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Day of the year
August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 125 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1609 –
Henry Hudson discovers
Delaware Bay .
1619 – Election of
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor .
1640 –
Second Bishop's War : King
Charles I 's English army loses to a
Scottish Covenanter force at the
Battle of Newburn .
1648 –
Second English Civil War : The
Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the
Second English Civil War .
1709 –
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of
Manipur .
1789 –
William Herschel discovers a new
moon of Saturn :
Enceladus .
1810 –
Napoleonic Wars : The
French Navy accepts the surrender of a British
Royal Navy fleet at the
Battle of Grand Port .
1830 – The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's new
Tom Thumb
steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
1833 – The
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives
royal assent , making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the
British Empire with
exceptions .
[1]
1845 – The first issue of
Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 –
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire : After a month-long siege,
Venice , which had declared itself independent as the
Republic of San Marco , surrenders to Austria.
1850 –
Richard Wagner ’s
Lohengrin premieres at the
Staatskapelle Weimar .
[2]
1859 – The
Carrington event is the strongest
geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth.
Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
1861 –
American Civil War :
Union forces attack
Cape Hatteras ,
North Carolina in the
Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
1862 – American Civil War: The
Second Battle of Bull Run , also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.
1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied)
Midway Atoll .
1879 –
Anglo-Zulu War :
Cetshwayo , last king of the
Zulus , is captured by the
British .
1898 –
Caleb Bradham 's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "
Pepsi-Cola ".
1901–present
1901 –
Silliman University is founded in the
Philippines . It is the first American
private school in the country.
1909 – A group of mid-level
Greek Army officers launches the
Goudi coup , seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1913 –
Queen Wilhelmina opens the
Peace Palace in
The Hague .
1914 –
World War I : The
Royal Navy defeats the
German fleet in the
Battle of Heligoland Bight .
1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on
Romania .
1916 – World War I:
Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten
suffragists , members of the
Silent Sentinels , are arrested while picketing the
White House in favor of
women's suffrage in the United States .
1921 –
Russian Civil War : The
Red Army dissolved the
Makhnovshchina , after driving the
Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of
Ukraine .
1924 – The
Georgian opposition stages the
August Uprising against the
Soviet Union .
1936 –
Nazi Germany begins its
mass arrests of
Jehovah's Witnesses , who are interned in
concentration camps .
[3]
1937 –
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 –
Denmark in World War II : German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day,
martial law is imposed on Denmark.
1944 –
World War II :
Marseille and
Toulon are liberated.
1946 – The
Workers’ Party of North Korea , predecessor of the ruling
Workers’ Party of Korea , is founded at a
congress held in
Pyongyang ,
North Korea .
[4]
1955 –
Black teenager
Emmett Till is lynched in
Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent
civil rights movement .
1957 –
U.S. Senator
Strom Thurmond begins
a filibuster to prevent the
United States Senate from voting on the
Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest
filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963 –
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom : Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. gives his
I Have a Dream speech.
[5]
1964 – The
Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 – Police and protesters clash during
1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "
The whole world is watching ".
[6]
1973 –
Norrmalmstorg robbery :
Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers
Jan-Erik Olsson and
Clark Olofsson , defusing the
Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis . The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term
Stockholm syndrome .
[7]
1988 –
Ramstein air show disaster : Three aircraft of the
Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 –
Gulf War :
Iraq declares
Kuwait to be its
newest
province .
1990 –
An F5 tornado strikes the
Illinois cities of
Plainfield and
Joliet , killing 29 people.
1993 –
NASA 's
Galileo probe performs a
flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida . Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known
asteroid moon , in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
1993 –
Singaporean presidential election : Former Deputy Prime Minister
Ong Teng Cheong is elected
President of Singapore . Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
[8]
[9]
1993 – The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in
Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the
Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia .
[10]
1993 – A
Tajikistan Airlines
Yakovlev Yak-40
crashes during takeoff from
Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.
[11]
1996 –
Chicago Seven defendant
David Dellinger , antiwar activist
Bradford Lyttle ,
Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the
Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the
Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown
Chicago during
that year's Democratic National Convention .
[12]
1998 –
Pakistan 's
National Assembly passes a
constitutional amendment to make the "
Qur'an and
Sunnah " the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the
Senate .
1998 –
Second Congo War :
Loyalist troops backed by
Angolan and
Zimbabwean forces repulse the
RCD and
Rwandan offensive on
Kinshasa .
