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Day of the year
August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 133 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
AD 14 –
Agrippa Postumus , maternal grandson of the late
Roman emperor
Augustus , is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile.
636 –
Battle of Yarmouk :
Arab forces led by
Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the
Levant away from the
Byzantine Empire , marking the first great wave of
Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of
Islam outside
Arabia .
917 –
Battle of Acheloos : Tsar
Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a
Byzantine army.
1083 – Canonization of the first
King of Hungary ,
Saint Stephen and his son
Saint Emeric celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1191 –
Richard I of England initiates the
Massacre at Ayyadieh , leaving 2,600–3,000 Muslim hostages dead.
1308 –
Pope Clement V pardons
Jacques de Molay , the last
Grand Master of the Knights Templar , absolving him of charges of
heresy .
1391 –
Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th
Grand Master of the Teutonic Order .
1467 – The
Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between
Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias .
1519 – Philosopher and general
Wang Yangming defeats
Zhu Chenhao , ending the
Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the
Ming dynasty 's
Zhengde Emperor .
1601–1900
1648 – The
Battle of Lens is the last major military confrontation of the
Thirty Years' War , contributing to the signing of the
Peace of Westphalia in October that year.
[1]
1672 – Former
Grand Pensionary
Johan de Witt and his brother
Cornelis are lynched by a mob in
The Hague .
1707 – The first
Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture
Pensacola, Florida .
1710 –
War of the Spanish Succession : A multinational army led by the Austrian commander
Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by
Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the
Battle of Saragossa .
1775 – The Spanish establish the
Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became
Tucson, Arizona .
1794 –
Northwest Indian War : United States troops force a confederacy of
Shawnee ,
Mingo ,
Delaware ,
Wyandot ,
Miami ,
Ottawa ,
Chippewa , and
Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the
Battle of Fallen Timbers .
1852 – Steamboat
Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
1858 –
Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of
evolution through
natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London , alongside
Alfred Russel Wallace 's same theory.
1864 –
Bakumatsu :
Kinmon incident : The
Chōshū Domain attempts to expel the
Satsuma and
Aizu Domains from Japan's imperial court.
[2]
1866 –
President
Andrew Johnson formally declares the
American Civil War over.
1882 –
Tchaikovsky 's
1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
1901–present
1905 –
Sun Yat-sen ,
Song Jiaoren , and others establish the
Tongmenghui , a
Republican ,
anti-Qing revolutionary organisation, in
Tokyo ,
Japan .
[3]
1910 – Extreme
fire weather in the
Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the
Great Fire of 1910 , burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2 ) and killing 87 people.
1914 –
World War I :
Brussels is captured during the
German invasion of Belgium .
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now
WWJ ), begins operations in
Detroit .
[4]
1920 – The
National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in
Canton, Ohio
1926 – Japan's
public broadcasting company,
Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 –
Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by
Alex Rodriguez .
1940 – In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary
Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by
Ramón Mercader . He dies the next day.
1940 –
World War II :
British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "
Never was so much owed by so many to so few ".
1940 – World War II: The
Eighth Route Army launches the
Hundred Regiments Offensive , a successful campaign to disrupt Japanese war infrastructure and logistics in occupied northern China.
[5]
1944 – World War II:
One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen , including
Phil Lamason , accused by the
Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at
Buchenwald concentration camp .
1944 – World War II: The
Battle of Romania begins with a major
Soviet Union offensive.
1948 – Soviet Consul General in
New York ,
Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the
United States , due to the
Kasenkina Case .
[6]
1949 –
Hungary adopts the
Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a
People's Republic .
[7]
1955 –
Battle of Philippeville : In
Morocco , a force of
Berbers from the
Atlas Mountains region of
Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 –
Senegal breaks from the
Mali Federation , declaring its independence.
1962 – The
NS Savannah , the world's first
nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
1968 –
Cold War : Warsaw Pact troops
invade Czechoslovakia , crushing the
Prague Spring . East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
1975 –
Viking program :
NASA launches the
Viking 1 planetary probe toward
Mars .
