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Events

• 392 - Arbogast (general) has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
• 565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
• 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field death of Richard III and end of the House of Plantagenet.
• 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spain archbishop, is arrested for Christian heresy.
• 1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
• 1642 - Charles I of England calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.
• 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Judaism Immigration to America.
• 1717 - Spain troops land on Sardinia.
• 1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
• 1775 - George III of the United Kingdom declares the Thirteen Colonies to be in open rebellion.
• 1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution (Cook) returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
• 1798 - France troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Theobald Wolfe Tone Society of the United Irishmen Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• 1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
• 1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
• 1848 - United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1849 - First Air Raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
• 1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America (yacht).
• 1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Conventions. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is formed.
• 1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded.
• 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
• 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
• 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, Briton and Germany troops clash for the first time in the war.
• 1922 - Michael Collins (Irish leader), Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
• 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. See also Timeline of the BBC#1930s
• 1941 - World War II: Germany troops reach Saint Petersburg, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
• 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers of World War II powers (Germany, Italy and Japan).
• 1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French people Maquis (World War II) tackle a Germany column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
• 1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black Competition in international tennis.
• 1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1955 - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in Spring City, Tennessee.
• 1962 - An attempt to assassinate France president Charles de Gaulle fails.
• 1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first Nuclear marine propulsion cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
• 1963 - Joseph A. Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
• 1964 - Match Of The Day hits the air on BBC Two.
• 1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• 1971 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
• 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.
• 1978 - The Sandinista National Liberation Front or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1988 - The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala.
• 1989 - The first planetary ring of Neptune is discovered.
• 1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
• 1991 - Trish Keogh was born.
• 1992 - Federal Bureau of Investigation Hostage Rescue Team sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
• 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna (Edvard Munch), two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2006 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.
• 2007 - The Texas Rangers (baseball) rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.

Births

• 1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
• 1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
• 1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
• 1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
• 1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
• 1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
• 1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
• 1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
• 1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
• 1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
• 1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
• 1811 - William Kelly (inventor), American inventor (d. 1888)
• 1822 - Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
• 1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
• 1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
• 1836 - Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
• 1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
• 1854 - Milan Obrenović IV, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
• 1860 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
• 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
• 1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
• 1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• 1880 - Gorch Fock (author), German author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1887 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
• 1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-born American sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
• 1893 - Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
• 1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
• 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
• 1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
• 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
• 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
• 1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1909 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1909 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
• 1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
• 1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
• 1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
• 1915 - Edward Szczepanik, former Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
• 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
• 1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
• 1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
• 1922 - Micheline Presle, French actress
• 1925 - James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
• 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
• 1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
• 1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
• 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., U.S. general
• 1934 - Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
• 1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
• 1936 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
• 1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
• 1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
• 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
• 1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
• 1940 - Bill McCartney, former college football coach
• 1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
• 1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese people computer scientist
• 1945 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
• 1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist, electrical engineer and applied mathematician
• 1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
• 1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
• 1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
• 1949 - Diana Nyad, American swimmer, world record holder
• 1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
• 1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, an Icelandic writer
• 1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan Rwandan Genocide
• 1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
• 1952 - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
• 1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
• 1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
• 1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu films film actor
• 1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
• 1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
• 1958 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
• 1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
• 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
• 1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
• 1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
• 1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
• 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles)
• 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
• 1963 - Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
• 1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
• 1966 - GZA, American rapper
• 1966 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
• 1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
• 1967 - Ant (comedian), American comedian
• 1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
• 1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
• 1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
• 1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
• 1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 - Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player
• 1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
• 1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television host
• 1971 - Richard Armitage (actor), English actor
• 1971 - Rick Yune, Korean American actor
• 1972 - Steve Kline (baseball), baseball player
• 1972 - Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
• 1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
• 1974 - Brimstone (wrestler), American professional wrestler
• 1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
• 1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarman
• 1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
• 1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
• 1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1977 - Keren Cytter, artist, filmmaker, and writer
• 1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
• 1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
• 1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
• 1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, Quebec 100m sprinter
• 1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
• 1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress

Deaths

• 408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
• 1155 - Emperor Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
• 1188 - Ferdinand II of Leon, King of Leon (b. 1137)
• 1241 - Pope Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)
• 1280 - Pope Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)
• 1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
• 1350 - Philip VI of France, King of France (b. 1293)
• 1485 - Richard III of England, King of England (b. 1452)
• 1553 - John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
• 1572 - Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
• 1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
• 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
• 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
• 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
• 1609 - Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
• 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
• 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
• 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
• 1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
• 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
• 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
• 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
• 1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
• 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
• 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
• 1861 - Xianfeng Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
• 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo
• 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
• 1922 - Michael Collins (Irish leader), Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
• 1926 - Charles William Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
• 1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)
• 1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
• 1950 - Kirk Bryan (American Geologist), American geologist (b. 1888)
• 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1965 - Ellen Church, First American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
• 1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
• 1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian Formalists scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
• 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
• 1977 - Sebastian Cabot (actor), English-born actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
• 1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
• 1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
• 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
• 1994 - Gilles Groulx, French Canadian film director (b. 1931)
• 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
• 2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
• 2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
• 2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (b. 1920)
• 2004 - Al Dvorin, American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.1923)
• 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of saints - Mary Queen of angels, Immaculate Heart of Mary