1999 – The Russian space mission
Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the
space station
Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
[13]
2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the
FBI ",
Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a
bank robbery , a
scavenger hunt , and a
homemade explosive device .
[14]
2016 – The first experimental mission of
ISRO 's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR,
Sriharikota .
[15]
2017 –
China–India border standoff :
China and
India both pull their troops out of
Doklam , putting an end to a two month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory.
[16]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1612 –
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn , Dutch linguist and scholar (d. 1653)
1667 –
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1691 –
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Holy Roman Empress (d. 1750)
1714 –
Anthony Ulrich , duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1728 –
John Stark , American general (d. 1822)
[17]
1739 –
Agostino Accorimboni , Italian composer (d. 1818)
1749 –
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)
1774 –
Elizabeth Ann Seton , American nun and saint, co-founded the
Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)
1801 –
Antoine Augustin Cournot , French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
1814 –
Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish author (d. 1873)
1816 –
Charles Sladen , English-Australian politician, 6th
Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1822 –
Graham Berry , English-Australian politician, 11th
Premier of Victoria (d. 1904)
1827 –
Catherine Mikhailovna , Russian grand duchess (d. 1894)
1833 –
Edward Burne-Jones , English artist of the
Pre-Raphaelite movement (d. 1898)
1837 –
Francis von Hohenstein , duke of Teck (d. 1900)
1840 –
Alexander Cameron Sim , Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded
Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (d. 1900)
1853 –
Vladimir Shukhov , Russian architect and engineer, designed the
Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)
1859 –
Matilda Howell , American archer (d. 1938)
1859 –
Vittorio Sella , Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
1867 –
Umberto Giordano , Italian composer and academic (d. 1948)
1878 –
George Whipple , American physician and pathologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1884 –
Peter Fraser , Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
1885 –
Vance Palmer , Australian author, playwright, and critic (d. 1959)
1887 –
August Kippasto , Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (d. 1973)
1887 –
István Kühár , Slovenian priest and politician (d. 1922)
1888 –
Evadne Price , Australian actress, astrologer, and author (d. 1985)
1891 –
Benno Schotz , Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (d. 1984)
1894 –
Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor and director (d. 1981)
1896 –
Firaq Gorakhpuri , Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 1982)
1898 –
Charlie Grimm , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 1983)
1899 –
Charles Boyer , French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)
1899 –
Béla Guttmann , Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 1981)
[18]
1899 –
Andrei Platonov , Russian author and poet (d. 1951)
1899 –
James Wong Howe , Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976)
1901–present
1903 –
Bruno Bettelheim , Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
1904 –
Secondo Campini , Italian-American engineer (d. 1980)
1904 –
Leho Laurine , Estonian chess player (d. 1998)
1905 –
Cyril Walters , Welsh-English cricketer (d. 1992)
1906 –
John Betjeman , English poet and academic (d. 1984)
1908 –
Roger Tory Peterson , American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
1910 –
Morris Graves , American painter and academic (d. 2001)
1910 –
Tjalling Koopmans , Dutch-American mathematician and economist
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 –
Joseph Luns , Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th
Secretary General of NATO (d. 2002)
1913 –
Robertson Davies , Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1995)
1913 –
Jack Dreyfus , American businessman, founded the
Dreyfus Corporation (d. 2009)
1913 –
Lindsay Hassett , Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1913 –
Robert Irving , English conductor and director (d. 1991)
1913 –
Terence Reese , English bridge player and author (d. 1996)
1913 –
Richard Tucker , American tenor and actor (d. 1975)
1915 –
Max Robertson , Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (d. 2009)
1915 –
Tasha Tudor , American author and illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 –
