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Bruce T Goldman
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August
events
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Version
9.07
B08--19-- Chanin Hale, entertainer (Red Skelton Show)
B08--19-- Ellen Gurin
B08--1938 Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File)
B08--1943 Margaret Nolan, Hampstead England, actress (Goldfinger)
B08--1958 Carole Bouquet, Paris France, actress (For Your Eyes Only)
B08--1964 Debi Mazer, NYC, actress (Denise-Civil Wars)
B08--1968 Stephanie Seymor, San Diego Calif, model (Sports Ill 1988)
B0801 10 -BC- Claudius, 4th Roman emperor (41-54 AD)
B0801 126 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD)
B08011495 Jan van Scorel, painter/architect
B08011520 Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland
B08011686 Beneddetto Marcello, composer and author
B08011714 Richard Wilson, British landscape painter
B08011744 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
B08011753 Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, reformer/inventor
B08011766 Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer
B08011766 Jeffry Wyatville, acrchitect
B08011770 William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
B08011779 Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
B08011818 Maria Mitchell, 1st American woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
B08011819 Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
B08011847 Guido Papini, violinist/composer
B08011858 Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
B08011862 Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
B08011877 Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
B08011877 Jan van den Tempel, Dutch politician (SDAP)
B08011881 Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer
B08011886 Isaac Keesing, founder (System Keesing)
B08011889 Dr John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
B08011895 Benjamin E Mays, 1st black president of Atlanta Board of Education
B08011898 Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey)
B08011899 William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71)
B080119-- Carolyn Ann Clarke, actress (Guiding Light)
B080119-- Laura Johnson, Burbank Calif, actress (Falcon Crest)
B080119-- Paul Lambert, El Paso Tx, actor (Tom-Executive Suite)
B08011906 William Hayter, diplomat
B08011909 Nigel Henderson, admiral
B08011911 Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
B08011912 Henry Jones, Phila Pa, actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy)
B08011913 Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny)
B08011916 Viscount Hanworth, barrister
B08011917 Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
B08011918 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
B08011919 Stanley Middleton, novelist
B08011920 Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright
B08011920 Sammy Lee, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
B08011921 Jack Kramer, Las Vegas, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1947)
B08011922 Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)
B08011922 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
B08011923 Gwyn Ward Thomas, Britsh TV director
B08011930 Geoffrey Holder, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
B08011930 Lionel Bart, composer
B08011931 Bart Conner, US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
B08011931 Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England)
B08011933 Dom DeLuise, Bkln NY, comedian, actor (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso)
B08011933 Erwin Nypels, economist/Dutch politician (D66)
B08011933 Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office
B08011936 Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
B08011936 Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)
B08011937 Alfonse D'Amato, Brooklyn NY, (Sen-R-NY 1980- )
B08011939 Stephen Sykes, Bishop of Ely
B08011940 Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983)
B08011940 Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
B08011941 Ron Brown, actor (Charlie the Lonesome Cougar)
B08011942 Giancarlo Giannini, Italy, actor (Seduction of Mimi)
B08011942 Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
B08011943 Andy Roxburgh, manager Scotland soccer team
B08011944 Elske Terveld, Dutch state secretary Social Business (PvdA)
B08011944 Yuri V Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2)
B08011946 J Guillermo, husband of princess Christina of Netherlands
B08011946 Richard O Covey, Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astronaut (STS 51I, 26, 38)
B08011947 Rick Anderson, rocker (Tubes)
B08011947 Rick Coonce, rocker (Grass Roots)
B08011948 Robert Spink, British MP
B08011951 David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
B08011952 Brian Patrick Clarke, Gettysburg Pa, actor (Merle-Eight is Enough)
B08011953 Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy)
B08011957 Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball (445'10")
B08011958 Taylor Negron, LA Calif, actor (Silvio-Detective School)
B08011959 Joe Elliot, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
B08011960 Marta Chávarri Figueroa, Madrid Spain, The Marquesa de Cubas
B08011961 Danny Blind, soccer star (Sparta/Ajax)
B08011962 Joetta Clark, East Orange NJ, 800m runner (Olympic-1992)
B08011964 Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
B08011964 Rob Camilletti, Cher's boyfriend
B08011967 Gregg Jefferies, infielder (NY Mets, KC Royals)
B08011973 Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa-Cosby Show)
B08011978 Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child
B08021455 Johan Cicero, ruler (Brandenburg)
B08021627 Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, painter
B08021696 Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia
B08021754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC
B08021802 Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
B08021832 Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
B08021835 Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)
B08021858 William Watson, British songwriter (Prince's Quest)
B08021868 Constantine I, king of Greece
B08021878 Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)
B08021878 Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
B08021882 Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
B08021882 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Dolle Magd)
B08021884 Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist (Doña Bárbara), pres (1948)
B08021891 Sir Arthur Bliss (Edward Drummond), London, composer (Olympians)
B08021892 Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)
B08021892 John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
B080219-- Isabel Pantoja, spanish entertainer
B080219-- Lisa Brown, KC, Mo, actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns)
B080219-- Max Wright, Detroit, actor (Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science)
B080219-- Tim Dunigan, St Louis, actor (A-Team, Mr Smith, Wizards & Warriors)
B080219-- W K Stratton, Front Royal Va, actor (Lt Casey-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
B08021905 Myrna Loy, Montana, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair)
B08021908 George Kimble, geographer
B08021909 Lord Benson, accountant
B08021910 Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
B08021914 Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
B08021916 Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story)
B08021916 Reginald Murley, surgeon
B08021922 Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
B08021922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
B08021922 Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-Nev)
B08021923 Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal
B08021924 James Baldwin, US writer (Go tell it On The Mountain, Another Country)
B08021925 Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
B08021926 Betsy Bloomingdale, dept store mogul
B08021927 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
B08021929 John Gale, theatrical producer
B08021929 John Hannam, MP
B08021929 Lord Waddington, Govenor of Bermuda
B08021932 Lamar Hunt, owns NFL KC Chiefs
B08021932 Peter O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
B08021933 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
B08021934 Albert W Hall, actor (Apocalypse Now)
B08021934 Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
B08021935 Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
B08021936 Christopher Hogg, CEO (Courtaulds & Reuters)
B08021937 Ronald Brierley, company chairman
B08021937 William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959)
B08021938 Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
B08021938 Yvonne Rüegg, Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1960)
B08021939 Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
B08021940 Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
B08021942 Garth Hudson, rock keyboardist (The Band)
B08021942 Leo Beenhakker, soccer trainer
B08021943 Jeltje van Newenhoven, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B08021943 Ropse Tremain, novelist/playwright
B08021944 Joanna Cassidy, [Caskey], Haddonfield NJ, actress (240 Robert)
B08021945 John Bowis, MP
B08021946 Bob Beamon, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1968 29' 2½" (8.9m))
B08021948 Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)
B08021949 Bertalan Farkas, 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
B08021950 Kathryn Harrold, Tarzewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud)
B08021951 Andrew Gold, Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy)
B08021952 Paul David Crews, SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
B08021953 Anne Leuchars, TV journalist
B08021954 Sammy McIlroy, soccer
B08021955 Roberta Wallach, NYC, actress (Civil Wars)
B08021956 Isabel Pantoja, Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
B08021959 Britt Helfer, Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat)
B08021960 Apollonia, [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)
B08021960 Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
B08021961 Pete de Freitas, rock drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman)
B08021967 Aaron Krickstein, Ann Arbor, Mich, tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983)
B08021967 Derek Wells, LA Calif, actor (Fitzpatricks)
B08021973 Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227)
B08021977 Edward Furlong, Pasedina Calif, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2)
B08021991 Gabriel Anthony Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
B08031753 Charles, Earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
B08031770 Frederik Willem III, reactionary king of Prussia (1797-1840)
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
B08031833 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
B08031851 Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader
B08031867 Stanley, Earl Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
B08031871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)
B08031872 Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
B08031884 Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz)
B08031887 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
B08031894 Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
B080319-- JoMarie Payton-France, actor (Harriette Winslow-Family Matters)
B080319-- Larry Haines, Mt Vernon, NY actor (Search for Tomorrow)
B080319-- Polito Vega, spanish entertainer
B08031900 Arnoldus J Struycken, lawyer
B08031900 Ernie Pyle, correspondant during WW II
B08031900 John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
B08031901 John Stennis, (Sen-D-Miss)
B08031901 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal
B08031902 Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia
B08031902 Judson Laire, NYC, actor/singer (Papa-Mama, Adm Broadway Revue)
B08031902 Ray Block, France, orch leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason)
B08031904 Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)
B08031905 Dolores Del Rio, Mexico, actress (What Price Glory?)
B08031907 Irene Tedrow, Denver Colo, actress (Lucy-Dennis the Menace, Mr Novak)
B08031915 Sal Santen, writer
B08031918 James MacGregor Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox)
B08031920 Maria Karnilova, Hartford Ct, actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible)
B08031920 P.D. James, mystery writer (Cover Her Face)
B08031921 Hayden Carruth, Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart)
B08031921 Marilyn Maxwell, actress (East of Sumatra)
B08031923 Anne Klein, fashion designer (Anne Klein II)
B08031923 Roger Foulon, French/Belgian songwriter
B08031924 Leon Uris, US, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
B08031924 Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister (PvdA)
B08031926 Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
B08031927 Gordon Scott, Portland Oregon, actor (Tarzan & the Trappers)
B08031929 Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap)
B08031930 James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
B08031931 Alex Cord, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
B08031932 Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican songwriter
B08031933 Tjong King, illustrator of children books (Miep Diekman)
B08031935 Georgi S Shonin, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
B08031935 Richard D Lamm, (Gov-D-Colo)
B08031938 George Memmoli, NYC, actor (Earl-Hello Larry)
B08031938 Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host (Irish Days)
B08031940 John W Carlin, (Gov-D-KS)
B08031940 Lance Alworth, Houston Tx, NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys)
B08031940 Martin Sheen, New York, actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
B08031941 Beverly Lee, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
B08031941 Martha Stewart, cookbook author/actress (Those Two)
B08031945 Ron Hendren, Pinehurst NC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
B08031949 B B Dickerson, rocker (War-World is a Ghetto)
B08031950 JoMarie Payton, actress (Hariette-Family Matters/Perfect Strangers)
B08031950 John Landis, director (Twilight Zone)
B08031950 Waldemar Cierpinski, German DR, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
B08031951 Jon Graham, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Celebrate)
B08031951 Marcel Dionne, Québec, NHL center (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
B08031952 Jay North, North Hollywood Calif, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya)
B08031954 Denise Craig, WBL forward (Dayton Rockettes, NY Stars)
B08031956 Kirk Brandon, rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland)
B08031959 Victoria Jackson, Miami Fla, actress (Casual Sex, SNL)
B08031960 Tim Mayotte, Springfield Mass, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
B08031961 Lee Rocker, rocker (Stray Cats-Gonna Ball)
B08031962 Tina Lehtola, Finland, women's ski jumper (world's record holder)
B08031963 Carlo Imperato, Bronx, actor (Fame)
B08031963 James Hetfield, heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless)
B08031966 Christine Richters, Fullerton Ca, playmate (May, 1986)
B08031967 John Femia, Bkln NY, actor (Square Pegs, Hello Larry)
B08031974 Jenny Beck, actress (Claire Carroll-Guns & Paradise)
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
B08041792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
B08041823 Oliver Perry Morton, (Gov-Ind)
B08041832 Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson"
B08041839 Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
B08041859 Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
B08041870 Sir Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin)
B08041873 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
B08041897 Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
B08041900 Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
B08041900 Douglas L Mays, cartoontist (Punch)
B08041900 Elizabeth, Britain's Queen Mother
B08041906 Marie-José von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess
B08041909 Glenn Cunningham, US middle distance runner in the 1930's
B08041910 William Howard Schuman, NYC, composer (American Festival Overture)
B08041912 David Raksin, Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
B08041912 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews)
B08041913 Wesley Addy, Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonian, Loving)
B08041914 Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
B08041915 Irving Fields, NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
B08041920 Helen Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences)
B08041921 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal Canadien (MVP-1947)
B08041928 Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
B08041933 Rudi van Dantzig, choreographer/ballet dancer (Geverfde Vogels)
B08041934 Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
B08041934 Rutger Kopland, songwriter
B08041935 Michael Slory, Surinam songwriter (Sarka, Bittere strÿd)
B08041939 Frankie Ford, Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
B08041942 David Russell Lange, PM (L) New Zealand (1984- )
B08041943 Michael J McCulley, San Diego Calif, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34)
B08041943 Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman (Olympics)
B08041943 Tina Cole, Hollywood, singer (King Cousins)/actress (Katie-My 3 Sons)
B08041944 Richard Belzer, KOed by Hulk Hogan/comedian (How to be a Stand Up)
B08041945 Fred Hansen, US, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-1964)
B08041946 Maureen Cox Starkey, 1st wife of Beatle Ringo Starr
B08041949 John Riggins, NFL running back (NY Jets, Wash Redskins)
B08041952 Bobby Buntrock, Denver Colo, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel)
B08041952 Kristoffer Tabori, LA Calif, actor (Rappaccini's Daughter)
B08041955 Andrew M Allen, Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (STS 46)
B08041955 Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48)
B08041958 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney, NJ, olympic track star (mile record 4:16.71)
B08041960 Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
B08041962 Paul Williams, rocker (Flock of Seagulls)
B08041962 Roger Clemens, Dayton Ohio, Boston Red Sox pitcher (Cy Young, MVP)
B08041965 Crystal Chappell, Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives)
B08041967 Mike Marsh, US, 200m runner (Olympic-Gold-1992)
B08051540 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
B08051604 John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
B08051624 William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
B08051749 Thomas Lynch, signed Declaration of Independence
B08051811 Ambroise Thomas, Metz France, composer (Mignon)
B08051815 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
B08051823 Joseph E Labbé, French lawyer
B08051850 Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
B08051860 Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man"
B08051876 Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
B08051882 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I)
B08051890 Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
B08051890 Naum Gabo, Russian/US sculptor
B08051899 Conrad Aiken, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems)
B080519-- Don Matheson, Dearborn Mich, actor (Mark-Land of the Giants)
B080519-- Jimi Kennedy, Staten Island NY, rocker (Tyketto-Wings)
B080519-- Lucerito, spanish entertainer
B08051906 John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown)
B08051906 Wassely Leontief, Russ/US economist (Nobel 1973)
B08051908 Harold Holt, PM of Australia (1966-67); supported US in Vietnam
B08051911 Robert Taylor, Filley Neb, actor (Death Valley Days)
B08051914 Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)
B08051914 David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)
B08051920 Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)
B08051923 Richard Kleindienst, attorney general (1972)
B08051930 Neil Armstrong, Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
B08051933 Joan Weldon, SF, actress (So This is Love, Them)
B08051935 John Saxon, Bkln, actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman)
B08051936 John Dancy, Jackson Tx, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
B08051938 Ja'net Dubois, Phila, actress (Willona-Good Times)
B08051939 Princess Irene, of Netherlands
B0805194- Jo Collins, Ore, Playboy playmate (Dec, 1964)
B08051941 Leonid D Kizim, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
B08051942 Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
B08051943 Rodney Pattisson, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
B08051943 Sammi Smith, singer
B08051944 Loni Anderson, St Paul Minn, actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati)
B08051945 Jacob Reitsma, economist/Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B08051946 Erika Slezak, Hollywood, Calif, actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
B08051946 Rick van der Linden, rocker (Ekseption)
B08051947 Rick Derringer, rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme)
B08051950 Holly Palance, LA Calif, actress (Thorn Birds, Ripley's Believe It)
B08051950 Rose Mittermaier, German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976)
B08051953 Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
B08051954 Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Bx, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
B08051956 Ferdi Bolland, singer/guitarist (B&B)
B08051956 Maureen McCormick, actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
B08051959 Pete Burns, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
B08051960 Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
B08051961 Tawny Kitaen, (Coverdale), actress (Bachelor Party, Witchboard)
B08051962 Patrick Ewing, NBA center (NY Knicks)
B08051966 Jonathan Silverman, LA Calif, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
B08051966 Jonathan Silverman, US, actor (Weekend at Bernie's)
B08051975 Ami Foster, actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster)
B08052184 Christine Lauren Chapel, Davenport Heights, Vermont (Star Trek)
B08052186 Kevin Thomas Riley, Tasvennir, Tarsus IV (Star Trek)
B0806 966 Berengarius II, king of Italy
B08061504 Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury
B08061638 Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher
B08061651 Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
B08061697 Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
B08061809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
B08061845 Anthonie A van Oyen, genealogist/heraldicus
B08061856 Nestor de Tière, Flemish poet (Roze Kate)
B08061861 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
B08061868 Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
B08061875 Thomas Mann, German writer (Die Buddenbrooks, Nobel)
B08061879 Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
B08061881 Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954)
B08061883 Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
B08061885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
B08061892 Hoot Gibson, US western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw)
B08061893 Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset)
B080619-- De'Voreaux White, actor (Head of the Class)
B080619-- Grant Aleksander, Balt Md, actor (Phillip-Guiding Light)
B080619-- Ira Angustan, Glendale Calif, actor (Ricky-White Shadow)
B08061906 Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
B08061908 Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley Calif, US tennis champ (1932-35)
B08061910 Charles Crichton, director (Battle of Sexes)
B08061911 Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame)
B08061916 Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta
B08061916 Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
B08061917 Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)
B08061919 Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1946)
B08061921 Ella Raines, Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN)
B08061922 Sir Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines)
B08061923 Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
B08061923 Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
B08061923 William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company)
B08061925 Barbara Bates, Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life)
B08061926 J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)
B08061927 Andy Warhol, pop artist (or 08081930)
B08061927 William David Ford, (Rep-D-Mich)
B08061928 Janice-Lee York Romary, Calif, fencer (Olympics-1952-68)
B08061929 Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
B08061930 Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
B08061934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970)
B08061934 Leopold M de Beer, Dutch politician (VVD) 2nd Chamber
B08061934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor)
B08061937 Barbara Windsor, actress (Study in Terror)
B08061938 Carry Tefsen, actress (Zeg 'ns A)
B08061938 Peter Bonerz, Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5)
B08061940 Louise Sorel, LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)
B08061943 Muchael Anderson Jr, London, actor (Clayt-The Monroes)
B08061943 Ray Buktenica, Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls)
B08061944 Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Vice Versa, World According to Garp)
B08061945 Ken Norton, heavyweight boxer (or 0809)
B08061947 Sally Eaton, Ill, actress
B08061948 Michael Peters, choreographer
B08061950 Dorian Harewood, Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center)
B08061950 Nathan Purdee, actor (Nathan-Young & Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live)
B08061950 Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut
B08061951 Catherine Hicks, Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)
B08061952 Carl C Perkins, (Rep-D-Ky)
B08061952 Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08061956 Stepfanie Kramer, LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)
B08061956 Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
B08061958 Randy DeBarge, rocker (Debarge)
B08061959 Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
B08061961 Carol Norman, Ardmore Okla, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1982)
B08061963 Kimberley Conrad Hefner, Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988)
B08061964 Moosie Drier, Chic Ill, actor (Laugh-in)
B08061965 David Robinson, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
B08061976 Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Punky Brewster)
B0807 317 Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome (337-61)
B08071598 Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
B08071742 Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General
B08071779 Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
B08071783 John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
B08071867 Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist
B08071870 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)
B08071876 Mata Hari, dancer/courtesan/spy (WW II)
B08071885 Billie Burke, Washington DC, actress (Glinda-The Wizard of Oz)
B08071886 Louis Hazeltine, inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible)
B08071887 Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician
B08071896 Ernesto Lecuona, Havana Cuba, composer (Malagueña)
B080719-- Calos Vives, Columbia, spanish singer (No Podras Escaparde Mi)
B080719-- Carlos Vives, Columbia, spanish singer
B080719-- David Rasche, Ill, actor (Sledge Hammer)
B08071903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal)
B08071904 Ralph J Bunche, a founder & UN diplomat (Nobel 1950)
B08071920 Jan Walravens, Flemish writer (Roerloos an zee)
B08071921 Karel Husa, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
B08071926 Stan Freberg, LA Calif, satirist/ad executive
B08071927 Edwin W Edwards, (Gov-La)
B08071928 Amazing "James" Randi, Toronto Ontario, skeptic magician
B08071929 Don Larsen, pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect day
B08071929 Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
B08071930 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderdecke, US, jazz trumpetist
B08071932 Ann Harding, US, actress (East is West, Janie)
B08071933 Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, US, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon)
B08071936 Richard L[ouis] Tierney, US, sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr)
B08071938 Helen Caldicott, Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist
B08071940 Marlyn Mason, San Fernando Cal, actress (Making It, Peyton Place)
B08071942 Anjanette Comer, Dawson Tx, actress (Baby, Lepke)
B08071942 B.J. Thomas, singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)
B08071942 Garrison Keillor, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)
B08071943 Lana Cantrell, Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days)
B08071944 John Glover, Kingston NY, actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special)
B08071945 Alan Page, defensive tackle (Minn Vikings)
B08071945 Kerry Chater, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
B08071950 David James Wottle, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08071950 Rodney Crowell, singer/guitarist (for Emmylou Harris)
B08071951 Gary Hall, swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
B08071952 Richard Joswick, rocker (Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods)
B08071956 Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
B08071957 Aleksandr Ditiatin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
B08071958 Alberto Salazar, marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)
B08071958 Bruce Dickinson, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Run to Hills)
B08071958 Larisa Karlova, USSR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
B08071960 Jacquie O'Sullivan, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
B08071961 Yelena Davydova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
B08071963 Marcus Lewis, Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song)
B08071967 Charlotte Lewis, Kensington London, actress (Golden Child, Pirates)
B08071969 David Hollander, LA Calif, actor (Lewis & Clark, What's Happenings?)
