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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| * [[1819]] - [[Simón Bolívar]] triumphs over [[Spain]]. | * [[1819]] - [[Simón Bolívar]] triumphs over [[Spain]]. | ||
| - | + | * [[1936]] - [["Execution" of the Sacred Heart by leftist militiamen at Cerro de los Ángeles near Madrid, on 7 August 1936]] | |
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| * [[1560]] - [[Elizabeth Báthory]], Hungarian serial killer (d. [[1614]]) | * [[1560]] - [[Elizabeth Báthory]], Hungarian serial killer (d. [[1614]]) | ||
| - | * [[1574]] - [[Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick]], English writer (d. [[1649]]) | ||
| - | * [[1598]] - [[Georg Stiernhielm]], Swedish poet (d. [[1672]]) | ||
| - | * [[1726]] - [[James Bowdoin]], American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. [[1790]]) | ||
| - | * [[1742]] - [[Nathanael Greene]], American Revolutionary general (d. [[1786]]) | ||
| - | * [[1779]] - [[Louis de Freycinet]], French explorer (d. [[1842]]) | ||
| - | * 1779 - [[Carl Ritter]], German geographer (d. [[1859]]) | ||
| - | * [[1844]] - [[Auguste Michel-Lévy]], French geologist (d. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | * [[1860]] - [[Alan Leo]], British astrologer (d. [[1917]]) | ||
| * [[1867]] - [[Emil Nolde]], German painter (d. [[1956]]) | * [[1867]] - [[Emil Nolde]], German painter (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| * [[1876]] - [[Mata Hari]], Dutch spy (d. [[1917]]) | * [[1876]] - [[Mata Hari]], Dutch spy (d. [[1917]]) | ||
| - | * [[1877]] - [[Ulrich Salchow]], Swedish figure skater (d. [[1949]]) | + | * [[1911]] - [[Nicholas Ray]], American actor, director and scenarist (d. 1979) |
| - | * [[1885]] - [[Billie Burke]], American actress (d. [[1970]]) | + | * [[1936]] - [[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]], American saxophonist (d. 1977) |
| - | * [[1901]] - [[Ann Harding]], American actress (d. [[1981]]) | + | * [[1942]] - [[Caetano Veloso]], Brazilian musician |
| - | * [[1903]] - [[Louis Leakey]], British archaeologist (d. [[1972]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1904]] - [[Ralph Bunche]], American diplomat, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1971]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1907]] - [[Albert Kotin]], American [[abstract expressionist]] painter of the [[New York School]] (d. [[1980]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1911]] - [[Nicholas Ray]], American actor, director and scenarist (d. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1913]] - [[George Van Eps]], noted American guitarist (d. [[1998]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1921]] - [[Manitas de Plata]], Gypsy guitarist | + | |
| - | * [[1925]] - [[M. S. Swaminathan]], Indian scientist | + | |
| - | * 1925 - [[Felice and Boudleaux Bryant|Felice Bryant]], American country songwriter and singer (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1926]] - [[Stan Freberg]], American voice comedian | + | |
| - | * [[1927]] - [[Edwin W. Edwards]], four-term Louisiana governor | + | |
| - | * 1927 - [[Art Houtteman]], baseball player (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * 1927 - [[Carl Switzer]], American child actor (d. [[1959]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1928]] - [[Romeo Muller]], American screenwriter (d. [[1992]]) | + | |
| - | * 1928 - [[James Randi]], Canadian magician | + | |
| - | * [[1929]] - [[Don Larsen]], baseball player | + | |
| - | * [[1931]] - [[Charles E. Rice]], Legal Scholar and Author | + | |
| - | * [[1932]] - [[Abebe Bikila]], Ethiopan athlete (d. [[1973]]) | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[Maurice Rabb, Jr.|Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr.]], African American ophthalmologist | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[Edward Hardwicke]], British actor | + | |
| - | * [[1933]] - [[Eddie Firmani]], South African football(soccer) player and coach | + | |
| - | * [[1936]] - [[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]], American saxophonist | + | |
| - | * [[1939]] - [[Anjanette Comer]], American actress | + | |
| - | * [[1940]] - [[Jean-Luc Dehaene]], [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] | + | |
| - | * [[1942]] - [[Garrison Keillor]], American writer and radio host | + | |
| - | * 1942 - [[B.J. Thomas]], American singer | + | |