1975 –
ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to
Damascus International Airport in
Damascus ,
Syria , killing 126 people.
[8]
1977 –
Voyager program : NASA launches the
Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1986 – In
Edmond, Oklahoma ,
U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill
guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the
Yellowstone fire in
Yellowstone National Park
1988 –
Iran–Iraq War : A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 –
The Troubles :
Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an
IRA roadside bomb in
Ballygawley, County Tyrone .
1989 – The pleasure boat
Marchioness sinks on the
River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
1991 –
Dissolution of the Soviet Union ,
August Coup : More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the
coup aiming to depose
President
Mikhail Gorbachev .
1991 –
Estonia , occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of
legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
1992 – In India,
Meitei language (officially known as
Manipuri language ) was included in the
scheduled languages' list and made one of the
official languages of the Indian Government .
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the
Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1995 – The
Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in
Firozabad ,
India .
1997 –
Souhane massacre in
Algeria ; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 – The
Supreme Court of Canada
rules that
Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 –
U.S. embassy bombings : The United States launches
cruise missile attacks against alleged
al-Qaeda
camps in
Afghanistan and a
suspected chemical weapons plant in
Sudan in retaliation for the
August 7 bombings of American embassies in
Kenya and
Tanzania .
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of
Saddam Hussein take over the
Iraqi
embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2006 –
Sri Lankan Civil War : Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP
S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in
Tellippalai .
2007 –
China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at
Naha Airport in
Okinawa , Japan.
2008 –
Spanair Flight 5022 , from
Madrid , Spain to
Gran Canaria , skids off the runway and crashes at
Barajas Airport . Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
2012 – A
prison riot in the
Venezuelan capital,
Caracas , kills at least 20 people.
2014 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's
Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of
landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
2016 –
Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in
Gaziantep ,
Turkey .
2020 –
Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the
2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the
2020 Democratic National Convention .
[13]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1625 –
Thomas Corneille , French playwright and philologist (d. 1709)
[17]
1632 –
Louis Bourdaloue , French preacher and academic (d. 1704)
[18]
1659 –
Henry Every , English pirate (d. 1696)
[19]
1710 –
Thomas Simpson , English mathematician and academic (d. 1761)
1719 –
Christian Mayer , Czech astronomer and educator (d. 1783)
1720 –
Bernard de Bury , French
harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)
1778 –
Bernardo O'Higgins , Chilean general and politician, 2nd
Supreme Director of Chile (d. 1842)
1779 –
Jöns Jacob Berzelius , Swedish chemist and academic (d. 1848)
1789 –
Abbas Mirza , Qajar crown prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1799 –
James Prinsep , English orientalist and scholar (d. 1840)
1833 –
Benjamin Harrison , American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd
President of the United States (d. 1901)
1845 –
Albert Chmielowski , Polish saint, founded the
Albertine Brothers (d. 1916)
1847 –
Andrew Greenwood , English cricketer (d. 1889)
1847 –
Bolesław Prus , Polish journalist and author (d. 1912)
1856 –
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski , German poet and playwright (d. 1909)
