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August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 152 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
• 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
• 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army.
• 1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
• 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
• 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
• 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
• 1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
• 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
• 1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
• 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
• 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
• 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
• 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
• 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
• 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
• 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
• 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
• 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
• 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
• 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
• 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
• 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
• 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
• 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state
• 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
• 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
• 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
• 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

Births

• 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
• 126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
• 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
• 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
• 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
• 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
• 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
• 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, founder of the Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
• 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician (d. 1673)
• 1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
• 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
• 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
• 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
• 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
• 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1838)
• 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (d. 1843)
• 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian (d. 1851)
• 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1836)
• 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
• 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
• 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
• 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
• 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
• 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician (d. 1937)
• 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
• 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
• 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
• 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
• 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Gin Kanie, Japanese centenarian (d. 2001)
• 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese centenarian (d. 2000)
• 1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
• 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
• 1899 – Raymond Mays, English race car driver and entrepreneur (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
• 1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
• 1903 – Paul Horgan, American author (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
• 1910 – James Henry Govier, British painter (d. 1974)
• 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
• 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Richard Pearson, Welsh actor (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Stanley Middleton, British author (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Val Bettin, American voice actor
• 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Frank Worrell, West Indian cricketer (d. 1967)
• 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer
• 1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Lionel Bart, British composer (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (d. 1996)
• 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter
• 1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer
• 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
• 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
• 1933 – Teri Shields, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian magistrate (d. 2012)
• 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
• 1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer
• 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist (d. 2000)
• 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Al D'Amato, American politician
• 1939 – Robert James Waller, American author
• 1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
• 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
• 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director
• 1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman
• 1941 – Ron Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
• 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Soviet politician (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
• 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer
• 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Bad Company) (d. 2006)
• 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer (The Grass Roots) (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Richard O. Covey, American astronaut
• 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
• 1947 – Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
• 1947 – Dennis Zine, American politician
• 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios
• 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player
• 1948 – David Gemmell. British fantasy author
• 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler
• 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach
• 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976)
• 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
• 1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
• 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
• 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist
• 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer
• 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer
• 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
• 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer
• 1956 – Ok-Hee Ku, South Korean golfer (d. 2013)
• 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio host
• 1956 – Lewis Smith, American actor
• 1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor and comedian
• 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
• 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier
• 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (Doll Congress)
• 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
• 1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
• 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese musician and composer (Ground Zero and Filament)
• 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper, producer, and author (Public Enemy)
• 1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist and songwriter (L7)
• 1960 – Professor Griff, American rapper, spoken word artist and Lecturer (Public Enemy)
• 1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor
• 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
• 1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (WC and the Maad Circle)
• 1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
• 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
• 1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand swimmer
• 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut
• 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
• 1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Counting Crows and The Himalayans)
• 1964 – Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
• 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director
• 1965 – Brandt Jobe, American golfer
• 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
• 1966 – George Ducas, American singer
• 1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
• 1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and writer
• 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
• 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist (Disturbed and Vandal)
• 1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
• 1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
• 1969 – David Wain, American actor
• 1969 – Stuart Wade, British actor
• 1970 – David James, English footballer
• 1970 – Quentin Coryatt, American football player
• 1970 – Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
• 1971 – Ágúst Gylfason, Icelandic footballer
• 1971 – Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
• 1971 – Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug smuggler
• 1972 – Devon Hughes, American wrestler
• 1972 – Martin Damm, Czech tennis player
• 1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (The Hellacopters The Solution, The Hydromatics, and Imperial State Electric)
• 1972 – Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer
• 1972 – Todd Bouman, American football player
• 1972 – Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
• 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator
• 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player
• 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
• 1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
• 1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
• 1973 – Kris Holden-Ried, Canadian actor
• 1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
• 1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
• 1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer
• 1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
• 1975 – Vhrsti, Czech illustrator
• 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
• 1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
• 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
• 1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator
• 1976 – David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
• 1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
• 1977 – Darnerien McCants, Canadian-American football player
• 1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Marcel Schlutt, German model, photographer and columnist
• 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and author
• 1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
• 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thenewno2, Traveling Wilburys, and Fistful of Mercy)
• 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
• 1978 – Jonathan Wilkes, English singer and actor
• 1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
• 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1979 – Bernadette Flynn, Irish dancer
• 1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor
• 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh actress
• 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Krisztina Fazekas Zur, Hungarian-American canoe racer
• 1980 – Bryan Fisher, British actor
• 1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer
• 1981 – Brett Chukerman, American actor
• 1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Taylor Fry, American actress
• 1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
• 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player
• 1981 – Miracle Laurie, American actress
• 1981 – Aoife Madden, Irish actress and producer
• 1981 – Ashley Parker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (O-Town)
• 1981 – Sally Pressman, American dancer and actress
• 1982 – Kimberly Holland, American model
• 1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress
• 1982 – Anthony Murphy, Irish footballer
• 1982 – Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
• 1982 – Oluchi Onweagba, Nigerian model
• 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
• 1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
• 1983 – Julien Faubert, French footballer
• 1983 – Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Bobby Carpenter, American football player
• 1984 – Steve Feak, American game designer
• 1984 – Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
• 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
• 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
• 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
• 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
• 1985 – Cole Kimball, American baseball player
• 1985 – Hyun Jyu-ni, South Korean singer and actress
• 1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Armenian mixed martial artist
• 1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak footballer
• 1985 – Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 – Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
• 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1986 – Jonas Plass, German sprinter
• 1986 – Jörn Schlönvoigt, German singer and actor
• 1986 – Lucas Simón, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Mike Wallace, American football player
• 1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Jakov Fak, Croatian-Slovenian biathlete
• 1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
• 1988 – Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
• 1988 – Max Carver, American actor
• 1988 – Sasha Jackson, English-American actress
• 1989 – Tiffany, American-Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
• 1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
• 1989 – Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
• 1990 – Jack O'Connell, English actor
• 1990 – Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
• 1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
• 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
• 1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage and Shugo Chara Egg!)
• 1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor and singer
• 1996 – Solomon Curtis, British politician
• 1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
• 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor

