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Events
- 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts.
- 523 - Pope John I succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.
- 1099 - Pope Paschal II elected Pope.
- 1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
- 1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Diana (goddess) witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.
- 1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.
- 1516 - Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis I of France recognises Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
- 1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- 1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyoto Enryaku-ji set fire to 21 Nichiren Buddhism temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese calendar: July 27 1536).
- 1553 - Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a Christian heresy.
- 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - England and Austrians victorious over France and Bavarians.
- 1814 - The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the Dutch Republic, is signed in London.
- 1904 - Lightning strikes the belltower of the Kirtland Temple. A bucket brigade barely saves the historic structure.
- 1905 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
- 1913 - Otto Witte, an Acrobatics, is crowned King of Albania.
- 1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- 1918 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
- 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw (1920) begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Poland seaport.
- 1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
- 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on United Kingdom fighter bases and radar installations.
- 1954 - Radio Pakistan broadcasts National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
- 1960 - The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- 1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the Western countries.
- 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greece dictator George Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
- 1973 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 1979 - The roof of the uncompleted Allstate Arena near Chicago collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
- 1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
- 1996 - Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. All are found guilty on June 22, 2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively.
- 2004 - The Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games takes place in Athens.
- 2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
- 2004 - Black Friday (Maldives) crackdown by National Security Service (Maldives) on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
- 2004 - 156 Democratic Republic of the Congo Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Births
- 582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)
- 1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
- 1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
- 1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
- 1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)
- 1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
- 1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
- 1700 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
- 1717 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
- 1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
- 1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
- 1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
- 1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
- 1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
- 1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
- 1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893)
- 1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903)
- 1820 - Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)
- 1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)
- 1851 - Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture), German-born educator (d. 1933)
- 1860 - Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)
- 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)
- 1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1942)
- 1879 - John Ireland (composer), English composer (d. 1962)
- 1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
- 1888 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946)
- 1888 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
- 1889 - Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)
- 1890 - Ellen Osiier, Danish Olympic champion fencer (d. 1962)
- 1895 - Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1902 - Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)
- 1908 - Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1911 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)
- 1912 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
- 1912 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Fred Davis (snooker player), English snooker player (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Makarios III, List of Archbishops of Cyprus and first President of Cyprus (d.1977)
- 1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
- 1917 - Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
- 1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1919 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (d. 2007)
- 1919 - George Shearing, British musician
- 1920 - Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
- 1930 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007)
- 1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
- 1935 - Mudcat Grant, American baseball player
- 1935 - Rod Hull, British television entertainer (d. 1999)
- 1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist
- 1940 - Tony Cloninger, American baseball player
- 1941 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
- 1944 - Kevin Tighe, American actor
- 1944 - Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver
- 1945 - Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician
- 1947 - Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician
- 1948 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano
- 1949 - Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer
- 1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1954 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Paul Greengrass, English film director
- 1955 - Keith Ahlers, British racing driver
- 1955 - Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver
- 1958 - Fergal Sharkey, musician
- 1958 - Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the Battle of Mogadishu (1993) (d. 1993)
- 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, American actor
- 1959 - Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player
- 1960 - Phil Taylor, English darts player
- 1960 - Koji Kondo, Japanese composer
- 1960 - Dawnn Lewis, American actress
- 1961 - Tom Perrotta, American novelist
- 1963 - John Slattery, American actor
- 1964 - Jay Buhner, American baseball player
- 1964 - Hank Cheyne, American actor
- 1965 - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
- 1966 - Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- 1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- 1970 - Will Clarke, American novelist
- 1970 - Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
- 1971 - Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
- 1971 - Patrick Carpentier, Quebec race car driver
- 1971 - Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born actor
- 1973 - Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress
- 1973 - Molly Henneberg, American journalist
- 1973 - Eric Medlen, American drag racer and rodeo star (d. 2007)
- 1975 - Joe Perry (snooker player), English snooker player
- 1975 - Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 - Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
- 1977 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
- 1978 - Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwean footballer
- 1979 - Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
- 1979 - Corey Patterson, American baseball player
- 1982 - Shani Davis, American speed skater
- 1983 - Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player
- 1983 - Ľubomír Michalík, Slovakian footballer