1860 –
Raymond Poincaré , French lawyer and politician, 10th
President of France (d. 1934)
1865 –
Bernard Tancred , South African cricketer and lawyer (d. 1911)
1868 –
Ellen Roosevelt , American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 –
Eliel Saarinen , Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the
National Museum of Finland (d. 1950)
1881 –
Edgar Guest , English-American poet and author (d. 1959)
1881 –
Aleksander Hellat , Estonian politician, 6th
Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1943)
1884 –
Rudolf Bultmann , German
Lutheran
theologian and professor of
New Testament at the
University of Marburg (d. 1976)
1885 –
Dino Campana , Italian poet and author (d. 1932)
1886 –
Paul Tillich , German-American philosopher and theologian (d. 1965)
1887 –
Phan Khôi , Vietnamese journalist and scholar (d. 1959)
1888 –
Tôn Đức Thắng , Vietnamese politician, 2nd
President of Vietnam (d. 1980)
1890 –
H. P. Lovecraft , American short story writer, editor, novelist (d. 1937)
1896 –
Gostha Pal , Indian footballer (d. 1976)
1897 –
Tarjei Vesaas , Norwegian author and poet (d. 1970)
1898 –
Vilhelm Moberg , Swedish historian, journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1973)
1901–present
1901 –
Salvatore Quasimodo , Italian novelist and poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1905 –
Jean Gebser , German linguist, poet, and philosopher (d. 1973)
1905 –
Mikio Naruse , Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
1905 –
Jack Teagarden , American singer-songwriter and trombonist (d. 1964)
1906 –
Vidrik Rootare , Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
1908 –
Al López , American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
[20]
1909 –
André Morell , English actor (d. 1978)
[21]
1909 –
Alby Roberts , New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (d. 1978)
1910 –
Eero Saarinen , Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the
Gateway Arch (d. 1961)
1912 –
John H. Michaelis , American general (d. 1985)
1913 –
Roger Wolcott Sperry , American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1915 –
Ivo Rojnica , Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (d. 2007)
[22]
1916 –
Paul Felix Schmidt , Estonian–German chess player and chemist (d. 1984)
1917 –
Terry Sanford ,
65th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1998)
[23]
1918 –
Jacqueline Susann , American actress and author (d. 1974)
1919 –
Walter Bernstein , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2021)
1919 –
Adamantios Androutsopoulos , Greek lawyer, educator and politician,
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2000)
1920 –
H. R. Van Dongen , American illustrator (d. 2010)
[24]
1921 –
Keith Froome , Australian rugby league player (d. 1978)
[25]
1921 –
Jack Wilson , Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
1923 –
Jim Reeves , American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)
1924 –
George Zuverink , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1926 –
Frank Rosolino , American jazz trombonist (d. 1978)
1926 –
Nobby Wirkowski , American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2014)
1927 –
John Boardman , English archaeologist and historian
1927 –
Yootha Joyce , English actress (d. 1980)
1927 –
Fred Kavli , Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded
The Kavli Foundation (d. 2013)
1927 –
Peter Oakley , English soldier and blogger (d. 2014)
1929 –
Kevin Heffernan , Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1930 –
Mario Bernardi , Canadian pianist and conductor (d. 2013)
1930 –
Peter Randall , English sergeant (d. 2007)
1931 –
Don King , American boxing promoter
[20]
1932 –
Anthony Ainley , English actor (d. 2004)
[26]
1932 –
Vasily Aksyonov , Russian physician, author, and academic (d. 2009)
1932 –
Atholl McKinnon , South African cricketer (d. 1983)
1933 –
Ted Donaldson , American actor (d. 2023)
[27]
1933 –
George J. Mitchell , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
[28]
1934 –
Sneaky Pete Kleinow , American country-rock pedal-steel guitarist and songwriter (d. 2007)
1934 –
Tom Mangold , German-English journalist and author
1935 –
Ron Paul , American captain, physician, and politician
[20]
1936 –
Hideki Shirakawa , Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1937 –
Stelvio Cipriani , Italian composer (d. 2018)
1937 –
Andrei Konchalovsky , Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 –
Sky Saxon , American singer-songwriter and bassist (d. 2009)
1938 –
Jean-Loup Chrétien , French military officer and astronaut
[29]
1938 –
Peter Day , English chemist and academic (d. 2020)
1938 –
Alain Vivien , French politician
1939 –
Fernando Poe Jr. , Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
1939 –
Mike Velarde , Filipino televangelist and religious leader
1940 –
Rubén Hinojosa , American businessman and politician
1940 –
Gus Macdonald , Scottish academic and politician,
Minister for the Cabinet Office
1940 –
Rex Sellers , Indian-Australian cricketer
1941 –
Dave Brock , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 –
Rich Brooks , American football player and coach
1941 –
Anne Evans , English soprano and actress
1941 –
William H. Gray , American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1941 –
Slobodan Milošević , Serbian lawyer and politician, 1st
President of Serbia (d. 2006)
[20]
1941 –
Robin Oakley , English journalist and author
1941 –
Jo Ramírez , Mexican race car driver and manager
1942 –
Isaac Hayes , American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (d. 2008)
[20]
1942 –
Fred Norman , American baseball player
1943 –
Roger Gale , English journalist and politician
1943 –
Sylvester McCoy , Scottish actor
[20]
1944 –
Rajiv Gandhi , Indian lawyer and politician, 6th
Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
[20]
1944 –
Graig Nettles , American baseball player and manager
1944 –
José Wilker , Brazilian actor and director (d. 2014)
1945 –
Roy Gardner , English businessman
1946 –
Mufaddal Saifuddin , 53rd
Da'i al-Mutlaq of
Fatimid Caliphate
1946 –
Henryk Broder , Polish-German journalist and author
1946 –
Connie Chung , American journalist
[30]
1946 –
Laurent Fabius , French politician, 158th
Prime Minister of France
1946 –
Ralf Hütter , German singer and keyboard player
1946 –
N. R. Narayana Murthy , Indian businessman, co-founded
Infosys
1947 –
Alan Lee , English painter and illustrator
1947 –
James Pankow , American musician
[30]
1947 –
Ray Wise , American actor
[30]
1948 –
John Noble , Australian actor and director
[30]
1948 –
Robert Plant , English singer-songwriter
[30]
1949 –
Nikolas Asimos , Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
1949 –
Phil Lynott , Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 1986)
1951 –
Greg Bear , American author (d. 2022)
[20]
1951 –
DeForest Soaries , American minister and politician, 30th
Secretary of State of New Jersey
1952 –
John Emburey , English cricketer and coach
1952 –
Doug Fieger , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
1952 –
John Hiatt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[30]
1952 –
Ric Menello , American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1953 –
Gerry Bertier , American football player (d. 1981)
1953 –
Peter Horton , American actor and director
[30]
1953 –
Mike Jackson , American politician
1953 –
Jim Trenton , American radio host and actor
1953 –
Leroy Burgess , American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
1954 –
Quinn Buckner , American basketball player and coach
1954 –
Tawn Mastrey , American radio host and producer (d. 2007)
1954 –
Al Roker , American news anchor, television personality, and author
[30]
1955 –
Agnes Chan , Hong Kong singer and author
1955 –
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon , English politician,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1956 –
Joan Allen , American actress
[30]
1956 –
Alvin Greenidge , Barbadian cricketer
1956 –
Desmond Swayne , English soldier and politician,
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
1957 –
Finlay Calder , Scottish rugby player
1957 –
Jim Calder , Scottish rugby player
1957 –
Simon Donaldson , English mathematician and academic
1957 –
Sorin Antohi , Romanian journalist and historian
1957 –
Paul Johnson , American football coach
1958 –
