county of Flanders then came under the control of the Kingdom of France .
- 1388: In the Battle of Döffingen , the mercenaries of the Swabian League of Towns are defeated by the troops of Count Eberhard II of Württemberg and Ruprecht of the Palatinate . The defeat heralds the end of the imperial political importance of city leagues.
- 1514: In the battle of Tschaldiran in Eastern Anatolia the Safavid - Shah Ismail I suffers a crushing defeat against the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim I.
- 1556: Emperor Charles V renounces in favor of his son Philip II. To the Spanish throne in favor of his brother Ferdinand I to the imperial dignity in the Holy Roman Empire . This is transferred to the latter by the Electoral Congress on February 26, 1558.
- 1617: The first one-way street is established in London .
- 1645: In the Peace of Brömsebro , Denmark and Sweden agree to stop their fighting in the Torstensson War towards the end of the Thirty Years' War . Gotland becomes part of Sweden.
- 1784: During the Josephinist era, Emperor Joseph II orders all cemeteries in Austria to be closed for reasons of hygiene . A folding coffin should also be used for burials , but the population successfully resisted it after a short period of validity.
1793: Meeting in the Salle du Manège
- 1791: Beginning of the great slave revolt in the French colony of Haiti
- 1793: The French National Convention orders the introduction of general conscription ( Levée en masse ).
- 1810: During the British Mauritius campaign , the sea battle of Grand Port takes place .
- 1813: In the Battle of Großbeeren as part of the Wars of Liberation, the French suffer a defeat against an alliance made up of Russia, Sweden and Prussia.
- 1821: Mexico gains independence from Spain .
- 1833: Slavery is abolished in the British colonies .
- 1839: The British occupy Hong Kong in order to have a base of operations for a war with the Chinese Empire .
- 1849: The suppression of the revolutionary republic of Venice by Austrian troops marks the final victory of Austria over the March Revolution in its vassal states .
- 1866: The Peace of Prague ends the German War between Prussia and Austria . In this, Austria accepts the dissolution of the German Confederation .
- 1903: At its second congress in Brussels and London, the factions of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks form in the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia .
- 1914: Japan declares the German Reich the war .
- 1916: The arrested Karl Liebknecht is sentenced to four years and one month in prison for high treason . He led an anti-war demonstration in Berlin on May 1st .
- 1929: The Hebron massacre begins in Hebron , killing a total of 67 Jews .
- 1944: Second World War . After a coup led by King Michael I and the disempowerment of "state leader" Ion Antonescu , Romania concludes an armistice with the Allies .
- 1946: The British military government dissolves the Prussian provinces in their zone of occupation and founds the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein .
- 1958: The Federal Aviation Agency is established in the United States after several serious air traffic collisions .
- 1958: The second Quemoy crisis breaks out in the Taiwan conflict : The Chinese People's Liberation Army begins again with a 44-day bombardment of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu off the mainland and controlled by the Republic of China .
- 1962: The Damascus government adopts Legislative Decree 93, allowing an extraordinary census in Djazira province . It will take place on October 5th. As a result, 120,000 Kurds in Syria are declared “foreigners”.
- 1973: Augusto Pinochet is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army by the Chilean President Salvador Allende .
- 1977: In the GDR will dissident Rudolf Bahro arrested . The day before, the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel published an excerpt from Bahro's dissident book Die Alternative .
- 1979: With the bombing of Sakez , the Iranian army begins its attack on Kurdish cities.
- 1989: From Vilnius to Tallinn , exactly 50 years after the Stalin-Hitler pact, a human chain is formed to demonstrate the will of the Baltic states to gain independence from the Soviet Union ( Baltic chain ).
- 1990: The German Democratic Republic - People's Parliament in Berlin (East) acting by 294 votes to 62 (with two abstentions) the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with Article 23 of the Basic Law on October 3rd. The Parliament in the dramatic night session follows a request from the CDU / DA, SPD , FDP and DSU .
- 1999: Germany is again governed from Berlin : Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder takes up his work on the new parliament and government seat (until the completion of the new Chancellery in the former State Council building of the GDR ).
- 2002: In Angola , an agreement is reached between the government and the opposition rebel organization UNITA to implement the Lusaka Protocol within 45 days.
- 2003: Three members of the British military police are killed in an attack by underground fighters in the southern Iraqi city of Basra . This means that eleven British soldiers have been killed in combat since May 1.
business
- 1785: The first steam engine designed by James Watt is officially put into operation in Germany on the König-Friedrich-Schacht near Hettstedt .
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- 1884: The Stuttgart – Degerloch cog railway , today Germany's only regular public transport cog railway , is opened.
- 1887: Great Britain requires the country of origin to be indicated on all imported industrial products in the Merchandising Marks Act passed by parliament . “ Made in Germany ” is created.
- 1904: The American Harry D. Weed receives a patent for the snow chain he invented for cars.
science and technology
- 1614: The University of Groningen is founded.
- 1910: The first official airship passenger trip in Germany takes place.
