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Day of the year
August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 124 days remain until the end of the year.
708 –
Copper coins are minted in
Japan for the first time (Traditional
Japanese date : August 10, 708).
870 – The city of
Melite surrenders to an
Aghlabid army
following a siege , putting an end to
Byzantine Malta .
[1]
1009 –
Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its
inauguration .
1219 – The
Battle of Fariskur occurs during the
Fifth Crusade .
[2]
1261 –
Pope Urban IV succeeds
Pope Alexander IV , becoming the 182nd pope.
1315 –
Battle of Montecatini : The army of the
Republic of Pisa , commanded by
Uguccione della Faggiuola , wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the
Kingdom of Naples and the
Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
[3]
1350 –
Battle of Winchelsea (or
Les Espagnols sur Mer ): The
English
naval fleet under King
Edward III defeats a
Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
[4]
1475 – The
Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of
France and England.
1484 –
Pope Innocent VIII succeeds
Pope Sixtus IV .
1498 –
Vasco da Gama decides to depart
Calicut and return to the
Kingdom of Portugal .
1521 – The
Ottoman Turks capture
Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
1526 –
Battle of Mohács : The
Ottoman Turks led by
Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last
Jagiellonian king of
Hungary and
Bohemia .
1541 – The
Ottoman Turks capture
Buda , the capital of the
Hungarian Kingdom .
1588 –
Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide
sword hunting ordinance , disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the
samurai and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralise his own power.
[5]
1728 – The city of
Nuuk in
Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the
royal governor
Claus Paarss .
1741 – The
eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami : At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a
tsunami caused by the eruption of
Oshima .
[6]
1756 –
Frederick the Great attacks
Saxony , beginning the
Seven Years' War in Europe.
1758 – The
Treaty of Easton establishes the first American
Indian reservation , at
Indian Mills, New Jersey , for the
Lenape .
1778 –
American Revolutionary War : British and American forces battle indecisively at the
Battle of Rhode Island .
1779 – American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and
Iroquois forces at the
Battle of Newtown .
[7]
1786 –
Shays' Rebellion , an armed uprising of
Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1807 – British troops under Sir
Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside
Copenhagen in the
Battle of Køge .
1825 –
Portuguese and
Brazilian diplomats sign the
Treaty of Rio de Janeiro , which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the
Brazilian war of independence . The treaty will be ratified by the
King of Portugal three months later.
[8]
1831 –
Michael Faraday discovers
electromagnetic induction .
1842 –
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the
First Opium War .
1861 –
American Civil War : The
Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of
Pamlico Sound .
1869 – The
Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing
rack railway .
1871 –
Emperor Meiji orders the
abolition of the han system and the establishment of
prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional
Japanese date : July 14, 1871).
1885 –
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first
internal combustion
motorcycle , the
Reitwagen .
1898 – The
Goodyear tire company is founded in
Akron, Ohio .
1903 – The
Slava , the last of the five
Borodino -class
battleships , is launched.
1907 – The
Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 – The
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 , also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the
period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1911 –
Ishi , considered the last
Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern
California .
1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the
Royal Canadian Navy .
[9]
1912 – A
typhoon strikes China , killing at least 50,000 people.
[10]
1914 –
World War I : Start of the
Battle of St. Quentin in which the French
Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at
Saint-Quentin, Aisne .
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise
F-4 , the first U.S.
submarine sunk in an accident.
1916 – The United States passes the
Philippine Autonomy Act .
1918 – World War I:
Bapaume taken by the
New Zealand Division in the
Hundred Days Offensive .
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of
St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1941 –
World War II :
Tallinn , the capital of
Estonia , is occupied by
Nazi Germany following an occupation by the
Soviet Union .
1943 – World War II:
German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its
navy ; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – World War II:
Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000
Slovak troops turn against the
Nazis .
1948 –
Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in
Fountain City, Wisconsin , killing all 37 aboard.
[11]
1949 –
Soviet atomic bomb project : The
Soviet Union tests its first
atomic bomb , known as
First Lightning or Joe 1 , at
Semipalatinsk ,
Kazakhstan .
1950 –
Korean War :
British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence.
