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August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 131 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
• 564 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
• 1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
• 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
• 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
• 1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
• 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
• 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
• 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
• 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
• 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
• 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to Britain (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
• 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
• 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
• 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
• 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
• 1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
• 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
• 1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
• 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
• 1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
• 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
• 1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
• 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
• 1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
• 1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
• 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
• 1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
• 1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
• 1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1961 – Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
• 1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
• 1963 – American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi).
• 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 IOC for its racist policies.
• 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'etat, commencing 17 years of military rule.
• 1978 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1984 – PC Brian Bishop was a British police officer who was shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He died from his injuries five days later.
• 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
• 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
• 1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
• 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is 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 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
• 2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
• 2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
• 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

Births

• 1412 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1464)
• 1601 – Georges de Scudéry, French author and poet (d. 1667)
• 1624 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (d. 1701)
• 1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)
• 1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French archbishop (d. 1758)
• 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
• 1764 – Charles Percier, French architect and designer (d. 1838)
• 1771 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
• 1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (d. 1858)
• 1778 – James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
• 1800 – William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889)
• 1800 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian scholar (d. 1865)
• 1811 – William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
• 1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1906)
• 1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
• 1836 – Archibald Willard, American painter (d. 1918)
• 1845 – William Lewis Douglas, American politician, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
• 1848 – Melville Elijah Stone, American publisher, founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929)
• 1854 – Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
• 1857 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
• 1860 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917)
• 1860 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (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 – Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Thomas Cooke, American soccer player (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (d. 1977)
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1893 – Wilfred Kitching, British 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet and writer (d. 1967)
• 1895 – László Almásy, Hungarian pilot (d. 1951)
• 1895 – Paul Comtois, Canadian politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)
• 1900 – Sergey Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
• 1902 – Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German director (d. 2003)
• 1902 – Edward Rowe Snow, American author and historian (d. 1982)
• 1903 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
• 1913 – Leonard Pagliero, British businessman and pilot (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Connie B. Gay, Music executive and founder of the Country Music Association (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Leland Jensen, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (d. 1996)
• 1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
• 1915 – James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist and inventor (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Hugh Paddick, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish politician (d. 2005)
• 1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American author (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Denton Cooley, American surgeon
• 1921 – Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Tony Pawson, English cricketer (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Harishankar Parsai,Indian Hindi Writer(d.1995)
• 1922 – Micheline Presle, French actress
• 1925 – Honor Blackman, British actress
• 1925 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and activist
• 1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Valeri Pavlovich Alekseyev, Russian/Soviet anthropologist
• 1929 – Ulrich Wegener, German police officer, founded GSG 9
• 1930 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer
• 1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
• 1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Annie Proulx, American author
• 1936 – Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1936 – John Callaway, American journalist (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster
• 1938 – Paul Maguire, American football player and sportscaster
• 1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress
• 1939 – George Reinholt, American actor
• 1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
• 1940 – Bill McCartney, American football player and coach, founded Promise Keepers
• 1941 – Bill Parcells, American football coach
• 1941 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
• 1943 – Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist, co-designed the Intel 4004
• 1944 – Peter Hofmann, Czech-German tenor (d. 2010)
• 1945 – David Chase, American screenwriter, director, and producer
• 1945 – Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archies, The Cuff Links, and The Detergents)
• 1945 – Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
• 1947 – Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, and Jerry Garcia Band)
• 1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress
• 1948 – Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
• 1948 – David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys)
• 1949 – Doug Bair, American baseball player
• 1949 – Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic poet and author
• 1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer
• 1950 – Ray Burris, American baseball player
• 1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer and political adviser
• 1951 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
• 1952 – Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
• 1953 – Paul Ellering, American weightlifter and wrestling manager
• 1955 – Chiranjeevi, Indian actor and politician
• 1955 – Will Shetterly, American author
• 1955 – Gordon Liu, Chinese martial arts film actor
• 1956 – Paul Molitor, American baseball player
• 1957 – Steve Davis, English snooker player
• 1958 – Colm Feore, American actor
• 1958 – Lash Huffman, American wrestler
• 1958 – Vernon Reid, American guitarist and songwriter (Living Colour)
• 1959 – Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ratt and Dokken)
• 1959 – Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
• 1959 – Kidd Kraddick, American radio host (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Mark Williams, English actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Holger Gehrke, German footballer
• 1961 – Andrés Calamaro, Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Los Abuelos de la Nada and Los Rodríguez)
• 1961 – Roland Orzabal, British singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)
• 1961 – Debbi Peterson, American singer and drummer (The Bangles and Kindred Spirit)
• 1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter and producer (Y Kant Tori Read)
• 1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1964 – Tom Gibis, American voice actor
• 1964 – Diane Setterfield, British author
• 1964 – Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
• 1964 – Andrew Wilson, American actor and director
• 1965 – Courtney Gains, American actor
• 1965 – Chen Liping, Singaporean actress
• 1966 – GZA, American rapper and songwriter (Wu-Tang Clan)
• 1966 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1966 – Brooke Dillman, American actress
• 1966 – Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
• 1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
• 1967 – Ty Burrell, American actor
• 1967 – Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1986)
• 1967 – Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (Alice in Chains and Class of '99) (d. 2002)
• 1967 – Bill Welke, American baseball umpire
• 1968 – Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and writer
• 1968 – Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Newsboys and Paul Colman Trio)
• 1968 – Rich Lowry, American columnist and editor
• 1968 – Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 – Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
• 1970 – George Canyon, Canadian singer, guitarist, and actor
• 1970 – Charlie Connelly, English author and broadcaster
• 1970 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
• 1970 – Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
• 1970 – Shaun Steels, English heavy metal drummer and bassist
• 1971 – Richard Armitage, English actor
• 1971 – Craig Finn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller)
• 1971 – Rick Yune, American actor
• 1972 – Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 – Paul Doucette, American drummer (Matchbox Twenty and The Break and Repair Method)
• 1972 – Steve Kline, American baseball player
• 1972 – Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (d. 2012)
• 1972 – Max Wilson, Brazilian race car driver
• 1973 – Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 1973 – Kristen Wiig, American comedian, actress, and writer
• 1973 – Anthony Moses Davis, Jamaican Entertainer, actor
• 1974 – Brimstone, American wrestler, actor, and author
• 1974 – Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
• 1974 – Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist and animator
• 1975 – Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Davor Krznarić, Croatian footballer
• 1975 – Sheree Murphy, English actress
• 1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
• 1976 – Randy Wolf, American baseball player
• 1977 – Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
• 1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1978 – Giannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
• 1978 – James Corden, English comedian and actor
• 1978 – Ed Petrie, British comedian and actor
• 1978 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian guitarist (Simple Plan)
• 1978 – Robert Levon Been, American musician (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
• 1979 – Brandon Adams, American actor
• 1979 – Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress
• 1979 – Matt Walters, American football player
• 1980 – Roland Benschneider, German footballer
• 1980 – Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canadian sprinter
• 1981 – Alex Holmes, American football player
• 1981 – Jang Hyun-Kyu, South Korean footballer (d. 2012)
• 1981 – Takumi Saito, Japanese actor and model
• 1982 – Rodrigo Nehme, Mexican actor
• 1983 – Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 – Laura Breckenridge, American actress
• 1983 – Justin Buchholz, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 – Jahri Evans, American football player
• 1984 – Lee Camp, English footballer
• 1984 – Missy Monroe, American porn actress
• 1984 – Lawrence Quaye, Qatari footballer
• 1985 – Kether Donohue, American actress
• 1985 – Cindy Hope, Hungarian porn actress
• 1985 – Luke Russert, American journalist
• 1986 – Lacie Heart, American porn actress
• 1986 – Erika Hebron, American model, Miss Missouri 2010
• 1986 – Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Karlie Simon, English porn actress
• 1987 – Dan Weekes-Hannah, New Zealand actor
• 1988 – Sarah Major, New Zealand actress
• 1989 – Georgina Moffat, British actress
• 1989 – Chariz Solomon, Filipino actress
• 1990 – Syque Caesar, Bangladeshi gymnast
• 1990 – Randall Cobb, American football player
• 1991 – Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 – Lulu Antariksa, American actress
• 1996 – Shannon Flynn, English actress
• 1999 – Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor

Deaths

• 408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
• 1155 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
• 1188 – Ferdinand II of León (b. 1137)
• 1241 – Pope Gregory IX, (b. 1143)
• 1280 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1216)
• 1304 – John II, Count of Holland (b. 1247)
• 1350 – Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
• 1358 – Isabella of France (b. 1295)
• 1456 – Vladislav II of Wallachia
• 1485 – Richard III of England (b. 1452)
• 1553 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (b. 1504)
• 1572 – Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528)
• 1584 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet (b. 1530)
• 1599 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553)
• 1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572)
• 1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Polish 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 statesman (b. 1628)
• 1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
• 1752 – William Whiston, British mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1773 – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, British politician (b. 1709)
• 1793 – Louis de Noailles, French marshal (b. 1713)
• 1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German mother of Constanze Mozart (b. 1727)
• 1797 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b. 1732)
• 1818 – Warren Hastings, British politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist(b. 1758)
• 1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
• 1861 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 – Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian politician (b. 1817)
• 1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
• 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 – Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850)
• 1909 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist (b. 1846)
• 1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop (b. 1859)
• 1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
• 1922 – Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader (b. 1890)
• 1926 – Charles William Eliot, American academic, 21st President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
• 1933 – Alexandros Kontoulis, Greek general (b. 1858)
• 1940 – Oliver Lodge, British physicist (b. 1851)
• 1940 – Gerald Strickland, 4th Prime Minister of Malta, 23rd Governor of New South Wales, 15th Governor of Western Australia and 9th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1861)
• 1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Döme Sztójay, Hungarian soldier and diplomat (b. 1883)
• 1950 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
• 1951 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
• 1963 – Augustus Goessling, American water polo player and swimmer (b. 1878)
• 1965 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-British mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
• 1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
• 1987 – Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Gilles Groulx, Canadian director (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Generosa Ammon, American wife of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
• 2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Angus Bethune, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Al Dvorin, American bandleader and talent agent (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
• 2009 – Elmer Kelton, American novelist (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Nick Ashford, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ashford & Simpson) (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Gudrun Berend, German hurdler (b. 1955)
• 2011 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Nina Bawden, British author (b. 1925)
• 2012 – John Davidson, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal and bishop (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese military leader and politician
• 2012 – Martin Shikuku, Kenyan politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – András József Szennay, Hungarian priest and clergyman (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Immaculate Heart of Mary
  • Queenship of Mary
  • Symphorian and Timotheus
  • August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August. (Philippines)
• Flag Day (Russia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

• Days of the year
• August