August 23 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 23, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#45 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 23 birthdays
Eleftherios Venizelos · Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece1864
Giuseppe Meazza · Italian association football player and manager1910
Gene Kelly · American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer1912
Kenneth Arrow · American economist1921
Robert Solow · American economist1924
Clifford Geertz · American anthropologist1926
Vera Miles · American actress1930
Hamilton O. Smith · American microbiologist1931
Barbara Eden · American actress and singer1931
Robert Curl · American chemist1933
Thomas A. Steitz · American biochemist1940
Roza Otunbayeva · President of Kyrgyzstan1950
Halimah Yacob · 8th President of Singapore1954
River Phoenix · American actor and musician1970
Gretchen Whitmer · American politician and attorney1971
Konstantin Novoselov · Russian-British physicist known for graphene work1974
Scott Caan · American actor1976
Kobe Bryant · American basketball player1978
Jeremy Lin · Taiwanese-American basketball player1988
On this day in history
1775King George III issued a proclamation that declared elements of the American colonies of Great Britain to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion".
1970Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1991The World Wide Web was opened to the public.
1994Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1914In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force engaged German troops in Mons, Belgium.
1943Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
1954The Cruise of the Kings, a royal cruise organised by the Queen Consort of Greece, Frederica of Hanover, departed from Marseille, France.
1960Congo Crisis: In order to stop the secession of South Kasai from the Republic of Congo, Armée Nationale Congolaise forces launched an invasion of South Kasai.
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