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August 29 in history

229 sourced entries recorded on August 29, from 26 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 26 BCEChristian Cross Asterism (astronomy) at Zenith of Lima, Peru.source
  • 99Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 581, recording the sale of a slave girl, is written.source
  • 112Salonia Matidia receives the title of Augusta upon the death of Marciana.source
  • 708Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).source
  • 1009Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.source
  • 1024August 29 (19 Jumada II 415) – In the wake of a famine striking Egypt, Yaqub ibn al-Dawwas issues an edict on the first day of the Coptic Christian new year, prohibiting the slaughter of cattle and announces that violators will forfeit their life and their property.source
  • 1124Baldwin II of Jerusalem is released by Timurtash. After negotiations are made, with the Crusaders paying 80,000 dinars and to cede Atarib, Zardana, Azaz and other Antiochene fortresses to Timurtash. Baldwin also promises to assist Timurtash against the Bedouin warlord, Dubays ibn Sadaqa. Once 20,000 dinars are paid and a dozen hostages (including Baldwin's youngest daughter Ioveta and Joscelin's son Joscelin II) are handed over to Timurtash to secure the payment of the balance, Baldwin is released.source
  • 1137John II appears before the walls of Antioch, and encamps with the Byzantine army on the north bank of the Orontes River. For several days he besieges the city, Raymond of Poitiers (prince of Antioch) is forced to surrender. He recognizes John as his suzerain and becomes with Joscelin II (count of Edessa) a vassal of the Byzantine Empire.source
  • 1189Ban Kulin, Bosnian ruler, writes the Charter of Ban Kulin, which becomes a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian language and statehood.source
  • 1217The newly-captured French knight, Robert de Courtenay, is allowed to go to London to speak with Louis VIII about peace negotiations with England, while Robert of Dreux remains as a hostage in his stead.source
  • 1219The Crusaders attack the Egyptian camp in the Battle of Faraskur and the Muslims pretend a feigned retreat to Mansoura. John I advises to camp overnight, because there is no fresh water in the region between the Nile and Lake Manzalah. Al-Kamil decides to halt the retreat and turns his forces to deliver a smashing attack upon the disorganized Crusaders, losing some 4,300 men.source
  • 1241After Henry III of England's invasion of Wales, the Treaty of Gwerneigron is signed by him and Dafydd ap Llywelyn, curbing the latter's authority and denying him royal title.source
  • 1261Urban IV offers the crown of Sicily to Charles of Anjou, youngest son of King Louis VIII of France, hoping to strengthen his position.source
  • 1350Battle of Winchelsea (Les Espagnols sur Mer) off the south coast of England: An English fleet personally commanded by King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet.source
  • 1369Vladislav I of Wallachia obtains, by permission from the King of Hungary, control of the Transylvanian duchies of Almas and Fagarassource
  • 1393The conqueror Timur arrives with his army at the gates of Baghdad and Persian writer Nizam al-Din Shami will say later that he was the first to offer submission to the Amir of the Timurid Empire.source
  • 1395Albert IV succeeds his father, Albert III, as Duke of Austria.source
  • 1396The Battle of Schoterzijl is fought in the third of the Friso-Hollandic Wars between Holland, led by Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, and Friesland, a semi-independent kingdom, led by Juw Juwinga. Although Juwinga is killed in battle, the Frisians are able to hold onto independence.source
  • 1400Having failed in his expedition to receive a pledge of fealty from the King of Scotland, King Henry IV crosses back into England.source
  • 1405Cardinal Angelo Acciaioli is appointed by Pope Innocent VII to be the Grand Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, filling a vacancy that has existed since the death of Francesco Moricotti Prignani in 1394.source
  • 1410The Duchy of Pomerania-Stargard is submitted by Bogislaw VIII, the Duke of Pomerania, to become a fiefdom within the Kingdom of Poland, led by King Wladyslaw II. In return, Bogislaw receives Lauenburg and Bütow Land as well as Człuchów, Biały Bór, Debrzno, Świdwin and Czarne.source
  • 1414The brotherhood of the "Sancta dels Folls Dona Nostra i Desamparats Innocents" (Our Lady of the Insane and the Forsaken Innocents) is founded in Valencia to help the mentally ill, but soon extends its mission to take care of homeless and abandoned children.source
  • 1421Sayf al-Din Tatar, becomes the new Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria after leading a coup d'état overthrowing and imprisoning his brother, Al-Muzaffar Ahmad.source
  • 1442Fransez I becomes the new Duke of Brittany upon the death of his father, Yann V. Princess Isabella of Scotland, who had been part of a contract to marry Jean V, arranges to marry Francis Isource
  • 1450The Treaty of Bergen is signed by officials of Norway and Sweden to reunite the two kingdoms under the rule of King Christian I. Both Norway and Sweden retain self-government and their own governing bodies.source
  • 1471The Portuguese occupy Tangier, after its population flees the city.source
  • 1475The Treaty of Picquigny ends the brief war between France and England.source
  • 1475Treaty of Picquigny agreed between Louis XI and Edward IVsource
  • 1481John II of Portugal starts to rule in his own right.source
  • 1521Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman army of Suleiman the Magnificent.source