- 1966: The first image of the earth rising over the moon is transmitted from the lunar probe Lunar Orbiter 1 to the terrestrial ground station.
- 1976: Well-preserved dinosaur footprints are discovered at the Lac du Vieux Emosson reservoir in the canton of Valais . The tracks are about 250 million years old.
Culture
- 1735: The first performance of the opera Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris .
- 1769: The painter Adélaïde Labille marries the tax officer Guiard at the age of twenty.
- 1790: The premiere of the opera Les Rigueurs du cloître by Henri Montan Berton takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 1913: A copy of the sculpture The Little Mermaid by the sculptor Edvard Eriksen is installed in Copenhagen harbor .
- 1929: The first Austrian sound film, Stories from Styria , produced with the Ottoton system by director Hans Otto Löwenstein , premiered in Graz.
- 1946: The Howard Hawks film Dead Sleeping, starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe, is shown in cinemas in the United States . The film adaptation of a novel by Raymond Chandler creates a film noir .
society
- 217: On the day of Vulcanalia , a fire breaks out in the Colosseum in Rome due to lightning, which leads to the only longer interruption in the almost 450 years of use as an arena.
- 1927: Sacco and Vanzetti , wrongly convicted on charges of robbery and murder , are executed on the electric chair in the United States (and rehabilitated in July 1977 ).
- 1973: The Kreditbanken, a bank on Norrmalmstorg, in the center of the Swedish capital Stockholm , is attacked and four of the employees are taken hostage: the birth of the term Stockholm Syndrome .
- 2006: 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch escapes her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil in Lower Austria after eight and a half years of imprisonment.
religion
- 1535: Johannes Calvin completes the first edition of the Institutio Christianae Religionis , his main theological work, which was continuously expanded until 1559 .
- 1948: The World Council of Churches is founded.
Disasters
- 1950: The breach of the Subansiri dam causes a seven-meter-high tidal wave in India that kills a total of 532 people in several villages.
- 1976: Several thousand people are killed in an earthquake in China.
- 2000: During the landing approach falls Gulf Air flight 072 , an Airbus A320 of Gulf Air , about 3 km off the runway of Bahrain from. All 143 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
White Silver Arum - "Flower of the Northwest Territories"
- 2003: Ukkusiksalik National Park is established as the fourth national park in the Nunavut Territory of Canada.
Sports
- 2009: With the opening match between Ukraine and the Netherlands in the specially renamed Turku Stadium in Turku, Finland, the 10th European Women's Football Championship , which will last until September 10, begins . For the first time, twelve instead of eight teams are taking part in the women's European football championship .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1388: Eberhard IV , Count of Württemberg
- 1464: Ludwig von Hanau-Lichtenberg , German nobleman, Count von Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1517: Francis I , Duke of Lorraine
- 1573: Theobald Hock , German agent and poet
- 1580: Michael Kern , German sculptor
- 1605: Paul Marquard Schlegel , German medic and botanist
- 1624: Anna Elisabeth , Princess of Saxony-Lauenburg and Countess of Hesse-Homburg
- 1655: Philippe de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme, French general and Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in France
- 1671: Count Cai Burchard von Ahlefeldt , lord of the noble estates of Bystorp, Gut Eschelsmark, Ornum and Stubbe
- 1683: Giovanni Poleni , Italian mathematician and astronomer
- 1701: Franz Karl Eusebius von Waldburg-Friedberg and Trauchburg , Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee
- 1722: Ferdinand-Olivier Petitpierre , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1722: Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla junior , high nobility in various military services
- 1724: Abraham Yates , American lawyer and politician
- 1727: Friedrich Hartmann Graf , German composer
- 1730: Abel Seyler , German theater director
- 1740: Ivan VI. , Russian tsar from 1740 to 1741
- 1741: Jean-François de La Pérouse , French navigator, circumnavigator and geographer
- 1751: Nikolaus Simrock , Beethoven friend and French horn player at the electoral court
- 1753: August Maria Raimund zu Arenberg , Austrian officer in French service
- 1753: Gutle Rothschild , wife of the banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- 1754: Louis XVI. , King of France
- 1757: Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann , German actress
- 1761: Gottlob Ernst Schulze , German philosopher
- 1762: Johann Samuel Göbel , Saxon finance secretary and historian