Deaths

• 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
• 371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
• 527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
• 946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Persian vizier (b. 859)
• 1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. 1180)
• 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
• 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian educator (b. 1406)
• 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
• 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
• 1546 – Peter Faber, French priest and theologian (b. 1506)
• 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish author (b. 1490)
• 1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
• 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
• 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
• 1787 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
• 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
• 1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
• 1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
• 1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
• 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist (b. 1775)
• 1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
• 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
• 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
• 1917 – Frank Little, American union leader (b. 1879)
• 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer, journalist, and reformer (b. 1856)
• 1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter (b. 1862)
• 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
• 1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 – Theodore Roethke, American author and poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1933)
• 1983 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla and activist (b. 1954)
• 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Graham Young, English serial killer (b. 1947)
• 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
• 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English author (b. 1897)
• 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Alexandra Scott, American cancer patient, founded Alex's Lemonade Stand (b. 1996)
• 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (b. 1965)
• 2006 – Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer and poet (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican criminal (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Joan Bernard, English academic (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Don Erickson, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Riccardo Ruotolo, Italian bishop (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Abel Salinas, Peruvian politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Chua Boon Huat, Malaysian field hockey player (b. 1980)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
• Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
  • Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
  • Æthelwold of Winchester
  • Eusebius of Vercelli
  • Exuperius of Bayeux
  • Felix of Girona
  • Peter Apostle in Chains
  • August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• The Maccabean Martyrs (commemoration, Anglicanism)
• Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies):
  • Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August. (Toronto)
  • Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands)
  • Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago)

• Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Canada)
• Earliest day on which Commerce Day, or Frídagur verslunarmanna, can fall; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Iceland)
• Earliest day on which International Friendship Day can fall, celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
• Feast of Kamál (Perfection); First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
• Liberation of Haile Selassie I from slavery. (Rastafari movement)
• National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
• National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
• Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
• Statehood Day (Colorado)
• The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year):
  • Lughnasadh in the Northern hemisphere, Imbolc in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans)
  • Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)

• The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England)
• World Scout Scarf Day (International)
• Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)

External links

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

• Days of the year
• August