  • 1526Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who drowns while retreating with his troops. Two rival groups seek to elect a successor to Louis. Suleiman takes Buda, while Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and John Zápolya, Prince of Transylvania, dispute the succession. As a result of the battle, Ragusa achieves independence, although it acknowledges Ottoman overlordship.source
  • 1536Armistice between Sweden and Lübeck in Copenhagen: the Swedish debt to Lübeck is no longer valid.source
  • 1571Liliw, Laguna, Philippines is founded by Gat Tayaw, followers and residents as a municipality of Laguna.source
  • 1583English ship Delight, with Humphrey Gilbert's expedition, becomes the first of over 350 ships over time to run aground and be wrecked on Sable Island in the North Atlantic.source
  • 1588August 29 (8th day of the 7th month, Tensho 16) – In Japan, the Chancellor of the Realm, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, issues an edict for the katanagari (the :sword hunt), the confiscation of swords from any persons thought to be opposed to his rule.source
  • 1591Peter the Lame, ruler of the Principality of Moldavia (part of modern-day Romania and of Moldova) abdicates in Iași after having reigned for most of the previous 17 years. Peter's downfall comes after he is unable to raise the money paid as tribute to the Ottoman Empire. He is replaced by Aaron the Tyrant (Aron Vodă).source
  • 1596The coronation of Christian IV as King of Denmark and King of Norway takes place at the Vor Frue Kirke cathedral in Copenhagen. The Bishop of Zealand, Peder Virstrup, places the crown upon the head of King Christian IV, who had become the monarch in 1588 at the age of 11.source
  • 1613The Sicilians under de Aragon defeat the trade fleet of the Ottoman Empire, ending the Battle of Cape Corvo.source
  • 1618Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice, Prince of Orange.source
  • 1622Thirty Years' War: While on their way to relieve the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands, the army of Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick is blocked by a Spanish army, led by Gonzalo de Córdoba. In the Battle of Fleurus, Cordoba manages to fight off the Protestant assault. The next day, Cordoba surprises the retreating Protestant army with his cavalry, resulting in the destruction of most of the Protestant army.source
  • 1629As a result of the Cambridge Agreement, the Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes a self-governing entity.source
  • 1631(1 Safar 1041 A.H.) Abd Allah ibn Hasan, Emir of Mecca, abdicates in favor of two successors, his son Muhammad ibn Abd Allah and his great-nephew Zayd ibn Muhsin.source
  • 1637Fighting in the modern-day West African nation of Ghana, troops of the Dutch West India Company capture the Portuguese territory of the Gold Coast after the five-day Battle of Elmina.source
  • 1660Indemnity and Oblivion Act passes into law, granting indemnities to those who had been active in the Interregnum (other than regicides).source
  • 1660The Indemnity and Oblivion Act, officially "An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion" is given royal assent. as a general pardon for everyone who had committed crimes during the English Civil War and Interregnum (with the exception of certain crimes such as murder, piracy, buggery, rape and witchcraft, and people named in the act such as those involved in the regicide of Charles I). It also said that no action was to be taken against those involved at any later time, and that the Interregnum was to be legally forgotten.source
  • 1696King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, sign the Treaty of Turin, ending Savoy's involvement in the Nine Years' War.source
  • 1708A French-Native American attack in Haverhill, Massachusetts kills 16 settlers.source
  • 171810,000 men under the command of Lieutenant-general Carl Gustaf Armfeldt attacked Trøndelag from Jemtland.source
  • 1728The City of Nuuk is founded in Greenland, as Fort Godt-Haab, by royal governor Claus Paarss.source
  • 1737proclamation reducing the ratio of gold to silver in coins of Ireland to conform with the British standard.source
  • 1756King Frederick the Great of Prussia invades Saxony, beginning the Third Silesian War within the Seven Years' War on the European continent.source
  • 1761Cherokee chief Attakullakulla and British Army officer Major James Grant meet at Fort Prince George in the Province of South Carolina and begin negotiations to end the Anglo-Cherokee War.source
  • 1767John Wesley begins a two-week evangelical tour of South Wales.source
  • 1775August 29 – September 12 – The Independence Hurricane from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4,170, mostly fishermen and sailors.source
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: The tactically inconclusive Battle of Rhode Island takes place, after which the Continental Army abandons its position on Aquidneck Island.source
  • 1782HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead with the loss of 800 lives.source
  • 1786Shays' Rebellion begins in Massachusetts.source
  • 1792August 29–September 2 – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussian forces defeat French troops led by Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire.source
  • 1794Stonyhurst College is finally established as a Roman Catholic school in Lancashire, England, having had several European locations.source
  • 1797Massacre of Tranent: British troops attack protestors against enforced recruitment into the militia at Tranent, Scotland, killing 11 and injuring 8.source
  • 1805Emperor Franz I of Austria and his council of ministers vote in favor of going to war with France.source
  • 1807The Battle of Køge, also known as the 'Clogs Battle', between British troops besieging Copenhagen and Danish militia raised on Zealand ends in British victory.source
