August 30

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August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 123 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 526 – King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
• 1282 – Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou.
• 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
• 1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
• 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
• 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
• 1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
• 1791 – HMS Pandora 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.
• 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 – Melbourne 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 Horatio Wright.
• 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.
• 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
• 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. This, 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").
• 1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
• 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
• 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.
• 1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
• 1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
• 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.A. 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, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
• 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• 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.
• 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
• 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.
• 1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
• 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

Births

• 1334 – Peter of Castile (d. 1369)
• 1569 – Jahangir, Mughal emperor (d. 1627)
• 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (d. 1796)
• 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
• 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (d. 1812)
• 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author and playwright (d. 1851)
• 1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
• 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (d. 1869)
• 1813 – Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (d. 1862)
• 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
• 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 1849)
• 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French-American missionary (d. 1903)
• 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
• 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American contractor (d. 1905)
• 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896)
• 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
• 1852 – J. Alden Weir, American painter (d. 1919)
• 1856 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927)
• 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (d. 1900)
• 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
• 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
• 1893 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
• 1894 – Erik von Holst, Estonian-German sailor (d. 1962)
• 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992)
• 1901 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Roy Wilkins, American activist (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist artist and author (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968)
• 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• 1912 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (d. 2011)
• 1913 – Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
• 1917 – Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1917 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Harold Atcherley, English businessman
• 1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
• 1922 – Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Barbara Ansell, English physician (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (d. 1969)
• 1923 – William Duell, American actor and singer (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Nate Saint, American missionary and pilot (d. 1956)
• 1923 – Vic Seixas, American tennis player
• 1924 – Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)
• 1924 – Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988)
• 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
• 1925 – Donald Symington, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor
• 1927 – Anne Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer
• 1928 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (d. 1965)
• 1928 – Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
• 1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981)
• 1931 – Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta
• 1934 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
• 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
• 1936 – Peter North, English scholar and academic
• 1937 – Jewel Brown, American singer
• 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver, founded the McLaren racing team (d. 1970)
• 1938 – Murray Gleeson, Australian judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
• 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress and singer
• 1939 – John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
• 1941 – Ben Jones, American actor and politician
• 1941 – Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host
• 1942 – Jonathan Aitken, Irish politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• 1942 – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
• 1942 – Zafer Ergin, Turkish actor
• 1943 – Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player
• 1943 – Robert Crumb, American illustrator
• 1943 – Colin Dann, English author
• 1943 – Nigel Hall, English sculptor
• 1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
• 1943 – David Maslanka, American composer
• 1944 – Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic
• 1944 – Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian
• 1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• 1946 – Peggy Lipton, American model and actress
• 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 (d. 1969)
• 1948 – Robin Lustig, English journalist and radio host
• 1948 – Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
• 1948 – Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, Professor
• 1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician
• 1949 – Christopher Collins, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1949 – Peter Maffay, Romanian-German singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Antony Gormley, English sculptor
• 1950 – Ineke Mulder, Dutch politician
• 1951 – Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor (APO Hiking Society)
• 1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor and producer
• 1951 – Dana Rosemary Scallon, English-Irish singer and politician
• 1951 – Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania
• 1952 – Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator
• 1953 – Ron George, American politician
• 1953 – Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Horace Panter, English bass player (The Specials and General Public)
• 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
• 1956 – Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Karen Buck, British politician
• 1958 – Fran Fraschilla, American sports analyst
• 1958 – Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
• 1958 – Martin Jackson, English drummer (Swing Out Sister, Magazine, The Chameleons, The Freshies, and The Durutti Column)
• 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (d. 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 (d. 1993)
• 1960 – Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer
• 1961 – Zafer Algöz, Turkish actor
• 1962 – Craig Whittaker, English politician
• 1963 – Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (Gwar, X-Cops, Death Piggy, and Dave Brockie Experience) (d. 2014)
• 1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer
• 1963 – Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver
• 1963 – Paul Oakenfold, English DJ and producer (Elementfour, Planet Perfecto, and Electra)
• 1964 – Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer
• 1964 – Ra Luhse, Estonian architect
• 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 – Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter (Michael & Victor)
• 1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rancid, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, and UK Subs)
• 1971 – Julian Smith, Scottish politician
• 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American model and actress
• 1972 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
• 1973 – Echo Chernik, American Art Nouveau artist
• 1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
• 1974 – Aaron Barrett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Reel Big Fish, The Scholars, and The Forces of Evil)
• 1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
• 1975 – Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer
• 1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
• 1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
• 1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
• 1977 – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
• 1977 – Elden Henson, American actor
• 1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist (Edguy)
• 1977 – Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner
• 1978 – Sinead Kerr, Irish figure skater
• 1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
• 1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentinian tennis player
• 1979 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1979 – Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
• 1979 – Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1980 – Angel Coulby, English actress
• 1980 – Antoinette Taus, Filipino-American actress and singer
• 1980 – Derrick Ward, American football 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
• 1982 – Lisa Seiffert, Australian model
• 1983 – Emmanuel Culio, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentinian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor (Arashi)
• 1983 – Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Tian Qin, Chinese slalom canoer
• 1983 – Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 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 (Hurts)
• 1986 – Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Panic! at the Disco and The Young Veins)
• 1986 – Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
• 1987 – Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter (Roll Deep)
• 1988 – Michael Cavanaugh, American gamer
• 1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
• 1988 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer (Suntribe)
• 1989 – Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
• 1989 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter (Black Cards)
• 1991 – Deorro, American DJ and producer
• 1991 – Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (d. 2014)
• 1991 – Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
• 1991 – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
• 1991 – Farid Mammadov, Azerbaijani singer
• 1992 – Jessica Henwick, English actress
• 1994 – Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer and dancer (Kara)
• 1994 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer (4Minute)
• 1994 – Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian beach volleyball player
• 1996 – Trevor Jackson, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 2001 – Emily Bear, American pianist and composer
• 2002 – Raffey Cassidy, English actress

