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August 27 is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 126 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
• 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
• 1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
• 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
• 1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
• 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
• 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
• 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
• 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
• 1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
• 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
• 1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
• 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
• 1861 – Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
• 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
• 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
• 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
• 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
• 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
• 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
• 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
• 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
• 1971 – An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
• 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
• 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
• 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
• 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
• 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
• 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
• 2000 – The 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
• 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
• 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
• 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
• 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
• 2013 – The riots between two religious communities started at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Births

• 1407 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
• 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
• 1487 – Anna of Brandenburg (d. 1514)
• 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician, 2nd Proprietor of Maryland (d. 1715)
• 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
• 1669 – Anne Marie d'Orléans, French wife of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1728)
• 1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian general (d. 1748)
• 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and politician (d. 1781)
• 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
• 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
• 1803 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
• 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
• 1812 – Bertalan Szemere, Hungarian poet and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1869)
• 1845 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St. Elisabeth (d. 1914)
• 1845 – Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (d. 1909)
• 1856 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1858 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
• 1864 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (d. 1919)
• 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian (d. 1935)
• 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• 1868 – Hong Beomdo, Korean activist (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat (d. 1919)
• 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American journalist and author (d. 1945
• 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
• 1875 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (d. 1967)
• 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1910)
• 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician (d. 1963)
• 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general (d. 1928)
• 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic (d. 1966)
• 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (d. 1979)
• 1886 – Eric Coates, English viola player and composer (d. 1957)
• 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
• 1890 – Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (d. 1933)
• 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
• 1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (d. 1993)
• 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1963)
• 1899 – C. S. Forester, Egyptian-English author (d. 1966)
• 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1968)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1904 – Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (d. 1963)
• 1904 – Norah Lofts, English author (d. 1983)
• 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (d. 1982)
• 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Ed Gein, American murderer (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German painter (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
• 1909 – Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1959)
• 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress, singer and dancer (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Heidi Kabel, German actress and singer (d. 2010)
• 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Martha Raye, American actress and singer (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Gordon Bashford, English car design and engineer (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986)
• 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Leo Penn, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician, Minister of Defence for The Netherlands (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian journalist and poet (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal
• 1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor and composer (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer and manager (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Saiichi Maruya, Japanese author and critic (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, 54th Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician, Chief Minister of KwaZulu
• 1928 – Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Ira Levin, American author, playwright, and composer (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
• 1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Bangladeshi-American guru and poet (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
• 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Antonia Fraser, English author
• 1933 – Jenő Hámori, Hungarian fencer
• 1933 – Joke Smit, Dutch activist and politician (d. 1981)
• 1935 – Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
• 1935 – Frank Yablans, American screenwriter and producer
• 1936 – Joel Kovel, American scholar and politician
• 1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
• 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
• 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
• 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) (d. 2005)
• 1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (Last Exit) (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (d. 2011)
• 1941 – János Konrád, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer
• 1941 – Harrison Page, American actor
• 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboard player and songwriter (Captain & Tennille)
• 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian educator and politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
• 1943 – Chuck Girard, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Love Song and The Castells)
• 1943 – Bob Kerrey, American lieutenant and politician, 35th Governor of Nebraska
• 1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress and singer
• 1944 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
• 1944 – Jan Bols, Dutch speed skater
• 1944 – Barbara Trentham, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch technician (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer and manager
• 1947 – Barbara Bach, American model and actress
• 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer and politician
• 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Harry Reems, American porn actor (d. 2013)
• 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer (Love Song)
• 1948 – Sgt. Slaughter, American wrestler and actor
• 1948 – Philippe Vallois, French director and screenwriter
• 1949 – Jeff Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama)
• 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1950 – Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Colosseum II, and Gogmagog)
• 1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager
• 1951 – Mack Brown, American football player and coach
• 1951 – Randall Garrison, American-Canadian criminologist and politician
• 1952 – Paul Reubens, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rush and Big Dirty Band)
• 1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright
• 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1954 – Derek Warwick, English race car driver
• 1955 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
• 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
• 1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress
• 1957 – Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
• 1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• 1958 – Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1958 – Stalking Cat, American body modifier (d. 2012)
• 1958 – Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1958 – Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright
• 1959 – Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
• 1959 – Downtown Julie Brown, English television host and actress
• 1959 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
• 1959 – András Petöcz, Hungarian author and poet
• 1959 – Jeanette Winterson, English author
• 1959 – Denice Denton, American engineer and academic (d. 2006)
• 1961 – Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress
• 1961 – Mark Curry, English television host and actor
• 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer, actor, and director
• 1961 – Mark McConnell, American drummer (Blackfoot, Madam X, and Southern Rock Allstars) (d. 2012)
• 1961 – Urmas Muru, Estonian architect
• 1961 – Helmut Winklhofer, German footballer
• 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director
• 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 – Paul Bernardo, Canadian murderer and rapist
• 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor
• 1964 – Stephan Elliott, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Scott Dibble, American politician
• 1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1965 – Ange Postecoglou, Greek-Australian footballer and coach
• 1966 – Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower
• 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1967 – Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1969 – Mark Ealham, English cricketer
• 1969 – Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer
• 1969 – Reece Shearsmith, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress and director
• 1970 – Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
• 1970 – Mark Ilott, English cricketer
• 1970 – Tony Kanal, English-American bass player, songwriter, and producer (No Doubt)
• 1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer and manager
• 1970 – Park Myeong-su, South Korean singer-songwriter and television host
• 1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player and manager
• 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
• 1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1971 – Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1971 – Aygül Özkan, German politician
• 1972 – Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player
• 1972 – Felix da Housecat, American DJ and producer
• 1972 – The Great Khali, Indian wrestler and actor
• 1972 – Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
• 1972 – Jimmy Pop, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bloodhound Gang)
• 1973 – Jazz, American wrestler
• 1973 – Cory Bowles, Canadian actor, singer, and choreographer
• 1973 – Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
• 1973 – Dietmar Hamann, German footballer and manager
• 1973 – Burak Kut, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Johan Norberg, Swedish historian and author
• 1974 – Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
• 1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1974 – Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
• 1975 – Blake Adams, American golfer
• 1975 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (In Flames and All Ends)
• 1975 – Jonny Moseley, American skier
• 1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
• 1976 – Milano Collection A.T., Japanese wrestler
• 1976 – Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
• 1976 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
• 1977 – Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1977 – Justin Miller, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American actor and director
• 1979 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver
• 1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre)
• 1979 – Aaron Paul, American actor
• 1979 – Rusty Smith, American speed skater
• 1980 – Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress
• 1980 – Kyle Lowder, American actor
• 1981 – Patrick J. Adams, Canadian actor and producer
• 1981 – Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Damien Monier, French cyclist
• 1983 – Bolin Chen, Taiwanese actor
• 1984 – David Bentley, English footballer
• 1984 – Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 – Kevan Hurst, English footballer
• 1985 – Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer
• 1985 – Daniel Küblböck, German singer and actor
• 1985 – Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter
• 1986 – Mario, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1986 – Nabil El Zhar, French-Moroccan footballer
• 1987 – Darren McFadden, American football player
• 1988 – Alexa Vega, American actress and singer
• 1989 – Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress
• 1989 – Romain Amalfitano, French footballer
• 1990 – Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer
• 1991 – Rikiya Otaka, Japanese actor
• 1992 – Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter
• 1993 – Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
• 1995 – Cainan Wiebe, Canadian actor

Deaths

• 542 – Caesarius of Arles, French bishop and saint (b. 470)
• 749 – Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Khorasan general
• 827 – Pope Eugene II
• 1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1261)
• 1394 – Emperor Chōkei of Japan (b. 1343)
• 1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
• 1521 – Josquin des Prez, Flemish composer (b. 1450)
• 1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish archbishop (b. 1487)
• 1577 – Titian, Italian painter (b. 1488)
• 1590 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
• 1635 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
• 1664 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
• 1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1700)
• 1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
• 1828 – Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 – William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1909 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1929 – Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)
• 1931 – Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860)
• 1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (b. 1846)
• 1934 – Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim (b. 1905)
• 1944 – Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)
• 1945 – Hubert Pál Álgyay, Hungarian engineer, designed the Petőfi Bridge (b. 1894)
• 1948 – Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 – Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1961 – Kálmán Rózsahegyi, Hungarian actor and educator (b. 1873)
• 1963 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1963 – Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Gracie Allen, American actress and singer (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 – Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
• 1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Erika Mann, German actress and author (b. 1905)
• 1971 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Mukesh, Indian singer (b. 1923)
• 1978 – Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Douglas Kenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 1981 – Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 1984 – Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Scott La Rock, American DJ and producer (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
• 1988 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
• 1988 – William Sargant, English psychiatrist (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian diplomat (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1954)
• 1994 – Frank Jeske, German footballer (b. 1960)
• 1994 – Boris Malenko, American wrestler (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Essie Summers, New Zealand author (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American academic (b. 1936)
• 2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Edwin Louis Cole, American religious leader and author (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Peter-Paul Pigmans, Dutch record producer (b. 1961)
• 2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek trumpet player and composer (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Seán Purcell, Irish footballer (b. 1929)
• 2006 – María Capovilla, Ecuadorian super-centenarian (b. 1889)
• 2006 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Brujeria, and Lock Up) (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1970)
• 2009 – Abdullah al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1986)
• 2009 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and poet (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Anton Geesink, Dutch martial artist (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Luna Vachon, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Neville Alexander, South African linguist and activist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Art Heyman, American basketball player (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Richard Kingsland, Australian captain and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Gely Korzhev, Russian painter (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Antoine Redin, French footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Aboud Rogo, Kenyan cleric (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Russell Scott, American clown (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Tao Wei, Chinese footballer and sportscaster (b. 1966)
• 2013 – Helene Brandt, American sculptor (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Kent Finell, Swedish radio host (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Chris Kennedy, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian footballer (b. 1986)
• 2013 – Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (b. 1910)
• 2013 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian murderer (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Bill Peach, Australian journalist (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Héctor Sanabria, Argentinian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2013 – Dave Thomas, Welsh golfer (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Baculus of Sorrento
  • Caesarius of Arles
  • Margaret the Barefooted
  • Monica of Hippo, mother of Augustine of Hippo
  • Phanourios of Rhodes
  • Rufus and Carpophorus
  • Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas)
• Volturnalia, held in honor of Volturnus. (Roman Empire)

External links

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

• Days of the year
• August