1952 –
American
experimental composer
John Cage ’s
4’33” premieres at
Maverick Concert Hall , played by
American pianist
David Tudor .
[12]
1958 –
United States Air Force Academy opens in
Colorado Springs, Colorado .
1960 –
Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to
Yoff Airport in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.
[13]
1965 – The
Gemini V spacecraft returns to
Earth , landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 –
The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at
Candlestick Park in
San Francisco .
1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker
Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President
Gamal Abdel Nasser .
1970 –
Chicano Moratorium against the
Vietnam War ,
East Los Angeles, California . Police riot kills three people, including journalist
Rubén Salazar .
1975 –
El Tacnazo :
Peruvian
Prime Minister
Francisco Morales Bermúdez carries out a
coup d’état in the city of
Tacna , forcing the sitting
President of Peru ,
Juan Velasco Alvarado , to resign and assuming his place as the new
President .
[14]
1982 – The synthetic
chemical element
Meitnerium ,
atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in
Darmstadt , Germany.
1987 –
Odaeyang mass suicide : Thirty-three individuals linked to a
religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in
Yongin ,
South Korea . Investigators attribute their deaths to a
murder-suicide pact.
[15]
1991 –
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the
Soviet Communist Party .
1991 –
Libero Grassi , an Italian businessman from
Palermo , is killed by the
Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their
extortion demands.
1996 –
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 , a
Tupolev Tu-154 , crashes into a mountain on the
Arctic island of
Spitsbergen , killing all 141 aboard.
1997 –
Netflix is launched as an internet
DVD rental service.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
GIA in the
Rais massacre ,
Algeria .
1998 – Eighty people are killed when
Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a
rejected takeoff from the
Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in
Quito ,
Ecuador .
[16]
2001 – Four people are killed when
Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the
N-340 highway near
Málaga Airport .
[17]
2003 –
Sayed
Ayatollah
Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim , the
Shia Muslim leader in
Iraq , is
assassinated in a
terrorist bombing , along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a
mosque in
Najaf .
2005 –
Hurricane Katrina
devastates much of the
U.S. Gulf Coast from
Louisiana to the
Florida Panhandle , killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
2012 – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the
Xiaojiawan coal mine , located at
Panzhihua, Sichuan Province .
2012 – The
XIV Paralympic Games open in
London ,
England ,
United Kingdom .
[18]
2022 –
Russo-Ukrainian War : Ukraine begins its
southern counteroffensive in the
Kherson Oblast , eventually culminating in the
liberation of the city of
Kherson .
[19]
[20]
1619 –
Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French economist and politician,
Controller-General of Finances (d. 1683)
1628 –
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath , English soldier and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1701)
1632 –
John Locke , English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
1724 –
Giovanni Battista Casti , Italian poet and author (d. 1803)
1725 –
Charles Townshend , English politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1767)
1728 –
Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony , electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 –
Jan Śniadecki , Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)
1756 –
Count Heinrich von Bellegarde , Austrian general and politician (d. 1845)
1772 –
James Finlayson , Scottish
Quaker (d. 1852)
[21]
1777 –
Hyacinth , Russian religious leader, founded
Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 –
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , French painter and illustrator (d. 1867)
1792 –
Charles Grandison Finney , American minister and author (d. 1875)
1805 –
Frederick Denison Maurice , English priest, theologian, and author (d. 1872)
1809 –
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , American physician and author (d. 1894)
1810 –
Juan Bautista Alberdi , Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
1813 –
Henry Bergh , American activist, founded the
ASPCA (d. 1888)
[22]
1842 –
Alfred Shaw , English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (d. 1907)
1843 –
David B. Hill , American lawyer and politician, 29th
Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 –
Edward Carpenter , English anthologist and poet (d. 1929)
1854 –
William C. White , American
Seventh-day Adventist Church minister (d. 1937)
