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August 19 in history

211 sourced entries recorded on August 19, from 295 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 295 BCEThe first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges.source
  • 43 BCEOctavian takes office as consul. He's prevailed to pass the lex Pedia, a law establishing the murder of Caesar as a capital crime.source
  • 636August 15–20 – Battle of Yarmouk: In engagements along the Yarmouk River, Muslim forces (25,000 men) of the Rashidun Caliphate, led by Khalid ibn al-Walid, decisively defeat the armies of the Byzantine Empire, effectively completing the Muslim conquest of Syria. It will be regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests, after the death of Muhammad.source
  • 749Emperor Shōmu abdicates the throne, after a 25-year reign that has been dominated by his wife (and aunt), Kōmyō, a commoner he married at age 16. He is succeeded by his daughter Kōken; Shōmu becomes the first retired emperor to become a Buddhist priest.source
  • 947Abu Yazid, a Kharijite Berber leader who has led a rebellion against the Fatimid Caliphate in Ifriqiya, is defeated in the Hodna Mountains (modern-day Algeria). Caliph al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah sets about restoring the Fatimid dominion over North Africa.source
  • 1153Siege of Ascalon: King Baldwin III of Jerusalem captures Ascalon, the last Fatimid fortress in Palestine. The citizens are allowed to leave in peace and return to Egypt.source
  • 1315King Louis X of France, nicknamed "Louis the Quarrelsome", marries the 22-year-old Clementia of Hungary, daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou (titular king of Hungary) following the death in prison of his uncrowned first wife, Margaret of Burgundy. Louis and Clementia are on August 24 crowned at Reims. Louis is the 12th Capetian ruler of France following the death nine months earlier of his father, Philip IV. After his coronation, Louis passes the throne of the Kingdom of Navarre to his younger brother, who becomes Philip II of Navarre, nicknamed "Philip the Tall".source
  • 1399Richard II of England is taken prisoner by Henry Bolingbroke upon his return from Ireland and surrenders at Flint Castle in return for his life.source
  • 1458The conclave to elect a new Pope concludes at the Apostolic Palace, with only 19 of the 27 members of the College of Cardinals participating. One of the electors, Cardinal Domenico Capranica appeared to be the most likely choice for Pope, but had died suddenly on August 14, two days before the conclave opened. On the first ballot on August 18, no candidate had more than five votes, but by the next day, Cardinal Enea Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, receives unanimous support after initially competing against Guillaume d'Estouteville and Filippo Calandrini. Piccoloni takes the name Pope Pius II as the 210th pope.source
  • 1466With troops led by Charles the Bold, the Burgundian State commences a siege of the city of Dinant (now in Belgium). The city falls after six days on August 25.source
  • 1472King Edward IV summons the members of the English Parliament to assemble at Westminster on October 6.source
  • 1493Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1504The Battle of Knockdoe is fought in Ireland's County Galway as 6,000 troops led by the English Lord Deputy of Ireland, Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare assist Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh, King of Uí Mháine, against 4,000 troops of Irish chieftain Ulick Fionn Burke, Lord of the Clanricarde lands. Burke had previously attacked and destroyed Ó Cellaigh's castles at Monivea, Castleblakeney and Garbally and sought Kildare's help. Kildare's forces win the battle.source
  • 1504Battle of Knockdoe: Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy of Ireland, defeats Ulick Fionn Burke, the Clanricarde.source
  • 1506Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as king of Poland.source
  • 1509Maximillian I orders all Jews within the Holy Roman Empire to destroy all books opposing Christianity.source
  • 1561Mary, Queen of Scots, is denied passage through England after returning from France. She arrives at Leith, Scotland later the same day.source
  • 1583Petru Cercel enters Bucharest, and becomes Prince of Wallachia.source
  • 1587Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund III Vasa, King of Sweden, as the ruler of the after the death in December of the previous King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania, Stephen Báthory.source
  • 1588August 19 (August 9 Old Style) – Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Queen Elizabeth I.source
  • 1597Rheinberg capitulates to forces led by Maurice of Naussau.source
  • 1604The Dutch siege of Sluis in the Spanish Netherlands ends after three months, a day after relief troops commanded by General Ambrogio Spinola retreat. At least 2,000 of the members of the Spanish garrison inside had been killed or incapacitated by disease and famine. Sluis becomes part of the Netherlands afterward.source
