Events

Pre-1600

• 70 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

• 1057 Elderly Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicates after just one year on the throne.

• 1060 The Mirdasids defeat the Fatimid Caliphate at the Battle of al-Funaydiq, signalling the definitive loss of Aleppo for the Fatimids.

• 1282 Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

• 1363 The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.

• 1464 Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church.

• 1535 With the papal bull Eius qui immobilis, Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England from the Catholic Church for approving the Acts of Supremacy, although the bull is likely never published.

• 1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

• 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

• 1594 King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.

1601–1900

• 1721 The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.

• 1727 Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.

• 1757 Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.

• 1791 sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

• 1799 The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.

• 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.

• 1808 The convention of Cintra allows the defeated French troops to be transported out of Iberia on British ships, including their loot.

• 1813 First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

• 1813 Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

• 1835 Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.

• 1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.

• 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.

• 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

• 1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

1901–present

• 1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

• 1914 World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.

• 1916 Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.

• 1917 Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.

• 1918 Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

• 1922 Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).

• 1936 The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.

• 1940 The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

• 1941 The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.

• 1942 World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.

• 1945 The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.

• 1945 The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur, lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

• 1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

• 1959 South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan is elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.

• 1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

• 1963 The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

• 1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

• 1974 A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

• 1974 A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.

• 1974 The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.

• 1981 President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing. The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

• 1983 Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.

• 1983 STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.

• 1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

• 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.

• 1992 The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.

• 1995 Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

• 1998 Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.

• 2002 Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.

• 2008 A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.

• 2014 Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.

• 2021 The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.

• 2023 Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousts him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1334 Peter of Castile (died 1369)

• 1574 Albert Szenczi Molnár, Hungarian writer and translator (died 1634)

1601–1900

• 1609 Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1644)

• 1609 Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)

• 1627 Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher (died 1705)

• 1716 Capability Brown, English landscape architect (died 1783)

• 1720 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (died 1796)

• 1748 Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (died 1825)

• 1768 Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (died 1812)

• 1797 Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (died 1851)

• 1812 Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (died 1869)

• 1818 Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1895)

• 1822 Adolph Strauch, Prussian American landscape architect (died 1883)

• 1839 Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (died 1903)

• 1842 Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (died 1849)

• 1844 Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman (died 1924)

• 1848 Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (died 1905)

• 1850 Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (died 1896)

• 1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1911)

• 1852 J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (died 1919)

• 1855 Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (died 1919)

• 1856 Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (died 1927)

• 1858 Ignaz Sowinski, Galician architect (died 1917)

• 1860 Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)

• 1870 Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (died 1891)

• 1871 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

• 1883 Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (died 1931)

• 1884 Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)

• 1885 Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1957)

• 1887 Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (died 1934)

• 1890 Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (died 1918)

• 1893 Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935)

• 1896 Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (died 1983)

• 1898 Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (died 1992)

1901–present

• 1901 John Gunther, American journalist and author (died 1970)

• 1901 Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (died 1981)

• 1903 Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (died 1981)

• 1906 Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (died 1979)

• 1906 Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician (died 1995)

• 1907 Leonor Fini, Argentine painter, illustrator, and author (died 1996)

• 1907 Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (died 1978)

• 1907 John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (died 1980)

• 1908 Fred MacMurray, American actor (died 1991)

• 1909 Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (died 1968)

• 1910 Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (died 1944)

• 1912 Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

• 1912 Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (died 2011)

• 1913 Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)

• 1915 Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (died 2013)

• 1915 Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (died 2003)

• 1916 Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (died 1968)

• 1917 Dan Enright, American television producer (died 1992)

• 1917 Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2015)

• 1917 Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (died 1992)

• 1918 Harold Atcherley, English businessman (died 2017)

• 1918 Billy Johnson, American baseball player (died 2006)

• 1918 Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (died 2002)

• 1919 Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (died 2005)

• 1919 Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (died 2010)

• 1919 Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)

• 1920 Arnold Green, Estonian soldier and politician (died 2011)

• 1922 Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (died 1986)

• 1922 Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (died 2013)

• 1923 Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (died 2001)

• 1923 Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (died 1969)

• 1923 Vic Seixas, American tennis player (died 2024)

• 1924 Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (died 1972)

• 1924 Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (died 1988)

• 1924 Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (died 2004)

• 1925 Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (died 2024)

• 1925 Donald Symington, American actor (died 2013)

• 1926 Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (died 2010)

• 1927 Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (died 2018)

• 1927 Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (died 2018)

• 1928 Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (died 1965)

• 1928 Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (died 1989)

• 1928 Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (died 2014)

• 1929 Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (died 2001)

• 1929 Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (died 2014)

• 1930 Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist

• 1930 Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (died 1981)

• 1931 Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (died 1982)

