Anniversaries 23 August
Birth
![Rowland Hill (preacher) photo]()
British preacher
1744–1833
![Georges Cuvier photo]()
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
1769–1832
![Oliver Hazard Perry photo]()
United States Naval Officer
1785–1819
![William Ernest Henley photo]()
English poet, critic and editor
1849–1903
![Arnold Toynbee photo]()
British economic historian
1852–1883
![Edgar Lee Masters photo]()
American writer
1868–1950
![Will Cuppy photo]()
American writer
1884–1949
![Henry Tizard photo]()
British chemist
1885–1959
![Malvina Reynolds photo]()
American folk singer
1900–1978
![Constant Lambert photo]()
British composer and conductor
1905–1951
![J. V. Cunningham photo]()
American writer
1911–1985
![Nélson Rodrigues photo]()
Brazilian writer and playwright
1912–1980
![Gene Kelly photo]()
American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and chor…
1912–1996
![Kenneth Arrow photo]()
American economist
1921–2017
![Ephraim Kishon photo]()
Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director
1924–2005
![Clifford Geertz photo]()
American anthropologist
1926–2006
![Allan Kaprow photo]()
American artist
1927–2006
![Barbara Eden photo]()
American actress and singer
1931
![Sol Kerzner photo]()
South African businessman
1935
![Roy Strong photo]()
art historian from the United Kingdom
1935
![Lewis Nordan photo]()
American writer
1939–2012
![Willy Russell photo]()
British dramatist, lyricist and composer
1947
![William Lane Craig photo]()
American Christian apologist and evangelist
1949
![Michael J. Byrnes photo]()
American Roman Catholic archbishop
1958
![Mary Zimmerman photo]()
American theatre director and playwright
1960
![Dean Karnazes photo]()
American distance runner
1962
![River Phoenix photo]()
American actor, musician, and activist
1970–1993
![Rob Bell photo]()
American author and pastor
1970
![Curtis Sittenfeld photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1975
![Jared Fogle photo]()
American corporate mascot
1977
![Kobe Bryant photo]()
American basketball player
1978–2020
![Rex Grossman photo]()
American football player, quarterback
1980
![Ayana Elizabeth Johnson photo]()
American marine biologist and policy expert
1980
![Stephen Miller photo]()
political advisor for policy
1985
Death
![Zhuge Liang photo]()
Shu Han chancellor, military strategist
181–234
![Abu Bakr photo]()
First Muslim Caliph and a companion of Muhammad
573–634
![William Wallace photo]()
Scottish landowner and leader in the Wars for Scottish Inde…
1270–1305
![Increase Mather photo]()
Puritan minister, academic, activist
1639–1723
![Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand photo]()
French salon-holder
1697–1780
![Charles-Augustin de Coulomb photo]()
French physicist
1736–1806
![Oliver Hazard Perry photo]()
United States Naval Officer
1785–1819
![Benjamin Brewster photo]()
American businessman
1828–1897
![Paul Gabriël photo]()
painter (1828-1903)
1828–1903
![Frederic G. Kenyon photo]()
British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar
1863–1952
![Adolf Loos photo]()
Austrian/Czech architect
1870–1933
![Bartolomeo Vanzetti photo]()
Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts
1888–1927
![Roberto Assagioli photo]()
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)
1888–1974
![Naum Gabo photo]()
Russian sculptor
1890–1977
![Oscar Hammerstein II photo]()
American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncr…
1895–1960
![Vernon Howard photo]()
American writer
1918–1992
![Hajo Meyer photo]()
Dutch physicist
1924–2014
![William Glasser photo]()
American psychiatrist
1925–2013
![Ed Warren photo]()
American paranormal investigator, demonologist, exorcist, g…
1926–2006
![Anthony Stafford Beer photo]()
British theorist, consultant, and professor
1926–2002
![Joseph Chilton Pearce photo]()
American writer
1926–2016
![Ronald David Laing photo]()
Scottish psychiatrist and author
1927–1989
![Reinhard Selten photo]()
German economist
1930–2016
