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August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar; 136 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

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Pre-1600

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310 –Pope Eusebius dies, possibly from ahunger strike, shortly after being banished by the EmperorMaxentius toSicily.
682 –Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.^[1]
986 –Byzantine–Bulgarian wars:Battle of the Gates of Trajan: TheBulgarians under theComitopuli Samuel andAron defeat theByzantine forces at theGate of Trajan, withByzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
1186 –Georgenberg Pact:Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria andLeopold V, Duke of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his sonFrederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided.
1386 –Karl Topia, the ruler ofPrincedom of Albania forges an alliance with theRepublic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against theOttomans in return.
1424 –Hundred Years' War:Battle of Verneuil: An English force underJohn, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army underJean II, Duke of Alençon,John Stewart, andEarl Archibald of Douglas.
1488 –Konrad Bitz, theBishop of Turku, marks the date of his preface toMissale Aboense, the oldest known book ofFinland.^[2]
1498 –Cesare Borgia, son ofPope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign thecardinalate; later that same day, KingLouis XII of France names himDuke of Valentinois.
1549 –Battle of Sampford Courtenay: ThePrayer Book Rebellion is quashed inEngland.
1560 – TheCatholic Church is overthrown andProtestantism isestablished as the national religion inScotland.
1585 –Eighty Years' War:Siege of Antwerp:Antwerp is captured bySpanish forces underAlexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who ordersProtestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to thenorthern provinces.
1585 – A first group of colonists sent bySir Walter Raleigh under the charge ofRalph Lane lands in theNew World to createRoanoke Colony onRoanoke Island, off the coast of present-dayNorth Carolina.
1597 –Islands Voyage:Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and SirWalter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to theAzores.

1601–1900

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1668 – The magnitude 8.0North Anatolia earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in northernAnatolia,Ottoman Empire.^[3]^[4]
1717 –Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-longSiege of Belgrade ends withPrince Eugene of Savoy'sAustrian troops capturing the city from theOttoman Empire.
1723 –Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomesBishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral inFăgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier byPope Clement XI.
1740 –Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeedsClement XII as the 247th Pope.
1784 – Classical composerLuigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000reals from his employer, theInfante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
1798 – TheVietnamese Catholics report aMarian apparition inQuảng Trị, an event which is calledOur Lady of La Vang.
1807 –Robert Fulton'sNorth River Steamboat leaves New York City forAlbany, New York, on theHudson River, inaugurating the first commercialsteamboat service in the world.
1808 – TheFinnish War: TheBattle of Alavus is fought.^[5]
1827 – Dutch KingWilliam I andPope Leo XII sign concord.
1836 –British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths.
1862 –American Indian Wars: TheDakota War of 1862 begins inMinnesota asDakota warriors attack white settlements along theMinnesota River.
1862 –American Civil War: Major GeneralJ. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of theConfederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: InCharleston, South Carolina,Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-heldFort Sumter.
1864 – American Civil War:Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops nearGainesville, Florida.
1866 – TheGrand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from theGerman Confederation and signs atreaty of peace and alliance withPrussia.
1876 –Richard Wagner'sGötterdämmerung, the last opera in hisRingcycle, premieres at theBayreuth Festspielhaus.^[6]
1883 – The first public performance of theDominican Republic'snational anthem,Himno Nacional.
1896 –Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.

