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## Events

### Pre-1600

* 1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

### 1601–1900

* 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
* 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 1806 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
* 1824 – Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín.
* 1825 – The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
* 1861 – Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
* 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad Template:Ship is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.
* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

### 1901–present

* 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
* 1914 – World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
* 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie *Don Juan* starring John Barrymore.
* 1940 – Estonia becomes part of the Soviet Union.
* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
* 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 *Enola Gay*. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the *Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena* series.
* 1958 – Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.
* 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
* 1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
* 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
* 1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.
* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
* 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
* 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
* 2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
* 2012 – NASA's *Curiosity* rover lands on the surface of Mars.
* 2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

## Births

### Pre-1600

* 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
* 1504 – Matthew Parker, English archbishop (d. 1575)
* 1572 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince (d. 1635)

### 1601–1900

* 1605 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (d. 1675)
* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
* 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (d. 1677)
* 1622 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
* 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (d. 1715)
* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
* 1651 – François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (d. 1715)
* 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French general (d. 1733)
* 1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)
* 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (d. 1747)
* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848)
* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)
* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (d. 1813)
* 1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (d. 1847)
* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (d. 1915)
* 1835 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (d. 1900)
* 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896)
* 1848 – Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (d. 1912)
* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (d. 1888)
* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (d. 1955)
* 1874 – Charles Fort, American author (d. 1932)
* 1877 – Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1952)
* 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (d. 1964)
* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
* 1881 – Louella Parsons, American journalist (d. 1972)
* 1883 – Constance Georgina Adams, South African botanist (d. 1968)
* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (d. 1983)
* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (d. 1971)
* 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver (d. 1957)
* 1889 – George Kenney, Canadian-American general (d. 1977)
* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (d. 1957)
* 1890 – Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1956)
* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1962)
* 1893 – Wright Patman, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1976)
* 1895 – Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (d. 1978)
* 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003)

### 1901–present

* 1901 – Dutch Schultz, American gangster (d. 1935)
* 1903 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (d. 1999)
* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)
* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
* 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
* 1908 – Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (d. 1998)
* 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (d. 1997)
* 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (d. 1941)
* 1909 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (d. 2013)
* 1910 – Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor (d. 1982)
* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
* 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (d. 1989)
* 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
* 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author and actress (d. 1995)
* 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (d. 2010)
* 1914 – Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2001)
* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (d. 1970)
* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
* 1917 – Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
* 1918 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (d. 2001)
* 1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
* 1920 – John Graves, American author (d. 2013)
* 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (d. 2006)
* 1922 – Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (d. 2015)
* 1923 – Jess Collins, American painter (d. 2004)
* 1923 – Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence (d. 2021)
* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American activist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006)
* 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, English journalist and author (d. 2010)
* 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor (d. 2016)
* 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
* 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian author (d. 2012)
* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (d. 1987)
* 1929 – Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
* 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 2007)
* 1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)
* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (d. 2010)
* 1932 – Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
* 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter (d. 2017)
* 1932 – Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2020)
* 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
* 1934 – Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author
* 1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer and author
* 1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player and soldier
* 1935 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012)
* 1935 – Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)
* 1937 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (d. 2014)
* 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress (d. 2020)
* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
* 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
* 1938 – Bert Yancey, American golfer (d. 1994)
* 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
* 1940 – Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 2017)
* 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress
* 1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player
* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (d. 1998)
* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (d. 2003)
* 1944 – Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic
* 1944 – Martin Wharton, English bishop
* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director and production manager (d. 1993)
* 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2017)
* 1947 – Radhia Cousot, French computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
* 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (d. 1993)
* 1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor
* 1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
* 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer
* 1952 – Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1952 – David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
* 1952 – Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
* 1954 – Mark Hughes, English-Australian rugby league player
* 1956 – Bill Emmott, English journalist and author
* 1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player
* 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
* 1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1959 – Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist
* 1960 – Dale Ellis, American basketball player
* 1961 – Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host
* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant
* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
* 1964 – Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist
* 1965 – Stéphane Peterhansel, French racing driver
* 1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer
* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant
* 1965 – Vince Wells, English cricketer
* 1967 – Lorna Fitzsimons, English businesswoman and politician
* 1967 – Mike Greenberg, American journalist and sportscaster
* 1967 – Julie Snyder, Canadian talk show host and producer
* 1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
* 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
* 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
* 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
* 1972 – Ray Lucas, American football player and sportscaster
* 1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
* 1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
* 1974 – Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer
* 1974 – Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player
* 1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player and coach
* 1975 – Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer
* 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
* 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian-American actress
* 1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
* 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
* 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer
* 1978 – Marvel Smith, American football player
* 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
* 1979 – Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
* 1979 – Travis Reed, American basketball player
* 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater
* 1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
* 1984 – Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
* 1984 – Maja Ognjenović, Serbian volleyball player
* 1984 – Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
* 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
* 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
* 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
* 1986 – Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
* 1987 – Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer
* 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
* 1995 – Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player
* 1999 – Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player

## Deaths

### Pre-1600

* 258 – Pope Sixtus II
* 523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
* 750 – Marwan II, Umayyad general and caliph (b. 688)
* 1027 – Richard III, Duke of Normandy
* 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
* 1195 – Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
* 1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
* 1272 – Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
* 1384 – Francesco I of Lesbos
* 1412 – Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (b. 1347)
* 1414 – Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)
* 1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
* 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
* 1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
* 1588 – Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578-1588) (b. 1554)

### 1601–1900

* 1628 – Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (b. 1573)
* 1637 – Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (b. 1572)
* 1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575)
* 1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595)
* 1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1599)
* 1666 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)
* 1679 – John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)
* 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
* 1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
* 1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)
* 1757 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
* 1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
* 1815 – James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)
* 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
* 1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
* 1866 – John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
* 1881 – James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
* 1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)

### 1901–present

* 1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
* 1906 – George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
* 1915 – Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (b. 1841)
* 1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
* 1925 – Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)
* 1925 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853)
* 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (b. 1903)
* 1945 – Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
* 1945 – Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (b. 1866)
* 1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (b. 1903)
* 1952 – Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)
* 1959 – Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
* 1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
* 1969 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
* 1970 – Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
* 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
* 1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
* 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
* 1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
* 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
* 1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
* 1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
* 1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
* 1987 – Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
* 1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)
* 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
* 1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
* 1991 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created *60 Minutes* (b. 1923)
* 1992 – Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
* 1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
* 1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1928)
* 1997 – Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
* 1998 – André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
* 2001 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (b. 1912)
* 2001 – Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (b. 1914)
* 2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911)
* 2001 – Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928)
* 2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
* 2002 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930)
* 2003 – Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (b. 1915)
* 2004 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)
* 2004 – Donald Justice, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
* 2005 – Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1946)
* 2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (b. 1969)
* 2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and author (b. 1934)
* 2009 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (b. 1909)
* 2009 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
* 2009 – John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1950)
* 2011 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (b. 1911)
* 2012 – Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1944)
* 2012 – Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1944)
* 2012 – Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (b. 1938)
* 2012 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
* 2012 – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (b. 1954)
* 2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (b. 1918)
* 2012 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (b. 1953)
* 2013 – Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (b. 1931)
* 2013 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (b. 1929)
* 2013 – Jerry Wolman, American businessman (b. 1927)
* 2014 – Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1941)
* 2014 – Ananda W.P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (b. 1928)
* 2014 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (b. 1927)
* 2015 – Ray Hill, American football player (b. 1975)
* 2015 – Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
* 2017 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (b. 1938)
* 2017 – Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962)
* 2018 – Joël Robuchon, French Chef (b. 1945)
* 2018 – Margaret Heckler, American politician (b. 1931)
* 2018 – Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (b. 1968)

## Holidays and observances

* + Blessed Anna Maria Rubatto
	+ Hormisdas
	+ Justus and Pastor
	+ August 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. (United Arab Emirates)
* Independence Day (Bolivia), celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
* Independence Day (Jamaica), celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
* Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (Hiroshima, Japan)
* Russian Railway Troops Day (Russia)

## External links

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