August 23 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 30 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier and eldest son of Marc Antony (b. 47 BC)
  • 30 BC – Caesarion, Last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra (b. 47 BC)
  • 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (b. 40)
  • 406 – Radagaisus, Gothic king
  • 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573)
  • 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765)
  • 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
  • 1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
  • 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish knight and landowner (b. 1272)
  • 1387 – Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)
  • 1507 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
  • 1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
  • 1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
  • 1591 – Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
  • 1618 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
  • 1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
  • 1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600)
  • 1706 – Edward Nott, English statesman (b. 1654)
  • 1723 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
  • 1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist, developed Coulomb's law (b. 1736)
  • 1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
  • 1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
  • 1831 – Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author (b. 1759)
  • 1838 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790)
  • 1853 – Alexander Calder, American politician (b. 1806)
  • 1858 – Antal Reguly, Hungarian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1819)
  • 1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
  • 1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
  • 1900 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
  • 1924 – Heinrich Berté, Austrian composer (b. 1856)
  • 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895)
  • 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (b. 1891)
  • 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (b. 1888)
  • 1933 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
  • 1937 – Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
  • 1939 – Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, French fencer (b. 1876)
  • 1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist, survivor of sinking of the Titanic (b. 1858)
  • 1952 – Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1882)
  • 1955 – Reginald Tate, English actor (b. 1896)
  • 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American composer and producer (b. 1895)
  • 1962 – Walter Anderson, German ethnologist (b. 1885)
  • 1962 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
  • 1963 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (Casa Loma Orchestra) (b. 1900)
  • 1966 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
  • 1967 – Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
  • 1967 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and basketball coach (b. 1883)
  • 1974 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
  • 1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890)
  • 1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
  • 1987 – Didier Pironi, French race car driver (b. 1952)
  • 1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
  • 1989 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
  • 1990 – David Rose, American composer and pianist (b. 1910)
  • 1994 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
  • 1995 – Dwayne Goettel, Canadian keyboard player (Skinny Puppy, Psyche, and Hilt) (b. 1964)
  • 1996 – Margaret Tucker, Australian activist and writer (b. 1904)
  • 1997 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
  • 1999 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
  • 1999 – James White, Irish author (b. 1928)
  • 2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, American priest (b. 1932)
  • 2001 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
  • 2001 – Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
  • 2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
  • 2003 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
  • 2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913)
  • 2003 – John Geoghan, American priest (b. 1935)
  • 2003 – Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist (b. 1917)
  • 2005 – Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpeter and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (b. 1928)
  • 2007 – Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
  • 2008 – John Russell, English-American critic and author (b. 1919)
  • 2012 – Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, Taiwanese bishop (b. 1915)
  • 2012 – Jean-Luc Delarue, French television producer and host (b. 1964)
  • 2012 – Aubrey Dunn, Sr., American politician (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – James Fogle, American author (b. 1936)
  • 2012 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
  • 2012 – Edith Mastenbroek, Dutch politician (b. 1975)
  • 2012 – Bob Myrick, American baseball player (b. 1952)
  • 2012 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer (b. 1958)
  • 2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Josepha Sherman, American author (b. 1946)
  • 2012 – Steve Van Buren, American football player (b. 1920)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)