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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[30 BC]] – [[Caesarion]], Egyptian king (b. 47 BC) * 30 BC – [[Marcus Antonius Antyllus]], Roman soldier (b. 47 BC) *[[AD 93|93]] – [[Gnaeus Julius Agricola]], Roman general and politician (b. AD 40) * [[406]] – [[Radagaisus]], Gothic king * [[634]] – [[Abu Bakr]], Arabian caliph (b. 573) * [[992]] – [[Volkold]], bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen|Meissen]]<ref>{{Cite ADB|40|245|246|Volkold|Karl Uhlirz|ADB:Volkold}}</ref> *[[1106]] – [[Magnus, Duke of Saxony]] (b. 1045) *[[1176]] – [[Emperor Rokujō]] of Japan (b. 1164) *[[1305]] – [[William Wallace]], Scottish knight and rebel leader (b. c.1270)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Wallace {{!}} Biography, Braveheart, Death, Sword, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wallace |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=24 August 2023 |language=en |date=19 August 2023}}</ref> *[[1328]] – [[Nicolaas Zannekin]], Flemish peasant leader (in the battle of Cassel) *[[1329]] – [[Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. 1282) *[[1335]] – [[Heilwige Bloemardinne]], Christian mystic (b. c. 1265) *[[1348]] – [[John de Stratford]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] *[[1363]] – [[Chen Youliang]], founder of the Dahan regime (b. 1320) *[[1367]] – [[Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz]], Spanish cardinal (b. 1310) *[[1478]] – [[Johannes Pullois]], Franco-Flemish composer (b. c. 1420?) *[[1481]] – [[Thomas de Littleton]], English judge and legal author (b. c. 1407) *[[1498]] – [[Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal]], eldest daughter of [[Isabella I of Castile]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] (b. 1470) *[[1507]] – [[Jean Molinet]], French poet and composer (b. 1435) *[[1519]] – [[Philibert Berthelier (Geneva patriot)|Philibert Berthelier]], Swiss soldier (b. 1465) *[[1540]] – [[Guillaume Budé]], French philosopher and scholar (b. 1467) *[[1568]] – [[Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton]] (b. 1495) *[[1574]] – [[Ebussuud Efendi]], Turkish lawyer and jurist (b. 1490) *[[1591]] – [[Luis de León]], Spanish poet and academic (b. 1527) ===1601–1900=== *[[1618]] – [[Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero]], Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1585) *[[1628]] – [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]], English politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire]] (b. 1592) *[[1652]] – [[John Byron, 1st Baron Byron]], English soldier and politician (b. 1600) *[[1706]] – [[Edward Nott]], English politician, [[Colonial Governor of Virginia]] (b. 1654) *[[1723]] – [[Increase Mather]], American minister and author (b. 1639) *[[1806]] – [[Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]], French physicist and engineer (b. 1736) *[[1813]] – [[Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)|Alexander Wilson]], Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766) *[[1819]] – [[Oliver Hazard Perry]], American commander (b. 1785) *[[1831]] – [[Ferenc Kazinczy]], Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759) * 1831 – [[August Neidhardt von Gneisenau]], Prussian field marshal (b. 1760) *[[1853]] – [[Alexander Calder (Beaumont, Texas)|Alexander Calder]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1806) *[[1867]] – [[Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy]], French poet and author (b. 1796) *[[1880]] – [[William Thompson (boxer)|William Thompson]], British boxer (b. 1811) *[[1892]] – [[Deodoro da Fonseca]], Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st [[President of Brazil]] (b. 1827) *[[1900]] – [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]], Japanese general and politician, 2nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. 1840) ===1901–present=== *[[1924]] – [[Heinrich Berté]], Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856) *[[1926]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (b. 1895) *[[1927]] – [[Nicola Sacco]], Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891) * 1927 – [[Bartolomeo Vanzetti]], Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888) *[[1933]] – [[Adolf Loos]], Austrian architect and theoretician, designed [[Villa Müller]] (b. 1870) *[[1937]] – [[Albert Roussel]], French composer (b. 1869)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Randel |first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music |date=1996 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-37299-3 |page=768 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA768 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Abdülmecid II]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1868) * 1944 – [[Stefan Filipkiewicz]], Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879) *[[1949]] – [[Helen Churchill Candee]], American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858) *[[1954]] – [[Jaan Sarv]], Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877) *[[1960]] – [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Reuben Musiker|author2=Naomi Musiker|title=Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uooJfq7gOa0C&pg=PA230|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30260-2|pages=230}}</ref> *[[1962]] – [[Walter Anderson (folklorist)|Walter Anderson]], Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885) * 1962 – [[Hoot Gibson]], American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892) *[[1964]] – [[Edmond Hogan]], Australian politician, 30th [[Premier of Victoria]] (b. 1883) *[[1966]] – [[Francis X. Bushman]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)<ref>{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0MZAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Crown Publishers|page=232}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Georges Berger]], Belgian race car driver (b. 1918) * 1967 – [[Nathaniel Cartmell]], American runner and coach (b. 1883) *[[1974]] – [[Roberto Assagioli]], Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888) *[[1975]] – [[Faruk Gürler]], Turkish general (b. 1913) *[[1977]] – [[Naum Gabo]], Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890) *[[1982]] – [[Stanford Moore]], American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1913) *[[1987]] – [[Didier