What happened on August 23 ?

93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)

634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph

1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)

1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot (executed)

1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)

1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)

1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot

1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar

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)

1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)

1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)

1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)

1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)

1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)

1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, French poet (b. 1796)

1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)

1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891)

1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888)

1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)

1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)

1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)

1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)

1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)

1963 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician (b. 1906)

1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)

1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)

1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913

1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)

1999 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (b. 1928)

2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)

2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922)

2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)

2003 - Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)

2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913)

2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest

2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)

2005 - Ninjalicious Canadian Author and Urban Explorer (b. 1973)