the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1970  Latren Sprewell, American basketball player
1970  Nidal Malik Hassan, American soldier and murderer
1971  David Arquette, American actor
1971  Martin Freeman, English actor
1972  Markus Babbel, German footballer
1973  Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi footballer
1975  Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
1975  Chris Latham, Australian rugby player
1975  Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer and manager
1975  Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
1976  Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
1976  Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
1976  Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
1979  Pink, American singer
1980  Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (d. 2014)
1980  Kristian Kjelling, Norwegian handball player
1981  Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
1983  Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer
1984  Peter Whittingham, English footballer
1984  Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
1986  Joao Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
1987  Wiz Khalifa, American rapper
1987  Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
1987  Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast
1987  Dom Parsons, English skeleton racer
1988  Chantal Jones, American model and actress
1989  Avicii, Swedish DJ and producer (d. 2018)
1989  Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
1990  Matt Barkley, American football player
1991  Ignacio González Espinoza, Mexican footballer
1991  Joe Sugg, English YouTuber, author and vlogger
1994  Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
394  Arbogast, Frankish general
780  Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
1100  Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
1134  Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1073)
1397  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician (b. 1355)
1425  King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1613  Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
1637  Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1574)
1644  John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1645  Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1580)
1682  Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1780  Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
1784  Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811  Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
1882  Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
1888  Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
1894  Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
1916  Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1836)
1933  King Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1944  Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1963  Maurice Wilks, English automotive engineer (b. 1904)
1965  Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
1965  Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (b. 1881)
1969  Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (b. 1908)
1970  Percy Spencer, inventor (b. 1894)
1978  Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
1979  Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1980  Willard Libby, American chemist (b. 1908)
1981  Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1981  Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (b. 1907)
1981  Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher and educator (b. 1897)
1983  Antoine Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985  John Franklin Enders, American scientist
1989  Sgt.
Barry Sadler, American soldier, writer and songwriter (b. 1940)
1999  Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2003  Leni Riefenstahl, German movie maker (b. 1902)
2003  Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2004  Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1910)
2006  Thomas Lee Judge, 18th Governor of Montana (b. 1934)
2009  Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (b. 1922)
2010  Israel Tal, Israeli military (b. 1924)
2011  Vo Chi Cong, former President of Vietnam (b. 1912)
2012  Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author and educator (b. 1943)
2012  Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)
2013  Louise Currie, American actress (b. 1913)
2014  George Zuverink, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2014  Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1918)
2014  Magda Olivero, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1910)
2014  Bobby Fong, American academic (b. 1950)
2014  Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1971)
2015  Andrew Kohut, American political scientist (b. 1942)
2015  Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author (b. 1963)
2015  Ebby Halliday, American businesswoman (b. 1911)
2016  Prince Buster, Jamaican musician (b. 1938)
2017  Pierre Bergé, French businessman and activist (b. 1930)
2017  Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (b. 1937)
2017  Catherine Hardy Lavender, American sprinter (b. 1930)
2017  Blake Heron, American actor (b. 1982)
2017  Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction author (b. 1933)
2017  Karl Ravens, German politician (b. 1927)
2017  Don Williams, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
2018  Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1921)
2018  Gennadi Gagulia, Abkhazian politician, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1948)
2018  Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b. 1973)
2019  Chris Dobson, British chemist (b. 1949)
2019  Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
2019  Yisrael Kessar, Yemeni-born Israeli politician (b. 1931)
2019  Lito Legaspi, Filipino actor (b. 1941)
2019  Christopher James, 5th Baron Northbourne, British aristocrat (b. 1926)
2019  Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (b. 1926)
2019  Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2019  Olav Skjevesland, Norwegian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1942)
2019  Carlos Squeo, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
National Holiday (Andorra and Republic of Macedonia)
International Literacy Day (UNESCO)
Victory Day (Pakistan)
Nativity of the Virgin (Christianity)
September 08
1223 - Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile are crowned King and Queen of France.
1284 - The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, therefore losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1506 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
1538 - Bogota, the present-day capital city of Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada.
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 United States Constitution are delivered to the Constitution Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1813 - Simon Bolivar takes control of Caracas (present-day Venezuela) from the Spanish.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battles of Spicheren and Woerth both end in Prussian victory.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.
1893 - The Corinth Canal in Greece opens for shipping.