  • 1605Eighty Years' War: The siege of the Dutch city of Lingen, by 13,000 Spanish troops and 3,000 cavalry, ends with the surrender of Captain Maerten Cobben after nine days of defense. Although the Dutch Republic's stadtholder, Maurice, Prince of Orange, had proclaimed that Lingen must be held at all costs, Dutch troops failed to come to Cobben's aid and Don Ambrogio Spinola of Spain peacefully takes control of the city.source
  • 1611the Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin, John Lynch, resigns, declaring himself a Roman Catholic, and is succeeded by Edward King (consecrated December).source
  • 1617Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from County Cork to cross to South America.source
  • 1627Eighty Years' War: Grol, in the Spanish Netherlands, is captured after the siege started on July 20 by Prince Frederick Henry.source
  • 1629Eighty Years' War: The Spanish garrison of Wesel is surprised by a small Dutch army, and the city is taken by the Dutch Republic. As Wesel functioned as the principal supply base of Hendrik van den Bergh's army, the loss of supply forces him to retreat to the Spanish Netherlands, leaving him unable to intervene in the ongoing siege of 's-Hertogenbosch.source
  • 1646First English Civil War: Raglan Castle in Wales surrenders to General Fairfax after a 2-month siege; it is later destroyed.source
  • 1646The Westminster Assembly of Divines, meeting in London, approves a resolution to begin the drawing up of the Westminster Confession of Faith, declaring that "These heads of Faith, Repentance, and Good Works shall be referred to the three Committees in their order to prepare something upon them for the Confession of Faith."; the draft is printed and sent to the Parliament of England in December.source
  • 1659At the Battle of Winnington Bridge, the Protectorate Army of 5,000 troops, dispatched by Parliament and under the command of Major General Lambert, routs the 4,000 anti-government rebels commanded by George Booth of England and Edward Broughton of Wales. Lambert and his forces, exhausted from their rapid march and the battle, elect not to pursue the fleeing rebels and less than 30 rebels are killed.source
  • 1660Dr Edward Stanley preaches a sermon in the nave of Winchester Cathedral, to commemorate the return of the Chapter, following the English Restoration.source
  • 1666August 19 (August 9 Julian calendar) – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads an English Royal Navy raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary over a period of two days, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling. The action becomes known as "Holmes's Bonfire".source
  • 1719Siege of San Sebastian: The Spanish garrison surrenders to the Duke of Berwick.source
  • 1719San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Haguesource
  • 1719Norrtälje is burned during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721source
  • 1725J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137, a cantata setting the unchanged text of Neander's hymn.source
  • 1733In Warsaw as Stanislas Leszczynski appears to be on the verge of being elected King of Poland, Russia, Austria and Saxony sign Löwenwolde's Treaty (named for Russian diplomat Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde), pledging to go to war to place Frederick Augustus, son of the late King Augustus II, on the throne.source
  • 1742A British fleet led by Commodore William Martin enters the harbor of Naples with three warships, two frigates, and four bomb vessels, and sends a message giving the King Charles VII of Naples (the future King Charles III of Spain) 30 minutes to agree to withdraw Neapolitan troops from the Spanish Army. Don Carlos agrees and ends the threat of a Spanish foothold in Italy.source
  • 1742A British fleet led by Commodore William Martin enters the harbor of Naples with three warships, two frigates, and four bomb vessels, and sends a message giving the King Charles VII of Naples (the future King Charles III of Spain) 30 minutes to agree to withdraw Neapolitan troops from the Spanish Army. Don Carlos agrees and ends the threat of a Spanish foothold in Italy.source
  • 1742Voltaire's controversial play Fanatacism, or Mahomet the Prophet is first performed, in Paris, to a theatre audience filled with French nobility.source
  • 1745The Jacobite rising of 1745 begins at Glenfinnan in Scotland, where Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") raises his standard in a campaign to enforce his father James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender")'s claim to be King James III of England.source
  • 1745Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.source
