Friday 23rd of August 1754

King of France and Navarre Louis XVI is born as Louis-Auguste de France in Palais de Versailles, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 23rd of August 1898

Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in Essonnes, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 23rd of August 1912

Dancer, actor, singer, film director and choreographer Gene Eugene Curran Kelly is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Monday 23rd of August 1926

Actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino aka Latin Lover dies of pleurisy at the age of 31 in Polyclinic Hospital, 345 West 50th Street, New York City, New York, United States.

Tuesday 23rd of August 1927

Anarchist Nicola Sacco is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

Tuesday 23rd of August 1927

Anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 39 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

Friday 23rd of August 1929

Actress Vera Miles is born as Vera June Ralston in Boise City, Oklahoma, United States.

Sunday 23rd of August 1936

Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death is born in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.

Friday 23rd of August 1946

Drummer Keith John Moon known from the band The Who is born in Central Middlesex Hospital, Wembley, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 23rd of August 1949

Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu is born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.

Saturday 23rd of August 1952

Gangster Yvan Somville is born in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium.

Saturday 23rd of August 1958

Artist and radical lesbian Marlow Marjorie Jewel Moss dies of cancer at the age of 69 in Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Sunday 23rd of August 1970

Actor and musician River Phoenix is born as River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon, United States.

Phoenix's parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel 'Siddhartha' and he received his middle name from the Beatles' song 'Hey Jude'.

Friday 23rd of August 1974

24-year-old Kathie Sue Pearce is strangled by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Musella, Georgia, United States.

Knowles left Pearce's three-year-old sun physically unharmed.

Saturday 23rd of August 1975

18-year-old Musician Ian Kevin Curtis known from the band Joy Division marries 18-year-old Deborah Woodruff in St Thomas' Church, Henbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

Monday 23rd of August 1982

Juvenile child killer Robert Thompson known for the murder of James Bulger is born in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 23rd of August 1989

Psychiatrist Ronald David Laing dies of a heart attack at the age of 62 in .

Wednesday 23rd of August 2000

Triple murderer David Earl Gibbs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 23rd of August 2000

143 die in Gulf Air Flight 072 Airbus A320-212 crash in Bahrein International Airport, Muharraq, Bahrein.

Friday 23rd of August 2002

Noise music band Club Moral play their 89th concert in Stubnitz, Graaf Visartkaai, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Friday 23rd of August 2002

Party time after our Club Moral music performance on the Stubnitz in Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Tuesday 23rd of August 2005

Murderer Robert Alan Shields is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 23rd of August 2006

18-year-old Kidnap victim Natascha Maria Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar escapes after being held in captivity for over 8 years by Wolfgang Přiklopil in Heinestrasse 60, Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Niederösterreich, Austria.

Wednesday 23rd of August 2006

Kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil commits suicide by throwing himself before a Wiener S-Bahn train at the age of 44 in Praterstern Station, Wien, Wien, Austria.

Thursday 23rd of August 2007

Triple murderer Hifumi Takezawa is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

Thursday 23rd of August 2007

Murderer Yoshio Iwamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

Thursday 23rd of August 2007

Murderer Kozo Segawa is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Nagoya, Chūbu, Japan.

Thursday 23rd of August 2018

AMVK at Hotel Alt Weimar where Rudolf Steiner lived from 1892 to 1896 in Steiner Wohnhaus, Prellerstraße 2, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

Thursday 23rd of August 2018

Electric light switches in Schloss Tiefurt, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

Tuesday 23rd of August 2022

The Red Dahlia on our terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.