B0807197- Josh A Andrew Koenig, actor (Boner-Growing Pains)
B08071971 Sydney Penny, actress (Danni Collins-The New Gidget)
B08071992 Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
B08081763 Charles Bulfinch, Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House)
B08081823 Theodule Augustin Ribot, painter
B08081857 Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research)
B08081864 Henri de Vries, [Hendricus van Walterop], actor)
B08081866 Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole
B08081879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
B08081884 Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")
B08081887 Malcolm Keen, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama)
B08081896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (The Yearling)
B08081898 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (De baadster, Orléans)
B080819-- Anne Francine, Phila, actress (Harper Valley PTA)
B080819-- Branscombe Richmond, LA Cal, actor (Heart of the City, Hawaiian Heat)
B080819-- Doran Clark, New Orleans, actress (King's Cross, Emerald Point NAS)
B080819-- Earl Boen, Pueblo Colo, actor (Dennis-It's a Living)
B080819-- Matt Shakman, actor (Graham-Just the 10 of Us)
B080819-- Rosetta LeNoire, actor (Grandma Winslow-Family Matters)
B080819-- Veronica Redd-Forrest, actress (Mamie-Young & Restless)
B08081900 Victor Young, Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif)
B08081901 Dr Ernest O Lawrence, Canton SC, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939)
B08081902 Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933)
B08081903 August Cool, Belgian union leader
B08081903 Nita Talbot, NYC, actress (Chained Heat, Frightmare, Island Claws)
B08081905 André Jolivet, Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque)
B08081906 André Demedts, Flemish writer (Neerslag der dagen)
B08081907 Benny Carter, NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter)
B08081908 Arthur J Goldberg, Ill, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
B08081910 Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962)
B08081910 Sylvia Sidney, Bronx NY, actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon)
B08081913 Axel Stordahl, Staten Island NY, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show)
B08081913 Robert Stafford, (Sen-R-Vt)
B08081918 Rory Calhoun, LA Calif, actor (Capitol, Motel Hell, Bill-Texan)
B08081919 Dino DeLaurentis, producer (King Kong)
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designer (1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt)
B08081923 Esther Williams, Inglewood Cal, actress/swimmer (Dangerous when Wet)
B08081926 Richard Anderson, Long Beach NJ, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man)
B08081926 Webb Pierce, West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
B08081927 Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/songwriter (Dama di anochi)
B08081927 Jim Weaver, (D-rep-Ore)
B08081929 Josef Suk, Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977)
B08081930 Andy Warhol, artist/movie producer (Frankenstein, Bad)
B08081930 Joan Mondale, wife of former VP Walter F Mondale
B08081930 Nita Talbot, NYC NY, actress (Supertrain, Here We Go Again)
B08081932 Mel Tillis, country singer/stutterer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel)
B08081933 Joe Tex, singer/songwriter (Hold What You've Got)
B08081934 Keith Barron, actor
B08081936 Don Bowden, US, 1st American to run a sub 4 min mile
B08081936 Frank Howard, baseball player (NL Rookie of the Year 1960)
B08081936 Keith Barron, Mexborough England, actor (At the Earth's Core)
B08081937 Dustin Hoffman, LA, actor (The Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer)
B08081938 Connie Stevens, Bkln, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach)
B08081939 Phil Balsley, Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall)
B08081942 Jay David, Dr Hook & Medicine Show, rocker
B08081944 Hans van Eijk, guitarist (Jumping Jewels)
B08081946 French W Weisglas, Dutch politician (VVD) 2nd Chamber
B08081947 Jose Cruz, leftfielder (St Louis Cards, Houston Astros)
B08081947 Larry Wilcox, SD Calif, actor (Lassie, CHiPs)
B08081948 Svetlana Y Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
B08081949 Keith Carradine, San Mateo Calif, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)
B08081952 Robin Quivers, radio/TV personality (Howard Stern's sidekick)
B08081953 "Sweet" Lou Dunbar, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
B08081953 Donny Most, Bkln NY, actor (Ralph Malph-Happy Days)
B08081954 Nigel Mansell, formula-1 racer (Portugal Grand Prix-1990)
B08081955 Ali Score, Flock of Seagulls, rocker
B08081956 Chris Foreman, guitar (Madness-1 Step Beyond)
B08081956 David Grant, rocker (Heaven Knows)
B08081957 Dieuwertje Blok, Dutch TV hostess
B08081958 Chris Foreman, rocker (Madness-Burning Down the House)
B08081958 Deborah Norville, TV host (Today)
B08081958 Harry Crosby, LA Calif, actor (Friday the 13th)
B08081959 Rikki Rockett, rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
B08081961 The Edge (Dave Evans), London, rocker (U2-I Will Follow)
B08081962 Suzee Pai, Toledo Ohio, actress (Big Trouble in Little China)
B08081963 Carol Lewis, Willingboro NJ, high jumper (Olympic-9th-1984)
B08081967 Lorraine Pearson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
B08081988 Beatrice, Princess of England
B08091593 Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
B08091631 John Dryden, English songwriter/songwriter (Heroic Stanzas)
B08091686 Benedetto Marcello, Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare)
B08091758 Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer
B08091776 Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law)
B08091819 William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
B08091825 Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93)
B08091875 Albert William Ketèlbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker)
B08091883 George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
B08091888 Hans Oster, general/German spy/"July 20th plotter"
B08091890 Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
B08091896 Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
B08091896 Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20)
B08091897 Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
B08091898 David de Jong, writer (Muiterÿ on the Gracht)
B08091899 Armand Salacrou, French poet
B080919-- Clint Ritchie, ND, actor (Clint Buchanon-One Life to Live)
B080919-- Dennis Belanger, Canada, rock vocalist (Voivod-Angel Rat)
B080919-- Michael Storm, Chicago, actor (Dr Larry Wolek-One Life to Live)
B08091901 Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Mass, actor (Vern-My Little Margie)
B08091902 Zino Francescatti, Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939)
B08091905 Leo Genn, actor (Affair in Monte Carlo)
B08091909 John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century)
B08091910 Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Rechter Tie)
B08091911 Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion)
B08091911 William A Fowler, US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
B08091913 Harry Mills, singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Moon)
B08091913 Herman Talmadge, (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee)
B08091914 Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
B08091919 Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier (PVDA, 1973-77)
B08091919 Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers)
B08091921 J James Exon, (Sen-D-Neb)
B08091922 Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill)
B08091923 Gerrit Kouwenar, literary
B08091926 Michiel de Ruyter, [Mister Jazz], jazz historian
B08091927 Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT)
B08091927 Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)
B08091928 Bob Cousy, NBA star, Boston Celtics (1957 MVP)
B08091930 Betty Boop, animation
B08091938 Dick Anthony Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
B08091938 Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
B08091939 Billy Henderson, rocker (Spinners)
B08091939 Claude Osteen, baseball pitcher (Cin Reds)
B08091940 Beverlee McKinsey, Okla, actress (Another World, Guiding Light)
B08091942 David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End)
B08091944 Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, Dutch politician (D66) 2nd Chamber
B08091944 Sam Elliot, Calif, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
B08091944 Viv Prince, Pretty Things, rocker
B08091945 Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
B08091946 Maarnus Gerritsen, rocker (Golden Earring)
B08091955 Doug Williams, Louisana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Bucaneers, Wash Redskins)
B08091957 Melanie Griffith, NYC, actress (Something Wild, Working Girls)
B08091958 Amanda Bearse, actress (Marcy Rhodes-Married With Children)
B08091958 Greg Chaisson, heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
B08091959 Kurtis Blow, NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks)
B08091962 Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker
B08091963 Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children)
B08091963 Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time)
B08091965 Kyle Kyle, Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
B08091966 Pat Petersen, LA Calif, actor (Michael-Knots Landing)
B08091971 Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s)
B08091972 Elizabeth Vassey, Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children)
B08101296 Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
B08101556 Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer
B08101810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Italy, PM
B08101810 Cornelis Outshoorn, architect
B08101823 Antônio G Dias, Brazilian poet
B08101865 Alexander Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
B08101869 Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds)
B08101874 Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
B08101874 James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
B08101881 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
B08101889 Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
B08101893 Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
B08101893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
B08101897 Piet[er O] Bakker, journalist
B08101899 Jack Haley, Boston Mass, actor (Ford Star Revue)
B081019-- Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Hoboken NJ, actor (Chicago Story, Hardcastle)
B081019-- James Reynolds, Oskaloosa, Ks, actor (Abe Carver-Days of our Lives)
B081019-- Jim Storm, actor (Bill-Bold & Beautiful)
B08101900 Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
B08101900 Norma Shearer, Canada, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight)
B08101905 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
B08101909 Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
B08101909 Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
B08101910 Angus Campbell, US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
B08101912 Izak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)
B08101912 Richard Reeves, NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
B08101912 Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist
B08101913 Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)
B08101913 Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
B08101914 Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)
B08101920 Red Holzman, NBA coach (NY Knickerbockers)
B08101923 Rhonda Fleming, Hollywood Calif, actress (Spellbound)
B08101924 Martha Hyer, actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
B08101926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist
B08101928 Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
B08101928 Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
B08101933 Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960)
B08101933 Rocky Colavito, Bronx, baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game)
B08101938 Diana Muldaur, actress (McCloud, Star Trek-Next Generation)
B08101939 Kate O'Mara, Leicaster England, actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty)
B08101940 Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)
B08101941 Anita Lonsbrough, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960)
B08101942 Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
B08101943 Ronnie Spector, [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Little Baby)
B08101945 Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
B08101947 Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle)
B08101948 Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80)
B08101948 Patti Austin, singer (Real Me)
B08101952 Ashley Putnam, NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978)
B08101959 Mark Price, bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
B08101959 Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
B08101961 Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons)
B08101961 John Farriss, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
B08101962 Dan Donovan, rocker (Bad)
B08111778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
B08111799 Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
B08111807 David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849
B08111811 Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy
B08111823 Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
B08111833 Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)
B08111836 Cato M Guldberg, Norweign mathematician
B08111837 Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated
B08111858 Christian Eykman, bacteriologist (avitaminosen (Nobel 1929)
B08111862 Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
B08111867 Joseph Weber, comedian (Weber & Fields)
B08111882 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/under-king Ethiopia
B08111892 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound)
B08111892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general
B08111897 Louise Bogan, Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury)
B08111900 Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod)
B08111900 Charles Paddock, sprinter (world's fastest human of 1920s)
B08111902 Christian Castries, French general (Dien Bien Phu)
B08111902 Lloyd Nolan, SF Calif, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
B08111906 Harry Elstrφm, Danish/Belgian sculptor (Great Pass, Black Christ)
B08111911 Henry Kulky, Hastings-on-Hudson NY, actor (Otto-Life of Riley)
B08111911 Thanom Kittikachorn, premier Thailand
B08111912 Jean Parker, Montana, actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women)
B08111913 Sir Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955)
B08111920 William Masselos, Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juiliard 1976)
B08111921 Alex Haley, US, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots)
B08111924 Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)
B08111925 Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
B08111925 Mike Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show)
B08111926 Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife
B08111927 Len Rempt-Halmmans de Jongh, Dutch politician (VVD) 2nd Chamber
B08111927 Raymond Leppard, London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch)
B08111929 Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
B08111930 William A O'Neal, (Gov-D-Ct)
B08111932 Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer (Baal Babilonia)
B08111933 Jerry Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority)
B08111937 Anna Massey, actress (De Sade, Doll's House)
B08111940 Kip King, Chicago Ill, actor (Charlie & Company)
B08111941 Elizabeth Holtzman, Bkln DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee)
B08111942 Mike Huyggs, drummer (Manfred Mann)
B08111943 James Kale, rocker (Guess Who)
B08111946 Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (Guinness)
B08111947 Jeff Hanna, singer/guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
B08111947 Sergey Kovalneko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968)
B08111949 Eric Carmen, Cleveland, Ohio, rocker (All by Myself)
B08111949 Ian Charleson, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Jamie-Master of the Game)
B08111950 Erik Brann, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
B08111950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers)
B08111952 Ann Michelle, England, actress (Virigin Witch)
B08111953 Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89)
B08111953 Sanford Jensen, South Haven Mich, actor (Foley Square)
B08111954 Lina Polito, Naples Italy, actress (Love & Anarchy)
B08111955 Joe Jackson, England, singer (Steppin' Out)
B08111957 Richie Ramone, rocker (Ramones-Pet Semtary)
B08111959 Linda Rhys Vaughn, Grossmont Ca, playmate (Apr, 1982)
B08111964 Hamish, rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
B08111969 Eddie Garcia, LA, actor/musician (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
B08111971 Julie Anne Clark, Tucson Az, playmate (Mar, 1991)
B08111975 Chris Kelly, [Mack Daddy], Teaneck NJ, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
B08121566 Isabella CE, land guardian of Netherlands
B08121720 Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian
B08121744 Rowland Hill, preacher
B08121753 Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
B08121757 ALF, alien life form (ALF)
B08121762 George IV, king of England (1820-30)
B08121774 Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson
B08121778 Francis Horner, politician
B08121781 Robert Mills, US, architect (Washington Monument)
B08121820 Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
B08121825 Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer
B08121832 Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor
B08121838 Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
B08121848 Macellus Emants, writer/poet (Langs den Nijl)
B08121849 Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist
B08121853 Jean Louis Nicode, composer
B08121854 Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith
B08121859 Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful)
B08121866 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish dramatist (Nobel 1922)
B08121867 Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology)
B08121868 Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, Under King of British-India (1916-21)
B08121876 Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)
B08121880 Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908)
B08121880 Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author
B08121881 Cecil B deMille, Mass, directed God (10 Commandments, Cleopatra)
B08121884 Frank Arthur Swinnerton, England, novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary)
B08121887 Erwin Schrödinger, Austria, physicist (had a cat)
B08121890 Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
B08121893 Howard Smith, Attleboro Mass, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel)
B08121897 Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald-Sterrenwacht)
B081219-- Carl Sturken, Plainfield NJ, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
B081219-- Dana Ivey, Atlanta Ga, actress (Easy Street)
B081219-- Elizabeth Kerr, KC Mo, actress (Cora-Mork & Mindy)
B081219-- Jim Storm, actor (Bill-Bold & Beautiful)
B081219-- Jorge Rigo, Chile, spanish singer
B081219-- Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children)
B081219-- Lezlie Dalton, actor (Search for Tomorrow)
B081219-- Marsha Clark, actress (Guiding Light)
B08121900 Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ (1866-1894)
B08121903 Frances Clode, CEO (WRVS)
B08121904 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II
B08121904 Frank Ervin, harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66)
B08121905 Joan [Jacobus J] Remmelts, actor
B08121908 Lord Renton, QC/British govt minister
B08121909 Maurice Heath, air marshal
B08121910 Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary (Natl Assn of Women)
B08121911 Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), Mexico, actor (Around World in 80 Days)
B08121912 Jane Wyatt, Campgaw NJ, actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek)
B08121912 Louis JN Gérardin, [Toto], French bicyclist/trainer (champ 1930)
B08121913 Kurt Kaszner, Vienna Austria, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants)
B08121915 Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
B08121919 Michael Kidd, [Milton Greenwald] choreographer (7 Brides for 7 Bros)
B08121920 Peter West, British sports commentator
B08121921 Marjorie Reynolds, Buhl Idaho, actress (Peggy-Life of Riley)
B08121921 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
B08121922 André Kloos, Dutch political party leader (NVV)/VARA
B08121922 Lord Colinbrook, British government minister
B08121925 Dale Bumpers, (Sen-D-Ark)
B08121925 Norris McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records)
B08121925 Robin Nicholson, metallurgist
B08121925 Ross McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records)
B08121926 John Derek, LA Calif, actor/director (10, Annapolis Story)
B08121927 Ralph Waite, White Plains NY, actor (John-Waltons, Roots)
B08121929 Buck Owens, Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
B08121931 William Goldman, author (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983)
B08121932 Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come)
B08121932 Queen Ferekit, of Thailand (Queens Day)
B08121934 Kenneth Eaton, Controller of the British Navy
B08121936 Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist (Right to Life, Dripper Boxes)
B08121936 John Poindexter, US Chief of Staff
B08121938 Anthony Joliffe, mayor of London
B08121939 George Hamilton, Memphis Tn, (Love at 1st Bite, Where the Boys Are)
B08121940 Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster
B08121941 Deborah Walley, Bridgeport Ct, actress (Mothers-in-Law)
B08121941 Jennifer Warren, NYC, actress (Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant)
B08121942 Elizabeth Appleby, QC
B08121948 Cliff Fish, rocker (Paper Lace)
B08121948 Graham Zellick, principal (Queen Mary & Westfield College London)
B08121948 Ron Mael, rocker (Sparks)
B08121949 Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director
B08121949 Mark Knopfler, guitar/vocals (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
B08121951 Charles E Brady Jr, Pinehurst NC, USN Commander/astronaut
B08121951 Hector Rodriguez, Cuba, lightweight judo (Olympic-gold-1976)
B08121954 Pat Methany, jazz guitarist (As Wichita Falls)
B08121954 Sam J Jones, Chicago Ill, actor (Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man)
B08121955 Heintje, [Hendrik Simons], singer (Mama)
B08121959 Lynette Woodard, Wichita Ks, (Olympic-gold-1984, Harlem Globetrotter)
B08121960 Lonny Chin, Liverpool England, playmate (Jan, 1983)
B08121960 Morty Black, heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas)
B08121961 Pete De Freitas, rocker (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
B08121961 Roy Hay, guitarist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
B08131422 William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
B08131717 Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
B08131802 Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
B08131814 Anders Jonas Ångström, Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy
B08131818 Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist/feminist
B08131819 Sir George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (Spectroscope)
B08131820 Sir George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
B08131840 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
B08131860 Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
B08131867 Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)
B08131881 Jacqueline R van Stuwe, [Eline], writer
B08131886 Jacob Pierneef, South African painter
B08131888 John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
B08131894 Ferdinand Sassen, philosopher/director
B08131895 Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
B08131896 Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor
B08131898 Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbeldons between 1922-64)
B08131899 Alfred Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
B081319-- Alex Donnelley, Frankfurt Germany, actress (Young & Restless)
B081319-- Alma Cuervo, Tampa Fla, actress (Sylvia-AKA Pablo)
B081319-- Hank Cheyne, actor (Another World, Young & Restless)
B081319-- Jane Carr, actress (Louise-Dear John)
B081319-- Sid Falck, rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
B08131902 Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
B08131902 Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics)
B08131902 Regis Toomey, Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
B08131904 Charles "Buddy" Rogers, actor (Wings)
B08131907 Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
B08131908 Gene Raymond, NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
B08131909 John Beal, actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D)
B08131912 Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
B08131912 Metten Koornstra, painter/graphic artist
B08131912 Rita Johnson, Worcester Mass, actress (All Mine to Give)
B08131912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/US biologist (Nobel 1969
B08131913 Lord Oram, labour MP
B08131913 Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus
B08131918 Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal
B08131918 Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
B08131918 John Bunting, senior civil servant
B08131919 Rex Humbard, televanglist
B08131920 George Shearing, London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
B08131921 Neville Brand, actor (DOA, Eaten Alive, Fire, Mohawk)
B08131924 John Milne, CEO (Blue Circles Industries)
B08131925 Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter
B08131925 Leslie Joseph, QC
B08131927 Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban political leader (1959- )
B08131929 Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)
B08131929 Michael Beavis, deputy cmdr-in-chief (Allied Forces Central Europe)
B08131929 Pat Harrington Jr, NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
B08131930 Don Ho, Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
B08131930 Marquess Camden
B08131931 Bernard Manning, British comedian
B08131931 Norman Read, NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
B08131931 Roy Evans, general sect (British Iron & Steel Trade Confederation)
B08131933 Madhur Jaffrey, cookbook writer/actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
B08131934 Gary Davidson, founder of ABA, WHA, WFL
B08131935 Rod Hull, entertainer
B08131939 Saul Steinberg, artist (The Art of Living)
B08131940 Timothy Wood, British govt asst whip
B08131942 Robert L Stewart, Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
B08131942 Sheila Armstrong, soprano
B08131943 Gary Ilman, US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
B08131943 Susan Jameson, actress
B08131945 Robin Jackman, cricket commentator
B08131947 Gretchen Corbett, Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
B08131948 Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannhäuser)
B08131948 Tony Santini, rocker (Sha Na Na)
B08131949 Bobby Clarke, Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyer)
B08131949 Sheralee, Ft Lauderdale Fla, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
B0813195- Kavi Raz, India, actor (VJ Kochar-St Elsewhere)
B08131951 Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
B08131951 Gwen Cheeseman, Harrisburg Pa, field hockey goalie (Oly-bronze-1984)
B08131952 Marie Helvin, model
B08131955 Betsy King, LPGA golfer (1990 Dinah Shore, 1990 US Women's Open)
B08131958 Feargal Sharkey, rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart)
B08131959 Bruce French, cricketer
B08131959 Danny Bonaduce, actor (Danny-Partridge Family) (1959 approx)
B08131959 Mark Nevin, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
B08131961 Betine Vriesekoop, table tennis star
B08131961 Dawnn Lewis, actress (Jaleesa-Different World)
B08131961 Neil Mallender, cricketer
B08131963 Pamela Jean Stein, Syracuse NY, playmate (Nov, 1987)
B08131963 Tigg Ketler, Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
B08131964 Ian Haughland, heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
B08131967 Quinn Cummings, LA Calif, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)
B08141552 Fra Paolo Sarpi [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher
B08141599 Florence Estienne Méric Casaubon, classical scholar
B08141687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/ruler (Nassau-Dietz)
B08141714 Claude-Joseph Vernet, painter
B08141737 Charles Hutton, mathematician
B08141740 Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23)
B08141769 Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
B08141774 Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville VA, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
B08141777 Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law)
B08141802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
B08141810 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
B08141836 Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
B08141840 Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist
B08141840 Baron Riviere, artist
B08141842 Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author
B08141860 Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
B08141861 Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
B08141867 John Galsworthy, England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)
B08141869 Armas Järnefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
B08141876 Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34)
B081419-- David Hallyday, actor (He's My Girl)
B081419-- Lila Murillo, Maricibo, spanish singer
B08141901 Sir James Pitman, England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller
B08141903 John Ringling North, circus director
B08141903 Ronald Stewart, CEO (London Brick Co)
B08141908 Lady Jean Swaythling, chief controller (ATS)
B08141911 Pieter Platteel, last governor Neth New-Guinea
B08141913 Fred Davis, snooker player
B08141914 Sydney Wooderson, miler (world record 1937)
B08141915 Lord Mishcon, economist
B08141916 Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery (U of Glasgow)
B08141920 Nehemiah Persoff, actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
B08141924 Georges Prêtre, Waziers France, conductor (NY Met)
B08141925 Russell Baker, columnist/humorist (NY Times)
B08141926 Alice Ghostley, Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women)
B08141926 Buddy Greco, Phila Pa, jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)
B08141927 Lord Whaddon, CEO (Daltrade & Skorimpex-Rind)
B08141929 Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter
B08141929 Oliver Neville, principal (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)
B08141930 Earl Weaver, St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)
B08141930 Lord Chorley, mountaineering enthusiast
B08141931 Frederic Raphael, writer (After the War, California Time)
B08141932 Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster (Downside School Great Britain)
B08141934 Robin McLaren, British ambassador (China)
B08141938 Stuart McKinnon, high court judge
B08141940 Dash Crofts, Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
B08141941 Connie Smith, Elkhart, Indiana, singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons)
B08141941 David Crosby, rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross)
B08141942 Sandy Gilmour, Montclair NJ, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
B08141943 Barrie Leadbeater, cricket umpire
B08141943 Jon A McBride, Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G)
B08141943 Keith Hampson, MP
B08141943 Ronald Campbell, MP
B08141944 Robyn Smith Astaire, jockey/wife of Fred Astaire
B08141945 Jennifer d'Abo, CEO (Ryman, Moyses Stevens)
B08141945 Steve Martin, Waco Tx, comedian (The Jerk, Man With 2 Brains)
B08141945 Tony Scannell, actor [or 1932]
B08141946 Alexander Curly, [Harm Breemer], artist
B08141946 Antonio Fargas, Bronx NY, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
B08141946 Larry Graham, rocker (Graham Central Station-One in a Million You)
B08141946 Marga van Prag, radio hostess
B08141946 Susan St James, LA Cal, (MacMillan & Wife, Kate & Allie, Name of Game)
B08141952 Deborah Meyer, Annapolis Md, freestyle swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1968)
B08141952 Mark C Lee, Viroqua Wisconsin, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 30, 47)
B08141956 Sharon Bryant, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B08141957 Jackee (Harry), Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)
B08141958 Earvin (Magic) Johnson, NBA star (LA Lakers, Oly-gold-1992)
B08141961 Sarah Brightman, actress/singer (Phantom of the Opera)
B08141961 Susan Olson, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
B08141965 Emmanuelle Béart, St Tropez France, actress (Manon of the Spring)
B08141965 Lynette Falls, Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
B08151432 Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
B08151688 Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
B08151688 Frederik Willem I, king of Prussia
B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
B08151771 Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
B08151785 Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
B08151794 Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia
B08151845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
B08151856 J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
B08151860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
B08151874 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
B08151875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
B08151876 Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist
B08151879 Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
B08151887 Ferber, Edna, Mich, writer (Showboat, Cimarron, Giant)
B08151888 T.E. Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
B08151890 Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
B08151892 Louis-Victor due de Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
B08151893 Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
B08151898 Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom
B081519-- Jim Lange, St Paul Mn, TV host (Dating Game, Name the Tune)
B081519-- Jonathan Daniel, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
B081519-- Lila Morillo, spanish entertainer
B081519-- Matt Kramer, rocker (Saigon Kick-New World)
B081519-- Tom Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Nobody's Perfect)
B08151901 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
B08151902 Jan RT Campert, writer (Lied der 18 kill)
B08151904 Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
B08151910 Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
B08151912 Julia Child, Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)
B08151912 Wendy Hiller, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
B08151915 Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese folk lorist
B08151915 Signe Hasso, actress (Double Life)
B08151920 Huntz Hall, actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
B08151922 Lukas Foss (Fuchs), Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
B08151923 Rose Marie, NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
B08151923 Sjimon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
B08151924 Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
B08151924 Robert Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
B08151925 Mike Connors, Fresno Calif, actor (Joe Mannix-Mannix, Night Kill)
B08151926 Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
B08151931 Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
B08151932 Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake)
B08151933 Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
B08151935 Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
B08151935 Jim Dale, Broadway entertainer (Barnum, My One & Only)
B08151935 Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist
B08151939 H Onno CR Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
B08151939 Herman van Keeken, singer (Pappie loop toch niet zo snel)
B08151941 Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
B08151943 Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
B08151944 Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
B08151945 Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland), NFLPA leader
B08151946 Jimmy Webb, Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
B08151946 Kathryn Jean Whitmire, Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
B08151947 Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
B08151947 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
B08151949 Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
B08151950 Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, England, Princess
B08151950 Tess Harper, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
B08151955 Larry Mathews, Burbank Calif, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
B08151957 Zeljko Ivanek, Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
B08151960 Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
B08151960 Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
B08151961 Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
B08151964 MCA (Adam Yauch), rocker (The Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
B08161622 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
B08161666 Henriëtte Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz
B08161832 Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
B08161845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
B08161846 Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/writer/head of red guard
B08161860 Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)
B08161862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
B08161863 Gabriel Pierné, Metz France, composer (Edith)
B08161868 Bernard MacFadden, publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances)
B08161874 Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920,1,6)
B08161882 Pierre H Ritter Jr, literary/head (Utrechtsch Newsblad)
B08161884 Adrian S Oppenheim, lawyer/adviser (British Pretroleum/Shell)
B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
B08161894 George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO)
B08161895 Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
B08161897 Robert Ringling, circus master
B08161899 Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
B08161902 Georgette Heyer, England, novelist (Friday's Child)
B08161904 Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946)
B08161906 Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938- )
B08161910 Mae Clarke, Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)
B08161912 Marga AM Klompé, 1st Netherland women elected minister
B08161913 Menachem Begin, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978)
B08161914 Tullio Pandolfini Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
B08161917 Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
B08161920 Charles Bukowski, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel)
B08161925 Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
B08161928 Ann Blyth, Mt Kisko NY, actress (Kismet, Mildred Pierce)
B08161930 Frank Gifford, Calif, NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster
B08161930 Robert Culp, Berkley Calif, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
B08161930 Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate (1984- )
B08161930 Tony Trabert, tennis pro (1955 Wimbeldon)
B08161931 Betsy Von Fürstenberg, Germany, stage actress (Gingerbread Lady)
B08161932 Eydie Gorme, Bronx NY, singer (Tonight Show, Bossa Nova)
B08161932 Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
B08161933 Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14)
B08161934 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
B08161934 Ed van Thÿn, foreign minister/burgemiester of Amsterdam
B08161934 John Standing, London England, actor (Edward-Lime Street)
B08161935 Julie Newmar, Hollywood Calif, actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll)
B08161936 Anita Gillette, Balt Md, actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck)
B08161936 Gary Clarke, LA Calif, actor (Hondo, Virginian, Michael Shayne)
B08161938 András Balczó, Hungary, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08161938 Ketty Lester, Hope Ark, actress (Hester-Little House on the Prairie)
B08161939 Carol Shelly, London, actress (Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple)
B08161939 Valeri V Ryumin, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
B08161939 Wim Meÿer, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B08161945 Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy)
B08161945 Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor (Absence of Malice, Altered States)
B08161945 Snowy Fleet, rocker (Easybeats)
B08161945 Suzanne Farrell, Cincinatti, dancer (Don Quioxote)
B08161946 Lesley Ann Warren, NYC, actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible)
B08161947 John Howard, (US), speed record (152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT)
B08161948 Barry Hay, singer/fluitist/saxofonist/guitarist (Golden Earring)
B08161949 Bill Spooner, rocker (Tubes)
B08161952 Gianna Rolandi, NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
B08161952 Reginald Veljohnson, actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard)
B08161953 Catlin O'Heaney, Whitefish Bay Wisc, actress (Snow White-Charmings)
B08161953 James Taylor, rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
B08161953 Kathie Lee Gifford, Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
B08161953 Nick Leyva, baseball manager (Phillies 1988-91)
B08161957 Tim Farriss, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
B08161958 Jonathan Prince, Beverly Hills Pa, actor (Danny-Alice)
B08161958 Madonna, [Ciccone], Bay City Mich, singer/actress (Like a Virgin)
B08161960 Timothy Hutton, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People)
B08161964 Jimmy Arias, Buffalo NY, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
B08161988 Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
B08171601 Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins
B08171786 Davy Crockett, US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo)
B08171839 Thÿs [Matthÿs] Maris, painter/etcher
B08171840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
B08171844 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
B08171851 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
B08171870 Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
B08171876 Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
B08171887 Karl I, emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)
B08171887 Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
B08171888 Monty Wooley, NYC, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner)
B08171892 Mae West, Bkln, actress (Go up & see her sometime, Klondike Annie
B08171894 Johan Polet, sculptor
B08171896 Henry P De Vries, painter/songwriter (Laws of the Americas)
B081719-- Emily Schulain
B081719-- Guy Killum, LA Calif, actor (Snake-Better Days)
B081719-- Julianna McCarthy, actress (Young & Restless)
B081719-- Kathy McNeil, actress (As the World Turns)
B081719-- Kenji Hino, rocker (RU Ready)
B081719-- Steven Gorman, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
B08171900 Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
B08171901 Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer (Don Juan de Mañara)
B08171905 John Hay Whitney, publisher (NY Herald Trib 1961-67)
B08171910 J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
B08171911 Jan L Cantens, Flemish poet (De Opstand der Poppen)
B08171912 Edgar Fernhout, painter/son of Charley Toorop
B08171914 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
B08171917 P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Les Amours Singulières)
B08171918 Mort Marshall, NYC, actor (Cully-Dumplings)
B08171920 Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire)
B08171921 Maureen O'Hara, Dublin Ireland, actress (Miracle on 34th St)
B08171922 Ralph Roberts, NC, actor (Tradition, Gone are the Days)
B08171923 Larry Rivers, modern/abstract painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953)
B08171926 Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
B08171926 Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro)
B08171927 Robert Moore, Detroit Mich, actor (Marshall-Diana)
B08171928 Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
B08171929 Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
B08171932 Chet Allen, Chickasha Okla, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter)
B08171932 V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
B08171932 Vidiadhar S Naipaul, British writer (In a free country)
B08171939 Luther Allison, Arkansas, guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
B08171940 Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
B08171941 Boog Powell, baseball player (AL MVP 1970)
B08171943 Koos Postema, Dutch TV host
B08171943 Robert De Niro, NYC, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver)
B08171943 Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08171946 Hans Vandenburg, singer/guitarist (Gruppo sportivo)
B08171947 Gary, Talley, rocker (Box Tops)
B08171949 Sib Hashlan, rocker (Boston)
B08171951 Alain Mimoun, France, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
B08171951 Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
B08171952 Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery Alabama, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, 49)
B08171953 Kevin Rowlands, rocker (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen)
B08171958 Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth)
B08171960 Sean Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