- 1766: Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg , German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist
- 1769: Georges Cuvier , French naturalist, founder of scientific paleontology
- 1769: Karl Georg Maaßen , Prussian lawyer, politician and co-initiator of the German Customs Union
- 1771: Carl Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , German police director
- 1773: Jakob Friedrich Fries , German philosopher
- 1776: Joseph Marie Wronski , Polish philosopher and mathematician
- 1781: John MacPherson Berrien , American politician
- 1781: Friedrich Tiedemann , German anatomist and physiologist
- 1785: Friedrich Ammensdörfer , Franconian beer brewer, innkeeper and politician
- 1785: Oliver Hazard Perry , American naval officer
- 1790: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici , German statistician and economist
- 1792: Charles Grandison Finney , American revival preacher
- 1797: Jean Claude Saint-Venant , French mathematician and physicist
- 1800: Adolf Asher , German bookseller, antiquarian, publisher and bibliographer
- 1800: Evangelos Zappas , Greek merchant and patron
19th century
- 1803: Gustave Wappers , Belgian painter
- 1805: Anton von Schmerling , Austrian politician and lawyer
- 1811: Auguste Bravais , French physicist, co-founder of crystallography
- 1813: Rudolf Köpke , German historian and journalist
- 1813: János Simor , Hungarian cardinal
- 1817: Peter Friedrich Arndt , German mathematician
- 1818: Johann Georg Eccarius , German worker activist and trade unionist
- 1818: Wilhelm Rudolf Kutter , German engineer for hydraulic engineering and sewer systems
- 1818: Max Schmidt , German painter
- 1820: Adolf Kiepert , German economist and politician
- 1822: Gustav Adolf Fricke , German theologian
- 1822: Peter le Page Renouf , British Egyptologist
- 1829: Karl Viktor Böhmert , German journalist, free trader and economist
- 1829: Moritz Benedikt Cantor , first German professor for the history of mathematics
- 1833: James De Mille , Canadian professor of classical literature and writer
- 1834: Willem Jan Holsboer , Dutch founder of the Rhaetian Railway and sponsor of the Davos health resort
- 1836: Marie Henriette of Austria , Austrian Archduchess and Hungarian princess
- 1838: Franz Deym , Austrian diplomat
- 1840: Samuel Leopold Schenk , Austrian embryologist
- 1842: Osborne Reynolds , British physicist
- 1844: Friedrich Wilhelm Füchtner , German artisan
- 1844: Agnes Willms-Wildermuth , German writer
- 1848: Adolf Boettge , German military musician
- 1849: William Ernest Henley , British writer
- 1850: Heinrich Gogarten , German landscape painter and representative of symbolism
- 1851: Cai von Bülow , German district administrator and landowner
- 1851: Alois Jirásek , Czech writer and historian
- 1852: Ocke Christian Nerong , German teacher and Schleswig-Holstein local researcher
- 1852: Arnold Toynbee , British economic historian
- 1854: Louis Armand , French speleologist
- 1854: Moritz Moszkowski , German pianist and composer
- 1855: Heinrich Beckurts , German chemist and university professor
- 1859: Franz Porten , German opera singer and film director
- 1863: Carl Werckshagen , German theologian and pastor, writer and editor
- 1864: Eleftherios Venizelos , Greek politician
- 1865: Bernhard Heising , German sculptor
- 1867: Edgar von Wahl , German-Baltic teacher, creator of the planned language Occidental
- 1868: Paul Otlet , German pioneer of information management
- 1869: William Richardson , American singer
- 1870: Friedrich Auerbach , German chemist
- 1870: Friedrich Freiherr von Esebeck , German general
- 1872: Elsa Neumann , German physicist
- 1875: William Henry Eccles , British physicist
- 1876: Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten , Austrian meteorologist and geophysicist
- 1876: William Melville Martin , Canadian politician and judge
- 1877: Elsa Bienenfeld , Austrian music historian and critic
- 1879: Yevgenia Bogdanowna Bosch , German-Russian party functionary
- 1883: Jesse Pennington , English football player
- 1884: Benito García de la Parra , Spanish composer and music teacher
- 1884: Jules Fournier , Canadian journalist, newspaper publisher, translator and essayist
- 1885: Stanislav Ondříček , Czech violinist and music teacher
- 1886: Gustav Ahlhorn , German lawyer
- 1887: Albert Gutterson , American athlete
- 1887: Erich Kühn , German writer and journalist, theater man and politician
- 1888: Ivar Asbjørn Følling , Norwegian chemist and doctor
- 1888: Erich Gloeden , German architect and resistance fighter
- 1889: Alfred Lichtenstein , German lawyer and writer of Expressionism
- 1889: Louis Villeneuve , French racing car driver
- 1890: May Harrison , British violinist
- 1891: Arnold Agatz , German port construction engineer and port construction director
- 1891: Frederick Lee Hisaw , American zoologist and endocrinologist
- 1895: Hans Apel , German economist
- 1895: Emil Matthews , German politician
- 1896: Hubert von Meyerinck , German actor
