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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)
• 1068 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (d. 1123)
• 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
• 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
• 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
• 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
• 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644)
• 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi (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 soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
• 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (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 colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)
• 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
• 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
• 1819 – Herman Melville, American author (d. 1891)
• 1841 – Lilli Suburg, Estonian journalist, writer and feminist (d. 1923)
• 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, 13th President of France (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 (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, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer (d. 1977)
• 1910 – James Henry Govier, English 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-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (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, English 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 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• 1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
• 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer
• 1926 – George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Afghanistan (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (d. 1996)
• 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 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, singer, director, and producer (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 judge (d. 2012)
• 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
• 1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer
• 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, Egyptian-English biologist (d. 2000)
• 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician
• 1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
• 1939 – Robert James Waller, American author
• 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
• 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli director and screenwriter
• 1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded the Cendant Corporation
• 1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 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, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian 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 colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
• 1947 – Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
• 1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
• 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, English author (d. 2006)
• 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 author (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer and guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt)
• 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976)
• 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 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 and author
• 1954 – James Gleick, American journalist and author
• 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (d. 2006)
• 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
• 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
• 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
• 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier
• 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll Congress)
• 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
• 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (Ground Zero and Filament)
• 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper and producer (Public Enemy, The Bomb Squad, and Confrontation Camp)
• 1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (L7)
• 1960 – Professor Griff, American rapper (Public Enemy and Confrontation Camp)
• 1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor and singer
• 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
• 1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (WC and the Maad Circle)
• 1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor
• 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
• 1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand swimmer
• 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
• 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
• 1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter and producer (Counting Crows and The Himalayans)
• 1964 – Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
• 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
• 1965 – Brandt Jobe, American golfer
• 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
• 1966 – George Ducas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
• 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
• 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist (Disturbed, Fight or Flight, and Vandal)
• 1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 – Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer
• 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
• 1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
• 1969 – Stuart Wade, English actor
• 1969 – David Wain, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Quentin Coryatt, American football player
• 1970 – David James, English footballer and manager
• 1970 – Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
• 1971 – Ágúst Gylfason, Icelandic footballer
• 1971 – Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug lord
• 1971 – Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
• 1972 – Devon Hughes, American wrestler
• 1972 – Martin Damm, Czech tennis player
• 1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (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 and coach
• 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 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach
• 1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
• 1975 – Vhrsti, Czech author and illustrator
• 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
• 1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
• 1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
• 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
• 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
• 1976 – David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
• 1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
• 1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Darnerien McCants, American-Canadian football player
• 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Marcel Schlutt, German porn actor and model
• 1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
• 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
• 1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thenewno2, Traveling Wilburys, and Fistful of Mercy)
• 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
• 1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Jonathan Wilkes, English singer and actor
• 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, English-American actor
• 1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer
• 1981 – Brett Chukerman, American actor
• 1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Vaiko Eplik, Estonian singer-songwriter
• 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 – Ashley Parker Angel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (O-Town)
• 1981 – Sally Pressman, American actress and dancer
• 1982 – Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
• 1982 – Kimberly Holland, American model
• 1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress
• 1982 – Anthony Murphy, Irish footballer
• 1982 – Oluchi Onweagba, Nigerian model
• 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
• 1983 – Bobby Carpenter, American football player
• 1983 – Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Julien Faubert, French footballer
• 1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
• 1984 – Steve Feak, American game designer
• 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
• 1984 – Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
• 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer
• 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
• 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
• 1985 – Hyun Jyu-ni, South Korean singer and actress
• 1985 – Cole Kimball, American baseball player
• 1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Armenian mixed martial artist
• 1985 – Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
• 1985 – Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak footballer
• 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1986 – Jonas Plass, German sprinter
• 1986 – Jörn Schlönvoigt, German actor and singer
• 1986 – Lucas Simón, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
• 1986 – Mike Wallace, American football player
• 1987 – Jakov Fak, Croatian-Slovenian biathlete
• 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
• 1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
• 1988 – Max Carver, American actor
• 1988 – Sasha Jackson, English-American actress
• 1988 – Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
• 1989 – Tiffany, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS)
• 1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
• 1989 – Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
• 1990 – Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
• 1990 – Jack O'Connell, English actor
• 1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
• 1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
• 1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage, Hello Pro Kenshūsei, and Shugo Chara Egg!)
• 1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
• 1996 – Solomon Curtis, English 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)
• 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 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Chua Boon Huat, Malaysian field hockey player (b. 1980)
• 2013 – John Dengate, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Mike Hinton, American guitarist (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Dick Kazmaier, American football player (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Babe Martin, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Toby Saks, American cellist (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Wilford White, American football player (b. 1928)

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