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Events on Monday 23 August 1926 1
1895 – 1926Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926)Died 23 August 1926, aged 31Rudolph Valentino, the Italian-American film star and the leading male sex symbol of the silent era, died suddenly in New York of peritonitis following a ruptured ulcer. His death triggered mass public grief, with crowds rioting outside the funeral home and reports of fans attempting suicide.