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Acontecimientos (52)

  1. 70 a. C.The trial against Gaius Verres for corruption is opened, with Marcus Tullius Cicero as prosecutor and renowned orator Quintus Hortensius as defending lawyer.
  2. 598Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
  3. 1265Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
  4. 1320The so-called Black Parliament at Scone tries William II de Soules and other nobles who had plotted against Robert I of Scotland and intended to place William on the Scottish throne.
  5. 1327First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
  6. 1578Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese but both the Moroccan king Abd al-Malik and the Portuguese king Sebastian die. Ahmad al-Mansur follows Abd al-Malik as sultan of Morocco while the death of Sebastian leads to a succession crisis in Portugal.
  7. 1693Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.
  8. 1701Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
  9. 1704War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
  10. 1781Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, a fleet of six East India Company ships sets sail from Fort Marlborough to raid the Dutch VOC factories on the West coast of Sumatra including the major port of Padang.
  11. 1783Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
  12. 1789France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
  13. 1790A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
  14. 1791The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
  15. 1796French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
  16. 1814War of 1812: The ultimately unsuccessful Siege of Fort Erie begins as British forces attempt to recapture the fort and drive American forces out of Canada.
  17. 1821The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
  18. 1854The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
  19. 1863Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
  20. 1873American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
  21. 1887Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years in captivity. Her death was reported in The Scotsman and The New York Times.
  22. 1889The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  23. 1892The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
  24. 1914World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
  25. 1915World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
  26. 1921Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict: Mikhail Frunze declares victory over the Makhnovshchina.
  27. 1922Enver Pasha dies in a skirmish between the Bolshevik Red Army and Basmachi troops, to whom he had defected earlier.
  28. 1924Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  29. 1936Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
  30. 1944The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
  31. 1944Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as the President of Finland to replace the resigned Risto Ryti.
  32. 1946An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
  33. 1947The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
  34. 1964Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
  35. 1964Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers and mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  36. 1965The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
  37. 1969Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
  38. 1972Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.
  39. 1974A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
  40. 1975The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
  41. 1977U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
  42. 1983Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Captain Thomas Sankara.
  43. 1984The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
  44. 1984The Ariane 3 rocket is launched for the first time, carrying the Eutelsat I F-2 and Télécom 1A satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
  45. 1987The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.
  46. 1995Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins.
  47. 2006A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
  48. 2007NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.
  49. 2018Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.
  50. 2018Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a speech to the Venezuelan National Guard.
  51. 2019Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.
  52. 2020Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.

Nacimientos (210)