1901–present

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1914 –World War I:Battle of Stallupönen: The German army ofGeneral Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded byPaul von Rennenkampf near modern-dayNesterov, Russia.
1915 – Jewish AmericanLeo Frank islynched inMarietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by GovernorJohn Slaton.
1915 – ACategory 4 hurricane hitsGalveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
1916 – World War I:Romania signs asecret treaty with theEntente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
1918 –Bolshevik revolutionary leaderMoisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 –World War II:U.S. Marines raid theJapanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
1943 – World War II: The U.S.Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on theSchweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
1943 – World War II: TheU.S. Seventh Army under GeneralGeorge S. Patton arrives inMessina, Italy, followed several hours later by theBritish 8th Army under Field MarshalBernard Montgomery, thus completing theAllied conquest of Sicily.
1943 – World War II:First Québec Conference ofWinston Churchill,Franklin D. Roosevelt, andWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1943 – World War II: TheRoyal Air Force beginsOperation Hydra, the first air raid of theOperation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany'sV-weapon program.
1945 –Sukarno andMohammad Hatta proclaim the independence ofIndonesia, igniting theIndonesian National Revolution against theDutch Empire.
1945 – The novellaAnimal Farm byGeorge Orwell is first published.
1945 –Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by theSino-Korean border,Puyi, then the Kangde Emperor ofManchukuo,formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to theRepublic of China.^[7]
1947 – TheRadcliffe Line, the border between theDominions of India andPakistan, is revealed.
1949 – The 6.7 M_s Karlıova earthquake shakes easternTurkey with a maximumMercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 320–450 dead.^[3]^[8]^[9]
1949 –Matsukawa derailment: Unknown saboteurs cause apassenger train to derail and overturn inFukushima Prefecture,Japan, killing three crew members and igniting a political firestorm between theJapanese Communist Party and thegovernment of Occupied Japan that will eventually lead to theJapanese Red Purge.^[10]
1953 – First meeting ofNarcotics Anonymous takes place, inSouthern California.
1955 –Hurricane Diane made landfall nearWilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.^[11]^[12]
1958 –Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
1959 –Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.21959 Hebgen Lake earthquake nearHebgen Lake inMontana.
1960 –Aeroflot Flight 036 crashes inSoviet Ukraine, killing 34.^[13]
1962 –Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death whiletrying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
1969 –Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits theU.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
1970 – Soviet UnionVenera program:Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1976 – Amagnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast ofMindanao,Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.^[14]^[15]
1977 – The Soviet icebreakerArktika becomes the first surface ship to reach theNorth Pole.
1978 –Double Eagle II becomes firstballoon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands inMiserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leavingPresque Isle, Maine.
1985 – The1985–86 Hormel strike begins inAustin, Minnesota.^[16]
1988 – President of PakistanMuhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. AmbassadorArnold Raphel are killed in aplane crash.
1991 –Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
1998 –Lewinsky scandal: US PresidentBill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" withWhite House internMonica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1999 – The 7.6 M_w İzmit earthquake shakes northwesternTurkey with a maximumMercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
2004 – TheNational Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols forSerbia:Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and thecoat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 – The first forced evacuation ofsettlers, as part ofIsraeli disengagement from Gaza, starts.
2005 – Over 500 bombs areset off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts ofBangladesh.
2008 – American swimmerMichael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
2009 –An accident at theSayano-Shushenskaya Dam inKhakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
2015 – Abomb explodes near theErawan Shrine inBangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.
2017 –Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.
2019 –A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.^[17]

Births

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Pre-1600

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1153 –William IX, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156)
1465 –Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
1473 –Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. 1483)
1501 –Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1529)
1556 –Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (d. 1581)
1578 –Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1578 –Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 1638)
1582 –John Matthew Rispoli, Maltese philosopher (d. 1639)
1586 –Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654)