- 1896: Jacques Rueff , French political theorist and economist
- 1896: Christian Schiefer , Swiss photographer
- 1898: Adolf Ahrens , German entrepreneur and politician
- 1900: Frances Adaskin , Canadian pianist
- 1900: Ernst Krenek , Austrian composer
- 1900: Eduard Rhein , German inventor, publicist and writer
- 1900: Miyoshi Tatsuji , Japanese poet, translator and essayist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Karl Bechert , German politician
- 1901: John Sherman Cooper , American politician
- 1902: Erich Clar , German chemist
- 1903: Wolfgang Bartels , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1903: Charles F. Brannan , American administrative lawyer and politician, Secretary of Agriculture
- 1903: Walter Linse , German lawyer
- 1903: Paul Ott , German organ builder
- 1905: Phyllis King , British tennis player
- 1905: Constant Lambert , British composer
- 1906: Johannes Thümmler , German SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior government councilor
- 1907: Ludwig Hoelscher , German cellist
- 1908: Arthur Adamov , Franco-Russian playwright
- 1908: Josef Bugala , Austrian football player
- 1908: Heinrich Drerup , German archaeologist
- 1909: Lisa Fittko , Austrian writer and resistance fighter
- 1909: Adolf Scherbaum , German classical trumpeter
- 1909: Fritz Spiesser , German writer
- 1910: Giuseppe Meazza , Italian football player and coach
- 1910: Alfons Maria Stickler , Austrian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1911: Birger Ruud , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1911: Betty Robinson , American sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1911: Hilda Kuper , Zimbabwean anthropologist
- 1911: Carl Dolmetsch , English recorder player
- 1912: Alexei Ivanovich Sudajew , Russian inventor
- 1912: Ed Benedict , American animator
- 1912: Gene Kelly , American actor and dancer
- 1913: Bob Crosby , American singer and big band leader
- 1914: Siegfried Sommer , German chronicler and journalist
- 1915: Antonio Innocenti , Italian Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1915: Paul Schneider-Esleben , German architect
- 1916: Maxi Böhm , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- 1917: Itō Keiichi , Japanese writer
- 1917: Tex Williams , American country singer and band leader
- 1918: Gustav Kaufmann , Liechtenstein sports shooter
- 1919: Dries van der Lof , Dutch racing car driver
- 1920: Ayukawa Nobuo , Japanese writer and literary critic
- 1920: Leo Marini , Argentine singer
- 1921: Kenneth Arrow , American economist
- 1921: Franco Ossola , Italian football player
- 1922: Arnold Andenmatten , Swiss skier and ski instructor
- 1922: Inge Deutschkron , Israeli journalist and author
- 1922: Roland Dumas , French politician
- 1922: Robert Fletcher , American costume designer
- 1922: George Kell , American baseball player
- 1922: Oswald Rathfelder , German scientist, botanist and conservationist
- 1923: Edgar F. Codd , British mathematician and database researcher
- 1924: Ephraim Kishon , Israeli satirist, journalist and director
- 1924: Robert M. Solow , American economist
- 1925: Milan Machovec , Czech philosopher and dissident
- 1925: Robert Mulligan , American film director
- 1925: Jean Kerguen , French racing car driver and entrepreneur
- 1925: Włodzimierz Kotoński , Polish composer
- 1925: Sulchan Zinzadze , Georgian composer
1926-1950
- 1926: Clifford Geertz , American ethnologist
- 1926: Herbert Beattie , American opera singer
- 1926: Leo Leandros , Greek composer, singer, lyricist and producer
- 1927: Bruno Bartholome , German athlete
- 1927: Houari Boumedienne , Algerian politician and head of state
- 1927: Dick Bruna , Dutch author, draftsman and graphic designer
- 1927: Allan Kaprow , American artist and art theorist of action art
- 1927: Martial Solal , French jazz pianist and composer
- 1927: Walter Giller , German actor
- 1928: Gerd Natschinski , German composer and conductor
- 1928: Hermann Weber , German historian and political scientist
- 1929: Fritz Breuer , German football player
- 1929: Peter Thomson , Australian professional golfer
- 1929: Vera Miles , American actress
- 1929: Zoltán Czibor , Hungarian football player
- 1930: Norberto Bagnalasta , Italian racing driver
- 1930: David King , British actor
- 1930: Joanne Hewson , Canadian ski racer
- 1930: Michel Rocard , French politician
- 1931: Barbara Eden , American actress
- 1931: Hamilton Othanel Smith , American biochemist
- 1932: Rolf von der Laage , German journalist and sports official
- 1932: Jack Earls , American rockabilly musician
- 1933: Manfred Donike , German cyclist and chemist
- 1933: Pete Wilson , American politician from California
- 1933: Peter Wyngarde , British actor
- 1933: Robert F. Curl , American chemist
- 1934: Carlos Amigo Vallejo , Spanish Archbishop of Seville and Cardinal
- 1934: Flavio Emoli , Italian football player
- 1934: Hans-Georg Wolters , German politician
- 1934: Heinz Dohmen , German architect and master builder
