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Acontecimientos (65)

  1. 475The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
  2. 489Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
  3. 632Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
  4. 663Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
  5. 1189Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
  6. 1290The second treaty of Birgham is ratified in which Margaret, Maid of Norway and granddaughter of king Alexander III of Scotland is to marry the English prince Edward of Caernarfon.
  7. 1521Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
  8. 1524The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
  9. 1542Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
  10. 1565Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
  11. 1609Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
  12. 1619Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  13. 1640Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
  14. 1648Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalist Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.
  15. 1709Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
  16. 1789William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
  17. 1810Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
  18. 1830The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
  19. 1833The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions.
  20. 1845The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
  21. 1849Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
  22. 1850Richard Wagner's Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
  23. 1859The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
  24. 1861American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
  25. 1862American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.
  26. 1867The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  27. 1879Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
  28. 1890The strongest storm in Finnish history kills at least three people.
  29. 1898Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
  30. 1901Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
  31. 1909A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  32. 1913Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
  33. 1914World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
  34. 1916World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
  35. 1916World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
  36. 1917Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
  37. 1921Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.
  38. 1924The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
  39. 1936Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
  40. 1937Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
  41. 1943Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
  42. 1944World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
  43. 1946The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.
  44. 1955Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
  45. 1957U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later. This would remain the longest speech ever conducted by a single Senator until Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, beginning on March 31, 2025.
  46. 1963March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
  47. 1964The Philadelphia race riot begins.
  48. 1968Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".
  49. 1973Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
  50. 1988Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy are killed and 346 seriously injured.
  51. 1990Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
  52. 1990An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
  53. 1993NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
  54. 1993Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
  55. 1993The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
  56. 1993A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.
  57. 1996Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
  58. 1998Pakistan'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.
  59. 1998Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
  60. 1999The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
  61. 2003In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.
  62. 2009NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.
  63. 2016The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
  64. 2017China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.
  65. 2022Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator.

Nacimientos (224)