1601–1900

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1603 –Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (d. 1651)
1629 –John III Sobieski, Polish–Lithuanian king (d. 1696)
1686 –Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (d. 1768)^[18]
1753 –Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828)
1768 –Louis Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786 –Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (d. 1836)^[19]
1786 –Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861)
1801 –Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist (d. 1865)^[20]
1828 –Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (d. 1897)
1840 –Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (d. 1922)^[21]
1845 –Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist (d. 1909)
1849 –William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17thPremier of Queensland (d. 1919)
1863 –Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (d. 1924)
1865 –Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (d. 1950)
1866 –Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6thNizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1873 –John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (d. 1946)
1877 –Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923)
1878 –Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1880 –Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player (d. 1948)
1887 –Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1887 –Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, foundedBlack Star Line (d. 1940)
1888 –Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit (d. 1963)^[22]
1889 –Lalla Carlsen, Norwegian singer and actress (d. 1967)^[23]
1890 –Stefan Bastyr, Polish soldier and pilot (d. 1920)
1890 –Harry Hopkins, American politician and diplomat, 8thUnited States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)^[24]
1893 –John Brahm, German-American director and production manager (d. 1982)
1893 –Mae West, American stage and film actress (d. 1980)^[25]
1894 –William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, foundedRootes Group (d. 1964)^[26]
1896 –Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970)^[27]
1896 –Tõnis Kint, Estonian lieutenant and politician,Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1991)
1896 –Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian and author (d. 1970)
1899 –Janet Lewis, American poet and novelist (d. 1998)^[28]^[29]
1900 –Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957)
1900 –Pauline A. Young, American teacher, historian, aviator and activist (d. 1991)

