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August 16

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August 16 is the 228th day of the year(229th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 137 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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1 BC–China:Wang Mang is declared marshal of the state. EmeprorAi of Han, who died the previous day, had no living heirs.
1513–Battle of Guinegate:Henry VIII of England and his imperial allies defeat French forces who are then forced to retreat.
1728–Vitus Bering reaches theDiomede Islands betweenSiberia andAlaska in the now–namedBering Strait.
1777–American Revolutionary War: American troops defeat British forces at theBattle of Bennington in Walloomsac,New York.
1780–American Revolutionary War:Battle of Camden – British forces defeat American forces nearCamden,South Carolina.
1787–Lieutenant William Bligh takes command ofHMAVBounty.
1801–Horatio Nelson fails in an attempt to attack a French fleet inBoulogne-sur-Mer onFrance'sEnglish Channel coast.
1812–War of 1812 – American GeneralWilliam Hull surrenders FortDetroit, without a fight, to the British Army.
1812– Arnold Abbuehl, Joseph Bortis and Alois Volker become the first people to climb themountain Finsteraarhorn in theSwiss Alps.
1819– Peterloo Massacre: 17 people die and over 600 are injured incavalry charges at a public meeting in St. Peter's Field,Manchester,England,UK.
1858–US President James Buchanan inaugurates a new transatlantictelegraph cable by exchanging greetings withQueen Victoria of theUnited Kingdom. A weak line forces the service to close after just a fewweeks.
1863– Fighting starts between theDominican Republic andSpain over Dominican independence.
1868–Arica, inPeru (now inChile) is hit by a magnitude 8.5earthquake. Resultingtsunamis kill thousands of people.
1870–Franco-Prussian War: TheBattle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in aPrussian victory.
1896–Klondike Gold Rush: Keish, George Carnack and Dawson Charlie discovergold in atributary of theKlondike River in theYukon, northwesternCanada.

1901– 2000

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1906– A magnitude 8.2earthquake strikesValparaiso,Chile, killing almost 3,900 people.
1913–Tohoku Imperial University becomes the first university inJapan to allowfemale students to study at itsinstitution.
1914–World War I: TheBattle of Cer begins troops ofAustria-Hungary enterSerbian territory.
1930– The first coloursound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is created byUb Iwerks.
1930– The firstBritish Empire Games begin inHamilton, Ontario,Canada. In later years, these games become better known as theCommonwealth Games.
1935– The first successful climb of Gunnbjorn Fjeld, the highestmountain inGreenland, takes place.
1936–1936 Summer Olympics inBerlin,Germany end.
1936–Spanish Civil War:Republican troops land onMallorca, starting theBattle ofMallorca.
1942– German U–BoatU-507 sinks threecivilian Brazilian ships offBrazil's coast. They areAraraguara (131 killed),Anibal Benevelo (150 killed) andBaependy (270 killed).
1944– First flight of aJunkers Ju 287aircraft.
1945–Puyi, the last ChineseEmperor, and ruler ofManchuria, is captured bySoviet troops.
1945– Anassassination attempt is made onPrime Minister of Japan Kantaro Suzuki.
1945–Poland cedes 46% of its previous territory to theSoviet Union.
1946– Massriots begin inKolkata, killing 4,000 people in 3 days.
1954– The first issue ofSports Illustrated is published.
1960–Cyprus gains its independence from theUnited Kingdom.
1960–Joseph Kittinger parachutes from aballoon overNew Mexico.
1962–The Beatles firePete Best and hireRingo Starr.
1962–Algeria joins theArab League.
1964– A coup occurs inSouth Vietnam, where PresidentDuong Van Minh is replaced byNguyen Khanh.
1972– An unsuccessful coup attempt is made inMorocco, as the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires at the plane ofKing Hassan II of Morocco, who is flying back to the capital,Rabat, at the time.
1974–The Ramones play their first show in theNew York City nightclub CBGB's.
1975–Police arrestserial killer Ted Bundy.
1976– A magnitude 7.9earthquake strikes theisland ofMindanao,Philippines.
1976–ABBA's hit singleDancing Queen is released.
1977– Singer, musician and actorElvis Presley dies at the age of 42, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
1987– A McDonnell Douglas MD–82aircraft ofNorthwest Airlines crashes inDetroit, killing 154 people, leaving only one survivor.
1988– Thedam of the BagaudaReservoir inNigeria breaks, killing 23 people.
1989– A solar flare from theSun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips.

