Events

Pre-1600

• 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.

• 632 Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.

• 663 Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.

• 1189 Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.

• 1290 The 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.

• 1521 Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.

• 1524 The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

• 1542 Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.

• 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.

1601–1900

• 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

• 1619 Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.

• 1640 Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.

• 1648 Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalist Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.

• 1709 Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.

• 1789 William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.

• 1810 Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.

• 1830 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.

• 1833 The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions.

• 1845 The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.

• 1849 Revolutions 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.

• 1850 Richard Wagner's Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.

• 1859 The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.

• 1861 American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.

• 1862 American 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.

• 1867 The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.

• 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zuluss, is captured by the British.

• 1890 The strongest storm in Finnish history kills at least three people.

• 1898 Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".

1901–present

• 1901 Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.

• 1909 A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

• 1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

• 1914 World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

• 1916 World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.

• 1916 World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

• 1917 Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.

• 1921 Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.

• 1924 The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

• 1936 Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.

• 1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

• 1943 Denmark 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.

• 1944 World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

• 1946 The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.

• 1955 Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.

• 1957 U.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.

• 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.

• 1964 The Philadelphia race riot begins.

• 1968 Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".

• 1973 Norrmalmstorg 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.

• 1988 Ramstein 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.

• 1990 Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

• 1990 An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

• 1993 NASA'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.

• 1993 Singaporean 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.

• 1993 The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

• 1993 A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.

• 1996 Chicago 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.

• 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.

• 1998 Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

• 1999 The 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.

• 2003 In "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.

• 2009 NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.

• 2016 The 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.

• 2017 China–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.

• 2022 Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1023 Go-Reizei, emperor of Japan (died 1068)

• 1366 Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (died 1421)

• 1476 Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)

• 1481 Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (died 1558)

• 1582 Taichang, emperor of China (died 1620)

• 1591 John Christian of Brieg, duke of Brzeg (died 1639)

• 1592 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician (died 1628)

1601–1900

• 1612 Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (died 1653)

• 1667 Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1721)

• 1691 Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (died 1750)

• 1714 Anthony Ulrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1774)

• 1728 John Stark, American general (died 1822)

• 1739 Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (died 1818)

• 1740 – John Lynch, American city founder and abolitionist (died 1820)

• 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)

• 1774 Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (died 1821)

• 1801 Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1877)

• 1814 Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (died 1873)

• 1816 Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (died 1884)

• 1822 Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (died 1904)

• 1827 Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess (died 1894)

• 1833 Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (died 1898)

• 1837 Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (died 1900)

• 1840 Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (died 1900)

• 1841 Louis Le Prince, French artist and original inventor of the motion picture camera (disappeared 1890)

• 1853 Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)

• 1859 Matilda Howell, American archer (died 1938)

• 1859 Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (died 1943)

• 1867 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic (died 1948)

• 1878 George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)

• 1884 Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1950)

• 1885 Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (died 1959)

• 1887 August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (died 1973)

• 1887 István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (died 1922)

• 1888 Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (died 1985)

• 1891 Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (died 1984)

• 1894 Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)

• 1896 Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (died 1982)

• 1896 Leon Theremin, Russian-Soviet electronic musical instruments inventor (died 1993)

• 1898 Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (died 1983)

• 1899 Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)

• 1899 Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (died 1951)

• 1899 James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (died 1976)

1901–present

• 1903 Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (died 1990)

• 1904 Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (died 1980)

• 1904 Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (died 1998)

• 1905 Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (died 1992)

• 1906 John Betjeman, English poet and academic (died 1984)

• 1908 Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (died 1996)

• 1910 Morris Graves, American painter and academic (died 2001)

• 1910 Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)

• 1911 Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (died 2002)

• 1913 Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1995)

• 1913 Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (died 2009)

• 1913 Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1993)

• 1913 Robert Irving, English conductor and director (died 1991)

• 1913 Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (died 1996)

• 1913 Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (died 1975)

• 1915 Max Robertson, Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (died 2009)

• 1915 Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (died 2008)

• 1916 Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (died 1997)

• 1916 C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962)

• 1916 Jack Vance, American author (died 2013)

• 1917 Jack Kirby, Comic Book Artist and Writer (died 1994)

• 1918 L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (died 1995)

• 1919 Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)

• 1921 John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (died 1979)

• 1921 Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (died 2007)

• 1921 Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)

• 1921 Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)

• 1924 Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist Who Explored Madness (died 2004)

• 1924 Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (died 2010)

• 1924 Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004)

• 1924 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (died 2014)

• 1925 Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)

• 1925 Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 2003)

• 1925 Philip Purser, English author and critic (died 2022)

• 1928 F. William Free, American businessman (died 2003)

• 1928 Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (died 2004)

• 1929 István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (died 1973)

