August 1



Events

Up to 1900 
 30 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar, enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing the city under the control of the Roman Republic. Mark Antony commits suicide on the same day.
 69 - Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (present-day Netherlands), revolt under leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
 527 – Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
 1192 - King Richard I of England enters Jaffa and defeats the army of Saladin.
 1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed.
 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
 1619 – The first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain dies, without any surviving children. George of Hanover succeeds her.
 1747 - In reaction to the Second Jacobite uprising, kilts and tartan are banned in Scotland. 
 1759 – Seven Years' War: In the Battle of Minden, Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia defeat a force from France and Saxony.
 1774 – The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
 1776 – Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
 1790 – The first US census is completed, establishing the population of the United States at the time as 4 million.
 1798 – Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
 1800 – The Act of Union of 1800 is signed, by which the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland are to merge.
 1820 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
 1831 – London Bridge opens.
 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
 1838 – Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
 1844 - Berlin Zoo opens for the first time.
 1855 – First successful climb of the Dufourspitze in Switzerland.
 1864 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
 1891 – Switzerland celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

1901  1950 
 1902 – The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
 1907 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
 1936 – The Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics open.
 1937 – Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
 1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
 1944 – Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
 1944 – Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
 1945 – Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
 1946 – The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
 1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.

1951  2000 
 1952 – Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes President of Iceland.
 1956 - Belgium becomes the last European country to introduce the driving test.
 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France
 1960 – Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
 1961 – Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
 1965 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
 1968 – Coronation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
 1968 – Kristjan Eldjarn becomes President of Iceland.
 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
 1971 – George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
 1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts discover rocks which could date back to the origin of the Moon.
 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The UN Security Council authorises the UN Peacekeeping Force to create the Green Line splitting the island in two.
 1976 – Racing driver Niki Lauda is left in a critical condition after a crash in the German Grand Prix. He survives the crash.
 1980 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes President of Iceland.
 1980 - A train crash in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, kills 18 people.
 1981 – First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
 1993 - The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 is at its worst.
 1994 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
 1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes President of Iceland.
 1996 – Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
 2000 – Moshe Katsav becomes President of Israel.

From 2001 
 2001 – An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
 2001 – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a -ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
 2005 – German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. His half-brother, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, succeeds him.
 2005 – Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.
 2007 – The I-35 Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during evening rush hour.
 2008 - A solar eclipse is visible over most of Europe and Asia, with totality passing over the Arctic, Russia and China.
 2008 - 11 mountaineers die in an accident on K2, in the deadliest incident on the world's second-highest mountain.
 2009 – Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, dies at the age of 76.
 2009 – A shooting attack at a Gay and Lesbian association in Tel-Aviv, Israel, kills 2 people.
 2013 - An Italian court confirms the prison sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud.
 2013 - Edward Snowden is given temporary asylum in Russia, leaving the transit area of a Moscow airport, five-and-a-half weeks after landing there.
 2013 - 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight, and holding them captive in his house for around a decade. He commits suicide on September 3.
 2016 - Guðni Th. Jóhannesson becomes President of Iceland.
 2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes leader of the New Zealand Labour Party; she becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand less than three months later.
 2017 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
 2017 - A bomb attack in Herat, Afghanistan, kills 20 people.
 2018 - Violent clashes occur in Harare over a delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe's Presidential election result.
 2019 - A Houthi missile attack on a military parade in Aden, Yemen, kills 32 people.
 2019 - The residents of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, are told to leave their homes because a local dam is in danger of collapse.

Births

Up to 1900 
 10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 54)
 126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
 1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
 1520 – Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
 1579 – Lupe Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, rabbi  and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (d. 1676)
 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
 1659 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
 1744 – Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
 1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
 1799 – Sophie de Ségur, French writer (d. 1874)
 1807 - Robert McClelland, American politician (d. 1880)
 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and writer (d. 1882)
 1817 - Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German aristocrat (d. 1893)
 1817 – Richard Dadd, English painter (d. 1886)
 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
 1819 – Augustus Gregory, Australian explorer (d. 1905)
 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organiser (d. 1930)
 1838 - Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Italian aristocrat (d. 1886)
 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician (d. 1926)
 1847 - Anton Reichenow, German ornithologist (d. 1941)
 1856 - George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
 1858 – Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
 1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of France (d. 1937)
 1865 - Prince Eugen, Duke of Narke, Swedish royal (d. 1947)
 1867 - William Speirs Bruce, Scottish polar explorer (d. 1921)
 1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
 1873 - Gabriel Terra, President of Uruguay (d. 1942)
 1879 – Augusto Samuel Boyd, 19th President of Panama (d. 1957)
 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
 1888 - Charles Winslow, South African tennis player (d. 1963)
 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
 1893 – Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
 1899 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (d. 1965)

1901  1950 
 1905 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1993)
 1906 - W. K. C. Guthrie, Scottish philologist (d. 1981)
 1907 – Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
 1910 – Gerda Taro, German photographer (d. 1937)
 1911 - Pericle Felici, Italian cardinal (d. 1982)
 1912 - David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979)
 1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
 1914 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (d. 2002)
 1916 - Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
 1918 - Artur Brauner, German film producer (d. 2019)
 1920 - Sammy Lee, American diver (d. 2016)
 1920 - Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (d. 1953)
 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
 1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
 1922 – Pat McDonald, actress (d. 1990)
 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
 1924 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
 1929 - Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (d. 2018)
 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
 1930 – Lionel Bart, English songwriter (d. 1999)
 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
 1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, artist and director (d. 2014)
 1931 - Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (d. 2010)
 1931 – Tom Wilson, cartoonist
 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American folk singer
 1931 - Dino da Costa, Brazilian-Italian footballer
 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
 1932 – Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
 1933 – Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher
 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
 1936 - W. D. Hamilton, British biologist (d. 2000)
 1936 - Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2015)
 1936 - Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (d. 2019)
 1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
 1938 - Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (d. 2019)
 1939 - Stephen Sykes, English bishop (d. 2014)
 1939 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
 1940 - Franklin Cleckley, American state judge (d. 2017)
 1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer
 1941 – Jordi Savall, Catalan musicologist
 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
 1942 – André Gagnon, French-Canadian pianist and composer
 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
 1942 - Michael Martchenko, Canadian illustrator
 1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
 1946 – Dick Covey, American astronaut
 1946 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (d. 2019)
 1948 - Cliff Branch, American football player (d. 2019)
 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet, actor
 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach

1951  1975 
 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
 1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer
 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality
 1957 - Yoshio Kato, Japanese footballer
 1957 - Taylor Negron, American actor, comedian, painter and playwright (d. 2015)
 1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
 1959 - Satoshi Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
 1959 – Joe Elliott, musician (Def Leppard)
 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
 1960 – Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and movie critic
 1963 – Coolio, American rapper
 1963 - Amber Rudd, English politician, former UK Home Secretary
 1963 - Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
 1963 - Mark Wright, English footballer
 1964 - Fiona Hyslop, Scottish politician
 1964 - Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
 1965 – Sam Mendes, English stage and movie director
 1967 - Clare Adamson, Scottish politician
 1967 - José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
 1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
 1969 - Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
 1970 – David James, English footballer
 1970 - Sibel Can, Turkish singer
 1970 - Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
 1971 - Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
 1973 - Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
 1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress

From 1976 
 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
 1976 - Ivan Duque, Colombian politician, President of Colombia
 1976 – Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer
 1978 - Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (d. 2019)
 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
 1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
 1981 - Hans Lindberg, Danish handball player
 1981 - Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
 1981 – Taylor Fry, actress
 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
 1982 - Montserrat Lombard, English actress
 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American footballer
 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
 1986 - Mike Wallace, American football player
 1987 - Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
 1987 - Karen Carney, English footballer
 1988 - Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
 1988 - Max Carver, American actor
 1988 - Nemanja Matic, Serbian footballer
 1989 – Tiffany, South Korean singer
 1990 - Jack O'Connell, English actor
 1992 - Austin Rivers, American basketball player
 1993 - Alejandro Abrines Redondo, Spanish basketball player
 1993 - Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
 1994 - Domenico Berardi, Italian footballer
 1994 - Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
 1995 - Jason Cummings, Scottish footballer
 1996 - Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
 1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900 
 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
 371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop
 527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
 1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian Franciscan monk and explorer (b. 1185)
 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
 1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
 1580 – Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Belgian cartographer (b. 1527)
 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
 1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist and entomologist (b. 1735)
 1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1853)
 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
 1865 - Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1795)
 1866 – John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
 1869 – Alexandrine Tinné, Dutch adventurer, explorer and photographer (b. 1835)

1901  1950 
 1903 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (b. 1852)
 1907 - Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, three-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)
 1911 – Konrad Duden, German teacher and philologist (b. 1829)
 1911 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
 1913 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (b. 1871)
 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
 1917 – Enric Prat de la Riba, Catalan politician (b. 1870)
 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet flying ace (b. 1921)
 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian movie actor (b. 1883)

1951  2000 
 1959 - Jean Behra, French racing driver (b. 1921)
 1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
 1966 – Charles Whitman, American gunman (b. 1941)
 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German chemist, won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1883)
 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
 1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
 1986 - Carlo Confalonieri, Italian cardinal (b. 1893)
 1987 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (b. 1897)
 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
 1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician, surgeon and aid worker (b. 1929)
 1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Anglo-Indian writer (b. 1897)

From 2001 
 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
 2001 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
 2004 – Philip Hauge Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
 2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
 2006 - Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer (b. 1923)
 2009 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
 2013 - John Amis, British broadcaster and writer (b. 1922)
 2013 - Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
 2014 - Mike Smith, English radio and television presenter (b. 1955)
 2014 - Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (b. 1950)
 2014 - Charles T. Payne, American soldier (b. 1925)
 2014 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarussian footballer (b. 1973)
 2014 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (b. 1974)
 2014 - Saeed Saleh, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
 2014 - Michael Johns, Australian singer (b. 1978)
 2015 - Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (b. 1968)
 2015 - Chiara Pierobon, Italian cyclist (b. 1993)
 2015 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (b. 1939)
 2015 - Cilla Black, English singer, actress and television presenter (b. 1943)
 2016 - Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
 2016 - Frank Blas, Guamian politician (b. 1941)
 2016 - Dai Dower, Welsh boxer (b. 1933)
 2017 - Ana-Maria Avram, Romanian composer (b. 1961)
 2017 - Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian writer and administrator (b. 1928)
 2017 - Jeffrey Brotman, American businessman (b. 1942)
 2017 - Mariann Mayberry, American actress (b. 1965)
 2018 - Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914)
 2018 - Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and actor (b. 1985)
 2018 - Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (b. 1930)
 2018 - Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (b. 1923)
 2018 - Umbayee, Indian ghazal singer (b. 1950)
 2018 - Hannie van Leeuwen, Dutch politician (b. 1926)
 2018 - Jakob Schönenberger, Swiss businessman and politician (b. 1931)
 2018 - Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (b. 1928)
 2019 - Gordon Brand Jnr, Scottish golfer (b. 1958)
 2019 - Ian Gibbons, English keyboardist (b. 1952)
 2019 - Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
 2019 - Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Swiss politician, Chancellor of Switzerland (b. 1948)
 2019 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
 2019 - Harley Race, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
 2019 - Anders P. Ravn, Danish computer scientist (b. 1947)

Observances 
 National Day of Switzerland
 Independence Day in Benin
 Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago)
 Army Day (China)
 Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
 Lammas, cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar
 Statehood Day (Colorado)
 Yorkshire Day

August 01