1896 - Madagascar officially becomes a French colony.
1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany.
1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1940 - The Soviet Union takes control of Estonia.
1942 - Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 a.m.. It kills 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year from fallout sickness.
Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bombing.
1958 - Gasherbrum IV in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas is first climbed, by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri.
1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 - Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Fall City, Nebraska, killing all 42 people.
1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which launched him to superstardom.
1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary  of the atomic bombing of the city.
1988 – "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park
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.
1991 - Takako Doi becomes the first female speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives.
1993 - Heavy rains kill 72 people in the Aira and Kagoshima areas of Kyushu, Japan.
1993 – Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1993 – The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1996 – Australian census conducted.
1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
2001 – President George W. Bush receives President's Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States.
2002 – Manindra Agrawal et al.
prove the long-standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
2008 – In Mauritania, President Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdallahi is removed from office in a military coup, led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
2010 - In relation to the floods in Pakistan, flash floods also hit the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, killing 255 people.
2011 - The 2011 England riots begin.
2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity lands on the surface of the planet Mars, with the intention of finding evidence that life once existed there.
2017 - The UEFA Women's Championship is won by the Netherlands, with a 4-2 win in the final over Denmark, who had ended Germany's run of six titles in-a-row in the quarter finals.
1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 - Louise de la Valliere, mistress to Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1666 - Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699)
1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physician (d. 1748)
1682 - Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1765 - Petros Mavromichalis, Greek independence leader (d. 1848)
1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1775 - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, son of King Charles X of France (d. 1844)
1789 - Friedrich List, German economist, businessman and diplomat (d. 1846)
1809 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1811 - Judah P. Benjamin, American politician (d. 1884)
1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1827 - José Manuel Marroquin, 27th President of Colombia (d. 1908)
1835 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (d. 1920)
1844 – James Henry Greathead, engineer (d. 1896)
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1857 - Christian Wilhelm Allers, German painter (d. 1915)
1859 - Arthur Berson, German meteorologist (d. 1942)
1861 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
1866 – Matthew Henson, American Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
1874 – Charles Fort, writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., United States Senator from Maine (d. 1952)
1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 – Leo Carrillo, actor (d. 1961)
1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist and physician (d. 1955)
1881 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 - William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
1892 – Hoot Gibson, American cowboy actor (d. 1962)
1893 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1895 - Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban musician and composer (d. 1963)
1900 – Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments founder (d. 2003)
1902 – Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger, gangster (d. 1935)
1904 – Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970)
1904 - Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
1908 - Rufino Santos, Filipino cardinal (d. 1973)
1908 - Louis Vaida, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)
1911 - Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedienne (d. 1989)
1914 - Gordon Freeth, Australian politician (d. 2001)
1916 – Richard Hofstadter, historian (d. 1970)
1916 – Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear 1961 version) (d. 1997)
1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
1922 – Sir Freddie Laker, American entrepreneur (d. 2006)
1922 - Daniel Walker, American politician, Governor of Illinois (d. 2015)
1924 - Hélène Martini, French night club owner (d. 2017)
1924 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player (d. 2015)
1925 - Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
1926 - Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
1926 - Frank Finlay, English actor (d. 2016)
1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1929 - Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
1929 - Kateb Yacine, Algerian writer (d. 1989)
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer (d. 2010)
1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
1933 - Suchinda Kraprayoon, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1933 – Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (d. 2011)
1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer
1934 - Piers Anthony, English author
1934 - Diane di Prima, American poet
1935 - Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012)
1935 - Mario Coluna, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
1937 – Charlie Haden, American musician (d. 2014)
1937 - Barbara Windsor, British actress
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian musician (d. 2000)
1938 - Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
1940 - Louise Sorel, American actress
1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
1940 - Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist
1942 - Evelyn Hamann, German actress (d. 2007)
1943 – Jon Postel, American creator of the Domain Name System (DNS) (d. 1998)
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009), possibly born on September 1
1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1946 - Ron Davies, Welsh politician
1948 - Alan Howarth, American composer
1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1951 - Catherine Hicks, American actress
1951 - Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (d. 2014)