B08171963 Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
B08171965 Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
B08171969 Donald E Wahlberg, Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
B08171970 Jim Courier, tennis champ
B0818 472 Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
B08181450 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet
B08181579 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange
B08181587 Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
B08181685 Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
B08181750 Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
B08181774 Meriwether Lewis, US explorer (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
B08181778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
B08181792 John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
B08181805 Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
B08181834 Marshall Field, founded Chicago-based store chain
B08181873 Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
B08181896 Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
B081819-- Karen Jensen, SF Calif, actress (Rachel Holt-Bracken's World)
B081819-- Taylor Miller, New Orleans, actress (All My Children, Another World)
B08181900 Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
B08181904 Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
B08181904 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
B08181905 Peter Kreuder, German composer
B08181906 Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
B08181907 Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
B08181908 Edgar Faure, premier France
B08181916 Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
B08181916 Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
B08181917 Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
B08181919 Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
B08181922 Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
B08181922 Shelley Winters, [Schrift], St Louis Mo, actress (Poisidon Adventure)
B08181924 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88)
B08181925 Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)
B08181927 Rosalynn Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's main lust
B08181930 Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Greg-Hawaiian Eye)
B08181930 Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
B08181931 Hans van Mierlo, Dutch vice-premier (D66)/2nd Chamber
B08181933 Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
B08181934 Rafer Lewis Johnson, US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1960)
B08181934 Roberto Clemente, pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
B08181935 Gail Fisher, Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
B08181937 Robert Redford, Calif, actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
B08181941 Christopher Jones, Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
B08181943 Martin Mull, Chic Ill, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
B08181944 Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
B08181945 Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
B08181948 Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
B08181950 Dennis Elliot, rocker (Foreigner)
B08181951 Candice Earley, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
B08181952 Patrick Swayze, Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
B08181958 Madeleine Stowe, actress (Ruth-Gangster Chronicles)
B08181961 John Viscardi, NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
B08181967 Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
B08181967 Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
B08181968 Greta Lind, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
B08181970 Malcolm Jamal Warner, Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
B08181971 Trey Ames, Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
B08191398 Iñigo López, Spain, marques de Santillana, poet (Comedieta de Ponza)
B08191558 Paulus Merula, lawyer/historian
B08191631 John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel)
B08191646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
B08191689 Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (baptized)
B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
B08191844 Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/dramatist (social evils)
B08191851 French Schollaert, Belgian politician
B08191858 Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
B08191858 Ludwig Wüllner, German actor/baritone
B08191859 Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
B08191859 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian
B08191860 John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
B08191870 Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser
B08191871 Orville Wright, aviator (Wright Brothers)
B08191878 Manuel Quezon, 1st president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42)
B08191881 Georges Enesco (or Enescu), Romania, composer (Romanian Dances)
B08191889 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
B08191892 Alfred Lunt, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965)
B081919-- Frank Telfer, actor (As the World Turns)
B081919-- Matthew L Perry, actor (Chazz Russell-2nd Chance)
B081919-- Michael Goodwin, Virginia Minn, actor (Strike Force, Hamptons)
B081919-- Sandro, spanish entertainer
B08191902 Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
B08191903 Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported)
B08191903 James Gould Cozzens, US, novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor)
B08191906 Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor (electronic TV)
B08191907 June Collyer, NYC, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show)
B08191907 Thurston Morton, (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969)
B08191909 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes and Diamonds)
B08191915 Lardner Ring Jr, Chicago, screenwriter (Woman of the Year)
B08191916 Marie Wilson, Anaheim Calif, actress (My Friend Irma)
B08191919 Malcolm Forbes, publisher (Forbes Magazine)
B08191920 Lucila English-Boskaljon, Curaçao painter
B08191921 Gene Roddenberry, executive producer (Star Trek)
B08191924 William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)
B08191930 D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)
B08191931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (In 1956 he won $2 million)
B08191933 Debra Paget, actress (Anne of the Indies, Love Me Tender)
B08191934 Bill Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
B08191934 David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-Minn)
B08191934 Dr Renee Richards, trans-sexual tennis player
B08191935 Bobby Richardson, SC, 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
B08191935 F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44)
B08191938 Diana Muldaur, actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Generation, LA Law)
B08191938 Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
B08191939 Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room)
B08191940 Jill St John, [Oppenheim], LA Calif, actress (Diamonds are Forever)
B08191940 Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now)
B08191943 Billy J Kramer, Liverpool, rocker (The Dakotas-Bad to Me)
B08191943 Diana Muldaur, NYC, actress (McCloud, Survivors, Hizzoner)
B08191945 Ian Gillian, heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor)
B08191946 Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, STS 45)
B08191947 Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
B08191951 John Deacon, rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)
B08191951 Randi Oakes, Randalia Iowa, actress (Officer Bonnie Clark-CHiPs)
B08191952 Jonathan Frakes, actor (Decker-Star Trek Next Generation)
B08191953 Johan F de Leeuw, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B08191956 Adam Arkin, Bkln, actor (Busting Loose, Pearl, Northern Exposure)
B08191956 Cindy Nelson, US, skier (Olympic-bronze-1976)
B08191957 Darby Hinton, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Israel-Daniel Boone)
B08191959 Steve Grimmett, heavy metal rocker
B08191960 Ron Darling, Hawaii, baseball pitcher (NY Mets)
B08191962 Valerie Kaprisky, Paris France, actress (Breathless, Public Woman)
B08191963 Joey Tempest, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
B08191963 John Stamos, Cypress Calif, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
B08191965 Kevin Dillon, actor (Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon)
B08191967 Jason Starsky, son of Beatle Ringo
B08191969 Christian Slater, actor (Legend of Billie Jean)
B08191970 Matthew Perry, actor (Sydney)
B08191971 Tricia Ann Luedtke, Oostburg Wisc, Miss Wisc-America-1991
B08201601 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (getallen van Fermat)
B08201778 Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
B08201785 Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
B08201833 Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
B08201842 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
B08201860 Raymond Poincaré, France, PM (1912), president
B08201873 Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
B08201881 Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
B08201886 Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung)
B08201890 H.P. Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
B082019-- "Diamond" Darrell, rocker (Pantera-Cowboys From Hell)
B082019-- Louis Svitek, rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
B082019-- Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
B082019-- Peter Davies, actor (Loving)
B082019-- Phyllis Lyons, actress (Arlene Vaughan-All My Children)
B08201901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959)
B08201904 Jap (Jacob AW) Burger, president (PvdA)
B08201905 Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, US trombonist/singer/actor
B08201907 Alan Reed, NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone)
B08201907 Shirley Booth, NYC, actress (Hazel-Hazel, A Touch of Grace)
B08201908 Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
B08201920 István Szivós, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1976)
B08201921 Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls)
B08201931 Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)
B08201931 Don King, boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle
B08201933 George Mitchell, (Sen-D-Me, Senate Whip 1989- )
B08201933 Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
B08201935 Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
B08201937 Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B08201937 George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
B08201938 Jean-Loup Chrétien, 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6)
B08201940 Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
B08201941 Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
B08201941 William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-Pa, 1978- )
B08201942 Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
B08201942 Isaac Hayes, composer (Shaft)
B08201943 Robert Plant, rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
B08201944 Graig Nettles, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
B08201944 Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984- )
B08201946 Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC, CBS)
B08201951 Greg[ory] [Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)
B08201952 Rudy Gatlin, country singer (Gatlin Brothers)
B08201953 Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
B08201955 Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
B08201957 Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times
B08201957 Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host
B08201958 Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
B08201959 Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
B08201960 Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
B08201960 Troy Young, horse trainer
B08201961 Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
B08201961 Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
B08201964 Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
B08201965 Joe Durigon, jockey
B08201966 Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
B08201969 Francisco Torres, jockey
B08201971 Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
B08201980 Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
B08211165 Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
B08211579 Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gié, French hugenot leader
B08211643 Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67)
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
B08211765 William IV, king of England (1830-37)
B08211780 Jernej Kopitar, Slavic filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica)
B08211789 Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
B08211801 Guillaume Groen van Princeterer, statesman/historian
B08211847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
B08211871 Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Lach)
B08211872 Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
B08211890 Bill Henry, SF Calif, newscaster (Who Said That?)
B08211896 Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (De roos van Jericho)
B08211896 Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
B082119-- Callan White, actor (Loving)
B082119-- Steve Nathan, Buffalo NY, actor (Allan-Busting Loose)
B082119-- Tammy Amerson, actress (Mari Lynn-One Life to Live)
B08211904 William "Count" Basie, jazz musician (Blazzing Saddles)
B08211906 Friz Freleng, animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982)
B08211907 Dr Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
B08211909 C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
B08211915 Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
B08211920 Christopher R Milne, son of Alan A Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
B08211921 Nancy Kulp, Harrisburg Pa, actress (Jane-Beverly Hillbillies)
B08211923 Chris Shenkel, Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
B08211928 Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
B08211930 Princess Margaret, England (Sister of Queen Elizabeth)
B08211931 Nancy Hadley, LA Calif, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)
B08211933 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (Boxing from St Nicholas Arena)
B08211933 Dame Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
B08211936 Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
B08211936 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP)
B08211938 Kenny Rogers, singer (Lady) actor (Coward of the County)
B08211939 Clarence Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain)
B08211940 Robert Camac, horse trainer
B08211944 Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now)
B08211945 Patty McCormack, Bkln NY, actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers)
B08211946 Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976)
B08211948 Taurean Black, actor (Hill Street Blues)
B08211951 Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
B08211951 Harry Smith, Indiana, TV host (CBS Morning Show)
B08211953 Joe Strummer, [John Mellor], rocker (Clash-Rock the Casbah)
B08211956 Kim Cattrall, Liverpool England, actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI)
B08211957 Budgie, rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
B08211957 Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
B08211957 Kim Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
B08211958 Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
B08211959 Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, SD Chargers, Phila Eagles)
B08211962 Matthew Broderick, actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues)
B08211967 Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street)
B08211979 David Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
B08221760 Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italy, Pope (1823-29)
B08221788 Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
B08221827 Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Osterreich)
B08221836 Archibald M Willard, US, artist (Spirit of '76)
B08221846 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
B08221847 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
B08221852 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La lotta politics in Italy)
B08221854 King Milan, of Serbia
B08221856 Friedrich Küstner, German astronomer
B08221860 Gustaf Fröding, poet
B08221862 Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
B08221862 Claude-Archille Debussy, composer
B08221891 Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
B08221891 Jacques Lipchitz. painter/sculptor
B08221893 Dorothy Parker, US, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award)
B08221895 Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
B082219-- Debbie Peterson, rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian)
B082219-- Tricia Pursley, actress (All My Children)
B08221900 Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
B08221902 Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, actress
B08221903 René Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism)
B08221904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (1976-1983)
B08221909 Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
B08221911 Edith Atwater, Chic, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
B08221917 John Lee Hooker, Mississippi, blues musician (Canned Heat)
B08221919 Earl Cathcart, British major-general
B08221919 Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
B08221920 Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
B08221920 Dr Denton Cooley, US, heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
B08221920 Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian songwriter (Patria)
B08221920 Ray[mond] [Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451)
B08221921 James Menter, principal (Queen Mary College)
B08221922 Micheline Presle, Paris, actress (Nea, Donkey Skin)
B08221923 Gerald Long, journalist/CEO (Reuters)
B08221924 Peter Allsop, publisher
B08221926 Honor Blackman, London, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger)
B08221926 Marc Bohan, dress designer
B08221928 John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow)
B08221928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mödrath Germany, composer (Kontrapunkte)
B08221929 Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
B08221932 Gerald P Carr, Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4)
B08221933 Sylvia Koscina, actress (Jessica, Hercules)
B08221934 Diana Sands, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife)
B08221934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC)
B08221934 Norman Schwartzkopf, NJ, US General (Desert Storm 1991)
B08221935 Morton Dean, Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
B08221936 Anne Downey, British circuit judge
B08221937 Donald MacLeary, dancer
B08221937 Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
B08221939 Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
B08221940 David Vance, horse trainer
B08221940 George Reinholt, Phila, (Another World, One Life to Live)
B08221940 John Banham, director-general (CBI)
B08221940 Valerie Harper, Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie)
B08221941 Bill Parcells, NFL coach (NY Giants)/sportscaster (NBC)
B08221942 Kathy Lennon, Santa Monica Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
B08221943 Alun Michael, Labour MP
B08221944 Henk Veldhoen, biochemist/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B08221945 Derek Fatchett, Labour MP
B08221945 James G Richardson, Gainesville Fla, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra)
B08221945 Ron Dante, Staten Island NY, rocker (Archies-Sugar, Sugar)
B08221946 Felix Meurders, radio host
B08221947 Cindy Williams, Van Nuys Calif, actress (Shirley-Laverne & Shirley)
B08221948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster
B08221949 Diana Nyad, swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
B08221956 Jeff Lloyd, jockey
B08221957 Randy Romero, Garden City NY, jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89)
B08221957 Steve Davis, snooker player
B08221959 Denise Curry, Daivs Calif, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
B08221959 Juan Croucier, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
B08221961 Roland Orzabal, singer (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels)
B08221962 Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, N Amer Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87)
B08221963 Terry Catledge, NBA star (Orlando Magic)
B08221964 Mats Wilander, Sweden, tennis player (1988 US Open)
B08221966 Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar)
B08221966 Rob Witschge, soccer star (Ajax/Feyenoord)
B08221967 Curt Bourque, jockey
B08231593 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
B08231740 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
B08231751 Louis-François Beffara, lexicographer
B08231754 Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-92); guillotined
B08231773 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
B08231785 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero
B08231809 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (De reis naar het H Land)
B08231869 Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist
B08231869 James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
B08231885 Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
B08231887 Jo Sternheim, actor/songwriter
B082319-- Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
B082319-- Jennifer Holmes, Fall River Mass, actress (Leslie-Newhart)
B082319-- Jimmy Ward, Ct, rocker (Steelheart-She's Gone)
B082319-- Michael Davis, SF Calif, comedian/juggler (The News is the News)
B08231900 Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
B08231901 C H Rolph, [Cecil Rolph Hewitt], author
B08231901 John Sherman Cooper, (Sen-Ky)
B08231903 William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola)
B08231905 Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest)
B08231908 Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, dramatist (Paolo Paoli)
B08231911 Birger Ruud, Norway, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
B08231911 Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
B08231911 Elizabeth Robinson, US, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1928)
B08231912 Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
B08231912 Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
B08231913 Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orch leader (Bob Crosby Show)
B08231913 Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
B08231916 Mary Ward, [Myra Syriër], actress
B08231918 Gus [August CM] Hermus, actor
B08231919 James Quinn, film producer/exhibitor
B08231919 Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
B08231922 Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
B08231922 Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
B08231923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
B08231927 Dick Bruna, illustrator
B08231927 John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
B08231929 Peter Thompson, golfer
B08231930 John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
B08231930 Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France
B08231930 Vera Miles, actress (Psycho)
B08231931 Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
B08231932 Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)
B08231933 Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-Calif)
B08231934 Barbara Eden, Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie, Amazing Dobermans)
B08231934 Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins)
B08231935 Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
B08231935 Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
B08231938 Roger Greenaway, composer
B08231939 Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
B08231939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH at Bonneville Salt Flats
B08231939 Ronald (Ronny) A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
B08231940 Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actpr (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
B08231940 Tony Bill, SD Cal, (Sam-What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
B08231942 Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
B08231942 Patricia McBride, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
B08231943 Bobby Diamond, LA Calif, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
B08231943 Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
B08231943 Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
B08231944 Antonia Novello, US Surgeon General
B08231947 Keith Moon, rocker (True Story of 200 Motels)
B08231947 Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
B08231947 Willy Russell, author/playwright
B08231948 Ernst Jansz, singer (Doe Maar)
B08231948 Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
B08231949 Christopher Blake, actor
B08231949 Geoff Capes, shot putter
B08231949 Pieter J Biesheuvel, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B08231949 Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
B08231949 Shelley Long, Fort Wayne Indiana, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
B08231951 Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedians (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
B08231951 Queen Noor, of Jordan
B08231953 Bobby Gubby, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
B08231956 Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer
B08231960 Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
B08231963 Richard Illingworth, cricketer
B08231966 Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
B08231967 Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
B08231970 River Phoenix, Madras Ore, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
B08241113 Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy
B08241210 Floris IV, Count of Holland
B08241420 Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstätt)
B08241591 Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
B08241759 Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery
B08241787 James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
B08241842 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter
B08241865 Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
B08241872 Sir Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
B08241880 Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
B08241880 Miles W L Killearn, British diplomat
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
B08241890 Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912, 20)
B08241894 Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark)
B08241896 Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose)
B08241898 Albert Claude, Belgium, physician (Nobel 1974)
B08241898 Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England)
B08241899 Johan J Fabricius, Romania, writer (Island der demonen)
B08241899 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths)
B082419-- Carole Ita White, NYC, actress (Rosie-Laverne & Shirley)
B082419-- Frank Runyeon, actor (As the World Turns)
B082419-- Stephen Keep, Camden SC, actor (Les Kincaid-Flo)
B082419-- Steve Hanks, Wadsworth Ohio, actor (B.A.D. Cats)
B08241900 Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
B08241902 Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civililization & Capitalism)
B08241912 Durward Kirby, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Garry Moore Show)
B08241915 Alice B[radley] Sheldon, US, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)
B08241917 Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ)
B08241919 "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Neth writer/singer
B08241922 Réne Lévesque, Quebec premier (1976-85)
B08241924 Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
B08241927 Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist
B08241927 William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland (1977-81)
B08241938 Mason Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour)
B08241940 Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
B08241944 Gregory B Jarvis, Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25)
B08241946 Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West Fl, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50)
B08241949 Anna L Fisher, St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A)
B08241949 Joe Regalbuto, Bkln NY, actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)
B08241951 Orson Scott Card, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War)
B08241956 Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer (US Olympics team 1980)
B08241958 Steve Guttenberg, Bkln NY, actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
B08241960 David Guillory, jockey
B08241961 Cal Ripkin Jr, all-star shortstop (Balt Orioles)
B08241962 Mary E Weber, Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut
B08241963 John Bush, heavy metal rocker (Armoured Saint-Can U Deliver)
B08241964 Pebbles, rocker (Girlfriend)
B08241965 Casey Lambert, jockey
B08241965 Marlee Matlin, Ill, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
B08251530 Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
B08251724 George Stubbs, England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion)
B08251775 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court of Rio de Janeiro)
B08251786 [Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez)
B08251819 Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
B08251836 Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
B08251841 Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
B08251845 Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
B08251880 Robert Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...kleiner Gardeoffizier)
B082519-- Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
B08251902 Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco)
B08251903 Bruno Bettelheim Austrian/US psycho-analyst
B08251905 Clara Bow, silent movie actress (Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships)
B08251906 Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
B08251906 William J Brennan, Newark NJ, US supreme court justice (1957-90)
B08251909 Michael Rennie, actor (The Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
B08251909 Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, dancer (Dames)
B08251910 J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer
B08251910 Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
B08251912 Erich Honecker, Germany, East German political leader
B08251913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator of "Pogo"
B08251914 Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
B08251915 Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
B08251916 Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
B08251916 Van Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
B08251917 Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
B08251917 Mel Ferrer, Elberon NJ, actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
B08251918 Leonard Bernstein, conductor/composer/pianist/egotist
B08251918 Richard Greene, Plymouth England, actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
B08251919 George C Wallace, (gov-D-Ala) pres candidate
B08251920 Jef Diederen, painter
B08251921 Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
B08251923 Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
B08251927 Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
B08251930 Graham Javis, Toronto Ontario, actor (Charlie-Mary Hartman)
B08251930 Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
B08251930 Sean Connery, England, actor (James Bond, Man Who Would Be King)
B08251931 Regis Philbin, host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
B08251933 Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
B08251934 Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V Soyuz 22 31/39)
B08251935 David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
B08251938 Frederick Forsyth, British romance writer (Deceiver)
B08251940 José Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (François d'Assisif)
B08251942 Margaret Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-1976)
B08251946 Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics)
B08251947 Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Too Scared to Scream, Fatal Attraction)
B08251947 Wim J van Gelder, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B08251949 Gene Simmons, Queens, NY, rocker (KISS-Beth)
B08251949 John Savage, Long Island NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
B08251951 Rob Halford, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing)
B08251954 Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], rocker (Allison)
B08251954 John Savage, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Jim Malloy-Gibbsville)
B08251954 Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
B08251956 Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
B08251958 Christian LeBlanc, NC, actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
B08251961 Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatswood Ky, country singer (Some Gave All)
B08251961 Joannie Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress (Kill Me Again)
B08251962 Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
B08251962 Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
B08251964 Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law)
B08251965 Kathleen Horvath, Chic Ill, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
B08251970 Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
B08261596 Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
B08261676 Robert Walpole, Count of Orford/1st British premier
B08261676 Sir Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42)
B08261728 Johann Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, proved π is irrational
B08261740 Joseph Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
B08261743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
B08261820 James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Seretary of Interior (1865-66)
B08261838 John Wilkes Booth, assassin (Pres Lincoln)
B08261850 Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
B08261873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
B08261875 Sir John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
B08261880 Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
B08261882 James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
B08261884 Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
B08261885 Jules Romains, France, novelist/dramatist/poet (Men of Good Will)
B08261891 Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian songwriter (Races)
B08261899 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
B082619-- Brett Cullen, Houston Tx, actor (Bob-Thorn Birds)
B082619-- Jon Hensley, Doylestown, Penn, actor (As the World Turns)
B082619-- Jorge De Sait, rocker (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
B082619-- Richard Kantor, Bkln NY, actor (Brian-Finder of Lost Loves)
B08261901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
B08261901 Jan the Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP)
B08261901 Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, auto manufacturer (Fiat)
B08261904 Christopher Isherwood, England, novelist/playwright (I Am a Camera)
B08261904 Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin)
B08261906 Dr Albert B Sabin, polio vaccine discoverer
B08261909 Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
B08261911 Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
B08261914 Julio Cortázar, Argentina, writer (We Love Glenda So Much)
B08261915 Gré [Gerarda D] Brouwenstÿn, singer
B08261915 Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
B08261915 Jim Davis, Edgerton Mo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas)
B08261917 Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
B08261917 William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85)
B08261919 Ronny Graham, Phila Pa, actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico & the Man)
B08261921 Benjamin C Bradlee, journalist (Wash Post)
B08261921 William Preston, Columbia Penn (Penn State), actor
B08261927 Francois Leydet, sierra club (Last Redwoods)
B08261927 Sam Massell
B08261932 Joe H Engle, Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I)
B08261935 Cornelis B Vandrager, [Cor Van], poet (Leve Joop Massaker)
B08261935 Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female major-party VP candidate
B08261937 Tom Heinsohn, NBA star/coach (Boston Celtic)
B08261938 Francine York, Aurora Minn, actress (Slattery's People)
B08261942 John E Blaha, San Antonio, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, STS 43)
B08261942 Vic Dana, Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts)
B08261943 Ulf Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
B08261947 Candy Moore, Maplewood NJ, actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy & Champ)
B08261948 Jet Black, rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
B08261948 Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
B08261950 Richard Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
B08261950 Robert Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
B08261952 John Kinsella, USA, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08261954 Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
B08261954 Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ
B08261957 Alex Trevino, catcher (LA Dodgers)
B08261960 Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist (Bring on the Night, Tonight Show)
B08261960 Ola Ray, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jun, 1980)/actress (Thriller)
B08261965 Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome (Life Goes On)
B08261981 Macauley Culkin, actor (Home Alone, My Girl)
B0827 551 -BC- Confucius, philospher
B08271545 Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
B08271630 Maria van Oosterwÿck, flower painter
B08271666 Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
B08271770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
B08271809 Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
B08271826 Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
B08271837 Heinrich Urban, composer
B08271865 Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
B08271865 Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
B08271867 Umberto Giordano, composer
B08271869 Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
B08271871 Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
B08271874 Karl Bosch, industrial chemist
B08271877 Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
B08271877 Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, [Gelbfisch], film magnate (MGM)
B08271886 Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
B08271894 Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
B08271897 Ad van Emmenes, soccer reporter
B08271898 Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols
B08271899 Cecil Scott Forester, Engld, historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)
B082719-- Daniela Romo, spanish entertainer
B082719-- G.W. Bailey, Port Arthur Tx, actor (Dr Beale-St Elsewhere)
B082719-- Harrison Page, Atlanta Ga, actor (CPO Sharkey, Supertrain)
B08271905 Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
B08271905 Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
B08271908 Donald [George] Bradman, Australian cricketer (6996 runs)
B08271908 Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
B08271908 Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall Tx, (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969)
B08271908 Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
B08271909 Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist
B08271909 Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist
B08271910 Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel 1979)
B08271912 Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
B08271913 Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
B08271915 Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
B08271918 Lord Winstanley, physician/Liberal MP
B08271919 Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British labour minister
B08271920 James Molyneaux, Ulster unionist MP
B08271925 Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
B08271925 Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
B08271925 Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
B08271927 Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
B08271927 Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08271928 Jack Thompson, Labour MP
B08271929 Ad J Hermes, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA) 2nd Chamber
B08271929 Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
B08271929 Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
B08271930 John Daly, British trade union leader
B08271930 John Watts, chief of defense (Omani Armed Forces)
B08271932 Antonia Fraser, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
B08271933 Joke Smit, feminist
B08271935 Michael Holroyd, author
B08271937 Alice Coltrane, jazz musician
B08271937 Mark Potter, British court judge
B08271937 Tommy Sands, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
B08271940 David Hart, gen-sect (National Assn of Head Teachers)
B08271941 Yuri V Malyshev, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
B08271942 Daryl Dragon, Pasadena Calif, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
B08271943 Susan "Tuesday" Weld, NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
B08271947 Jacques Arnold, conservative MP
B08271948 Andy Turnell, horse trainer
B08271949 Andrew McKay, coservative MP
B08271949 Barbara Bach, [Goldbach], Queens NY, actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
B08271949 Edmund Weiner, lexicographer
B08271949 Jeff Cook, Alabama, rocker
B08271950 Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
B08271950 Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
B08271952 Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
B08271954 Derek Warwick, race car driver
B08271954 John Lloyd, tennis player (former husband of Chris Everet)
B08271955 Diana Scarwid, actress (Extermites, Psycho 3, Strange Invaders, Heat)
B08271957 Bernhard Langer, golfer
B08271957 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
B08271959 Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
B08271961 "Downtown" Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
B08271963 Patty Duffek, Woodland Hills Calif, playmate (May, 1984)
B08281476 Motonoboe, Japans painter (Kano-school
B08281592 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, royal minister to James I
B08281713 Louis A Count d'Affry, French ambassador to Netherland
B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
B08281774 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint
B08281794 Johannes Zwÿsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
B08281795 Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
B08281831 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
B08281833 Sir Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer
B08281878 George Hoyt Whipple, US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
B08281882 Carl W de Vries, rechts leader (ongekende Thorbecke)
B08281889 Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
B08281894 Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor
B08281899 Charles Boyer, French actor (Gaslight)
B082819-- Marla Adams, actress (Gotcha, Secret Storm, Young & Restless)
B082819-- Sonny Shroyer, Valdosta Ga, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Enos)
B082819-- Steve Whiteman, rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
B08281901 Cornelis J Kelk, writer (Dance of Young Feet)
B08281901 Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
B08281903 Bruno Bettelheim, US, writer (Uses of Enchantment)
B08281905 Sam Levene, actor (Demon, Gung Ho)
B08281906 Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
B08281908 Roger Tory Peterson, NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)
B08281911 Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general NATO
B08281912 Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
B08281913 Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker],Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera)
B08281914 Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orch leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
B08281916 C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite)
B08281916 Jack H Vance, US, sci-fi writer (Eyes of the Overworld)
B08281916 Jack [Holbrook] Vance, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume)
B08281919 Ernest Martin, [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
B08281921 Joop Doderer, actor
B08281921 Nancy Kulp, Penn, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
B08281924 Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
B08281924 Peggy Ryan, Long Beach Calif, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
B08281925 Arkadi Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
B08281925 Marvin Davis, Newark NJ, CEO (Davis Oil Company)
B08281929 István Kertész, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera 1953-57)
B08281929 Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
B08281930 Ben Gazzara, NYC, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII)
B08281931 John Perkins, rocker (Crew Cuts)
B08281931 John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice)
B08281932 Andy Bathgate, Canada, NY Ranger (1958 NHL MVP)
B08281939 Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
B08281940 Richard Sanders, actor (Les Nessman-WKRP, Berrengers, Spencer)
B08281940 William Cohen, (Sen-R-Me)
B08281941 Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens)
B08281943 David Soul, Chicago, actor (Starsky & Hutch, Here Comes the Bride)
