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Acontecimientos (46)

  1. 258Pope Sixtus II is arrested while celebrating mass and then beheaded with several of his deacons.
  2. 686The Umayyad forces suffer a decisive defeat against the pro-Alid forces under Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar in the battle of Khazir.
  3. 768Antipope Constantine II is deposed and blinded by the Lombard troops of primicerius Christopher.
  4. 1284The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
  5. 1538Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
  6. 1585Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent).
  7. 1661The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
  8. 1777American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
  9. 1787Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  10. 1806Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
  11. 1819Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
  12. 1824Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
  13. 1825The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
  14. 1861Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
  15. 1862American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  16. 1870Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.
  17. 1870Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.
  18. 1890At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  19. 1901Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
  20. 1914World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  21. 1914World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  22. 1915World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
  23. 1917World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  24. 1926Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  25. 1926First public screening using the Vitaphone process
  26. 1940Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
  27. 1942Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
  28. 1945World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
  29. 1956After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
  30. 1958Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.
  31. 1960Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  32. 1962Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  33. 1965US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
  34. 1986A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  35. 1990Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
  36. 1991Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
  37. 1991Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
  38. 1996NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
  39. 1997Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
  40. 2001Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
  41. 2008A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
  42. 2009Metalworkers at a Ssangyong Motor factory in Pyeongtaek, South Korea agree to end a 77-day strike that culminated in a police raid via helicopters leading to several deaths and arrests.
  43. 2010Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
  44. 2011War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
  45. 2012NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
  46. 2015A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

Nacimientos (172)