[23]
1857 –
Sandford Schultz , English cricketer (d. 1937)
1861 –
Byron G. Harlan , American singer (d. 1936)
1862 –
Andrew Fisher , Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th
Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 –
Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet and playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1871 –
Albert François Lebrun , French engineer and politician, 15th
President of France (d. 1950)
1875 –
Leonardo De Lorenzo , Italian flute player and educator (d. 1962)
1876 –
Charles F. Kettering , American engineer and businessman, founded
Delco Electronics (d. 1958)
1876 –
Kim Koo , South Korean politician, 6th
President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1879 –
Han Yong-un , Korean independence activist, reformer, and poet (d. 1944)
[24]
1887 –
Jivraj Narayan Mehta , Indian physicians and politician, 1st
Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)
1888 –
Salme Dutt , Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)
1890 –
Peder Furubotn , Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d. 1975)
1891 –
Marquis James , American journalist and author (d. 1955)
1898 –
Preston Sturges , American director and producer (d. 1959)
1901 –
Aurèle Joliat , Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1986)
1904 –
Werner Forssmann , German physician and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1905 –
Dhyan Chand , Indian field hockey player (d. 1979)
1905 –
Arndt Pekurinen , Finnish activist (d. 1941)
1910 –
Vivien Thomas , American surgeon and academic (d. 1985)
[25]
1911 –
John Charnley , British orthopedic surgeon (d. 1982)
1912 –
Sohn Kee-chung , South Korean runner (d. 2002)
1912 –
Barry Sullivan , American actor (d. 1994)
1912 –
Wolfgang Suschitzky , Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (d. 2016)
1913 –
Len Butterfield , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1913 –
Jackie Mitchell , American baseball pitcher (d. 1987)
[26]
1915 –
Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (d. 1982)
[27]
1915 –
Nathan Pritikin , American nutritionist and author (d. 1985)
1916 –
Luther Davis , American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1917 –
Isabel Sanford , American actress (d. 2004)
[27]
1920 –
Otis Boykin , American inventor and engineer (d. 1982)
[28]
[29]
1920 –
Charlie Parker , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
[27]
1920 –
Herb Simpson , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1921 –
Iris Apfel , American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (d. 2024)
[30]
1922 –
Arthur Anderson , American actor (d. 2016)
1922 –
Richard Blackwell , American actor, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
1922 –
John Edward Williams , American author and educator (d. 1994)
1923 –
Richard Attenborough , English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
[27]
1924 –
Dinah Washington , American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
[27]
1926 –
Helene Ahrweiler , Greek historian and academic
1926 –
René Depestre , Haitian writer
[31]
1926 –
Donn Fendler , American author and speaker (d. 2016)
1926 –
Betty Lynn , American actress (d. 2021)
1927 –
Jimmy C. Newman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1928 –
Herbert Meier , Swiss author and translator (d. 2018)
1929 –
Thom Gunn , English-American poet and academic (d. 2004)
1930 –
Jacques Bouchard , Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1930 –
Carlos Loyzaga , Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1931 –
Stelios Kazantzidis , Greek singer and guitarist (d. 2001)
1931 –
Lise Payette , Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2018)
1933 –
Sorel Etrog , Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (d. 2014)
1933 –
Arnold Koller , Swiss politician
1934 –
Dimitris Papamichael , Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
1935 –
Hugo Brandt Corstius , Dutch linguist and author (d. 2014)
1935 –
William Friedkin , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
[32]
1935 –
László Garai , Hungarian psychologist and scholar (d. 2019)
1936 –
John McCain , American captain and politician (d. 2018)
[27]
1937 –
James Florio , American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th
Governor of New Jersey (d. 2022)
1938 –
Elliott Gould , American actor and producer
[33]
1938 –
Angela Huth , English journalist and author
1938 –
Christian Müller , German footballer and manager
1938 –
Robert Rubin , American lawyer and politician, 70th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 –
Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek , Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter (d. 2022)
1939 –
Joel Schumacher , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1940 –
James Brady , American politician and activist, 15th
White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)
1940 –