1952 - David McLetchie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
1955 - Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (d. 2003)
1955 - Tom Sandberg, Norwegian skier
1957 - Renato Soru, Italian politician and businessman, founder of Tiscali
1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician, former Governor of New Jersey
1959 – Joyce Sims, American singer-songwriter
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1962 - Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
1963 - Charles Ingram, British game show contestant
1963 - Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
1964 - Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1965 - Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
1965 – Mark Speight, English television presenter (d. 2008)
1968 - Lisa Boyle, American actress and model
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American movie director, writer, producer, actor
1971 – Merrin Dungey, actress
1971 - Federico Giunti, Italian footballer
1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer (Spice Girls)
1973 - Donna Lewis, Welsh singer and composer
1975 - Jason Crump, Australian speedway rider
1975 - Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
1976 – Melissa George, actress
1977 - Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 - Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Marisa Miller, American actress
1978 – Billy Klippert, singer
1979 - Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
1979 - Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
1979 - Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer
1980 - Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
1981 - Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter
1981 - Abdul Kader Keïta, footballer from Ivory Coast
1982 - Romola Garai, British actress
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1984 – Vedad Ibisevic, footballer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
1984 - Sofia Essaidi, French-Moroccan singer, dancer and actress
1985 - Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
1985 - Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
1987 - Aditya Narayan, Indian actor and singer
1987 - Charley Chase, American pornographic actress
1987 - Joran van der Sloot, Dutch murderer
1988 - Chelsee Healey, English actress
1988 - Aleska Diamond, Hungarian pornographic actress
1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, young beauty queen and victim of crime (d. 1996)
1991 - Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
1993 - Kaori Ishihara, Japanese voice actress
1998 - Jack Scanlon, British actor
2001 - Ty Simpkins, American actor
258 - Pope Sixtus II
523 - Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
1195 - Henry the Lion, son of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish monk and founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
1328 - Galeazzo I Visconti, ruler of Milan (b. 1277)
1414 - Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555)
1660 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1746 - King Christian VI of Denmark (b. 1699)
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (b. 1711)
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1785)
1875 - Gabriel Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador (b. 1821)
1881 - James Springer White, American preacher and author (b. 1821)
1890 - William Kemmler, American murderer, executed on the electric chair (b. 1860)
1891 - Henry Litolff, English pianist and composer (b. 1818)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (b. 1811)
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music writer and critic (b. 1825)
1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of US President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (b. 1890)
1925 - Surendranath Banerjee, Indian politician (b. 1848)
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist and pianist (b. 1903)
1945 - Richard Bong, American pilot (b. 1920)
1945 - Hiram Johnson, Governor of California (b. 1866)
1954 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter and director (b. 1898)
1964 - Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
1974 - Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist (b. 1903)
1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1978 – Edward Durrell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (b. 1911)
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1985 – Forbes Burnham, leader of Guyana (b. 1923)
1986 - Emilio Fernandez, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (b. 1915)
1991 - Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)
1993 - Bob Kiesel, American athlete (b. 1911)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and politician (b. 1928)
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (b. 1925)
1998 - André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (b. 1927)
2007 - Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920)
2009 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
2009 - Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2009 – John Hughes, American movie director (b. 1950)
2010 - Fredrik Ericsson, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1975)
2010 - Catfish Collins, American musician (b. 1944)
2010 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
2012 - Bernard Lovell, British physicist and radio astronomer (b. 1913)
2012 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b. 1918)
2012 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (b. 1944)
2013 - Selcuk Yula, Turkish footballer (b. 1959)
2014 - Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (b. 1938)
2014 - Smita Talwalkar, Indian actress (b. 1954)
2014 - John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
2014 - Julien Fourgeaud, French businessman and inventor (b. 1980)
2015 - Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
2015 - Louise Suggs, American tennis player (b. 1923)
2016 - Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (b. 1926)
2017 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (b. 1947)
2017 - Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete (b. 1938)
2017 - Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962)
2017 - Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, German politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Martin Roth, German museum director (b. 1955)
2017 - Dick Locher, American cartoonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Wolfgang H. Berger, German-American oceanographer and geologist (b. 1937)
2018 - Margaret Heckler, American politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Paul Laxalt, American politician, 22nd Governor of Nevada (b. 1922)
2018 - Joël Robuchon, French chef and cookbook writer (b. 1945)
Independence Day in Bolivia and Jamaica
Start of Tanabata Festival (Sendai, Japan)
Bogota Day
August 06
Up to 1940
70 - Destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans.