| - | * 1942 - [[Caetano Veloso]], Brazilian musician | + | |
| - | * 1942 - [[Carlos Monzón]], Argentine boxer | + | |
| - | * [[1943]] - [[Dino Valente]], American musician [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]] (d. [[1994]]) | + | |
| - | * 1943 - [[Alain Corneau]], French film director | + | |
| - | * [[1944]] - [[David Rasche]], American actor | + | |
| - | * [[1945]] - [[Alan Page]], American football player | + | |
| - | * [[1946]] - [[Ed Seykota]], [[commodity market|commodities]] and [[Futures contract|futures]] [[trader (finance)|trader]] | + | |
| - | * [[1947]] - [[Franciscus Henri]] (Franciscus Henricus Antheunis), children's entertainer, composer and artist | + | |
| - | * [[1948]] - [[Greg Chappell]], Australian test cricket player, captain and coach | + | |
| - | * [[1949]] - [[Walid Jumblatt]], Leader of the Lebanese Druze | + | |
| - | * [[1952]] - [[Alexei Sayle]], British comedian | + | |
| - | * [[1953]] - [[Greg Carmichael]], British guitarist | + | |
| - | * 1953 - [[Anne Fadiman]], American writer, daughter of [[Clifton Fadiman]] | + | |
| - | * [[1954]] - [[Jonathan Pollard]], Israeli spy | + | |
| - | * [[1955]] - [[Vladimir Sorokin]], Russian writer | + | |
| - | * 1955 - [[Wayne Knight]], American actor | + | |
| - | * [[1957]] - [[Alexander Dityatin]], Soviet gymnast | + | |
| - | * [[1958]] - [[Bruce Dickinson]], English singer ([[Iron Maiden]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1958]] - [[Alberto Salazar]], Member, American National Distance Running Hall of Fame | + | |
| - | * [[1960]] - [[David Duchovny]], American actor | + | |
| - | * [[1961]] - [[Yelena Davydova]], Soviet gymnast | + | |
| - | * [[1962]] - [[Bruno Pelletier]], [[Québécois]] singer | + | |
| - | * [[1963]] - [[Harold Perrineau Jr.]], American actor | + | |
| - | * [[1964]] - [[Michael Weishan]], American TV host, author | + | |
| - | * [[1966]] - [[Jimmy Wales]], American founder of Wikipedia | + | |
| - | * [[1967]] - [[Jason Grimsley]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * [[1971]] - [[Rachel York]], American actress and singer | + | |
| - | * [[1973]] - [[Danny Graves]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * [[1975]] - [[Edgar Renteria]], Colombian baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[David Hicks]], Australian alleged terrorist | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Charlize Theron]], South African actress | + | |
| - | * [[1976]] - [[Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos]], Greek footballer | + | |
| - | * [[1978]] - [[Jamey Jasta]], American singer ([[Hatebreed]]) | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Alexandre Aja]], French director | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Vanness Wu]], Taiwanese singer | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Linsey Dawn McKenzie]], English model and porn star | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Cirroc Lofton]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Shirley Yeung]], Hong Kong actress | + | |
| - | * [[1980]] - [[Aurélie Claudel]], French supermodel | + | |
| - | * [[1982]] - [[Yana Klochkova]], Ukrainian swimmer | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Vasileios Spanoulis]], Greek basketball player | + | |
| - | * [[1983]] - [[Tina O'Brien]], British actress | + | |
| - | * 1983 - [[Christian Chávez]], Mexican singer and actor, member of RBD | + | |
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Sidney Crosby]], Canadian hockey player | + | |
| - | * [[1989]] - [[Sherman Cárdenas]], Colombian football player | + | |
| - | * [[1996]] - [[Tessa Allen]], American actress | + | |
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[461]] - [[Majorian]], [[Roman Emperor]] (assassinated) (b. [[420]]) | + | * [[1884]] - [[Xavier Forneret]], French writer and poet (b. 1809) |
| - | * [[479]] - [[Emperor Yūryaku]] of Japan | + | * [[1984]] - [[Esther Phillips]], American singer (b. 1935) |
| - | * [[1106]] - [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1050]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1485]] - [[Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany]], Scottish prince | + | |