  1. 1023Go-Reizei, emperor of Japan (died 1068)
  2. 1366Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (died 1421)
  3. 1476Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)
  4. 1481Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (died 1558)
  5. 1582Taichang, emperor of China (died 1620)
  6. 1591John Christian of Brieg, duke of Brzeg (died 1639)
  7. 1592George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician (died 1628)
  8. 1612Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (died 1653)
  9. 1667Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1721)
  10. 1691Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (died 1750)
  11. 1714Anthony Ulrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1774)
  12. 1728John Stark, American general (died 1822)
  13. 1739Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (died 1818)
  14. 1740John Lynch, American city founder and abolitionist (died 1820)
  15. 1749Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)
  16. 1774Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (died 1821)
  17. 1801Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1877)
  18. 1814Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (died 1873)
  19. 1816Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (died 1884)
  20. 1822Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (died 1904)
  21. 1827Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess (died 1894)
  22. 1833Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (died 1898)
  23. 1837Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (died 1900)
  24. 1840Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (died 1900)
  25. 1841Louis Le Prince, French artist and original inventor of the motion picture camera (disappeared 1890)
  26. 1853Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)
  27. 1859Matilda Howell, American archer (died 1938)
  28. 1859Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (died 1943)
  29. 1867Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic (died 1948)
  30. 1878George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
  31. 1884Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1950)
  32. 1885Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (died 1959)
  33. 1887August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (died 1973)
  34. 1887István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (died 1922)
  35. 1888Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (died 1985)
  36. 1891Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (died 1984)
  37. 1893Val Imm, American politician and newspaper editor (died 1981)
  38. 1894Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)
  39. 1896Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (died 1982)
  40. 1896Leon Theremin, Russian-Soviet electronic musical instruments inventor (died 1993)
  41. 1898Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (died 1983)
  42. 1899Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)
  43. 1899Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (died 1951)
  44. 1899James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (died 1976)
  45. 1903Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (died 1990)
  46. 1904Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (died 1980)
  47. 1904Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (died 1998)
  48. 1905Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (died 1992)
  49. 1906John Betjeman, English poet and academic (died 1984)
  50. 1908Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (died 1996)
  51. 1910Morris Graves, American painter and academic (died 2001)
  52. 1910Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
  53. 1911Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (died 2002)
  54. 1913Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1995)
  55. 1913Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (died 2009)
  56. 1913Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1993)
  57. 1913Robert Irving, English conductor and director (died 1991)
  58. 1913Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (died 1996)
  59. 1913Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (died 1975)
  60. 1915Max Robertson, Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (died 2009)
  61. 1915Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (died 2008)
  62. 1916Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (died 1997)
  63. 1916C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962)
  64. 1916Jack Vance, American author (died 2013)
  65. 1917Jack Kirby, Comic Book Artist and Writer (died 1994)
  66. 1918L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (died 1995)
  67. 1919Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
  68. 1921John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (died 1979)
  69. 1921Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (died 2007)
  70. 1921Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)
  71. 1921Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)
  72. 1924Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist Who Explored Madness (died 2004)
  73. 1924Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (died 2010)
  74. 1924Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004)
  75. 1924Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (died 2014)
  76. 1925Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
  77. 1925Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 2003)
  78. 1925Philip Purser, English author and critic (died 2022)
  79. 1928F. William Free, American businessman (died 2003)
  80. 1928Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (died 2004)
  81. 1929István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (died 1973)
  82. 1929Roxie Roker, American actress (died 1995)
  83. 1930Windsor Davies, British actor (died 2019)
  84. 1930Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
  85. 1931Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (died 2018)
  86. 1931Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (died 2014)
  87. 1931Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2014)
  88. 1931John Shirley-Quirk, English actor, singer, and educator (died 2014)
  89. 1931Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (died 2020)
  90. 1932Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
  91. 1932Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2016)
  92. 1933Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (died 2015)
  93. 1933Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop and theologian (died 2012)
  94. 1935Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (died 2012)
  95. 1935Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)
  96. 1936Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire (died 2023)
  97. 1936Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
  98. 1938Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and academic (died 2023)
  99. 1938Bengt Fahlström, Swedish journalist (died 2017)
  100. 1938Marcello Gandini, Italian automotive designer (died 2024)
  101. 1938Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
  102. 1939John Kingman, English mathematician and academic
  103. 1939Catherine Mackin, American newswoman, 1st to regularly anchor evening network newscast alone (died 1982)
  104. 1940William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
  105. 1940Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (died 2017)