B08281943 Lou Pinella, Yankee manager (1969 AL rookie of the year)
B08281946 Bob Beamon, US, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
B08281947 Alice Playton, NYC, actress (Who Killed Mary Whats 'er Name)
B08281948 Daniel Seraphine, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
B08281948 Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV)
B08281949 Hugh Cornwell, rocker (The Stranglers-Dreamtime)
B08281950 Ron "Louisana Lightning" Guidry, Yankee pitcher (Cy Young 1978)
B08281951 Dave Hlubek, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
B08281951 Wayne Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
B08281953 Gates McFadden, actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation)
B08281957 Daniel Stern, Stamford Ct, actor (City Slickers, Wonder Years)
B08281958 Scott Hamilton, Toledo, figure skating champion (Olympic-gold-1984)
B08281960 Emma Samms, [Samuels], London, actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
B08281960 Leroy Chiao, Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut
B08281961 Kim Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
B08281963 Reyna Thompson, NFL corner back (NY Giants)
B08281965 James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
B08281965 Julie Brown, MTV VJ (approx)
B08281966 Jerry Fehily, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
B08281968 Scarlet Annette Morgan, Pfafftown NC, Miss NC-America-1991
B08281969 Jason Priestley, Vancouver BC, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
B08281969 Mary McCartney, daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney
B08281971 Janet Evans, US swimmer (Olympics-1992)
B08291561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)
B08291632 John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance
B08291780 Jean A D Ingres, French painter (Monsieur Rivière)
B08291780 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
B08291809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
B08291811 Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
B08291815 Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
B08291849 Titus AJ van Asch van Wÿck, governor Surinam (1891-97)
B08291852 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, playwright (De blauwe vogel, Nobel 1911)
B08291862 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, Symbolist poet (Nobel 1911)
B08291876 Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
B08291881 Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
B08291899 Charles Boyer, Figeac France, actor (The Rogues)
B08291899 George Macready, Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
B08291899 Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general (WW II)
B082919-- Dick O'Neill, Bronx NY, actor (Kaz, Empire, Better Days)
B082919-- Ellen Geer, West Nyack NY, actress (Wendy-Jimmy Stewart Show)
B08291900 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
B08291904 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956)
B08291905 Martinus A Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70)
B08291906 Lurene Tuttle, Pleasant Lake Ind, actress (Father of Bride, Julia)
B08291909 Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
B08291912 Barry Sullivan, NYC, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man)
B08291915 Ingrid Bergman, Sweden, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower)
B08291916 George Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)
B08291916 Leo Horn, Dutch columnist/businessman
B08291917 Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)
B08291920 Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist
B08291922 Charles White, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Troublemaker)
B08291923 Reinier Brams, biophysicist/Dutch politician (VVD) 2nd Chamber
B08291923 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
B08291924 Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
B08291925 Donald O'Connor, Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
B08291928 Charles Gray, Bournemouth England, actor (Clay-Rawhide)
B08291928 Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
B08291929 Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound)
B08291930 Marius J J van Amelsvoort, Dutch state secretary (CDA)
B08291933 Ramses Shaffy, actor
B08291934 David Pryor, (Sen-D-Ark)
B08291935 Hugo Brandt Corstius, essayist/mathematician
B08291936 Gilbert Amy, French composer (Coeur de Fumée)
B08291938 Elliott Gould, Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
B08291938 Peter Jennings, Canada, news anchor (ABC TV)
B08291939 William Friedkin, US, dir (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection)
B08291940 Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
B08291941 Robin Leach, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
B08291943 Richard Halligan, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
B08291945 Wyomia Tyus, Griffin Ga, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
B08291946 Bob Beamon, US broad jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
B08291948 Charles D Walker, astronaut (STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B)
B08291953 Rick Downey, rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
B08291954 Chet Catallo, guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
B08291954 Julio Fernandez, jazz musician (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
B08291954 Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, US, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery)
B08291958 Michael Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Thriller, Bad)
B08291959 Eddi Reader, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
B08291961 Tony Macalpine, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity)
B08291962 Carl Banks, NFL line backer (NY Giants)
B08291962 Rebecca De Mornay, actress (And God Created Women)
B08291963 Greg Steele, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
B08301334 Pedro De Wrede, King of Castilië & Leon
B08301693 Jacobus Nozeman, composer/organist
B08301748 Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
B08301769 Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
B08301772 Henri D Count the Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
B08301797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)
B08301837 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
B08301849 Joseph Mallaby Dent, inventor
B08301852 Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
B08301866 Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
B08301871 Ernest Lord Rutherford, Engld, physicist (atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908)
B08301884 Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
B08301890 Sándor Reményik ("Végvári"), Hungarian songwriter (campvuur)
B08301893 Huey P Long, Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)
B08301896 Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
B083019-- Anthony Call, actor (Herb Callison-One Life to Live)
B083019-- Ben Jones, NC, actor (Cooter-Dukes of Hazzard)
B083019-- Deedy Peters, Hartford City Indiana, actress (House Calls)
B083019-- Dorian Lopinto, actress (One Life to Live)
B083019-- James Vallely, New Brunswick NJ, acotr (Charles-Double Trouble)
B083019-- William G Schilling, Phila Pa, actor (Dr Samuels-Head of the Class)
B08301900 Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
B08301901 John Gunther, Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road)
B08301901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
B08301906 Gravin van Longford, biographer/historian
B08301907 Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)
B08301908 Willie Bryant, New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times)
B08301909 Joan Blondell, NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides)
B08301910 Donald Bisset, actor/children book writer
B08301912 Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
B08301913 Allan David, actor/director/producer
B08301913 Thomas Torrance, theologist
B08301915 Liesbeth Saÿers, sculptor
B08301916 John Thoday, geneticist
B08301916 Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
B08301917 Denis Healey, English politician
B08301917 Julie Bishop, Denver Colo, actress (Northern Pursuit, Threat)
B08301918 Ted Williams, Baseball's last .400 hitter (Boston Red Sox)
B08301919 Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
B08301920 Ben Cami, Flemish writer
B08301922 Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)
B08301923 Elias Victor Seixas, US, mixed double tennis player (Wimbeld 1953-56)
B08301925 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor
B08301927 Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
B08301928 Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
B08301928 Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
B08301930 Warren Buffett, author (The Midas Touch)
B08301931 John L Swigert Jr, Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)
B08301934 Eric Schneider, actor
B08301935 John Phillips, singer (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming)
B08301938 Steve Delaney, Dobbs Ferry NY, newscaster (Monitor)
B08301939 Elizabeth Ashley, Ocala Florida, actress (Coma)
B08301941 John McNally, rocker (Searchers)
B08301941 Sue MacGregor, BBC-radio hostess
B08301942 Jonathan Aitken, English parlement member
B08301943 Jean Claude Killy, France, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
B08301943 Robert Crumb, US, cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat)
B08301944 Frederick De Young, comedian
B08301944 John Surman, jazz musician
B08301947 Peggy Lipton, Lawrence NY, actress (Julie-Mod Squad, Twin Peaks)
B08301950 John Landis, actor (American Werewolf in London)
B08301951 Dana, singer
B08301951 Timothy Bottoms, actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden)
B08301953 Robert Parish, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
B08301954 Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer (1991 children stamp)
B08301955 Martin Jackson, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
B08301956 Jayne Irving, English TV hostess
B08301964 Joan Bennett, Chicago Ill, playmate (January, 1985)
B08301964 Michael Chiklis, actor (The Commish)
B08301964 Stephen Baker, NFL receiver (NY Giants)
B08301974 Matt Bongiovi, heavy metal rocker (cousin of Jon Bon Jovi)
B0831 12 Caligula (Gaius Cæsar), 3rd Roman emperor (37-41 AD)
B08311569 Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India
B08311602 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Mayor Frederik Hendrik
B08311811 Théophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
B08311834 Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
B08311852 Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister
B08311870 Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response)
B08311880 Queen Mother Wilhelmina, Netherlands (1890-1948)
B08311885 DuBose Heyward, novelist (Porgy)
B08311888 Ramon the Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (La Obra de Trajano)
B08311889 A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball
B08311897 Frederic March, Wisc, actor (Dr Jeckyll-Acad Awards 1932/1946)
B083119-- Noble Willingham, Mineola Tx, actor (Cutter to Houston)
B083119-- Paul Garber, help establish Air & Space Museum in Washington DC
B083119-- Rick Porter, actress (Another World)
B08311903 Arthur Godfrey, radio, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout)
B08311903 Sir Bernard Lovell, England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank
B08311905 Dore Schary, producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City)
B08311907 Ramón Magsaysay, Phillipines, statesman (US Legion of Merit-1952)
B08311908 William Saroyan, US, novelist/playwright (Time of Your Life)
B08311914 Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
B08311916 Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS)
B08311918 Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist composer (Lerner & Leowe-My Fair Lady)
B08311919 Richard Basehart, actor (Voyage to Bottom of the Sea)
B08311924 Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
B08311926 Jan de King, Minister of building (CDA)/Social Zaken)
B08311928 James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)
B08311930 Tiny Little Jr, Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
B08311931 Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)
B08311931 Jean Beliveau, hockey star (Montreal Canadiens)
B08311932 Robert [Franklin] Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time)
B08311935 Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
B08311935 Frank Robinson, baseball player/manager (MVP 1961-NL 1966-AL)
B08311937 Guido de Moor, actor
B08311937 Warren Berlinger, Bkln, actor (Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two)
B08311940 Alain Calmat, France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964)
B08311940 Jack Thompson, Australia, actor (Breaker Morant)
B08311942 Carole Wells, Shreveport La, actress (Pistols n Petticoats)
B08311945 Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim
B08311945 Leonid I Popov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 35, 40, T-7)
B08311945 Van Morrison, Belfast, singer (Here Comes the Night)
B08311949 Richard Gere, Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club)
B08311952 Rudolf Schenker, heavy metal rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
B08311954 Tula, [Barry Kenneth Cossey], Engld, transexual (For Your Eyes Only)
B08311957 Gina Schock, rocker (Gogos-Our Lips Are Sealed)
B08311957 Glenn Tilbrook, guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
B08311958 Edwin C Moses, track star (hurdler, Olympic-gold-1984)
B08311959 Rachel Dennison, Knoxville Tn, actress (Doralee Rhodes-9 to 5)
B08311959 Tony DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
B08311961 David Chastain, heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland)
B08311963 Reb Beach, heavy metal rocker (Winger-17)
B08311970 Debbie Gibson, Brooklyn NY, singer (Only in My Dreams)
D0801 527 Justin I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies
D08011137 Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)
D08011190 Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
D08011714 Queen Anne Stuart, dies
D08011821 Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author, dies
D08011834 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
D08011837 Walter Geikie, painter, dies
D08011857 Charles Turner, engraver, dies
D08011882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43
D08011883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
D08011902 Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
D08011911 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
D08011920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies
D08011957 Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim
D08011963 Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies
D08011966 Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies
D08011973 Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies
D08011983 Peter Arne, actor, bludgeon to death in London at 62
D08011985 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
D08011988 Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86
D08011988 John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80
D08011988 Trindad Silva, of Hill St Blues, dies at 38 in an auto accident
D08011992 Stanley Dudek, US, schooner capt (watershows), dies
D0802 257 Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57), dies
D0802 640 Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies
D0802 686 John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies
D08021075 John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
D08021100 King William II, [William Rufus], shot in New Forest, dies
D08021332 Christoffel II, king of Denmark, dies at 55
D08021589 Hendrik III, king of Frankrijk, dies
D08021788 Thomas Gainsborough, painter (Blue Boy), dies
D08021799 Jacques Montgolfier, air ballon pioneer, dies
D08021799 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies
D08021849 Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
D08021876 Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while
D08021876Cplaying poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
D08021881 Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author, dies
D08021903 Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
D08021921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies
D08021922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
D08021922 [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist, dies
D08021923 Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
D08021934 Paul Von Hindenburg, dies at 86, Hitler takes over German presidency
D08021936 Louis Biériot, aviator, dies
D08021963 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, author, dies
D08021964 Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69
D08021965 Milton Babbitt, US composer, dies
D08021967 Claude A Barnett, founded Associated Negro Press, dies at 78
D08021972 Brian Cole, rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28
D08021976 Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies
D08021978 Carlos Chavez, mexican composer, dies
D08021979 Thurmon Munson, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
D08021982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at 93
D08021985 Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia
D08021988 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
D08021991 Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
D08021992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
D08021992 Julio C Fernández, Cubans/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
D08031387 Olaf V Hakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
D08031530 Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
D08031780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philospher (sensualism), dies at 64
D08031910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
D08031916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist, dies
D08031918 Albert P Hahn, political cartoonist, dies
D08031948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies
D08031954 Colette, France, novelist (Claudine), dies at 81
D08031964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
D08031966 Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider] comedian, dies of a morphine overdose
D08031977 Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus, dies
D08031983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer
D08031992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party, dies
D08041265 Simon de Montfort, English baron, dies in battle
D08041526 Juan Sebastiàn Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
D08041639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies
D08041666 Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
D08041891 George Washington Williams, dies at 41 in Blackpool England
D08041922 Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician, dies at 41
D08041938 L H Perquin, radio host, dies
D08041973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
D08041981 Melvyn Douglas, actor, dies at 80
D08041984 Edmon Ryan, actor, dies at 79 of a heart attack
D08041984 Mary Miles Minter, silent screen star, dies at 82 of heart failure
D08041984 Walter Burke, actor, dies at 75 of emphysema
D08041991 Nikephoros Vrettakos, Greek songwriter (Hodyne), dies at 80
D08041992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
D08041992 Ralph Cooper, creator of Amateur Night at the Apollo, dies
D08051157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
D08051852 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
D08051895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
D08051900 James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
D08051901 Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
D08051940 Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
D08051959 Edgar Guest, newspaperman, dies at 77
D08051961 Sir Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
D08051962 Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose
D08051972 Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71
D08051978 Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
D08051983 Judy Canova, singer/comedienne/actress, dies at 66 of cancer
D08051984 Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
D08051984 Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage
D08051985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
D08051991 Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82
D08051991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
D08051992 Jeffrey Porcaro, rocker (Toto), dies at 38 of cardiac arrest
D08051992 Sir Robert Muldoon, premier NZ 1975-84/President IMF, dies
D0806 258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), dies
D0806 523 Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies
D08061272 Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies
D08061458 Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79
D08061623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
D08061666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies at 43
D08061867 Faustin-Élie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown)
D08061900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies
D08061914 Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
D08061937 Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76
D08061964 Sir Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
D08061965 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
D08061966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
D08061968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies
D08061969 Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies
D08061973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba, dies
D08061978 Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80
D08061979 Kurt Kaszner, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
D08061986 William J Schroeder, (world's longest-survivor with permanent
D08061986Cartificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
D08061991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
D08061991 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies
D08071547 Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies
D08071867 Ira Aldridge, actor dies at 63 in Lodes Poland
D08071938 Konstantin S Stanislavski, [Aleksejev], Russ actor/director, dies
D08071941 Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/writer, dies
D08071957 Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65
D08071969 Russ Morgan, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
D08071972 Joi Lansing, actress (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 44 of cancer
D08071976 Murvyn Vye, actor (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 63
D08071991 Shotzie, Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9
D08071992 Francisco Fernandez Ordoñez, Brit foreign min to Spain (1985-92), dies
D08071992 John Anderson, actor (MacGyver), dies at 69
D08071992 Titti Sotto, Cubans composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies
D0808 869 Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies
D08081471 Thomas à Kempis [Thomas Hammerken von Kempen], august saint, dies
D08081788 Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies
D08081950 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies
D08081960 Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61
D08081961 Charlie Gemora, actor who portrayed King Kong, dies at 58
D08081975 Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies of a stroke
D08081976 John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered
D08081982 Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies
D08081982 Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62
D08081982 Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies
D08081984 Richard Deacon, actor (Mel-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62
D08081985 Louise Brooks, actress, dies of a heart attack at 78
D08081991 James B Irwin, US astronaut, dies
D08081991 Jan Brasser, poet (Witte Ko), dies
D08081991 Magdalena G Schenk, historian (Vorstenhuizen van onze tÿd), dies
D08081992 Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi ayatollah, dies
D08081992 Alison L Gertz, US, aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids
D08081992 Arthur Lang, US boxer/businessman, dies at 115
D08081992 Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies
D08081992 Thomas J McIntyre, US, senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies
D08091048 Damasius II, [Poppo], Pope (1047-48), dies
D08091612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
D08091634 Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
D08091738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies
D08091854 Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57
D08091896 Otto Lilenthal, killed during a glider test
D08091919 Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher/zoologist (Social Darwinism), dies
D08091928 Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
D08091942 Edith Stein, German philospher, dies
D08091969 Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered
D08091969 George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies at 72
D08091969 Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang
D08091969 Voyteck Freykowski, US director, murdered
D08091972 Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53
D08091973 Dean Corll, shot; he raped & killed 26 boys
D08091975 Dimitri D Sjostakovitsj, Russian composer (Zon over motherland, dies
D08091975 Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46
D08091979 Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
D08091979 Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies
D08091982 Aleksandr A Aleksejev, Russian director, dies
D08091988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler on Batman), dies at 85
D08091991 Corrie Hartong, spy, dies
D08091992 Dr Jan van Baal, antropologist/governor Dutch New-Guinea, dies
D08091992 Lord Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
D0810 955 Koenrad the Rode, Duke of Lotharingen, dies
D08101250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
D08101717 Nicolas Witsen, etcher/burger miester Amsterdam, dies
D08101759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46
D08101843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
D08101867 Ira Frederick Aldridge, US Negro tragedian, dies (birth date unkn)
D08101896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
D08101921 John M Martin, lead confederate congress, dies
D08101930 William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
D08101934 John Kane, US, painter, dies at 73
D08101944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies
D08101945 Robert H Goddard, US, rocket pioneer, dies at 62
D08101960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies
D08101962 Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
D08101963 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
D08101966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
D08101966 Jacobus C Bloem, songwriter (Sintels), dies
D08101974 Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64
D08101974 Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's ½ Comedy Hour), dies at 92
D08101976 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74
D08101977 Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
D08101979 Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69
D08101985 Kenny Backer, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 72
D08101987 Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86
D08101988 Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
D08101988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86
D08111180 Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
D08111259 Möngke, Mongols great-khan/grandson of Ghengis Khan, dies
D08111464 Nicholas van Cusa, philospher/bishop of Brixen, dies
D08111578 Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
D08111844 Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
D08111868 Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
D08111919 Andrew Carnegie, US, industrialist/philanthropist, dies
D08111935 William Watson, British songwriter (Purple East), dies
D08111953 Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
D08111956 Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
D08111968 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert, dies
D08111972 Max Theiler, S African/Eng/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies
D08111973 Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies at 46
D08111982 Tom Drake, actor, dies of lung cancer at 63
D08111988 Anne Ramsey, actress, dies of cancer at 59
D08111988 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
D08121350 Philip VI, King of France, dies
D08121484 Sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies
D08121612 Giovanni Gabrieli, composer, dies
D08121674 Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies
D08121689 Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Pope (1676-89), dies at 78
D08121715 Nahum Tate, playwright, dies
D08121822 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
D08121827 William Blake, poet/painter, dies
D08121848 George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies
D08121857 William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies
D08121865 William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies
D08121877 James Drummond, historical painter, dies
D08121885 Georg Curtius, philologist, dies
D08121891 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies
D08121901 Nils Adolf Erik, [Baron Nordenskjöld], geologist/explorer, dies
D08121911 Jozef Israëls, painter, dies
D08121914 John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies
D08121922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies
D08121928 Dr Leos Janacek, Czech composer/conductor (Het sluwe vosje), dies
D08121934 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Beurs Amsterdam), dies
D08121955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Die Buddenbrooks, Nobel 1929), dies
D08121964 Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies
D08121976 Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies
D08121982 Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 77 of heart disease
D08121992 John Cage, US, composer/poet (Interludes for Prepared Piano), dies
D08121992 Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
D08121992 Queen Mother of Oman, dies
D0813 662 Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist, dies
D08131191 Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Keulen, dies
D08131637 Dirck J Bas, Hollands merchant/regent/politician (OIC), dies
D08131841 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
D08131860 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
D08131895 Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
D08131910 Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies
D08131913 F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies
D08131927 James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies
D08131946 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
D08131947 Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies
D08131954 Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies
D08131972 George Wiess, General Manager (NY Yankees), dies
D08131973 Ben van Eysselsteÿn, writer (Verweerde Stenen), dies
D08131974 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies
D08131982 Charles Walters, US actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70
D08131982 Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
D08131984 Clyde Cook, actor, dies in his sleep at 92
D08131985 Marion Martin, actress, dies at 67
D08131988 Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 88
D08131989 Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
D08131991 Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
D08131992 Clifford Allison, US, stock-car racer, dies
D08131992 David Kaplan, ABC News director, killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
D08131992 Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies
D08141167 Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Keulen, dies
D08141433 Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76
D08141778 Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
D08141785 John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
D08141788 Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer, dies
D08141794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies
D08141833 Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies
D08141841 Johann Friedrich Herbart, philospher, dies
D08141844 Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies
D08141856 William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies
D08141858 George Combe, phrenologist, dies
D08141870 David (James) Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies
D08141887 Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies
D08141905 Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
D08141922 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
D08141923 Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76
D08141936 Rainey Bethea, hung, last US public execution
D08141938 Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies
D08141951 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
D08141956 Bertolt Brecht, writer, dies
D08141958 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
D08141958 Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46
D08141958 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82
D08141961 Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
D08141961 Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies
D08141963 Clifford Odets, playwright, dies
D08141965 Jan van Nylen, Flemish songwriter/writer (De dauwtrapper), dies
D08141969 Leonard Sidney Woolf, publisher, dies
D08141972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86
D08141972 Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
D08141982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor, dies at 58
D08141984 John Boynton Priestley, Romanian poet (Journeys), dies
D08141985 Gale Sondergaard, actress, dies at cerebral vascular thrombosis
D08141988 Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
D08141991 Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
D08141992 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104
D08141992 Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
D08141992 John J Sirica, US, judge (Watergate, dies at 88
D08141992 Marion P Ames, US, advocate/activist, dies
D08141992 Tony Williams, US, singer (Platters-great pretender), dies at 64
D0815 423 Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
D08151038 Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
D08151118 Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium, dies
D08151464 Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies
D08151615 Cornelis C Vrancx, poet/writer (Troosty der zielen in Vaghevier), dies
D08151619 Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
D08151807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philospher/mathematician, dies at 70
D08151901 Karl Weinhold, Germany, dies at 77
D08151907 Joseph Joachim, German violinist, dies
D08151915 Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
D08151935 Wiley Post & Will Rogers, killed in plane crash in Alaska
D08151966 Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (camp um Kolbenau), dies
D08151969 Stÿn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Vlaschard), dies
D08151975 Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistani sheik/politician, dies at 53
D08151975 Sheik Mujibur Rahiman, of Bangladesh killed in a military coup
D08151982 Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60
D08151983 Anthony Costello, actor, dies at 42
D08151991 Marietta Tree, (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
D08151992 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
D08151992 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
D08151992 Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
D08161675 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
D08161854 Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
D08161920 Norman Lockyer, editor of NATURE, discoverer of helium in Sun, dies
D08161945 Adm Takijiro Ohnishi, Japanse kamikaze leader, commits harakiri
D08161948 Babe Ruth, Baseball legend, dies in NY at 53
D08161949 Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies
D08161959 William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
D08161977 Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment at Graceland at 42
D08161986 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
D08161989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 60
D08161991 Shamu the Whale, dies at 16, of respiratory failure
D08161991 Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
D08171553 Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
D08171786 Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86), dies
D08171850 José Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies
D08171915 Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
D08171920 Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
D08171927 Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
D08171953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literary (French levenslessen), dies at 66
D08171969 Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies
D08171971 Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
D08171973 Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer winning poet, dies at 74
D08171975 Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80
D08171976 William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48
D08171979 Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72
D08171982 Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
D08171983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86
D08171987 Rudolph Hess, Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
D08171988 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
D08171988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63
D08171988 Zia, Pakistani president & US ambassador killed in plane crash
D08171990 Pearl Bailey, broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 of a heart attack
D08171991 Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies
D08171992 André de Villiers, South African, murdered
D08181227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
D08181276 Adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies
D08181503 Alexander VI, [Rodrigo the Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies
D08181559 Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83
D08181850 Honoré de Balzac, French writer (Le père Goriot), dies at 51
D08181949 Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
D08181952 Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
D08181959 Harvey Glatmin, executed
D08181961 Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
D08181966 Isaac Keesing, founder (System Keesing), dies
D08181968 Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
D08181982 Beverly Bayne, actress, dies at 87
D08181988 Frederick Ashton, choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
D08181990 B.F. Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
D08181992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
D08181992 John Sturges, US, director (Magnificent 7, Great Escape), dies
D0819 14 -BC- Octavian [Augustus], Roman general, dies at 48
D0819 440 Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
D08191493 Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
D08191601 Michael de Dappere, ruler of Turkey, dies
D08191691 Moestafa Köprülü, Turkish grand vizer, dies
D08191929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
D08191944 Günther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide
D08191962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
D08191967 Carl W de Vries, rechts leader, dies at 84
D08191977 Groucho Martin, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
D08191986 Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
D08191992 Feliks Arons, director/actor), dies
D0820 984 John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies
D08201153 Bernard(us) van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
D08201384 Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist, dies
D08201672 Cornelis de Witt, statesman, lynched
D08201804 Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
D08201823 Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
D08201885 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, dies
D08201912 William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
D08201914 Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
D08201915 Paul Ehrlich, German geneologist (Nobel 1908), dies in Hamburg at 61
D08201940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson
D08201961 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
D08201982 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress, dies in Vienna at 53 of bone cancer
D08201985 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
D08201986 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
D08201986 Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
D08201986 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
D08201991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
D08211131 Boudewijn II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
D08211190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant, dies
D08211245 Alexander van Hales, English scholastic, dies
D08211940 Leon Trotsky, dies of wounds inflicted by an assailant the day before
D08211942 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II)
D08211943 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies
D08211958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44
D08211964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
D08211971 George Jackson, murdered
D08211982 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed in Manila
D08211982 Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
D08211992 Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
D0822 408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader, dies
D08221188 Ferdinand II, king of Castilië/León/Asturië/Galicië, dies
D08221241 Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
D08221280 Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
D08221286 Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
D08221350 Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies
D08221485 Richard III, king, killed at Bosworth Field, dies
D08221793 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of Frankrijk, dies at 80
D08221806 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter, dies
D08221818 Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
D08221866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
D08221874 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies
D08221889 John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies
D08221893 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75
D08221903 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd marques of Salisbury, dies
D08221912 Pope Gregory, IX, dies
D08221922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush
D08221926 Charles William Elliot, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92
D08221937 David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
D08221958 Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies
D08221963 William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
D08221976 Juscelino Kubitschek, president of Brazil (1955-60), dies
D08221977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
D08221978 Jomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya, dies at 83
D08221979 James T Farrell, US writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies
D08221991 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67
D0823 408 Flavius Stilcho, Roman general, beheaded
D0823 634 Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies
D08231305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, executed
D08231591 Luis de Léon, scholar/poet, dies
D08231628 George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by John Felton
D08231806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, dies
D08231819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
D08231926 Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina
D08231926CD'Antonguolla (Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol, dies in NY at 31
D08231927 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
D08231933 Adolph Loos, architect, dies
D08231936 Eugène Dabit, French writer/painter (Faubourgs the Paris), dies
D08231960 Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
D08231962 Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
D08231962 Irving Fine, composer, dies
D08231966 Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur, When Lightning Strikes), dies
D08231975 Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
D08231982 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies
D08231982 Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
D08231989 Helen le Clerq, dancer, dies
D08231989 Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
D08231992 Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lun cancer at 51, dies
D08241103 Magnus III Berbein, [blootbeen], king of Norway (1093-1103), dies
D08241572 Gaspard the Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, dies
D08241770 Thomas Chatterton, English screenwriter (Revenge), dies
D08241888 Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
D08241889 Jan E Matzeliger, inventor (Shoe machine), dies
D08241906 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies
D08241907 Pieter Louis Tak, literary (De Kroniek), dies at 58
D08241943 Simone Weil, French philospher (Le pesanteur et la grâce), dies
D08241954 Getúlio D Vargas, president/dictator Brazil, dies
D08241967 Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
D08241973 Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