1901–present

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1904 –Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (d. 1984)^[30]
1904 –Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991)^[31]
1909 –Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985)^[32]
1909 –Wilf Copping, English footballer (d. 1980)
1911 –Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995)
1911 –Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010)^[33]
1913 –Mark Felt, American lawyer and agent, 2ndDeputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008)^[34]
1913 –Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989)
1913 –Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (d. 1970)
1914 –Bill Downs, American journalist (d. 1978)
1914 –Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988)^[35]
1916 –Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012)
1918 –Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (d. 1985)^[36]
1918 –Ike Quebec, American saxophonist and pianist (d. 1963)^[37]
1918 –Michael John Wise, English geographer and academic (d. 2015)^[38]
1919 –Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)^[39]
1920 –Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (d. 2015)^[40]
1920 –Lida Moser, American photographer and author (d. 2014)^[41]
1921 –Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
1922 –Roy Tattersall, English cricketer (d. 2011)^[42]
1923 –Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (d. 2019)^[43]
1923 –Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (d. 2002)^[44]
1924 –Evan S. Connell, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 2013)^[45]
1926 –Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012)^[46]
1926 –Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, formerGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and 5thPresident of China (d. 2022)
1927 –Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2009)^[47]
1927 –F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer and politician,Governor of Vermont (d. 2015)^[48]
1928 –T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator^[49]
1928 –Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (d. 2011)
1929 –Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (d. 1977)^[50]
1930 –Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2015)^[51]
1930 –Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (d. 1998)^[52]
1931 –Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic (d. 2022)^[53]
1932 –V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist,Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)^[54]
1932 –Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer (d. 1980)^[55]
1932 –Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist (d. 2022)^[56]
1933 –Mark Dinning, American pop singer (d. 1986)
1934 –João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 2023)^[57]
1934 –Ron Henry, English footballer (d. 2014)^[58]
1936 –Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician,Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2020)
1936 –Margaret Heafield Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner
1938 –Theodoros Pangalos, Greek lawyer and politician,Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2023)^[59]
1939 –Luther Allison, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1997)^[60]
1940 –Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1940 –Barry Sheerman, English academic and politician
1941 –Lothar Bisky, German businessman and politician (d. 2013)^[61]
1941 –Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter
1941 –Boog Powell, American baseball player^[62]
1942 –Shane Porteous, Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter
1943 –Edward Cowie, English composer, painter, and author^[63]
1943 –Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer^[64]^[65]
1943 –John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author
1943 –Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1944 –Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded theOracle Corporation
1944 –Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor^[66]
1945 –Rachel Pollack, American author, poet, and educator (d. 2023)^[67]
1946 –Hugh Baiocchi, South African golfer
1946 –Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 –Patrick Manning, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 4thPrime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2016)
1947 –Mohamed Abdelaziz, Sahrawi politician,President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (d. 2016)
1947 –Gary Talley, American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author^[68]
1948 –Alexander Ivashkin, Russian-English cellist and conductor (d. 2014)^[69]
1949 –Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52ndMayor of St. Paul
1949 –Sue Draheim, American fiddler and composer (d. 2013)^[70]
1949 –Julian Fellowes, English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician^[68]
1949 –Sib Hashian, American rock drummer (d. 2017)^[71]
1950 –Geraint Jarman, Welsh musician, poet and television producer (d. 2025)^[72]^[73]
1951 –Richard Hunt, American Muppet performer (d. 1992)
1951 –Robert Joy, Canadian actor^[68]
1952 –Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1952 –Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver and businessman
1952 –Mario Theissen, German engineer and businessman
1952 –Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1953 –Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach
1953 –Herta Müller, Romanian-German poet and author,Nobel Prize laureate
1953 –Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (d. 2015)
1953 –Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist^[68]
1954 –Eric Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 –Andrés Pastrana Arango, Colombian lawyer and politician, 38thPresident of Colombia
1955 –Colin Moulding, English singer-songwriter and bassist^[68]
1956 –Gail Berman, American businessman, co-foundedBermanBraun
1956 –Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
1957 –Ken Kwapis, American director and screenwriter
1957 –Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor
1957 –Robin Cousins, British competitive figure skater
1958 –Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter^[74]
1958 –Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker and accountant
1958 –Maurizio Sandro Sala, Brazilian race car driver
1959 –Jonathan Franzen, American novelist and essayist
1959 –Jacek Kazimierski, Polish footballer
1959 –Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author
1959 –David Koresh, American cult leader^[75] (d. 1993)
1960 –Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer-songwriter
1960 –Sean Penn, American actor, director, and political activist^[76]
1962 –Gilby Clarke, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer^[77]
1962 –Dan Dakich, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1963 –Jon Gruden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1963 –Jackie Walorski, American politician (d. 2022)^[78]
1964 –Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1964 –Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter^[68]
1964 –Dave Penney, English footballer and manager
1965 –Steve Gorman, American drummer^[68]
1965 –Dottie Pepper, American golfer
1966 –Jüri Luik, Estonian politician and diplomat, 18thEstonian Minister of Defense
1966 –Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder and stuntman
1966 –Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1967 –David Conrad, American actor^[68]
1967 –Michael Preetz, German footballer and manager
1968 –Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)^[79]
1968 –Ed McCaffrey, American football player and sportscaster
1968 –Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021)^[80]
1969 –Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach
1969 –Kelvin Mercer, American rapper, songwriter and producer^[68]
1969 –Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer^[81]
1970 –Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster
1970 –Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author
1970 –Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach
1971 –Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971 –Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1971 –Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach
1972 –Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1974 –Giuliana Rancic, Italian-American journalist and television personality^[68]
1974 –Johannes Maria Staud, Austrian composer^[82]
1976 –Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 –Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director
1976 –Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1977 –Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
1977 –William Gallas, French footballer
1977 –Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 –Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist
1977 –Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter and producer
1979 –Antwaan Randle El, American football player and journalist
1979 –Nicole Sunitsch, Austrian politician^[83]
1980 –Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 –Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer
1980 –Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980 –Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1982 –Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1982 –Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler and manager
1982 –Mark Salling, American actor and musician (d. 2018)
1983 –Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984 –Dee Brown, American basketball player
1984 –Oksana Domnina, Russian ice dancer
1984 –Liam Heath, British sprint canoeist^[84]
1984 –Garrett Wolfe, American football player
1985 –Yū Aoi, Japanese actress and model
1986 –Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 –Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1988 –Brady Corbet, American actor and director^[68]
1988 –Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British member ofISIS (d. 2015)
1988 –Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1988 –Erika Toda, Japanese actress
1989 –Lil B, American rapper^[85]
1989 –Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer^[86]
1990 –Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress^[87]
1991 –Austin Butler, American actor^[68]
1992 –Saraya Bevis, English wrestler
1992 –Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013)
1992 –Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player
1992 –Maru Teferi, Israeli marathon runner^[88]
1993 –Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer
1993 –Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
1993 –Xie Zhenye, Chinese athlete^[89]
1994 –Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter
1994 –Jack Conklin, American football player^[90]
1994 –Taissa Farmiga, American actress^[68]
1995 –Gracie Gold, American figure skater
1995 –Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player
1996 –Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player
2000 –Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter
2003 –Nastasja Schunk, German tennis player^[91]
2003 –The Kid Laroi, Australian rapper and songwriter^[92]