  106. 1941Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter and illustrator
  107. 1941Toomas Leius, Estonian tennis player and coach
  108. 1941John Stanley Marshall, English drummer (died 2023)
  109. 1941Paul Plishka, American opera singer
  110. 1942Wendy Davies, Welsh historian and academic
  111. 1942Jorge Urosa, Venezuelan cardinal (died 2021)
  112. 1943Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor and voice actor
  113. 1943Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
  114. 1943Robert Greenwald, American director and producer
  115. 1943Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (died 2015)
  116. 1944Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
  117. 1945Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2023)
  118. 1947Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (died 2004)
  119. 1947Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
  120. 1948Vonda N. McIntyre, American author (died 2019)
  121. 1948Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator
  122. 1948Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman
  123. 1948Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer
  124. 1948Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist
  125. 1949Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  126. 1949Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
  127. 1950Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach
  128. 1950Tony Husband, English cartoonist (died 2023)
  129. 1951Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (died 2013)
  130. 1951Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)
  131. 1951Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter
  132. 1952Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician
  133. 1952Rita Dove, American poet and essayist
  134. 1952Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
  135. 1953Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
  136. 1953Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
  137. 1954Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
  138. 1954George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
  139. 1954John Dorahy, Australian rugby player and coach
  140. 1954Ravi Kanbur, Indian-English economist and academic
  141. 1956Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
  142. 1956John Long, American basketball player
  143. 1956Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
  144. 1957Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist
  145. 1957Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
  146. 1957Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
  147. 1959Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  148. 1961Kim Appleby, English singer-songwriter and actress
  149. 1961Cliff Benson, American football player
  150. 1961Ian Pont, English cricketer and coach
  151. 1961Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
  152. 1962Paul Allen, English footballer
  153. 1962Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter
  154. 1962David Fincher, American director and producer
  155. 1963Maria Gheorghiu, Romanian folk singer-songwriter
  156. 1963Regina Jacobs, American runner
  157. 1964Lee Janzen, American golfer
  158. 1964Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
  159. 1965Dan Crowley, Australian rugby player
  160. 1965Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game developer; created Pokémon
  161. 1965Shania Twain, Grammy Award-winning Canadian Country Singer-Songwriter
  162. 1967Jamie Osborne, English jockey and trainer
  163. 1969Pierre Turgeon, Canadian-American ice hockey player
  164. 1971Shane Andrews, American baseball player
  165. 1971Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
  166. 1972Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
  167. 1972Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
  168. 1973Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor, comedian, and writer (died 2020)
  169. 1974Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer
  170. 1974Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer
  171. 1974Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
  172. 1975Jamie Cureton, English footballer
  173. 1975Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer and manager
  174. 1975Hamish McLachlan, Australian television personality
  175. 1975Royce Willis, New Zealand rugby player
  176. 1976Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
  177. 1978Karine Turcotte, Canadian weightlifter
  178. 1979Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
  179. 1979Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee
  180. 1979Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
  181. 1979Markus Pröll, German footballer
  182. 1979Ruth Riley, American basketball player
  183. 1980Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
  184. 1980Debra Lafave, American sex offender and former teacher
  185. 1980Ryan Madson, American baseball player
  186. 1980Jaakko Ojaniemi, Finnish decathlete
  187. 1980Jonathan Reynolds, English lawyer and politician
  188. 1981Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
  189. 1981Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
  190. 1981Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver
  191. 1981Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer
  192. 1981Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
  193. 1982Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
  194. 1982Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
  195. 1982Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer
  196. 1982Carlos Quentin, American baseball player
  197. 1983Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
  198. 1983Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
  199. 1983Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete
  200. 1984Will Harris, American baseball player
  201. 1985Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier
  202. 1986Jeff Green, American basketball player
  203. 1986Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (died 2015)
  204. 1986Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player
  205. 1987Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (died 2013)
  206. 1988Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast
  207. 1989César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
  208. 1989Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver
  209. 1989Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer
  210. 1990Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
  211. 1991Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
  212. 1991Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model
  213. 1992Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
  214. 1992Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model
  215. 1992Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast
  216. 1993Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
  217. 1994Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
  218. 1994Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
  219. 1996Kim Se-jeong, South Korean actress and singer
  220. 1998Weston McKennie, American soccer player
  221. 2000Marissa Bode, American actress
  222. 2001Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player
  223. 2003Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
  224. 2004Kano Fujihira, Japanese entertainer