- 1934: Sonny Jurgensen , American football player
- 1934: Raul de Souza , Brazilian jazz trombonist and band leader
- 1935: Loren Rush , American composer and pianist
- 1936: Henry Lee Lucas , American serial killer
- 1936: Rudy Lewis , American R&B singer
- 1937: Hermann A. Griesser , Austrian journalist
- 1938: Roger Greenaway , British singer and songwriter
- 1938: Susan Hoffman , American actress
- 1939: Edward Linde-Lubaszenko , Polish actor
- 1939: Gregor Woschnagg , Austrian diplomat
- 1940: Horst Gibner , German politician
- 1940: Vicki Brown , British singer
- 1940: André Laberge , Canadian organist and harpsichordist
- 1940: Thomas A. Steitz , American molecular biologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1941: Hans-Gerd Adler , German local politician
- 1941: Renato Vittorio Anselmi , Swiss jazz musician
- 1941: Hermann Auernhammer , German professor of technology in crop production and landscape management
- 1941: Ulrich Braun , German soccer player
- 1941: Lotti Krekel , German actress and singer
- 1942: Nancy Richey , American tennis player
- 1942: Jürg Stenzl , Swiss musicologist, author and university professor
- 1943: Donald Kalpokas , Vanuatu politician
- 1943: Nelson DeMille , American writer
- 1943: Raúl Cubas Grau , President of Paraguay
- 1943: Pino Presti , Italian bass player, arranger, composer, orchestra leader and music producer
- 1943: Makoto Satō , Japanese theater director and playwright
- 1944: Gerhard Cerny , German-speaking writer
- 1944: Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta , Salvadoran intelligence officer and politician
- 1944: Gustav Ernst , Austrian writer
- 1944: Thomas Frey , Austrian actor
- 1945: Carmen-Maja Antoni , German actress
- 1945: Bob Peck , British film and stage actor
- 1945: Christopher Sharpless , bobsleigh driver from the US Virgin Islands
- 1946: Keith Moon , British musician ( The Who )
- 1947: Susanne Beck , German actress and radio play speaker
- 1947: Terje Rypdal , Norwegian guitarist and composer
- 1947: Jerzy Satanowski , Polish composer
- 1947: Werner Walzer , Austrian football player
- 1949: Giuseppe Arigoni , Swiss politician
- 1949: William Lane Craig , American evangelical theologian and philosopher
- 1949: Shelley Long , American actress
- 1949: Rick Springfield , Australian musician and actor
- 1949: Leslie Van Houten , American criminal, member of the "Manson Family"
- 1949: Jacques Weber , French actor
- 1950: Luigi Delneri , Italian football player and coach
1951-1975
- 1951: Jimi Jamison , American rock singer
- 1951: Achmat Abdulchamidowitsch Kadyrov , Chechen President
- 1951: Michael Kunzler , German theologian
- 1951: Johanna Maier , top Austrian chef
- 1951: Nūr of Jordan , as wife of Hussein I, Queen of Jordan
- 1952: Stephan Articus , German sociologist
- 1952: Terry Austin , American comic artist
- 1952: Kirby Dick , American film director, film producer, and screenwriter
- 1952: Klaus-Dietrich Flade , German astronaut
- 1952: Vicky Leandros , Greek pop singer
- 1952: Santillana , Spanish soccer player
- 1953: Eugene Chaplin , British sound engineer, son of Charlie Chaplin
- 1953: Lutz Graf , German theater director
- 1953: Hans Klinkhammer , German soccer player
- 1953: Artūras Paulauskas , Lithuanian lawyer and politician, chairman of parliament
- 1953: Florence Wambugu , Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist
- 1955: Mathias Petersen , German politician
- 1955: Karl-Heinz Tekath , German historian and archivist
- 1955: Helmut Wilk , German handball player and coach
- 1956: Dave Grossman , American military psychologist
- 1956: Valgerd Svarstad Haugland , Norwegian politician
- 1956: Dieter Prestin , German soccer player
- 1956: Skipp Sudduth , American actor
- 1957: Heidemaria Onodi , Austrian politician
- 1958: Mariano Moruja , Argentine choir director and music teacher
- 1959: John Adler , American politician
- 1959: Bruno Chevillon , French jazz double bass player
- 1959: Edwyn Collins , British pop singer and songwriter
- 1960: Klaus Karlbauer , Austrian composer, director and performance artist
- 1960: Chris Potter , Canadian actor
- 1960: Jukkis Uotila , Finnish jazz drummer
- 1961: Dean DeLeo , American rock guitarist
- 1961: Alexandre Desplat , French composer
- 1962: Shaun Ryder , British musician and singer
- 1962: Thomas Schröder , German athlete
- 1962: Jürgen Tonkel , German actor
- 1963: Park Chan-wook , South Korean film director
- 1963: Hanns-Henning Fastrich , German field hockey player
- 1964: Johan Bruyneel , Belgian cyclist
- 1964: Bruno Gerber , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- 1964: Ray Ferraro , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965: Roger Avary , American film director and writer
- 1965: Alexander Nützenadel , German historian
- 1965: Ilija Trojanow , German writer, translator and publisher
- 1966: Charley Boorman , British actor and adventurer
- 1966: Michael Jäger , German actor
- 1966: Alexander König , German figure skater and coach