Hélène Baillargeon , Canadian singer and actress (d. 1997)
1916 –
C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (d. 1962)
1916 –
Jack Vance , American author (d. 2013)
1917 –
Jack Kirby , American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
[19]
1918 –
L. B. Cole , American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995)
1919 –
Godfrey Hounsfield , English biophysicist and engineer
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1921 –
John Herbert Chapman , Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
1921 –
Fernando Fernán Gómez , Spanish actor, director, and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 –
Nancy Kulp , American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
1921 –
Lidia Gueiler Tejada , the first female President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
1924 –
Janet Frame , New Zealand author and poet (d. 2004)
[19]
1924 –
Tony MacGibbon , New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)
1924 –
Peggy Ryan , American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 –
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi , Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014)
1925 –
Billy Grammer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
1925 –
Donald O'Connor , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
1925 –
Philip Purser , English author and critic (d. 2022)
1928 –
F. William Free , American businessman (d. 2003)
1928 –
Vilayat Khan , Indian
sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
1929 –
István Kertész , Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1929 –
Roxie Roker , American actress (d. 1995)
1930 –
Windsor Davies , British actor (d. 2019)
1930 –
Ben Gazzara , American actor (d. 2012)
1931 –
Tito Capobianco , Argentinian director and producer (d. 2018)
1931 –
Cristina Deutekom , Dutch soprano and actress (d. 2014)
1931 –
Ola L. Mize , American colonel,
Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014)
1931 –
John Shirley-Quirk , English actor, singer, and educator (d. 2014)
1931 –
Roger Williams , English hepatologist and academic (d. 2020)
1932 –
Yakir Aharonov , Israeli academic and educator
1932 –
Andy Bathgate , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
1933 –
Philip French , English journalist, critic, and producer (d. 2015)
[20]
1933 –
Patrick Kalilombe , Malawian bishop and theologian (d. 2012)
1935 –
Melvin Charney , Canadian sculptor and architect (d. 2012)
1935 –
Gilles Rocheleau , Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1998)
1935 –
Sonny Shroyer , American actor
[21]
1936 –
Don Denkinger , American baseball player and umpire (d. 2023)
1936 –
Warren M. Washington , American atmospheric scientist
1938 –
Marla Adams , American actress
[21]
1938 –
Maurizio Costanzo , Italian journalist and academic (d. 2023)
1938 –
Bengt Fahlström , Swedish journalist (d. 2017)
1938 –
Marcello Gandini , Italian automotive designer
[22]
1938 –
Paul Martin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st
Prime Minister of Canada
1939 –
John Kingman , English mathematician and academic
1940 –
William Cohen , American lawyer and politician, 20th
United States Secretary of Defense
1940 –
Ken Jenkins , American actor
[21]
1940 –
Roger Pingeon , French cyclist (d. 2017)
1941 –
Michael Craig-Martin , Irish painter and illustrator
1941 –
Toomas Leius , Estonian tennis player and coach
1941 –
John Stanley Marshall , English drummer
1941 –
Paul Plishka , American opera singer
1942 –
Wendy Davies , Welsh historian and academic
1942 –
Jorge Urosa , Venezuelan cardinal
1943 –
Jihad Al-Atrash , Lebanese actor and voice actor
1943 –
Surayud Chulanont , Thai general and politician, 24th
Prime Minister of Thailand
1943 –
Robert Greenwald , American director and producer
1943 –
Shuja Khanzada , Pakistani colonel and politician (d. 2015)
1943 –
Lou Piniella , American baseball player and manager
[19]
1943 –
David Soul , American actor and singer (d. 2024)
[21]
1944 –
Marianne Heemskerk , Dutch swimmer
1945 –
Bob Segarini , American-Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
1947 –
Emlyn Hughes , English footballer (d. 2004)
1947 –
Debra Mooney , American actress
[21]
1947 –
Liza Wang , Hong Kong actress and singer
1948 –
Vonda N. McIntyre , American author (d. 2019)
1948 –
Murray Parker , New Zealand cricketer and educator
1948 –
Heather Reisman , Canadian publisher and businesswoman
1948 –
Danny Seraphine , American drummer and producer
1948 –
Elizabeth Wilmshurst , English academic and jurist
1949 –
Hugh Cornwell , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 –
Svetislav Pešić , Serbian basketball player and coach
1950 –
Ron Guidry , American baseball player and coach
1950 –
