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Events
1056 – Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1142 – With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
1422 – Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 o clock in the morning.
1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 – Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 – Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper s known victims.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1914 – Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 – Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – First radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
1942 – In Ternopil, western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organise the first deportation of Jews from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city.
1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1948 – Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1968 – Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
1978 – William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980 – The Gdansk Agreement is signed.
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo .
1993 – HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales and her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul died as a result of a car crash in Paris.
1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 – The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 – Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch s famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.

Births
12 – Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
161 – Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1569 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
1602 – Amalia von Solms, countess of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1675)
1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
1741 – Husein Gradašcevic, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
1811 – Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872)
1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (d. 1894)
1822 – Galusha A. Grow, American politician (d. 1907)
1834 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1843 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
1871 – James E. Ferguson, Texan governor (d. 1944)
1878 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 – Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
1880 – Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1885 – DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1893 – Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
1894 – Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
1896 – Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897 – Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1900 – Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1903 – Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1903 – Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
1905 – Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
1907 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
1907 – Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1907 – William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 – Altiero Spinelli, Italian citizen and advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
1908 – William Saroyan, American novelist (d. 1981)
1911 – Edward Brongersma, Dutch politician, writer and political activist. (d. 1998)
1913 – Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
1913 – Helen Levitt, American photographer
1914 – Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist
1918 – Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
1919 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
1921 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
1924 – Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1928 – James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1931 – Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 – Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1934 – Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
1935 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1935 – Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
1937 – Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937 – Bobby Parker, American blues musician/guitarist
1938 – Martin Bell, British journalist
1938 – Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of Australia
1939 – Jerry Allison, American drummer (The Crickets)
1941 – William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman
1943 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
1944 – Roger Dean, English artist
1944 – Clive Lloyd, West Indian cricketer
1944 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1945 – Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1945 – Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1946 – Jerome Corsi, American writer
1947 – Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1947 – Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
1947 – Yumiko Oshima, Japanese manga artist
1947 – Somchai Wongsawat, Thai 26th Prime Minister
1948 – Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 – Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1948 – Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1948 – Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1949 – Richard Gere, American actor
1949 – H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 – Herbert Reul, German politician
1953 – Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentine racing driver
1953 – György Károly, Hungarian author
1953 – Pavel Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut
1954 – Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
1954 – Caroline Cossey, English model
1955 – Edwin Moses, American athlete
1955 – Gary Webb, American journalist (d. 2004)
1956 – Maria Balazova, Slovak painter
1956 – Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957 – Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go s)
1957 – Glenn Tilbrook, English singer and guitarist (Squeeze)
1957 – Colm O Rourke, Former Gaelic footballer and Current panelist
1958 – Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer
1959 – Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey coach
1960 – Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960 – Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1962 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963 – Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1963 – Todd Carty, Irish actor
1963 – Sonny Silooy, Dutch footballer
1964 – Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
1965 – Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
1965 – Céline Bonnier, French Canadian actress
1965 – Willie Watson, New Zealand cricketer
1966 – Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian Alpine skier
1967 – Anita Moen, Norwegian Cross-country skier
1968 – Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player
1968 – Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player
1969 – Nathalie Bouvier, French alpine skier
1969 – Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer (d. 1997)
1969 – Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1969 – Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer
1970 – Deborah Gibson, American singer
1970 – Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian Prime Minister
1970 – Queen Rania of Jordan
1970 – Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1970 – Amy Stein, American photographer
1970 – Zack Ward, Canadian actor
1971 – Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
1972 – Chris Tucker, American actor
1973 – Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player
1975 – John Grahame, American ice hockey player
1975 – Daniel Harding, British conductor
1975 – Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
1975 – Sara Ramirez, American actress
1975 – Takahiro Suwa, Japanese professional wrestler
1975 – Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer
1976 – Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
1976 – Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
1977 – Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977 – Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978 – Philippe Christanval, French footballer
1978 – Phina Oruche, British actress
1979 – Clay Hensley, American baseball player
1979 – Mickie James, American professional wrestler
1979 – Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
1979 – Simon Neil, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1979 – Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 – 40 Cal, American rapper
1981 – Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
1981 – Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
1981 – Joe Swanberg, American filmmaker
1982 – Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1982 – Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1982 – Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
1982 – Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
1982 – Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982 – José Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 – Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1982 – Patrick Nuo, Swiss singer
1982 – G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
1983 – Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1984 – Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
1984 – Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1984 – Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
1985 – Andrew Foster, Australian Rules Football
1986 – Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
1987 – Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