- 1983 - Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born actor
- 1984 - Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer
- 1984 - Boone Logan, American baseball player
- 1984 - Diamond Blue Smith, American rapper (Pretty Ricky)
- 1992 - Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
Deaths
- 586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I
- 900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
- 1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus
- 1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
- 1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter
- 1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
- 1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
- 1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
- 1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
- 1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
- 1749 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719)
- 1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684)
- 1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
- 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
- 1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
- 1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
- 1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1860)
- 1937 - Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (b. unknown)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
- 1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868)
- 1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
- 1982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Soviet/Armenian chess player (b. 1929)
- 1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
- 1991 - Jack Ryan (designer), American designer (Barbie) (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
- 1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
- 1998 - Julien Green, American novelist ((b. 1900)
- 1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
- 1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)
- 2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)
- 2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
- 2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
- 2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
- 2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)
- 2007 - Brian Adams (wrestler), aka Demolition (professional wrestling) Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
- 2007 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1902)
- 2007 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (b. 1893)
- 2007 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1917)
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
Calendar of saints
- Saint Cassian (Cassianus of Imola), bishop of Brescia, martyr Magdeburg, Ratzeburg, Regensburg, Trent, patron saint of shorthand-writers, and of Mexico City
- Saints Pope Pontianus, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs
- Hippolytus (writer) and companions, martyrs
- Saint John Berchmans
- Saint John Bosco
- Saint Junian, abbot
- Saint Laudulf, bishop of Evreux
- Saint Ludolf
- Saint Simplicianus, bishop, confessor
- Saint Wigbert, prior, confessor
- Saint Zwentibold
- Saint Clare
- Saint Radegunde =Radegundis, help against the Pox (god), virgin (sometimes also queen) Paris
- Blessed Gertrudis
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
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Events
- 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts.
- 523 - Pope John I succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.
- 1099 - Pope Paschal II elected Pope.
- 1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
- 1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Diana (goddess) witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.
- 1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.
- 1516 - Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis I of France recognises Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
- 1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- 1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyoto Enryaku-ji set fire to 21 Nichiren Buddhism temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese calendar: July 27 1536).
- 1553 - Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a Christian heresy.
- 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - England and Austrians victorious over France and Bavarians.
- 1814 - The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the Dutch Republic, is signed in London.
- 1904 - Lightning strikes the belltower of the Kirtland Temple. A bucket brigade barely saves the historic structure.
- 1905 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
- 1913 - Otto Witte, an Acrobatics, is crowned King of Albania.
- 1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- 1918 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
- 1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw (1920) begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Poland seaport.
- 1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
- 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on United Kingdom fighter bases and radar installations.
- 1954 - Radio Pakistan broadcasts National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
- 1960 - The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
- 1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the Western countries.
- 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greece dictator George Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
- 1973 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 1979 - The roof of the uncompleted Allstate Arena near Chicago collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
- 1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
- 1996 - Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. All are found guilty on June 22, 2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively.
- 2004 - The Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games takes place in Athens.
- 2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
- 2004 - Black Friday (Maldives) crackdown by National Security Service (Maldives) on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
- 2004 - 156 Democratic Republic of the Congo Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Births
- 582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)
- 1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
- 1313 - Aradia de Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher, and witch
- 1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
- 1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)
- 1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
- 1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
- 1700 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
- 1717 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
- 1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
- 1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
- 1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
- 1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
- 1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
- 1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
- 1818 - Lucy Stone, American suffragette (d. 1893)
- 1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903)
- 1820 - Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)
- 1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)
- 1851 - Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture), German-born educator (d. 1933)
- 1860 - Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)
- 1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)
- 1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1942)
- 1879 - John Ireland (composer), English composer (d. 1962)
- 1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
- 1888 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946)
- 1888 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
- 1889 - Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)
- 1890 - Ellen Osiier, Danish Olympic champion fencer (d. 1962)
- 1895 - Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
- 1902 - Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)
- 1908 - Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1911 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)