1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - an army led by Prince Edward, the future King Edward I of England, defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
1327 - First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas, Lord of Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England.
1532 - The Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
1578 - Battle of Al-Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese.
1627 - The Siege of La Rochelle under King Louis XIII of France begins.
1704 - War of Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke, and allied with Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people, and resulting in a famine that kills a further 20,000.
There was a similarly destructive eruption in Iceland just two months earlier.
1789 - In France, members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and end their privileges.
1791 - The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars.
1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
1824 - The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
1845 - The British emigrant ship Catargui runs aground off King Island, near Tasmania, killing 399 people.
9 survive.
1851 - David Livingstone reaches the upper course of the Zambezi River in Africa.
1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown on Japanese ships.
1863 - Matika slovenska, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution, focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is founded.
1873 - American Indian Wars: US 7th Cavalry, under George Armstrong Custer, clashes with the Sioux for the first time, near the Tongue River, Montana.
One on each side is killed.
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found dead in their home in Massachusetts, leading to one of the most well-known murder cases.
It is still unknown whether Borden committed the murders.
1902 - The Greenwich Foot Tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1903 - Giuseppe Melchiore Sarto is elected Pope.
He becomes Pope Pius X.
1906 - Central Railway Station in Sydney, Australia opens.
1906 - Italian passenger steamboat Siriohits a reef at Cabo de Palos, southern Spain.
442 people drown.
1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium, and the UK declares war on Germany.
1915 - The German 12th Army occupies in Warsaw.
1917 - The Tigra Reservoir in India breaks, causing a flood, killing around 1,000 people.
1924 - Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1936 - Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas suspends Parliament and the Constitution, establishing the 4th August regime.
From 1941
1944 – Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the Gestapo, after a secret informant had given information about the secret annex.
1946 - A magnitude 8 earthquake hits the Dominican Republic, killing 100 people and leaving 20,000 people homeless.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is first published.
1961 – US President Barack Obama is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1964 - American Civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Gooding and James Chaney are found dead after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident: US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 - The Cook Islands achieve self-determination in 'Free Association' with New Zealand.
1974 - A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people.
1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several Embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1977 - Jimmy Carter signs the legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1979 - The Cook Islands introduce a new flag.
1983 – Thomas Sankara takes control in Upper Volta, through a military coup.
1984 – Exactly a year after coming to power, Thomas Sankara changes Upper Volta's name to Burkina Faso.
1991 - Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanus sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1996 - The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, US, come to an end.
1997 – The oldest human on record, Jeanne Calment of France, dies aged 122 years, 164 days.
2005 - Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean would become the 27th Governor-General of Canada.
2006 - A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger charity.
2007 - Slovenia bans smoking in public places.
2007 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
2009 – Former US President Bill Clinton travels to North Korea to secure the release of two journalists.
2013 - The United States closes several embassies in North Africa and the Middle East for up to a week.
The UK, France and Germany also do so with their Embassy in Yemen.
2014 - Commemorations take place around the world to mark 100 years since the start of World War I.
2019 - 2019 Dayton shooting: A gunman kills 9 people, including his sister, in Dayton, Ohio, before killing himself.
It occurs less than 24 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
2019 - 20 people are killed in an explosion in Cairo.
