Did you know
Yevgeny Prigozhin led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he launched a one-day rebellion in June 2023.
Notable Deaths on August 23
2023 — Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)
August 23 has 103 recorded notable deaths across history, from 30 BC to 2023. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
103 source records
30 BC – 2023
Today in history
Major events on August 23
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- 1898 The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London. Source
- 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. Source
- 1866 The Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague. Source
- 1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China. Source
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Brock Peters was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his lead role as Rev.
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Dmitry Valerievich Utkin was a Russian military officer and mercenary.
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Fonseca took office as provisional president after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and established the First Brazilian Republic in 1889, disestablishing the Empire.
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Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889.
More major people who died on August 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2005
Brock Peters
American actor (born 1927)
Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
2023
Dmitry Utkin
Russian army officer, founder of Wagner Group (born 1970)
Dmitry Valerievich Utkin was a Russian military officer and mercenary. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel.
1892
Deodoro da Fonseca
Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (born 1827)
Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil.
1900
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1840)
Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was one of the genrō, or senior statesman of the Meiji era.
2013
Charles Lisanby
American production designer and set director (born 1924)
Charles Alvin Lisanby Jr. was an American production designer who had a formative role for scenic design in early color television. During his career, Lisanby was nominated for sixteen Emmys and won three.
1831
Ferenc Kazinczy
Hungarian author and poet (born 1759)
Ferenc Kazinczy was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century.
2013
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
Russian sociologist and economist (born 1927)
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika.
2013
Vesna Rožič
Slovenian chess player (born 1987)
Vesna Rožič was a Slovenian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in April 2006. Rožič was ranked the second best Slovenian female chess player, after Anna Muzychuk.
1367
Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz
Spanish cardinal (born 1310)
Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz more commonly Gil de Albornoz ; c. 1295/1310 – 23 August 1367), was a Spanish curial cardinal, archbishop of Toledo from 13 May 1338 to 17 December 1350.
1967
Nathaniel Cartmell
American runner and coach (born 1883)
Nathaniel John Cartmell, also known as Nat and Nate, was an American athlete who won medals at two editions of the Olympic Games.
1994
Zoltán Fábri
Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1917)
Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street (1969) and Hungarians (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
1999
James White
Irish author (born 1928)
James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada.
1880
William Thompson
British boxer (born 1811)
William Abednego Thompson, also known as Bendigo Thompson and mononymously as Bendigo, was an English bare-knuckle boxer who won the heavyweight championship of England from James Burke on 12 February 1839.
1926
Rudolph Valentino
Italian actor (born 1895)
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer.
1927
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1888)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed…
1927
Nicola Sacco
Italian anarchist convicted of murder (born 1891)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed…
2003
Jack Dyer
Australian footballer and coach (born 1913)
John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM, nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949.
-30
Caesarion
Egyptian king (born 47 BC)
Ptolemy XV Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion, was the last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, reigning with his mother Cleopatra VII from 44 BC to 30 BC.
1990
David Rose
American pianist and composer (born 1910)
David Daniel Rose was a British-American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His best known compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody".