Events

Pre-1600

• 70 BC The trial against Gaius Verres for corruption is opened, with Marcus Tullius Cicero as prosecutor and renowned orator Quintus Hortensius as defending lawyer.

• 598 Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.

• 1265 Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.

• 1320 The so-called Black Parliament at Scone tries William II de Soules and other nobles who had plotted against Robert I of Scotland and intended to place William on the Scottish throne.

• 1327 First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

• 1578 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese but both the Moroccan king Abd al-Malik and the Portuguese king Sebastian die. Ahmad al-Mansur follows Abd al-Malik as sultan of Morocco while the death of Sebastian leads to a succession crisis in Portugal.

1601–1900

• 1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.

• 1701 Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.

• 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

• 1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, a fleet of six East India Company ships sets sail from Fort Marlborough to raid the Dutch VOC factories on the West coast of Sumatra including the major port of Padang.

• 1783 Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.

• 1789 France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.

• 1790 A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

• 1791 The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.

• 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.

• 1814 War of 1812: The ultimately unsuccessful Siege of Fort Erie begins as British forces attempt to recapture the fort and drive American forces out of Canada.

• 1821 The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

• 1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

• 1863 Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.

• 1873 American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.

• 1887 Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years in captivity. Her death was reported in The Scotsman and The New York Times.

• 1889 The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.

• 1892 The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.

1901–present

• 1914 World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.

• 1915 World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.

• 1921 Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict: Mikhail Frunze declares victory over the Makhnovshchina.

• 1922 Enver Pasha dies in a skirmish between the Bolshevik Red Army and Basmachi troops, to whom he had defected earlier.

• 1924 Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.

• 1936 Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

• 1944 The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

• 1944 Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as the President of Finland to replace the resigned Risto Ryti.

• 1946 An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.

• 1947 The Supreme Court of Japan is established.

• 1964 Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

• 1964 Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers and mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.

• 1965 The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.

• 1969 Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.

• 1972 Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.

• 1974 A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.

• 1975 The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.

• 1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

• 1983 Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Captain Thomas Sankara.

• 1984 The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

• 1984 The Ariane 3 rocket is launched for the first time, carrying the Eutelsat I F-2 and Télécom 1A satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

• 1987 The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to give equal time to opposing views.

• 1995 Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins.

• 2006 A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).

• 2007 NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.

• 2018 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.

• 2018 Crisis in Venezuela: Seven people are injured when two drones detonate explosives on Avenida Bolívar, Caracas while president Nicolás Maduro is giving a speech to the Venezuelan National Guard.

• 2019 Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.

• 2020 Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1222 Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (died 1262)

• 1281 Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan (died 1311)

• 1290 Leopold I, Duke of Austria (died 1326)

• 1463 Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Florentine patron of the arts (died 1503)

• 1469 Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1528)

• 1470 Bernardo Dovizi, Italian cardinal (died 1520)

• 1470 Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (died 1553)

• 1521 Pope Urban VII (died 1590)

• 1522 Udai Singh II, King of Mewar (died 1572)

1601–1900

• 1604 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French cleric and author (died 1676)

• 1623 Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1641–1680) and Hanau-Münzenberg (1642–1680) (died 1685)

• 1701 Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (died 1757)

• 1704 Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (died 1752)

• 1719 Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (died 1767)

• 1721 Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1803)

• 1725 - John Newton, slaver turned Christian evangelist and author of “Amazing Grace”

• 1755 Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French soldier, painter, balloonist, and inventor (died 1805)

• 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (died 1822)

• 1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1865)

• 1821 Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (died 1892)

• 1821 James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (died 1881)

• 1834 John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1923)

• 1836 Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish architect (died 1907)

• 1839 Walter Pater, English author, critic, and academic (died 1894)

• 1844 Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (died 1929)

• 1853 John Henry Twachtman, American painter, etcher, and academic (died 1902)

• 1859 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952)

• 1861 Daniel Edward Howard, 16th president of Liberia (died 1935)

• 1867 Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (died 1918)

• 1868 Master C. V. V., Indian philosopher, yogi and guru (died 1922)

• 1870 Harry Lauder, Scottish actor and singer (died 1950)

