Births
1471 - George von Saksen-Meissen, German potester of Frisia
1545 - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer
1583 - Simon Besler, composer
1630 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch flower painter
1650 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
1666 - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
1719 - John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79)
1730 - Hamann, writer
1739 - Michel Delalande, composer
1752 - Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
1768 - Anne-Fran‡ois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
1824 - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1826 - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
1832 - James Alexander Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1835 - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter
1837 - Heinrich Urban, composer
1839 - Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881
1847 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge
1849 - Manuel Acu¤a, Mexican poet (Nocturno)
1856 - Iwan Franko, writer
1858 - Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1865 - Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
1867 - Umberto Giordano, composer
1869 - Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
1870 - Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
1874 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
1877 - Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
1878 - Joseph John Richards, composer
1882 - Jaroslav Kricka, composer
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, [Gelbfisch], film magnate (MGM)
1884 - Harry Antrim, Chicago IL, actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway)
1884 - Vincent Auriol, president of France (1947-53)
1886 - Rebecca Clarke, composer
1886 - Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
1890 - Man Ray, US statues artist/photographer/movie (dada)
1894 - Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1897 - Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter
1898 - Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols
1899 - Byron Foulger, Ogden UT, actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke)
1899 - Cecil Scott Forester, Engld, historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)
1901 - Al Ritz, [Joaquim], Newark NJ, actor (Ritz Brothers, Hi Ya Chum)
1901 - Roger Pryor, NYC, actor (Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown)
1902 - Herbert Menges, composer
1903 - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles)
1905 - Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
1905 - Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1908 - Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall Tx, (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969)
1908 - Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 - Donald [George] Bradman, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson
1909 - Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-IL, 1949-62, 65- )
1909 - Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist
1909 - Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist
1910 - Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel 1979)
1910 - Mother Teresa
1911 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1912 - Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
1913 - Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID
1913 - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher
1913 - Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1914 - Catherine Marshall, editor/writer
1915 - Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1916 - Tony Harris, cricketer (Springbok 5/8th, Test batsman))
1916 - Martha Raye
1916 - Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1918 - Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP (Labour)
1919 - John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir (Museum of Fine Physician, Boston)
1919 - Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP (Labour)
1920 - James Molyneaux, MP (Ulster unionist)
1925 - Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
1925 - Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
1925 - Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW leg-spin all-rounder)
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1927 - Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
1927 - Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
1928 - Jack Thompson, MP (Labour)
1928 - Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Korc/owner (McDonalds & San Diego Padres)
1928 - Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, premier of Kwazulu (Shaka Zulu)
1928 - Peter Richard Tahourdin, composer
1929 - Ira Levin, author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day)
1929 - Ad J Hermes, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
1929 - Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1930 - John Watts, chief of defense (Omani Armed Forces)
1930 - John Daly, British trade union leader
1932 - Antonia Fraser, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1932 - Mikhail Nikolayevich Burdayev, cosmonaut
1932 - Fran‡ois Glorieux, composer
1932 - M N Burdayev, cosmonaut
1933 - Joke Smit, Dutch feminist
1935 - Michael Holroyd, author
1935 - Frank Yablans, NYC, writer (North Dallas Forty)
1937 - Tommy Sands, Chicago IL, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
1937 - Phil Shulmon, rocker (Gentle Giant)
1937 - Mark Potter, British court judge
1937 - Alice Coltrane, jazz musician
1940 - David Hart, gen-sect (National Assn of Head Teachers)
1940 - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, jazz guitarist
1941 - Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1942 - Daryl Dragon
1942 - Daryl Dragon, Pasadena Calif, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
1943 - [Susan] Tuesday Weld, NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
1943 - Tuesday Weld
1943 - Bob Kerrey, (Sen-D Nebraska)
1944 - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD)
1944 - Barry Conyngham, composer
1944 - Tim Bogert, rocker
1945 - G W Bailey, Port Arthur Tx, actor (Dr Beale-St Elsewhere)
1946 - Tony Howard, cricketer (WI off-spinner one Test v NZ 1972)
1947 - Susie McAllister, LPGA golfer
1947 - Jacques Arnold, MP (Conservative)
1947 - John Morrison, cricketer ("Mystery" NZ batsman 1973-82)
1947 - Barbara Bach
1948 - Andy Turnell, horse trainer
1949 - Douglas Fred Tewell, Baton Rouge LA, PGA golfer (1980 Sea Pines)
1949 - Simon Kirke, rocker (Bad Company)
1949 - Jeff Cook, Fort Payne Ala, country guitar/vocalist (Alabama-Mt Music)
1949 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist
1949 - Barbara Bach, [Goldbach], Queens NY, actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
1949 - Andrew McKay, conservative MP
1949 - Edmund Weiner, lexicographer
1950 - Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1950 - Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1951 - Don [Sheldon George] Pooley Jr, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1980 BC Open)
1952 - Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1952 - Paul "Pee-wee Herm
1953 - Alex Lifeson, Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Rush)
1953 - Willy "Mink" Deville, [Borsay], US blues/rock singer (Hey! Joe)
1954 - John Lloyd, England, tennis star (former husband of Chris Everet)
1954 - Derek Warwick, race car driver
1955 - Roderick Hopkins Davis, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96
1955 - Diana Scarwid, Savannah GA, actress (Extermites, Psycho 3, Heat)
1956 - Glen Matlock, rock bassist (Sex Pistols)
1957 - Bernhard Langer, golfer
1958 - Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, Rus, cosmonaut (TM-7, TM-12, STS 60)
1958 - Yoshinori Mizumaki, Tokyo Japan, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson-2nd)
1959 - Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
1960 - Damon Keeve, SF Calif, heavyweight (209+ lbs) judoka (Olympics-92, 96
1961 - "Downtown" Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
1962 - Scott Davis, Santa Monica CA, tennis star
1963 - John Philipson, pop bassist (Rowwen HŠze, Kroenenberg)
1963 - Patty Duffek, Woodland Hills Calif, playmate (May, 1984)
1965 - Wayne James, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test wicketkeeper v Pakistan 1993)
1965 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Phnom Penh Kampuchea, Canada tennis (Oly-92, 96)
1965 - Michael Perry, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos)
1966 - Deena Wigger, Colorado Springs CO, US shooter (Olympic-92)
1967 - Rob Burnett, NFL defensive end (Cleve Browns/Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Brian McRae, Bradenton FL, outfielder (Chic Cubs)
1968 - Christine Schaefer, Florence Ky, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1968 - Emanual Davis, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1968 - Martin Lowenfish, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1968 - Michael Long, Cromwell NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 - Steven Van Randwijck, Wash DC, field hockey player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kipp Vickers, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Mark Ealham, cricketer (Kent & England Test all-rounder 1996)
1970 - Dene Hills, cricketer (prolific Tasmanian batsman)
1970 - Greg Woodcroft, Hamilton Ontario, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1970 - Jim Thome, Peoria IL, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Mark Ilott, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler 1993-)
1970 - Reggie Slater, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Andy Bichel, cricketer (Australian pace bowler v WI 1997)
1971 - Ernest Faber, soccer player (PSV)
1971 - Jim Flanigan, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1972 - Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Donta Jones, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1974 - Sean Woodson, safety (Buffalo Bills)
1976 - Craig Mills, Toronto, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Cartos Moya, Spain, tennis star
1977 - Trisha Williams, Hobbs New Mexico, Miss America-New Mexico (1997)
1977 - Sarah Chalke, Ottawa, actress (Becky-Roseanne, Ernest Goes to School)
1977 - Michelle Kathlene Cardamon, California, Miss Teen USA (1996-3rd)
1979 - Ara Francis, Miss Colorado Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Stephanie Michelle Steele, Abilene TX, country singer
Events
1232 - Kioto Staatsraad accept Joei Legislation
1549 - Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1569 - Pope Pius names Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1585 - Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1601 - Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1610 - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1619 - Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1626 - Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1628 - Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1634 - Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
