August 29
Day of the year
August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 124 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date : August 10, 708).870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege , putting an end to Byzantine Malta .[ 1] 1009 – Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration .1219 – The Battle of Fariskur occurs during the Fifth Crusade .[ 2] 1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV , becoming the 182nd pope.1315 – Battle of Montecatini : The army of the Republic of Pisa , commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola , wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.[ 3] 1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer ): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.[ 4] 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV .1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to the Kingdom of Portugal .1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).1526 – Battle of Mohács : The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia .1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda , the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom .1588 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ordinance , disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the samurai [ 5]
1604 – The Guru Granth Sahib is fully compiled and completed by Guru Arjan .[ 6] 1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss .1741 – The eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami : At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima .[ 7] 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony , beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.1758 – The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation , at Indian Mills, New Jersey , for the Lenape .1778 – American Revolutionary War : British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island .1779 – American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown .[ 8] 1786 – Shays' Rebellion , an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge .1825 – Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro , which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian war of independence . The treaty will be ratified by the King of Portugal three months later.[ 9] 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction .1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War .1861 – American Civil War : The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound .1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway .1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date : July 14, 1871).1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded in Akron, Ohio .
1903 – The Slava Borodino -class battleships1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 , also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.1911 – Ishi , considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California .1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy .[ 10]
1912 – A typhoon strikes China , killing at least 50,000 people.[ 11] 1914 – World War I : Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne .1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4 submarine sunk in an accident.1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act .1918 – World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive .1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.1941 – World War II : Tallinn , the capital of Estonia , is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union .1943 – World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy ; Germany dissolves the Danish government.1944 – World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis .1948 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin , killing all 37 aboard.[ 12] 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project : The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb , known as First Lightning Joe 1 , at Semipalatinsk , Kazakhstan .1950 – Korean War : British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence.1952 – American experimental composer John Cage ’s 4’33” Maverick Concert Hall , played by American pianist David Tudor .[ 13] 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado .1960 – Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to Yoff Airport in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.[ 14] 1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth , landing in the Atlantic Ocean.1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco .1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser .
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War , East Los Angeles, California . Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar .1975 – El Tacnazo : Francisco Morales Bermúdez , Peruvian Prime Minister carries out a coup d’état in the city of Tacna , forcing the sitting President of Peru , Juan Velasco Alvarado , to resign and assuming his place as the new President .[ 15] 1982 – Meitnerium , a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt , Germany.1987 – Odaeyang mass suicide : Thirty-three individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin , South Korea . Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact.[ 16] 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party .1991 – Libero Grassi , an Italian businessman from Palermo , is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 , a Tupolev Tu-154 , crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen , killing all 141 aboard.1997 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre , Algeria .