From 2001

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2004– Heavyrains cause ariver toflood the small coastaltown ofBoscastle inCornwall,England.
2004– The Cassini Huygensspace probe discovers twomoons ofSaturn.
2005– AWest Caribbean Airlines plane crashes near Machiques in NorthwesternVenezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
2007–Tropical Storm Erin makes landfall nearLamar,Texas.
2008– TheTrump International Hotel and Tower inChicago is topped off at 423 meters (1,389 feet).
2012–South African police shoot 34miners dead during an industrial dispute at the Marikana Mine.
2012–Ecuador agrees to giveasylum toWikiLeaks founderJulian Assange, who remains in the EcuadoreanEmbassy inLondon.
2013– Over 80 protestors are killed in violence acrossEgypt, two days after hundreds of people were killed inCairo.
2013– TheferrySt. Thomas Aquinas sinks offCebu,Philippines, killing at least 61, and leaving over 59 missing. The accident happened as a result of a collision with acargo ship.
2013– In addition to the 10,000–meter title six days earlier,Mo Farah also wins the 5,000–meter title at theWorld Athletics Championships inMoscow. He is only the second man to hold these titles in both the Olympics and World Championships at the same time.
2018– American singerAretha Franklin dies aged 76 on the 41st anniversary ofElvis Presley's death, and onMadonna's 60th birthday.

Births

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Up to 1900

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1355–Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (d.1382)
1378–Hongxi Emperor, ChineseEmperor (d.1425)
1397–Albert II of Germany,nobleman (d.1439)
1401–Jacqueline, Countess of Hainault (d.1436)
1557–Agostino Carracci,Italian painter (d.1602)
1564–Federico Borromeo, Italiancardinal (d.1631)
1573–Anna of Austria, Queen ofPoland (d.1598)
1596–Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d.1632)
1604–Bernard of Saxony-Weimar, German general (d.1639)
1645–Jean de la Bruyère, French writer (d.1696)
1650–Vincenzo Coronelli, Italianmapmaker (d.1718)
1682–Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d.1712)
1744–Pierre Méchain, Frenchphysician (d.1804)
1761–Yevstingney Fomin, Russian composer (d.1800)
1798–Mirabeau B. Lamar,President of theRepublic of Texas (d.1859)
1802–Isaac Adams, Americaninventor (d.1883)
1815–John Bosco, Italian Catholic priest (d.1888)
1820–Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, 1stPremier of New Brunswick (d.1892)
1821–Arthur Cayley, Englishmathematician (d.1895)
1831–John Jones Ross, 7thPremier of Quebec (d.1901)
1832–Wilhelm Wundt, Germanpsychologist (d.1920)
1842–Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian–Germanmathematician,chess player and academic (d.1922)
1845–Gabriel Lippmann, Frenchphysicist (d.1921)
1849–Johan Kjeldahl, Danishchemist (d.1900)
1855–James McGowen, Australian politician, 18thPremier of New South Wales (d.1922)
1856–Aparicio Saravia,Uruguayan politician andmilitary leader (d.1904)
1860–Jules Laforgue, Frenchpoet (d.1887)
1862–Amos Alonzo Stagg, Americanbaseball player and coach (d.1965)
1864–Elsie Inglis, Scottishphysician andsuffragist (d.1917)
1865–James Joseph Dougherty,Archbishop ofPhiladelphia (d.1951)
1869–Leon Kauffman,Prime Minister ofLuxembourg (d.1952)
1871–Zakaria Paliashvili,Georgian composer (d.1933)
1876–Ivan Bilibin, Russianillustrator (d.1942)
1882–Christian Mortensen, Danish–Americansupercentenarian (d.1998)
1884–Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg–Americanwriter (d.1967)
1887–Hugh Dalton, British politician (d.1962)
1888–T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Britishwriter andsoldier (d.1935)
1888–Armand J. Piron, Americanviolinist,bandleader andcomposer (d.1943)
1891–Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (d.1971)
1892–Otto Messmer, Americancartoonist (d.1983)
1895–Albert Cohen, Swissnovelist (d.1981)