Tony Husband , English cartoonist
1951 –
Colin McAdam , Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
1951 –
Wayne Osmond , American singer-songwriter and actor
[21]
1951 –
Keiichi Suzuki , Japanese singer-songwriter
1952 –
Jacques Chagnon , Canadian educator and politician
1952 –
Rita Dove , American poet and essayist
1952 –
Wendelin Wiedeking , German businessman
1953 –
Ditmar Jakobs , German footballer
1953 –
Tõnu Kaljuste , Estonian conductor and journalist
1954 –
Katharine Abraham , American feminist economist
1954 –
George M. Church , American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
1954 –
John Dorahy , Australian rugby player and coach
1954 –
Ravi Kanbur , Indian-English economist and academic
1956 –
Luis Guzmán , Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
[19]
1956 –
John Long , American basketball player
[23]
1956 –
Steve Whiteman , American singer-songwriter
1957 –
Greg Clark , English businessman and politician,
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
1957 –
Ivo Josipović , Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd
President of Croatia
1957 –
Daniel Stern , American actor and director
[21]
1957 –
Ai Weiwei , Chinese sculptor and activist
1958 –
Scott Hamilton , American figure skater
[19]
1959 –
Brian Thompson , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 –
Emma Samms , English actress
[21]
1961 –
Kim Appleby , English singer-songwriter and actress
1961 –
Cliff Benson , American football player
1961 –
Jennifer Coolidge , American actress
[21]
1961 –
Ian Pont , English cricketer and coach
1961 –
Deepak Tijori , Indian actor and director
1962 –
Paul Allen , English footballer
1962 –
Craig Anton , American actor and screenwriter
1962 –
David Fincher , American director and producer
1963 –
Maria Gheorghiu , Romanian folk singer-songwriter
1963 –
Regina Jacobs , American runner
1964 –
Lee Janzen , American golfer
1964 –
Kaj Leo Johannesen , Faroese footballer and politician, 12th
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1965 –
Dan Crowley , Australian rugby player
1965 –
Sonia Kruger , Australian television host and actress
1965 –
Satoshi Tajiri , Japanese video game developer; created
Pokémon
1965 –
Amanda Tapping , British-Canadian actress and director
[21]
1965 –
Shania Twain , Canadian singer-songwriter
[21]
1966 –
Priya Dutt , Indian social worker and politician
1967 –
Jamie Osborne , English jockey and trainer
1968 –
Billy Boyd , Scottish actor and singer
[21]
1969 –
Jack Black , American actor and comedian
[21]
1969 –
Mary McCartney , English photographer and activist
1969 –
Jason Priestley , Canadian actor, director, and producer
[21]
1969 –
Sheryl Sandberg , American business executive
[19]
1969 –
Pierre Turgeon , Canadian-American ice hockey player
1970 –
Melina Aslanidou , German-Greek singer-songwriter
1970 –
Rick Recht , American singer-songwriter
1971 –
Shane Andrews , American baseball player
1971 –
Todd Eldredge , American figure skater and coach
[19]
1971 –
Janet Evans , American swimmer
[19]
1971 –
Daniel Goddard , Australian-American actor
[21]
1971 –
Raúl Márquez , Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
1972 –
Ravindu Shah , Kenyan cricketer
1972 –
Jay Witasick , American baseball player and coach
1973 –
J. August Richards , American actor
[21]
1974 –
Johan Andersson , Swedish game designer and programmer
1974 –
Takahito Eguchi , Japanese pianist and composer
1974 –
Carsten Jancker , German footballer and manager
1975 –
Jamie Cureton , English footballer
1975 –
Gareth Farrelly , Irish footballer and manager
1975 –
Hamish McLachlan , Australian television personality
1975 –
Royce Willis , New Zealand rugby player
1976 –
Federico Magallanes , Uruguayan footballer
1978 –
Karine Turcotte , Canadian weightlifter
[24]
1979 –
Shaila Dúrcal , Spanish singer-songwriter
1979 –
Robert Hoyzer , German footballer and referee
1979 –
Kristen Hughes , Australian netball player
1979 –
Markus Pröll , German footballer
1979 –
Ruth Riley , American basketball player
1980 –
Antony Hämäläinen , Finnish singer-songwriter
1980 –
Debra Lafave , American sex offender and former teacher
[25]
1980 –
Ryan Madson , American baseball player
[26]
1980 –
Jaakko Ojaniemi , Finnish decathlete
1980 –
Carly Pope , Canadian actress and producer
[21]
1980 –
Jonathan Reynolds , English lawyer and politician
1981 –
Matt Alrich , American lacrosse player
1981 –
Kezia Dugdale , Scottish politician
1981 –
Martin Erat , Czech ice hockey player
1981 –
Daniel Gygax , Swiss footballer
1981 –
Raphael Matos , Brazilian race car driver
1981 –
Jake Owen , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[21]
1981 –
Ahmed Talbi , Moroccan footballer
1981 –
Agata Wróbel , Polish weightlifter
1982 –
Anderson Silva de França , Brazilian footballer
1982 –
