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August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.
30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria , Egypt , bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic .
AD 69 – Batavian rebellion : The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis .
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire .
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date : July 3, 607).
902 – Taormina , the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily , is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily .
1203 – Isaac II Angelos , restored Eastern Roman Emperor , declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade .
1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter .
1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise .
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela .
1571 – The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta .
1620 – Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli , resulting in the Peace of Vasvár .
1714 – George, Elector of Hanover , becomes King George I of Great Britain , marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
1759 – Seven Years' War : The Battle of Minden , an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele .
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars : Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) : Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland .
1801 – First Barbary War : The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya .
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States.
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa , the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state .
1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat .
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island , the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I . The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party . This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army .
1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch , Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens executed by the Nazi regime in Altona .
1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler .
1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party ) in woods near Samobor .
1943 – World War II : Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw , Poland.
1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army , a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany , are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin ) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan .
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution .
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah , the 29th Sultan of Brunei .
1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh , organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1974 – Cyprus dispute : The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line ", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork , Ireland .
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star " by The Buggles .
1984 – Commercial peat -cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man , at Lindow Moss , Cheshire , England.
1988 – A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.[1]
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
1998 – The establishment of Muslim Medics, one of the largest student-led societies in Imperial College London that provides both academic and wellbeing support to medical students of all backgrounds.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay .
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota , collapses during the evening rush hour , killing 13 people and injuring 145.
2008 – The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering .
2017 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
10 BC – Claudius , Roman emperor (d. 54)
126 – Pertinax , Roman emperor (d. 193)
845 – Sugawara no Michizane , Japanese scholar and politician (d. 903)
992 – Hyeonjong , Korean king (d. 1031)
1068 – Taizu , Chinese emperor (d. 1123)
1313 – Kōgon , Japanese emperor (d. 1364)
1377 – Go-Komatsu , Japanese emperor (d. 1433)
1385 – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (d. 1421)
1410 – Jan IV , count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1475)
1492 – Wolfgang , German prince (d. 1566)
1520 – Sigismund II , Polish king (d. 1572)
1545 – Andrew Melville , Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
1555 – Edward Kelley , English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara , Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644)
1626 – Sabbatai Zevi , Montenegrin rabbi and theorist (d. 1676)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1673)
1659 – Sebastiano Ricci , Italian painter (d. 1734)
1713 – Charles I , German duke and prince (d. 1780)
1714 – Richard Wilson , Welsh painter and academic (d. 1782)
1738 – Jacques François Dugommier , French general (d. 1794)
1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
1770 – William Clark , American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
1778 – Mary Jefferson Eppes , daughter of Thomas Jefferson who died in childbirth (d. 1804)
1779 – Francis Scott Key , American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
1779 – Lorenz Oken , German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (d. 1851)
1809 – William B. Travis , American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)
1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
1818 – Maria Mitchell , American astronomer and academic (d. 1889)
1819 – Herman Melville , American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1891)
1831 – Antonio Cotogni , Italian opera singer and educator (d. 1918)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln , American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1856 – George Coulthard , Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 – Gaston Doumergue , French lawyer and politician, 13th President of France (d. 1937)
1858 – Hans Rott , Austrian organist and composer (d. 1884)
1861 – Sammy Jones , Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1865 – Isobel Lilian Gloag , English painter (d. 1917)
1871 – John Lester , American cricketer and soccer player (d. 1969)
1877 – George Hackenschmidt , Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (d. 1968)
1878 – Konstantinos Logothetopoulos , Greek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1961)
1881 – Otto Toeplitz , German mathematician and academic (d. 1940)
1885 – George de Hevesy , Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1889 – Walter Gerlach , German physicist and academic (d. 1979)
1891 – Karl Kobelt , Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968)
1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia , Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1898 – Morris Stoloff , American composer and musical director (d. 1980)