1998 – Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito , Ecuador .[ 17] 2001 – Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport .[ 18] 2003 – Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim , the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq , is assassinated in a terrorist bombing , along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf .2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle , killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage .2012 – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine , located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province .2012 – The XIV Paralympic Games open in London , England , United Kingdom .[ 19]
2020 – 2020 Women's FA Community Shield .[ 20] [ 21] 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War : Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast , eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson .[ 22] [ 23]
Births
Pre-1600
1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1683)1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1701)1632 – John Locke , English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti , Italian poet and author (d. 1803)1725 – Charles Townshend , English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1767)1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony , electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)1756 – Jan Śniadecki , Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)1756 – Count Heinrich von Bellegarde , Austrian general and politician (d. 1845)1772 – James Finlayson , Scottish Quaker (d. 1852)[ 24] 1777 – Hyacinth , Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (d. 1853)1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , French painter and illustrator (d. 1867)1792 – Charles Grandison Finney , American minister and author (d. 1875)1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice , English priest, theologian, and author (d. 1872)1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , American physician and author (d. 1894)1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi , Argentine theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)1813 – Henry Bergh , American activist, founded the ASPCA (d. 1888)[ 25] 1842 – Alfred Shaw , English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (d. 1907)1843 – David B. Hill , American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)1844 – Edward Carpenter , English anthologist and poet (d. 1929)1854 – William C. White , American Seventh-day Adventist Church minister (d. 1937)[ 26] 1857 – Sandford Schultz , English cricketer (d. 1937)1861 – Byron G. Harlan , American singer (d. 1936)1862 – Andrew Fisher , Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1871 – Albert François Lebrun , French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (d. 1950)1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo , Italian flute player and educator (d. 1962)1876 – Charles F. Kettering , American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)1876 – Kim Koo , South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1879 – Han Yong-un , Korean independence activist, reformer, and poet (d. 1944)[ 27] 1887 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta , Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)1888 – Salme Dutt , Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)1890 – Peder Furubotn , Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d. 1975)1891 – Marquis James , American journalist and author (d. 1955)1898 – Preston Sturges , American director and producer (d. 1959)
1901 – Aurèle Joliat , Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1986)1904 – Werner Forssmann , German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)1905 – Dhyan Chand , Indian field hockey player (d. 1979)1905 – Arndt Pekurinen , Finnish activist (d. 1941)
1910 – Vivien Thomas , American surgeon and academic (d. 1985)[ 28] 1911 – John Charnley , British orthopedic surgeon (d. 1982)1912 – Sohn Kee-chung , South Korean runner (d. 2002)1912 – Barry Sullivan , American actor (d. 1994)
1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky , Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (d. 2016)
1913 – Len Butterfield , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)1913 – Jackie Mitchell , American baseball pitcher (d. 1987)[ 29] 1915 – Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (d. 1982)[ 30] 1915 – Nathan Pritikin , American nutritionist and author (d. 1985)
1916 – Luther Davis , American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008)1917 – Isabel Sanford , American actress (d. 2004)[ 30] 1920 – Otis Boykin , American inventor and engineer (d. 1982)[ 31] [ 32] 1920 – Charlie Parker , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)[ 30]
1920 – Herb Simpson , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1921 – Iris Apfel , American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (d. 2024)[ 33] 1922 – Arthur Anderson , American actor (d. 2016)1922 – Richard Blackwell , American actor, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
1922 – John Edward Williams , American author and educator (d. 1994)
1923 – Richard Attenborough , English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)[ 30] 1924 – Dinah Washington , American singer and pianist (d. 1963)[ 30] 1926 – Helene Ahrweiler , Greek historian and academic1926 – René Depestre , Haitian writer[ 34]