• 1871 William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (died 1934)

• 1876 Giovanni Giuriati, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1970)

• 1876 John Scaddan, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Western Australia (died 1934)

• 1877 Dame Laura Knight, English artist (died 1970)

• 1884 Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic (died 1949)

• 1884 Henri Cornet, French cyclist (died 1941)

• 1887 Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967)

• 1888 Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 1965)

• 1890 Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (died 1957)

• 1893 Fritz Gause, German historian and curator (died 1973)

• 1898 Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (died 1975)

• 1899 Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1994)

• 1900 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (died 2002)

1901–present

• 1901 Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer (died 1971)

• 1902 Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (died 1981)

• 1904 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (died 1969)

• 1905 Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar (died 1972)

• 1906 Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (died 1973)

• 1908 Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died 1994)

• 1909 Glenn Cunningham, American runner and academic (died 1988)

• 1909 Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (co-founded category theory) (died 2005)

• 1910 Anita Page, American actress (died 2008)

• 1910 William Schuman, American composer and educator (died 1992)

• 1910 Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer (died 2011)

• 1912 Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (died 1999)

• 1912 David Raksin, American composer and educator (died 2004)

• 1912 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish architect and diplomat, savior of thousands of Jews from The Holocaust (died ~1947)

• 1913 Wesley Addy, American actor (died 1996)

• 1913 Robert Hayden, American poet and educator (died 1980)

• 1915 Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (died 2007)

• 1917 John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (died 2012)

• 1918 Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (died 2012)

• 1919 Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2016)

• 1919 Sidney Harman, Canadian-American businessman and audio pioneer responsible for the first high-fidelity stereo receiver (died 2011)

• 1920 Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (died 2013)

• 1921 Herb Ellis, American guitarist (died 2010)

• 1921 Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2000)

• 1922 Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (died 2006)

• 1922 Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (died 2012)

• 1926 George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (died 2000)

• 1926 Perry Moss, American football player and coach (died 2014)

• 1928 Gerard Damiano, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)

• 1928 Nadežka Mosusova, Serbian composer

• 1928 Clarke Reed, American businessman and politician (died 2024)

• 1929 Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1987)

• 1929 Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (died 2012)

• 1930 Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar

• 1931 Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (died 2002)

• 1932 Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist and academic (died 2020)

• 1932 Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (died 2010)

• 1934 Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager (died 2017)

• 1935 Carol Arthur, American actress and producer (died 2020)

• 1935 Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer and coach (died 1997)

• 1935 Michael J. Noonan, Irish farmer and politician, 25th Minister of Defence for Ireland (died 2013)

• 1936 Giorgos Zographos, Greek singer and actor (died 2005)

• 1937 David Bedford, English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (died 2011)

• 1938 Ellen Schrecker, American historian and academic

• 1939 Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, English politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office

• 1939 Frankie Ford, American R&B/rock and roll singer (died 2015)

• 1940 Coriún Aharonián, Uruguayan composer and musicologist (died 2017)

• 1940 Robin Harper, Scottish academic and politician

• 1940 Larry Knechtel, American bass player and pianist (died 2009)

• 1940 Frances Stewart, English economist and academic

• 1940 Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)

• 1941 Martin Jarvis, English actor

• 1941 Andy Smillie, English footballer

• 1941 Cliff Nobles, American musician (died 2008)

• 1941 Ted Strickland, American psychologist and politician, 68th Governor of Ohio

• 1941 Régis Barroso, Brazilian politician (died 2026)

• 1942 Don S. Davis, American actor (died 2008)

• 1942 Cleon Jones, American baseball player

• 1942 David Lange, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 2005)

• 1943 Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, 6th President of the Principality of Asturias (died 2019)

• 1943 Barbara Saß-Viehweger, German politician, lawyer and civil law notary

• 1943 Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper and footballer

• 1944 Richard Belzer, American actor (died 2023)

• 1944 Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician

• 1945 Paul McCarthy, American painter and sculptor

• 1945 Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman

• 1946 Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist and ethologist

• 1947 Klaus Schulze, German keyboard player and songwriter (died 2022)