1899 – Raymond Mays , English race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)
1900 – Otto Nothling , Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
1901 – Francisco Guilledo , Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
1903 – Paul Horgan , American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Sawyer Hogg , American-Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1993)
1907 – Eric Shipton , Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977)
1910 – James Henry Govier , English painter and illustrator (d. 1974)
1910 – Walter Scharf , American pianist and composer (d. 2003)
1910 – Gerda Taro , German war photographer (d. 1937)
1911 – Jackie Ormes , American journalist and cartoonist (d. 1985)
1912 – David Brand , Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979)
1912 – Gego , German-Venezuelan sculptor and academic (d. 1994)
1912 – Henry Jones , American actor (d. 1999)
1914 – Jack Delano , American photographer and composer (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Moore , Australian painter and educator (d. 2015)
1914 – J. Lee Thompson , English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini , Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1916 – Anne Hébert , Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1918 – T. J. Jemison , American minister and activist (d. 2013)
1919 – Stanley Middleton , English author (d. 2009)
1920 – Raul Renter , Estonian economist and chess player (d. 1992)
1921 – Jack Kramer , American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1921 – Pat McDonald , Australian actress (d. 1990)
1922 – Arthur Hill , Canadian-American actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Val Bettin , American actor
1924 – Marcia Mae Jones , American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
1924 – Frank Worrell , Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
1925 – Ernst Jandl , Austrian poet and author (d. 2000)
1926 – George Hauptfuhrer , American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
1926 – Hannah Hauxwell , English TV personality (d. 2018)
1927 – María Teresa López Boegeholz , Chilean oceanographer (d. 2006)
1927 – Anthony G. Bosco , American bishop (d. 2013)
1928 – Jack Shea , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 – Hafizullah Amin , Afghan educator and politician, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1979)
1929 – Ann Calvello , American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
1929 – Leila Abashidze , Georgian actress (d. 2018)
1930 – Lionel Bart , English composer (d. 1999)
1930 – Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (d. 2002)
1930 – Julie Bovasso , American actress and writer (d. 1991)
1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger , American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1930 – Károly Grósz , Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
1930 – Geoffrey Holder , Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Trevor Goddard , South African cricketer (d. 2016)
1932 – Meir Kahane , American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 – Meena Kumari , Indian actress (d. 1972)
1933 – Dom DeLuise , American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1933 – Masaichi Kaneda , Japanese baseball player and manager
1933 – Teri Shields , American actress, producer, and agent (d. 2012)
1933 – Dušan Třeštík , Czech historian and author (d. 2007)
1934 – John Beck , New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
1934 – Derek Birdsall , English graphic designer
1935 – Geoff Pullar , English cricketer (d. 2014)
1936 – W. D. Hamilton , Egyptian born British biologist, psychologist, and academic (d. 2000)
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent , Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
1936 – Laurie Taylor , English sociologist, radio host, and academic
1937 – Al D'Amato , American lawyer and politician
1939 – Bob Frankford , English-Canadian physician and politician (d. 2015)
1939 – Terry Kiser , American actor
1939 – Stephen Sykes , English bishop and theologian (d. 2014)
1939 – Robert James Waller , American author and photographer (d. 2017)
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen , English cricketer and umpire
1940 – Henry Silverman , American businessman, founded Cendant
1940 – Mahmoud Dowlatabadi , Iranian writer and actor
1941 – Ron Brown , American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil , French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 – Jerry Garcia , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1942 – Giancarlo Giannini , Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov , Russian banker and politician (d. 1998)
1945 – Douglas Osheroff , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 – Boz Burrell , English singer-songwriter, bass player, and guitarist (d. 2006)
1946 – Rick Coonce , American drummer (The Grass Roots ) (d. 2011)
1946 – Richard O. Covey , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1946 – Fiona Stanley , Australian epidemiologist and academic
1947 – Lorna Goodison , Jamaican poet and author
1948 – Avi Arad , Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
1948 – Cliff Branch , American football player
1948 – David Gemmell , English journalist and author (d. 2006)
1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev , Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
1949 – Jim Carroll , American poet, author, and musician (d. 2009)
1949 – Ray Nettles , American football player (d. 2009)
1950 – Roy Williams , American basketball player and coach
1951 – Tim Bachman , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Tommy Bolin , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1951 – Pete Mackanin , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1952 – Zoran Đinđić , Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953 – Robert Cray , American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Howard Kurtz , American journalist and author
1954 – Trevor Berbick , Jamaican-Canadian boxer (d. 2006)
1954 – James Gleick , American journalist and author
1954 – Benno Möhlmann , German footballer and manager
1957 – Taylor Negron , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1958 – Rob Buck , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2000)
1958 – Michael Penn , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe , American basketball player and coach
1959 – Joe Elliott , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Chuck D , American rapper and songwriter (Public Enemy )
1960 – Suzi Gardner , American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (L7 )
1962 – Jacob Matlala , South African boxer (d. 2013)
1963 – Demián Bichir , Mexican-American actor and producer
1963 – Coolio , American rapper, producer, and actor
1963 – John Carroll Lynch , American actor
1963 – Koichi Wakata , Japanese astronaut and engineer
