Famous people born on 23 August

• Louis XVI of FranceKing of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 · 1754–1793
  38 yrs
• Kobe BryantAmerican basketball player · 1978–2020
  41 yrs
• Gene KellyAmerican dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer · 1912–1996
  83 yrs
• Georges CuvierFrench naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist · 1769–1832
  62 yrs
• Samuel de Champlain16/17th-century French explorer of North America · 1567–1635
  68 yrs
• Kenneth ArrowAmerican economist · 1921–2017
  95 yrs
• Giuseppe MeazzaItalian association football player and manager · 1910–1979
  68 yrs
• Ivan VI of RussiaThe fifth Emperor of Russia · 1740–1764
  23 yrs
• Eleftherios Venizelos ↗Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece · 1864–1936
  71 yrs
• Robert Solow ↗American economist · 1924–2023
  99 yrs
• Houari Boumédiène ↗Head of State of Algeria from 1965 to 1978 · 1932–1978
  46 yrs
• River Phoenix ↗American actor and musician (1970–2026 · 1970–1993
  23 yrs
• Akhmad Kadyrov ↗Chechen politician and Islamic religious leader · 1951–2004
  52 yrs
• Robert Curl ↗American chemist · 1933–2022
  88 yrs
• Thomas A. Steitz ↗American biochemist · 1940–2018
  78 yrs
• Osborne Reynolds ↗Anglo-Irish innovator · 1842–1912
  69 yrs
• Alexander Grin ↗Russian writer · 1880–1932
  51 yrs
• Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse ↗French Navy officer and explorer · 1741–1788
  47 yrs
• Clifford Geertz ↗American anthropologist · 1926–2006
  80 yrs
• Hamilton Smith ↗American microbiologist · 1931–2025
  94 yrs
• Michel Rocard ↗French politician · 1930–2016
  85 yrs
• Arthur Adamov ↗Playwright · 1908–1970
  61 yrs
• August Ames ↗Canadian pornographic actress · 1994–2017
  23 yrs
• Keith Moon ↗English rock musician, drummer of The Who · 1946–1978
  32 yrs
• Marie Henriette of Austria ↗Queen consort of Belgium · 1836–1902
  66 yrs
• Johann Georg Gmelin ↗German and Russian scientist · 1709–1755
  45 yrs
• Zoltán Czibor ↗Hungarian footballer · 1929–1997
  68 yrs
• Alois Jirásek ↗Czech writer · 1851–1930
  78 yrs
• Auguste Bravais ↗French physicist · 1811–1863
  51 yrs
• Friedrich Zander ↗Russian and Soviet engineer, rocket designer · 1887–1933
  45 yrs
• Edgar Lee Masters ↗American writer · 1868–1950
  81 yrs

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