Deaths
651 – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 – Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1056 – Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)
1234 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422 – King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1645 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688 – John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1730 – Gottfried Finger, Czech composer
1741 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1795 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
1799 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1814 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1867 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1888 – Mary Ann Polly Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1940 – Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
1941 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1952 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1963 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1969 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
1974 – William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1974 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
1978 – John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1979 – Tiger Smith, England cricketer (b. 1886)
1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1986 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
1997 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
2000 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
2002 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2004 – Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005 – Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006 – Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2006 – Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
2007 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1928)
2008 – Jerry Reed, American country music singer and actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (b. 1933)
2008 – Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances
Roman Catholic Saints – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Saint Abundius, Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Poland, Europe – Day of Solidarity and Freedom, on the anniversary of August Agreement from 1980
Moldova: Day of Our Language (Limba Noastra)
Malaysia – Hari Merdeka, a National Day (independence within the Commonwealth, 1957)
Kyrgyzstan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
Trinidad and Tobago – Independence Day (from United Kingdom, 1962)

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Events
1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 – Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 – The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 – Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1896 – Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – Battle of Tannenberg.
1918 – Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) (Turkish War of Independence).
1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1956 – Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 – Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974 – A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 – Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1990 – Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1999 – East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

Births
1334 – Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1768 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 – Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi s wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1852 – Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1856 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1893 – Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (d. 1981)
1901 – John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1912 – Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 – Richard Stone, British economist Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1917 – Denis Healey, British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer
1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1922 – Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
1923 – Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1923 – Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1928 – Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 – Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1933 – Don Getty, Canadian politician
1934 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1935 – John Phillips, American singer (Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1939 – John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1941 – Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1942 – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
1943 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 – Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1946 – Peggy Lipton, American actress
1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian
1948 – Fred Hampton, Black Panther leader, murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1948 – Donnacha O Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 – Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1949 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 – Dana, Irish singer and politician
1953 – Robin Harris, American comedian (d. 1990)
1953 – Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public)
1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953 – Ron George, American politician
1954 – David Paymer, American actor
1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1958 – Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1959 – Mark Jacko Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 – Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 – Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah
1960 – Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 – Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor
1963 – Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 – Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 – Michael Michele, American actress
1967 – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1968 – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 – Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 – Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 – Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 – Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 – Lillo Brancato Jr., American actor
1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977 – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 – Elden Henson, American actor
1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1978 – Swizz Beatz, American record producer and rapper
1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 – Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1981 – Germán Legarreta, American Actor
1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1982 – Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1983 – Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 – Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 – Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1985 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player

Deaths
526 – Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1428 – Emperor Shoko (b. 1401)
1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1617 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 – Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1938 – Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 – Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1968 – William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
1970 – Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1971 – Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1991 – Shri Gurudev Mahendranath, British writer (b. 1911)
1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)
1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
1995 – Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 – Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances
Peru – Saint Rose of Lima s Day.
Turkey – Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922).
International Day of the Disappeared
Feast day of Felix and Adauctus

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/august-history/august-30th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 August 29th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/august-history/august-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/august-history/august-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/august-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today August 29th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years War.
1786 – Shays Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1825 – Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1833 – The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world s first rack railway.
1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1882 – The date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world s first motorcycle.
1895 – The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 – Japan changes Korea s name to Chosen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1918 – Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
1922 – Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna in Asia Minor.
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991 – Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
2007 – A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.

Births
1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 – Jan Sniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1777 – Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 – Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1805 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
1811 – Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907)
1843 – David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
1876 – Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1898 – Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
1901 – Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
1916 – George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
1920 – Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1922 – Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (d. 2008)
1923 – Richard Attenborough, English film director
1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1923 – Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
1924 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
1926 – Betty Lynn, American actress
1926 – María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1928 – Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
1929 – Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 – Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1933 – Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1934 – John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
1935 – William Friedkin, American film director
1936 – John McCain, American politician
1937 – James Florio, American politician
1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
1938 – Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 – Joel Schumacher, American film director
1940 – James Brady, American White House Press Secretary and gun control activist
1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 – Robin Leach, English television host
1942 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 – John Heuser, Electron microscopist
1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996)
1945 – Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper
1947 – Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
1947 – James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
1950 – Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
1950 – Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
1952 – Karen Hesse, American children s writer
1952 – Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
1953 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
1955 – Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1955 – Diamanda Galas, American singer
1956 – GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1958 – Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor
1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer, dancer and composer
1959 – Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
1959 – Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family
1959 – Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist
1961 – Rodney McCray, American basketball player
1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field-hockey player
1962 – Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1962 – Carl Banks, American football player
1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1965 – Dina Spybey, American actress
1965 – Will Perdue, American basketball player
1967 – Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1969 – Me Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1969 – Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1970 – Chris Daugherty, Winner of Survivor: Vanuatu
1971 – Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 – Carla Gugino, American actress
1972 – Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 – Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1973 – Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1974 – Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 – Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
1976 – Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1977 – John Patrick O Brien, American footballer
1977 – Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 – Devean George, American basketball player
1977 – Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 – Jo Weil, German actor
1978 – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 – Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1979 – Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 – Chris Simms, American football player
1980 – David West, American basketball player
1980 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 – Tom Allason, UK based entrepreneur
1980 – Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1981 – Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
1981 – Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1982 – A+, American rapper
1982 – Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
1982 – Leon Washington, American football player
1985 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1986 – Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 – Sam Stern, British chef and author
1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter

Deaths
886 – Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 – King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
1395 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1526 – King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
1542 – Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. c. 1516)
1657 – John Lilburne, English dissenter
1712 – Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 – Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle
1904 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 – David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
1935 – Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1971 – Nathan Leopold, American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
1975 – Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1976 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1985 – Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
1987 – Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1992 – Felix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (b. 1930)
1992 – Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)
1995 – Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
2001 – Graeme Shirley Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (b. 1952)
2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
2003 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2003 – Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 – Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet s Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)

Holidays and observances
Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism, and Roman Catholic Church commemorate the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day.
Slovakia – Slovak National Uprising Day (1944, against the Nazis).
The first day of Thoth – which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/august-history/august-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 August 28th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/august-history/august-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/august-history/august-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/august-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today August 28th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 – Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 – 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague.
1511 – The Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, is established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 – Second Bishop s War: King Charles I s English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1777 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cooch s Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1845 – Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink Pepsi-Cola.
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1924 – Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 – France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1961 – Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, Please Mr. Postman by The Marvelettes.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1971 – The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi s sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1984 – Josef Fritzl lures his 18 year old daughter, Elisabeth, into the basement of their home, where she would be imprisoned for the next 24 years.
1986 – United States Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1992 – Last US Manufactured Camaro Built in Van Nuys CA. Last 3rd Generation Z28, Last car with L98 350 Engine.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
1998 – Pakistan s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the Qur an and Sunnah the supreme law but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London s underground rail network to a halt.

Births
1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 – Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1691 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
1814 – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910)
1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 – George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1894 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 – Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
1913 – Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
1913 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
1913 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993)
1915 – Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 – Jack Vance, American author
1916 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1917 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
1920 – Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
1925 – Donald O Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
1925 – Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1929 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor
1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor
1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
1931 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
1932 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 – Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1938 – Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 – Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1941 – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1941 – Paul Plishka, American bass
1942 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 – David Soul, American actor
1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1943 – Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
1944 – Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1945 – Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
1945 – Bob Segarini, American musician
1944 – Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1947 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
1947 – Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1948 – Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer
1949 – Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
1949 – Svetislav Pešic, Serbian basketball player and coach
1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 – Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 – Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1954 – George Church, American geneticist
1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
1957 – Rick Rossovich, American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1961 – Kim Appleby, English singer
1961 – Cliff Benson, American football player
1962 – Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 – David Fincher, American music video and film director
1963 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1963 – Regina Jacobs, American athlete
1965 – Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer
1966 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1967 – Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor
1969 – Jack Black, American actor
1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer
1969 – Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
1970 – Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1971 – Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
1971 – Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 – Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
1971 – Shane Andrews, American baseball player
1972 – Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1972 – Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
1973 – Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1973 – DJ Assault, American musician
1974 – Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1974 – Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1975 – Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975 – Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 – Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1978 – Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 – Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1979 – Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1980 – T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981 – Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981 – Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1981 – Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
1981 – Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1982 – Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 – Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1982 – Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 – Alfonso Herrera, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1985 – Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
1988 – Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
1990 – Bojan Krkic, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 – Kyle Massey, American actor
1991 – Sarah Jane Santos, Filipino singer
1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark

Deaths
388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
430 – Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
1341 – King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818 – Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 – William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1900 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1955 – Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
1959 – Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1975 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1976 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
1981 – Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 – Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
1993 – William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1995 – Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
2003 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 – George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 – Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 – Hilly Kristal, American musician (b. 1932)
2007 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 – Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances
In Eastern Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar: Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

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Events
479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted.
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
663 – Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage the combined naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; the outcome is a significant Tang-Silla victory, while the Japanese would not attempt another invasion of Korea until the Japanese invasions of Korea of the late 16th century.
1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hojo Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1789 – The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
1793 – French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
1798 – Wolfe Tone s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world s first commercially successful oil well.
1861 – Union (Northern) forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Births
1883 – Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano, enters the final stage of its eruption. Four enormous explosions followed by a pyroclastic flow killed about 1,000 people. Its final shock waves traveled around the Earth as many as seven times and tsunamis over 30 metres (320 sq ft) high killed an estimated 36,000 people worldwide. The final explosion is the loudest sound in recorded history, measured at 180 dBSPL 160 kilometres (0.062 sq mi) away.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations. It is soon occupied by German and Bulgarian forces.
1920 – Takes place the first radio broadcasting in Argentina.
1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first fifteen nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world s first jet aircraft.
1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1952 – West Germany and Israel conclude reparation negotiations in Luxembourg; West Germany agrees to pay 3 billion Deutsch Marks.
1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by America s NASA.
1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
1971 – A coup attempt fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – An IRA bomb kills British World War II admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and 3 others while they were boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another bomb near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada s capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they were avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo s Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
2000 – 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