Deaths

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Pre-1600

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754 –Carloman, mayor of the palace ofAustrasia
949 –Li Shouzhen, Chinese general and governor
1153 –Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130)
1304 –Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1324 –Irene of Brunswick (b. 1293)
1338 –Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301)
1424 –John Stewart, Earl of Buchan (b. c. 1381)
1510 –Edmund Dudley, English politician,Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1462)^[93]
1510 –Richard Empson, English statesman^[94]
1547 –Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)^[95]

1601–1900

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1673 –Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 –Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621)
1720 –Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
1723 –Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)^[96]
1768 –Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
1785 –Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16thGovernor of Connecticut (b. 1710)^[97]
1786 –Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)^[98]
1809 –Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-foundedBoulton and Watt (b. 1728)^[99]
1814 –John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
1834 –Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
1838 –Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
1850 –José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1stPresident of Peru (b. 1778)
1861 –Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1stUnited States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)
1870 –Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
1875 –Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
1897 –William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10thGovernor of South Australia (b. 1821)^[100]

1901–present

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1901 –Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)^[101]
1903 –Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)^[102]
1908 –Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)
1909 –Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)^[103]
1918 –Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
1920 –Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 –Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
1925 –Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
1935 –Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
1935 –Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)^[104]
1936 –José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
1940 –Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)^[105]
1945 –Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
1949 –Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)
1958 –Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878)
1966 –Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
1969 –Otto Stern, German physicist and academic,Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)^[106]
1970 –Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
1971 –Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39thYokozuna (b. 1914)
1971 –Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 –Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
1973 –Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)^[107]
1973 –Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)^[108]
1977 –Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)^[109]
1979 –John C. Allen, Americanroller coaster designer (b. 1907)
1979 –Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)^[110]
1983 –Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896)^[111]
1987 –Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (b. 1924)
1987 –Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician (b. 1894)^[112]
1987 –Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)^[113]
1988 –Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6thPresident of Pakistan (b. 1924)^[114]
1988 –Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)^[35]
1988 –Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935)^[115]
1990 –Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)^[116]
1993 –Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
1994 –Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901)^[117]
1994 –Jack Morrison, Australian rugby league player (b. 1905)^[118]
1994 –Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (b. 1902)^[119]
1995 –Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)^[120]
1995 –Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)^[121]
1998 –Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940)^[122]
1998 –Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)^[122]
2000 –Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)
2004 –Thea Astley, Australian author and educator (b. 1925)^[123]
2005 –John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934)^[124]
2006 –Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)^[125]
2007 –Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913)^[126]
2007 –Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 –Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1926)
2010 –Francesco Cossiga, Italian lawyer and politician, 8thPresident of Italy (b. 1928)^[127]
2012 –Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician,Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915)
2012 –Victor Poor, American engineer, developed theDatapoint 2200 (b. 1933)^[128]
2012 –Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945)^[129]
2012 –John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)^[130]
2013 –Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938)^[131]
2013 –Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927)^[132]
2013 –John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929)
2013 –David Landes, Jewish-American historian and economist (b. 1924)^[133]
2013 –Frank Martínez, American painter (b. 1924)
2013 –Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912)
2014 –Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937)
2014 –Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921)^[134]
2014 –Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56thMayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)^[135]
2014 –Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928)
2014 –Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2015 –Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (b. 1937)^[136]
2015 –Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German businessman (b. 1933)^[137]
2015 –László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)^[138]
2016 –Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)^[139]
2024 –Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, British countess (b. 1933)^[140]
2024 –Silvio Santos, Brazilian media mogul and television host (b. 1930)^[141]

Holidays and observances

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Christianfeast day:
Engineer's Day (Colombia)
Independence Day, celebrates theindependence proclamation ofIndonesia from Japan in 1945.

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