16 notable people died on August 23, including Thomas A. Steitz, Thomas H. Weller, John C. Kendrew.
21st Century
2 deaths
Thomas A. Steitz
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
Thomas H. Weller
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954)
20th Century
6 deaths
John C. Kendrew
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1962)
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Stanford Moore
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972)
Menotti Del Picchia
children's writerjournalist
Brazilian writer (1892-1988)
Adolf Loos
architectarchitecture critic
Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)
Joseph Royal
editorhistorian
Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor, journalist, lawyer, politician
Humberto Fierro
poetwriter
Ecuadorian poet
19th Century
2 deaths
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
engineermilitary engineer
French physicist (1736-1806)
Karl Rößler
entrepreneurgeologist
German entrepreneur and naturalist
18th Century
4 deaths
Humphrey Gainsborough
civil engineercleric
British engineer and minister; (1718-1776)
Celia Grillo Borromeo
mathematicianphilosopher
Italian mathematician and scientist
Alexander MacFarlane
astronomermathematician
Mathematician, astronomer, merchant and slave-owner in Kingston, Jamaica (c.1702–1755)
Élie Bertrand
encyclopédistesgeologist
Swiss scientist
17th Century
1 deathNF
Nicholas French
Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Irish bishop
16th Century
1 death
Luis de León
friarlinguist
Spanish poet
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