Famous Deaths In August - 23
Saturday, 07 September 2024
0093 On August - 23 death of gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
0634 On this day in history aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies
1106 On August - 23 death of magnus, Duke of Saxony
1176 On August - 23 death of emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 On August - 23 death of william Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded
1328 Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle on August - 23.
1387 On August - 23 death of king Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 On this day in history jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72
1519 Death of Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot on this day in history.
1540 Death of Guillaume Budé, French scholar on this day in history.
1591 Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies on August - 23.
1618 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 on this day in history.
1628 On this day in history death of george Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
1652 On August - 23 death of john Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1668 On August - 23 artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies
1706 On August - 23 death of colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 On August - 23 antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
1777 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77 on August - 23.
1802 On this day in history corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51
1806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70 on August - 23.
1813 On this day in history death of alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday on August - 23.
1825 Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.
1831 August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70 on August - 23.
1839 Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1853 Death of Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806) on this day in history.
1867 On this day in history death of auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1878 On August - 23 adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
1892 On this day in history death of deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1898 Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82 on August - 23.
1903 On August - 23 paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
1914 Death of Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks on this day in history.
1926 On August - 23 rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
1927 On this day in history death of nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
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