• 1948 Johnny Grubb, American baseball player and coach

• 1949 John Riggins, American football player, sportscaster, and actor

• 1950 Caldwell Jones, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)

• 1950 Natesan Rangaswamy, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of Puducherry

• 1951 Peter Goodfellow, English geneticist and academic

• 1952 James Arbuthnot, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

• 1952 Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (died 2026)

• 1952 Gábor Demszky, Hungarian sociologist, lawyer, and politician

• 1953 Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer and manager

• 1954 Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine

• 1954 Steve Phillips, English footballer

• 1954 François Valéry, Algerian-French singer-songwriter

• 1955 Alberto Gonzales, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 80th United States Attorney General

• 1955 Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1957 Rupert Farley, British actor and voice actor

• 1957 Brooks D. Simpson, American historian and author

• 1957 Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player and coach

• 1957 John Wark, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

• 1958 Allison Hedge Coke, American-Canadian poet and academic

• 1958 Mary Decker, American runner

• 1958 Silvan Shalom, Tunisian-Israeli sergeant and politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel

• 1958 Brian Voss, American tenpin bowler

• 1959 Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2002)

• 1959 John Gormley, Irish politician, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

• 1960 Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey

• 1960 Dean Malenko, American wrestler

• 1960 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

• 1960 Bernard Rose, English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer

• 1960 Tim Winton, Australian author and playwright

• 1961 Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1962 Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor

• 1962 Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Keith Maurice Ellison, 30th Attorney General of Minnesota

• 1964 Andrew Bartlett, Australian social worker and politician

• 1965 Vishal Bhardwaj, Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer

• 1965 Adam Afriyie, English businessman and politician

• 1965 Terri Lyne Carrington, American award-winning jazz drummer, composer and educator

• 1965 Dennis Lehane, American author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1965 Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish soldier and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden

• 1965 Michael Skibbe, German footballer and manager

• 1967 Michael Marsh, American sprinter

• 1968 Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor

• 1968 Lee Mack, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1969 Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1970 John August, American director and screenwriter

• 1970 Bret Baier, American journalist

• 1970 Kate Silverton, English journalist

• 1971 Jeff Gordon, American race car driver and actor

• 1972 Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1973 Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1973 Xavier Marchand, French swimmer

• 1973 Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer

• 1973 Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer

• 1974 Kily González, Argentine footballer

• 1975 Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (died 2009)

• 1975 Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer

• 1975 Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Finland

• 1975 Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress

• 1976 Paul Goldstein, American tennis player

• 1976 Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer

• 1976 Trevor Woodman, English rugby player and coach

• 1977 Frankie Kazarian, American wrestler

• 1977 Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1978 Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1978 Luke Allen, American baseball player (died 2022)

• 1978 Kurt Busch, American race car driver

• 1978 Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian sprinter

• 1978 Ricardo Serrano, Spanish cyclist

• 1978 Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player

• 1978 Satoshi Hino, Japanese voice actor

• 1979 Robin Peterson, South African cricketer

• 1980 Richard Dawson, English cricketer and coach

• 1981 Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1981 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, American member of British royal family, media personality and actress

• 1983 Greta Gerwig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1984 Terry Campese, Australian rugby league player

• 1984 Mardy Collins, American basketball player

• 1985 Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1985 Robbie Findley, American soccer player

• 1985 Mark Milligan, Australian footballer

• 1985 Ha Seung-jin, South Korean basketball player

• 1985 Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer

• 1986 Nick Augusto, American drummer

• 1986 Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer

• 1986 Cicinho, Brazilian footballer

• 1986 Iosia Soliola, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

• 1986 David Williams, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Marreese Speights American basketball player

• 1988 Kelley O'Hara, American soccer player

• 1989 Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress

• 1989 Wang Hao, Chinese chess grandmaster

• 1992 Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer

• 1992 Domingo Germán, Dominican baseball player

• 1992 Cole Sprouse, American actor

• 1992 Dylan Sprouse, American actor

• 1994 Bobby Shmurda, American rapper

• 1995 Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress

• 1998 Lil Skies, American rapper

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 221 Lady Zhen, Chinese empress (born 183)

• 966 Berengar II of Italy (born 900)