Deaths
1407 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 – George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
1487 – Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1669 – Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1698 – Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement (d. 1760)
1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1803 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
1858 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
1865 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1865 – Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919)
1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1875 – Katharine McCormick, American women s rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 – Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
1877 – Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1882 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born Hollywood film producer (d. 1974)
1884 – Vincent Auriol, French President (d. 1966)
1886 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
1886 – Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
1899 – C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
1904 – Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904 – John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 – Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
1909 – Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
1911 – Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d. 1980)
1913 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
1915 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch Prime Minister (d. 2001)
1919 – Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 – Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
1929 – Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931 – Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1932 – Antonia Fraser, British author
1935 – Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1935 – Frank Yablans, American film producer
1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1941 – Harrison Page, American actor
1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress
1945 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
1946 – Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer
1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress
1947 – Harry Reems, American actor
1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
1948 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1948 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1949 – Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama
1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor
1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
1951 – Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach
1952 – Paul Pee-Wee Herman Reubens, American actor
1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1954 – John Lloyd, British tennis player
1954 – Derek Warwick, British race car driver
1955 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress
1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion
1958 – Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1958 – Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
1958 – Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1959 – Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
1959 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1961 – Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
1964 – Frankie Thorn, American actress
1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
1966 – Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 – Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1969 – Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
1969 – Mark Ealham, England cricketer
1969 – Cesar Millan, professional dog trainer
1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress
1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 – Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player
1970 – Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer
1970 – Mark Ilott, England cricketer
1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1971 – Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and footballcoach
1972 – Jimmy Pop, American musician, lead singer of The Bloodhound Gang
1972 – Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch hockey-international
1972 – Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1972 – Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
1972 – Mike Smith, Canadian actor
1973 – Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1973 – Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
1973 – Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 – Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1974 – Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1976 – Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
1976 – Steve Taylor, British writer
1976 – Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer
1977 – Mase, American rapper
1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
1979 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1979 – Rusty Smith, American shorttracker
1980 – Kyle Lowder, American actor
1983 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1983 – Robert J Leonard, Professional Disc Golfer and Sports Writer
1984 – David Bentley, English footballer
1984 – Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 – Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
1986 – Mario, American R&B singer
1987 – Darren McFadden, American football player
1988 – Alexa Vega, American actress

Holidays and observances
542 – Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 – Pope Eugene II
1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 – Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 – Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 – Claude Goudimel, French composer
1577 – Titian, Italian artist
1590 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635 – Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
1664 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1857 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
1865 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (b. 1796)
1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1875 – William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1909 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
1929 – Herman Potocnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1931 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1944 – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 – Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1963 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
1963 – Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1964 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
1965 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
1967 – Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
1968 – Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
1969 – Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
1971 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
1971 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
1975 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976 – Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1979 – Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
1980 – Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1981 – Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 – Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
1987 – Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
1988 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
1988 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
1996 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
2001 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
2002 – Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, Father of the Modern Day Men s Movement, Founder of the Christian Men s Network (CMN)
2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2004 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2005 – Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2006 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
2006 – María Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004–2006 (b. 1889)
2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2007 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2008 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1976)