D08241983 Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
D08241988 Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
D08241991 Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
D08241991 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Day Camp book), dies
D08241991 Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
D08241992 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader, dies at 74
D0825 383 Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome, dies
D0825 882 Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies
D08251227 Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], of Mongolia, dies
D08251270 Louis IX the Heilige, King of France (1226-70), dies
D08251346 Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies
D08251554 Thomas H, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
D08251789 Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
D08251822 F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus, dies at 85
D08251835 Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
D08251900 Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, dies in Weimar, Germany
D08251901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that
D08251901Cthe mosquito carries yellow fever
D08251956 Alfred C Kinsey, US sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies
D08251967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
D08251968 John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70
D08251979 Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
D08251980 Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
D08251984 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies
D08251985 Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies at 13
D08251986 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
D08251988 Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas), dies at 77
D08251991 Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
D08251992 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
D0826 526 Theodorik the Great, King of Italy, dies
D08261278 Ottokar II, king of Bohemia (1253-78), dies
D08261346 Jan de Blinde, king of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies
D08261368 Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies
D08261486 Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45
D08261921 Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered
D08261921 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies
D08261963 Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
D08261966 Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
D08261974 Charles Lindbergh, dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home
D08261976 Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65
D08261977 HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78
D08261978 Charles Boyer, actor (The Rogues), dies at 78
D08261981 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, dies
D08261983 Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer
D08261984 Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67
D08261986 Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park
D08261986 Ted Knight, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show), dies at 62
D08271576 Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
D08271590 Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
D08271611 Tomás L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
D08271635 Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
D08271748 James Thomson, dies
D08271830 Lodewijk HJ Condé, French prince, commits suicide at 74
D08271840 William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
D08271874 Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
D08271874 John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
D08271876 Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin, novelist/painter, dies
D08271879 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
D08271910 Clement van Masdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
D08271919 Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies
D08271950 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco grande), dies
D08271958 Dr Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
D08271963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
D08271963 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
D08271965 Le Corbusier, [Charles E Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies
D08271967 Brian Epstein, Beatles' manager, dies
D08271968 Princess Marina, Dutchess of Kent, dies
D08271968 William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
D08271969 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
D08271971 Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
D08271975 Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83
D08271977 Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
D08271978 Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies at 51
D08271979 Earl Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
D08271980 Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
D08271981 Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
D08271984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies
D08271984 Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
D08271990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
D08271991 Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac, dies
D0828 388 Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), dies
D0828 430 Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen, dies at 75
D0828 876 Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies
D08281481 Afonso V, king of Portugal, dies
D08281544 Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies
D08281646 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
D08281778 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
D08281803 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies
D08281818 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
D08281919 Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies
D08281943 Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
D08281944 Ernst Thälmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
D08281955 Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
D08281961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
D08281964 Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
D08281967 Paul Muni, actor, dies at 71
D08281968 Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58
D08281982 Nini de Boël, Flemish operette singer (White Pardade), dies at 84
D08281983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
D08281985 Ruth Gordon, actress, dies at 88 suffering a stroke in her sleep
D0829 29 John the Baptist, beheaded
D0829 886 Basilius I, the Macedoniër, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
D08291533 Atahualpa, last Incan King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
D08291769 Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
D08291799 Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71
D08291877 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
D08291904 Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
D08291909 Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies
D08291935 Astrid SLT Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden, dies
D08291960 Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 46
D08291960 Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated
D08291967 George Rockwell, American nazi party leader, murdered
D08291972 Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Ger night club performer/singer, dies
D08291975 Eamon de Valera, Irish independence fighter, dies at 92
D08291976 Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), dies at 18
D08291981 Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling NY, at 89
D08291982 Ingrid Bergman, academy award winning actress, dies on 67th birthday
D08291982 Nahum Goldmann, pres Zionist World Organization, dies at 87
D08291983 Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61
D08291985 Evelyn Ankers, actress, dies at 67
D08291985 Patrick Barr, actor, dies at 77
D08291987 Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63
D08291991 Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer, dies
D08291991 Libero Grassi, Italian manufacturer/anti mafia, dies
D0830 30 -BC- Cleopatra, 7th & most famous queen of Egypt, commits suicide
D08301181 Alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies
D08301482 Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies
D08301483 Louis XI, king of France (1461-83), dies at 60
D08301580 Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies
D08301666 Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies
D08301844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's beads, dies
D08301879 John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
D08301917 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
D08301919 Johann Sigurjonsson, Iceland writer (Rung), dies
D08301930 William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies
D08301935 Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies
D08301943 A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58
D08301944 Morten Nielsen, Danish poet, dies
D08301952 Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates & Dodgers), drowns
D08301961 Charles Coburn, Acad award winning actor, dies at 84
D08301963 Axel Stordahl, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
D08301964 Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
D08301968 William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53
D08301970 Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
D08301981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
D08301981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
D08301982 Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor, dies at 86
D08301991 Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies
D08301991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies
D08311057 Leofric, count of Mercia/husband of Lady Godiva, dies
D08311158 Sancho III, king of Castilië, dies
D08311218 Al-Malik ab-Adil/Saphadin/Saif al-Din), brother of Saladin, dies
D08311240 Raymundus Nonnatus, found Mercedariërs (protect pregnant women), dies
D08311688 John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies
D08311879 William Barber, 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies
D08311888 Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to
D08311888Cdeath in London, 1st of at least five murders by Jack the Ripper
D08311902 Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/songwriter, dies at 73
D08311918 Joe English, Ireland/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36
D08311920 Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies
D08311934 Johan H A Schaper, Dutch politician (SDAP) 2nd Chamber, dies
D08311944 Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide
D08311963 George F Broque, cubist painter, dies at 81 in Paris
D08311964 Carole Coleman, singer (Face the Music), dies at 42
D08311964 Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash
D08311967 Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian writer (De negende golf), dies
D08311968 Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies at 60
D08311990 Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, NY Knick, dies at 65 of a heart attack
H0801 [Benin/Dahomey] Independence Day (1960)
H0801 [Botswana] August Holiday
H0801 [China PR] Army Day
H0801 [Dominica] Queen's Birthday
H0801 [Ghana] Homowo
H0801 [Guyana] Commonwealth Day
H0801 [Iran] 12th Imam's Birthday
H0801 [Nicaragua] Fiesta Day
H0801 [Scotland] Lammas Day, term day
H0801 [Switzerland] Anniv of Founding of the Swiss Confederation (1291)
H0801 [Trinidad & Tobago, St Lucia] Emancipation Day/Caribbean Day
H0801 [US] Sports Day-good sportsmanship
H0801 [World] Breast Feeding Day (UNICEF/WHO)
H0801 [Zaire] Parents Day
H0801 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0801 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0801 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0801 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0801 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0801 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0801 2[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
H0801 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0801 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0801 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0801 6[Gilroy, Calif] Start of Garlic Festival
H0802 [Costa Rica] Virgin of Angels Feast
H0802 [Grenada] Emancipation Day
H0802 [Lesotho] National Tree Planting Day (Arbor Day)
H0802 [Malawi] Bank Holiday
H0802 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0802 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0802 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0802 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0802 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0802 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0802 2[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
H0802 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0802 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0802 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0802 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0803 [New Zealand] Arbor Day (1872)
H0803 [Niger] Independence Day (1960)
H0803 [Tunisia] Bourguiba's Birthday (1902)
H0803 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0803 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0803 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0803 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0803 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0803 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0803 2[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
H0803 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0803 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0803 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0803 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0804 [Burkina] Anniversary of the Revolution (1983)
H0804 [Cook Island] Constitution Day
H0804 [Norway] Peer Gynt Festival Days
H0804 [Trinidad & Tobago] Discovery Day (1498)
H0804 [US] Coast Guard Day (1790)
H0804 [Virgin Islands] Nicole Robin Day
H0804 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0804 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0804 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0804 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0804 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0804 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0804 2[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
H0804 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0804 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0804 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0804 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0805 [Burkina] (Upper Volta) Independence Day/Burkina Faso (1960)
H0805 [Iran] Constitution Day
H0805 [World] Test Ban Day (Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War)
H0805 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0805 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0805 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0805 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0805 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0805 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0805 2[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
H0805 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0805 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0805 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0805 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0806 [Australia] Bank Holiday
H0806 [Bolivia] Independence Day (1825)
H0806 [Hiroshima, Japan] Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park (1945)
H0806 [Iceland] Bank Holiday
H0806 [Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0806 [Malawi, Ireland] August Holiday
H0806 [UAE] Accession of H.H. Sheik Zayed Ben Sultan Al-Nahayan
H0806 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0806 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0806 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0806 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0806 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0806 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0806 2[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
H0806 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0806 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0806 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0806 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0807 [Columbia] Battle of Boyacá (1819)
H0807 [Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire] Independence Day (1960)
H0807 [Trinidad & Tobago] Discovery Day (1498)
H0807 1[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
H0807 1[Italy] Joust of the Quintana (1st Sunday)
H0807 2[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
H0807 2[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
H0807 2[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
H0807 2[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
H0807 2[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
H0807 2[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
H0807 2[US] National Smile Week begins
H0807 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0808 [Afghanistan] Independence Day (1919)
H0808 [Bhutan] Independence Day (1949)
H0808 [Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1960)
H0808 [Nepal] Tij Day- Woman's holiday
H0808 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0808 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0808 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0808 7[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
H0809 [Japan] Nagasaki Memorial Day (1945)
H0809 [Libya] Sanusi Army Day
H0809 [Rhode Island] Victory Day
H0809 [Singapore] Independence Day (1965)
H0809 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0809 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0809 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0810 [Ecuador] Independence Day (of Quito) (1809)
H0810 [Missouri] Admission Day (1821)
H0810 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0810 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0810 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0811 [Central African Republic, Chad] Independence Day (1960)
H0811 [Jordan] Coronation Day/Accession of King Hussein
H0811 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0811 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0811 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0811 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0812 [Cuba] People's Victory Against Machado Tyranny
H0812 [Massachusetts, Oklahoma] Indian Day
H0812 [Texas] Pioneer' Day
H0812 [Thailand] Queen's Birthday
H0812 [World] Ponce de Leon Day (1508)
H0812 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0812 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0812 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0812 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0813 [Central African Republic] Independence Day (1960)
H0813 [Tunisia] International Women's Day
H0813 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0813 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0813 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0813 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0814 [Arkansas] World War II Memorial Day (1945)
H0814 [Bahrain] Independence Day (1971)
H0814 [Chicago] Bud Billiken Day-honors children (1923)
H0814 [Liechtenstein] Prince Franz-Joseph Day
H0814 [Massachusett] Liberty Tree Day (1765)
H0814 [Pakistan-1947, Bahrain-1971] Independence Day
H0814 [Portugal] Independence Day (1385)
H0814 [Rhode Island, Michigan] V-J Day (1945)
H0814 [US] Atlantic Charter Day; US & UK agree on war aims (1941)
H0814 1[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
H0814 1[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
H0814 2[Zambia] Youth Day
H0814 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0815 [Bahrain] Independence Day
H0815 [Chad, Congo-1960, India-1947] Independence Day
H0815 [Costa Rica] Mother's Day
H0815 [Grenada, Liechtenstein, Corsica] National Day
H0815 [Laos] Memorial Day
H0815 [Pakistan] Independence Day (1947)
H0815 [South Korea] Liberation Day (1945, 1948)
H0815 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0815 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0815 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0816 [Cyprus] Independence Day (1960)
H0816 [Dominican Republic] Restoration Day (1963)
H0816 [Liechtenstein] Prince Franz-Josef II Day
H0816 [Vermont] Bennington Battle Day (1777)
H0816 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0816 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0816 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0817 [Argentina] San Martin Day (1850)
H0817 [India] Janmashtami
H0817 [Indonesia-1945, Gabon-1960] Independence Day
H0817 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0817 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0817 6[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
H0818 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0818 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0819 [Afghanistan] Independence Day (1919)
H0819 [Ethiopia] Buhe
H0819 [US] National Aviation Day (1939)
H0819 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0819 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0820 [Hungary] Constitution Day (1949)
H0820 [Senegal] Independence Day (1960)
H0820 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0820 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0821 6[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
H0821 6[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
H0823 [Curaçao] Memory of murder of the slave Diana
H0823 [Romania] Liberation Day (1944)
H0823 [Swaziland] Umhlanga Day
H0824 [Liberia] Flag Day (1847)
H0824 [Sierra Leone] President's Birthday
H0825 [France] Liberation Day (1944)
H0825 [Paraguay] Constitution Day (1967)
H0825 [Uruguay] Independence Day (1825)
H0825 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
H0826 [Indonesia]
H0826 [Namibia] Namibia Day
H0826 [US] Women's Equality Day (1973)/Susan B Anthony Day (1920)
H0826 [Zanzibar] Sultan's Birthday
H0826 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
H0827 [Gibralter] Late Summer Bank Holiday
H0827 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
H0828 [Hong Kong] Festival of Hungry Ghosts
H0828 [Jordon] Arab Renaissance Day
H0828 [Laos]
H0828 [Mauritius] Ganesh Chatturthi
H0828 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
H0829 [Czecoslovakia] Slovak National Uprising Day
H0829 [England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales] Bank Holiday
H0829 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
H08290831 [Afghanistan] Jeshyn-Afghan Day/Independence Day (1920)
H0830 [Afghanistan] Children's Day
H0830 [Gibraltar] Bank Holiday
H0830 [Peru] Patrones of America & India, official feast day
H0830 [Turkey] Victory Day (1922)
H0830 [Turks & Caicos Islands] Constitution Day (1976)
H0830 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
H0831 [Afghanistan] Pashtunistan Day
H0831 [Malaysia] Malaysia Day/Independence Day (1957)
H0831 [Trinidad & Tobago] Independence Day (1962)
H0831 [US] Festal Day/Order of the Eastern Star (Robert Morris' birthday)
H0831 2[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
I0801 [Christian] Feast of St Almedha/Aled
I0801 [Christian] Feast of St Alphonse Liguori
I0801 [Christian] Feast of St Ethelwold of Winchester Holy Machabees
I0801 [Christian] Feast of St Peter Julian Eymard
I0801 [Christian] Feast of St Pistics, Elpis & Agape (Faith Hope & Charity)
I0801 [Old RC] Feast of St Peter's Chains
I0801 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I08011787 [RC] Memorial of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop/doctor
I0802 [Christian] Feast of St Piegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury
I0802 [Christian] Feast of St Sidwell/Satiovola
I0802 [Christian] Feast of St Stephen I (pope)
I0802 [Christian] Feast of St Syragrius of Austin
I0802 [Christian] Feast of St Theodota & her 3 sons
I0802 [Orth] St Elias Day
I0802 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I0802 370 [RC] Memorial of Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (opt)
I08021787 [Old RC] Feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop
I080219981[Jewish] Tisha B'Av
I0803 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I0803 415 [RC] Commemoration of Finding of the Body of St Stephen, martyr
I0804 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I08041221 [Old RC] Feast of St Dominic, confessor
I08041859 [RC] Memorial of St John Mary Vianney, patron of priests
I0805 [Christian-England] St Oswald Day
I0805 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I0805 432 [Old RC] Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows, Rome
I0805 432 [RC] Mem of Dedication of St Mary Major Basilica, Rome (opt)
I080519957[Jewish] Tisha B'Av
I0806 [RC, Ang] Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
I0806 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I0807 [Ang, Episcopal] Feast of Holy Name of Jesus
I0807 7[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
I0807 258 [RC] Memorial of Sixtus II, pope, & his companions, martyrs (opt)
I08071547 [RC, Ang] Memorial of St Cajetan, confessor (opt)
I08071866 [Ang] Commemoration of John Mason Neale, priest
I0808 [RC] Commemoration of SS Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, martyrs
I08081221 [Ang, RC] Memorial of St Dominic, priest/friar
I0809 [Christian] Commemoration of St Denys
I0810 258 [Ang, RC, Luth] Feast of St Laurence, deacon/martyr at Rome
I081018895[Jewish] Tisha B'Av
I081020005[Jewish] Tisha B'Av
I0811 295 [RC] Commemoration of SS Tiburtius & Susanna, martyrs
I08111253 [Ang, old RC, RC] Memorial of St Clare, virgin, Abbess at Assisi
I0812 [Christian] Feast of Porcarius & his companions
I0812 [Christian] Feast of St Euplus
I0812 [Christian] Feast of St Jambert, archbishop of Canterbury
I0812 [Christian] Feast of St Murtagh/Muredach
I081219973[Jewish] Tisha B'Av
I0813 235 [RC] Memorial of St Pontian, pope (230-235), martyr (opt)
I0813 236 [RC] Memorial of St Hippolytus, martyr (opt)
I0813 298 [RC] Commemoration of St Cassian, martyr, patron of stenographers
I08131667 [Ch] Commemoration of Jeremy Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor & Dromore
I08131901 [Luth] Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Clara Maass
I0814 [Christian] Feast of St Athanasia of Aegina
I0814 [Christian] Feast of St Eusebius of Rome
I0814 [Christian] Feast of St Fachanan
I0814 [Christian] Feast of St Marcellus of Apamea
I0814 [RC] St Vigil of the Assumption of Mary
I08141941 [RC] Memorial of Maximilian Kolbe, priest, martyr at Auschwitz
I0815 [Ang, Luth] Commemoration of St Mary, virgin, mother of Our Lord
I0815 [RC] Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin
I0816 [old RC] Feast of St Joachim, father of Mary, confessor
I08161038 [RC] Memorial of St Stephen, apostle of Hungary (opt)
I0817 [Christian] St Ethelred
I08171257 [RC] Commemoration of St Hyacinth of Silesia, confessor
I0818 275 [RC] Commemoration of St Agapitus, martyr
I0818 330 [RC] Comm of St Helena, empress, mother of Constantine the Great
I08181918 [Ang] Commemoration of William Porcher DuBose, priest
I0819 [Orth] Transfiguration of Our Lord (8/6 OS)
I08191680 [RC] Memorial of St John Eudes, confessor/priest (opt)
I0820 [Unification Church] The Day of Total Victory
I08201153 [Ang, RC, Luth] Memorial of St Bernard, abbot at Clairvaux, doctor
I08211641 [RC] Commemoration of St Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal, widow
I08211914 [RC] Memorial of Pius X, pope (1903-14)
I0822 [RC] Memorial of the Queenship of Mary (Immaculate Heart)
I0823 [Christian] Feast of St Astrius & Claudius
I0823 [Christian] Feast of St Eugene/Eoghan of Ardstraw
I0823 [Christian] Feast of St Philip Benizi
I0823 [Christian] Feast of St Tydfil
I08231285 [RC] Commemoration of St Philip Benizi, confessor
I08231617 [RC] Mem of St Rose of Lima, patron of Latin America (opt)
I08241583 [RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of St Bartholomew, apostle
I0825 300 [RC] Comm of St Genesius, Roman actor, patron of actors
I08251270 [RC, Ang] Memorial of St Louis IX, king of France, confessor (opt)
I08251648 [RC] Memorial of Joseph of Calasanz, priest (opt)
I0826 217 [RC] Commemoration of St Zephyrinus, pope (198-217), martyr
I0827 [Christian] Feast of St Caesarius of Aires
I0827 [Christian] Feast of St David Lewis Little
I0827 [Christian] Feast of St Hugh
I0827 [Christian] Feast of St Marcellus of Tomi
I0827 [Christian] Feast of St Margaret & the barefooted
I0827 [Christian] Feast of St Poemen
I0827 386 [RC] Memorial of St Monica, mother of St Augustine of Hippo
I08271648 [Old RC] Feast of St Joseph Calasanctius, confessor
I0828 [Orth] Falling-Asleep (Assumption) of Mary (8/15 OS)
I0828 430 [Luth, RC] Memorial of St Augustine of Hippo, bishop/doctor
I0829 [RC] Memorial of the Beheading of St John the Baptist
I0830 670 [RC] Comm of St Fiacre, Irish hermit, patron of gardeners
I08301617 [Old RC] Feast of St Rose of Lima (1568-1617), patron of Latin America
I0831 651 [Ang] Commem of Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, monastic founder
I08311240 [RC] Comm of St Raymund Nonnatus, cardinal, ransomer of captives
I08311688 [Luth] Commemoration of John Bunyan, teacher
R0800 FLOWERS-gladiolus & poppy GEMS-sardonyx & peridot
R0800 Sandwich-National Catfish-Month
R08001 [Hawaii] Aukake
R0801 [Ancient Rome] Calendae Sextilis
R0801 [Ancient Rome] Festival of Mars
R0801 [Sweden] Per name day in Sweden
R08010815 Dog Days
R08010822 ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo
R0802 [Sweden] Karin name day
R0805 [Ancient Rome] Nonae Sextilis
R0810 Middle Children's Day
R0810 [Sweden] Lars name day
R08100814 Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
R08100820 Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
R08111999 Total eclipse visible over Central Europe & Asia
R0813 International Left-handers Day
R0813 Left Handers Day
R0813 [Ancient Rome] Idus Sextilis
R0813 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
R0817 [Ancient Rome] Portunalia
R0819 [Ancient Rome] Vinalia
R0821 [Ancient Rome] Consualia
R08210831 Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
R08221998 Annular eclipse visible over Indonesia, Malaysia & New Guinea
R0823 [Ancient Rome] Volcanalia (Festival of Vulcan)
R08230922 Astrological sign: Virgo
R0825 [Ancient Rome] Opiconsivia
R0825 2US Tennis Open begins
R0826 2US Tennis Open begins
R0827 [Ancient Rome] Volturnalia
R0827 2US Tennis Open begins
R0828 2US Tennis Open begins
R0829 According to Hoyle Day
R0829 2US Tennis Open begins
R0830 2US Tennis Open begins
R0831 Deadline for baseball's postseason player roster
R0831 2US Tennis Open begins
S08-- 440 St Leo I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08-- 827 Eugene II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S08-- 827 Valentine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08-- 855 [Anastasius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08--1937 W1XOJ (W43B, WGTR), Paxton Mass, begins construction as 1st FM station
S08--1940 WBBM TV channel 2 in Chicago, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
S08--1959 KAVE (now KVIO) TV channel 6 in Carlsbad, NM (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08--1974 Zaire amends constitution
S08--1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
S08--1988 IBM releases PC-DOS 4.0
S08011291 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
S08011498 Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" [vasteland America]
S08011589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French king Hendrik III
S08011619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
S08011716 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
S08011716 Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
S08011732 Foundation laid for Bank of England
S08011774 Priestly discovers oxygen
S08011785 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
S08011789 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
S08011790 1st US census (population of 3,939,214)
S08011794 Whiskey Rebellion begins
S08011798 Battle on Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
S08011812 A rare tornado hits Westchester County, NY
S08011831 London Bridge opens
S08011834 Slavery abolished in British empire
S08011838 Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
S08011842 Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
S08011852 SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
S08011861 Brazil recognizes Confederacy
S08011863 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
S08011867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
S08011869 1st voyage down Colorado River
S08011873 SF's 1st cable car begins service
S08011876 Colorado becomes 38th state
S08011877 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #173 Ino
S08011881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
S08011883 A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for £10,000 (forgery)
S08011883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
S08011886 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
S08011896 George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (NY to England)
S08011901 Burial within SF City limits prohibited
S08011902 Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
S08011903 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
S08011906 Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
S08011907 Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
S08011914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
S08011914 Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
S08011916 Hawaii National Park established
S08011917 Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
S08011918 British troops overthrow Vladivostok
S08011918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #896 Sphinx
S08011918 Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
S08011920 Peace of Riga-Indepenence of Latvia
S08011929 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1186 Turnera
S08011929 E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1149 Volga
S08011933 NRA (National Recovery Administration) established
S08011936 Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games
S08011936 Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
S08011937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1432 Ethiopia
S08011941 NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks must (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
S08011943 Japan declares Burma Indepenence under U Ba Maw
S08011943 Race riot in Harlem NYC
S08011944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
S08011945 Japanese city Tojama destroyed by B-29's
S08011946 Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
S08011950 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
S08011950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
S08011950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
S08011950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes king
S08011950 Territory of Guam created
S08011953 Calif introduces sales tax (for education)
S08011953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
S08011953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
S08011953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
S08011954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
S08011955 1st microgravity research begins
S08011955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08011956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08011957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
S08011957 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
S08011958 1st class postage up to 4¢ (had been 3¢ for 26 years)
S08011959 New Continental baseball league formed
S08011959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
S08011960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
S08011960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
S08011960 Dahomey gains independence
S08011961 New SF Hall of Justice opens
S08011961 Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
S08011962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
S08011963 The Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
S08011963 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08011964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
S08011964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
S08011966 Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
S08011967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08011968 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
S08011969 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
S08011969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
S08011970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
S08011970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08011970 Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
S08011971 CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
S08011971 George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
S08011972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
S08011972 Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
S08011973 Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
S08011974 Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to the NY Nets
S08011975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
S08011975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
S08011976 Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
S08011976 Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
S08011977 SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
S08011978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
S08011980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany set the high jump record
S08011981 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3401
S08011981 MTV premiers at 12:01 AM
S08011982 Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
S08011986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
S08011986 Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
S08011987 Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
S08011987 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
S08011987 Mike Tyson beats Tony Tucker to become undisputed boxing champ
S08011988 Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
S08011990 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
S08011990 Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
S08011991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
S08011992 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
S08011992 USA/USSR Around the World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
S0802 257 St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0802 640 Severinus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0802 686 John V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S08021057 Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
S08021375 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
S08021492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
S08021578 Battle of Rijmenam
S08021704 Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
S08021776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
S08021798 British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
S08021802 Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
S08021819 1st parachute jump in US
S08021832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
S08021832 Black Hawk defeated (IA)
S08021832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
S08021858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
S08021858 Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
S08021864 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
S08021865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
S08021865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
S08021873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
S08021877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
S08021894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
S08021894 Women rights approved
S08021903 Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
S08021904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #539 Pamina
S08021906 Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak
S08021909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
S08021909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
S08021911 Haïti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
S08021914 German troops overthrows Luxembourg
S08021914 Postdam Conference ended
S08021914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
S08021914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
S08021922 China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
S08021926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1064 Aethusa
S08021929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
S08021932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
S08021934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
S08021934 Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
S08021934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
S08021938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
S08021939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
S08021941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
S08021943 Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
S08021943 Riot at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
S08021944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
S08021944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
S08021949 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1682 Karel, #1820 Lohmann,
S08021949C#2465, #2591, #3020 & #3183
S08021953 KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
S08021958 Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
S08021959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
S08021961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
S08021961 St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
S08021962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
S08021964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
S08021964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ
S08021965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
S08021966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
S08021967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
S08021967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
S08021970 Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
S08021972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
S08021973 George Brett gets his 1st hit
S08021975 Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
S08021979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
S08021980 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
S08021982 Roger Ebert's Movie News premiers on ABC FM network
S08021983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
S08021983 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
S08021985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
S08021985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
S08021986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
S08021986 TODAY/PC born today
S08021987 Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
S08021987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
S08021987 Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
S08021987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
S08021988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
S08021988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
S08021989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune
S08021989Cdesignated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
S08021990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait
S08021991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
S08021991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
S08021991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
S08031108 Louis VI, King of France, crowned
S08031492 All Jews are expelled from Spain
S08031492 Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"
S08031529 Damespeace (Treaty of Cambrai) between Emperor Karel V & King Franck I
S08031596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
S08031645 Battle of Allersheim
S08031678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
S08031797 Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in the military in the
S08031797C"Countries of the Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
S08031852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
S08031860 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
S08031863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
S08031863 Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
S08031881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
S08031882 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
S08031889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #285 Regina
S08031889 J Palisa discovers asteroid #286 Iclea
S08031904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #540 Rosamunde
S08031914 1st ship through Panama Canal
S08031914 Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
S08031914 Great Britain declares war on Germany
S08031914 Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
S08031918 Wolf discovers asteroid #897 Lysistrata, #898 Hildegard & #899 Jokaste
S08031921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
S08031921 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in the Black Sox
S08031921Cscandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
S08031923 VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
S08031928 Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track
S08031928Cevents by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
S08031930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
S08031930 E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1167 Dubiago
