Births
1586 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins [or Aug 20]
1686 - Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer
1720 - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine)
1775 - Philippe Libon, composer
1779 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer
1786 - Davy Crockett, US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo)
1811 - Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will)
1817 - Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-71
1819 - James Henry Van Alen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1828 - George William Warren, composer
1834 - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata)
1839 - Thijs [Matthijs] Maris, Dutch painter/etcher
1839 - Hubert Platt Main, composer
1840 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
1841 - Lu¡s NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet
1844 - Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
1851 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
1856 - Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master)
1870 - Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
1876 - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
1876 - D„ubler, writer
1876 - Theodor D„ubler, German writer (Northern Lights)
1876 - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940
1878 - Reg Duff, cricketer (Australian bat, century on debut 1902)
1880 - Percy Sherwell, cricketer (great S African batsman-keeper-captain)
1880 - Leo Ascher, composer
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, [Goldfish], movie producer (MGM)
1885 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society
1885 - Kurt Hiller, writer
1887 - Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)
1887 - Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
1888 - Monty Wooley, NYC, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner)
1890 - Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
1892 - Mae West, Bkln, actress (Go Up & See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie)
1894 - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden)
1894 - Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor
1896 - Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter/poet (Laws of the Americas)
1898 - Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
1900 - Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1901 - Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer (Don Juan de Ma¤ara)
1903 - Abram Chasins, composer
1905 - John Hay Whitney, publisher (NY Herald Trib 1961-67)
1906 - Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer
1906 - Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal (1968-74)
1907 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
1908 - Kurt Hessenberg, composer
1910 - R Peyrefitte, writer
1910 - Eric Aaltonen, composer
1910 - J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
1911 - Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist (God's Murderer)
1911 - Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
1912 - Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop
1914 - Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
1916 - Eleanor Steber, opera singer
1916 - John de Young, resistance fighter
1917 - P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)
1917 - Safa Khulusi, writer
1918 - Mort Marshall, NYC, actor (Cully-Dumplings)
1920 - Maureen O'Hara
1920 - Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire)
1921 - Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer
1921 - Maureen O'Hara, [Fitzsimmons], Dublin, actress (Miracle on 34th St)
1922 - Roy Tattersall, cricketer (brilliant England off-spinner early 50's)
1922 - Ralph Roberts, Salisbury NC, actor (Tradition, Gone are the Days)
1922 - Paul Wiens, writer
1923 - Larry Rivers, [Grossberg], NYC, painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953)
1923 - Anton Kersjes, violinist/conductor (Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian
1924 - Evan S Connell, US writer
1924 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
1924 - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Kunst & Vliegwerk)
1925 - John Howard Purnell, scientist
1925 - John Hawkes, US writer (2nd Skin)
1926 - Jiang Zemin
1926 - Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro)
1926 - Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1927 - Robert Moore, Detroit Mich, actor (Marshall-Diana)
1927 - Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds)
1928 - Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
1928 - Jean R Adams, entomologist
1928 - Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer
1929 - Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
1930 - James Gulliver, businessman
1930 - Ted Hughes, British poet laureate
1931 - Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Fran, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1956) [or 1/1/21
1932 - Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
1932 - Chet Allen, Chickasha Okla, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter
1934 - Maureen Connally, champion tennis player (Wimbledon)
1936 - Ivan Parik, composer
1937 - Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 - Luther Allison, Mayflower Ark, rock guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
1940 - David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1940 - Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
1941 - Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria (1985- )
1941 - Boog Powell, baseball player (AL MVP 1970)
1943 - Robert De Niro
1943 - Edward Cowie, composer
1943 - Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1943 - Robert De Niro, NYC, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver)
1943 - Koos Postema, editor-in-chief (Vrije Volk)/Dutch TV host
1946 - Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist (Gruppo Sportivo)
1947 - Gary Talley, Memphis Tn, rock guitarist (Box Tops)
1948 - Bo Rucker, Tampa FL, actor (Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up)
1949 - Sib Hashian, Boston Mass, rock drummer (Boston)
1951 - Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1951 - Robert Joy, Montreal Quebec, actor (Big Shots, Suicide Club)
1952 - Thomas J Hennen, Albany GA, astronaut (STS 44)
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ (US Open-1977)
1952 - Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery Ala, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, 49, 61, 73
1952 - Nelson Piquet, auto racer, 3-time Formula One champ (1981, '83, '87)
1953 - Robert Brent Thirsk, BC Canada, astronaut (STS 78)
1953 - Kevin Rowlands, rock vocalist (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen
1955 - Kevin Welch, Calif, country songwriter/actor (Thing Called Love)
1955 - Janet Quist Austin TX, playmate (Dec, 1978)
1955 - Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist (XTC)
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth)
1960 - Sean Penn, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1960 - Bruce Penhall, Balboa CA, actor (Savage Beach)
1960 - Sean Penn
1961 - Jamie Macoun, Newmarket, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1962 - Gilby Clarke, US pop guitarist (Guns n' Roses-Civil War)
1963 - Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
1964 - Pete McCutcheon, Boston Mass, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Quebec Open)
1965 - Fred Grim, soccer player (Cambuur L, Ajax)
1965 - Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic (in craft)
1965 - Dottie Mochrie Pepper, Saratoga Springs NY, golfer (1992 Dinah Shore)
1965 - Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
1965 - Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville Ky, rock drummer (Black Crowes)
1966 - Zefross Moss, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, NE Patriots)
1966 - Cedric Figaro, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Nelson Emerson, Hamilton, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - James Jenkins, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Kenny Davidson, NFL defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1968 - Ed McCaffrey, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Vince Marrow, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Ed Cunningham, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Maria Strandlund, Akersberga Sweden, tennis star (1987 Futures NOR)
1969 - Donald E Wahlberg Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1969 - Christian Laettner, NBA forward/center (Atlanta Hawks, Oly-gold-92)
1970 - Bernard Wilson, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Brad Bretz, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Jim Courier
1970 - Jim Courier, Sanford Florida, tennis champ (1990, 91 French)
1972 - Ernie Conwell, tight end (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Kerry Mock, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Paul Wiggins, offensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1973 - A J Wood, Pittsburgh, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 - Jake Patellis, actor (Paul Bowman-Good Life)
1986 - Bryton McClure, Lakewood Calif, actor (Richie-Family Matters)
1991 - Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world Chess Champion
Events
682 - St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1180 - Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira
1498 - Cardinal Borgia renounced his vows & office to marry a French princess
1544 - Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France
1563 - King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
1577 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1579 - François van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I
1585 - Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, VA & found no trace of colonist's he had left there 3 yrs earli
1648 - -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
1717 - France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement
1743 - Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty
1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1795 - Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curaçao
1796 - English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1808 - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1827 - Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1833 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1834 - Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
1835 - Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1836 - British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time
1846 - US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
1858 - 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1859 - 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1862 - Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
1863 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1863 - Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1866 - Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
1869 - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1876 - Opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1877 - Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)
1879 - Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1892 - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1894 - Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
1896 - George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
1897 - W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1904 - Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
1905 - Dutch govt of De Master begins
1907 - Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