Gary Gabelich , American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 –
Robin Leach , English journalist and television host (d. 2018)
[27]
1942 –
James Glennon , American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 –
Gottfried John , German actor (d. 2014)
1942 –
Sterling Morrison , American singer and guitarist (d. 1995)
[34]
1943 –
Mohamed Amin , Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)
1943 –
Dick Halligan , American pianist and composer (d. 2022)
1943 –
Arthur B. McDonald , Canadian astrophysicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1945 –
Chris Copping , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 –
Wyomia Tyus , American sprinter
1946 –
Bob Beamon , American long jumper
1946 –
Francine D. Blau , American economist and academic
1946 –
Demetris Christofias , Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th
President of Cyprus (d. 2019)
1946 –
Warren Jabali , American basketball player (d. 2012)
[35]
1946 –
Giorgio Orsoni , Italian lawyer and politician, 17th
Mayor of Venice
1947 –
Temple Grandin , American ethologist, academic, and author
[27]
1947 –
James Hunt , English race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1948 –
Robert S. Langer , American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and academic
1949 –
Stan Hansen , American wrestler and actor
1949 –
Darnell Hillman , American basketball player
[36]
1950 –
Doug DeCinces , American baseball player
1950 –
Frank Henenlotter , American director and screenwriter
1950 –
Dave Reichert , American soldier and politician
1950 –
Aki Yashiro , Japanese singer (d. 2023)
[37]
1951 –
Geoff Whitehorn , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 –
Karen Hesse , American author and poet
1952 –
Dave Malone , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 –
Don Schlitz , American
Hall of Fame country music songwriter
1952 –
Deborah Van Valkenburgh , American actress
[33]
1953 –
David Boaz , American businessman and author
1953 –
Richard Harding , English rugby player
1953 –
James Quesada , Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
1954 –
Michael P. Kube-McDowell , American journalist, author, and academic
1955 –
Diamanda Galás , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1955 –
Jack Lew , American lawyer and politician, 25th
White House Chief of Staff
1956 –
Mark Morris , American dancer and choreographer
1956 –
Eddie Murray , American football player
1956 –
Charalambos Xanthopoulos , Greek footballer
1956 –
Steve Yarbrough , American novelist and short story writer
1957 –
Jerry D. Bailey , American jockey and sportscaster
1957 –
Grzegorz Ciechowski , Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer (d. 2001)
1958 –
Lenny Henry , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1958 –
Michael Jackson , American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (d. 2009)
[27]
1959 –
Rebecca De Mornay , American actress
[33]
1959 –
Ramón Díaz , Argentinian footballer and manager
1959 –
Ray Elgaard , Canadian football player
1959 –
Chris Hadfield , Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
[27]
1959 –
Eddi Reader , Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 –
Timothy Shriver , American businessman and activist
1959 –
Stephen Wolfram , English-American physicist and mathematician
1959 –
Nagarjuna , Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
1960 –
Todd English , American chef and author
1960 –
Tony MacAlpine , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1961 –
Carsten Fischer , German field hockey player
1961 –
Rodney McCray , American basketball player
1962 –
Carl Banks , American football player and sportscaster
1962 –
Hiroki Kikuta , Japanese game designer and composer
1962 –
Ian James Corlett , Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author
1962 –
Simon Thurley , English historian and academic
1962 –
Richard Angelo , American serial killer and poisoner
[38]
1963 –
Elizabeth Fraser , Scottish singer-songwriter
1964 –
Perri "Pebbles" Reid , American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer-songwriter
1964 –
Zisis Tsekos , Greek footballer
1965 –
Will Perdue , American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 –
Geir-Inge Sivertsen , Norwegian politician and engineer,
Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood
[39]
1966 –
Jörn Großkopf , German footballer and manager
1967 –
Neil Gorsuch , American lawyer and jurist,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1967 –
Anton Newcombe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 –
Meshell Ndegeocello , German-American singer-songwriter
1969 –
Joe Swail , Northern Irish snooker player
1969 –
Jennifer Crittenden , American screenwriter and producer
1969 –
Lucero , Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host
[40]
1971 –
Henry Blanco , Venezuelan baseball player and coach
1971 –
Alex Griffin , English bass player
1971 –
Carla Gugino , American actress