S08031933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
S08031937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1437 Diomedes & #1457 Ankara
S08031940 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1881 Shao
S08031940 Lithuanian SSR is accepted into the USSR
S08031944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gipseys
S08031948 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1569 Evita
S08031949 Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to
S08031949Cform the National Basketball Association
S08031952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
S08031953 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of the Today Show
S08031954 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
S08031955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
S08031955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
S08031956 Willie Williams of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
S08031958 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
S08031959 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
S08031959 AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
S08031960 Niger gains independence from France
S08031962 NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
S08031963 Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
S08031963 Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
S08031963 Great Train Robbery-£2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
S08031967 James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
S08031969 Reds beats Phillies 19-17
S08031970 4 day NFL strike ends
S08031970 Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
S08031970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2140 Kemerovo
S08031970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
S08031971 Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings
S08031973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)
S08031974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
S08031975 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
S08031975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
S08031977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer
S08031977C25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
S08031979 Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
S08031980 Duke Snider & Al Kaline enter baseball's Hall of Fame
S08031981 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
S08031981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3115 Baily & #3690
S08031982 Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
S08031983 John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
S08031984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S08031985 "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
S08031987 Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
S08031987 Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
S08031988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
S08031989 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
S08031989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
S08031989 Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
S08031989CCin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning
S08031989Cas they score 14 runs in the 1st inning
S08031990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
S08031990 Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion
S08031990 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
S08031990CFor the 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in
S08031990Cthe 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Phila 11-0
S08031991 Pan Am games open in Havana
S08031992 Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
S08031992 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on the TV/movie lot
S08041181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia
S08041558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
S08041578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Morrocans defeat Portugeese
S08041666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe/Martinique/St Christopher; thousands die
S08041693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
S08041735 Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious
S08041735Clibel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
S08041753 George Washington becomes a master mason
S08041777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
S08041790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
S08041830 Plans for the city of Chicago laid out
S08041864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
S08041881 122° F (50° C), Seville, Spain (European record)
S08041886 Colombia adopts constitution
S08041892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
S08041903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
S08041904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #541 Deborah
S08041910 A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
S08041914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
S08041916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
S08041917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
S08041921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #954 Li
S08041925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
S08041926 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1663 van den Bos
S08041926 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #1065 Amundsenia
S08041927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
S08041929 M Wolf discovers asteroids #2373 & #3626
S08041934 NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
S08041944 Nazi arrest 14-year-old Anne Frank & 7 companions
S08041945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
S08041945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
S08041948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
S08041949 The NBL & NBAA merge into the National Basketball Association
S08041953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
S08041953 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
S08041956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
S08041958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
S08041960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
S08041961 108° F, Spokane, WA
S08041964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James
S08041964CChaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi
S08041964CNorth Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin
S08041965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
S08041967 British pirate radio station Radio 355 goes off the air
S08041967 Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
S08041968 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
S08041968 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
S08041969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
S08041970 Asteroid #2993 discovered
S08041970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
S08041970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2575 Bulgaria
S08041971 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
S08041974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
S08041977 Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
S08041981 Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
S08041981 Oliver North is assigned to white house duty
S08041982 NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, then singles for
S08041982CExpos in Philadelphia night game. (He was traded in between)
S08041983 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3063 Makhaon
S08041983 Revolution in Burkina
S08041984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
S08041984 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
S08041984 Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
S08041984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
S08041985 Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
S08041985 Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
S08041985 White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
S08041987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
S08041988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
S08041988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
S08041989 Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs
S08041989Cby NY Yankee Roberto Kelly
S08041990 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
S08041990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
S08041996 26th Olympic Summer games closes in Atlanta, Georgia
S0805 135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
S08051264 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
S08051391 Jews are massacred in Toledo & Barcelona Spain
S08051583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
S08051772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
S08051775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
S08051781 Battle at Doggers Bank
S08051837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
S08051846 Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
S08051858 Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
S08051861 US Army abolishes flogging
S08051861 US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
S08051864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
S08051864CBattle of Mobile Bay, Ala; Adm David Farragut orders "Damn the
S08051864Ctorpedoes, full speed ahead!"
S08051884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
S08051891 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
S08051901 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
S08051914 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland)
S08051914 US beats Australia, 3-2, to win the Davis Cup
S08051914 US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
S08051915 German troops over run Warsaw
S08051921 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
S08051921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #955 Alstede
S08051923 1st American to swim the English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
S08051924 Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
S08051926 Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs
S08051927 Phillies Cy Williams hits for the cycle in just 4 at bats
S08051931 Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
S08051936 At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
S08051937 Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
S08051940 "Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
S08051940 St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
S08051942 German troops sign the Koebanrivier
S08051945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
S08051948 Babe didrikson Zaharias wis golf's US open
S08051949 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die
S08051950 Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title
S08051953 Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
S08051954 Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
S08051956 KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
S08051956 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S08051957 "American Bandstand," goes on network TV (ABC)
S08051957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
S08051959 Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
S08051960 Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
S08051960 Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
S08051961 118° F (48° C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
S08051961 Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal
S08051962 1st quasar located by radio
S08051962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
S08051963 Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
S08051963 Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH
S08051964 Actress Anne Bancroft & comedian Mel Brooks wed
S08051964 Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
S08051964 US begins bombing North Vietnam
S08051965 Dave Marr wins PGA title
S08051966 Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title
S08051966 Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
S08051966CBeatles release "Revolver" album in US
S08051966CBeatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
S08051967 1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7
S08051967 Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
S08051967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down
S08051968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
S08051968 WZTV TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) begins broadcasting
S08051969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
S08051969 Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium
S08051971 WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08051972 Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
S08051973 Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
S08051973 USSR launches Mars 6
S08051974 Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways
S08051975 Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a major league record, win 13-5
S08051978 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2118 Flagstaff
S08051978 New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
S08051980 NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
S08051981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3402 Wisdom
S08051981 Federal govt began firing striking air traffic controllers
S08051981 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
S08051984 Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2h24m52s)
S08051984 Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
S08051984 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson sets record with 19 pinch hit HRs
S08051985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
S08051985 Chic White Sox Tom Seaver wins #300 over Yanks at Yankee Stadium
S08051985 Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
S08051986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets the 5k woman's record (14:37.33)
S08051986CIt's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings &
S08051986Cpaintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
S08051988 Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
S08051991 Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record (20'¼") in Malmö Sweden
S0806 258 St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0806 523 St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0806 768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0806 939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats the Moors
S08061181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
S08061623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
S08061661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million gulders
S08061787 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
S08061806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
S08061815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
S08061825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
S08061854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
S08061862 CSA ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
S08061864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
S08061866 E Stephan discovers asteroid #89 Julia
S08061870 White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
S08061871 J C Watson discovers asteroid #115 Thyra
S08061890 1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder
S08061890 Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
S08061908 St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
S08061914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
S08061914 Serbia declares war against Germany
S08061919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
S08061919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
S08061921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
S08061923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #998 Bodea
S08061926 NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
S08061926 Warner Bros premiers Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
S08061926CDon Juan with John Barrymore shown
S08061934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
S08061937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
S08061944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
S08061944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
S08061944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
S08061945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
S08061946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
S08061948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
S08061948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
S08061951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
S08061952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
S08061954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
S08061958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
S08061960 Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
S08061961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
S08061961C1st case of motion sickness in space reported
S08061962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain
S08061965 Beatles release "Help" album in UK
S08061965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
S08061966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
S08061967 Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
S08061969 Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
S08061972 Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HR for record HRs with one club
S08061974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
S08061974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
S08061977 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2191 Uppsala
S08061980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2570 Porphyro
S08061980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2522, #2523 & #2544 Gubarev
S08061980CUniversity adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference
S08061980Ctitles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
S08061981 Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st ½ champs
S08061981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
S08061982 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
S08061983 Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
S08061984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
S08061984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
S08061985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
S08061985 Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
S08061985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to the launch pad
S08061986 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
S08061986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM
S08061986 Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
S08061988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
S08061988 Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
S08061989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
S08061989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
S08061990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
S08061990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place
S08061990Ceconomic sanctions against Iraq
S08061992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
S0807 768 Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08071479 Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Lodewijk XI
S08071498 Columbus arrives in Caribbean
S08071620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
S08071750 Slave opposition in Curaçao
S08071782 George Washington creates Order of the Purple Heart
S08071789 US War Department established
S08071802 Napoleon orders slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
S08071819 Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia
S08071820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
S08071875 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #148 Gallia
S08071879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #201 Penelope
S08071882 Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
S08071888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
S08071893 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
S08071912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
S08071915 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #916 America
S08071927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
S08071927 US rum smugglar Horace Alderman kills 3
S08071929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
S08071934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's
S08071934Cattempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
S08071938 2 die in a NYC subway accident
S08071938 Nazi's seize theologic faculty university in Innsbruck
S08071940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1¢ 1856 British Guiana)
S08071941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
S08071942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
S08071944 July 20th Plot concieved by Roland Freis in Berlin
S08071946 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
S08071947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
S08071951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
S08071953 Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
S08071954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
S08071955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
S08071955 KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
S08071956 Dynamite transport explodes in, Colombia; about 1200 die
S08071959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
S08071960 Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
S08071960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
S08071961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
S08071963 Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
S08071964 US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
S08071966 Race riot in Lansing Michigan
S08071970 1st computer chess tournament
S08071970 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San
S08071970 WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08071970CRafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
S08071971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
S08071972 Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn
S08071974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
S08071976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
S08071976CScientists in Pasadena, Calif, announce Viking I found strongest
S08071976Cindications to date of possible life on Mars
S08071978 Thousands of mourners file past the body of Pope Paul VI
S08071981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3727
S08071983 1st World Track & Field Championships
S08071983 Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium
S08071983 Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
S08071983 Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
S08071984 Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
S08071984 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
S08071985 Barbra Striesand records "The Broadway Album"
S08071985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
S08071986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin
S08071986Ccycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
S08071987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
S08071987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39° F (4° C) Bering Sea
S08071988 Writers guild end their 6 months strike
S08071990 Desert Shield begin-US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
S08071990 Saudi Arabia allows US troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion
S08071990CNY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats &
S08071990Cbecomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
S08071991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
S08071991 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
S08071991 US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
S08071992 Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
S0808 70 Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
S08081579 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
S08081588 English fleet battles Spanish armada
S08081609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
S08081709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
S08081786 Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc
S08081796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
S08081809 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
S08081814 Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
S08081815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
S08081843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
S08081844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
S08081860 Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
S08081861 William Bateson, originator of term "genetics"
S08081864 Red Cross forms in Geneva
S08081868 Quake destroyes Arica Chile
S08081870 Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup
S08081876 Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
S08081876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
S08081882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
S08081890 Daughters of the American Revolution organizes
S08081900 1st Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston
S08081907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #3105
S08081909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #684 Hildburg
S08081914 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"
S08081918 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is
S08081918Cgiven command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
S08081919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
S08081920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
S08081921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #956 Elisa
S08081922 Italian general strike against fascist terror broken
S08081922 Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
S08081923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #1001 Gaussia
S08081929 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward begins
S08081929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
S08081929 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1129 Neujmina
S08081929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
S08081930 St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
S08081931 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1946
S08081931 Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
S08081932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1256 Normannia, #1257 Mora,
S08081932C#1258 Sicilia & #1273 Helma
S08081937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
S08081940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
S08081942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
S08081942 Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
S08081943 Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
S08081944 German raid After house, home of Anne Frank & family
S08081945 Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
S08081945 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
S08081945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
S08081946 India agrees to give Bhutan 32² miles
S08081949 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy
S08081953 US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
S08081955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
S08081956 Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
S08081956 WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
S08081960 Ivory Coast declares independence
S08081961 Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
S08081962 Jamaica declares independence from UK
S08081963 Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
S08081963 Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
S08081966 Beatles' release "Revolver"
S08081966 South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)
S08081968 Race riot in Miami Florida
S08081970 NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37
S08081972 NY Yankees sign 30 year lease with NYC
S08081973 VP Spiro T Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks
S08081973Cfrom govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)
S08081974 Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09
S08081977 Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)
S08081978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
S08081978C N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2431 Skovoroda, #2626 Belnika,
S08081978C#2627 Churyumov, #2794 Kulik, #2916 Voronveliya, #3027 Shavarsh,
S08081978C#3195 & #3599
S08081980 LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
S08081980C E Bowell discovers asteroids #2597 Arthur, #3350 Scobee,
S08081980C#3488 Brahic & #3559 Violamayer
S08081983 Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
S08081983 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3737
S08081983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in
S08081983Csex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
S08081984 Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in the Summer
S08081985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
S08081986 Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
S08081987 Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
S08081987 Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
S08081988 Chicago Cubs starts 1st home game under lights (rained-out)
S08081988 Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
S08081988 Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
S08081988 Goose Gossage registers career save #300
S08081988 Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
S08081988 Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season
S08081988 Minn Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2
S08081988 Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years
S08081988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
S08081988 Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
S08081988 South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
S08081988 Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
S08081989 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
S08081990 Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
S08081990 Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
S08081990 Iraq annexes Kuwait
S08081991 Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
S08081991 Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge
S08081991 Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving
S08081991 Shite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy
S08081992 Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
S0809 378 Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army
S0809 480 -BC- Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
S08091638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in the Bronx
S08091673 Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
S08091778 Capt Cook passes through Bering Strait
S08091786 1st ascent of Mt Blanc
S08091790 Columbia becomes 1st US flagged ship to voyage around the world
S08091803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
S08091829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
S08091831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
S08091841 Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
S08091842 US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
S08091848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party
S08091848Cnominateing Martin Van Buren for president
S08091849 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
S08091854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
S08091855 Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
S08091859 Elevator patented
S08091862 Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar
S08091862CMt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
S08091876 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #165 Loreley
S08091890 1st 44 Javans arrive in Surinam, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
S08091893 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
S08091901 34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization
S08091902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
S08091916 H Thiele discovers asteroid #3229
S08091923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #999 Zachia
S08091923 NY State Golf Assoc formed
S08091925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
S08091930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
S08091936 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1396 Outeniqua & #1397 Umtata
S08091936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics
S08091942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
S08091942 British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K Gandhi
S08091942 Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
S08091944 12 workers of illegal magazine Trouw executed at Camp Vught
S08091945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
S08091946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
S08091948 E L Johnson discovers asteroids #1623 Vivian, #1731 Smuts,
S08091948C#1819 Laputa, #1885 Herero & #2829
S08091950 Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
S08091953 S Arend discovers asteroid #1652 Herge
S08091956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
S08091956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws
S08091960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
S08091961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
S08091963 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premiers
S08091964 Bunning continues pitching perfectly to the NY Mets until 2 outs in
S08091964C5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings
S08091965 Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
S08091965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
S08091967 KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
S08091969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
S08091970 Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2949 Kaverznev
S08091970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
S08091971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
S08091972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct the Space Shuttle
S08091973 Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings
S08091973 USSR launches Mars 7
S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
S08091975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
S08091976 Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
S08091976 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
S08091977 NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs
S08091978 Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
S08091978C L & N Chernykh & discover asteroids #2354 Lavrov, #2609 Kiril-Metodi
S08091978C#2833 Radishchev & #3703
S08091980 Belgium constitution revised
S08091981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record the English Channel (7:17)
S08091981 Larry Nelson wins PGA title
S08091981 NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
S08091984 Daley Thomas of Britain sets the decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal
S08091984 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to the launch pad
S08091987 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
S08091988 Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
S08091988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
S08091988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
S08091990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
S08091992 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
S0810 70 "2nd Temple" of the Jews is set aflame (approx)
S0810 654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
S08101461 Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
S08101519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
S08101675 King Charles II opens Greenwich Observatory, London
S08101680 In N Mex, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
S08101743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
S08101774 1st Surinam newspaper (De Eerste Woens day sche Surinam" publishes
S08101790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
S08101792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI
S08101809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
S08101821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
S08101822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
S08101827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
S08101831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
S08101831 Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
S08101833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
S08101835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
S08101846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
S08101856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
S08101861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri
S08101866 Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
S08101877 Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Percé indians
S08101877 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
S08101885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
S08101887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
S08101888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
S08101893 Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
S08101900 1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England
S08101901 Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
S08101907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
S08101909 Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
S08101911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
S08101913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
S08101916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
S08101918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #900 Rosalinde
S08101919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane
S08101920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
S08101920 Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
S08101920 Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
S08101921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
S08101928 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1110 Jaroslawa
S08101938 119° F (48° C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
S08101942 Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
S08101943 Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
S08101944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0
S08101944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
S08101945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the
S08101945Cstatus of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
S08101948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
S08101948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
S08101948 WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08101949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
S08101954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
S08101960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
S08101961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market
S08101964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08101965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
S08101966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
S08101966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a
S08101966Cmeteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
S08101973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
S08101975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
S08101977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused
S08101977Cof being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer
S08101978 H E Schuster discovers asteroid #3398
S08101979 Ecuador adopts its constitution
S08101979 Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
S08101980 Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
S08101980 Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time
S08101981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits
S08101981 The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
S08101984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
S08101985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47½ million
S08101985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
S08101986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
S08101987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
S08101988 UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
S08101990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
S08101991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
S08111304 Sea battle of Zierik sea
S08111492 Rodrigo the Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
S08111674 1st Battle of Seneffe: Lodewijk II Condé vs Willem III
S08111772 Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
S08111780 Barbados hurricane begins
S08111835 George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
S08111860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
S08111866 World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI)
S08111877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
S08111885 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes the 21st to hit 400 HR
S08111888 California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
S08111896 Harvey Hubbell patents electric lamp
S08111904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
S08111907 Italian auto racer Prince Borghese wins "Peking to Paris"
S08111907 St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
S08111909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
S08111914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary
S08111914 Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
S08111915 M Wolf discovers asteroid #809 Lundia
S08111918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
S08111919 Green Bay Packers football club founded
S08111919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
S08111920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Indepenence of Latvia
S08111923 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
S08111924 US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
S08111926 Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
S08111928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1097 Vicia
S08111929 Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers
S08111933 Temp reaches 136° F (58° C) at San Luis Potosí, Mex (world record)
S08111934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
S08111942 (- Sept 30) SS begins murdering 3,500 Jews in Lodz Poland
S08111942 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
S08111944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
S08111945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
S08111948 Summer Olympics opens in London
S08111949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
S08111950 Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
S08111951 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
S08111951 NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
S08111951 NY Giants lose & 13½ games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennent
S08111952 Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed king of Jordan
S08111953 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2097
S08111954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina
S08111954Cbetween French & Communist Vietminh
S08111956 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
S08111956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
S08111960 Chad declares Independence from France
S08111961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
S08111962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
S08111962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
S08111963 The Kingston Trio are the mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
S08111964 Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
S08111964 Race riot in Paterson NJ
S08111965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
S08111965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
S08111965 Watts riots begin in LA, lasts 6 days
S08111966 Last Beatle concert tour of the US begins
S08111967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
S08111968 The Beatles launch the "Apple Records" label
S08111969 L Chernykh disc asteroid #1832 Mrkos, #1833 Shmakova & #1975 Pikelner
S08111969 Pitts Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
S08111970 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
S08111970 Tony Perez becomes the 1st to hit a HR in the red seats at Riverfront
S08111971 Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome
S08111971 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
S08111972 "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
S08111974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
S08111974 Lee Trevino wins PGA championship
S08111975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
S08111975 US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
S08111976 Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
S08111976 Race riot in Kaapstad, South-Africa; 17 die
S08111978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
S08111978 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #3266
S08111979 28° F in Embarrass Minnesota
S08111980 Angola revises its constitution
S08111980 Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
S08111984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
S08111984 Cincinatti Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
S08111984 During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation
S08111984Cthat would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
S08111985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
S08111985 Hubert Green wins PGA championship
S08111985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
S08111986 Bob Tway wins PGA championship