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Events
1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 – Hundred Years War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1466 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 – The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.
1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by National Assembly at Palace of Versailles.
1818 – The first Illinois Constitution is signed in Kaskaskia, Illinois, the first state capital of Illinois.
1839 – The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 – American Civil War: the Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1883 – Krakatoa volcano eruption.
1914 – World War I: Germany defeats Russia in the Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which results in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 – World War I: the British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1922 – The Turkish Army launches the last attack on Greeks in the Turkish War of Independence.
1924 – (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
1939 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France s first black colonial governor.
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children murdered on the spot.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1957 – The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket … a few days ago, according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS.
1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 – Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1983 – Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1987 – President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1988 – Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
1999 – Second Chechen War begins.
2000 – Clint Mathis breaks the MLS record of most goals scored in a match by scoring 5 goals against FC Dallas.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 – The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2008 – Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Births
1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 – King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1676 – Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
1694 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1775 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1789 – Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 – Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1819 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)
1826 – Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1845 – Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 – Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1854 – Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
1862 – Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1864 – Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935)
1873 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
1874 – Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1882 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964)
1885 – Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)
1890 – Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970)
1894 – Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 – Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
1899 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
1900 – Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 – Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
1901 – Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1904 – Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
1906 – Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
1908 – W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1908 – Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999)
1908 – Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983)
1909 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1909 – Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1909 – Eric Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976)
1910 – Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize winning Christian missionary (d. 1997)
1914 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1920 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1921 – Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
1922 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist
1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
1924 – Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1925 – Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
1927 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928 – Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 – Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 – Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer
1934 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
1935 – Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – Yvette Vickers, American actress
1938 – Jet Black, English Drummer, one of the founder members of The Stranglers
1940 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
1941 – Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1941 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005)
1942 – Vic Dana, American singer
1942 – Dennis Turner, British politician
1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
1944 – Stephen Greif, English actor
1944 – Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1945 – Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 – Valerie Simpson, American singer
1946 – Mark Snow, American composer
1946 – Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People s Republic of China
1946 – Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1947 – Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
1950 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
1952 – Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
1952 – Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1953 – Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 – Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player
1956 – Mark Mangino, American football coach
1957 – Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 – Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1958 – Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
1960 – Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
1960 – Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer
1960 – Wanda De Jesus, American actress
1961 – Daniel Lévi, French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
1961 – Jeff Parrett, American baseball player
1962 – Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
1963 – David Byas, England cricketer
1965 – Chris Burke, American actor
1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1965 – Jon Hensley, American actor
1966 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1966 – Avner Ben-Gal, Israeli artist and painter
1967 – Kelly Madison, porn star
1968 – Byron Lawson, Canadian actor
1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete
1970 – Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
1971 – Thalía, Mexican singer
1974 – Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer
1975 – Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player
1976 – Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1976 – Zemfira, Russian singer
1977 – Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyu
1977 – Morris Peterson, American basketball player
1977 – Liam Botham, Hampshire cricketer and rugby league player
1978 – Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1979 – Jamal Lewis, American football player
1979 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 – Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer
1980 – Macaulay Culkin, American actor
1980 – Brendan Harris, American baseball player
1980 – Chris Pine, American actor
1981 – Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
1981 – Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 – Demetria McKinney, American actress
1981 – Tino Best, West Indian cricketer
1982 – David Long, New Zealand musician
1982 – Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
1983 – Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver
1986 – Cassie, American singer
1988 – Danielle Savre, American actress
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
1988 – Evan Ross, American actor
1990 – Lil Chris, British singer
1991 – Tommy Bastow, English actor
1992 – Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast
1993 – Keke Palmer, American actress

Deaths
1278 – King Otakar II of Bohemia
1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1551 – Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 – Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1666 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. c. 1580)
1714 – Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1850 – Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
1908 – Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
1915 – John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1968 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
1978 – Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (b. 1914)
1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1987 – John Goddard, West Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
1990 – Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian comics artist (b. 1925)
1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)
2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
2003 – Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 – Denis D Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
2005 – Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
2006 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
2007 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances
Namibia – Heroes Day
Philippines – National Heroes Day.
Adrian of Nicomedia
Saint Alexander of Bergamo
Saint David Lewis
Saint Ninian
Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus
Saint Zephyrinus
Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Ávila
United States – Women s Equality Day

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Events
1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1580 – Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1758 – Seven Years War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.
1814 – Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.
1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
1894 – Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1898 – 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
1910 – Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: Confrontation Day between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation s railroads to avert a strike.
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan s first female cabinet secretary.
1991 – Belarus declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1991 – The Battle of Vukovar has begun. An 87-day siege of an Croatian city by the Yugoslav People s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August-November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).

Births
1530 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
1561 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 – François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 – John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
1719 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
1724 – George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
1767 – Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1786 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1796 – James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1802 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader
1819 – Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
1836 – Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1845 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1867 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1868 – Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
1882 – Seán T. O Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1898 – Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1902 – Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
1905 – Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
1906 – Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
1909 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
1911 – Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
1912 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
1913 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1913 – Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
1915 – Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
1916 – Van Johnson, American actor
1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1916 – Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1917 – Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (d. 2008)
1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1918 – Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
1919 – George Wallace, American politician (d. 1998)
1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
1921 – Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
1921 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1925 – Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
1928 – Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1929 – John Kayo Dottley, American football player
1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1930 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
1930 – Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1931 – Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
1931 – Regis Philbin, American television host
1933 – Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician
1933 – Tom Skerritt, American actor
1934 – Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
1934 – Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
1935 – Charles Wright, American poet
1938 – David Canary, American actor
1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English author
1939 – John Badham, American film director
1940 – José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
1944 – Anthony Heald, American actor
1944 – Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1944 – Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach
1946 – Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
1946 – Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children s Author
1946 – Charlie Sanders, American football player
1949 – Martin Amis, English novelist
1949 – John Savage, American actor
1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss)
1949 – Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1950 – Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1951 – Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1951 – Bill Handel, American radio personality
1952 – Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1952 – Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
1954 – Elvis Costello, English musician
1955 – Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician
1956 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d. 1986)
1957 – Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer
1958 – Tim Burton, American film director
1958 – Christian LeBlanc, American actor
1960 – Ashley Crow, American actress
1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
1961 – Joanne Whalley, British actress
1962 – David Packer, American actor
1962 – Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
1962 – Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer
1963 – James Backhouse, British artist
1964 – Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 – Blair Underwood, American actor
1964 – Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
1964 – Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
1965 – Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
1965 – Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer
1966 – Albert Belle, American Major League Baseball player
1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1966 – Robert Maschio, American Actor (The Todd in Scrubs)
1967 – Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1968 – Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 – Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and racing driver
1968 – Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 – Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality
1968 – Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1969 – Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
1969 – Vivek Razdan, Indian cricketer
1970 – Robert Horry, American basketball player
1970 – Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model
1971 – Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1971 – Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1972 – Marvin Harrison, American football player
1973 – Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1973 – Olavi Mikkonen, Swedish heavy metal guitarist (Amon Amarth)
1974 – Eric Millegan, American actor
1974 – Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1974 – Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
1975 – Jeremy Horn, American MMA Fighter
1976 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1976 – Javed Qadeer, Pakistani cricketer
1977 – Sophie Cadieux, Quebec actress
1977 – Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
1977 – Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Jonathan Togo, American actor
1978 – Kel Mitchell, American actor
1979 – Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1979 – Deanna Nolan, American basketball player
1980 – Neal Musser, American baseball player
1981 – Rachel Bilson, American actress
1981 – Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
1983 – James Righton, English musician (Klaxons)
1983 – James Rossiter, British racing driver
1983 – Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant
1987 – Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987 – Blake Lively, American actress
1987 – Justin Upton, American baseball player
1987 – James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
1987 – Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1988 – Angela Park, Brazilian/American golfer
1988 – Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
1994 – Josh Flitter, American actor
1997 – Holly Gibbs, English actress