• 1929 Roxie Roker, American actress (died 1995)

• 1930 Windsor Davies, British actor (died 2019)

• 1930 Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)

• 1931 Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (died 2018)

• 1931 Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (died 2014)

• 1931 Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2014)

• 1931 John Shirley-Quirk, English actor, singer, and educator (died 2014)

• 1931 Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (died 2020)

• 1932 Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator

• 1932 Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2016)

• 1933 Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (died 2015)

• 1933 Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop and theologian (died 2012)

• 1935 Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (died 2012)

• 1935 Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)

• 1936 Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire (died 2023)

• 1936 Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist

• 1938 Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and academic (died 2023)

• 1938 Bengt Fahlström, Swedish journalist (died 2017)

• 1938 Marcello Gandini, Italian automotive designer (died 2024)

• 1938 Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada

• 1939 John Kingman, English mathematician and academic

• 1939 Catherine Mackin, American newswoman, 1st to regularly anchor evening network newscast alone (died 1982)

• 1940 William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

• 1940 Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (died 2017)

• 1941 Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter and illustrator

• 1941 Toomas Leius, Estonian tennis player and coach

• 1941 John Stanley Marshall, English drummer (died 2023)

• 1941 Paul Plishka, American opera singer

• 1942 Wendy Davies, Welsh historian and academic

• 1942 Jorge Urosa, Venezuelan cardinal (died 2021)

• 1943 Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor and voice actor

• 1943 Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand

• 1943 Robert Greenwald, American director and producer

• 1943 Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (died 2015)

• 1944 Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer

• 1945 Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2023)

• 1947 Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (died 2004)

• 1947 Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer

• 1948 Vonda N. McIntyre, American author (died 2019)

• 1948 Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator

• 1948 Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman

• 1948 Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer

• 1948 Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist

• 1949 Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1949 Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach

• 1950 Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach

• 1950 Tony Husband, English cartoonist (died 2023)

• 1951 Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (died 2013)

• 1951 Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)

• 1951 Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1952 Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician

• 1952 Rita Dove, American poet and essayist

• 1952 Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman

• 1953 Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer

• 1953 Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist

• 1954 Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist

• 1954 George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer

• 1954 John Dorahy, Australian rugby player and coach

• 1954 Ravi Kanbur, Indian-English economist and academic

• 1956 Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor

• 1956 John Long, American basketball player

• 1956 Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter

• 1957 Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist

• 1957 Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

• 1957 Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia

• 1959 Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1961 Kim Appleby, English singer-songwriter and actress

• 1961 Cliff Benson, American football player

• 1961 Ian Pont, English cricketer and coach

• 1961 Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director

• 1962 Paul Allen, English footballer

• 1962 Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter

• 1962 David Fincher, American director and producer

• 1963 Maria Gheorghiu, Romanian folk singer-songwriter

• 1963 Regina Jacobs, American runner

• 1964 Lee Janzen, American golfer

• 1964 Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

• 1965 Dan Crowley, Australian rugby player

• 1965 Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game developer; created Pokémon

• 1965 Shania Twain, Grammy Award-winning Canadian Country Singer-Songwriter

• 1967 Jamie Osborne, English jockey and trainer

• 1969 Pierre Turgeon, Canadian-American ice hockey player

• 1971 Shane Andrews, American baseball player

• 1971 Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster

• 1972 Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer

• 1972 Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach

• 1973 Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor, comedian, and writer (died 2020)

• 1974 Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer

• 1974 Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer

• 1974 Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager

• 1975 Jamie Cureton, English footballer

• 1975 Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer and manager

• 1975 Hamish McLachlan, Australian television personality

• 1975 Royce Willis, New Zealand rugby player

• 1976 Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer

• 1978 Karine Turcotte, Canadian weightlifter

• 1979 Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter

• 1979 Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee

• 1979 Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player

• 1979 Markus Pröll, German footballer

• 1979 Ruth Riley, American basketball player

• 1980 Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter

• 1980 Debra Lafave, American sex offender and former teacher

• 1980 Ryan Madson, American baseball player

• 1980 Jaakko Ojaniemi, Finnish decathlete

• 1980 Jonathan Reynolds, English lawyer and politician

• 1981 Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician

• 1981 Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

• 1981 Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver

• 1981 Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer

• 1981 Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter

• 1982 Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer

• 1982 Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer

• 1982 Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer

• 1982 Carlos Quentin, American baseball player

• 1983 Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1983 Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player

• 1983 Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete

• 1984 Will Harris, American baseball player

• 1985 Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier

• 1986 Jeff Green, American basketball player

• 1986 Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (died 2015)

• 1986 Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1987 Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (died 2013)