  1. 1222Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (died 1262)
  2. 1281Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan (died 1311)
  3. 1290Leopold I, Duke of Austria (died 1326)
  4. 1463Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Florentine patron of the arts (died 1503)
  5. 1469Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1528)
  6. 1470Bernardo Dovizi, Italian cardinal (died 1520)
  7. 1470Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (died 1553)
  8. 1521Pope Urban VII (died 1590)
  9. 1522Udai Singh II, King of Mewar (died 1572)
  10. 1604François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French cleric and author (died 1676)
  11. 1623Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1641–1680) and Hanau-Münzenberg (1642–1680) (died 1685)
  12. 1701Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (died 1757)
  13. 1704Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (died 1752)
  14. 1719Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (died 1767)
  15. 1721Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1803)
  16. 1725John Newton, slaver turned Christian evangelist and author of “Amazing Grace”
  17. 1755Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French soldier, painter, balloonist, and inventor (died 1805)
  18. 1792Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (died 1822)
  19. 1805William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1865)
  20. 1821Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (died 1892)
  21. 1821James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (died 1881)
  22. 1834John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1923)
  23. 1836Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish architect (died 1907)
  24. 1839Walter Pater, English author, critic, and academic (died 1894)
  25. 1844Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (died 1929)
  26. 1853John Henry Twachtman, American painter, etcher, and academic (died 1902)
  27. 1859Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)
  28. 1861Daniel Edward Howard, 16th president of Liberia (died 1935)
  29. 1867Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (died 1918)
  30. 1868Master C. V. V., Indian philosopher, yogi and guru (died 1922)
  31. 1870Harry Lauder, Scottish actor and singer (died 1950)
  32. 1871William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (died 1934)
  33. 1876Giovanni Giuriati, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1970)
  34. 1876John Scaddan, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Western Australia (died 1934)
  35. 1877Dame Laura Knight, English artist (died 1970)
  36. 1884Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic (died 1949)
  37. 1884Henri Cornet, French cyclist (died 1941)
  38. 1887Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967)
  39. 1888Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 1965)
  40. 1890Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (died 1957)
  41. 1893Fritz Gause, German historian and curator (died 1973)
  42. 1898Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (died 1975)
  43. 1899Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1994)
  44. 1900Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (died 2002)
  45. 1901Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer (died 1971)
  46. 1902Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (died 1981)
  47. 1904Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (died 1969)
  48. 1905Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar (died 1972)
  49. 1906Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (died 1973)
  50. 1908Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died 1994)
  51. 1909Glenn Cunningham, American runner and academic (died 1988)
  52. 1909Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (co-founded category theory) (died 2005)
  53. 1910Anita Page, American actress (died 2008)
  54. 1910William Schuman, American composer and educator (died 1992)
  55. 1910Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer (died 2011)
  56. 1912Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (died 1999)
  57. 1912David Raksin, American composer and educator (died 2004)
  58. 1912Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish architect and diplomat, savior of thousands of Jews from The Holocaust (died ~1947)
  59. 1913Wesley Addy, American actor (died 1996)
  60. 1913Robert Hayden, American poet and educator (died 1980)
  61. 1915Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (died 2007)
  62. 1917John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (died 2012)
  63. 1918Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (died 2012)
  64. 1919Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2016)
  65. 1919Sidney Harman, Canadian-American businessman and audio pioneer responsible for the first high-fidelity stereo receiver (died 2011)
  66. 1920Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (died 2013)
  67. 1921Herb Ellis, American guitarist (died 2010)
  68. 1921Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2000)
  69. 1922Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (died 2006)
  70. 1922Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (died 2012)
  71. 1926George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (died 2000)
  72. 1926Perry Moss, American football player and coach (died 2014)
  73. 1928Gerard Damiano, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
  74. 1928Nadežka Mosusova, Serbian composer
  75. 1928Clarke Reed, American businessman and politician (died 2024)
  76. 1929Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1987)
  77. 1929Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (died 2012)
  78. 1930Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar
  79. 1931Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (died 2002)
  80. 1932Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist and academic (died 2020)
  81. 1932Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (died 2010)
  82. 1934Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager (died 2017)
  83. 1935Carol Arthur, American actress and producer (died 2020)
  84. 1935Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer and coach (died 1997)
  85. 1935Michael J. Noonan, Irish farmer and politician, 25th Minister of Defence for Ireland (died 2013)
  86. 1936Giorgos Zographos, Greek singer and actor (died 2005)
  87. 1937David Bedford, English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (died 2011)
  88. 1938Ellen Schrecker, American historian and academic
  89. 1939Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, English politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
  90. 1939Frankie Ford, American R&B/rock and roll singer (died 2015)
  91. 1940Coriún Aharonián, Uruguayan composer and musicologist (died 2017)
  92. 1940Robin Harper, Scottish academic and politician
  93. 1940Larry Knechtel, American bass player and pianist (died 2009)
  94. 1940Frances Stewart, English economist and academic
  95. 1940Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)
  96. 1941Martin Jarvis, English actor
  97. 1941Andy Smillie, English footballer
  98. 1941Cliff Nobles, American musician (died 2008)
  99. 1941Ted Strickland, American psychologist and politician, 68th Governor of Ohio