1963 – Dean Wareham , New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 – Adam Duritz , American singer-songwriter and producer
1964 – Fiona Hyslop , Scottish businesswoman and politician
1964 – Augusta Read Thomas , American composer, conductor and educator
1965 – Brandt Jobe , American golfer
1965 – Sam Mendes , English director and producer
1966 – James St. James , American club promoter and author
1967 – Gregg Jefferies , American baseball player and coach
1967 – José Padilha , Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
1968 – Stacey Augmon , American basketball player and coach
1968 – Dan Donegan , American heavy metal guitarist and songwriter (Disturbed )
1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa , Japanese baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Andrei Borissov , Estonian footballer and manager
1969 – Kevin Jarvis , American baseball player and scout
1969 – Graham Thorpe , English cricketer and journalist
1970 – Quentin Coryatt , American football player
1970 – David James , English footballer and manager
1970 – Eugenie van Leeuwen , Dutch cricketer
1972 – Nicke Andersson , Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Christer Basma , Norwegian footballer and coach
1972 – Todd Bouman , American football player and coach
1972 – Thomas Woods , American historian, economist, and academic
1973 – Gregg Berhalter , American soccer player and coach
1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere , Belgian runner
1973 – Edurne Pasaban , Spanish mountaineer
1974 – Cher Calvin , American journalist
1974 – Marek Galiński , Polish cyclist (d. 2014)
1974 – Tyron Henderson , South African cricketer
1974 – Dennis Lawrence , Trinidadian footballer and coach
1974 – Beckie Scott , Canadian skier
1975 – Vhrsti , Czech author and illustrator
1976 – Don Hertzfeldt , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1976 – Søren Jochumsen , Danish footballer
1976 – Nwankwo Kanu , Nigerian footballer
1976 – David Nemirovsky , Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Hasan Şaş , Turkish footballer and manager
1976 – Cristian Stoica , Romanian-Italian rugby player
1977 – Marc Denis , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1977 – Haspop , French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
1977 – Darnerien McCants , American-Canadian football player
1977 – Damien Saez , French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Yoshi Tatsu , Japanese wrestler and boxer
1978 – Andy Blignaut , Zimbabwean cricketer
1978 – Björn Ferry , Swedish biathlete
1978 – Dhani Harrison , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Chris Iwelumo , Scottish footballer
1978 – Edgerrin James , American football player
1979 – Junior Agogo , Ghanaian footballer
1979 – Nathan Fien , Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
1979 – Jason Momoa , American actor, director, and producer
1980 – Mancini , Brazilian footballer
1980 – Romain Barras , French decathlete
1980 – Esteban Paredes , Chilean footballer
1981 – Dean Cox , Australian footballer
1981 – Pia Haraldsen , Norwegian journalist and author
1981 – Christofer Heimeroth , German footballer
1981 – Stephen Hunt , Irish footballer
1981 – Jamie Jones-Buchanan , English rugby player
1982 – Basem Fathi , Jordanian footballer
1982 – Montserrat Lombard , English actress, director, and screenwriter
1983 – Bobby Carpenter , American football player
1983 – Craig Clarke , New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Julien Faubert , French footballer
1983 – David Gervasi , Swiss decathlete
1984 – Steve Feak , American game designer
1984 – Francesco Gavazzi , Italian cyclist
1984 – Brandon Kintzler , American baseball player
1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger , German footballer
1985 – Stuart Holden , Scottish-American soccer player
1985 – Adam Jones , American baseball player
1985 – Cole Kimball , American baseball player
1985 – Tendai Mtawarira , South African rugby player
1985 – Kris Stadsgaard , Danish footballer
1985 – Dušan Švento , Slovak footballer
1986 – Damien Allen , English footballer
1986 – Anton Strålman , Swedish ice hockey player
1986 – Andrew Taylor , English footballer
1986 – Elena Vesnina , Russian tennis player
1986 – Mike Wallace , American football player
1987 – Iago Aspas , Spanish footballer
1987 – Karen Carney , English women's football winger
1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli , Belgian footballer
1987 – Lee Wallace , Scottish footballer
1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue , Norwegian footballer
1988 – Patryk Małecki , Polish footballer
1988 – Bodene Thompson , New Zealand rugby league player
1989 – Madison Bumgarner , American baseball player
1989 – Tiffany Hwang , Korean American singer, songwriter, and actress (Girls' Generation )
1990 – Aledmys Díaz , Cuban baseball player
1990 – Jean Hugues Gregoire , Mauritian swimmer
1990 – Elton Jantjies , South African rugby player
1991 – Piotr Malarczyk , Polish footballer
1991 – Marco Puntoriere , Italian footballer
1992 – Austin Rivers , American basketball player
1993 – Álex Abrines , Spanish basketball player
1993 – Leon Thomas III , American actor and singer
1994 – Sergeal Petersen , South African rugby player
1994 – Ayaka Wada , Japanese singer
1996 – Katie Boulter , English tennis player
2001 – Park Si-eun , South Korean actress
30 BC – Mark Antony , Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
371 – Eusebius of Vercelli , Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
527 – Justin I , Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
873 – Thachulf , duke of Thuringia
919 – Dhuka al-Rumi , Abbasid governor of Egypt
946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah , Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
946 – Lady Xu Xinyue , Chinese queen (b. 902)
953 – Yingtian , Chinese Khitan empress (b. 879)
984 – Æthelwold , bishop of Winchester
1098 – Adhemar of Le Puy , French papal legate
1137 – Louis VI , king of France (b. 1081)
1146 – Vsevolod II of Kiev , Russian prince[3]
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa , Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine , Italian archbishop and explorer (b. 1180)
1299 – Conrad de Lichtenberg , Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York , English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla , Italian author and educator (b. 1406)
1464 – Cosimo de' Medici , Italian ruler (b. 1386)
1494 – Giovanni Santi , artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus , German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
1543 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1488)
1546 – Peter Faber , French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 – Olaus Magnus , Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (b. 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese , Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément , French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1603 – Matthew Browne , English politician (b. 1563)