Fallecimientos (106)

  1. 388Magnus Maximus, Roman emperor (born 335)
  2. 430Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (born 354)
  3. 476Orestes, Roman general and politician
  4. 632Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (born 605)
  5. 683Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (born 615)
  6. 770Kōken, emperor of Japan (born 718)
  7. 876Louis the German, Frankish king (born 804)
  8. 919He Gui, Chinese general (born 858)
  9. 1055Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1016)
  10. 1149Mu'in ad-Din Unur, Turkish ruler and regent
  11. 1231Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark
  12. 1341Levon IV, king of Armenia (born 1309)
  13. 1406John de Sutton V, Baron Sutton of Dudley (born 1380)
  14. 1481Afonso V, king of Portugal (born 1432)
  15. 1540Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua (born 1500)
  16. 1609Francis Vere, English governor and general
  17. 1645Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (born 1583)
  18. 1646Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (born 1576)
  19. 1648George Lisle, English general (born 1610)
  20. 1648Charles Lucas, English general (born 1613)
  21. 1654Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (born 1583)
  22. 1665Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (born 1638)
  23. 1678John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1602)
  24. 1735Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (born 1701)
  25. 1757David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (born 1705)
  26. 1761Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739–1742); of Spanish Florida (1749–1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754–1758) (born 1693)
  27. 1784Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (born 1713)
  28. 1793Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)
  29. 1805Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (born 1722)
  30. 1818Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (born 1750)
  31. 1820Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (born 1754)
  32. 1832Edward Dando, English thief
  33. 1839William Smith, English geologist and engineer (born 1769)
  34. 1888Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (born 1835)
  35. 1891Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (born 1814)
  36. 1900Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (born 1838)
  37. 1903Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (born 1822)
  38. 1919Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (born 1872)
  39. 1934Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (born 1858)
  40. 1937George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (born 1854)
  41. 1943Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (born 1870)
  42. 1943Boris III of Bulgaria (born 1894)
  43. 1955Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)
  44. 1959Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (born 1890)
  45. 1965Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (born 1909)
  46. 1968Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (born 1887)
  47. 1971Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (born 1889)
  48. 1972Prince William of Gloucester (born 1941)
  49. 1975Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (born 1907)
  50. 1976Anissa Jones, American actress (born 1958)
  51. 1978Bruce Catton, American historian and journalist (born 1899)
  52. 1978Robert Shaw, English actor (born 1927)
  53. 1981Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1899)
  54. 1982Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (born 1911)
  55. 1984Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (born 1901)
  56. 1985Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (born 1896)
  57. 1986Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)
  58. 1987John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
  59. 1988Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1918)
  60. 1988Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)
  61. 1989John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (born 1950)
  62. 1990Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1913)
  63. 1991Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1913)
  64. 1993William Stafford, American poet and academic (born 1914)
  65. 1995Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (born 1906)
  66. 1995Michael Ende, German scientist and author (born 1929)
  67. 2005Jacques Dufilho, French actor (born 1914)
  68. 2005Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1910)
  69. 2005George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1911)
  70. 2006Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1922)
  71. 2006Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (born 1963)
  72. 2006Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
  73. 2007Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (born 1926)
  74. 2007Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (born 1932)
  75. 2007Paul MacCready, American engineer and businessman, founded AeroVironment (born 1925)
  76. 2007Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (born 1935)
  77. 2007Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (born 1929)
  78. 2008Phil Hill, American race car driver (born 1927)
  79. 2009Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)
  80. 2009Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (born 1936)
  81. 2010William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (born 1919)
  82. 2011Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (born 1967)
  83. 2012Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (born 1925)
  84. 2012Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (born 1945)
  85. 2012Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1928)
  86. 2012Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (born 1933)
  87. 2012Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (born 1938)
  88. 2013John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)
  89. 2013Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)
  90. 2013Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)
  91. 2013Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)
  92. 2013Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)
  93. 2013Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)
  94. 2014Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (born 1947)
  95. 2014Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (born 1956)
  96. 2014John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (born 1937)
  97. 2015Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)
  98. 2015Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)
  99. 2015Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)
  100. 2016Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (born 1950)
  101. 2016Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (born 1934)
  102. 2017Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)
  103. 2020Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)
  104. 2024Obi Ndefo, American actor (born 1972)
  105. 2024Steve Silberman, American writer and journalist (born 1957)
  106. 2026Harald V of Norway (born 1937)

Celebraciones (1)

  1. National Grandparents Day (Mexico)

Santoral (8)

  1. Alexander of Constantinople
  2. Augustine of Hippo
  3. Edmund Arrowsmith
  4. Florentina
  5. Hermes
  6. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
  7. Moses the Black
  8. August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)