  100. 1941Régis Barroso, Brazilian politician (died 2026)
  101. 1942Don S. Davis, American actor (died 2008)
  102. 1942Cleon Jones, American baseball player
  103. 1942David Lange, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 2005)
  104. 1943Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, 6th President of the Principality of Asturias (died 2019)
  105. 1943Barbara Saß-Viehweger, German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
  106. 1943Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper and footballer
  107. 1944Richard Belzer, American actor (died 2023)
  108. 1944Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
  109. 1945Paul McCarthy, American painter and sculptor
  110. 1945Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
  111. 1946Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist and ethologist
  112. 1947Klaus Schulze, German keyboard player and songwriter (died 2022)
  113. 1948Johnny Grubb, American baseball player and coach
  114. 1949John Riggins, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
  115. 1950Caldwell Jones, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)
  116. 1950Natesan Rangaswamy, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of Puducherry
  117. 1951Peter Goodfellow, English geneticist and academic
  118. 1952James Arbuthnot, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
  119. 1952Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (died 2026)
  120. 1952Gábor Demszky, Hungarian sociologist, lawyer, and politician
  121. 1953Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer and manager
  122. 1954Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
  123. 1954Steve Phillips, English footballer
  124. 1954François Valéry, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
  125. 1955Alberto Gonzales, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 80th United States Attorney General
  126. 1955Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director, and screenwriter
  127. 1957Rupert Farley, British actor and voice actor
  128. 1957Brooks D. Simpson, American historian and author
  129. 1957Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player and coach
  130. 1957John Wark, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
  131. 1958Allison Hedge Coke, American-Canadian poet and academic
  132. 1958Mary Decker, American runner
  133. 1958Silvan Shalom, Tunisian-Israeli sergeant and politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
  134. 1958Brian Voss, American tenpin bowler
  135. 1959Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2002)
  136. 1959John Gormley, Irish politician, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government
  137. 1960Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey
  138. 1960Dean Malenko, American wrestler
  139. 1960José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
  140. 1960Bernard Rose, English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
  141. 1960Tim Winton, Australian author and playwright
  142. 1961Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
  143. 1962Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor
  144. 1962Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  145. 1963Keith Maurice Ellison, 30th Attorney General of Minnesota
  146. 1964Andrew Bartlett, Australian social worker and politician
  147. 1965Vishal Bhardwaj, Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer
  148. 1965Adam Afriyie, English businessman and politician
  149. 1965Terri Lyne Carrington, American award-winning jazz drummer, composer and educator
  150. 1965Dennis Lehane, American author, screenwriter, and producer
  151. 1965Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish soldier and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
  152. 1965Michael Skibbe, German footballer and manager
  153. 1967Michael Marsh, American sprinter
  154. 1968Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor
  155. 1968Lee Mack, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
  156. 1969Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  157. 1970John August, American director and screenwriter
  158. 1970Bret Baier, American journalist
  159. 1970Kate Silverton, English journalist
  160. 1971Jeff Gordon, American race car driver and actor
  161. 1972Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  162. 1973Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
  163. 1973Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
  164. 1973Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
  165. 1973Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
  166. 1974Kily González, Argentine footballer
  167. 1975Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (died 2009)
  168. 1975Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
  169. 1975Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
  170. 1975Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
  171. 1976Paul Goldstein, American tennis player
  172. 1976Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
  173. 1976Trevor Woodman, English rugby player and coach
  174. 1977Frankie Kazarian, American wrestler
  175. 1977Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer and manager
  176. 1978Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  177. 1978Luke Allen, American baseball player (died 2022)
  178. 1978Kurt Busch, American race car driver
  179. 1978Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian sprinter
  180. 1978Ricardo Serrano, Spanish cyclist
  181. 1978Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player
  182. 1978Satoshi Hino, Japanese voice actor
  183. 1979Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
  184. 1980Richard Dawson, English cricketer and coach
  185. 1981Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
  186. 1981Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, American member of British royal family, media personality and actress
  187. 1983Greta Gerwig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
  188. 1984Terry Campese, Australian rugby league player
  189. 1984Mardy Collins, American basketball player
  190. 1985Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  191. 1985Robbie Findley, American soccer player
  192. 1985Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
  193. 1985Ha Seung-jin, South Korean basketball player
  194. 1985Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
  195. 1986Nick Augusto, American drummer
  196. 1986Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer
  197. 1986Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
  198. 1986Iosia Soliola, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
  199. 1986David Williams, Australian rugby league player
  200. 1987Marreese Speights American basketball player
  201. 1988Kelley O'Hara, American soccer player
  202. 1989Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
  203. 1989Wang Hao, Chinese chess grandmaster
  204. 1992Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
  205. 1992Domingo Germán, Dominican baseball player
  206. 1992Cole Sprouse, American actor
  207. 1992Dylan Sprouse, American actor
  208. 1994Bobby Shmurda, American rapper
  209. 1995Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
  210. 1998Lil Skies, American rapper