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Deaths

• 526 – Theoderic the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)
• 1329 – Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan (b. 1300)
• 1428 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
• 1483 – Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
• 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
• 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
• 1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 – John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Namık İsmail, Turkish Impressionist painter and art educator (b. 1890)
• 1938 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower (b. 1876)
• 1938 – Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
• 1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885)
• 1943 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890)
• 1945 – Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
• 1947 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
• 1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Percival Gourgaud, Australian public servant (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor and singer (b. 1877)
• 1963 – Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy (b. 1911)
• 1964 – Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (b. 1888)
• 1967 – Ad Reinhardt, American painter (b. 1913)
• 1968 – William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1970 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
• 1971 – Ali Hadi Bara, Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress and singer (b. 1938)
• 1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
• 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
• 1990 – Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (Energit, Jazz Q, and Etc...) (b. 1952)
• 1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, Indian-English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Jan Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
• 2000 – David Haskell, American actor and singer (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, Welsh farmer and inventor (b. 1907)
• 2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch super-centenarian (b. 1890)
• 2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand judge (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Roef Ragas, Dutch actor (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Brian Hambly, Australian rugby league player (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)
• 2010 – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Revo Jõgisalu, Estonian rapper (Toe Tag) (b. 1976)
• 2011 – Cactus Pryor, American broadcaster (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Bernardo Bonezzi, Spanish composer (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Daire Brehan, Irish-English actress and journalist (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Igor Kvasha, Russian actor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Chris Lighty, American talent manager, co-founded Violator Entertainment (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Nat Peeples, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Vidar Theisen, Norwegian meteorologist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Alfredo Betancourt, Salvadoran author (b. 1914)
• 2013 – William C. Campbell, American golfer (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2013 – John "Juke" Logan, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Soledad Mexia, Mexican-American super-centenarian (b. 1899)
• 2014 – Bud Andrews, American radio host and producer (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
• 2014 – Victoria Mallory, American actress and singer (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Oliver Sacks, English neurologist and author (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Wes Craven, American film director, writer, producer, and actor (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Alexander of Constantinople
  • 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
  • Jeanne Jugan
  • Narcisa de Jesús
  • Pammachius
  • August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
• Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
• International Day of the Disappeared (International)
• Popular Consultation Day (East Timor)
• Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)
• Victory Day (Turkey)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada