Events

Pre-1600

• 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.

• 435 Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

• 881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

• 908 Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.

• 1031 Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

• 1057 Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.

• 1342 The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

• 1347 The city of Calais surrenders after a protracted siege to the English following the English defeat of a French relief fleet in the battle of Crotoy. It will remain in English hands for more than 200 years.

• 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

• 1527 The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

1601–1900

• 1601 Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.

• 1645 Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

• 1678 Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

• 1692 British-Dutch forces under William III defending the city of Brussels fight an inconclusive battle at Steenkerque against a French army under the duke of Luxembourg, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.

• 1778 The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

• 1795 Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

• 1811 First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

• 1829 The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.

• 1852 Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.

• 1859 The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.

• 1889 An Anglo-Eyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army in the battle of Toski.

• 1900 The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

1901–present

• 1903 Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

• 1907 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

• 1914 World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.

• 1921 Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

• 1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

• 1936 A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

• 1940 World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

• 1946 Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

• 1948 Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

• 1949 The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.

• 1958 The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

• 1959 Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

• 1960 Niger gains independence from France.

• 1972 The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

• 1975 A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

• 1977 Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

• 1981 Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.

• 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

• 1997 Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, becoming the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.

• 2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

• 2005 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

• 2007 Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

• 2010 Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

• 2014 A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

• 2014 The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.

• 2018 Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

• 2019 Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

• 2019 Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

• 2023 Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1442 Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (died 1499)

• 1486 Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan (died 1512)

• 1491 Maria of Jülich-Berg, German noblewoman (died 1543)

• 1509 Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (died 1546)

1601–1900

• 1622 Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, German field marshal (died 1698)

• 1692 John Henley, English minister and poet (died 1759)

• 1724 Alvise Foscari, Venetian admiral (died 1790)

• 1766 Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author (died 1844)

• 1770 Frederick William III of Prussia (died 1840)

• 1803 Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (died 1865)

• 1808 Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (died 1893)

• 1811 Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (died 1861)

• 1817 Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (died 1895)

• 1823 Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish-American revolutionary and military leader, territorial governor of Montana (died 1867)

• 1823 Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish clarinetist, composer, and musicologist (died 1894)

• 1832 Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director (died 1914)

• 1837 Julien Reverchon, French botanist (died 1905)

• 1840 John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (died 1929)

• 1850 Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (died 1926)

• 1856 Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (died 1919)

• 1860 William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 1935)

• 1863 Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist (died 1922)

• 1867 Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)

• 1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (died 1929)

• 1872 Haakon VII of Norway (died 1957)

• 1886 Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright (died 1964)

• 1887 Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)

• 1887 August Wesley, Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (died ?)

• 1890 Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club (died 1974)

• 1894 Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1951)

• 1895 Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician (died 1942)

• 1896 Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (died 1997)

• 1899 Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (died 1979)

• 1900 Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (died 1945)

• 1900 John T. Scopes, American educator (died 1970)

1901–present

• 1901 John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician (died 1995)

• 1901 Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (died 1981)

• 1902 Regina Jonas, German rabbi (died 1944)

• 1902 David Buttolph, American film composer (died 1983)

• 1903 Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)

• 1904 Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983)

• 1904 Clifford D. Simak, American journalist and author (died 1988)

• 1905 Franz König, Austrian cardinal (died 2004)

• 1907 Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer (died 1988)

• 1907 Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (died 1996)

• 1907 Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and President of China (died 1998)

• 1909 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and educator (died 1971)

• 1911 Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor and producer (died 1990)

• 1912 Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)

• 1913 Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)

• 1916 Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1970)

• 1916 José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1978)

• 1917 Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1995)

• 1918 James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (died 2014)

• 1918 Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (died 1999)

• 1918 Larry Haines, American actor (died 2008)

• 1918 Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)

• 1920 Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer (died 2019)

• 1920 Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (died 2012)

• 1920 P. D. James, English author (died 2014)

• 1920 Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player and composer (died 1971)

• 1920 Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (died 2013)

• 1921 Richard Adler, American composer and producer (died 2012)

• 1921 Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (died 2008)

• 1921 Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (died 1972)

• 1922 John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2013)

• 1923 Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)

• 1923 Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (died 2012)

• 1924 Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)

• 1924 Leon Uris, American soldier and author (died 2003)

• 1925 Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager

• 1925 Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (died 2017)

• 1926 Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (died 2013)

• 1926 Tony Bennett, American singer and actor (died 2023)

• 1926 Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (died 2004)

• 1926 Gordon Scott, American actor (died 2007)

• 1926 Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian actor (died 1980)

• 1928 Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)

• 1928 Henning Moritzen, Danish actor (died 2012)

• 1930 James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)

• 1933 Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (died 2009)

• 1934 Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (died 1989)

• 1934 Michael Chapman, English bassoon player (died 2005)

• 1934 Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (died 2002)

• 1935 John Erman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2021)

• 1935 Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 1997)