1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 – Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1502 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (d. 1550)
1521 – Pope Urban VII, (d. 1590)
1647 - Giovanni II Cornaro, ruler of Venice (d. 1722)
1701 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1704 - Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (d. 1752)
1719 - Johanna Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French chemist, painter and inventor (d. 1805)
1792 - Edward Irving, Scottish clergyman (d. 1834)
1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1800 - Ramon Maria Narvaez, 1st Duke of Valencia, Spanish military and politician (d. 1868)
1804 - Karl Friedrich Hermann, German historian and classical scholar (d. 1855)
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1813 - Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly, Prince Dietrich von Nicolsburg, Austrian statesman (d. 1871)
1816 - Richard Leach Maddox, English physician (d. 1902)
1817 - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, United States Secretary of State (d. 1885)
1821 - Louis Vuitton, French designer (d. 1892)
1821 - James Springer White, American religious leader, founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
1823 - Oliver P. Morton, 44th Governor of Indiana (d. 1877)
1824 - Domingo Santa María, President of Chile (d. 1889)
1834 – John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923)
1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1853 - John Henry Twachtman, American painter (d. 1902)
1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 (d. 1952)
1861 - Daniel Edward Howard, President of Liberia (d. 1935)
1870 - Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1950)
1876 - Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970)
1883 - René Schickele, German-French writer (d. 1940)
1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1887 - Albert M. Greenfield, American businessman (d. 1967)
1888 - Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader (d. 1965)
1890 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
1900 - Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2018)
1900 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1900 - Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina (d. 1983)
1901 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
1904 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
1906 – Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (d. 2001)
1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American athlete (d. 1988)
1909 - Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1909 - Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect, plant collector and painter (d. 1994)
1910 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1910 – William Schuman, composer (d. 1992)
1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and a mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947 presumed)
1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (d. 1980)
1915 - Warren Avis, American businessman (d. 2007)
1915 - Loni Nest, German actress (d. 1990)
1917 - John Fitch, American racing driver (d. 2012)
1918 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (d. 1992)
1919 - Michel Déon, French writer (d. 2016)
1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist (d. 2013)
1921 - Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (d. 2010)
1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1921 - Geoffrey Wellum, British fighter pilot (d. 2018)
1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian entrepreneur (d. 2016)
1926 - George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist and mountaineer (d. 2000)
1926 - Perry Moss, American football coach (d. 2014)
1926 - Martha Vaughan, American biochemist and physiologist (d. 2018)
1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1927 - John Wilcock, British journalist (d. 2018)
1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
1928 - Flóra Kádár, Hungarian actress (d. 2003)
1929 - Victor Krasin, Ukrainian-born Russian human rights activist and economist (d. 2017)
1929 – Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (possibly born on August 24) (d. 2004)
1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930 – Götz Friedrich, opera director (d. 2000)
1932 – Hans Jürgen Fröhlich, writer
1932 – Guillermo Mordillo, graphic artist and cartoonist
1932 - Francis E. Allen, American computer scientist
1934 - Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager
1936 – Assia Djebar, member of the Académie française (d. 2015)
1937 – David Bedford, English musician and composer (d. 2011)
1939 - Frankie Ford, American singer (d. 2015)
1940 - Robin Harper, Scottish academic and politician
1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician, 68th Governor of Ohio
1942 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
1942 - Don S. Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
1943 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
1943 - Vicente Alvarez Areces, Spanish politician
1944 – Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1944 - Orhan Gencebay, Turkish musician, composer, singer, producer, director and actor
1946 - Maureen Starkey Tigrett, wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
1947 – Hubert Ingraham, former Prime Minister of the Bahamas
1947 – Klaus Schulze, German composer and performer
1950 - Caldwell Jones, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1950 - N. Rangasamy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Puducherry
1952 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
1952 - Daniel Bautista, Mexican race walker
1953 - Antonio Tajani, Italian politician
1953 - Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer
1954 - Anatoliy Kinakh, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
1955 - Dariusz Lipinski, Polish politician
1955 - Andrew M. Allen, American astronaut
1955 – Alberto Gonzales,  former United States Attorney General
1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1955 - Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Icelandic politician
1956 - Meg Whitman, American businesswoman
1957 - Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player
1957 - John Wark, Scottish footballer
1958 - Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer, poet and musician
1958 – Mary Decker Slaney, American middle-distance runner
1958 - Pita, Brazilian footballer
1958 - Phillip Scott, American politician, 82nd Governor of Vermont
1958 - Siwan Shalom, Israeli politician
1959 - Kim Reynolds, American politician, 43rd Governor of Iowa
1960 – Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister of Spain
1961 – Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress
1962 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1962 - Lori Lightfoot, American lawyer and politician, 56th Mayor of Chicago
1964 - Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
1964 - Sebastian Roché, French actor
1965 - Adam Afriyie, British politician
1965 - Terri Lyne Carrington, American musician and singer-songwriter
1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, former Prime Minister of Sweden
1965 - Michael Skibbe, German footballer and coach
1966 - Dennis Lehane, American author
1967 – Mike Marsh, American athlete
1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, model
1968 - Lee Mack, English comedian
1969 - Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 - Jojo Moyes, English author
1970 – Michael DeLuise, American actor
1970 - Kate Silverton, English journalist
1971 – Jeff Gordon, race car driver
1973 - Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1975 - Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1975 - Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician
1975 - Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah, Saudi militant (d. 2015)
1977 - Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Marek Heinz, Czech footballer
1978 – Kurt Busch, race car driver
1981 - Benjamin Boukpeti, Togolese slalom canoeist
1981 - Simone Del Nero, Italian footballer
1981 - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
1981 - Abigail Spencer, American actress
1983 - Greta Gerwig, American actress, writer and director
1984 - Mardy Collins, American basketball player
1985 - Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player
1985 - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1985 – Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1987 - Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
1987 - Phil Younghusband, English-Filipino footballer
1987 - Marreese Speights, American basketball player
1988 - Tom Parker, British singer (The Wanted)
1989 - Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
1989 - Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1991 - Graeme Shinnie, Scottish footballer
1992 – Tiffany Evans, American singer
1992 – Dylan & Cole Sprouse, American actors
1992 - Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player
1993 - Saido Berahino, Burundian-English footballer
1994 - Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
1995 - Jessica Sanchez, American singer
1997 - Ekaterina Ryabova, Russian singer
2016 - Charlie Gard, British infant in life support and parental rights case (d. 2017)
966 - Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
1060 – Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
Peter de Montfort (b. 1215)
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
1578 – Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
1578 – Thomas Stucley, English adventurer (b. 1520)
1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. 1581)
1699 - Maria Sofia of Neuburg, Queen of Portugal (b. 1666)
1718 – René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676)
1778 - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
1784 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
1792 – John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
1821 - William Floyd, American politician (b. 1734)
1822 - Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (b. 1801)
1834 - Dimitrios Panourgias, Greek military commander (b. 1754)
1844 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
1849 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821)
1859 - Jean Vianney, French priest (b. 1786)
1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
1877 - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Prince of Sweden (b. 1799)
1886 – Samuel J. Tilden, United States Presidential candidate and Governor of New York (b. 1814)
1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1900 - Jacob Dolson Cox, American politician, Governor of Ohio (b. 1828)
1914 - Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (b. 1863)
1922 - Enver Pasha, Turkish politician (b. 1891)
1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
1942 - Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
1957 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1973 - Eddie Condon, American jazz guitarist (b. 1905)
1976 – Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1977 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (b. 1885)
1977 - Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist (b. 1889)
1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect (b. 1904)
1993 - Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader and teacher (b. 1916)
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1925)
1996 – Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
1997 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world's oldest ever-human (b. 1875)
1998 – Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
2000 – Leslie Glass, American adult movie actress (b. 1963)
2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
2002 – Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer (b. 1929)
2008 - Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
2013 - Yitzhak Berman, Ukrainian-born Israeli politician (b. 1913)
2013 - Renato Ruggiero, Italian politician, former foreign minister (b. 1930)
2013 - Art Donovan, American football player (b. 1924)
2013 - Sandy Woodward, British admiral (b. 1932)
2014 - James Brady, American Press Secretary (b. 1940)
2014 - Walter Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2014 - George Hilton, American historian (b. 1925)
2015 - Les Munro, New Zealand pilot (b. 1919)
2015 - Theo van Els, Dutch linguist (b. 1936)
2015 - Achim Hill, German rower (b. 1935)
2016 - Patrice Munsel, American coloratura soprano (b. 1925)
2017 - Luiz Melodia, Brazilian actor and singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2017 - Heinz F. Dressel, German theologian and writer (b. 1929)
2017 - Waldemar Schreckenberger, German lawyer, jurist and politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Laurie Brokenshire, English Royal Navy officer and magician (b. 1952)
2018 - Lorrie Collins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1942)
2018 - Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor (b. 1940)
2018 - Arsène Tchakarian, Armenian-French resistance fighter (b. 1916)
2019 - Ernie Bowman, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2019 - Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (b. 1926)
2019 - André Goosse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1926)
2019 - Willi Tokarev, Russian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
2019 - Bob Wilber, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
Revolution Day (Burkina Faso)
Constitution Day (Cook Islands)
August 04
8 - Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the River Balthinus.
