August 7
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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
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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
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Deaths
- 1884 - Xavier Forneret, French writer and poet (b. 1809)
- 1984 - Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
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