1926 – Donn Fendler , American author and speaker (d. 2016)
1926 – Betty Lynn , American actress (d. 2021)
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)1928 – Herbert Meier , Swiss author and translator (d. 2018)1929 – Thom Gunn , English-American poet and academic (d. 2004)1930 – Jacques Bouchard , Canadian businessman (d. 2006)1930 – Carlos Loyzaga , Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis , Greek singer and guitarist (d. 2001)1931 – Lise Payette , Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2018)
1933 – Sorel Etrog , Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (d. 2014)1933 – Arnold Koller , Swiss politician
1934 – Dimitris Papamichael , Greek actor and director (d. 2004)1935 – Hugo Brandt Corstius , Dutch linguist and author (d. 2014)1935 – William Friedkin , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)[ 35]
1935 – László Garai , Hungarian psychologist and scholar (d. 2019)
1936 – John McCain , American captain and politician (d. 2018)[ 30] 1937 – James Florio , American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey (d. 2022)1938 – Elliott Gould , American actor and producer[ 36] 1938 – Angela Huth , English journalist and author
1938 – Christian Müller , German footballer and manager
1938 – Robert Rubin , American lawyer and politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek , Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter (d. 2022)1939 – Joel Schumacher , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1940 – James Brady , American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)1940 – Gary Gabelich , American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 – Robin Leach , English journalist and television host (d. 2018)[ 30] 1942 – James Glennon , American cinematographer (d. 2006)1942 – Gottfried John , German actor (d. 2014)
1942 – Sterling Morrison , American singer and guitarist (d. 1995)[ 37]
1943 – Mohamed Amin , Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)1943 – Dick Halligan , American pianist and composer (d. 2022)
1943 – Arthur B. McDonald , Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Chris Copping , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1945 – Wyomia Tyus , American sprinter
1946 – Bob Beamon , American long jumper1946 – Francine D. Blau , American economist and academic
1946 – Demetris Christofias , Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus (d. 2019)
1946 – Warren Jabali , American basketball player (d. 2012)[ 38]
1946 – Giorgio Orsoni , Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
1947 – Temple Grandin , American ethologist, academic, and author[ 30] 1947 – James Hunt , English race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1948 – Robert S. Langer , American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and academic1949 – Stan Hansen , American wrestler and actor1949 – Darnell Hillman , American basketball player[ 39]
1950 – Doug DeCinces , American baseball player1950 – Frank Henenlotter , American director and screenwriter
1950 – Dave Reichert , American soldier and politician
1950 – Aki Yashiro , Japanese singer (d. 2023)[ 40]
1951 – Geoff Whitehorn , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1952 – Karen Hesse , American author and poet1952 – Dave Malone , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Don Schlitz , American Hall of Fame country music songwriter
1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh , American actress[ 36]
1953 – David Boaz , American businessman and author1953 – Richard Harding , English rugby player
1953 – James Quesada , Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell , American journalist, author, and academic1955 – Diamanda Galás , American singer-songwriter and pianist1955 – Jack Lew , American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
1956 – Mark Morris , American dancer and choreographer1956 – Eddie Murray , American football player
1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos , Greek footballer
1956 – Steve Yarbrough , American novelist and short story writer
1957 – Jerry D. Bailey , American jockey and sportscaster1957 – Grzegorz Ciechowski , Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer (d. 2001)
1958 – Lenny Henry , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter1958 – Michael Jackson , American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor from The Jackson 5 (d. 2009)[ 41]
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay , American actress[ 36] 1959 – Ramón Díaz , Argentine footballer and manager
1959 – Ray Elgaard , Canadian football player
1959 – Chris Hadfield , Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut[ 30]
1959 – Eddi Reader , Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Timothy Shriver , American businessman and activist
1959 – Stephen Wolfram , English-American physicist and mathematician
1959 – Nagarjuna , Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
1960 – Todd English , American chef and author1960 – Tony MacAlpine , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1961 – Carsten Fischer , German field hockey player1961 – Rodney McCray , American basketball player
1962 – Carl Banks , American football player and sportscaster1962 – Hiroki Kikuta , Japanese game designer and composer
1962 – Ian James Corlett , Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author
1962 – Simon Thurley , English historian and academic