Nigel Dodds , Northern Irish lawyer and politician
1958 –
Patricia Rozema , Canadian director and screenwriter
1958 –
David O. Russell , American director and screenwriter
[20]
1958 –
John Stehr , American journalist
1960 –
Dom Duff , Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
1960 –
Mark Langston , American baseball player
1961 –
Amanda Sonia Berry , English businesswoman
1962 –
James Marsters , American actor
[30]
1963 –
Uwe Bialon , German footballer and manager
1963 –
Kal Daniels , American baseball player
1963 –
José Cecena , Mexican baseball player
1964 –
Azarias Ruberwa , Congolese lawyer and politician,
Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1965 –
KRS-One , American rapper and producer
[30]
1966 –
Miguel Albaladejo , Spanish director and screenwriter
1966 –
Colin Cunningham , American actor
[30]
1966 –
Dimebag Darrell , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2004)
1966 –
Enrico Letta , Italian lawyer and politician, 55th
Prime Minister of Italy
1966 –
Liu Chunyan , Chinese host and voice actress
1967 –
Andy Benes , American baseball player
1968 –
Brett Angell , English footballer and coach
1968 –
Abdelatif Benazzi , Moroccan-French rugby player
1968 –
Sandy Brondello , Australian basketball player and coach
[31]
1968 –
Klas Ingesson , Swedish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1968 –
Yuri Shiratori , Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 –
Bai Yansong , Chinese host
1969 –
Billy Gardell , American comedian, actor, and producer
[30]
1969 –
Mark Holzemer , American baseball player and scout
1969 –
Santeri Kinnunen , Finnish actor
[32]
1970 –
Els Callens , Belgian tennis player and sportscaster
1970 –
Fred Durst , American singer-songwriter
[30]
1971 –
Nenad Bjelica , Croatian footballer and manager
1971 –
Matt Calland , English rugby player and coach
1971 –
Ke Huy Quan , Vietnamese-American actor
[30]
1971 –
Steve Stone , English footballer and coach
1971 –
David Walliams , English comedian, actor, and author
1972 –
Derrick Alston , American basketball player
1972 –
Melvin Booker , American basketball player
1972 –
Chaney Kley , American actor (d. 2007)
1972 –
Scott Quinnell , Welsh rugby player and sportscaster
1972 –
Anna Umemiya , Japanese model and actress
1973 –
Alban Bushi , Albanian footballer
1973 –
Alexandre Finazzi , Brazilian footballer
1973 –
Scott Goodman , Australian swimmer
1973 –
Todd Helton , American baseball player
1973 –
Cameron Mather , New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1973 –
José Paniagua , Dominican baseball player
1973 –
Donn Swaby , American actor and screenwriter
1973 –
Juan Becerra Acosta , Mexican journalist
1974 –
Amy Adams , American actress
[20]
1974 –
Misha Collins , American actor
[30]
1974 –
Szabolcs Sáfár , Hungarian footballer and coach
1974 –
Andy Strachan , Australian drummer and songwriter
1974 –
Maxim Vengerov , Russian-Israeli violinist and conductor
1975 –
Marcin Adamski , Polish footballer and manager
1975 –
Marko Martin , Estonian pianist and educator
1975 –
Shaun Newton , English footballer
1975 –
Elijah Williams , American football player and coach
1976 –
Chris Drury , American ice hockey player
1976 –
Cornel Frăsineanu , Romanian footballer
1976 –
Tony Grant , Irish footballer
1976 –
Kristen Miller , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1976 –
Marcel Podszus , German footballer
1976 –
Fabio Ulloa , Honduran footballer
1977 –
Paolo Bianco , Italian footballer
1977 –
Wayne Brown , English footballer
1977 –
Felipe Contepomi , Argentine rugby player, coach, and physician
1977 –
Manuel Contepomi , Argentine rugby player
1977 –
Shockmain Davis , American football player
1977 –
Stéphane Gillet , Luxembourgian footballer
1977 –
Aaron Hamill , Australian footballer and coach
1977 –
Ívar Ingimarsson , Icelandic footballer
1977 –
James Ormond , English cricketer
1977 –
Josh Pearce , American baseball player
1977 –
Aaron Taylor , American baseball player
1978 –
Alberto Martín , Spanish tennis player
1978 –
Emir Mkademi , Tunisian footballer
1978 –
Chris Schroder , American baseball player
1979 –
Sarah Borwell , English tennis player
1979 –
