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Deaths on August 23

1305 : William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded
1328 : Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle
1507 : Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72
1540 : Guillaume Bud‚, French humanist, dies at about 72
1591 : Luis de L‚on, scholar/poet, dies
1618 : Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33
1628 : George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
1668 : Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies
1723 : Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
1777 : Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
1802 : Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51
1806 : Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
1819 : Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1825 : Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81
1831 : August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70
1839 : Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57
1865 : Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies
1878 : Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
1898 : Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
1903 : Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
1914 : Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
1914 : George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
1926 : Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
1927 : Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
1929 : Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
1933 : Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62
1937 : Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68
1939 : Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
1941 : Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1943 : Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
1944 : Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
1956 : ... Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
1958 : Martin du Gard, writer, dies
1960 : Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1962 : Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
1962 : Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47
1965 : John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1966 : Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83
1970 : Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55
1971 : Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58
1971 : Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
1972 : Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68
1975 : Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
1977 : Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1979 : Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
1979 : Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70
1980 : Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
1982 : Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
1982 : Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
1986 : Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
1987 : Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80
1989 : Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies
1989 : Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
1989 : Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
1990 : David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
1991 : Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
1992 : Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
1992 : Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
1992 : Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
1993 : Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
1993 : Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
1993 : Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
1994 : Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82
1994 : Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1994 : Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
1994 : Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77
1994 : Zolt n F bri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76
1995 : Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96
1995 : Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81
1995 : Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31
1995 : Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66
1995 : James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
1995 : Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76
1995 : Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72
1997 : Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies
xxxx : AboeBekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies

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