1962 – Richard Angelo , American serial killer and poisoner[ 42]
1963 – Elizabeth Fraser , Scottish singer-songwriter1964 – Perri "Pebbles" Reid , American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer-songwriter1964 – Zisis Tsekos , Greek footballer
1965 – Will Perdue , American basketball player and sportscaster1965 – Geir-Inge Sivertsen , Norwegian politician and engineer, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood [ 43]
1966 – Jörn Großkopf , German footballer and manager1967 – Neil Gorsuch , American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1967 – Anton Newcombe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello , German-American singer-songwriter1969 – Joe Swail , Northern Irish snooker player1969 – Jennifer Crittenden , American screenwriter and producer
1969 – Lucero , Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host[ 44]
1971 – Henry Blanco , Venezuelan baseball player and coach1971 – Alex Griffin , English bass player
1971 – Carla Gugino , American actress[ 36]
1972 – Amanda Marshall , Canadian singer-songwriter1972 – Bae Yong-joon , South Korean actor
1973 – Vincent Cavanagh , English singer and guitarist1973 – Olivier Jacque , French motorcycle racer
1974 – Kumi Tanioka , Japanese keyboard player and composer1975 – Dante Basco , American actor[ 30] 1975 – Kyle Cook , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 36]
1976 – Stephen Carr , Irish footballer1976 – Phil Harvey , English manager[ 45]
1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn , American football player
1976 – Georgios Kalaitzis , Greek basketball player
1976 – Pablo Mastroeni , Argentine-American soccer player and manager
1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson , Danish footballer and manager
1977 – Cayetano , Greek DJ and producer1977 – Devean George , American basketball player
1977 – John Hensley , American actor[ 36]
1977 – John Patrick O'Brien , American soccer player
1977 – Roy Oswalt , American baseball player
1977 – Charlie Pickering , Australian comedian and radio host
1977 – Aaron Rowand , American baseball player and sportscaster
1978 – Volkan Arslan , German-Turkish footballer1978 – Celestine Babayaro , Nigerian footballer
1979 – Stijn Devolder , Belgian cyclist1979 – Kristjan Rahnu , Estonian decathlete
1979 – Ryan Shealy , American baseball player
1980 – Chris Simms , American football player1980 – David West , American basketball player
1981 – Martin Erat , Czech ice hockey player1981 – Geneviève Jeanson , Canadian cyclist
1981 – Jay Ryan , New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
1982 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood , Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)1982 – Carlos Delfino , Argentine-Italian basketball player
1982 – Yakhouba Diawara , French basketball player[ 46]
1982 – Vincent Enyeama , Nigerian footballer
1983 – Jennifer Landon , American actress[ 36] 1983 – Antti Niemi , Finnish ice hockey player
1983 – Anthony Recker , American baseball player[ 47]
1986 – Hajime Isayama , Japanese illustrator1986 – Lea Michele , American actress and singer[ 36]
1987 – Tony Kane , Irish footballer1989 – Charlotte Ritchie , English actress[ 36] 1990 – Jakub Kosecki , Polish footballer1990 – Chris Taylor , American baseball player[ 48]
1990 – Patrick van Aanholt , Dutch footballer
1991 – Néstor Araujo , Mexican footballer1991 – Deshaun Thomas , American basketball player
1992 – Mallu Magalhães , Brazilian singer-songwriter1992 – Noah Syndergaard , American baseball player
1993 – Lucas Cruikshank , American YouTuber and actor[ 49] 1993 – Liam Payne , English singer-songwriter from One Direction (d. 2024)[ 50] [ 51]
1994 – Ysaline Bonaventure , Belgian tennis player[ 52] 1996 – Daryll Neita , British sprinter[ 53]
Deaths
Pre-1600
886 – Basil I , Byzantine emperor (b. 811)892 – Theodora of Thessaloniki , Byzantine nun and saint (b. 812)[ 54] 939 – Wang Jipeng , Chinese emperor of Min939 – Li Chunyan , Chinese empress
956 – Fu the Elder , Chinese empress979 – Abu Taghlib , Hamdanid emir1021 – Minamoto no Yorimitsu , Japanese nobleman (b. 948)1046 – Gerard of Csanád Venetian monk and Hungarian bishop (b.980)[ 55] 1093 – Hugh I , duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)1123 – Eystein I , king of Norway (b. 1088)1135 – Al-Mustarshid , Abbasid caliph (b. 1092)1159 – Bertha of Sulzbach , Byzantine empress1298 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar , English princess (b. 1269)1315 – Peter Tempesta , Italian nobleman (b. 1291)1315 – Charles of Taranto , Italian nobleman (b. 1296)
1395 – Albert III , duke of Austria (b. 1349)1442 – John V , duke of Brittany (b. 1389)1499 – Alesso Baldovinetti , Florentine painter (b. 1427)1523 – Ulrich von Hutten , Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)1526 – Louis II , king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1506)1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
1533 – Atahualpa , Inca emperor (b. 1497)1542 – Cristóvão da Gama , Portuguese commander (b. 1516)