S08111988 Gary Carter (NY Mets) became 59th player to hit 300 career HR
S08111988 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
S08111989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers
S08111989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
S08111990 Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
S08111990 NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
S08111991 John Daly, rookie golfer wins the PGA title
S08111991 Shite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy
S08111991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
S08111999 Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
S0812 3 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
S08121071 Battle at Manzikert Armenia
S08121071 Venetian Byzantine leader brings islam to Europe
S08121099 Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon
S08121332 Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
S08121508 Ponce de León arrives in Puerto Rico
S08121553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of the Jewish Talmud
S08121658 1st US political corps forms (New Amsterdam)
S08121676 King Philip's War (vs Wampanoag Indians) ends in New England
S08121687 Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
S08121687 Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs
S08121759 Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
S08121812 Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
S08121851 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
S08121851 Issac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine
S08121862 Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
S08121863 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
S08121867 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
S08121876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
S08121877 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device
S08121879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
S08121882 Paul Henry discovers asteroid #227 Philosophia
S08121883 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #234 Barbara
S08121888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
S08121898 Hawaii formally annexed to US
S08121898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
S08121905 King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
S08121909 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #685 Hermia
S08121914 Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
S08121914 Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
S08121915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
S08121923 Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
S08121923 Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
S08121923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1000 Piazzia & #1025 Riema
S08121925 KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
S08121928 9th Olympic Games closes in Amsterdam
S08121935 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
S08121936 120° F (49° C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
S08121936 Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
S08121940 Netherlands starts rationing textile
S08121941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
S08121942 German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
S08121944 Pipeline under the ocean (Pluto) begins operating
S08121950 NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
S08121953 Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
S08121953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
S08121955 Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75¢ to $1 an hour
S08121955 WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08121956 KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
S08121956 William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
S08121959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
S08121960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
S08121960 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11¼"
S08121960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
S08121962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
S08121964 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
S08121964 Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
S08121965 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
S08121967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
S08121969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
S08121972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
S08121974 Nolan Ryan strikes-out 19 Red Sox
S08121974CYankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to
S08121974Chall of fame on the same day
S08121976 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
S08121977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
S08121977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
S08121978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
S08121978 ICE is launched
S08121981 IBM introduces the PC & PC-DOS version 1.0
S08121981 Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
S08121985 Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
S08121986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
S08121986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
S08121987 Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
S08121988 Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
S08121988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
S08121988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
S08121988 Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
S08121990 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
S08121990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf
S08121990Ccrisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
S08121991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
S0813 523 St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08131099 Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
S08131521 Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs
S08131642 Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
S08131651 Litchfield, CT founded
S08131704 English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
S08131799 English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Surinam
S08131814 Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
S08131831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
S08131847 J R Hind discovers asteroid #7 Iris
S08131861 R Luther discovers asteroid #71 Niobe
S08131868 Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
S08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
S08131892 US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
S08131898 G Witt discovers asteroid #433 Eros
S08131906 Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
S08131906 Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games
S08131906C(187 complete, 15 relief) by the Dodgers in the 3rd inning
S08131907 1st taxicab (NYC)
S08131910 Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12
S08131910Cassists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
S08131917 Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against the Braves
S08131919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrater; killing 350
S08131919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
S08131920 Ted Ray wins golf's US Open
S08131923 Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition cabinet
S08131923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1026 Ingrid
S08131923 Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
S08131925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1060 Magnolia
S08131928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
S08131931 Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
S08131932 Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
S08131933 Gene Sarazen wins PGA title
S08131935 Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
S08131936 G Neujmin discovers asteroids #1403 Idelsonia & #2166 Handahl
S08131939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
S08131939CSabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco'
S08131939Cwhich fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)
S08131944 Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
S08131945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
S08131946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
S08131948 Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
S08131953 Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
S08131953 US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
S08131956 WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
S08131960 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
S08131961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
S08131963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
S08131963 Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
S08131966 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2754
S08131967 WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08131969 Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
S08131969 Temporary baseball commisioner Bowie Kuhn formally appointed
S08131971 Paul & Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"
S08131972 Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
S08131977 1st test glide of the shuttle
S08131978 Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted
S08131978C& thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0
S08131979 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit
S08131980 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
S08131986 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
S08131987 Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump
S08131988 Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
S08131988 US beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
S08131988CRonald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada
S08131988Cfrom Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
S08131989 US space shuttle STS-28 lands
S0814 410 Visigoten under king Alarik I defeat & plunder Rome
S08141248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
S08141281 Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
S08141385 Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castilië
S08141385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
S08141457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
S08141678 Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
S08141756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY
S08141765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
S08141782 Surinam forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
S08141813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
S08141816 Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
S08141842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
S08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
S08141848 Oregon Territory created
S08141862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
S08141870 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #111 Ate
S08141873 "Forest & Stream" begins publishing
S08141876 Prairie View State University forms
S08141880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
S08141882 Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
S08141893 France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
S08141900 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
S08141900 2,000 marines land to capture Peking, ending the Boxer rebellion
S08141900 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer
S08141900CRebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners
S08141901 D Stewart discovers asteroid #475 Ocllo
S08141901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
S08141907 "Ha-Tikva" adopted as the official Zionist hymn
S08141908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
S08141910 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
S08141912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
S08141915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
S08141917 China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
S08141919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
S08141920 Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
S08141920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp
S08141929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
S08141932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
S08141935 Social Security Act became law
S08141936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
S08141937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
S08141938 BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
S08141939 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
S08141940 British Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
S08141941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
S08141943 -Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
S08141944 Russian offensive at Weichsel
S08141945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
S08141947 India granted independence within British Commonwealth
S08141947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
S08141947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain
S08141948 14th Olympic games in London closes
S08141953 KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
S08141954 WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
S08141958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
S08141958 Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
S08141958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
S08141959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
S08141961 Phila Phillies lose 17th straight game
S08141962 French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
S08141962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
S08141962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
S08141965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show
S08141965 Continental Football League plays 1st games
S08141966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
S08141966 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1828 Kashirina & #2467 Kollontai
S08141967 Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland,
S08141967CRadio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
S08141969 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland
S08141969 NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win the pennent
S08141970 City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
S08141971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
S08141971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
S08141971 St Louis Cards Bob Gibson no-hits Pitts, 11-0
S08141972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
S08141973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
S08141973 US bombs Cambodia
S08141974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
S08141974 Turkish leaders overthrows Nicosia, Cyprus
S08141975 Asteroid #2994 discovered
S08141975 Norweign King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
S08141977 77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
S08141977 N Chernykh discover asteroids #2294, #2477 Biryukov, #2497 Kulikovskij
S08141977C#2579 Spartacus & #2670 Chuvashia
S08141978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's
S08141978Cwoman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
S08141979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
S08141979 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2474 Ruby
S08141980 Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
S08141980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2390 Nezarka
S08141981 George Foster hits his 8th HR into the red seats at Riverfront
S08141982 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
S08141984 IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0
S08141985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3327 Campins
S08141986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
S08141990 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside the park grandslam
S08141990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
S08141991 Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
S08151057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
S08151519 Panama City founded
S08151535 Asunción, Paraguay founded
S08151620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
S08151748 United Lutheran Church of US organized
S08151832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
S08151843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
S08151858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
S08151863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
S08151864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
S08151867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
S08151868 J C Watson discovers asteroid #101 Helena
S08151870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed
S08151876 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #166 Rhodope
S08151886 Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
S08151893 US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
S08151899 Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
S08151901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
S08151904 P Gotz & A Kopff discovers asteroid #542 Susanna
S08151905 Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
S08151906 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
S08151909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #686 Gersuind
S08151912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
S08151914 Panama Canal opens (under cost)
S08151917 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #882 Swetlana
S08151918 1st full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)
S08151918 US & Russia sever diplomatic ties
S08151920 W Baade discovers asteroid #934 Thuringia
S08151923 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
S08151923 Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
S08151923 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1002 Olbersia
S08151928 P Shajn discovers asteroids #1112 Polonia & #1113 Katja
S08151931 Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
S08151931 Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
S08151939 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
S08151939 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #2536 Kozyrev
S08151939 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1739 Meyermann, #1818 Brahms & #2306
S08151941 Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into the Slobodka ghetto
S08151942 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
S08151943 Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
S08151944 Allied troops land in Provence (operation Dragoon)
S08151945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
S08151945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
S08151947 India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
S08151947 Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) declares independence from UK
S08151948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
S08151949 WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
S08151950 8.6 quake kills over 1,000 in Assam, India
S08151952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
S08151952 P Shajn discovers asteroid #1954 Kukarkin
S08151954 WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
S08151955 WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
S08151957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
S08151957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
S08151960 Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
S08151960 Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
S08151960 Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
S08151960 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
S08151962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
S08151963 K W Kamper discovers asteroid #2104 Toronto
S08151964 Phillies triple-play NY Mets
S08151964 Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
S08151964 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¼"
S08151965 Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
S08151966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
S08151967 England's Marine Offense Bill makies pirate radio stations a crime
S08151967Cgoes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
S08151968 Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
S08151969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
S08151970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
S08151971 Bahrain gains independence from Britain
S08151971 KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
S08151971 Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
S08151973 Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
S08151974 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
S08151974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
S08151975 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
S08151978 House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
S08151979 Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
S08151981 Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
S08151982 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
S08151985 E F Helin & M Barucci discovers asteroid #3752
S08151986 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger
S08151987 US beats Cuba in the Pan-Am baseball
S08151988 At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
S08151988 NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
S08151989 Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
S08151990 Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
S08151991 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
S08151992 Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
S08151992 Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
S08161465 Battle at Montlhéry
S08161743 Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
S08161777 Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
S08161780 British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
S08161812 Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
S08161819 Bloodbath of Peterloo in Manchester
S08161819 Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
S08161829 Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
S08161856 Asteroid 46, Hestia discovered (or 1857)
S08161857 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #46 Hestia
S08161858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
S08161861 Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
S08161863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
S08161870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
S08161873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #133 Cyrene
S08161876 The opera "Siegfried" is produced (Bayreuth)
S08161885 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #249 Ilse
S08161890 Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
S08161896 Gold discovered in the Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
S08161898 Roller coaster patented
S08161903 Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
S08161907 Abd al-Hafid ousted as sultan of Morroco
S08161909 J Palisa discovers asteroid #687 Tinette
S08161914 Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
S08161915 KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
S08161918 US troops overthrows Archangelsk
S08161920 Ray Chapman, of the Indians is hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays
S08161920Cpitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
S08161922 AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
S08161925 G Shajn discovers asteroids #1057 Wanda & #1709 Ukraina
S08161927 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
S08161934 US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
S08161934 US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (1922 m) in Bathysphere
S08161936 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
S08161936 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1692 Subbotina
S08161944 Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
S08161947 Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
S08161948 Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
S08161948 The Israeli pound becomes legal tender
S08161953 KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
S08161954 200 pilgrims drown in flood in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
S08161954 Sports Illustrated publishes its' 1st issue
S08161955 Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
S08161956 Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
S08161959 USSR introduces installment buying
S08161960 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
S08161960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
S08161960 Republic of the Congo (Zaire) forms
S08161963 Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
S08161964 St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
S08161965 AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
S08161967 Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
S08161967 WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08161969 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA ) begins broadcasting
S08161969 Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
S08161971 J Gibson discovers asteroid #1837 Osita & #2309 Mr Spock
S08161974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2605 Sahade
S08161976 St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
S08161977 Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
S08161981 Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
S08161982 K Olofsson discovers asteroid #3573
S08161984 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
S08161984 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
S08161984 NASA launches Ampte
S08161985 Singer Madonna marries actor Sean Penn in Malibu Beach Calif
S08161986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
S08161986C"Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
S08161987 156 die as Northwest Flight 255 crashes at take off in Detroit
S08161987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
S08161987 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
S08161988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
S08161988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
S08161988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
S08161989 Roger Kingdom of USA sets the 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
S08161990 Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
S08161991 Pres Bush declares the recession is near an end
S0817 682 St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08171787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
S08171795 Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curaçao
S08171807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
S08171808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
S08171833 Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
S08171846 US takes Los Angeles
S08171858 1st bank in Hawaii opens
S08171863 Federal batteries & ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston
S08171869 1st international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
S08171870 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
S08171870 Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
S08171876 The opera "Götterdämmerung" is produced (Bayreuth)
S08171877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
S08171890 J Palisa discovers asteroid #295 Theresia
S08171894 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
S08171896 Gold is discovered on Klondike River
S08171901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #476 Hedwig
S08171904 Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
S08171906 Valparaiso Chile suffers earthquake
S08171907 Bishop forbids Christian membership in the Dutch Textile Union
S08171908 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
S08171914 Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
S08171915 German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
S08171915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after
S08171915Cdeath sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
S08171916 Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
S08171918 British troops overthrow Baku, Azerbajian
S08171918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
S08171918 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
S08171928 M Wolf discovers asteroid #2483 Guinevere
S08171933 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1282 Utopia
S08171936 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1404 Ajax
S08171938 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
S08171939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
S08171940 FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
S08171942 US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
S08171943 US troops under Gen Patton over run Messina
S08171944 Russian troops arrive at the Austria-Prussia border
S08171944 Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
S08171945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
S08171948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
S08171948 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
S08171950 Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands
S08171951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
S08171955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut
S08171955CRiver killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
S08171958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
S08171959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
S08171960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
S08171960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
S08171961 Building of the Berlin Wall begins
S08171961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
S08171962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
S08171962 E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18,
S08171962Cattempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
S08171963 Jim Hickman becomes the 1st NY Met to hit for the cycle
S08171963 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
S08171966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
S08171969 Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, Alabama & Virginia; 258 die
S08171969 NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
S08171970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
S08171972 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
S08171973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
S08171974 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2576 Yesenin
S08171978 1st manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
S08171982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
S08171982 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
S08171984 Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
S08171985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
S08171985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
S08171985 Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
S08171986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
S08171987 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
S08171988 Butch Reynolds of USA sets the 400m record (43.29) in Zurich
S08171988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
S08171988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
S08171990 "The Exorcist 3" premiers
S08171990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
S08181587 1st English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)
S08181686 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
S08181759 -19/8) 2nd Battle of Lagos: England vs France
S08181769 Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
S08181817 Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
S08181834 Mt Vesuvius erupts
S08181835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
S08181838 1st US marine expedition
S08181846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM
S08181864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
S08181868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
S08181873 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')
S08181884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #239 Adrastea
S08181891 Hurricane hits Martinique; about 700 die
S08181894 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
S08181914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
S08181920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
S08181930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
S08181932 Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
S08181933 E Delporte discovers asteroids #1280 Baillauda, #1848 Delvaux,
S08181933C#1878 Hughes & #2276 Warck
S08181936 106.5° F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
S08181938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
S08181939 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2257 Kaarina
S08181941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
S08181943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
S08181946 Golf Writers Associaton of America formed
S08181947 Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
S08181949 Hungary adopts constitution
S08181954 Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend cabinet
S08181956 Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
S08181957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½")
S08181957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
S08181958 Betsy Palmer joins the Today Show panel
S08181958 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
S08181958 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
S08181958 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
S08181958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
S08181960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
S08181961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed
S08181962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
S08181963 James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
S08181965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of the batter's box
S08181967 Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
S08181967 WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
S08181971 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2071 Nadezhda & #3501
S08181972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids 1858 Lobachevskij, 2098 Zyskin & 3108
S08181972 Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney £800 in Sweden cannabis possession
S08181973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
S08181976 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
S08181977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2580, #3053 Dresden, #3408 & #3518
S08181978 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters
S08181981 Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
S08181982 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
S08181982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
S08181982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
S08181983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
S08181983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes)
S08181983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
S08181984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla,
S08181984Cspills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
S08181986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
S08181986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
S08181987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel
S08181987CHis time 28:21, 10 hours faster than the 1st man to do it
S08181988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
S08181988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
S08181988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
S08181989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets the 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
S08181991 Pan Am games closes in Havana
S0819 440 St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S08191099 Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
S08191263 King James I or Argon censors Hebrew writings
S08191787 W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
S08191812 US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
S08191826 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
S08191882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #228 Agathe
S08191888 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
S08191890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #296 Phaetusa
S08191891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
S08191893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #372 Palma
S08191903 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
S08191909 1st race at the Indianapolis Speedway
S08191909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
S08191913 Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
S08191917 Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John
S08191917CMcGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
S08191919 Afghanistan declares independence from UK
S08191933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1289 Kutaissi
S08191934 Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association
S08191934 Hitler elected Führer (95.7% of German kiezers)
S08191934 Plebescite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler
S08191935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1634 Ndola
S08191938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1469 Linzia
S08191942 1,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
S08191942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
S08191942 Allied commandos attack Dieppe
S08191942 Gen Paulus orders German 6th force to overthrow Stalingrad
S08191950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
S08191951 Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
S08191954 Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
S08191955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
S08191957 NY Giants vote to move their franchise to SF in 1958
S08191958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
S08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
S08191960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
S08191962 Homer Blancos plays the finest round in golf, shooting a 55
S08191965 Cincinatti Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
S08191966 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #1789 Dobrovolsky
S08191967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
S08191969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
S08191973 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
S08191976 Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
S08191977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2207 Antenor, #2254 Requiem, #2295,
S08191977C#2389 Dibaj, #2564 Kayala, #2793 Valdaj, #3084, #3557 & #3738
S08191978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
S08191979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
S08191980 Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
S08191981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
S08191982 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
S08191982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
S08191982 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2781
S08191983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
S08191984 Lee Trevino wins the PGA
S08191985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
S08191988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
S08191988 NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
S08191989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communmist president of Poland
S08191990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
S08191991 Janajev & KGB Coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
S0820 2 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
S08201191 Crusaders King Richard I kills 3,000 moslims in Akko
S08201648 Battle of Lens
S08201781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
S08201794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio
S08201852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
S08201865 Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
S08201866 Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
S08201895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
S08201896 Dial telephone patented
S08201908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #669 Kypria & #670 Ottegebe
S08201908 Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
S08201910 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
S08201912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
S08201912 Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
S08201913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
S08201913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
S08201914 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
S08201915 Italy declares war on Turkey
S08201918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
S08201920 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
S08201920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
S08201920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
S08201922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
S08201923 London harbor strike ends
S08201925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
S08201929 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed
S08201930 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
S08201930 E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1381 Danubia
S08201935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1474 Beira
S08201939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
S08201940 British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the
S08201940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21
S08201940Cfield of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
S08201942 Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
S08201944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
S08201944 Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
S08201945 Russian troops attacks Harbin/Moekden
S08201945 Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
S08201947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
S08201948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
S08201949 78,382 watch the White Sox play the Indians at Cleveland
S08201949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
S08201953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
S08201955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
S08201955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
S08201956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
S08201957 Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
S08201957 USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
S08201957 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
S08201958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
S08201958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
S08201960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence
S08201960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
S08201961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses
S08201964 LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
S08201964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
S08201965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
S08201966 Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2406 Orelskaya
S08201968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
S08201971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
S08201971 M Antal discovers asteroid #1807 Slovakia
S08201974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
S08201975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
S08201975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
S08201977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
S08201978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
S08201978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
S08201979 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3618
S08201979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
S08201980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
S08201980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
S08201980 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration
S08201980Cthat all of Jersualem is it's capital
S08201982 C & E Shoemaker discover asteroids #3025 Higson & #3225 Hoag
S08201982 Don Lever becomes the 1st captain of the NJ Devils
S08201985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
S08201985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3455 Kristensen
S08201985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US
S08201985CHanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day
S08201985Ctrip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
S08201986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
S08201986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in the 9th
S08201988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
S08201990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
S08201990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
S08201990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
S08201991 Estonia declares it's indepenence from USSR
S08201992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
S08211321 160 Jews of Chinon France burned at the stake
S08211560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
S08211673 Sea battle at Kijkduin; De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
S08211680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
S08211831 Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
S08211831 Slave uprising in Virginia (Nat Turner)
S08211841 John Hampson patents venetian blind
S08211858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
S08211878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
S08211883 Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
S08211887 Mighty (Dan) Casey Struck-out in a game with the NY Giants!