1901– 1950

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1902–Georgette Heyer, British writer (d.1974)
1904–Minoru Genda, Japanesemilitary aviator and politician (d.1989)
1904–Wendell Meredith Stanley, Americanchemist (d.1971)
1905–Marian Rejewski, Polishmathematician (d.1980)
1906–Franz Joseph II,Prince ofLiechtenstein (d.1989)
1908–Orlando Cole, Americancello teacher (d.2010)
1911–E. F. Schumacher, German–Britisheconomist (d.1977)
1912–Ted Drake, Englishcricketer andfootballer (d.1995)
1913–Menachem Begin, 6thPrime Minister of Israel (d.1992)
1920–Charles Bukowski, American writer (d.1994)
1924–Fess Parker, American actor (d.2010)
1928–Ann Blyth, American actress and singer
1928–Eydie Gormé, American singer (d.2013)
1928–Ara Güler, Armenian–Turkish photojournalist (d.2018)
1929–Helmut Rahn, Germanfootballer (d.2003)
1929–Bill Evans, Americanjazz musician,composer andbandleader (d.1980)
1930–Robert Culp, Americanactor (d.2010)
1930–Frank Gifford,American football player and announcer (d.2015)
1930–Leslie Manigat, 43rdPresident ofHaiti (d.2014)
1930–Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d.2018)
1933–Stuart Roosa, Americanastronaut (d.1994)
1934–Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (d.2011)
1934–Pierre Richard, French actor
1935–Andreas Stamatiadis, Greekfootballer andcoach
1937–Lorraine Gary, American actress
1938–Rocco Granata, Italian singer
1938–Bill Masterton, Canadianice hockey player (d.1968)
1939–Valery Ryumin, Soviet–Russiancosmonaut
1939–Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian–British broadcaster and journalist
1939–Sean Brady, Irishcardinal andArchbishop ofArmagh
1940–Bruce Beresford, Australian director
1940–John Craven, British journalist
1940–Aleksander Mandziara, Polishfootballer and coach (d.2015)
1941–Ahmed al-Mirghani,President ofSudan (d.2008)
1942–Lesley Turner, Australiantennis player
1944–Kevin Ayers, Britishsinger-songwriter andguitarist (d.2013)
1945–Suzanne Farrell, Americanballet dancer
1946–Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
1946–Massoud Barzani, FirstPresident ofIraqi Kurdistan
1947–Ephraïm Inoni,Prime Minister ofCameroon
1947–Carol Moseley Braun, Americanlawyer andpolitician
1948–Earl Blumenauer, American politician
1948–Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Swiss Federal Chancellor (d.2019)
1949–Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
1950–Hasely Crawford,Trinidadian athlete
1950–Jack Unterweger, Austrianmurderer (d.1994)

1951– 1975

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1951–Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,President ofNigeria (d.2010)
1953–Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer and actress
1954–James Cameron, Canadianmovie director
1954–George Galloway, British politician
1956–Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (d.2014)
1956–R. R. Patil, Indian politician (d.2015)
1957–Laura Innes, American actress
1957–Phil Murphy, American politician, diplomat and investment banker, 56thGovernor ofNew Jersey
1958–Madonna,American singer andactress
1958–Angela Bassett, American actress
1958–Oscar Collodo, Swiss–Italianrugby player and coach
1960–Timothy Hutton, American actor
1960–Franz Welser-Möst, Austrianconductor
1962–Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer–songwriter (d.2018)
1962–Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
1963–Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress (d.2014)
1964–Jimmy Arias, Americantennis player
1964–Barry Venison, English footballer and journalist
1967–Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish–Britishtelevision personality
1970–Fabio Casartelli, Italiancyclist (d.1995)
1970–Manisha Koirala,Nepalese Bollywood actress
1970–Seth Peterson, American actor
1971–Matthew Bingley, Australianfootballer
1971–Dirk Lehmann, Germanfootballer
1971–Stefan Klos, German footballer
1971–Rulon Gardner, American wrestler
1972–Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1972–Emily Robison, Americancountry music singer (Dixie Chicks)
1972–Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian
1974–Shivnarine Chanderpaul,Guyanese cricketer
1974–Ivan Hurtado,Ecuadorean footballer
1975–Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975–Tamara Natalie Madden, Jamaican–American artist (d.2017)

From 1976

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1976–Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
1978–Fu Mingxia, Chinese diver
1979–Cleo Lemon, AmericanNFL player
1980–Hwangbo, South Korean singer, rapper and actress
1980–Vanessa Carlton, Americansinger-songwriter andpianist
1980–Robert Hardy, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1981–Roque Santa Cruz,Paraguayan footballer
1982–Joleon Lescott, English footballer
1983–Poom Jensen, Thai royal (d.2004)
1983–Nikolaos Zisis, Greekbasketball player
1984–Candice Dupree, Americanbasketball player
1984–Matteo Anesi, Italian speed skater
1987–Carey Price, Canadianice hockey player
1988–Kevin Schmidt, American actor
1989–Wang Hao, Chineseathlete
1991–G.E.M., Hong Kongsinger-songwriter andactress
1991–Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (d.2014)
1991–Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
1991–Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
1993–Cameron Monaghan, American actor
1997–Greyson Chance, American singer
1997–Piper Curda, American actress and singer