  • 1749At a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas (then a part of the New Spain province of Nuevo Santander), four Apache chiefs and Spanish colonial officials and missionaries literally "bury the hatchet", placing weapons of war into a pit and covering it as a symbol that the Apaches and the Spaniards will fight no further war against each other.source
  • 1754Lieutenant Colonel George Washington is forced to confront his first mutiny as 25 members of his Virginia militia refuse to obey orders from their officers. Washington, who is attending church services at the time, quickly suppresses the rebellion and the mutineers are imprisoned before more join.source
  • 1767Viscount Townshend appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 14 October).source
  • 1781Congress passes an act saying they will recognize the secessionist state of Vermont (formed in 1777 by unilateral separation from New York) and agree to admit that state to the Union if Vermont will renounce its claims to territory east of the Connecticut River and west of Lake Champlain. (The following spring the Vermont legislature agreed, but nonetheless New York continued to block its admission until 1791.)source
  • 1782A combined British and Native American force defeat Kentucky militiamen in the Battle of Blue Licks in the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.source
  • 1787John Butler, 12th Baron Dunboyne, having resigned as Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and married a cousin, Maria, contrary to his vow of celibacy, swears oaths of allegiance, abjuration and Supremacy of the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England in Clonmel, the only authenticated apostate in the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland.source
  • 1796Second Treaty of San Ildefonso: Spain and France form an alliance against Great Britain.source
  • 1804St Peter's Church, Aberdeen, is dedicated as the city's first purpose-built post-Reformation Roman Catholic church.source
  • 1812War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere, off the coast of Nova Scotia. The British shot is said to have bounced off Constitutions sides, earning her the nickname "Old Ironsides".source
  • 1812War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia.source
  • 1816August 12–24 – The Treaty of St. Louis, between the United States and the Council of Three Fires tribes, is signed in St. Louis.source
  • 1820Joseph Wild discovers Lake George and names the Snowy Mountains.source
  • 1823After the arrival of John Hobbs and Nathaniel Turner, Samuel Leigh leaves the Kaeo mission.source
  • 1826Louis Christophe François Hachette purchases the Brédif bookshop on rue Pierre-Sarrazin, Paris, origin of the Hachette publishing business.source
  • 1829August 15–22 – Cincinnati riots of 1829.source
  • 1839The French government gives the daguerreotype "for the whole world".source
  • 1840The Battle of the Barrier.source
  • 1841three British warships and 380 marines drove the Chinese from the land bridge (known as "The Barrier") separating Macau from the Chinese mainland.source
  • 1843Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.source
  • 1845A tornado kills 75 in France at Montville while destroying two large factories.source
  • 1848Moray Firth fishing disaster: 100 fishermen lose their lives in a severe storm off the east coast.source
  • 1848California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States that there is a gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).source
  • 1854John Lawrence Grattan leads 29 United States troops and a civilian interpreter in attack on Lakota village over dispute involving emigrant cow. Grattan's command was annihilated.source
  • 1858the Electoral Districts Act 1858 is enacted, increasing the number of members of parliament from 37 to 41, with the supplementary elections held in late 1859.source
  • 1861Weisshorn, the fifth highest summit in the Alps, is first ascended.source
  • 1862Dakota War of 1862: During an uprising in Minnesota, Dakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.source
  • 1862Horace Greeley publishes an editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions", in the New York Tribune, in which he urges U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to make abolition of slavery an official aim of the Union war effort.source
  • 1867The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.source
  • 1868the clipper Thermopylae is launched at Walter Hood & Company's Aberdeen shipyard for George Thompson's Aberdeen Line.source
  • 1877Plantin-Moretus Museum opens to the public.source
  • 1885S Andromedae, the only supernova seen in the Andromeda Galaxy so far by astronomers, and the first ever noted outside the Milky Way, is discovered.source
  • 1886The Christian Union (Church of God) is established in Monroe County, Tennesseesource
  • 1894Frederick's Church to its final design by Ferdinald Meldahl, almost 25+ years after its construction was first started by Nicolai Eigtved.source