Jamie Cullum , English singer-songwriter and pianist
1979 –
Cory Sullivan , American baseball player
1981 –
Ben Barnes , English actor
[30]
1981 –
Brett Finch , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1981 –
Artur Kotenko , Estonian footballer
1981 –
Bernard Mendy , French footballer
1981 –
Craig Ochs , American football player
1981 –
Byron Saxton , American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster
1982 –
Cléber Luis Alberti , Brazilian footballer
1982 –
Aleksandr Amisulashvili , Georgian footballer
1982 –
Monty Dumond , South African rugby player
1982 –
Youssouf Hersi , Ethiopian footballer
1982 –
Joshua Kennedy , Australian footballer
1982 –
Mijaín López , Cuban wrestler
1982 –
Meghan Ory , Canadian actress
[30]
1982 –
Richard Petiot , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 –
Barney Rogers , Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 –
Enyelbert Soto , Venezuelan-Japanese baseball player
1983 –
Hamza Abdullah , American football player
1983 –
Paulo André Cren Benini , Brazilian footballer
1983 –
Andrew Garfield , American-English actor
[30]
1983 –
Héctor Landazuri , Colombian footballer
1983 –
Mladen Pelaić , Croatian footballer
1983 –
Brian Schaefering , American football player
1983 –
Yuri Zhirkov , Russian footballer
1984 –
Aílton José Almeida , Brazilian footballer
1984 –
Pavel Eismann , Czech footballer
1984 –
Laura Georges , French footballer
1984 –
Jamie Hoffmann , American baseball player
1984 –
Ingrid Lukas , Estonian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist
1985 –
Brant Daugherty , American actor
[30]
1985 –
Glen Buttriss , Australian rugby league player
1985 –
Blake DeWitt , American baseball player
1985 –
Thomas Domingo , French rugby player
1985 –
Matt Hague , American baseball player
1985 –
Jack King , English footballer
1985 –
Álvaro Negredo , Spanish footballer
1985 –
Willie Ripia , New Zealand rugby player
1985 –
Joe Vitale , American ice hockey player
1985 –
Stephen Ward , Irish footballer
1985 –
Mark Washington , American football player
1986 –
Andrew Surman , South African-English footballer
1986 –
Steven Zalewski , American ice hockey player
1987 –
Stefan Aigner , German footballer
1987 –
Gunther , Austrian wrestler
[33]
1987 –
Manny Jacinto , Canadian actor
[20]
1987 –
Vedran Janjetović , Croatian-Australian footballer
1987 –
Sido Jombati , Portuguese footballer
1987 –
Egon Kaur , Estonian race car driver
1988 –
Jerryd Bayless , American basketball player
1988 –
Sarah R, Lotfi , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1988 –
José Zamora , Spanish footballer
1989 –
Kirko Bangz , American rapper and producer
1989 –
Nebil Gahwagi , Hungarian footballer
1989 –
Silas Kiplagat , Kenyan runner
1989 –
Slavcho Shokolarov , Bulgarian footballer
1989 –
Judd Trump , English snooker player
1989 –
Dean Winnard , English footballer
1990 –
Macauley Chrisantus , Nigerian footballer
1990 –
Culoe De Song , South African music producer and DJ
1990 –
Venelin Filipov , Bulgarian footballer
1990 –
Leigh Griffiths , Scottish footballer
1990 –
Fabien Jarsalé , French footballer
1990 –
Bradley Klahn , American tennis player
1990 –
Ranomi Kromowidjojo , Dutch swimmer
[34]
1991 –
Marko Djokovic , Serbian tennis player
1991 –
Jyrki Jokipakka , Finnish hockey player
1991 –
Cory Joseph , Canadian basketball player
[35]
1992 –
Matt Eisenhuth , Australian rugby league player
1992 –
Carolina Horta , Brazilian beach volleyball player
[36]
1992 –
Demi Lovato , American singer-songwriter and actress
[30]
1992 –
Alex Newell , American actor and singer
[20]
1992 –
Deniss Rakels , Latvian footballer
[37]
1992 –
Callum Skinner , Scottish track cyclist
[38]
1993 –
Tonisha Rock-Yaw , Barbadian netball player
[39]
1994 –
Mitchell Trubisky , American football player
[40]
1995 –
Liana Liberato , American actress
[20]
1996 –
Bunty Afoa , New Zealand rugby league player
[41]
1997 –
Daniel Vladař , Czech ice hockey player
[42]
1998 –
Lieke Klaver , Dutch athlete
[43]
2003 –
Prince Gabriel of Belgium
[44]
Deaths
Pre-1600
AD 14 –
Agrippa Postumus , Roman son of
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (b. 12 BC)
535 –
Mochta , Irish missionary and saint