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 392 - Arbogast (general) has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
• 565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
• 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field death of Richard III and end of the House of Plantagenet.
• 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spain archbishop, is arrested for Christian heresy.
• 1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
• 1642 - Charles I of England calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.
• 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Judaism Immigration to America.
• 1717 - Spain troops land on Sardinia.
• 1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
• 1775 - George III of the United Kingdom declares the Thirteen Colonies to be in open rebellion.
• 1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution (Cook) returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
• 1798 - France troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Theobald Wolfe Tone Society of the United Irishmen Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• 1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
• 1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
• 1848 - United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1849 - First Air Raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
• 1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America (yacht).
• 1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Conventions. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is formed.
• 1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded.
• 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
• 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
• 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, Briton and Germany troops clash for the first time in the war.
• 1922 - Michael Collins (Irish leader), Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
• 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. See also Timeline of the BBC#1930s
• 1941 - World War II: Germany troops reach Saint Petersburg, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
• 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers of World War II powers (Germany, Italy and Japan).
• 1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French people Maquis (World War II) tackle a Germany column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
• 1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black Competition in international tennis.
• 1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1955 - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in Spring City, Tennessee.
• 1962 - An attempt to assassinate France president Charles de Gaulle fails.
• 1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first Nuclear marine propulsion cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
• 1963 - Joseph A. Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
• 1964 - Match Of The Day hits the air on BBC Two.
• 1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• 1971 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
• 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.
• 1978 - The Sandinista National Liberation Front or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1988 - The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala.
• 1989 - The first planetary ring of Neptune is discovered.
• 1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
• 1991 - Trish Keogh was born.
• 1992 - Federal Bureau of Investigation Hostage Rescue Team sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
• 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna (Edvard Munch), two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2006 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.
• 2007 - The Texas Rangers (baseball) rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.

Births

• 1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
• 1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
• 1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
• 1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
• 1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
• 1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
• 1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
• 1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
• 1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
• 1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
• 1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
• 1811 - William Kelly (inventor), American inventor (d. 1888)
• 1822 - Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
• 1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
• 1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
• 1836 - Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
• 1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
• 1854 - Milan Obrenović IV, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
• 1860 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
• 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
• 1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
• 1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• 1880 - Gorch Fock (author), German author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1887 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
• 1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-born American sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
• 1893 - Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
• 1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
• 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
• 1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
• 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
• 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
• 1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1909 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1909 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
• 1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
• 1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
• 1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
• 1915 - Edward Szczepanik, former Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
• 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
• 1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
• 1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
• 1922 - Micheline Presle, French actress
• 1925 - James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
• 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
• 1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
• 1932 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
• 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., U.S. general
• 1934 - Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
• 1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
• 1936 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
• 1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
• 1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
• 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
• 1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
• 1940 - Bill McCartney, former college football coach
• 1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
• 1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese people computer scientist
• 1945 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
• 1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist, electrical engineer and applied mathematician
• 1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
• 1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
• 1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
• 1949 - Diana Nyad, American swimmer, world record holder
• 1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
• 1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, an Icelandic writer
• 1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan Rwandan Genocide
• 1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
• 1952 - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
• 1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
• 1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
• 1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu films film actor
• 1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
• 1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
• 1958 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
• 1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
• 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
• 1959 - Juan Croucier, American musician
• 1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
• 1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
• 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles)
• 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
• 1963 - Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
• 1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
• 1966 - GZA, American rapper
• 1966 - Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
• 1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
• 1967 - Ant (comedian), American comedian
• 1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
• 1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
• 1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
• 1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
• 1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 - Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player
• 1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
• 1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television host
• 1971 - Richard Armitage (actor), English actor
• 1971 - Rick Yune, Korean American actor
• 1972 - Steve Kline (baseball), baseball player
• 1972 - Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
• 1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
• 1974 - Brimstone (wrestler), American professional wrestler
• 1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
• 1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarman
• 1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
• 1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
• 1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1977 - Keren Cytter, artist, filmmaker, and writer
• 1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
• 1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
• 1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
• 1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, Quebec 100m sprinter
• 1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
• 1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress

Deaths

• 408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
• 1155 - Emperor Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
• 1188 - Ferdinand II of Leon, King of Leon (b. 1137)
• 1241 - Pope Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143)
• 1280 - Pope Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216)
• 1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
• 1350 - Philip VI of France, King of France (b. 1293)
• 1485 - Richard III of England, King of England (b. 1452)
• 1553 - John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
• 1572 - Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
• 1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
• 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
• 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
• 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
• 1609 - Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
• 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
• 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
• 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
• 1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
• 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
• 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
• 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
• 1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
• 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
• 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
• 1861 - Xianfeng Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
• 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo
• 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
• 1922 - Michael Collins (Irish leader), Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
• 1926 - Charles William Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
• 1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851)
• 1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
• 1950 - Kirk Bryan (American Geologist), American geologist (b. 1888)
• 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1965 - Ellen Church, First American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
• 1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
• 1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian Formalists scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
• 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
• 1977 - Sebastian Cabot (actor), English-born actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. 1892)
• 1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
• 1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
• 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
• 1994 - Gilles Groulx, French Canadian film director (b. 1931)
• 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
• 2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
• 2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
• 2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (b. 1920)
• 2004 - Al Dvorin, American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.1923)
• 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of saints - Mary Queen of angels, Immaculate Heart of Mary

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

August 22 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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