  1. 1180Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (died 1239)
  2. 1504Matthew Parker, English archbishop (died 1575)
  3. 1572Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze emir (died 1635)
  4. 1605Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (died 1675)
  5. 1609Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1675)
  6. 1619Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (died 1677)
  7. 1622Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral (died 1666)
  8. 1638Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (died 1715)
  9. 1644Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV (died 1710)
  10. 1651François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (died 1715)
  11. 1656Claude de Forbin, French general (died 1733)
  12. 1666Maria Sophia of Neuburg (died 1699)
  13. 1667Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1748)
  14. 1697Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1745)
  15. 1715Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (died 1747)
  16. 1765Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1848)
  17. 1766William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (died 1828)
  18. 1768Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (died 1813)
  19. 1775Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (died 1847)
  20. 1809Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
  21. 1826Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (died 1915)
  22. 1835Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (died 1900)
  23. 1844Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)
  24. 1844James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (died 1896)
  25. 1846Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (died 1888)
  26. 1848Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912)
  27. 1868Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (died 1955)
  28. 1874Charles Fort, American author (died 1932)
  29. 1877Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1952)
  30. 1880Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (died 1964)
  31. 1881Leo Carrillo, American actor (died 1961)
  32. 1881Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
  33. 1881Louella Parsons, American journalist (died 1972)
  34. 1883Constance Georgina Adams, South African botanist (died 1968)
  35. 1883Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (died 1983)
  36. 1886Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (died 1971)
  37. 1886Florence Goodenough, American child psychologist (died 1959)
  38. 1887Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver (died 1957)
  39. 1889George Kenney, Canadian-American general (died 1977)
  40. 1889John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (died 1957)
  41. 1891William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (died 1970)
  42. 1895Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (died 1978)
  43. 1900Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (died 2003)
  44. 1901Dutch Schultz, American gangster (died 1935)
  45. 1903Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (died 1999)
  46. 1904Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (died 1970)
  47. 1904Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
  48. 1906Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (died 1984)
  49. 1908Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (died 1998)
  50. 1908Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (died 1997)
  51. 1908Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (died 1941)
  52. 1909Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (died 2013)
  53. 1910Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor (died 1982)
  54. 1910Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
  55. 1911Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)
  56. 1911Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (died 2014)
  57. 1911Constance Heaven, English author and actress (died 1995)
  58. 1912Richard C. Miller, American photographer (died 2010)
  59. 1914Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2001)
  60. 1916Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (died 1970)
  61. 1916Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (died 2012)
  62. 1917Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (died 2000)
  63. 1917Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)
  64. 1918Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (died 2001)
  65. 1919Pauline Betz, American tennis player (died 2011)
  66. 1920John Graves, American author (died 2013)
  67. 1920Ella Raines, American actress (died 1988)
  68. 1922Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (died 2006)
  69. 1922Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (died 2015)
  70. 1923Jess Collins, American painter (died 2004)
  71. 1923Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence (died 2021)
  72. 1924Samuel Bowers, American white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006)
  73. 1924Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (died 2024)
  74. 1926Elisabeth Beresford, English journalist and author (died 2010)
  75. 1926Frank Finlay, English actor (died 2016)
  76. 1926Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (died 2007)
  77. 1926János Rózsás, Hungarian author (died 2012)
  78. 1926Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (died 1999)
  79. 1928Herb Moford, American baseball player (died 2005)
  80. 1928Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)
  81. 1929Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
  82. 1929Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (died 2007)
  83. 1930Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2010)
  84. 1931Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (died 2010)
  85. 1932Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
  86. 1932Howard Hodgkin, English painter (died 2017)
  87. 1932Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter (died 2020)
  88. 1933A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (died 1987)
  89. 1934Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author
  90. 1934Chris Bonington, English mountaineer and author
  91. 1934Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player and soldier (died 2026)
  92. 1935Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (died 2012)
  93. 1935Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (died 2012)
  94. 1937Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2000)
  95. 1937Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (died 2014)
  96. 1937Barbara Windsor, English actress (died 2020)
  97. 1938Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2000)
  98. 1938Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
  99. 1938Bert Yancey, American golfer (died 1994)
  100. 1940Mukhu Aliyev, Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
  101. 1940Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 2017)
  102. 1940Louise Sorel, American actress
  103. 1941Ray Culp, American baseball player
  104. 1942Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (died 2012)
  105. 1943Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (died 1998)
  106. 1944Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (died 2003)
  107. 1944Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic
  108. 1944Martin Wharton, English bishop
  109. 1945Ron Jones, English director and production manager (died 1993)
  110. 1946Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2017)
  111. 1947Radhia Cousot, French computer scientist and academic (died 2014)
  112. 1949Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (died 1993)
  113. 1950Dorian Harewood, American actor
  114. 1951Catherine Hicks, American actress
  115. 1951Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer
  116. 1952Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  117. 1952David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (died 2013)
  118. 1952Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
  119. 1954Mark Hughes, English-Australian rugby league player
  120. 1956Bill Emmott, English journalist and author
  121. 1957Bob Horner, American baseball player (died 2026)
  122. 1957Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
  123. 1958Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
  124. 1959Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist
  125. 1959Joyce Sims, American singer (died 2022)
  126. 1960Dale Ellis, American basketball player
  127. 1961Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host
  128. 1962Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
  129. 1963Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant
  130. 1963Kevin Mitnick, American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker (died 2023)
  131. 1964Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist
  132. 1965Stéphane Peterhansel, French racing driver
  133. 1965Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer
  134. 1965David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant
  135. 1966Regina Carter, American jazz and classical violinist, and composer
  136. 1968Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
  137. 1969Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
  138. 1969Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)
  139. 1970M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
  140. 1972Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
  141. 1972Jason O'Mara, Irish actor
  142. 1973Vera Farmiga, American actress
  143. 1973Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
  144. 1975Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer
  145. 1975Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
  146. 1975Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
  147. 1976Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
  148. 1976Melissa George, Australian-American actress
  149. 1977Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
  150. 1977Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
  151. 1977Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer
  152. 1979Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
  153. 1979Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
  154. 1979Travis Reed, American basketball player
  155. 1981Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer
  156. 1981Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater
  157. 1983Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
  158. 1984Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
  159. 1984Maja Ognjenović, Serbian volleyball player
  160. 1984Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
  161. 1985Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
  162. 1985Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
  163. 1985Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
  164. 1986Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
  165. 1987Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer
  166. 1991Wilmer Flores, Venezuelan baseball player
  167. 1991Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
  168. 1995Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player
  169. 1999Hunter Greene, American baseball player
  170. 1999Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player
  171. 2002Nessa Barrett, American singer-songwriter
  172. 2004Takhmina Ikromova, Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast

Fallecimientos (108)