• 1988 Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast

• 1989 César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer

• 1989 Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver

• 1989 Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer

• 1990 Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer

• 1991 Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer

• 1991 Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model

• 1992 Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player

• 1992 Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model

• 1992 Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast

• 1993 Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer

• 1994 Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player

• 1994 Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player

• 1996 Kim Se-jeong, South Korean actress and singer

• 1998 Weston McKennie, American soccer player

• 2000 Marissa Bode, American actress

• 2001 Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player

• 2003 Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress

• 2004 Kano Fujihira, Japanese entertainer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 388 Magnus Maximus, Roman emperor (born 335)

• 430 Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (born 354)

• 476 Orestes, Roman general and politician

• 632 Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (born 605)

• 683 Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (born 615)

• 770 Kōken, emperor of Japan (born 718)

• 876 Louis the German, Frankish king (born 804)

• 919 He Gui, Chinese general (born 858)

• 1055 Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1016)

• 1149 Mu'in ad-Din Unur, Turkish ruler and regent

• 1231 Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark

• 1341 Levon IV, king of Armenia (born 1309)

• 1406 John de Sutton V, Baron Sutton of Dudley (born 1380)

• 1481 Afonso V, king of Portugal (born 1432)

• 1540 Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua (born 1500)

1601–1900

• 1609 Francis Vere, English governor and general

• 1645 Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (born 1583)

• 1646 Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (born 1576)

• 1648 George Lisle, English general (born 1610)

• 1648 Charles Lucas, English general (born 1613)

• 1654 Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (born 1583)

• 1665 Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (born 1638)

• 1678 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1602)

• 1735 Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (born 1701)

• 1757 David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (born 1705)

• 1761 Melchor 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)

• 1784 Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (born 1713)

• 1793 Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)

• 1805 Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (born 1722)

• 1818 Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (born 1750)

• 1820 Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (born 1754)

• 1832 Edward Dando, English thief

• 1839 William Smith, English geologist and engineer (born 1769)

• 1888 Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (born 1835)

• 1891 Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (born 1814)

• 1900 Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (born 1838)

1901–present

• 1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (born 1822)

• 1919 Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (born 1872)

• 1934 Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (born 1858)

• 1937 George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (born 1854)

• 1943 Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (born 1870)

• 1943 Boris III of Bulgaria (born 1894)

• 1955 Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)

• 1959 Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (born 1890)

• 1965 Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (born 1909)

• 1968 Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (born 1887)

• 1971 Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (born 1889)

• 1972 Prince William of Gloucester (born 1941)

• 1975 Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (born 1907)

• 1976 Anissa Jones, American actress (born 1958)

• 1978 Bruce Catton, American historian and journalist (born 1899)

• 1978 Robert Shaw, English actor (born 1927)

• 1981 Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1899)

• 1982 Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (born 1911)

• 1984 Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (born 1901)

• 1985 Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (born 1896)

• 1986 Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)

• 1987 John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)

• 1988 Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1918)

• 1988 Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)

• 1989 John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (born 1950)

• 1990 Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1913)

• 1991 Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1913)

• 1993 William Stafford, American poet and academic (born 1914)

• 1995 Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (born 1906)

• 1995 Michael Ende, German scientist and author (born 1929)

• 2005 Jacques Dufilho, French actor (born 1914)

• 2005 Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1910)

• 2005 George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1911)

• 2006 Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1922)

• 2006 Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (born 1963)

• 2006 Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)

• 2007 Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (born 1926)

• 2007 Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (born 1932)

• 2007 Paul MacCready, American engineer and businessman, founded AeroVironment (born 1925)

• 2007 Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (born 1935)

• 2007 Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (born 1929)

• 2008 Phil Hill, American race car driver (born 1927)

• 2009 Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)

• 2009 Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (born 1936)

• 2010 William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (born 1919)

• 2011 Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (born 1967)

• 2012 Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (born 1925)

• 2012 Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (born 1945)

• 2012 Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1928)

• 2012 Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (born 1933)

• 2012 Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (born 1938)

• 2013 John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)

• 2013 Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)

• 2013 Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)

• 2013 Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)

• 2013 Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)

• 2013 Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)

• 2014 Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (born 1947)

• 2014 Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (born 1956)

• 2014 John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (born 1937)

• 2015 Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)

• 2015 Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)

• 2015 Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)

• 2016 Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (born 1950)

• 2016 Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (born 1934)

• 2017 Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)

• 2020 Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)

• 2024 Obi Ndefo, American actor (born 1972)

• 2024 Steve Silberman, American writer and journalist (born 1957)

• 2026 Harald V, former Norwegian King (born 1937)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Alexander of Constantinople

• Augustine of Hippo

• Edmund Arrowsmith

• Florentina

• Hermes

• Joaquina Vedruna de Mas

• Moses the Black

• August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• National Grandparents Day (Mexico)

References

External links