- 1912 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
- 1912 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Fred Davis (snooker player), English snooker player (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Makarios III, List of Archbishops of Cyprus and first President of Cyprus (d.1977)
- 1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
- 1917 - Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
- 1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1919 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (d. 2007)
- 1919 - George Shearing, British musician
- 1920 - Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
- 1930 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007)
- 1933 - Doctor Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
- 1935 - Mudcat Grant, American baseball player
- 1935 - Rod Hull, British television entertainer (d. 1999)
- 1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist
- 1940 - Tony Cloninger, American baseball player
- 1941 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
- 1944 - Kevin Tighe, American actor
- 1944 - Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver
- 1945 - Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician
- 1947 - Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician
- 1948 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano
- 1949 - Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer
- 1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1954 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Paul Greengrass, English film director
- 1955 - Keith Ahlers, British racing driver
- 1955 - Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver
- 1958 - Fergal Sharkey, musician
- 1958 - Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the Battle of Mogadishu (1993) (d. 1993)
- 1959 - Danny Bonaduce, American actor
- 1959 - Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player
- 1960 - Phil Taylor, English darts player
- 1960 - Koji Kondo, Japanese composer
- 1960 - Dawnn Lewis, American actress
- 1961 - Tom Perrotta, American novelist
- 1963 - John Slattery, American actor
- 1964 - Jay Buhner, American baseball player
- 1964 - Hank Cheyne, American actor
- 1965 - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
- 1966 - Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- 1969 - Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
- 1970 - Will Clarke, American novelist
- 1970 - Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
- 1971 - Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
- 1971 - Patrick Carpentier, Quebec race car driver
- 1971 - Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born actor
- 1973 - Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress
- 1973 - Molly Henneberg, American journalist
- 1973 - Eric Medlen, American drag racer and rodeo star (d. 2007)
- 1975 - Joe Perry (snooker player), English snooker player
- 1975 - Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 - Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
- 1977 - Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
- 1978 - Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwean footballer
- 1979 - Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
- 1979 - Corey Patterson, American baseball player
- 1982 - Shani Davis, American speed skater
- 1983 - Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player
- 1983 - Ľubomír Michalík, Slovakian footballer
- 1983 - Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born actor
- 1984 - Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer
- 1984 - Boone Logan, American baseball player
- 1984 - Diamond Blue Smith, American rapper (Pretty Ricky)
- 1992 - Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
Deaths
- 586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I
- 900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
- 1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus
- 1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
- 1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter
- 1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
- 1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
- 1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
- 1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
- 1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
- 1749 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719)
- 1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684)
- 1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
- 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
- 1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)
- 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
- 1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
- 1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1860)
- 1937 - Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (b. unknown)
- 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
- 1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868)
- 1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
- 1982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Soviet/Armenian chess player (b. 1929)
- 1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
- 1991 - Jack Ryan (designer), American designer (Barbie) (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
- 1995 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
- 1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)
- 1998 - Julien Green, American novelist ((b. 1900)
- 1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
- 1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)
- 2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)
- 2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
- 2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
- 2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
- 2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)
- 2007 - Brian Adams (wrestler), aka Demolition (professional wrestling) Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
- 2007 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1902)
- 2007 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (b. 1893)
- 2007 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1917)
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
Calendar of saints
- Saint Cassian (Cassianus of Imola), bishop of Brescia, martyr Magdeburg, Ratzeburg, Regensburg, Trent, patron saint of shorthand-writers, and of Mexico City
- Saints Pope Pontianus, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs
- Hippolytus (writer) and companions, martyrs
- Saint John Berchmans
- Saint John Bosco
- Saint Junian, abbot
- Saint Laudulf, bishop of Evreux
- Saint Ludolf
- Saint Simplicianus, bishop, confessor
- Saint Wigbert, prior, confessor
- Saint Zwentibold
- Saint Clare
- Saint Radegunde =Radegundis, help against the Pox (god), virgin (sometimes also queen) Paris
- Blessed Gertrudis
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
BBC ON THIS DAY | Front Page
19 August ... 1987: Gunman kills 14 in Hungerford rampage. A man shoots 14 people dead in the Berkshire ...
BBC ON THIS DAY | 13
1961: Berliners wake to divided city. Troops in East Germany seal off the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East ...
August 13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 13 is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 140 days remaining until the end of the year.
2008 August 13 - Broad Street
Broad Street is Birmingham’s busiest and most popular entertainment and business destination. ... The beach volleyball comes to Broad Street again this year - alongside, for the ...
Stats - ECB
Team 1 v Team 2 Venue Tuesday 19 August 2008: LV County Championship - Division Two: Gloucestershire: v : Northamptonshire: Bristol: NatWest Pro40 Division One
Work - Wednesday, August 13
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Monday August 13 2007 | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
Broadcasting's devolution debate Alex Salmond says Holyrood should be handed control of Scottish TV and radio policy and that Scotland should get its own publicly funded service.
Dept_Diary - Wednesday, August 13
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Sporting Life - Athletics | World Athletics Championships, Helsinki ...
SATURDAY AUGUST 13. All times are BST. Finals appear in capitals. 1220 MEN'S MARATHON FINAL 1635 Men's 4x100m relay semi-final 1640 WOMEN'S SHOT PUT FINAL