Pironi]], French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a05WAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Iliffe, sons & Sturmey Limited|pages=14–18}}</ref> *[[1989]] – [[Mohammed Abed Elhai]], Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944) * 1989 – [[R. D. Laing]], Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite book|author=Zbigniew Kotowicz|title=R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlFVnoghyq8C&pg=PA4|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-134-81953-6|pages=4}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[David Rose (songwriter)|David Rose]], American pianist and composer (b. 1910) *[[1994]] – [[Zoltán Fábri]], Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917) *[[1995]] – [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]], German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898) *[[1996]] – [[Margaret Tucker]], Australian author and activist (b. 1904) *[[1997]] – [[Eric Gairy]], Grenadian educator and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Grenada]] (b. 1922)<ref>{{cite book|author=Caribbean Community. Secretariat|title=Caricomview: A Monthly Newsletter of the Caricom Secretariat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3axAAAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Communications Unit, Caricom Secretariat|page=11}}</ref> * 1997 – [[John Kendrew]], English biochemist and crystallographer, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1917) *[[1999]] – [[Norman Wexler]], American screenwriter (b. 1926) * 1999 – [[James White (author)|James White]], Irish author (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.sfwa.org/News/white.htm | access-date=17 December 2008 | title=James White, 1928–1999| author=Nielsen Hayden, P | publisher=[[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000119075840/http://www.sfwa.org/News/white.htm | archive-date=19 January 2000}}</ref> *[[2000]] – [[John Anthony Kaiser]], American priest and missionary (b. 1932) *[[2001]] – [[Kathleen Freeman]], American actress (b. 1919)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bergan |first1=Ronald |title=Kathleen Freeman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/27/guardianobituaries.filmnews |website=The Guardian |access-date=7 September 2023 |date=27 August 2001}}</ref> * 2001 – [[Peter Maas]], American journalist and author (b. 1929) *[[2002]] – [[Hoyt Wilhelm]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1922) *[[2003]] – [[Bobby Bonds]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1946) * 2003 – [[Jack Dyer]], Australian footballer and coach (b. 1913) * 2003 – [[Jan Sedivka]], Czech-Australian violinist and educator (b. 1917) * 2003 – [[Michael Kijana Wamalwa]], Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th [[Vice President of Kenya]] (b. 1944) *[[2005]] – [[Brock Peters]], American actor (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite news |author=Mel Watkins |author-link=Mel Watkins (American writer) |title=Brock Peters of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Is Dead at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/movies/24peters.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 24, 2005 |access-date=2015-01-29 }}</ref> *[[2006]] – [[Maynard Ferguson]], Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928) *[[2008]] – [[John Russell (art critic)|John Russell]], English-American author and critic (b. 1919) *[[2012]] – [[Jerry Nelson]], American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934) * 2012 – [[Josepha Sherman]], American anthologist and author (b. 1946) *[[2013]] – [[Richard J. Corman]], American businessman, founded the [[R.J. Corman Railroad Group]] (b. 1955) * 2013 – [[William Glasser]], American psychiatrist and author (b. 1925) * 2013 – [[Charles Lisanby]], American production designer and set director (b. 1924) * 2013 – [[Konstanty Miodowicz]], Polish ethnographer and politician (b. 1951) * 2013 – [[Vesna Rožič]], Slovenian chess player (b. 1987) * 2013 – [[Tatyana Zaslavskaya]], Russian sociologist and economist (b. 1927) *[[2014]] – [[Albert Ebossé Bodjongo]], Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989) * 2014 – [[Annefleur Kalvenhaar]], Dutch cyclist (b. 1994) * 2014 – [[Birgitta Stenberg]], Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1932) * 2014 – [[Jaume Vallcorba Plana]], Spanish philologist and publisher (b. 1949) *[[2015]] – [[Augusta Chiwy]], Congolese-Belgian nurse (b. 1921) * 2015 – [[Guy Ligier]], French rugby player and race car driver (b. 1930) * 2015 – [[Enrique Reneau]], Honduran footballer (b. 1971)<ref>{{cite news|title=Fallece en La Ceiba Enrique Centeno Reneau|url=http://www.elheraldo.hn/zonadeportiva/872057-215/fallece-en-la-ceiba-enrique-centeno-reneau|access-date=24 August 2015|publisher=El Heraldo|date=23 August 2015}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Paul Royle]], Australian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914) *[[2021]] – [[Elizabeth Blackadder]], Scottish painter and printmaker (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Elizabeth Blackadder obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/25/dame-elizabeth-blackadder-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 August 2021 |language=en |date=25 August 2021}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Dmitry Utkin]], Russian army officer, founder of [[Wagner Group]] (b. 1970)<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 August 2023 |title=Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733 |access-date=23 August 2023 |archive-date=23 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823171520/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2023 – [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]], Russian businessman, chief of [[Wagner Group]] (b. 1961)<ref>{{cite news |title=Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733 |access-date=23 August 2023 |work=BBC News |date=23 August 2023}}</ref> * 2023 – [[Terry Funk]], American professional wrestler (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Medina |first1=Eduardo |title=Terry Funk, Hard-Core Hall of Fame Wrestler, Dies at 79 |work=The New York Times |date=August 24, 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/obituaries/terry-funk-wrestler-dead.html |access-date=August 26, 2023}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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