Anniversaries 23 August

Birth

Rowland Hill (preacher)10

British preacher 1744–1833

Georges Cuvier5

French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832) 1769–1832

Oliver Hazard Perry5

United States Naval Officer 1785–1819

William Ernest Henley29

English poet, critic and editor 1849–1903

Arnold Toynbee20

British economic historian 1852–1883

Mahmud Tarzi5

Afghan writer 1865–1933

Edgar Lee Masters12

American writer 1868–1950

Will Cuppy119

American writer 1884–1949

Henry Tizard2

British chemist 1885–1959

Malvina Reynolds7

American folk singer 1900–1978

Constant Lambert13

British composer and conductor 1905–1951

J. V. Cunningham9

American writer 1911–1985

Nélson Rodrigues31

Brazilian writer and playwright 1912–1980

Gene Kelly4

American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and chor… 1912–1996

Tong Tekong1

historian 1920–2009

Kenneth Arrow37

American economist 1921–2017

Ephraim Kishon2

Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director 1924–2005

Robert Solow8

American economist 1924

Clifford Geertz16

American anthropologist 1926–2006

Allan Kaprow9

American artist 1927–2006

Barbara Eden1

American actress and singer 1931

Houari Boumédiène2

Huari Bumedien 1932–1978

Robert Curl1

American chemist 1933

Sol Kerzner4

South African businessman 1935

Roy Strong4

art historian from the United Kingdom 1935

Lewis Nordan1

American writer 1939–2012

Nelson DeMille9

American writer 1943

Willy Russell7

British dramatist, lyricist and composer 1947

Shelley Long1

actress 1949

William Lane Craig38

American Christian apologist and evangelist 1949

Roza Otunbayeva2

Soviet diplomat 1950

Michael J. Byrnes1

American Roman Catholic archbishop 1958

James Van Praagh1

American psychic 1958

Mary Zimmerman2

American theatre director and playwright 1960

Shiv Khera5

Indian politician 1961

Dean Karnazes11

American distance runner 1962

River Phoenix35

American actor, musician, and activist 1970–1993

Rob Bell2

American author and pastor 1970

Curtis Sittenfeld23

Novelist, short story writer 1975

Jared Fogle3

American corporate mascot 1977

Kobe Bryant32

American basketball player 1978–2020

Rex Grossman4

American football player, quarterback 1980

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson1

American marine biologist and policy expert 1980

Stephen Miller5

political advisor for policy 1985

Death

Zhuge Liang1

Shu Han chancellor, military strategist 181–234

Abu Bakr4

First Muslim Caliph and a companion of Muhammad 573–634

William Wallace6

Scottish landowner and leader in the Wars for Scottish Inde… 1270–1305

Increase Mather2

Puritan minister, academic, activist 1639–1723

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand2

French salon-holder 1697–1780

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb1

French physicist 1736–1806

Clementina Stirling Graham1

British writer 1782–1877

Oliver Hazard Perry5

United States Naval Officer 1785–1819

Benjamin Brewster1

American businessman 1828–1897

Paul Gabriël12

painter (1828-1903) 1828–1903

Frederic G. Kenyon14

British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar 1863–1952

Adolf Loos1

Austrian/Czech architect 1870–1933

Bartolomeo Vanzetti4

Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts 1888–1927

Roberto Assagioli1

Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974) 1888–1974

Naum Gabo23

Russian sculptor 1890–1977

Oscar Hammerstein II4

American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncr… 1895–1960

Vernon Howard53

American writer 1918–1992

Hajo Meyer2

Dutch physicist 1924–2014

William Glasser14

American psychiatrist 1925–2013

Ed Warren1

American paranormal investigator, demonologist, exorcist, g… 1926–2006

Anthony Stafford Beer23

British theorist, consultant, and professor 1926–2002

Joseph Chilton Pearce7

American writer 1926–2016

Ronald David Laing30

Scottish psychiatrist and author 1927–1989

Reinhard Selten6

German economist 1930–2016

Susan Vreeland1

US author 1946–2017