Deaths
383 – Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
471 – Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1270 – King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
1282 – Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (b. c. 1218)
1330 – Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
1482 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
1632 – Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (b. c. 1572)
1650 – Richard Crashaw, English poet (b. c. 1613)
1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. c. 1635)
1699 – King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
1711 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
1742 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
1774 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
1776 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1792 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1794 – Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
1822 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
1867 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
1900 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
1904 – William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
1924 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
1925 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
1930 – Frankie Campbell, American Boxer (b. 1904)
1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1939 – Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1942 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1945 – John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1950 – Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
1965 – Moonlight Graham, American baseball player
1967 – Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1967 – Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
1968 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910)
1971 – Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
1976 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1979 – Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
1980 – Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
1984 – Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
1984 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1984 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
1985 – Samantha Smith, American social activist (b. 1972)
1990 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
1999 – Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
2000 – Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
2000 – Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
2001 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
2001 – Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2001 – Ken Tyrrell, British race driver (b. 1924)
2001 – Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
2002 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2005 – Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2006 – Noor Mohamed Hassanali, 2nd president of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1918)
2007 – Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
2008 – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2008 – Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)

Holidays and observances
Roman festivals – Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
Roman Catholic Saints – Genesius of Arles, Saint Louis IX of France, Saint Joseph Calasanz.
Uruguay – National Day (independence from Brazil in 1825).

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Events
49 BC – Julius Caesar s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 – The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days.
1200 – John of England, famous for issuing the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme at the Bordeaux Cathedral.
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1391 – Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 – Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1572 – Saint Bartholomew s Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 – Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 – Calcutta, India is founded.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal s crises of the Nineteenth Century.
1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1831 – Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1858 – In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1929 – Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
1929 – Riots in Palestine of 1929: 18 Jews in Safed, 67 in Hebron, and 22 in Jerusalem killed by Arab Palestinians.
1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1932 – Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1937 – In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
1939 – The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (also known as Nazi-Soviet Pact) is signed between German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
1944 – World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
1949 – The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
1954 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
1960 – A temperature of -88°C (-127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low.
1963 – The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
1968 – France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world s fifth nuclear power.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1989 – Colombian drug barons declare total war on the Colombian government.
1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1989 – Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
1990 – A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band s music.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Diplomatic relations are established between the People s Republic of China and South Korea.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane.
1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
1998 – The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
1998 – First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2000 – Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
2001 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2004 – 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term planet such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
2008 – Closing Ceremony of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing.