651 –
Oswine of Deira
768 –
Eadberht of Northumbria
917 –
Constantine Lips ,
Byzantine admiral
984 –
Pope John XIV
1153 –
Bernard of Clairvaux , French theologian and saint (b. 1090)
1158 –
Rögnvald Kali Kolsson (b. 1100), Earl of Orkney and Saint
1297 –
William Fraser , bishop and Guardian of Scotland
1348 –
Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1319)
1384 –
Geert Groote , Dutch preacher, founded the
Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
1386 –
Bo Jonsson , royal marshal of Sweden
1471 –
Borso d'Este , Duke of Ferrara (b. 1413)
1528 –
Georg von Frundsberg , German knight and landowner (b. 1473)
1572 –
Miguel López de Legazpi , Spanish navigator and politician, 1st
Governor-General of the Philippines (b. 1502)
1580 –
Jerónimo Osório , Portuguese historian and author (b. 1506)
1601–1900
1611 –
Tomás Luis de Victoria , Spanish priest and composer (b. 1548)
1639 –
Martin Opitz , German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1597)
1648 –
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury , English soldier and diplomat (b. 1583)
1651 –
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki , Polish nobleman (b. 1612)
1672 –
Cornelis de Witt , Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1623)
1672 –
Johan de Witt , Dutch mathematician and politician (b. 1625)
1680 –
William Bedloe , English spy (b. 1650)
1701 –
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet , English playwright and politician (b. 1639)
1707 –
Nicolas Gigault , French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 –
Enrique Flórez , Spanish historian and author (b. 1701)
1785 –
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , French sculptor (b. 1714)
1823 –
Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
1825 –
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock , English admiral and politician,
Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1835 –
Agnes Bulmer , English merchant and poet (b. 1775)
1854 –
Shiranui Dakuemon , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th
Yokozuna (b. 1801)
1859 –
Juan Bautista Ceballos , President of Mexico (1853) (b. 1811)
[45]
1882 –
James Whyte , Scottish-Australian politician, 6th
Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
1887 –
Jules Laforgue , French poet and author (b. 1860)
1893 –
Alexander Wassilko von Serecki , Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
1897 –
Charles Lilley , English-Australian politician, 4th
Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
1901–present
1912 –
William Booth , English preacher, co-founded
The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1914 –
Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
1915 –
Paul Ehrlich , German physician and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1917 –
Adolf von Baeyer , German chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
1919 –
Greg MacGregor , Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
1930 –
Charles Bannerman , Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
1936 –
Edward Weston , English-American chemist (b. 1850)
1939 –
Agnes Giberne , Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
1942 –
István Horthy , Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
1943 –
William Irvine , Irish-Australian politician, 21st
Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
1949 –
Ragnhild Kaarbø , Norwegian painter (b. 1889)
[46]
1951 –
İzzettin Çalışlar , Turkish general (b. 1882)
1961 –
Percy Williams Bridgman , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
1963 –
Joan Voûte , Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
1965 –
Jonathan Daniels , American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
1971 –
Rashid Minhas , Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
1976 –
Vera Lutz , British economist (b. 1912)
[47]
1979 –
Christian Dotremont , Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
1980 –
Joe Dassin , American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
1981 –
Michael Devine ,
Irish Republican Hunger Striker
[48]
1982 –
Ulla Jacobsson , Swedish actress (b. 1929)
1985 –