1604 – Hamida Banu Begum , Mughal empress (b. 1527)[ 56] 1657 – John Lilburne , English activist (b. 1614)1712 – Gregory King , English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)1749 – Matthias Bel , Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)1769 – Edmond Hoyle , English author and educator (b. 1672)1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot , French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)1799 – Pius VI , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1717)[ 57] 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice , Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , English author and activist (b. 1778)1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi , Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)1877 – Brigham Young , American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)1889 – Stefan Dunjov , Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)1891 – Pierre Lallement , French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)1892 – William Forbes Skene , Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
1904 – Murad V , Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)1911 – Mir Mahboob Ali Khan , 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b. 1866)[ 58] 1917 – George Huntington Hartford , American businessman (b. 1833)1930 – William Archibald Spooner , English priest and author (b. 1844)1931 – David T. Abercrombie , American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)1932 – Raymond Knister , Canadian poet and author (b. 1899)[ 59] 1944 – Attik , Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)1946 – Adolphus Busch III , American businessman (b. 1891)1946 – John Steuart Curry , American painter and academic (b. 1897)
1951 – Sydney Chapman , English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)1952 – Anton Piëch , Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)1958 – Marjorie Flack , American author and illustrator (b. 1897)[ 60] 1966 – Sayyid Qutb , Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III , American general (b. 1881)1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. , American murderer (b. 1904)1972 – Lale Andersen , German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)1975 – Éamon de Valera , Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)1977 – Jean Hagen , American actress (b. 1923)[ 61] 1977 – Brian McGuire , Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
1979 – Gertrude Chandler Warner , American author and educator (b. 1890)1981 – Lowell Thomas , American journalist and author (b. 1892)1982 – Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (b. 1915)1982 – Lehman Engel , American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1985 – Evelyn Ankers , British-American actress (b. 1918)1987 – Archie Campbell , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)1987 – Lee Marvin , American actor (b. 1924)
1989 – Peter Scott , English explorer and painter (b. 1909)1990 – Manly Palmer Hall , Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)1991 – Libero Grassi , Italian businessman (b. 1924)1992 – Félix Guattari , French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)1995 – Frank Perry , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)2000 – Shelagh Fraser , English actress (b. 1922)2000 – Willie Maddren , English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
2000 – Conrad Marca-Relli , American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
2001 – Graeme Strachan , Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (b. 1952)2001 – Francisco Rabal , Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2002 – Lance Macklin , English race car driver (b. 1919)2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim , Iraqi politician (b. 1939)2003 – Patrick Procktor , English painter and academic (b. 1936)
2004 – Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor (b. 1942)2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher , New Zealand businessman (b. 1914)2007 – Richard Jewell , American police officer (b. 1962)
2007 – Pierre Messmer , French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
2007 – Alfred Peet , Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2008 – Geoffrey Perkins , English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1953)2008 – Michael Schoenberg , American geophysicist and theorist (b. 1939)
2011 – Honeyboy Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)2011 – Junpei Takiguchi , Japanese voice actor (b. 1931)
2012 – Ruth Goldbloom , Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (b. 1923)2012 – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke , English historian and author (b. 1953)
2012 – Shoshichi Kobayashi , Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
2012 – Anne McKnight , American soprano (b. 1924)
2012 – Les Moss , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)
2012 – Sergei Ovchinnikov , Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969)
2013 – Joan L. Krajewski , American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)2013 – Medardo Joseph Mazombwe , Zambian cardinal (b. 1931)
2013 – Bruce C. Murray , American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931)
2014 – Octavio Brunetti , Argentine pianist and composer (b. 1975)2014 – Björn Waldegård , Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
2016 – Gene Wilder , American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933)2018 – James Mirrlees , Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)2018 – Paul Taylor , American choreographer (b. 1930)[ 62]
2021 – Ed Asner , American actor (b. 1929)[ 63] 2021 – Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936)[ 64]
2021 – Jacques Rogge , French orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942)[ 65]
2023 – Mike Enriquez , Filipino broadcaster (b. 1951)[ 66] 2024 – Johnny Gaudreau , American ice hockey player (b. 1993)[ 67]
Holidays and observances
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