- 1967: Dominic Anthony Antonelli , American astronaut
- 1967: Jörg Gerlach , German soccer player
- 1967: Andrius Mamontovas , Lithuanian songwriter, musician and actor
- 1967: Cedella Marley , Jamaican musician and singer
- 1968: Benjamin Boyce , British singer
- 1968: Cherito , Dominican singer, songwriter, arranger and composer
- 1968: Laura Claycomb , American singer (coloratura soprano)
- 1968: Chris DiMarco , American professional golfer
- 1968: Melanie Lasrich , German soccer player
- 1968: Jambulat Tedejew , Ukrainian wrestler
- 1968: Jürgen Walter , German politician, MdL
- 1969: Hannes Reinmayr , Austrian football player
- 1970: Lawrence Frank , American basketball coach
- 1970: Brad Mehldau , American jazz pianist
- 1970: Jay Mohr , American actor and comedian
- 1970: River Phoenix , American actor and musician
- 1971: Michael von Ameln , German field and indoor hockey referee
- 1971: Bone Crusher , American rapper and hip-hop producer
- 1971: Gretchen Whitmer , American politician
- 1972: Souad Massi , Algerian ethno rock singer
- 1972: Irina Mikitenko , German athlete
- 1973: Malaika Arora Khan , Indian model and actress
- 1973: Manfred Burghartswieser , German soccer player
- 1973: Martin Rapold , Swiss actor
- 1974: Toni Brunner , Swiss politician
- 1974: Gunvor Guggisberg , Swiss singer and dancer
- 1974: Benjamin Limo , Kenyan athlete
- 1974: Konstantin Novoselov , Russian-British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1974: Ray Park , British stuntman and actor
- 1974: Astrid Posner , German actress, dancer and choreographer
- 1974: Shifty Shellshock , American singer
- 1975: Marcell Fensch , German soccer player
- 1975: Yoshinori Natsume , Japanese manga artist
- 1975: Miguel Pereira , Angolan football player
- 1975: Jarkko Ruutu , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1975: Peter Stauch , German film director
1976-2000
- 1976: Scott Caan , American actor
- 1976: LaTasha Colander , American athlete
- 1976: Melanie Gabriel , British musician
- 1976: Nicoline Schubert , German actress
- 1977: Francisco Gabriel Guerrero , Argentine soccer player
- 1977: Illo , Franco-German rapper
- 1977: Alexander Martínez , Swiss triple jumper
- 1977: Cristian Roig , Andorran football player
- 1977: Douglas Sequeira , Costa Rican soccer player
- 1978: Andrew Rannells , American actor and singer
- 1978: Kobe Bryant , American basketball player
- 1978: Julian Casablancas , American singer (The Strokes)
- 1978: Russell Downing , British cyclist
- 1978: Paddy Kroetz , German reporter and television presenter
- 1979: Ben Braun , German actor
- 1979: Friederike Kempter , German actress
- 1979: Charlotte Sieglin , German actress
- 1980: Diamondog , Angolan rapper
- 1981: Carlos Cuéllar , Spanish soccer player
- 1981: Jaime Lee Kirchner , American actress
- 1981: Stephan Loboué , German-Ivorian football player
- 1981: Carmen Luvana , American porn actress
- 1982: Natalie Coughlin , American swimmer
- 1983: Ruta Gedmintas , British-Lithuanian actress
- 1983: Maria Kempken , German actress
- 1983: Luca Scassa , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1983: Bruno Spengler , Canadian racing driver
- 1984: Glen Johnson , English soccer player
- 1985: Kai Hospelt , German ice hockey player
- 1987: Murielle Ahouré , Ivorian sprinter
Kimberly Matula (* 1988)
- 1988: Kimberly Matula , American actress
- 1988: Jeremy Lin , American basketball player
- 1988: Daniel Schwaab , German soccer player
- 1989: Heiko Schwarz , German soccer player
- 1990: Tomáš Hasilla , Slovak biathlete
- 1990: Reimond Manco , Peruvian soccer player
- 1990: Exaucé Mayombo , German-Congolese soccer player
- 1990: Luís Sá Silva , Angolan racing car driver
- 1990: Čaba Silađi , Serbian swimmer
- 1991: Jennifer Abel , Canadian water diver
- 1993: Pacharakamol Arkornsakul , Thai badminton player
- 1993: Dennis Doden , German handball player
- 1993: Lucie Hollmann , German actress
- 1994: Roberto Bellarosa , Belgian pop singer
- 1994: Dominik Raschner , Austrian ski racer
- 1996: Johannes Dörfler , German soccer player
- 1996: Vincent Gross , Swiss pop singer
21st century
- 2004: Erik Belshaw , American ski jumper
Died
Before the 16th century
- 93: Gnaeus Iulius Agricola , Roman politician and military leader
- 406: Radagaisus , Ostrogothic military leader
- 634: Abdallah Abu Bakr , first Muslim caliph
- 673: Ziyad ibn Ali , Arab governor in Basra
- 992: Volkold , Bishop of Meissen
- 1036: Branthog , Abbot of Fulda and Bishop of Halberstadt
- 1106: Magnus , Duke of Saxony
- 1122: Robert the monk , cleric and chronicler
- 1176: Rokujō , Japanese emperor
- 1183: Christian I von Buch , Archbishop of Mainz, Imperial Arch Chancellor
- 1270: Gauthier III. de Nemours , Marshal of France
- 1305: William Wallace , Scottish freedom fighter
- 1311: Eberhard I , Count von Katzenelnbogen
- 1317: Friedrich von Mitterkirchen , Bishop of Seckau
- 1328: Frederick IV , Duke of Lorraine
- 1334: Syrgiannes Palaiologos , Byzantine aristocrat and general
