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Who died on 23 August?
Celebrities who died on 23 August
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Rudolph Valentino
Silent film actor
David H. Koch
American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer
Lori Nelson
American actress and model
Jean-Luc Nancy
French philosopher
Steve Van Buren
American football player
Kuldip Nayar
Indian author and journalist
Pavel Demidov
russian speleologist
Hoyt Wilhelm
American baseball player
Larry Laudan
American philosopher
Steven Hill
American actor
Tom Flynn
American writer
Rosita Quintana
Argentine-born Mexican actress, singer and songwriter
Julian Robertson
American businessman
Oscar Hammerstein II
American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals
Gerald Potterton
British-Canadian animator and director
Russ Heath
American comic artist
Guy Ligier
racecar driver
Jimmy Hayes
American ice hockey player
Viola Harris
American actress
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili
Georgian Chechen field commander
George Walker
American composer
Kathleen Freeman
American actress
Maria Janion
Polish scholar, critic and theoretician
Brock Peters
actor
Gregory Gaye
actor
John H. Hager
American businessman and politician
Dieter Thomas Heck
German television presenter, singer and actor
Sidney Howard
American writer
David Rose
American songwriter, composer and arranger
Božidar Delić
Serbian politician
Peter King
British musician
Mario Davidovsky
Argentine-American composer
Gerald D. Hines
American businessman
Kihachirō Kawamoto
Japanese anime director
Hoot Gibson
actor, director, producer
Gunilla Bergström
Swedish writer, illustrator and journalist
Esther Cooper Jackson
Civil rights activist
Vytjie Mentor
South African politician
Mary Gordon
actress of Scttish descent, worked primarily in the US
Francis X. Bushman
American actor, director, writer
Hank Patterson
American actor and musician
Nathaniel Cartmell
American athlete
Rick Loomis
American game designer
Benny Chan
Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter
Zoltán Fábri
Hungarian actor, film director
Hank Borowy
Major League Baseball pitcher
José Yudica
Argentine footballer/manager
Lou Slaby
Player of American football