• 1935 Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2019)

• 1936 Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host (died 2013)

• 1936 Edward Petherbridge, English actor

• 1937 Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright

• 1937 Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General

• 1937 Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer

• 1938 Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television host (died 2016)

• 1939 Jimmie Nicol, English drummer

• 1939 Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer (died 2013)

• 1940 Lance Alworth, American football player

• 1940 Martin Sheen, American actor and producer

• 1940 James Tyler, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2010)

• 1941 Juanita Helms, American politician (died 2009)

• 1941 Beverly Lee, American singer

• 1941 Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

• 1943 Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician and academic

• 1943 Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden

• 1943 Steven Millhauser, American novelist and short story writer

• 1944 Morris Berman, American historian and social critic

• 1944 Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (died 1973)

• 1945 Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist

• 1946 Robert Ayling, English businessman

• 1946 Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 1946 John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

• 1947 Ralph Wright, English footballer (died 2020)

• 1948 Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France

• 1949 Philip Casnoff, American actor and director

• 1949 B. B. Dickerson, American bass player and songwriter (died 2021)

• 1949 Sue Slipman, English politician

• 1950 Linda Howard, American author

• 1950 John Landis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1950 Jo Marie Payton, American actress and singer

• 1950 Ernesto Samper, Colombian economist and politician, 29th President of Colombia

• 1951 Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1951 Jay North, American actor (died 2025)

• 1952 Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer and manager

• 1953 Ian Bairnson, Scottish guitarist, songwriter and saxophonist (died 2023)

• 1953 Marlene Dumas, South African painter

• 1954 Michael Arthur, English physician and academic

• 1954 Gary Peters, English footballer and manager

• 1956 Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1956 Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)

• 1956 Dave Cloud, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)

• 1956 Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach

• 1956 Ian Crichton, Canadian guitarist

• 1957 Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer and manager

• 1957 Kate Wilkinson, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 11th New Zealand Minister of Conservation

• 1958 Lindsey Hilsum, English journalist and author

• 1958 Ana Kokkinos, Australian director and screenwriter

• 1959 Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer

• 1959 Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1959 John C. McGinley, American actor and producer

• 1959 Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1960 Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach

• 1960 Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer

• 1961 Molly Hagan, American actress

• 1961 Nick Harvey, English politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces

• 1961 Lee Rocker, American bassist

• 1963 Tasmin Archer, English pop singer

• 1963 Frano Botica, New Zealand rugby player and coach

• 1963 James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 David Knox, Australian rugby player

• 1963 Ed Roland, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1963 Lisa Ann Walter, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1963 Isaiah Washington, American actor and producer

• 1964 Lucky Dube, South African singer and keyboard player (died 2007)

• 1964 Ralph Knibbs, British rugby union player

• 1964 Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach

• 1964 Kevin Sumlin, American football player and coach

• 1964 Abhisit Vejjajiva, English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand

• 1966 Brent Butt, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1966 Gizz Butt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1966 Eric Esch, American wrestler, boxer, and mixed martial artist

• 1966 Robert Laimer, Austrian politician

• 1967 Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1967 Skin, English singer and guitarist

• 1968 Rod Beck, American baseball player (died 2007)

• 1969 Doug Overton, American basketball player and coach

• 1970 Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1970 Gina G, Australian singer-songwriter

• 1970 Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer

• 1971 Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (died 2007)

• 1971 DJ Spinderella, American DJ, rapper, producer, and actress

• 1972 Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player and politician

• 1973 Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer

• 1973 Michael Ealy, American actor

• 1975 Wael Gomaa, Egyptian footballer

• 1975 Argyro Strataki, Greek heptathlete

• 1976 Troy Glaus, American baseball player

• 1977 Tom Brady, American football player

• 1977 Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist and footballer

• 1978 Joi Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress

• 1978 Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer

• 1978 Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer

• 1979 Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress

• 1980 Nadia Ali, Libyan-American singer-songwriter

• 1980 Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Hannah Simone, Canadian television host and actress

• 1981 Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer

• 1981 Pablo Ibáñez, Spanish footballer

• 1982 Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier

• 1982 Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player

• 1983 Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player

• 1984 Yasin Avcı, Turkish footballer

• 1984 Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer

• 1984 Ryan Lochte, American swimmer

• 1985 Georgina Haig, Australian actress

• 1985 Brent Kutzle, American bass player and producer

• 1985 Ats Purje, Estonian footballer

• 1985 Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player and boxer

• 1986 Charlotte Casiraghi, Monégasque journalist, co-founded Ever Manifesto

• 1986 Darya Domracheva, Belarusian biathlete

• 1987 Kim Hyung-jun, South Korean singer and dancer

• 1989 Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (died 2015)

• 1989 Tyrod Taylor, American football player

• 1989 Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer

• 1990 Jourdan Dunn, English model

• 1990 Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer

• 1992 Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner

• 1992 Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner

• 1992 Karlie Kloss, American fashion model

• 1994 Kwon Alexander, American football player

• 1994 Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)