[33]
1972 –
Amanda Marshall , Canadian singer-songwriter
1972 –
Bae Yong-joon , South Korean actor
1973 –
Vincent Cavanagh , English singer and guitarist
1973 –
Olivier Jacque , French motorcycle racer
1974 –
Kumi Tanioka , Japanese keyboard player and composer
1975 –
Dante Basco , American actor
[27]
1975 –
Kyle Cook , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[33]
1976 –
Stephen Carr , Irish footballer
1976 –
Phil Harvey , English manager
[41]
1976 –
Kevin Kaesviharn , American football player
1976 –
Georgios Kalaitzis , Greek basketball player
1976 –
Pablo Mastroeni , Argentine-American soccer player and manager
1976 –
Jon Dahl Tomasson , Danish footballer and manager
1977 –
Cayetano , Greek DJ and producer
1977 –
Devean George , American basketball player
1977 –
John Hensley , American actor
[33]
1977 –
John Patrick O'Brien , American soccer player
1977 –
Roy Oswalt , American baseball player
1977 –
Charlie Pickering , Australian comedian and radio host
1977 –
Aaron Rowand , American baseball player and sportscaster
1978 –
Volkan Arslan , German-Turkish footballer
1978 –
Celestine Babayaro , Nigerian footballer
1979 –
Stijn Devolder , Belgian cyclist
1979 –
Kristjan Rahnu , Estonian decathlete
1979 –
Ryan Shealy , American baseball player
1980 –
Chris Simms , American football player
1980 –
David West , American basketball player
1981 –
Martin Erat , Czech ice hockey player
1981 –
Geneviève Jeanson , Canadian cyclist
1981 –
Jay Ryan , New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
1982 –
Ruhila Adatia-Sood , Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)
1982 –
Carlos Delfino , Argentinian-Italian basketball player
1982 –
Yakhouba Diawara , French basketball player
[42]
1982 –
Vincent Enyeama , Nigerian footballer
1983 –
Jennifer Landon , American actress
[33]
1983 –
Antti Niemi , Finnish ice hockey player
1983 –
Anthony Recker , American baseball player
[43]
1986 –
Hajime Isayama , Japanese illustrator
1986 –
Lea Michele , American actress and singer
[33]
1987 –
Tony Kane , Irish footballer
1989 –
Charlotte Ritchie , English actress
[33]
1990 –
Jakub Kosecki , Polish footballer
1990 –
Chris Taylor , American baseball player
[44]
1990 –
Patrick van Aanholt , Dutch footballer
1991 –
Néstor Araujo , Mexican footballer
1991 –
Deshaun Thomas , American basketball player
1992 –
Mallu Magalhães , Brazilian singer-songwriter
1992 –
Noah Syndergaard , American baseball player
1993 –
Liam Payne , English singer-songwriter
[45]
1994 –
Ysaline Bonaventure , Belgian tennis player
[46]
1996 –
Daryll Neita , British sprinter
[47]
886 –
Basil I , Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
892 –
Theodora of Thessaloniki , Byzantine nun and saint (b. 812)
[48]
939 –
Wang Jipeng , Chinese emperor of Min
939 –
Li Chunyan , Chinese empress
956 –
Fu the Elder , Chinese empress
979 –
Abu Taghlib , Hamdanid emir
1021 –
Minamoto no Yorimitsu , Japanese nobleman (b. 948)
1046 –
Gerard of Csanád Venetian monk and Hungarian bishop (b.980)
[49]
1093 –
Hugh I , duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 –
Eystein I , king of Norway (b. 1088)
1135 –
Al-Mustarshid , Abbasid caliph (b. 1092)
1159 –
Bertha of Sulzbach , Byzantine empress
1298 –
Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar , English princess (b. 1269)
1315 –
Peter Tempesta , Italian nobleman (b. 1291)
1315 –
Charles of Taranto , Italian nobleman (b. 1296)
1395 –
Albert III , duke of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 –
John V , duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1499 –
Alesso Baldovinetti , Florentine painter (b. 1427)
1523 –
Ulrich von Hutten , Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
1526 –
Louis II , king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1506)
1526 –
Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
1533 –
Atahualpa , Inca emperor (b. 1497)
1542 –
Cristóvão da Gama , Portuguese commander (b. 1516)
1604 –
Hamida Banu Begum , Mughal empress (b. 1527)
[50]
1657 –
John Lilburne , English activist (b. 1614)
1712 –
Gregory King , English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
1749 –
Matthias Bel , Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
1769 –
Edmond Hoyle , English author and educator (b. 1672)
1780 –
Jacques-Germain Soufflot , French architect, co-designed
The Panthéon (b. 1713)
1799 –
Pius VI , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1717)
[51]
1844 –
Edmund Ignatius Rice , Irish missionary and educator, founded the
Christian Brothers and
Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 –
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , English author and activist (b. 1778)
1866 –
Tokugawa Iemochi , Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
1877 –
Brigham Young , American religious leader, 2nd
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
1889 –
Stefan Dunjov , Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