Kevin McNaughton , Scottish footballer
1982 –
Thiago Motta , Brazilian-Italian footballer
1982 –
Carlos Quentin , American baseball player
[27]
1982 –
LeAnn Rimes , American singer-songwriter and actress
[21]
1983 –
Lasith Malinga , Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 –
Luke McAlister , New Zealand rugby player
[28]
1983 –
Lilli Schwarzkopf , German heptathlete
[29]
1984 –
Will Harris , American baseball player
[30]
1985 –
Kjetil Jansrud , Norwegian skier
[31]
1986 –
Jeff Green , American basketball player
1986 –
Armie Hammer , American actor
[21]
1986 –
Tommy Hanson , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1986 –
Simon Mannering , New Zealand rugby league player
1986 –
Gilad Shalit , Israeli soldier and hostage
[19]
1986 –
Florence Welch , English singer-songwriter
[21]
1987 –
Caleb Moore , American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)
1988 –
Shalita Grant , American actress
[21]
1988 –
Rosie MacLennan , Canadian trampoline gymnast
[32]
1989 –
César Azpilicueta , Spanish footballer
1989 –
Valtteri Bottas , Finnish race car driver
1989 –
Jo Kwon , South Korean singer and dancer
1989 –
Cassadee Pope , American singer-songwriter
[21]
1990 –
Katie Findlay , Canadian actor
[21]
1990 –
Bojan Krkić , Spanish footballer
1991 –
Felicio Brown Forbes , German footballer
1991 –
Samuel Larsen , American actor and singer
[21]
1991 –
Kyle Massey , American actor
[21]
1991 –
Andreja Pejić , Bosnian model
[33]
1992 –
Bismack Biyombo , Congolese basketball player
1992 –
Max Collins , American-Filipino actress and model
1992 –
Gabriela Drăgoi , Romanian gymnast
[34]
1993 –
Jakub Sokolík , Czech footballer
1994 –
Manon Arcangioli , French tennis player
[35]
1994 –
Ons Jabeur , Tunisian tennis player
[36]
1998 –
Weston McKennie , American soccer player
[37]
2001 –
Kamilla Rakhimova , Russian tennis player
[38]
[39]
2003 –
Quvenzhané Wallis , American actress
[40]
Deaths
Pre-1600
388 –
Magnus Maximus , Roman emperor (b. 335)
430 –
Augustine of Hippo , Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (b. 354)
476 –
Orestes , Roman general and politician
632 –
Fatimah , daughter of
Muhammad (b. 605)
683 –
Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I , ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (b. 615)
770 –
Kōken , emperor of Japan (b. 718)
876 –
Louis the German , Frankish king (b. 804)
919 –
He Gui , Chinese general (b. 858)
1055 –
Xing Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 1016)
1149 –
Mu'in ad-Din Unur , Turkish ruler and regent
1231 –
Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark
1341 –
Levon IV , king of Armenia (b. 1309)
1406 –
John de Sutton V ,
Baron Sutton of Dudley (b. 1380)
1481 –
Afonso V , king of Portugal (b. 1432)
1540 –
Federico II Gonzaga , duke of Mantua (b. 1500)
1601–1900
1609 –
Francis Vere , English governor and general
1645 –
Hugo Grotius , Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (b. 1583)
1646 –
Johannes Banfi Hunyades , English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (b. 1576)
1648 –
George Lisle , English general (b. 1610)
1648 –
Charles Lucas , English general (b. 1613)
1654 –
Axel Oxenstierna , Swedish lawyer and politician,
Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1665 –
Elisabetta Sirani , Italian painter (b. 1638)
1678 –
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton , English soldier and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1602)
1735 –
Edwin Stead , English landowner and cricketer (b. 1701)
1757 –
David Hartley , English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1705)
1761 –
Melchor de Navarrete , Spanish colonial governor of
Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739 - 1742); of Spanish Florida (1749 - 1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754 - 1758) (b. 1693)
[41]
1784 –
Junípero Serra , Spanish priest and missionary (b. 1713)
1793 –
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine , French general (b. 1740)
1805 –
Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
1818 –
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , American fur trader, founded Chicago (b. 1750)
1820 –
Andrew Ellicott , American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)
1832 –
Edward Dando , English thief
[42]
1839 –
William Smith , English geologist and engineer (b. 1769)
1888 –
Julius Krohn , Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
1891 –
Robert Caldwell , English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)
1900 –
Henry Sidgwick , English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1901–present
1903 –
Frederick Law Olmsted , American journalist and architect, co-designed
Central Park (b. 1822)
1919 –
Adolf Schmal , Austrian fencer and cyclist (b. 1872)
1934 –