1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori , Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
1795 – Clas Bjerkander , Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet , English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers , French admiral (b. 1753)
1807 – John Boorman , English cricketer (b. c. 1754)
1807 – John Walker , English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
1808 – Lady Diana Beauclerk , English painter and illustrator (b. 1734)
1812 – Yakov Kulnev , Russian general (b. 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr , German publicist and academic (b. 1775)
1866 – John Ross , American tribal chief (b. 1790)
1869 – Richard Dry , Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
1903 – Calamity Jane , American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey , American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport , American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
1918 – John Riley Banister , American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak , Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
1921 – T.J. Ryan , Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1922 – Donát Bánki , Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
1929 – Syd Gregory , Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell , American painter and academic (b. 1862)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak , Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
1944 – Manuel L. Quezon , Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
1959 – Jean Behra , French race car driver (b. 1921)
1963 – Theodore Roethke , American poet (b. 1908)
1966 – Charles Whitman , American murderer (b. 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn , Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer , American actress (b. 1913)
1970 – Doris Fleeson , American journalist (b. 1901)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg , German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht , German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti , Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 – Francis Gary Powers , American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
1980 – Patrick Depailler , French race car driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Strother Martin , American actor (b. 1919)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky , American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
1989 – John Ogdon , English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
1990 – Norbert Elias , German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein , Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti , Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
1998 – Eva Bartok , Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927)
2001 – Korey Stringer , American football player (b. 1974)
2003 – Guy Thys , Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant , French actress and screenwriter (b. 1962)
2004 – Philip Abelson , American physicist and author (b. 1913)
2005 – Al Aronowitz , American journalist (b. 1928)
2005 – Wim Boost , Dutch cartoonist and educator (b. 1918)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys , Dutch painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2006 – Bob Thaves , American illustrator (b. 1924)
2006 – Iris Marion Young , American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
2007 – Tommy Makem , Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1932)
2008 – Gertan Klauber , Czech-English actor (b. 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet , Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Corazon Aquino , Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2010 – Lolita Lebrón , Puerto Rican-American activist (b. 1919)
2010 – Eric Tindill , New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
2012 – Aldo Maldera , Italian footballer and agent (b. 1953)
2012 – Douglas Townsend , American composer and musicologist (b. 1921)
2012 – Barry Trapnell , English cricketer and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – John Amis , English journalist and critic (b. 1922)
2013 – Gail Kobe , American actress and producer (b. 1932)
2013 – Babe Martin , American baseball player (b. 1920)
2013 – Toby Saks , American cellist and educator (b. 1942)
2013 – Wilford White , American football player (b. 1928)
2014 – Valyantsin Byalkevich , Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
2014 – Jan Roar Leikvoll , Norwegian author (b. 1974)
2014 – Charles T. Payne , American soldier (b. 1925)
2014 – Mike Smith , English radio and television host (b. 1955)
2015 – Stephan Beckenbauer , German footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2015 – Cilla Black , English singer and actress (b. 1943)
2015 – Bernard d'Espagnat , French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921)
2015 – Bob Frankford , English-Canadian physician and politician (b. 1939)
2015 – Hong Yuanshuo , Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1948)
2016 – Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances [ edit ]
Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
Armed Forces Day (China) or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan )
Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire , generally celebrated as a part of Carnival , as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies ):
Christian feast day :
Earliest day on which August Bank Holiday (Ireland) can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August.
Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Canada)
Earliest day on which Commerce Day , or Frídagur verslunarmanna , can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Iceland )
Earliest day on which Farmers' Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Zambia )
Earliest day on which International Beer Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday of August.
Earliest day on which Friendship Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of August. (United States )
Earliest day on which Kadooment Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Barbados )
Earliest day on which Labor Day (Samoa) can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Samoa )
Minden Day (United Kingdom )
National Day , celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
National Day , commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga )
Parents' Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo )
Statehood Day (Colorado)
Swiss National Day (Switzerland )
The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year ):
The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park , London , England)
Victory Day (Cambodia , Laos , Vietnam )
World Scout Scarf Day
Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire , England )
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