- 1345: Otto II von Wolfskeel , Bishop of Würzburg
- 1348: John Stratford , Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1350: Johannes Mul , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1360: Hermann von Bonstetten , abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Gallen
- 1363: Chen Youliang , Chinese founder of the rebel state of Dahan
- 1381: Jakob Colyn , mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- 1387: Olav II./IV. , King of Denmark and Norway
- 1478: Johannes Pullois , Franco-Flemish composer and singer
- 1486: Maria von Kleve , Duchess of Orléans
- 1498: Elisabeth of Spain , Princess of Spain, Queen of Portugal
- 1499: John Blythe , Bishop of Salisbury
16th to 18th century
- 1507: Jean Molinet , Franco-Flemish poet, composer and chronicler
- 1511: Francesco Argentino , Italian cardinal
- 1516: Nicolaus Celer , Roman Catholic theologian
- 1519: Philibert Berthelier , Geneva politician
- 1538: Ulrich von Sax , Swiss diplomat, mercenary leader, military entrepreneur and first commander in chief of the Swiss army
- 1606: Eleonora von Zimmer , German nobleman
- 1610: Antonie von Lothringen , Duchess of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
- 1613: Levin Buchius , German legal scholar
- 1615: François de Joyeuse , French cardinal of the Catholic Church and cardinal dean
- 1616: Hans von Schweinichen , German writer
- 1628: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , favorite and chief minister under the English kings
- 1679: Johann Georg von Götzen , governor of the County of Glatz
- 1697: Pedro Abarca , Spanish theologian and historian
- 1702: Nicolaus von Gersdorf , Saxon lawyer and diplomat
- 1709: Domenico Manuel Caetano , Italian impostor, alchemist and alleged gold maker
- 1712: Johann Christoph Lischka , Bohemian painter
- 1723: Increase Mather , Puritan pastor and president of Harvard University
- 1724: Sébastien Rasles , French lexicographer and Jesuit missionary to the Abenaki in North America
- 1725: Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz , Archbishop von Gran and Imperial Principal Commissioner
- 1735: Matwei Christoforowitsch Smajewitsch , Russian shipbuilder and admiral of the Baltic fleet
- 1737: Sophie Christiane von Wolfstein , Margravine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
- 1750: Johann Christian Krüger , German writer, actor and playwright
- 1767: Jean Deschamps , Franco-German philosopher, Prussian court preacher, theologian and writer
- 1777: Charles Joseph Natoire , French painter
- 1791: Jeanne de Saint-Rémy , French nobleman and mastermind of the so-called collar affair
- 1791: Johann Jacob Tischbein , German painter
- 1799: Simon Louis du Ry , German-French master builder and architect
19th century
- 1802: Corona Schröter , German singer and actress
- 1806: Charles Augustin de Coulomb , French physicist
- 1813: Alexander Wilson , British ornithologist and poet
- 1819: Oliver Hazard Perry , American naval officer
- 1828: Franz von Zeiller , Austrian lawyer and rector of the University of Vienna
- 1829: Samuel Gottlob Auberlen , German musician and song composer
- 1830: Ferdinand Friedrich von Anhalt-Köthen , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1831: August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau , Prussian field marshal and army reformer
- 1846: Wilhelm Küchelbecker , Russian author and poet
- 1857: Carl Ludwig Koch , German forester, entomologist and arachnologist
- 1863: Theodor Kalide , German sculptor
- 1864: Johann Georg Frech , German music director, composer and organist
- 1865: Ernst Schalck , German painter, draftsman and caricaturist
- 1865: Friedrich Specht , German organ builder
- 1865: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Austrian painter and art writer
- 1875: Richard van Rees , Dutch mathematician and physicist
- 1878: Adolf Fredrik Lindblad , Swedish composer
- 1884: Aegidius Rudolph Nicolaus Arntz , German legal scholar
- 1889: Johann Georg Anton Geuther , German chemist
- 1891: Friedrich Ludwig Arnsburg , German actor
- 1892: Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca , Brazilian Marshal and first President
- 1893: Michał Elwiro Andriolli , Polish painter and architect
- 1897: Alexander Duncker , German publisher and bookseller
- 1898: Félicien Rops , Belgian painter and draftsman
20th century
1901-1950
- 1908: Hermann Speck von Sternburg , German diplomat and art collector
- 1912: Carl Abegg-Arter , Swiss raw silk merchant and banker
- 1915: Luigi Ferraris , Italian football player
- 1921: Feliksa Kozłowska , Polish nun
- 1926: Rudolph Valentino , American actor
- 1933: Adolf Loos , Austrian architect and architectural theorist
- 1934: Viktor Kaplan , Austrian engineer
- 1936: Juliette Adam , French writer, polemicist, republican salonnière and suffragette
- 1937: Otto Hörsing , German politician
- 1937: Hermann Kersting , German doctor and colonial official
- 1937: Albert Roussel , French composer