Births
1113 – Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
1198 – King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 – King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1580 – John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
1591 – Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
1635 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1707 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
1750 – Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 – Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
1759 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 – James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)
1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1837 – Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
1845 – James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
1852 – Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
1863 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
1865 – King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1872 – Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
1880 – Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur (d. 1965)
1884 – Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
1887 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (d. 1968)
1890 – Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
1895 – Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
1897 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (d. 1989)
1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
1899 – Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (d. 1993)
1901 – Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
1902 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
1902 – Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
1903 – Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1904 – Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
1905 – Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976)
1905 – Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1909 – Ronald Grieveson, South African cricketer (d. 1998)
1911 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d. 1995)
1912 – Durward Kirby, American television personality (d. 2000)
1915 – James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
1916 – Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
1916 – Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
1917 – Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)
1918 – Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
1919 – Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004)
1920 – Alex Colville, Canadian painter
1921 – Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver
1922 – René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
1923 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
1927 – David Ireland, Australian author
1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1929 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1929 – Betty Dodson, American feminist and sex educator
1932 – Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle
1934 – Kenny Baker, English actor
1936 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist
1936 – Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada
1937 – Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
1938 – Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
1938 – David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship)
1938 – Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
1940 – Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
1942 – Max Cleland, American politician
1942 – Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1943 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
1943 – Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
1944 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1944 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler
1945 – Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
1945 – Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1947 – Anne Archer, American actress
1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
1947 – Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1948 – Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1948 – Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force
1949 – Joe Regalbuto, American actor
1949 – Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
1950 – Tim White, American anthropologist
1951 – Orson Scott Card, American writer
1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author
1952 – Bob Corker, American politician, junior senator of Tennesee
1952 – Mike Shanahan, American football coach
1953 – Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
1954 – Philippe Cataldo, French singer
1954 – Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
1956 – John Culberson, American politician
1956 – Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter
1957 – Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar)
1957 – Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor
1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
1958 – Tracy Harris, American artist
1958 – Chris Offutt, American author
1959 – Adrian Kuiper, former South African cricketer
1960 – Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
1960 – Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
1961 – Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
1962 – Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
1962 – David Koechner, American actor
1963 – John Bush, American singer (Anthrax)
1963 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
1964 – Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
1964 – Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut
1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
1965 – Reggie Miller, American basketball player
1965 – Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer
1967- Michael Thomas, English footballer
1968 – Benoît Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
1968 – Tim Salmon, American baseball player
1970 – Dan Henderson, American Mixed martial artist
1970 – Tugay Kerimoglu, Turkish footballer
1971 – Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1972 – Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
1973 – Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian
1973 – Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973 – Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
1974 – Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman
1974 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
1975 – Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
1976 – Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer
1977 – Denílson, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Robert Enke, German footballer
1977 – Per Gade, Danish footballer
1977 – John Green, American author/Nerdfighter
1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
1978 – Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
1978 – Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
1979 – Michael Redd, American basketball player
1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch International Footballer
1980 – Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
1981 – Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer, actor
1981 – Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1981 – Mercedes Scelba – Shorte, American model
1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
1983 – Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
1983 – Christopher Parker, British actor
1984 – Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
1985 – Destiny Davis, American model and Playboy Playmate
1986 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player
1987 – Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
1987 – Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
1988 – Rupert Grint, English actor
1995 – Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
2003 – Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Deaths
79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
1042 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015)
1103 – King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. c.1170)
1540 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew s Day Massacre:
1572 – Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
1572 – Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
1572 – Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (b. c.1535)
1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)
1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1683 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
1779 – Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
1818 – James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (b. 1777)
1831 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
1958 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
1967 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (murdered) (b. 1930)
1974 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1977 – Buddy O Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1978 – Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (b. 1912)
1979 – Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
1980 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
1982 – Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (b. 1896)
1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
1987 – Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
1990 – Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
2001 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 – Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
2003 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
2005 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (b. 1984)
2006 – Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
2006 – Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b. 1979)
2007 – Andrée P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
2007 – Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances
Roman Catholic Saints

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Events
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1514 – Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1555 – Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1595 – Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1708 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1896 – First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 – World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
1923 – Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
1929 – Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron.
1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1942 – World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 – World War II: Marseille liberated.
1944 – World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
1952 – The Arab League is formed.
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People s Liberation Army s bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1975 – Successful Communist coup in Laos.
1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 – Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 – All of Australia s 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western guests (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.
2000 – A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2000 – Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
2005 – TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.

Births
686 – Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
1623 – Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1754 – King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1783 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader (d. 1877)
1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1836 – Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
1843 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 – William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
1875 – William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1883 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
1884 – Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884 – Ogden L. Mills, American Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
1900 – Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician (d. 1991)
1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905 – Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
1908 – Hannah Frank, Scottish artist
1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998)
1912 – Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1917 – Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (d. 1984)
1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1921 – Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
1922 – George Kell, American baseball player
1922 – Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 – Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer
1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 – Robert Mulligan, American movie and television director
1926 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 – Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1928 – Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 – Vera Miles, American actress
1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician
1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1932 – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian and political commentator
1933 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Pete Wilson, American politician
1934 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1943 – Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1944 – Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
1945 – Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 – Keith Moon, English musician (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947 – Willy Russell, British playwright
1947 – David Robb, British actor
1948 – Andrei Plesu, Romanian writer, essayist
1948 – Daniel Ruettiger, American motivational speaker
1949 – Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1949 – Geoff Capes, English strongman
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress
1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
1951 – Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
1952 – Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 – Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 – Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
1956 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 – Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1956 – Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1957 – Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 – Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player
1959 – George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 – Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1960 – Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1961 – Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1961 – Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962 – Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1963 – Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
1963 – Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1963 – Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
1963 – Richard Illingworth, England cricketer
1964 – Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor
1964 – Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 – Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 – Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
1967 – Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer
1968 – Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1969 – Keith Tyson, English artist
1969 – Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1969 – Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
1970 – Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1970 – Lawrence Frank, American head coach
1970 – Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1971 – Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971 – BoneCrusher, American rapper
1972 – Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 – Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 – Mark Butcher, England cricketer
1973 – Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 – Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
1973 – Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor
1974 – Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 – Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 – Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1975 – Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 – Scott Caan, American actor
1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
1978 – Julian Casablancas, American musician
1979 – Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1979 – Ritchie Neville, British musician
1980 – Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 – Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
1981 – Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 – Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress.
1981 – Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1982 – Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 – YTCracker, American musician
1982 – Scott Palguta, American soccer player
1982 – Erin Foster, American-born Canadian actress
1983 – Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 – Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1986 – Josh Morris and Brett Morris, Australian rugby players
1987 – Nikki Gil, Filipina actress and host
1988 – Daniel Schwaab, German footballer