  • 1899A bill to construct the proposed Dortmund-Rhine Canal in Germany fails overwhelmingly in the lower house of parliament.source
  • 1902Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.source
  • 1906Portuguese legislative election, August 1906.source
  • 1911August 17–20 – Britain's National Railway strike of 1911, its first national strike of railway workers; on August 19 it leads to the Llanelli riots in Wales which result in 6 deaths.source
  • 1920August 13–25 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw – The Red Army is defeated.source
  • 1920August 19–25 – Second Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise up against the Germans.source
  • 1920Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate begin the Tambov Rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.source
  • 1920Following his conviction by court martial for sedition, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, went on hunger strike in Brixton Prison in London.source
  • 1932August 18–19 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland to RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, Canada, in his de Havilland Puss Moth high-wing monoplane The Heart's Content.source
  • 19341934 German referendum: In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of presidential powers, as Führer and Reichskanzler.source
  • 1936August 19–24 – Trial of the Sixteensource
  • 1939Adolf Hitler, after evaluating the pace of non-aggression negotiations with the Soviet Union, orders the Kriegsmarine to begin the opening operations for Fall Weiß, the invasion of Poland. The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, along with the German pocket battleship Deutschland, as well as dozens of U-boats, cast off for their advance positions. Hitler spends the next few days worrying that the Russians will not come to terms in time for the rest of the invasion plans to unfold as scheduled.source
  • 1941The Tiraspol Agreement is signed between Germany and Romania.source
  • 1945Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek meet in Chongqing to discuss an end to hostilities between the Communists and the Nationalists.12source
  • 1948August 10–23 – The Herrenchiemsee convention prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.source
  • 1948Toho strikes: A sitdown strike at Toho film studio in Tokyo ends after the studio is surrounded by 2,000 police and a platoon of U.S. Eighth Army soldiers.source
  • 1953August 15–19 – Cold War: 1953 Iranian coup d'état – Overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, by Iranian military in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with the support of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (as "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom.source
  • 1953Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, is established in Jerusalem through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset.source
  • 1955Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and causing over $1 billion in damage.source
  • 1958The first International Bible Contest is held - in the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.source
  • 1959The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) is established.source
  • 1959The Baghdad Pact, which had been kicked out of Baghdad after Iraq withdrew from the alliance, changed its name to the CENTO, the Central Treaty Organization, with the United Kingdom, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran.source
  • 1959The 1959 General Elections was held for the first time since independence on 31 August 1957.source
  • 1960Sputnik program: The satellite Sputnik 5 is launched, with the dogs Belka and Strelka (the Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. This satellite returns to Earth the next day and all animals are recovered safely.source
  • 1960Cold War: American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced in Moscow to 10 years in prison for espionage.source
  • 1965At the conclusion of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, 66 ex-SS personnel receive life sentences, 15 others shorter ones.source
  • 1966The 6.8 Mw Varto earthquake affects the town of Varto in eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 2,394–3,000 and injuring at least 1,420.source
  • 1966The 6.8 Mw Varto earthquake shook the Muş Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 2,394 and injuring up to 1,500.source
  • 1972The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show The Price Is Right is taped at CBS Television City, to be aired on September 4.source
  • 1981Gulf of Sidra incident: Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. Navy fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The U.S. jets destroy the Libyan fighters.source
  • 1986Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting The Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1987Hungerford massacre: Sixteen people die in an apparently motiveless mass shooting in the United Kingdom, carried out by Michael Ryan.source