Fallecimientos (93)

  1. 221Lady Zhen, Chinese empress (born 183)
  2. 966Berengar II of Italy (born 900)
  3. 1060Henry I of France (born 1008)
  4. 1113Gertrude of Saxony, countess and regent of Holland (born c. 1030)
  5. 1265Casualties of the Battle of Evesham
  6. 1265Peter de Montfort, English politician (born 1215)
  7. 1265Henry de Montfort (born 1238)
  8. 1265Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, French-English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward (born 1208)
  9. 1265Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, English politician (born 1223)
  10. 1266Eudes of Burgundy, Count of Nevers (born 1230)
  11. 1306Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (born 1289)
  12. 1345As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt (born 1326)
  13. 1378Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan (born c. 1320)
  14. 1430Philip I, Duke of Brabant (born 1404)
  15. 1526Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (born 1476)
  16. 1578Sebastian of Portugal (born 1554)
  17. 1598William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1520)
  18. 1612Hugh Broughton, English scholar and theologian (born 1549)
  19. 1639Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican actor and playwright (born 1581)
  20. 1718René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (born 1656)
  21. 1727Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born 1647)
  22. 1741Andrew Hamilton, Scottish-American lawyer and politician (born 1676)
  23. 1778Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-French politician, Governor General of New France (born 1698)
  24. 1792John Burgoyne, English general and politician (born 1723)
  25. 1795Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1711)
  26. 1804Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish admiral (born 1731)
  27. 1822Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet and author (born 1801)
  28. 1844Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (born 1773)
  29. 1859John Vianney, French priest and saint (born 1786)
  30. 1873Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (born 1834)
  31. 1875Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1805)
  32. 1886Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (born 1814)
  33. 1900Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (born 1860)
  34. 1914Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (born 1853)
  35. 1919Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1845)
  36. 1922Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (born 1881)
  37. 1932Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (born 1868)
  38. 1938Pearl White, American actress (born 1889)
  39. 1940Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (born 1880)
  40. 1941Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (born 1883)
  41. 1942Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (born 1860)
  42. 1944Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (born 1921)
  43. 1957John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (born 1882)
  44. 1957Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (born 1869)
  45. 1958Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (born 1883)
  46. 1959József Révai, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (born 1898)
  47. 1961Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)
  48. 1962Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)
  49. 1964Nätti-Jussi, Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (born 1890)
  50. 1967Peter Smith, English cricketer (born 1908)
  51. 1976Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (born 1923)
  52. 1976Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (born 1894)
  53. 1977Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
  54. 1981Melvyn Douglas, American actor (born 1901)
  55. 1982Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (born 1904)
  56. 1985Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (born 1933)
  57. 1990Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (born 1894)
  58. 1992Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (born 1909)
  59. 1996Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (born 1936)
  60. 1997Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)
  61. 1998Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)
  62. 1999Victor Mature, American actor (born 1913)
  63. 2003Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
  64. 2004Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (born 1921)
  65. 2004Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (born 1956)
  66. 2005Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (born 1932)
  67. 2005Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (born 1934)
  68. 2007Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)
  69. 2007Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (born 1926)
  70. 2008Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (born 1985)
  71. 2009Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (born 1957)
  72. 2011Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (born 1977)
  73. 2012Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)
  74. 2012Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)
  75. 2012Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)
  76. 2013Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (born 1940)
  77. 2013Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (born 1925)
  78. 2013Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)
  79. 2013Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1930)
  80. 2013Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1922)
  81. 2013Sandy Woodward, English admiral (born 1932)
  82. 2014James Brady, American activist and politician, 15th White House Press Secretary (born 1940)
  83. 2014Chester Crandell, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)
  84. 2014Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953)
  85. 2015Elsie Hillman, American philanthropist and politician (born 1925)
  86. 2015Les Munro, New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1919)
  87. 2015John Rudometkin, American basketball player (born 1940)
  88. 2015Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (born 1936)
  89. 2019Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (born 1926)
  90. 2023Dalia Fadila, Israeli educator (born 1971/1972)
  91. 2024Charles Cyphers, American actor (born 1939)
  92. 2024Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
  93. 2024Duane Thomas, American football player (born 1947)

Celebraciones (5)

  1. Coast Guard Day (United States)
  2. Constitution Day (Cook Islands); first Monday in August
  3. Matica slovenská Day (Slovakia)
  4. Barack Obama Day in Illinois in the United States
  5. 2020 Beirut explosion commemoration day in Lebanon

Santoral (9)

  1. Aristarchus
  2. Blessed Cecilia Cesarini
  3. Euphronius
  4. Blessed Frédéric Janssoone
  5. John Vianney
  6. Molua (or Lua)
  7. Raynerius of Split
  8. Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
  9. August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)