Month August 1923 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
  
  August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1923

• Day of Week 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
• Day of Week 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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