• 1060 Henry I of France (born 1008)

• 1113 Gertrude of Saxony, countess and regent of Holland (born c. 1030)

1265 - Casualties of the Battle of Evesham

• Peter de Montfort, English politician (born 1215)

• Henry de Montfort (born 1238)

• Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, French-English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward (born 1208)

• Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, English politician (born 1223)

• 1266 Eudes of Burgundy, Count of Nevers (born 1230)

• 1306 Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (born 1289)

• 1345 As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt (born 1326)

• 1378 Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan (born c. 1320)

• 1430 Philip I, Duke of Brabant (born 1404)

• 1526 Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (born 1476)

• 1578 Sebastian of Portugal (born 1554)

• 1598 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1520)

1601–1900

• 1612 Hugh Broughton, English scholar and theologian (born 1549)

• 1639 Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican actor and playwright (born 1581)

• 1718 René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (born 1656)

• 1727 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born 1647)

• 1741 Andrew Hamilton, Scottish-American lawyer and politician (born 1676)

• 1778 Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-French politician, Governor General of New France (born 1698)

• 1792 John Burgoyne, English general and politician (born 1723)

• 1795 Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1711)

• 1804 Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish admiral (born 1731)

• 1822 Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet and author (born 1801)

• 1844 Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (born 1773)

• 1859 John Vianney, French priest and saint (born 1786)

• 1873 Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (born 1834)

• 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1805)

• 1886 Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (born 1814)

• 1900 Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (born 1860)

1901–present

• 1914 Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (born 1853)

• 1919 Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1845)

• 1922 Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (born 1881)

• 1932 Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (born 1868)

• 1938 Pearl White, American actress (born 1889)

• 1940 Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (born 1880)

• 1941 Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (born 1883)

• 1942 Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (born 1860)

• 1944 Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (born 1921)

• 1957 John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (born 1882)

• 1957 Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (born 1869)

• 1958 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (born 1883)

• 1959 József Révai, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (born 1898)

• 1961 Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)

• 1962 Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)

• 1964 Nätti-Jussi, Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (born 1890)

• 1967 Peter Smith, English cricketer (born 1908)

• 1976 Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (born 1923)

• 1976 Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (born 1894)

• 1977 Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)

• 1981 Melvyn Douglas, American actor (born 1901)

• 1982 Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (born 1904)

• 1985 Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (born 1933)

• 1990 Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (born 1894)

• 1992 Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (born 1909)

• 1996 Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (born 1936)

• 1997 Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)

• 1998 Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)

• 1999 Victor Mature, American actor (born 1913)

• 2003 Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

• 2004 Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (born 1921)

• 2004 Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (born 1956)

• 2005 Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (born 1932)

• 2005 Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (born 1934)

• 2007 Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)

• 2007 Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (born 1926)

• 2008 Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (born 1985)

• 2009 Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (born 1957)

• 2011 Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (born 1977)

• 2012 Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)

• 2012 Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)

• 2012 Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)

• 2013 Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (born 1940)

• 2013 Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (born 1925)

• 2013 Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)

• 2013 Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1930)

• 2013 Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1922)

• 2013 Sandy Woodward, English admiral (born 1932)

• 2014 James Brady, American activist and politician, 15th White House Press Secretary (born 1940)

• 2014 Chester Crandell, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)

• 2014 Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1953)

• 2015 Elsie Hillman, American philanthropist and politician (born 1925)

• 2015 Les Munro, New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1919)

• 2015 John Rudometkin, American basketball player (born 1940)

• 2015 Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (born 1936)

• 2019 Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (born 1926)

• 2023 Dalia Fadila, Israeli educator (born 1971/1972)

• 2024 Charles Cyphers, American actor (born 1939)

• 2024 Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

• 2024 Duane Thomas, American football player (born 1947)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Aristarchus

• Blessed Cecilia Cesarini

• Euphronius

• Blessed Frédéric Janssoone

• John Vianney

• Molua (or Lua)

• Raynerius of Split

• Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs

• August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Coast Guard Day (United States)

• Constitution Day (Cook Islands); first Monday in August

• Matica slovenská Day (Slovakia)

• Barack Obama Day in Illinois in the United States

• 2020 Beirut explosion commemoration day in Lebanon

References

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