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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, August 23


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Births

* 1980 Rex Grossman American quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.
* 1978 Jared Fogle Nicknamed "Jared the Subway Guy", is a spokesman used by Subway restaurants in its television advertising campaign.
* 1978 Kobe Bryant American All-Star shooting guard in the NBA who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.
* 1970 River Phoenix Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor.
* 1962 Shaun Ryder Aka X, is an English singer and songwriter and an ex-postman who became famous in the "Madchester" era band Happy Mondays.
* 1950 Roza Otunbayeva Head of a provisional government in Kyrgyzstan, following the series of riots which led to the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
* 1949 William Lane Craig Christian apologist, evangelist, and author and editor of over 30 books.
* 1949 Shelley Long Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actress and comedienne.
* 1947 Willy Russell English dramatist, screenwriter, composer and lyricist.
* 1935 Roy Strong English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer.
* 1935 Sol Kerzner South African hotel and gambling magnate.
* 1933 Robert Curl Emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University.
* 1927 Allan Kaprow American Fluxus artist, assemblagist a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art, and the originator of Happenings.
* 1926 Clifford Geertz American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
* 1924 Robert Solow American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him.
* 1924 Ephraim Kishon Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.
* 1923 E. F. Codd British computer scientist and winner of the 1981 Turing Award.
* 1912 Nelson Rodrigues Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist.
* 1912 Gene Kelly Better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer.
* 1911 J. V. Cunningham American poet, sometimes described as a neo-classicist or anti-modernist.
* 1905 Constant Lambert English conductor, critic and modernist composer.
* 1900 Malvina Reynolds American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist.
* 1884 Will Cuppy American humorist, hermit, and self-styled curmudgeon.
* 1868 Edgar Lee Masters American poet, biographer and dramatist.
* 1864 Eleftherios Venizelos Greek politician.
* 1852 Arnold Toynbee English economic historian noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes; he was the uncle of Arnold J Toynbee.
* 1849 William Ernest Henley English poet, critic and editor.
* 1785 Oliver Hazard Perry Officer of the United States Navy, famous for his actions in the Battle of Lake Erie.
* 1769 Georges Cuvier French naturalist and zoologist.

Deaths

† 2002 Anthony Stafford Beer British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School.
† 1989 Ronald David Laing Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis.
† 1960 Oscar Hammerstein Born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein, was an American writer, producer, and director of musicals for almost forty years.
† 1952 Frederic G. Kenyon British paleographer and biblical and classical scholar.
† 1933 Adolf Loos One of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture.
† 1927 Bartolomeo Vanzetti Anarchist, who with Ferdinando Nicola Sacco was convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
† 1819 Oliver Hazard Perry Officer of the United States Navy, famous for his actions in the Battle of Lake Erie.
† 1806 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb French physicist.
† 1723 Increase Mather Religious leader and educator in colonial New England.
† 1305 William Wallace Scottish knight and resistance leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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