Donald O. Hebb , Canadian psychologist and academic (b. 1904)
1985 –
Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken , German admiral (b. 1897)
1986 –
Milton Acorn , Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1923)
1987 –
Walenty Kłyszejko , Estonian–Polish basketball player and coach (b. 1909)
1993 –
Bernard Delfgaauw , Dutch philosopher and academic (b. 1912)
1995 –
Hugo Pratt , Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
1996 –
Rio Reiser , German singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
1997 –
Norris Bradbury , American soldier, physicist, and academic (b. 1909)
1997 –
Léon Dion , Canadian political scientist and academic (b. 1922)
1998 –
Vũ Văn Mẫu , 10th and final
Prime Minister of South Vietnam (b. 1914)
[49]
2001 –
Fred Hoyle , English astronomer and author (b. 1915)
2001 –
Kim Stanley , American actress (b. 1925)
2005 –
Thomas Herrion , American football player (b. 1981)
2005 –
Krzysztof Raczkowski , Polish drummer and songwriter (b. 1970)
2006 –
Bryan Budd , Northern Ireland-born English soldier,
Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1977)
2006 –
Joe Rosenthal , American photographer and journalist (b. 1911)
2006 –
S. Sivamaharajah , Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1938)
2007 –
Leona Helmsley , American businesswoman (b. 1920)
[50]
2008 –
Ed Freeman , American soldier and pilot,
Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
2008 –
Hua Guofeng , Chinese politician, 2nd
Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1921)
2008 –
Stephanie Tubbs Jones , American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2008 –
Gene Upshaw , American football player (b. 1945)
2009 –
Larry Knechtel , American keyboardist and bass player (b. 1940)
2009 –
Karla Kuskin , American author and illustrator (b. 1932)
2010 –
Đặng Phong , Vietnamese economist and historian (b. 1937)
2011 –
Ram Sharan Sharma , Indian historian and academic (b. 1919)
2012 –
Phyllis Diller , American actress and comedian (b. 1917)
2012 –
Daryl Hine , Canadian-American poet and academic (b. 1936)
2012 –
Dom Mintoff , Maltese journalist and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916)
2012 –
Len Quested , English footballer and manager (b. 1925)
2012 –
Mika Yamamoto , Japanese journalist (b. 1967)
2012 –
Meles Zenawi , Ethiopian soldier and politician,
Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
2013 –
Sathima Bea Benjamin , South African singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2013 –
Narendra Dabholkar , Indian author and activist (b. 1945)
2013 –
Don Hassler , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1929)
2013 –
Elmore Leonard , American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 –
Marian McPartland , English-American pianist and composer (b. 1918)
2013 –
John W. Morris , American general (b. 1921)
2013 –
Ted Post , American director and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2014 –
Anton Buslov , Russian astrophysicist and journalist (b. 1983)
2014 –
Lois Mai Chan , Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (b. 1934)
2014 –
Boris Dubin , Russian sociologist and academic (b. 1946)
2014 –
B. K. S. Iyengar , Indian yoga instructor and author, founded
Iyengar Yoga (b. 1918)
2014 –
Buddy MacMaster , Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1924)
2014 –
Sava Stojkov , Serbian painter and educator (b. 1925)
2014 –
Edmund Szoka , American cardinal (b. 1927)
2015 –
Egon Bahr , German journalist and politician,
Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (b. 1922)
2015 –
Paul Kibblewhite , New Zealand chemist and engineer (b. 1941)
2015 –
Frank Wilkes , Australian soldier and politician (b. 1922)
2017 –
Jerry Lewis , American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
2018 –
Uri Avnery , Israeli writer, politician and peace activist (b. 1923)
[51]
2018 –
Jennifer Ramírez Rivero , Venezuelan model (b. 1978)
[52]
2021 –
Igor Vovkovinskiy , Ukrainian-American law student and actor, American tallest person (b. 1982)
[53]
2022 –
Darya Dugina , Russian journalist (b. 1992)
[54]
Holidays and observances
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