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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 England (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, poet, and playwright (d. 1667)
• 1624 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (d. 1701)
• 1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)
• 1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
• 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
• 1764 – Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
• 1771 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
• 1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer (d. 1858)
• 1778 – James Kirke Paulding, American politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)
• 1800 – William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889)
• 1800 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1865)
• 1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1906)
• 1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)
• 1836 – Archibald Willard, American painter (d. 1918)
• 1845 – William Lewis Douglas, American businessman and 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 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917)
• 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, Foreign Minister of Germany (d. 1977)
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1893 – Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet and author (d. 1967)
• 1895 – László Almásy, Hungarian pilot (d. 1951)
• 1895 – Paul Comtois, Canadian politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)
• 1902 – Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress and director (d. 2003)
• 1902 – Edward Rowe Snow, American historian and author (d. 1982)
• 1903 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist, co-founded Eisner & Iger (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Mel Hein, American football player and coach (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
• 1913 – Leonard Pagliero, English businessman and pilot (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (d. 1989)
• 1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
• 1915 – James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Hugh Paddick, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile (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, Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Harishankar Parsai, Indian author (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Micheline Presle, French actress
• 1925 – Honor Blackman, English actress and singer
• 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 anthropologist (d. 1991)
• 1929 – Ulrich Wegener, German general and police officer
• 1930 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut
• 1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Annie Proulx, American journalist and 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 and guitarist (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster
• 1938 – Jean Berkey, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Paul Maguire, American football player and sportscaster
• 1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress and singer
• 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 player and coach
• 1941 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and author (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 director, producer, and screenwriter
• 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-songwriter (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, and Jerry Garcia Band, and Donna Jean Godchaux Band)
• 1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1948 – Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
• 1948 – David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys)
• 1949 – Doug Bair, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic author and poet
• 1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
• 1950 – Ray Burris, American baseball player and coach
• 1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
• 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, producer, and politician
• 1955 – Gordon Liu, Chinese martial artist and actor
• 1956 – Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 – Steve Davis, English snooker player
• 1958 – Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
• 1958 – Stevie Ray, American wrestler
• 1958 – Vernon Reid, English-American guitarist and songwriter (Living Colour)
• 1959 – Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Ratt and Dokken)
• 1959 – Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician, Finance Minister of Denmark
• 1959 – Kidd Kraddick, American radio host (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Mark Williams, English actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Holger Gehrke, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Andrés Calamaro, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Los Abuelos de la Nada and Los Rodríguez)
• 1961 – Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, 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, pianist, and producer (Y Kant Tori Read)
• 1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1964 – Tom Gibis, American voice actor
• 1964 – Diane Setterfield, English author
• 1964 – Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
• 1964 – Andrew Wilson, American actor and director
• 1965 – Courtney Gains, American actor and producer
• 1965 – Chen Liping, Singaporean actress
• 1966 – Gza, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
• 1966 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1966 – Brooke Dillman, American actress
• 1966 – Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English 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, Class of '99, Mad Season, and Sleze) (d. 2002)
• 1967 – Bill Welke, American baseball umpire
• 1968 – Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Newsboys and Paul Colman Trio)
• 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-Irish author and journalist
• 1970 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
• 1970 – Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
• 1970 – Shaun Steels, English drummer and bass player (My Dying Bride and Anathema)
• 1971 – Richard Armitage, English actor
• 1971 – Craig Finn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller)
• 1971 – Rick Yune, American actor and martial artist
• 1972 – Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 – Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Matchbox Twenty, The Break and Repair Method, and Tabitha's Secret)
• 1972 – Steve Kline, American baseball player and coach
• 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 – Beenie Man, Jamaican rapper and producer
• 1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1974 – Brimstone, American wrestler and author
• 1974 – Agustín Pichot, Argentinian rugby player
• 1974 – Lee Sheppard, Australian animator
• 1975 – Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Davor Krznarić, Croatian footballer
• 1975 – Sheree Murphy, English actress
• 1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
• 1976 – Marius Bezykornovas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Bryn Davies, American bassist, cellist, and pianist
• 1976 – Laurent Hernu, French decathlete
• 1976 – Randy Wolf, American baseball player
• 1977 – Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
• 1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1978 – Robert Levon Been, American singer and guitarist (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
• 1978 – James Corden, English actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Ioannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
• 1978 – Ed Petrie, English comedian and actor
• 1978 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian guitarist (Simple Plan)
• 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 singer
• 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, Ghanaian-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
• 1986 – Janis Vahter, Estonian basketball player
• 1987 – Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Karlie Simon, English porn actress
• 1988 – Sarah Major, New Zealand actress
• 1989 – Georgina Moffat, English-Australian 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
• 1994 – Olli Maatta, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1996 – Shannon Flynn, English actress
• 1999 – Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
• 2002 – Me, a random guy

Deaths

• 408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
• 1155 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
• 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, Lord President of the Council (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 singer-songwriter (b. 1553)
• 1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572)
• 1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Estonian-Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (b. 1583)
• 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Polish astronomer (b. 1610)
• 1680 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• 1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1793 – Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German-Austrian wife of Wolfgang Amadeus 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, English politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet (b. 1802)
• 1861 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 – Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian politician (b. 1817)
• 1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English 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 politician, 2nd Minister of Finance for Ireland (b. 1890)
• 1926 – Charles William Eliot, American academic (b. 1834)
• 1933 – Alexandros Kontoulis, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1858)
• 1940 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
• 1940 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1861)
• 1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (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 – Johannes Sikkar, Estonian politician (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
• 1963 – Lord Nuffield, English motor manufacturer and philanthropist (b. 1877)
• 1965 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 – James T. Farrell, American author and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Boris Pugo, Latvian politician, Soviet Interior Minister (b.1937)
• 1994 – Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (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 skater and coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and 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-Italian composer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Mati Unt, Estonian author and director (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Gladys Powers, Canadian soldier (b. 1899)
• 2009 – Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Stjepan Bobek, Croatian 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 educator and politician (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Nina Bawden, English author (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Larry Carp, American lawyer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Charles Flores, Cuban-American bassist (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese military leader and politician
• 2012 – Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Martin Shikuku, Kenyan politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Jeffrey Stone, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2012 – András József Szennay, Hungarian clergyman (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Keiko Fuji, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Petr Kment, Czech wrestler (b. 1942)
• 2013 – William McIlroy, English journalist and activist (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ronald Motley, American lawyer (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Andrea Servi, Italian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2013 – Peter Waieng, Papua New Guinea politician (b. 1966)

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