• 1933 Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (died 2016)

• 1934 Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman (died 2016)

• 1935 John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)

• 1935 Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician (died 2025)

• 1936 Peter North, English scholar and academic

• 1937 Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (died 1970)

• 1938 Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia

• 1939 Elizabeth Ashley, American actress

• 1939 John Peel, English radio host and producer (died 2004)

• 1940 Jack Biondolillo, American bowler (died 2021)

• 1941 Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (died 1971)

• 1941 Ben Jones, American actor and politician (died 2026)

• 1941 Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host

• 1941 John McNally, English singer and guitarist

• 1942 Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement

• 1942 John Kani, South African actor

• 1942 Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer

• 1943 Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach

• 1943 Robert Crumb, American illustrator

• 1943 Colin Dann, English author

• 1943 Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic

• 1943 Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

• 1943 David Maslanka, American composer and academic (died 2017)

• 1944 Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic

• 1944 Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian

• 1944 Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (died 2007)

• 1944 Tug McGraw, American baseball player (died 2004)

• 1944 Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2025)

• 1946 Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

• 1946 Peggy Lipton, American model and actress (died 2019)

• 1947 Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations

• 1948 Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author

• 1948 Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (died 1969)

• 1948 Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic

• 1949 Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (died 2001)

• 1949 Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation

• 1950 Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic

• 1950 Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist

• 1951 Timothy Bottoms, American actor

• 1951 Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania (died 2024)

• 1951 Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor

• 1952 Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator (died 2021)

• 1952 Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player

• 1953 Ron George, American businessman and politician

• 1953 Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1953 Horace Panter, English bass player

• 1953 Robert Parish, American basketball player

• 1954 Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus

• 1954 Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT

• 1954 David Paymer, American actor and director

• 1955 Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist

• 1955 Martin Jackson, English drummer

• 1956 Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1957 Gerald Albright, American musician

• 1958 Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician

• 1958 Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

• 1958 Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author

• 1958 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (died 2006)

• 1958 Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1959 Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer

• 1960 Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

• 1960 Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1993)

• 1960 Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer

• 1962 Ricky Sanders, American football player

• 1962 Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician

• 1963 Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)

• 1963 Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer

• 1963 Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (died 2017)

• 1963 Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver

• 1964 Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer

• 1964 Ra Luhse, Estonian architect

• 1966 Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer

• 1966 Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic

• 1966 Michael Michele, American actress

• 1967 Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress

• 1967 Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer

• 1968 Diran Adebayo, English author and critic

• 1968 Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1969 Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer

• 1969 Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer

• 1970 Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager

• 1970 Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1970 Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter

• 1971 Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 Julian Smith, Scottish politician

• 1972 Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer

• 1972 Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer

• 1972 Hani Hanjour, Saudi terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks (died 2001)

• 1973 Lisa Ling, American journalist and author

• 1974 Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist (died 2018)

• 1975 Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach

• 1976 Mike Koplove, American baseball player

• 1977 Shaun Alexander, American football player

• 1977 Marlon Byrd, American baseball player

• 1977 Raúl Castillo, American actor

• 1977 Michael Gladis, American actor

• 1977 Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer

• 1977 Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler

• 1978 Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater

• 1978 Cliff Lee, American baseball player

• 1979 Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player

• 1979 Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor

• 1979 Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player

• 1980 Roberto Hernández, Dominican baseball player

• 1981 Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor

• 1981 Adam Wainwright, American baseball player

• 1982 Will Davison, Australian race car driver

• 1982 Andy Roddick, American tennis player

• 1983 Emmanuel Culio, Argentine footballer

• 1983 Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (died 2007)

• 1983 Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor

• 1983 Simone Pepe, Italian footballer

• 1983 Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer

• 1983 Marco Vianello, Italian footballer

• 1984 Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer

• 1984 Joe Staley, American football player

• 1984 Michael Grant Terry, American actor

• 1985 Duane Brown, American football player

• 1985 Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer

• 1985 Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter

• 1985 Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer

• 1985 Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer

• 1985 Steven Smith, Scottish footballer

• 1985 Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer

• 1985 Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player

• 1985 Holly Weston, English actress

• 1986 Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter

• 1986 Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player

• 1986 Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1986 Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer

• 1987 Johanna Braddy, American actress

• 1987 Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter

• 1988 Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player

• 1989 Simone Guerra, Italian footballer

• 1989 Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer

• 1989 Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter

• 1991 Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (died 2014)

• 1991 Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player

• 1991 Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer

• 1992 Jessica Henwick, British actress

• 1994 Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player

• 1994 Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer

• 1994 Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress

• 1996 Mikal Bridges, American basketball player

• 1996 Trevor Jackson, American actor and singer-songwriter

• 2002 Fábio Carvalho, Portuguese footballer

• 2002 Drake Maye, American football player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 526 Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler (born 454)