Deaths

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Up to 1900

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1027– KingGiorgi I ofGeorgia (b.998)
1297–John II of Trebizond (b.1262)
1358–Albert II, Duke of Austria (b.1298)
1419–Wenceslaus, King of the Romans,King ofBohemia (b.1361)
1443–Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japaneseshogun (b.1434)
1445–Margaret of Scotland, Consort ofLouis XI of France (b.1424)
1532–John, Elector of Saxony (b.1468)
1705–Jakob Bernoulli, Swissmathematician andscientist (b.1654)
1791–Charles-Francois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, Frenchsoldier anddiplomat (b.1719)
1836–Marc-Antoine Parseval, Frenchmathematician (b.1755)
1880–Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician,Governor ofGeorgia (b.1812)
1886–Ramakrishna,Bengali saint (b.1836)
1888–John Pemberton, Americaninventor ofCoca-Cola (b.1831)
1893–Jean-Martin Charcot, Frenchneurologist (b.1825)
1899–Robert Wilhelm Bunsen,German chemist (b.1811)
1900–Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b.1845)

1901– 2000

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1910–Pedro Montt,President of Chile (b.1849)
1911–Patrick Francis Moran, Irish–Australiancardinal (b.1830)
1921–Peter I ofSerbia (b.1844)
1937–Rodolfo Chiari,President ofPanama (b.1869)
1938–Robert Johnson, Americanmusician (b.1911)
1940–Henri Desgrange, Frenchjournalist (b.1865)
1945–Takijirō Ōnishi,Japanese naval leader (b.1891)
1948–Babe Ruth, Americanbaseball player (b.1895)
1949–Margaret Mitchell, American writer (b.1900)
1951–Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (b.1887)
1956–Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b.1882)
1957–Irving Langmuir, American chemist (b.1881)
1959–Wanda Landowska, Polishharpsichordist (b.1879)
1961–Maulvi Abdul Haq, IndianUrdu educator andlinguist (b.1870)
1972–Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b.1905)
1973–Selman Waksman, Ukrainian–Americanbiochemist (b.1888)
1975–Vladimir Kuts,Ukrainian distance runner (b.1927)
1977–Elvis Presley, American singer andactor (b.1935)
1978–Tjarda von Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutchnobleman andstatesman (b.1888)
1979–John Diefenbaker,Prime Minister of Canada (b.1895)
1986–Jaime Saenz,Bolivian writer (b.1921)
1989–Amanda Blake, American actress (b.1929)
1989–Jean-Hilaire Aubame,Prime Minister ofGabon (b.1912)
1991–Luigi Zampa, Italianmovie director (b.1905)
1993–Stewart Granger, British actor (b.1913)
1998–Dorothy West, American author (b.1907)

From 2001

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2002–Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b.1937)
2003–Idi Amin,Dictator ofUganda (b. around1928)
2004–Ivan Hlinka, Czechice hockey coach (b.1950)
2005–Frère Roger, Swissmonk andmystic (b.1915)
2006–Alfredo Stroessner,President ofParaguay (b.1912)
2007–Max Roach, American musician and composer (b.1924)
2008–Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b.1934)
2009–Warren E. Earnes, 46thGovernor ofMissouri (b.1923)
2010–Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greekmilitary officer (b.1923)
2010–Nicola Cabibbo, Italianphysicist (b.1935)
2011–Andrej Bajuk,Slovenian banker and politician (b.1943)
2012–Abune Paulos,Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b.1935)
2012–William Windom, American actor (b.1923)
2013–Roy Bonisteel, Canadianjournalist andtelevision host (b.1930)
2014–Peter Scholl-Latour, German historian and author (b.1924)
2014–Fernand St. Germain, American politician (b.1928)
2015–Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani politician (b.1943)
2016–Joao Havelange, Brazilian football official,President ofFIFA (b.1916)
2017–Vera Glagoleva, Russian actress (b.1956)
2017–David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer (b.1928)
2017–Roger Pinto Molina, Bolivian politician (b.1960)
2017–Jon Shepodd, American actor (b.1924)
2017–Vicente Sota, Chilean politician (b.1924)
2018–Benny Andersen, Danish writer and pianist (b.1929)
2018–Donald E. Edwards, American general (b.1937)
2018–Aretha Franklin, American singer (b.1942)
2018–Kim Yong-chun, North Korean politician (b.1936)
2018–Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast (b.1969)
2018–Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician,Prime Minister of India (b.1924)
2019–Gustavo Barreiro, Cuban–American politician (b.1959)
2019– PrincessChristina of the Netherlands (b.1947)
2019–Peter Fonda, American actor and screenwriter (b.1940)
2019–Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist (b.1942)
2019–Faisal Masud, Pakistaniphysician and educator (b.1954)
2019–José Nápoles, Cuban–Mexican boxer (b.1940)
2019–Richard Williams, Canadian–British animator and director (b.1933)

Observances

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Battle of Bennington Day (Vermont)

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