435 - Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius, considered the founder of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: King Louis III of France defeats the Vikings.
1031 - Olaf II of Norway is made a saint, by Grimtekel, the English bishop of Selsey.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
1492 – All Jews in Spain are expelled by the country's Catholic Monarchs.
1527 - The first known letter from North America is sent from St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 - Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Gorozso.
1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nordlingen.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds  the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1778 - The La Scala theater in Milan is opened.
1783 – In Japan, Mount Asama erupts, killing around 1,000 people.
1787 - Mesaurements by Geneva's Horace-Benedict de Saussure conclude that Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps.
1811 - First ascent of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps by Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1818 - The Russian Rurik expedition ends after 3 years, led by Adelbert von Chamisso.
1852 - The first boat race between Harvard University and Yale University is held.
Harvard wins.
1858 - John Hanning Speke becomes the first known European to reach Lake Victoria in Africa's Great Rift Valley.
1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1900 - The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1914 – World War I: Germany declares war on France.
1916 - Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement is executed.
1921 - Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox players, the day after they were acquitted (found innocent) by a Chicago court.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge is officially sworn in as President of the United States, after the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day.
1929 - Jiddu Krishnamurti shocks the Theosophy Movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organization built to support him.
1936 – Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
1936 - Fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 people, with only 20 survivors.
1940 – World War II: Italy invades Somaliland.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 - The NBA, the US governing body of basketball, is founded.
1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap, crossing the North Pole underwater.
1959 - Portuguese state police force PIDE fires on striking workers in Bissau in present-day Guinea Bissau (then a Portuguese colony), killing over 50 people.
1960 – Niger becomes independent from France.
1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded.
50 years later, in 2011, it becomes the official opposition party in Canada for the first time, though its then-leader Jack Layton dies a short time later.
1972 - The United States Senate confirms Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into a mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188 people.
1975 - Less than a month after the Comoros became independent, President Ahmed Abdallah is deposed in a coup, supported by Bob Denard.
A revolutionary committee under Ali Soilih takes over.
1979 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo deposes his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
1980 - The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow come to an end.
1997 - The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria kills 116 people.
2001 - The Real IRA detonates a bomb in Ealing, a suburb of London, injuring 7 people.
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is re-opened, after it closed following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
2004 - The NASA MESSENGER space probe, in the Discovery Program programme, is sent to the planet Mercury.
2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is deposed from power, while abroad, attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
2005 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
2013 - Hassan Rouhani becomes President of Iran.
2013 - Because of a perceived terror threat, the United States decides to close many of its embassies in North Africa and Western Asia for the day on August 4.
The UK, France and Germany decide to shut their embassies in Yemen on the same date.
2014 - An earthquake strikes Yunnan province, China, killing over 300 people.
2014 - The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland come to an end.
Neighboring England tops the medal table ahead of Australia, while host nation Scotland finished with its own record totals of gold and overall medals.
2018 - Emmerson Mnangagwa is declared the winner of Zimbabwe's July 30 Presidential election.
2019 - 2019 El Paso shooting: 20 people are killed in a shooting at a supermarket in El Paso, Texas.
A second, unrelated, mass shooting occurs in Dayton, Ohio less than 24 hours later.
1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (d. 1546)
1654 - Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1730)
1692 – John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
1734 - Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (d. 1763)
1753 – Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
1766 - Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, German botanist and physician (d. 1833)
1770 – King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1803 – Joseph Paxton, British landscape gardener (d. 1865)
1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
1811 – Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (safe elevator) (d. 1861)
1817 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
1823 - Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish composer (d. 1894)
1832 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1914)
1832 - Edward Wilmots Blyden, Liberian statesman (d. 1912)
1833 – Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
1847 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Scottish politician, 7th Governor General of Canada  (d. 1934)
1851 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish physicist (d. 1901)
1852 - Domenico Serafini, Italian cardinal (d. 1918)