1891 –
Pierre Lallement , French businessman, invented the
bicycle (b. 1843)
1892 –
William Forbes Skene , Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
1904 –
Murad V , Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
1911 –
Mir Mahboob Ali Khan , 6th
Nizam of Hyderabad (b. 1866)
[52]
1917 –
George Huntington Hartford , American businessman (b. 1833)
1930 –
William Archibald Spooner , English priest and author (b. 1844)
1931 –
David T. Abercrombie , American businessman, co-founded
Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
1932 –
Raymond Knister , Canadian poet and author (b. 1899)
[53]
1944 –
Attik , Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
1946 –
Adolphus Busch III , American businessman (b. 1891)
1946 –
John Steuart Curry , American painter and academic (b. 1897)
1951 –
Sydney Chapman , English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
1952 –
Anton Piëch , Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
1958 –
Marjorie Flack , American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
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Sayyid Qutb , Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
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1972 –
Lale Andersen , German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 –
Éamon de Valera , Irish soldier and politician, 3rd
President of Ireland (b. 1882)
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Jean Hagen , American actress (b. 1923)
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1987 –
Archie Campbell , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
1987 –
Lee Marvin , American actor (b. 1924)
1989 –
Peter Scott , English explorer and painter (b. 1909)
1990 –
Manly Palmer Hall , Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)
1991 –
Libero Grassi , Italian businessman (b. 1924)
1992 –
Félix Guattari , French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
1995 –
Frank Perry , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2000 –
Shelagh Fraser , English actress (b. 1922)
2000 –
Willie Maddren , English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
2000 –
Conrad Marca-Relli , American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
2001 –
Graeme Strachan , Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (b. 1952)
2001 –
Francisco Rabal , Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2002 –
Lance Macklin , English race car driver (b. 1919)
2003 –
Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim , Iraqi politician (b. 1939)
2003 –
Patrick Procktor , English painter and academic (b. 1936)
2004 –
Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 –
James Muir Cameron Fletcher , New Zealand businessman (b. 1914)
2007 –
Richard Jewell , American police officer (b. 1962)
2007 –
Pierre Messmer , French civil servant and politician, 154th
Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
2007 –
Alfred Peet , Dutch-American businessman, founded
Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2008 –
Geoffrey Perkins , English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
2008 –
Michael Schoenberg , American geophysicist and theorist (b. 1939)
2011 –
Honeyboy Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
2011 –
Junpei Takiguchi , Japanese voice actor (b. 1931)
2012 –
Ruth Goldbloom , Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded
Pier 21 (b. 1923)
2012 –
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke , English historian and author (b. 1953)
2012 –
Shoshichi Kobayashi , Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
2012 –
Anne McKnight , American soprano (b. 1924)
2012 –
Les Moss , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)
2012 –
Sergei Ovchinnikov , Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969)
2013 –
Joan L. Krajewski , American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2013 –
Medardo Joseph Mazombwe , Zambian cardinal (b. 1931)
2013 –
Bruce C. Murray , American geologist and academic, co-founded
The Planetary Society (b. 1931)
2014 –
Octavio Brunetti , Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975)
2014 –
Björn Waldegård , Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
2016 –
Gene Wilder , American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933)
2018 –
James Mirrlees , Scottish economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)
2018 –
Paul Taylor , American choreographer (b. 1930)
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2021 –
Ed Asner , American actor (b. 1929)
[57]
2021 –
Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936)
[58]
2021 –
Jacques Rogge , Olympic sailor and Orthopedic Surgeon who served as the 8th
President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942)
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2023 –
Mike Enriquez (b. 1951), Filipino broadcaster
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