- 1938: Bálint Kuzsinszky , Hungarian archaeologist
- 1939: Eugène-Henri Gravelotte , French fencer
- 1939: Sidney Howard , American playwright
- 1942: Alfred Rosenthal , German film journalist and lobbyist
- 1943: Fritz Pellkofer , German cross-country skier
- 1944: Abdülmecid II , Ottoman caliph
- 1944: Otto Kiep , German diplomat
- 1945: Martin F. Ansel , American politician
- 1946: Wassil Talasch , Belarusian partisan
- 1949: Herbert Greenfield , Canadian politician
- 1950: Dionisio Anzilotti , Italian lawyer
1951-2000
- 1953: Octávio Bevilacqua , Brazilian musicologist and teacher
- 1953: Gottfried Hinze , German football functionary
- 1955: Rudolf Minger , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1957: Eugène Schueller , French chemist, founder of L'Oréal
- 1959: Magda Bäumken , German actress
- 1960: Oscar Hammerstein , American producer and musical writer
- 1961: Jean Sébilleau , French racing car driver
- 1962: Walter Anderson , German folklorist
- 1962: Joseph Berchtold , German SA general, first Reichsführer SS , MdR
- 1962: Irving Fine , American composer
- 1962: Heinrich Kemper , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1965: Rudolf Abderhalden , Swiss physiologist and pathologist
- 1967: Georges Berger , Belgian racing driver
- 1967: Nate Cartmell , American athlete
- 1968: Hunt Stromberg , American film producer
- 1969: Hans Hoff , Austrian psychiatrist
- 1971: Gisela Hernández Gonzalo , Cuban composer
- 1972: Balys Dvarionas , Lithuanian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1974: Roberto Assagioli , Italian doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- 1979: Anna Maria Peduzzi , Italian racing driver
- 1980: Gerhard Hanappi , Austrian soccer player
- 1981: Rolf Herricht , German actor and comedian
- 1983: Gerald Frank Anderson , British chess composer and fighter pilot
- 1984: Heribert Fischer-Geising , German painter and draftsman
- 1987: Siegfried Borris , German composer, musicologist and music teacher
- 1987: Didier Pironi , French racing driver
- 1987: Stephanos I. Sidarouss , Egyptian patriarch and cardinal
- 1989: Ronald D. Laing , British psychiatrist
- 1990: Omero Tognon , Italian football player and coach
- 1991: Wilhelm Hahnemann , Austrian-German soccer player
- 1994: Fisher Tull , American composer and music teacher
- 1996: Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen , Dutch composer
- 1997: John Cowdery Kendrew , British biochemist and molecular biologist
21st century
- 2001: Göran Åberg , Swedish football player and coach
- 2001: Kathleen Freeman , American actress
- 2003: Hansjochem Autrum , German zoologist
- 2003: Lino Borges , Cuban bolero singer
- 2003: Jack Dyer , Australian soccer player
- 2005: Brock Peters , American actor and singer
- 2005: Glenn Corneille , Dutch jazz and pop pianist
- 2005: Hans-Joachim Reiche , German television journalist
- 2005: Heinrich Reiss , former German President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia
- 2005: Rémy Zaugg , Swiss architect
- 2006: Ulrike Andresen , German painter and graphic artist
- 2006: Maynard Ferguson , Canadian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
- 2006: Wolfgang Přiklopil , Austrian communications engineer , kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch
- 2008: Arthur Tyler , American bobsleigh driver
- 2008: Thomas Huckle Weller , American bacteriologist, virologist and parasitologist
- 2009: Anna-Maria Müller , German luge athlete, Olympic champion
- 2010: Lothar Loewe , German journalist and broadcast director
- 2013: Rudolf Bieri , Swiss lawyer and civil servant
- 2013: David Garrick , British opera and pop singer
- 2013: Guy Ligier , French racing driver and designer, entrepreneur and racing team owner
- 2013: Gilbert Taylor , British cinematographer
- 2016: Steven Hill , American actor
- 2016: Engelbert Nelle , German politician and football official
- 2016: Reinhard Selten , German economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2018: Dieter Thomas Heck , German presenter and entertainer
- 2019: David H. Koch , American entrepreneur and politician
- 2019: Egon Zimmermann , Austrian ski racer and Olympic champion
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Gaspard II. De Coligny , French admiral and martyr (Protestant, see also Bartholomäusnacht )
- St. Callinicus I , Byzantine Patriarch of Constantinople (Orthodox)
- St. Rosa of Lima , Peruvian virgin and mystic, terziarin and patron saint (catholic)
- Commemoration days of international organizations
- European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and National Socialism ( European Parliament ) (since 2009)
- International Day of Remembrance and Abolition of the Slave Trade ( UNESCO ) (since 1998)
- In 2012, Qixi , the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day, fell on August 23
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : August 23rd - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition | bpb. Retrieved December 27, 2017 .