| 95671 | August 23 | Event | 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' |
| 95672 | August 23 | Event | 2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. |
| 95673 | August 23 | Event | 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity. |
| 95674 | August 23 | Event | 2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
| 95675 | August 23 | Event | 2010 – Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed. |
| 95676 | August 23 | Event | 2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD. |
| 95677 | August 23 | Event | 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War. |
| 95678 | August 23 | Event | 2012 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others. |
| 95679 | August 23 | Event | 2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people. |
| 95680 | August 23 | Birth | 1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Slovenian historian and diplomat (d. 1566) |
| 95681 | August 23 | Birth | 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and jurist (d. 1590) |
| 95682 | August 23 | Birth | 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (d. 1675) |
| 95683 | August 23 | Birth | 1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant (d. 1796) |
| 95684 | August 23 | Birth | 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer (d. 1788) |
| 95685 | August 23 | Birth | 1754 – Louis XVI of France (d. 1793) |
| 95686 | August 23 | Birth | 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775) |
| 95687 | August 23 | Birth | 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic (d. 1832) |
| 95688 | August 23 | Birth | 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852) |
| 95689 | August 23 | Birth | 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (d. 1819) |
| 95690 | August 23 | Birth | 1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician (d. 1893) |
| 95691 | August 23 | Birth | 1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (d. 1877) |
| 95692 | August 23 | Birth | 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (d. 1920) |
| 95693 | August 23 | Birth | 1836 – Marie Henriette of Austria (d. 1902) |
| 95694 | August 23 | Birth | 1843 – William Southam, Canadian publisher (d. 1932) |
| 95695 | August 23 | Birth | 1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor (d. 1923) |
| 95696 | August 23 | Birth | 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927) |
| 95697 | August 23 | Birth | 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet and critic (d. 1903) |
| 95698 | August 23 | Birth | 1852 – Radha Gobinda Kar, Indian physician and philanthropist (d. 1918) |
| 95699 | August 23 | Birth | 1852 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (d. 1913) |
| 95700 | August 23 | Birth | 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian (d. 1883) |