Deaths
93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1176 – Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot
1387 – King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591 – Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1706 – Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 – Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1806 – Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1853 – Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
1937 – Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1955 – Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1962 – Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1962 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
1963 – Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1966 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
1967 – Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1971 – The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1974 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1987 – Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1989 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
1990 – David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
1995 – Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
1997 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1999 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
1999 – James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 – Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 – John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2005 – Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 – Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 – Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 – John Russell, British-born American art critic and author (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Roman festivals – Vulcanalia.
RC Saints – Saint Rose of Lima, Philip Benitius
Romania – Liberation Day (1944).
Swaziland – Umhlanga Day.
Ukraine – Flag Day.
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

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Events
392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
565 – St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 – Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 – James Cook s expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 – King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1780 – James Cook s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone s United Irishmen s Irish Rebellion.
1827 – José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
1831 – Nat Turner s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1851 – The first America s Cup is won by the yacht America.
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1911 – Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 – Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada s largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 – The penal colony on Devil s Island is permanently closed.
1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1962 – The NS Savannah, the world s first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
1963 – Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1978 – The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1989 – The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 – A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

Births
1601 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1624 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764 – Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1771 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 – James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1800 – William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 – William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 – Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 – Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
1845 – William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1848 – Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1857 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
1860 – Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1862 – Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 – Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1887 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
1893 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1893 – Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
1895 – Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1900 – Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
1902 – Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People s Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909 – Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
1909 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 – David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 – James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
1917 – John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1920 – Ray Bradbury, American writer
1920 – Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
1922 – Micheline Presle, French actress
1925 – Honor Blackman, English actress
1925 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
1928 – Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
1930 – Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
1934 – Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
1935 – E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 – Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
1938 – Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 – George Reinholt, American actor
1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
1940 – Valerie Harper, American actress
1940 – Bill McCartney, American football coach
1941 – Bill Parcells, American football coach
1941 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 – Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1945 – Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
1945 – Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress
1947 – Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1948 – Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer
1949 – Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 – Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
1950 – Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 – I. Lewis Scooter Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1951 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 – Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 – Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1955 – Will Shetterly, writer
1955 – Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 – Paul Molitor, baseball player
1957 – Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 – Colm Feore, American actor
1958 – Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 – Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 – Juan Croucier, American musician
1959 – Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 – Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
1961 – Debbi Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
1963 – Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player
1964 – Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
1965 – Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1965 – Courtney Gains, American actor
1966 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 – GZA, American rapper
1966 – Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
1967 – Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 – Ant, American comedian
1967 – Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 – Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 – Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 – Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 – Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1968 – Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1968 – Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
1970 – Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1971 – Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 – Rick Yune, American actor
1972 – Steve Kline, American baseball player
1972 – Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
1972 – Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 – Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 – Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 – Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 – Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 – Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 – Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 – Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1977 – Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
1978 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 – Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1979 – Matt Walters, American football player
1980 – Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 – Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 – Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1981 – Alex Holmes, American football player
1982 – Philip Austin, OIF Veteran [Mechanic]
1983 – Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 – Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 – Lee Camp, English footballer
1986 – Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress

Deaths
408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
1155 – Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 – Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 – Pope Gregory IX, (b. c.1143)
1280 – Pope Nicholas III (b. c.1216)
1304 – John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 – Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
1358 – Isabella, Queen of England (b. c. 1295)
1485 – Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
1553 – John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
1572 – Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c.1553)
1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 – Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1773 – George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1727)
1797 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1806 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 – Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
1861 – Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1903 – Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1922 – Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
1926 – Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
1940 – Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
1950 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1951 – J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
1953 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1960 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
1965 – Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (b. c.1892)
1979 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1980 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
1994 – Gilles Groulx, French-Canadian film director (b. 1931)
2003 – Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 – Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 – Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
2005 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 – Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
2008 – Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)

Holidays and observances
RC feasts – Mary, Queen of angels, Immaculate Heart

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