Edgeworth David , Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
1937 –
George Prendergast , Australian politician, 28th
Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)
1943 –
Georg Hellat , Estonian architect (b. 1870)
1943 –
Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1955 –
Emmett Till , African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (b. 1941)
1959 –
Bohuslav Martinů , Czech-American composer and educator (b. 1890)
1965 –
Giulio Racah , Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
1968 –
Dimitris Pikionis , Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)
1971 –
Reuvein Margolies , Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)
1972 –
Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
1975 –
Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1976 –
Anissa Jones , American actress (b. 1958)
1978 –
Bruce Catton , American historian and journalist (b. 1899)
1978 –
Robert Shaw , English actor (b. 1927)
1981 –
Béla Guttmann , Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1899)
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1982 –
Geoff Chubb , South African cricketer (b. 1911)
1984 –
Muhammad Naguib , Egyptian general and politician, 1st
President of Egypt (b. 1901)
1985 –
Ruth Gordon , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1986 –
Russell Lee , American photographer and journalist (b. 1903)
1987 –
John Huston , Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1988 –
Jean Marchand , Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd
Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1918)
1988 –
Max Shulman , American author and screenwriter (b. 1919)
1989 –
John Steptoe , American author and illustrator (b. 1950)
1990 –
Willy Vandersteen , Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1913)
1991 –
Alekos Sakellarios , Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1993 –
William Stafford , American poet and academic (b. 1914)
1995 –
Earl W. Bascom , American rodeo performer and painter (b. 1906)
1995 –
Michael Ende , German scientist and author (b. 1929)
2005 –
Jacques Dufilho , French actor (b. 1914)
2005 –
Esther Szekeres , Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
2005 –
George Szekeres , Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
2006 –
Heino Lipp , Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1922)
2006 –
Benoît Sauvageau , Canadian educator and politician (b. 1963)
2006 –
Melvin Schwartz , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2007 –
Arthur Jones , American businessman, founded
Nautilus, Inc. and
MedX Corporation (b. 1926)
2007 –
Hilly Kristal , American businessman, founded
CBGB (b. 1932)
2007 –
Paul MacCready , American engineer and businessman, founded
AeroVironment (b. 1925)
2007 –
Francisco Umbral , Spanish journalist and author (b. 1935)
2007 –
Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese-American actress (b. 1929)
2008 –
Phil Hill , American race car driver (b. 1927)
2009 –
Adam Goldstein , American drummer, DJ, and producer (b. 1973)
2009 –
Richard Egan , US Ambassador, Owner of
Dell EMC , Engineer (b. 1963)
2010 –
William P. Foster , American bandleader and educator (b. 1919)
2011 –
Bernie Gallacher , English footballer (b. 1967)
2012 –
Rhodes Boyson , English educator and politician (b. 1925)
2012 –
Shulamith Firestone , Canadian-American activist and author (b. 1945)
2012 –
Dick McBride , American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
2012 –
Saul Merin , Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1933)
2012 –
Ramón Sota , Spanish golfer (b. 1938)
2013 –
John Bellany , Scottish painter and academic (b. 1942)
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2013 –
Lorella Cedroni , Italian political scientist and philosopher (b. 1961)
2013 –
Edmund B. Fitzgerald , American businessman (b. 1926)
2013 –
Frank Pulli , American baseball player and umpire (b. 1935)
2013 –
Barry Stobart , English footballer (b. 1938)
2013 –
Rafael Díaz Ycaza , Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1925)
2014 –
Glenn Cornick , English bass guitarist (b. 1947)
2014 –
Hal Finney , American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956)
2014 –
John Anthony Walker , American soldier and spy (b. 1937)
2015 –
Al Arbour , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
2015 –
Mark Krasniqi , Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920)
2015 –
Nelson Shanks , American painter and educator (b. 1937)
2016 –
Juan Gabriel , Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
2016 –
Mr. Fuji , American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
2017 –
Mireille Darc , French actress and model (b. 1938)
2020 –
Chadwick Boseman , American actor and playwright (b. 1976)
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