| - | * [[1613]] - [[Thomas Fleming (judge)|Thomas Fleming]], English judge (b. [[1544]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1616]] - [[Vincenzo Scamozzi]], Italian architect (b. [[1548]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1635]] - [[Friedrich von Spee]], German writer (b. [[1591]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1639]] - [[Martin van den Hove]], Dutch scientist (b. [[1605]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1661]] - [[Jin Shengtan]], Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. [[1608]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1817]] - [[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours]], French industrialist (b. [[1739]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1834]] - [[Joseph Marie Jacquard]], French weaver and inventor (b. [[1752]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1848]] - [[Jöns Jakob Berzelius]], Swedish chemist (b. [[1779]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1855]] - [[Mariano Arista]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1802]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1912]] - [[François-Alphonse Forel]], Swiss hydrologist (b. [[1841]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1917]] - [[Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning]], first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. [[1891]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1938]] - [[Konstantin Stanislavski]], Russian/Soviet actor, producer, dramatist (b. [[1863]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1941]] - [[Rabindranath Tagore]], Indian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1861]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1957]] - [[Oliver Hardy]], American comedian and actor (b. [[1892]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1969]] - [[Joseph Kosma]], French composer ([[Autumn Leaves (song)|Autumn Leaves]]) (b. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1972]] - [[Joi Lansing]], American model and actress (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1974]] - [[Rosario Castellanos]], Mexican poet (b. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | * 1974 - [[Sylvio Mantha]], professional ice hockey player (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1984]] - [[Esther Phillips]], American singer (b. [[1935]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1985]] - [[Grayson Hall]], American actress (b. [[1923]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1987]] - [[Camille Chamoun]], Lebanese President (b. [[1900]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1989]] - [[Mickey Leland]], American politician, [[United States Congressional Delegations from Texas|United States Congressman from Texas]] (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1992]] - [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]], American actor (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1994]] - [[Larry Martyn]], comedy actor (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1995]] - [[Brigid Brophy]], British author (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | * [[1999]] - [[Brion James]], American actor (b. [[1945]]) | + | |
| - | * [[2003]] - [[Mickey McDermott]], baseball player (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | * [[2004]] - [[Red Adair]], American firefighter (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Colin Bibby]], English ornithologist (b. [[1948]]) | + | |
| - | * [[2005]] - [[Peter Jennings]], Canadian-born news anchor (b. [[1938]]) | + | |
| - | * [[2006]] - [[Mary Anderson Bain]], American [[New Deal]] politician (b. [[1911]]) | + | |
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| - | == Notes == | + | |
| - | *[[Elizabeth Báthory]] | + | |
| - | *[[Mata Hari]] | + | |
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Art and culture
- 1819 - Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain.
- 1936 - "Execution" of the Sacred Heart by leftist militiamen at Cerro de los Ángeles near Madrid, on 7 August 1936
Births
- 1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
- 1867 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
- 1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
- 1911 - Nicholas Ray, American actor, director and scenarist (d. 1979)
- 1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
- 1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
Deaths
- 1884 - Xavier Forneret, French writer and poet (b. 1809)
- 1984 - Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
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