1665 - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1788 - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 - French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
1798 - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1799 - English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1813 - Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1816 - Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1828 - Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
1832 - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1861 - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
1862 - Battle of Cub Run, VA
1881 - Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
1892 - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck d
1895 - 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1896 - England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1897 - Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1900 - Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
1903 - 23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1908 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 - Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1910 - Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White
1910 - Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1911 - Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1913 - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st
1914 - US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1914 - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1916 - Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1917 - Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1918 - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warf
1918 - Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 - 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1928 - 42nd US Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
1932 - Intl anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1932 - 200,000 English textile workers strike
1933 - Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trai
1934 - Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1937 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1937 - Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1938 - Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 - Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 - Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 - Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939 - Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1940 - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1941 - Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1942 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1944 - 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1945 - US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1948 - 102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1950 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1950 - 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1952 - Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1955 - "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
1955 - Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1956 - Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1958 - Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
1960 - Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1961 - Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1965 - Bob Dylan booed off stage in NY's Forest Hills
1965 - WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1966 - Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1966 - Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1966 - Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 - Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1967 - Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1972 - US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1974 - NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
1975 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around
1975 - 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1976 - Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1977 - Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee
1977 - "Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1977 - Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1978 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 - Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 - Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 - Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1979 - 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1980 - Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1982 - Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1983 - US performs nuclear test
1983 - Haiti adopts constitution
1984 - President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 - Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sar
1986 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1988 - Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Phila, 4-2
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 - 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989 - 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 - Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1990 - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 - Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 - Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 - WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1991 - Moldavia declares independence from USSR
1992 - Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
1992 - CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1993 - Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1994 - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
1995 - 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
1995 - 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 - Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
1995 - "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances
Deaths
1208 - Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1522 - Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 7
1576 - Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
1590 - Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
1608 - Hendrik van Kinschot, [Henricus Kinschotus], lawyer, dies at 66
1611 - Tom s L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1651 - Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1667 - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33
1746 - Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
1748 - James Thomson, dies
1827 - Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1828 - Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1830 - Louis H J Cond‚, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1840 - William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1841 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65
1846 - Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64
1846 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63
1855 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36
1865 - Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64
1867 - Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51
1868 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82
1874 - Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
1874 - John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
1879 - Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1883 - August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76
1887 - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
1910 - Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1914 - John Weiss, German new testament, dies
1919 - Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies
1922 - Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83
1930 - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
1931 - Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
1943 - Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
1948 - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
1948 - Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74
1949 - Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
1950 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1953 - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53
1955 - Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
1958 - Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1962 - Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79
1963 - W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1963 - William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
1964 - Gracie Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1964 - Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59
1965 - Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66
1965 - Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68
1965 - Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1965 - Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies
1967 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 - Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63
1968 - William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
1968 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1969 - Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies
1969 - Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies
1969 - Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79
1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
1971 - Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1975 - Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1977 - George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
1977 - Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1978 - Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1979 - Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1979 - Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1980 - Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1981 - Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1984 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984 - Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
1990 - Raymond St Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
1991 - Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1991 - Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
1993 - Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 7
1994 - Roberto Goyeneche, [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies
1995 - Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70
1995 - Dick Bentley, entertainer, dies at 88
1995 - Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78
1996 - Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61
1996 - Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies
1996 - Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82
1997 - Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman & Robin), dies of heart failure at 40
1997 - Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), dies at 48
407 Events for 27th August