  • 1987ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity.source
  • 1987The Order of the Garter is opened to women.source
  • 1989August 19–21 – In response to the murder of a judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the authorities of Colombia arrest 11,000 suspected Colombian drug traffickers.source
  • 1989The Pan-European Picnic, a peace demonstration, is held at the Austro-Hungarian border.source
  • 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in Crimea during an attempted coup. Led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and seven others, the coup collapses in less than 72 hours and is protested by over 100,000 people outside the parliament building. Gorbachev returns to Moscow three days later and arrests the coup leaders.source
  • 1991August 17–20 – Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina and New England, killing 17 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage.source
  • 1996August 16–25: Five athletes from Armenia competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics.source
  • 1999In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Yugoslavs rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević.source
  • 20022002 Khankala Mi-26 crash: Chechen separatists shoot down a Russian Mil Mi-26, killing 127 soldiers. It was the worst aviation disaster in the history of the Russian military.source
  • 2003Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills at least 18 people in a bus bombing in Jerusalem.source
  • 2003A truck bomb attack on the UN kills Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 others. This leads to the UN leaving Iraq due to security concerns.source
  • 2004Google makes its initial public offering.source
  • 2004VTC Digital Television was launched.source
  • 20054,000 refugees from the Central African Republic enter chad, fleeing from violence.source
  • 2010August 14–26 – Lithuania achieved 19th place in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with 5 medal (3 golden and 2 bronze)source
  • 2012The Kapilavastu relics arrive in Sri Lanka for a three-week exposition.source
  • 2013All-time most expensive public school in Norway, Kuben Upper Secondary School, opens.source
  • 2018August 10–20 – Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the state in a century.source
  • 20192019 Papua protests erupt, mainly across Indonesian Papua, in response to an incident in Surabaya where a group of Papuan students were arrested for alleged disrespect of the Indonesian flag. In Jayapura, Sorong, Fakfak, Timika and Manokwari, protests turned violent, with various private buildings and public facilities being damaged or burned. The protests and unrest were described by Reuters as "the most serious civil unrest in years over perceived racial and ethnic discrimination."source
  • 2019Republic of the Congo at the 2019 African Games.source
  • 2020The Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicts in absentia Salim Ayyash, a senior member of Hezbollah, for the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.source
  • 2022Police in Nicaragua confirm that they have arrested an anti-Ortega Roman Catholic bishop in Managua and warned against further "provocative and destabilizing" activities amongst the clergy.source
  • 2023August 16–21 – Hurricane Hilary, a Category 4 Pacific Hurricane, strikes the Baja California peninsula and later causes record flooding in Southern California.source
  • 2024The African Development Bank announces a $11.2 million grant to Malawi in dealing with drought-related damages caused by El Niño.source
  • 2025A multi-vehicle collision involving a bus carrying migrants deported from Iran, a motorcycle and a truck kills at least 79 people in Herat Province, Afghanistan.source

Births

  • 232Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (died 282)source
  • 1012Baldwin V, count of Flanders (died 1067)source
  • 1163Ottokar IV of Styria (died 1192)source
  • 1217Ninshō, Japanese priest (died 1303)source
  • 1398Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (died 1458)source
  • 1521Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (died 1589)source
  • 1557Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (died 1608)source
  • 1558François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (died 1614)source
  • 1560James Crichton, Scottish polymath (died 1582)source
  • 1560James Crichton, polymath (k. 1582)source
  • 1562Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme, Cardinal (died 1594)source
  • 1570Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1630)source
  • 1583Daišan, Manchu politician (died 1648)source
  • 1590Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (died 1649)source
  • 1596Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen of Bohemia (died 1662)source