S08211901 Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
S08211902 R H Frost discovers asteroid #505 Cava
S08211912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
S08211922 Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
S08211926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
S08211927 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
S08211929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
S08211931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR (Yanks beat Browns 11-7)
S08211933 E Delporte discovers asteroids #1285 Julietta & #1290 Albertine
S08211933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
S08211938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
S08211943 Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
S08211944 Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN
S08211945 Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
S08211946 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1568 Aisleen
S08211949 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3654
S08211949 NY Giants beat Phillies on a forfeit, due to fan's throwing debris
S08211953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
S08211956 WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08211958 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
S08211959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state
S08211963 Martial law declared in S Vietnam
S08211965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
S08211965 Romania adopts constitution
S08211968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
S08211968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
S08211968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
S08211968 Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
S08211968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
S08211969 Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
S08211972 1st hot air balloon flight over the Alps
S08211972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
S08211972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
S08211975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
S08211975 Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
S08211976 Al Bumbry hits the 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
S08211977 Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
S08211977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2439 Ulugbek, #2529 Rockwell Kent,
S08211977C#2671 Abkhazia & #3471
S08211981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3102
S08211982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
S08211982 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
S08211985 Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
S08211985 T Schildknecht discovers asteroid #3328
S08211986 Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
S08211986 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians
S08211986 Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000
S08211986 With 2 outs in the 6th inning, The Red Sox score 11 runs
S08211987 "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
S08211987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
S08211988 Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
S08211989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune
S08211991 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
S08211991 Latvia declares it's Indepenence from USSR
S08212017 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
S0822 565 St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
S08221454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
S08221485 Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
S08221642 Civil War begins in England
S08221715 Händels "Watermusic" premieres on the Thames
S08221762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
S08221775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
S08221788 Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
S08221791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
S08221846 US annexes New Mexico
S08221851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
S08221851 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
S08221852 Asteroid 19, Fortuna discovered (goddess of fortune)
S08221852 J R Hind discovers asteroid #19 Fortuna
S08221862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
S08221864 Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
S08221864 International Red Cross forms
S08221868 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #102 Miriam
S08221877 Nez Percé-indians flees to Yellowstone National Park
S08221882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #229 Adelinda
S08221892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #333 Badenia
S08221895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #406 Erna
S08221902 Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
S08221906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
S08221906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #754 Malabar
S08221906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1514 Ricouxa
S08221907 Colin Buchanan, town planner
S08221907 Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
S08221908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, photographer (Decisive Moment)
S08221910 Japan annexes Korea
S08221911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
S08221911 Somerset de Chair, MP
S08221911 Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from the Louvre, Paris
S08221912 Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
S08221913 Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
S08221917 Pitts Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee
S08221917Csets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
S08221919 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #918 Itha
S08221927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
S08221932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
S08221934 Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
S08221939 Dutch border guards march to war
S08221942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
S08221943 Soviet troops free Karkov
S08221947 1st college team to beat an NFL team (All Stars-16, Bears-0)
S08221949 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #3184
S08221950 Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in natl tennis competition
S08221951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
S08221954 WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
S08221955 I Groeneveld discovers asteroid #2947
S08221956 Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
S08221958 Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
S08221959 Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
S08221960 Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
S08221961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
S08221963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
S08221965 LA Dodger pitcher Juan Marachal hits SF Giant catcher John Roseboro
S08221965Con the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
S08221968 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
S08221968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
S08221969 Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
S08221969 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #1834, #1875 & #1931
S08221969 New York (Gloria Smith becomes Miss Black America 1969
S08221974 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2130 Evdokiya, #2173 Maresjev &
S08221974C#2374 Vladvysotskij
S08221977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2208 Pushkin, #2287 Kalmykia, #3112,
S08221977C#2338 Bokhan, #2376 Martynov, #2887 Krinov, #2915 Moskvina & #3448
S08221979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
S08221979 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2589 Daniel, #2694 Pino Torinese,
S08221979C#3005 & #3331
S08221982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
S08221984 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
S08221984 Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strikeout 200
S08221984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
S08221985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3368 Duncombe, #3672 & #3673
S08221986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734
S08221986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
S08221987 Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
S08221988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
S08221988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
S08221989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
S08221989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter
S08221990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves
S0823 476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
S08231542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of the Tur Code
S08231617 1st one-way streets established (London)
S08231813 Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
S08231821 Mexico declares independence
S08231833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
S08231838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
S08231839 British take Hong Kong
S08231864 Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile
S08231866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
S08231869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
S08231872 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
S08231872 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #124 Alkeste
S08231873 Albert Bridge creossing the Thames opens
S08231883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks &
S08231883C& passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
S08231889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
S08231892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #334 Chicago
S08231898 Malcolm Whitman wins US Lawn Tennis championship
S08231900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
S08231901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #477 Italia
S08231903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
S08231904 Automobile tire chain patented
S08231906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
S08231907 Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
S08231914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
S08231916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
S08231917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
S08231919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
S08231924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
S08231925 Britain's Betty Nuthall wins US Lawn Tennis championship
S08231926 Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beat Elizabeth Ryan for US Tennis championship
S08231929 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
S08231931 Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
S08231933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
S08231936 17 year old Bob Fellers 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
S08231936 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1399 Teneriffa & #1422 Stromgrenia
S08231938 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1486 Marilyn
S08231939 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
S08231939CMolotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
S08231940 Queen Wilhelmina resigns premier De Geer
S08231942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
S08231942 600 Luftwaffer bombers strikes Stalingrad (40,000 die)
S08231942 Battle of Stalingrad begins
S08231944 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt
S08231944 King Michael of Romania resigns
S08231944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
S08231947 Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
S08231948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
S08231950 West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
S08231951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1684 Iguassu
S08231952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman
S08231952Ccomplete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing
S08231953 KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08231953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3½")
S08231955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2974
S08231958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
S08231960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
S08231961 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
S08231963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in the UK
S08231963 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
S08231964 St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win the World Series
S08231966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
S08231968 Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
S08231968 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
S08231969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
S08231969 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway
S08231969CCzechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
S08231971 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08231972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but
S08231972Cnot unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
S08231973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
S08231975 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
S08231977 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
S08231977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2498 Tsesevich
S08231977 Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs ½ game in 1st place to stay
S08231979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
S08231979 UN's Vienna office opens
S08231981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2852 & #3274
S08231982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
S08231982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
S08231983 IRAS discovers asteroid #3728
S08231985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
S08231985CPaul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA
S08231985Cwho barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
S08231988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
S08231989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
S0824 79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
S0824 079 Vesuvius Volcano erupts covering Pompeii & Herculaneum
S0824 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
S08241349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
S08241391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
S08241572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
S08241662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
S08241682 DE awarded to William Penn
S08241751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
S08241814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
S08241853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
S08241854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
S08241858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
S08241867 J C Watson discovers asteroid #93 Minerva
S08241869 Waffle iron invented
S08241891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
S08241893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston; about 1000 die
S08241903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #513 Centesima & #514 Armida
S08241904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
S08241905 Chicago Cubs beat the Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
S08241906 Cincinatti Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
S08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
S08241911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected the 1st president of Portugal
S08241912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
S08241912 Territory of Alaska organized
S08241912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the govt
S08241914 Battle at Bergen-Belgian vs Britain
S08241921 Battle of Sakaray begins between Turkey & Greece
S08241921 England, airship R-38 crashes in Humber; 44 die
S08241922 1st Phillie to hit for the cycle (Cy Williams)
S08241932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
S08241933 S Arend discovers asteroid #1313 Berna
S08241936 Australian Antarctic Territory created
S08241936 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2137 Priscilla
S08241939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
S08241942 Sea battle at Eastern Solomon Island
S08241949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
S08241950 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
S08241950 Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
S08241950 Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
S08241954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
S08241954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
S08241956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
S08241959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel
S08241959CK Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
S08241960 127° F (-88° C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
S08241960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
S08241961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister
S08241961Cof justice (if the shoe fits...)
S08241963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
S08241963 John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
S08241964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
S08241966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
S08241967 Liberian flag designed
S08241968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power
S08241970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
S08241972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
S08241972 Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
S08241974 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3770
S08241975 SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
S08241975 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
S08241976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
S08241979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
S08241979 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
S08241981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
S08241981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
S08241984 Pat Bradley set the LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
S08241984 T Seki discovers asteroid #3431 Nakano
S08241985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
S08241987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
S08241989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
S08241989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
S08241990 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
S08241991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
S08241991 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR
S08241992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
S08251212 Children's cruiser under Nikolaas (10) reaches Genoa
S08251330 AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
S08251580 Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
S08251609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
S08251689 Montréal taken by Iroquois
S08251718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
S08251795 Curaçao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
S08251802 Toussaint L'Ouverture premiers in Fort de Joux, Jura
S08251804 Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
S08251814 British capture Washington DC
S08251825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
S08251830 Belgium revolts against Netherlands
S08251835 NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
S08251862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
S08251864 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
S08251864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
S08251865 R Luther discovers asteroid #84 Klio
S08251875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
S08251886 1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
S08251888 Henry Slocum wins US Lawn Tennis Assn singles title
S08251889 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #287 Nephthys
S08251897 A Charlois discovers asteroid #426 Hippo
S08251904 Jim Jefferies KOsJack Munroe & retains boxing heavyweight title
S08251908 Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
S08251909 J Palisa discovers asteroid #688 Melanie
S08251912 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
S08251912 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
S08251914 German troops march into France
S08251915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
S08251916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #829 Academia & #830 Petropolitana
S08251916 National Park Service established in the Dept of the Interior
S08251919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
S08251920 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
S08251921 US signs peace treaty with Germany
S08251921 Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
S08251922 Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
S08251924 Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
S08251925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
S08251925 Helen Willis wins her 3rd straight US Lawn Tennis Open
S08251927 S Belyavskij & N Ivanov discovers asteroid #1086 Nata
S08251929 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
S08251930 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1168 Brandia
S08251932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
S08251933 Arend discovers asteroid 1281 Jeanne, 1286 Banachiewicza & 1287 Lorcia
S08251933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1331 Solvejg
S08251933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2676 Aarhus & #2943
S08251936 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
S08251940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
S08251940 1st parachute wedding
S08251941 English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
S08251943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
S08251943 Lord Mountbatten named Supreme Allied Commander in Asia
S08251943 US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
S08251944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
S08251945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
S08251946 Ben Hogan wins the PGA championship
S08251947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
S08251950 Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
S08251950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
S08251952 Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
S08251960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
S08251960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
S08251963 Paul McCartney is fined £31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding
S08251966 Z Pereyra discovers asteroid #1769 Carlostorres
S08251967 Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
S08251967 Paraguay accepts its constitution
S08251968 NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats the
S08251968CTigers 6-5; he played right field in the 2nd game & homered
S08251969 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montréal (NFL expo)
S08251973 Zambia adopts constitution
S08251974 LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
S08251976 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2221 Chilton
S08251976 Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
S08251979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
S08251979 Somali adopts constitution
S08251981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
S08251981 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
S08251981 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
S08251983 Triple A baseball's Louisville breaks 1 million fan mark
S08251983 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
S08251985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
S08251985 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
S08251987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
S08251988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
S08251988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
S08251989 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)
S08251990 Li Hui Rong of China sets the triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
S08251990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
S08251991 Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
S08251991 White-Russia declares it's Indepenence
S0826 55 -BC- Roman forces under Julius Cæsar invade Britain
S08261278 Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
S08261346 Battle at Crécy-England defeats France
S08261346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy
S08261629 Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
S08261791 John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
S08261846 W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
S08261874 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
S08261883 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
S08261903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
S08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
S08261911 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #717 Wisibada
S08261913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #759 Vinifera
S08261914 Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
S08261915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
S08261916 Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
S08261916 Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
S08261920 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
S08261933 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1288 Santa
S08261936 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #2226 Cunitza
S08261936 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1398 Donnera
S08261937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
S08261938 British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
S08261938 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1493 Sigrid
S08261938 Montreal Maroons dropped from the NHL
S08261939 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds at Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
S08261940 P Djurkovic discovers asteroid #1700 Zvezdara
S08261941 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1542 Schalen & #1699 Honkasalo
S08261942 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France
S08261942 Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milnebai
S08261942 Russian anti offensive begins in Moscow
S08261944 De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysées
S08261947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
S08261952 Fluoridation of SF water begins
S08261955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
S08261956 KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
S08261957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
S08261961 Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
S08261962 Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
S08261964 LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
S08261966 KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08261971 NY Giant football team announces its leaving the Bronx for NJ in 1975
S08261971 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
S08261972 NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win the NASL championship
S08261972 Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany
S08261973 David Eisenhower last sports column
S08261973 U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
S08261973C10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race
S08261973Cin Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
S08261974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
S08261976 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2506 Pirogov, #2520 Novorossijsk,
S08261976C#2668 Tataria, #3311 & #3762
S08261977 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
S08261978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
S08261978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
S08261981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
S08261981 Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
S08261982 NASA launches Telesat-F
S08261984 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Lennigrad
S08261984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
S08261985 Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs Calif Angels
S08261989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
S08261990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
S08261991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
S0827 26 -BC- Origin of Egyptian Era
S08271634 Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
S08271665 "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
S08271667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
S08271776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
S08271783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
S08271789 French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of the Rights of Man & the Citizen"
S08271813 Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
S08271816 Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
S08271859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
S08271874 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
S08271881 Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
S08271883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
S08271884 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #240 Vanadis
S08271892 Metroplitian Opera House in NYC destroyed by fire
S08271896 Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
S08271897 A Charlois discovers asteroid #427 Galene
S08271897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
S08271903 Britain's Hugh Doherty 1st non US man to win US Tennis championship
S08271906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #605 Juvisia
S08271909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
S08271911 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
S08271912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
S08271913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop
S08271913Cin a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
S08271914 J Palisa discovers asteroid #794 Irenaea
S08271916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
S08271918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
S08271921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
S08271922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #984 Gretia
S08271927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
S08271928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
S08271928 Helen Mills beats Helen Hull Jacobs to win US Tennis championship
S08271928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
S08271935 P Shajn discovers asteroids #1369 Ostanina & #1387 Kama
S08271937 Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
S08271937 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
S08271938 Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
S08271939 Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
S08271940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
S08271940 G Strommer discovers asteroid #1537 Transylvania
S08271941 Shah of Iran abdicates the throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
S08271942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
S08271945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
S08271950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
S08271950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
S08271956 Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
S08271958 USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
S08271961 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"
S08271962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
S08271965 WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08271966 Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
S08271966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
S08271969 Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
S08271973 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2048 Dwornik
S08271974 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3681
S08271974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
S08271975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle
S08271975Cride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
S08271976 S J Bus discovers asteroid #2285 Ron Helin
S08271976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
S08271977 Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers
S08271977Coff Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
S08271978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
S08271978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
S08271979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #3012 Minsk & #3283
S08271981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard the Andrea Doria
S08271982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
S08271982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
S08271983 Haiti adopts constitution
S08271984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project
S08271985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
S08271989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
S08271990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
S08271990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
S0828 476 Byzantine leader Odoacer captures Pavia
S08281609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
S08281655 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
S08281776 Battle of Long Island
S08281789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
S08281850 The opera "Lohengrin" is produced (Weimar)
S08281862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
S08281867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
S08281876 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #167 Urda
S08281884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
S08281884 Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
S08281891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #312 Pierretta
S08281907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
S08281908 Fred McLeod wins US Golf Open
S08281913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #760 Massinga
S08281916 Germany declares war on Romania
S08281916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
S08281917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
S08281920 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
S08281921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
S08281922 WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
S08281922 Walker Cup golf tournament established (US beats England 8-4)
S08281925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen-Duiveland
S08281926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
S08281936 J Hunaerts discovers asteroids #1423 Jose & #1637 Swings
S08281938 Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
S08281942 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
S08281943 Universal strike against nazi-occupiers in Denmark
S08281949 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2651 Karen
S08281949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
S08281951 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
S08281955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
S08281957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
S08281960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
S08281962 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
S08281962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
S08281963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
S08281963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
S08281963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
S08281964 Race riot in Philadelphia
S08281968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
S08281968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
S08281970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
S08281970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2616 Lesya
S08281973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
S08281973 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2171 Kiev
S08281974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
S08281976 NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
S08281977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
S08281977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
S08281977CNY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland
S08281977COre, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
S08281978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
S08281981 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3645
S08281981 C Kowal discovers asteroid #3163
S08281981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2707 Ueferji
S08281981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
S08281981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
S08281981 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2524 Budovicium & #3096
S08281981CNational Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of
S08281981CPneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
S08281983 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
S08281983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
S08281984 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3630
S08281986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
S08281988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
S08281990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
S08281990 Iraq declares Kuwait it's 19th province
S08281991 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident
S08281991 Lexington Ave IRT train derails injuring 200
S08281991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
S0829 284 Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
S08291178 AntiPope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
S08291261 Jacques Pantaléon elected as Pope Urban IV
S08291484 Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
S08291526 Battle at Mohacs Hungary (Louis II vs sultan Suleiman II
S08291526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
S08291708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
S08291758 1st indian reservation established
S08291776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
S08291786 Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
S08291792 English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
S08291793 Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
S08291844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
S08291854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
S08291862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
S08291862 Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
S08291862 E W Tempel discovers asteroid #74 Galatea
S08291862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
S08291864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
S08291883 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise
S08291883Cin the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion
S08291885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
S08291885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
S08291885CBoxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute
S08291885Crounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
S08291889 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
S08291896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
S08291904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
S08291906 Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
S08291907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #640 Brambilla
S08291908 NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
S08291909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
S08291909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
S08291914 Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
S08291916 J Palisa discovers asteroids #827 Wolfiana & #828 Lindemannia
S08291916 Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
S08291916 Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
S08291927 Belyavskij & Ivanov discovers asteroids #1118 Hanskya & #1224 Fantasia
S08291929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
S08291937 Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
S08291939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
S08291944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
S08291944 Anti-German opposition in Slowakije
S08291945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
S08291949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
S08291950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
S08291953 KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S08291953 USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
S08291954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens
S08291957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
S08291957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
S08291958 Air Force Academy opens
S08291962 Some provisions of the Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
S08291964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
S08291965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
S08291965 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2326 Tololo
S08291966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF)
S08291967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"
S08291967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd
S08291967Cgame in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
S08291969 KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
S08291970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
S08291973 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2002 Euler
S08291975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
S08291977 St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career
S08291977Cstolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
S08291979 P Wild discovers asteroid #2320
S08291982 George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
S08291985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
S08291986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
S08291988 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
S08291988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
S08291990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
S08291990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
S08291990 Seattle Mariners become 1st team to have father-son teammates,
S08291990Csigning Ken Griffey to play with son Ken Griffey Jr
S08291991 John F Kennedy Jr wins his 1st law case
S08291993 Galileo wlll pass within 600 miles of asteroid Ida
S08295502 -BC- Origin of Alexandrian Era
S0830 31 -BC- Origin of Era of Augustus
S0830 257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S08301464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II: Paul II
S08301563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
S08301645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
S08301843 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
S08301854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
S08301860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
S08301862 2nd Battle of Bull Run
S08301862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
S08301862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
S08301880 J Coggia discovers asteroid #217 Eudora
S08301885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
S08301888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
S08301891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #313 Chaldaea
S08301901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
S08301905 Detroit Tiger Ty Cobb's 1st major league at bat (vs NY Yankees)
S08301906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
S08301908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #675 Ludmilla
S08301910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
S08301912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
S08301913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to
S08301913Cdistract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
S08301916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
S08301916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
S08301918 Czechoslovakia forms Indepenence republic
S08301918 Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
S08301918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #901 Brunsia
S08301927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1080 Orchis
S08301930 M Wolf & M Ferrero discovers asteroids #1169 Alwine & #2119 Schwall
S08301932 Hermann Göring elected chairman (Reichstag)
S08301932 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1247 Memoria
S08301935 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1361 Leuschneria & #1363 Herberta
S08301935 E Hubble discovers asteroid #1373 Cincinnati
S08301937 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1653 Yakhontovia
S08301939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
S08301941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
S08301941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
S08301942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxemburg
S08301944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
S08301945 Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
S08301945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
S08301949 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
S08301953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
S08301956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
S08301961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
S08301961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
S08301963 Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow went begins
S08301965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
S08301965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark
S08301965CDam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
S08301967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
S08301968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
S08301969 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
S08301969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
S08301969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
S08301970 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1977 Shura, #2011 Veteraniya,
S08301970C#2126 Gerasimovich, #2141 Simferopol & #1857 Parchomenko
S08301971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08301974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
S08301975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2189 Zaragoza & #2893
S08301975 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
S08301976 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2645 Daphne Plane
S08301976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
S08301976 Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
S08301979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
S08301979 Hurricane David hits Domincan Rep, Puerto Rico & US; about 2,000 die
S08301979 L Brozek discovers asteroid #2613 Plzen
S08301979 Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
S08301980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity
S08301981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3087 Beatrice Tinsley
S08301981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2730 Barks, #2863 Ben Mayer,
S08301981C#2871 Schober & #3123 Dunham
S08301983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
S08301984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
S08301984 R S Dunbar & M Barucci discovers asteroid #3362 Khufu
S08301986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
S08301987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
S08301987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10¼")
S08301987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
S08301988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
S08301988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
S08301989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
S08301990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on the
S08301990Csame team (Seattle Mariners), both single in the 1st inning
S08301991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
S08301991 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14½ to 13½
S08301991 Mike Powell of the US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
S08301992 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
S08311535 Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
S08311772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
S08311778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
S08311829 The opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
S08311842 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
S08311850 Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
S08311864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough
S08311881 1st US tennis championships (Newport, RI)
S08311886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
S08311886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
S08311887 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
S08311889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
S08311894 Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
S08311895 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
S08311900 British troops over run Johannesburg
S08311900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
S08311902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
S08311903 Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of the month
S08311907 England, Russia & France form the Triple Entente
S08311913 Dutch PSV political party forms
S08311914 Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
S08311915 Chic White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
S08311919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
S08311919 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
S08311923 Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
S08311923 Volkenbond gives Belgium mandate over Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
S08311927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1081 Reseda & #1085 Amaryllis
S08311929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1158 Luda
S08311929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1157 Arabia
S08311934 1st football all star game-Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago
S08311935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
S08311935 Chic White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0
S08311935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
S08311935 Reinmuth discover asteroid 1370 Hella, 1371 Resi, 1372 Haremari & 2944
S08311935 White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
S08311940 German occupiers begin soap ration; 1st issue of "Free Netherland"
S08311941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
S08311943 Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
S08311944 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy
S08311944 Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
S08311950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
S08311951 S Arend discovers asteroid #1640 Nemo
S08311953 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
S08311953 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
S08311953 WLVI TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
S08311954 Census Bureau established
S08311954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
S08311954 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1825 Klare
S08311954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
S08311955 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
S08311955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
S08311955 KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
S08311957 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
S08311959 Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup
S08311960 Agricultural Hall of Fame established
S08311962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
S08311965 House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
S08311968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
S08311968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have
S08311968Ca picture of them nude on the cover
S08311969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
S08311970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
S08311970 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup
S08311970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
S08311971 Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on the Moon
S08311972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
S08311973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
S08311973 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2072 Kosmodemyanskaya, #2172 Plavsk,
S08311973C#2447 Kronstadt, #3418 & #3460
S08311976 Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
S08311977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
S08311978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
S08311978 Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
S08311978 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2377 Shcheglov, #2408 Astapovich,
S08311978C#2711 Aleksandrov, #2723 Gorshkov, #2785 Sedov, #2809 Vernadskij,
S08311978C#2968, 2995 Taratuta, 3038, 3234 Hergiani, 3373, 3591, 3656, 3660
S08311979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun
S08311979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
S08311980 Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
S08311983 Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
S08311983 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3450
S08311983 J Gibson discovers asteroid #3711
S08311984 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3677
S08311984 K Suzuki & T Urata discovers asteroid #3165 Mikawa
S08311984 Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title
S08311985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
S08311985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
S08311985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
S08311986 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82
S08311986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
S08311987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)
S08311988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
S08311992 Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
S08311992 Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Cleveland (WNCX-FM)
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