• 832 Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (born 772)

• 1131 Hervey le Breton, bishop of Bangor and Ely

• 1181 Pope Alexander III (born c. 11001105)

• 1329 Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Chinese emperor (born 1300)

• 1428 Emperor Shōkō of Japan (born 1401)

• 1483 Louis XI, King of France (born 1423)

• 1500 Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (born 1443)

• 1580 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (born 1528)

1601–1900

• 1604 John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (born 1545)

• 1619 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1535)

• 1621 Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (born 1547)

• 1751 Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (born 1661)

• 1773 Peshwa Narayan Rao, Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (born 1755, assassinated)

• 1856 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (born 1811)

• 1856 Sir John Ross, Scottish naval officer and explorer (born 1777)

• 1879 John Bell Hood, American/Confederate general (born 1831)

• 1886 Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (born 1836)

• 1896 Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (born 1824)

1901–present

• 1906 Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (born 1847)

• 1907 Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (born 1857)

• 1908 Alexander P. Stewart, American general (born 1821)

• 1928 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)

• 1935 Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (born 1873)

• 1935 Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (born 1890)

• 1936 Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (born 1886)

• 1938 Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (born 1877)

• 1940 J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)

• 1941 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (born 1874)

• 1943 Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (born 1885)

• 1943 Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (born 1890)

• 1945 Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1893)

• 1946 Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (born 1907)

• 1947 Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (born 1890)

• 1948 Alice Salomon, German-American social reformer (born 1872)

• 1949 Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (born 1877)

• 1951 Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (born 1896)

• 1954 Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (born 1880)

• 1961 Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (born 1894)

• 1961 Charles Coburn, American actor (born 1877)

• 1963 Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (born 1911)

• 1964 Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (born 1888)

• 1967 Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1913)

• 1968 William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)

• 1970 Del Moore, American comedian and actor (born 1916)

• 1970 Abraham Zapruder, American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (born 1905)

• 1971 Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (born 1906)

• 1979 Jean Seberg, American actress (born 1938)

• 1981 Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (born 1921)

• 1981 Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (born 1933)

• 1985 Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (born 1900)

• 1988 Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1912)

• 1989 Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (born 1922)

• 1990 Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (born 1900)

• 1991 Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (born 1944)

• 1991 Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (born 1952)

• 1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1925)

• 1993 Richard Jordan, American actor (born 1938)

• 1994 Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (born 1923)

• 1995 Fischer Black, American economist and academic (born 1938)

• 1995 Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (born 1942)

• 1996 Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1953)

• 1999 Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (born 1912)

• 1999 Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (born 1910)

• 2001 Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (born 1910)

• 2002 J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)

• 2003 Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (born 1921)

• 2003 Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (born 1917)

• 2004 Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (born 1906)

• 2006 Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (born 1926)

• 2006 Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (born 1916)

• 2006 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

• 2007 Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (born 1942)

• 2007 Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (born 1918)

• 2008 Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1937)

• 2008 Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (born 1926)

• 2009 Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (born 1952)

• 2010 J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (born 1983)

• 2010 Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (born 1943)

• 2010 Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (born 1921)

• 2010 Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (born 1910)

• 2013 William C. Campbell, American golfer (born 1923)

• 2013 Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (born 1933)

• 2013 Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (born 1942)

• 2013 Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)

• 2013 Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (born 1933)

• 2014 Charles Bowden, American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (born 1945)

• 2014 Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (born 1928)

• 2014 Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (born 1996)

• 2014 Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (born 1920)

• 2014 Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician (born 1932)

• 2015 Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1939)

• 2015 Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician (born 1929)

• 2015 M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (born 1938)

• 2015 Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (born 1920)

• 2015 Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (born 1933)

• 2017 Louise Hay, American motivational author (born 1926)

• 2017 Skip Prokop, Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (born 1943)

• 2019 Valerie Harper, American actress and writer (born 1939)

• 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union (born 1931)

• 2024 Tūheitia Paki, Māori King (born 1955)

• 2024 Fatman Scoop, American rapper, hype man and radio personality (born 1971)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Alexander of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodoxy)

• Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster

• Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout

• Blessed Stephen Nehmé (Maronite Church / Catholic Church)

• Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)

• Fantinus

• Felix and Adauctus

• Fiacre

• Blessed María Rafols Bruna

• Mary Ward

• Narcisa de Jesús

• Pammachius

• Theodosius of Oria

• August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)

• Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)

• Independence Day (Tatarstan, Russia not formally recognized)

• International Day of the Disappeared

• International Whale Shark Day

• Popular Consultation Day (East Timor)

• Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)

• Victory Day (Turkey)

References

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