  • 1596Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (died 1662 in England)source
  • 1622James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, English politician (died 1681)source
  • 1622James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, politician (died 1681)source
  • 1631John Dryden, English writer (died 1700)source
  • 1631John Dryden, writer (died 1700)source
  • 1646John Flamsteed, British astronomer (died 1719)source
  • 1646John Flamsteed, astronomer (died 1719)source
  • 1674František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (died 1766)source
  • 1689Samuel Richardson, English writer and printer (died 1761)source
  • 1711Edward Boscawen, British Royal Navy admiral (died 1761)source
  • 1711Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu, Canadian officer during the Seven Years' War (died 1755)source
  • 1774Denis-Benjamin Viger, Lower Canadian politician (died 1861)source
  • 1774Denis-Benjamin Viger, politician, businessman and politician (d.1861)source
  • 1793Barthélemy Thimonnier, French inventor (died 1857)source
  • 1835Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, pioneer of Australian rules football (died 1880)source
  • 1848Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (died 1894)source
  • 1871Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (died 1948)source
  • 1878Manuel L. Quezon, 2nd President of the Philippines (died 1944)source
  • 1883Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (died 1971)source
  • 1896Vilho Niittymaa, athlete (died 1979)source
  • 1902J. B. L. Reyes, jurist (died 1994)source
  • 1906Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (died 1971)source
  • 1946Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United Statessource
  • 1968Salman Mohamed Hussainsource
  • 1976Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez, politiciansource
  • 2004Nguyễn Đình Bắc, footballersource

Deaths

  • 14Augustus, Roman emperor (born 63 BC)source
  • 14Augustus, the first Roman emperor, dies and is declared to be a god.source
  • 780Credan, English abbot and saintsource
  • 947Abu Yazid, Kharijite Berber leader (born 873)source
  • 998Fujiwara no Sukemasa, Japanese statesman (born 944)source
  • 1072Hawise, duchess of Brittanysource
  • 1085Al-Juwayni, Persian scholar and imam (born 1028)source
  • 1170Mstislav II Izyaslavich, Grand Prince of Kievsource
  • 1186Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (born 1158)source
  • 1245Ramon Berenguer IV, Spanish nobleman (born 1198)source
  • 1284Alphonso, Earl of Chester, English nobleman and heir (born 1273)source
  • 1297Louis of Toulouse, Neapolitan archbishop (born 1274)source
  • 1457Andrea del Castagno, Italian painter (born 1421)source
  • 1493Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)source
  • 1506King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)source
  • 1532Caritas Pirckheimer, German nun (born 1467)source
  • 1541Vincenzo Cappello, Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1469)source
  • 1544Hans Buser, Swiss noble (born 1513)source
  • 1580Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (born 1508)source
  • 1601William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (born 1536)source
  • 1619Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1577)source
  • 1646Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (born c. 1583)source
  • 1654Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi and liturgical poet (born 1579)source
  • 1657Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (born 1579)source
  • 1662Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1623)source
  • 1691The Battle of Slankamen takes place between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire and allies at Syrmia (now the Serbian province of Vojvodina), and 25,000 Ottomans are killed, including Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, the Grand Vizier.source
  • 1692John Proctor, convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials (born 1632)source
  • 1704Jane Leade, English Christian mystic (born 1624)source
  • 1753Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (born 1687)source
  • 1780Johann de Kalb, Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (born 1721)source
  • 1853George Cockburn, British naval commander (born 1772)source
  • 1864Trương Định, Vietnamese leader (suicide) (born 1820)source
  • 1875Francisco Delgado Jugo (born 1830) — ophthalmologist.source
  • 1895American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.source
  • 1967Hugo Gernsback, inventorsource
  • 1977Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (born 1890)source
  • 1980In one of aviation's worst disasters, 301 people are killed when Saudia Flight 163 catches fire in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.source
  • 2003In the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, 22 people are killed, among them United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello.source