What Happened In August 1923 In History

Historical Events for August, 1923

• 2nd » As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the List of Presidents of the United States or 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
• 23rd » Captain (United States O-3) known as Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1923

• 1st » Val Bettin, American voice actor
• 2nd » Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel
• 3rd » Jean Hagen, American actress and singer (d. 1977)
• 3rd » Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (d. 2012)
• 4th » Reg Grundy, Australian television producer
• 5th » Devan Nair, Singaporean politician, 3rd President of Singapore (d. 2005)
• 6th » Jess Collins, American painter (d. 2004)
• 10th » Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
• 10th » Rhonda Fleming, American actress and singer
• 10th » Fred Ridgway, English cricketer and footballer
• 10th » SM Sultan, Bangladeshi painter (d. 1994)
• 11th » Stan Chambers, American journalist
• 12th » John Holt (cricketer) named John Holt, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1997)
• 14th » Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem (d. 2000)
• 15th » Rose Marie, American actress and singer
• 16th » Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian journalist and playwright (d. 2012)
• 18th » Jenni Irani, Indian-Pakistani cricketer (d. 1982)
• 18th » Sadashiv Shinde, Indian cricketer (d. 1955)
• 20th » Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)
• 21st » Keith Allen (ice hockey) e.g Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 21st » Mario Laserna Pinzón, French-Colombian educator and politician, 9th Ambassador of Colombia to France called Colombia Ambassador to France (d. 2013)
• 23rd » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist (d. 2003)
• 24th » Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and academic (d. 2012)
• 25th » Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)
• 25th » Allyre Sirois, Canadian judge (d. 2012)
• 26th » Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013)
• 27th » Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 29th » Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 29th » Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
• 29th » Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, English businessman (d. 2006)

Famous Deaths for August 1923

• 2nd » Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 5th » Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian linguist, philologist, and academic (b. 1835)
• 19th » Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 24th » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author (b. 1856)

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