• 1994 Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player

• 1995 Zac Gallen, American baseball player

• 1995 Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player

• 1996 Alec Bohm, American baseball player

• 1996 Bokondji Imama, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1996 Derwin James, American football player

• 1997 Luis Robert Jr., Cuban baseball player

• 1999 Zach Wilson, American football player

• 1999 Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer

• 1999 Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 908 Burchard, duke of Thuringia

• 908 Egino, duke of Thuringia

• 908 Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg

• 925 Cao, Chinese empress dowager

• 979 Thietmar, margrave of Meissen

• 1003 At-Ta'i, Abbasid caliph (born 929)

• 1355 Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, English nobleman

• 1460 James II, king of Scotland (born 1430)

• 1527 Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal

• 1530 Francesco Ferruccio, Italian captain (born 1489)

• 1546 Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (born 1484)

• 1546 Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (born 1509)

1601–1900

• 1604 Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish commander and diplomat (born 1540)

• 1621 Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (born 1556)

• 1712 Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (born 1654)

• 1720 Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (born 1641)

• 1721 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (born 1648)

• 1761 Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (born 1691)

• 1773 Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (born 1700)

• 1780 Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (born 1715)

• 1792 Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman (born 1732)

• 1797 Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)

• 1805 Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (born 1724)

• 1835 Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1767)

• 1839 Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (born 1763)

• 1857 Eugène Sue, French author and politician (born 1804)

• 1866 Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (born 1804)

• 1867 August Böckh, German historian and scholar (born 1785)

• 1877 William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)

• 1879 Joseph Severn, English painter (born 1793)

• 1894 George Inness, American painter (born 1825)

1901–present

• 1913 William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (born 1844)

• 1916 Roger Casement, executed Irish poet and activist (born 1864)

• 1917 Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (born 1849)

• 1920 Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (born 1883)

• 1922 Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (born 1851)

• 1924 Joseph Conrad, British novelist (born 1857)

• 1925 William Bruce, Australian cricketer (born 1864)

• 1929 Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)

• 1929 Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (born 1857)

• 1936 Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)

• 1942 Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)

• 1943 Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)

• 1949 Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (born 1869)

• 1954 Colette, French novelist and journalist (born 1873)

• 1958 Peter Collins, English race car driver (born 1931)

• 1959 Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (born 1887)

• 1961 Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (born 1884)

• 1963 Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)

• 1964 Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)

• 1966 Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1925)

• 1968 Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)

• 1969 Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)

• 1972 Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (born 1913)

• 1973 Richard Marshall, American general (born 1895)

• 1974 Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (born 1888)

• 1975 Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)

• 1977 Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (born 1913)

• 1977 Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (born 1892)

• 1979 Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

• 1979 Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (born 1907)

• 1983 Carolyn Jones, American actress (born 1930)

• 1992 Wang Hongwen, Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)

• 1995 Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (born 1918)

• 1995 Edward Whittemore, American soldier and author (born 1933)

• 1996 Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (born 1939)

• 1997 Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)

• 1998 Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and journalist (born 1934)

• 1999 Rod Ansell, Australian hunter (born 1953)

• 1999 Byron Farwell, American historian and author (born 1921)

• 2000 Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)

• 2001 Christopher Hewett, English actor and director (born 1922)

• 2003 Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1954)

• 2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (born 1908)

• 2005 Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet (born 1920)

• 2006 Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1945)

• 2006 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress (born 1915)

• 2007 John Gardner, English author (born 1926)

• 2007 Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)

• 2008 Skip Caray, American sportscaster (born 1939)

• 2008 Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)

• 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

• 2009 Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)

• 2010 Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

• 2011 William Sleator, American author (born 1945)

• 2011 Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (born 1945)

• 2012 Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)

• 2012 Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)

• 2012 Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)

• 2012 John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)

• 2012 George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)

• 2013 John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)

• 2013 Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)

• 2013 Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)

• 2014 Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)

• 2014 Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)

• 2014 Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)

• 2014 Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)

• 2014 Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)

• 2015 Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)

• 2015 Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)

• 2015 Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)

• 2015 Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)

• 2015 Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)

• 2015 Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)

• 2020 John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)

• 2022 Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)

• 2023 Mark Margolis, American actor (born 1939)

• 2023 Bram Moolenaar, Dutch software engineer (born 1961)

• 2024 Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian dancer (born 1940)

• 2025 Loni Anderson, American actress (born 1945)

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)

• Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)

Christian feast day:

• Blessed Augustin Kažotić

• George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church)

• Lydia of Thyatira

• Myrrhbearers (Lutheran Church)

• Nicodemus

• Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)

• Stephen (Discovery of the relic)

• Waltheof of Melrose

• August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Flag Day (Venezuela)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.

• Arbor Day (Niger)

• National Guard Day (Venezuela)

References

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