  1. 258Pope Sixtus II
  2. 523Pope Hormisdas (born 450)
  3. 750Marwan II, Umayyad general and caliph (born 688)
  4. 1027Richard III, Duke of Normandy
  5. 1162Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (born 1113)
  6. 1195Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (born 1129)
  7. 1221Saint Dominic, Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (born 1170)
  8. 1272Stephen V of Hungary (born 1239)
  9. 1384Francesco I of Lesbos
  10. 1412Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (born 1347)
  11. 1414Ladislaus of Naples (born 1377)
  12. 1458Pope Callixtus III (born 1378)
  13. 1530Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (born 1458)
  14. 1553Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born 1478)
  15. 1588Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578–1588) (born 1554)
  16. 1628Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (born 1573)
  17. 1637Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (born 1572)
  18. 1645Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (born 1575)
  19. 1657Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (born 1595)
  20. 1660Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (born 1599)
  21. 1666Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (born 1622)
  22. 1679John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (born 1629)
  23. 1694Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1612)
  24. 1695François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (born 1625)
  25. 1753Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (born 1711)
  26. 1757Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (born 1673)
  27. 1794Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714)
  28. 1815James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (born 1767)
  29. 1828Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (born 1785)
  30. 1850Edward Walsh, Irish poet (born 1805)
  31. 1866John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
  32. 1881James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born 1821)
  33. 1893Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1811)
  34. 1904Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (born 1825)
  35. 1906George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1824)
  36. 1915Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (born 1841)
  37. 1920Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (born 1890)
  38. 1925Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (born 1848)
  39. 1925Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (born 1853)
  40. 1931Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (born 1903)
  41. 1945Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1920)
  42. 1945Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (born 1866)
  43. 1946Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (born 1903)
  44. 1952Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (born 1905)
  45. 1959Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (born 1898)
  46. 1964Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (born 1893)
  47. 1968Ye Gongchuo, Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (born 1881)
  48. 1969Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
  49. 1970Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1912)
  50. 1973Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
  51. 1976Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (born 1903)
  52. 1978Pope Paul VI (born 1897)
  53. 1978Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (born 1902)
  54. 1979Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
  55. 1983Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (born 1944)
  56. 1985Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (born 1923)
  57. 1986Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1904)
  58. 1987Ira C. Eaker, American general (born 1896)
  59. 1990Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (born 1912)
  60. 1991Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (born 1915)
  61. 1991Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (born 1900)
  62. 1991Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (born 1923)
  63. 1992Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (born 1949)
  64. 1993Tex Hughson, American baseball player (born 1916)
  65. 1994Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (born 1928)
  66. 1997Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (born 1941)
  67. 1998André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (born 1906)
  68. 2001Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (born 1912)
  69. 2001Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (born 1914)
  70. 2001Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (born 1911)
  71. 2001Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (born 1928)
  72. 2001Dorothy Tutin, English actress (born 1930)
  73. 2002Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (born 1930)
  74. 2003Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (born 1915)
  75. 2004Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)
  76. 2004Donald Justice, American poet and academic (born 1925)
  77. 2005Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1946)
  78. 2005Creme Puff, tabby domestic cat, oldest recorded cat (born 1967)
  79. 2007Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (born 1969)
  80. 2008Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and author (born 1934)
  81. 2009Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (born 1909)
  82. 2009Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
  83. 2009John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)
  84. 2011Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (born 1911)
  85. 2012Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1944)
  86. 2012Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1944)
  87. 2012Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (born 1938)
  88. 2012Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (born 1913)
  89. 2012Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (born 1954)
  90. 2012Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (born 1918)
  91. 2012Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (born 1953)
  92. 2013Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (born 1931)
  93. 2013Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (born 1929)
  94. 2013Jerry Wolman, American businessman (born 1927)
  95. 2014Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1941)
  96. 2014Ananda W.P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (born 1928)
  97. 2014John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (born 1927)
  98. 2015Ray Hill, American football player (born 1975)
  99. 2015Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (born 1924)
  100. 2017Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (born 1938)
  101. 2017Darren Daulton, American baseball player (born 1962)
  102. 2018Joël Robuchon, French Chef (born 1945)
  103. 2018Margaret Heckler, American politician (born 1931)
  104. 2018Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (born 1968)
  105. 2020Vern Rumsey, American bass guitarist (born 1973)
  106. 2024Billy Bean, American baseball player (born 1964)
  107. 2024Connie Chiume, South African actress and filmmaker (born 1952)
  108. 2024James Bjorken, American theoretical physicist (born 1934)

Celebraciones (13)

  1. Christian holidays and observances
  2. Transfiguration of Jesus
  3. Anna Maria Rubatto
  4. Felicissimus and Agapitus
  5. Pope Hormisdas
  6. Justus and Pastor
  7. Pope Sixtus II
  8. August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  9. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)
  10. Independence Day (Bolivia), celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
  11. Independence Day (Jamaica), celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
  12. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
  13. Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)