1908 - B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in NYC
1908 - Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
1914 - French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Château Salins
1914 - Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1915 - German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of
1916 - Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
1917 - Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
1918 - Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
1918 - Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1918 - British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
1920 - In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
1924 - French-German trade agreement signed
1926 - Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
1933 - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1933 - Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
1938 - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1938 - Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
1940 - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
1940 - Greece mobilizes
1940 - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
1941 - German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
1942 - 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
1942 - Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
1942 - 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
1942 - Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet
1943 - Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1943 - US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
1943 - 498 British bombers attack Peenemünde
1944 - Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
1944 - 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
1944 - Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
1944 - US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun
1944 - US 12 Army corp occupies Orléans
1944 - Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1944 - German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1945 - Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
1946 - Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
1948 - Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1950 - Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950 - Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
1951 - Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1951 - 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
1952 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1952 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1955 - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8
1956 - Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
1957 - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one
1958 - World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1958 - Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959 - USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1960 - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960 - Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
1961 - Building of Berlin Wall begins
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1962 - Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1962 - E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into wes
1963 - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
1963 - Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1964 - Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 - Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
1968 - Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio
1969 - -18] Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss & Louisiana
1969 - NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
1970 - Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
1972 - Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
1973 - Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
1973 - Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
1975 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1976 - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976 - Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1977 - Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38
1978 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1979 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 - George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
1980 - "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
1982 - South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
1983 - -19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1984 - Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1985 - Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
1985 - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985 - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
1986 - Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986 - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1986 - Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike O
1986 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1986 - Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
1987 - Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987 - Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1988 - NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988 - LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
1989 - 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½
1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
1990 - "Exorcist 3" premieres
1990 - Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
1990 - Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1991 - Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
1992 - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
1994 - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1994 - NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
1997 - First of America Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Macy's Tap-o-mania
1997 - 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC
1997 - Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
Deaths
754 - Karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at >39
1464 - Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies
1510 - Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded
1536 - Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies
1553 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
1635 - Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48
1676 - Grimmelshausen, writer, dies
1681 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76
1730 - Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61
1731 - Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57
1777 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot, dies
1786 - Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74
1792 - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38
1804 - Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in US, dies
1850 - Jos‚ Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies
1865 - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82
1865 - Mosby Munroe Parsons, US Confederate gen-maj, dies in battle
1878 - Richard Upjohn, US architect, died
1880 - Ole Bull, composer, dies at 70
1887 - Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
1888 - James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies
1889 - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42
1893 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, 1st Brit to die in an auto-accident
1898 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
1901 - Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78
1914 - James Grierson, British general
1915 - Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
1920 - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
1924 - Tom Kendall, cricketer (14 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), die
1924 - Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1927 - Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
1936 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
1944 - John Trumble, cricketer (brother of Hugh 7 Tests 1885-86), dies
1945 - Pater Bleijs, [Louis], resistance fighter, dies in car accident
1945 - Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61
1948 - Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60
1953 - Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
1954 - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
1955 - Fernand L‚ger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies
1958 - Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87
1961 - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
1963 - Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
1966 - Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
1966 - Archibald Palm, cricketer (Test S Africa v England 1927-28), dies
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83
1969 - Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies
1971 - Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1972 - Wampilow, writer, dies
1972 - Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76
1973 - Conrad Aiken, US poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74
1973 - Jean Barraqu‚, French composer, dies at 45
1973 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32
1974 - Edgar Dearing, actor (Free & Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81
1974 - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer, dies at 89
1975 - Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner (Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48
1975 - Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80
1976 - Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63
1976 - William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48
1979 - Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), diesof cancer at 67
1981 - Robert Russell Bennett, US composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87
1982 - Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
1982 - Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
1983 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86
1984 - Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks
1987 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84
1987 - Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 9
1988 - Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1988 - Victoria Shaw, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies
1988 - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63
1988 - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64
1990 - Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
1991 - Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76
1991 - Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63
1991 - Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies
1992 - Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 4
1992 - Andr‚ de Villiers, South African, murdered
1992 - Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
1993 - Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56
1993 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72
1993 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72
1994 - Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce
1994 - Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91
1995 - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76
1995 - David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
1995 - Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92
1995 - Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90
1996 - Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80
419 Events for 17th August