  • 1825The Treaty of Rio de Janeiro between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Empire of Brazil, recognizes Brazil as an independent nation; formally ending Brazil’s war of independence.source
  • 1831Belgian general election, 1831, first elections for the Belgian Parliamentsource
  • 1831Michael Faraday demonstrates electromagnetic induction at the Royal Society of London. Joseph Henry recognises it at about the same time.source
  • 1833The Parliament of the United Kingdom votes to pass the Factory Acts, limiting child labour.source
  • 1833The Factory Act makes it illegal to employ children less than 9 years old in factories and limits child workers of 9 to 13 years of age to a maximum of 9 hours a day.source
  • 1842The Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty between the United Kingdom and Qing dynasty China, ends the First Opium War, and establishes Hong Kong as a British colony (later a British dependent territory until 1997).source
  • 1842The First Opium war officially ends with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking.source
  • 1848The Cape Otway lighthouse in Victoria is lit for the first time.source
  • 1859August 28–September 2 – The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights to be visible as far south as Montería, Colombia and knocks out telegraph communication (this is also called the Carrington event).source
  • 1862August 28–30 – Second Battle of Bull Run – Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John Pope.source
  • 1863August 27–29 – Astronomische Gesellschaft in Heidelberg is founded, the world's second oldest astronomical society.source
  • 1871The abolition of the han system is carried out in Japan.source
  • 1882The Australian cricket team historically defeats England at The Oval for the first time on English soil, a humiliation for the English and the origin for The Ashes test series.source
  • 1882The Australian cricket team beats England for the first time in a test match at The Oval in London. A mock obituary appears in the next day's Sporting Times, mourning "the death of English cricket", which leads to the creation of The Ashes.source
  • 1883Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library, is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland.source
  • 1885John L. Sullivan becomes first World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.source
  • 1885Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for the Daimler Reitwagen, regarded as the first motorcycle, which he has produced with Wilhelm Maybach.source
  • 1895The Mat Salleh Rebellion in North Borneo is incited.source
  • 1895The Northern Rugby Football Union (the modern-day Rugby Football League) is formed at a meeting of 21 rugby clubs at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, in the north of England, leading to the creation of the professional sport of rugby league football.source
  • 1897The First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland.source
  • 1907August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.source
  • 1907The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers.source
  • 1910Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished.source
  • 1911Ishi, the last unassimilated Native American in the U.S. using stone tools, emerges from hiding near Oroville, California.source
  • 1911Ishi, last known member of the Yana people, leaves the California wilderness.source
  • 1911The Diocese of Kottayam was erected on this day (Kerala, India) for the Knanaya Catholic people of the Syro-Malabar Church. In 2005 the diocese was raised to the rank of Archdiocese.source
  • 1912A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.source
  • 1912Flooding in Wenzhou caused by a typhoon kills up to 220,000 people.source
  • 1914Carlos Meléndez Ramírez resigned as Provisional President and Alfonso Quiñónez Molina succeeded him as Provisional President.source
  • 1914August 26–30 – Battle of Tannenberg: The Russian Second Army is surrounded and defeated.source
  • 1915Einar Tufte-Johnsen, aviation officer (died 1985).source
  • 1916The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.source
  • 1916Philippine Autonomy Act becomes law as a new Organic Act.source
  • 1917WWI: The Military Service Act is passed in the House of Commons of Canada, giving the Government of Canada the right to conscript men into the army.source
  • 1920August 28–September 2 – Bukhara operation: The Russian Red Army and Young Bukharians overthrow the Emirate of Bukhara, leading to the establishment of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.source
  • 1923Fuji Electric Manufacturing, later Fuji Electric was founded.source
  • 1925Walther von Lüttwitz and members involved in the attempted "Kapp Putsch" coup of March 1920 are granted amnesty by the German government.source
  • 1928F.C. Motagua is founded as an Association football club in Honduras.source
  • 1929The SS San Juan collides with the oil tanker S.C.T. Dodd off the California coast, causing the San Juan to sink in 3 minutes, killing 77 people.source
  • 1931Airship Graf Zeppelin pioneers the air route between Germany and Brazil.source
  • 1941Robert Menzies resigns as Prime Minister of Australia, after losing the support of his party. He will not return to the Prime Ministership until 1949. Arthur Fadden, leader of the Country Party, consequently becomes Prime Minister, while former Prime Minister Billy Hughes replaces Menzies as UAP leader.source
  • 1941WWII: The Government of National Salvation, a Serb puppet state of the Axis powers, is established by General Milan Nedić in Nazi-occupied Serbia in Belgrade, under military commander Heinrich Danckelmann; the regime includes 15 Ministers.source
  • 19431943 Lebanese general electionsource
  • 1946In a cabinet reshuffle, the independent Guillaume Konsbruck is replaced by the CSV's Lambert Schaus.source
  • 1949The Council of Europe meets for the first time.source
  • 1949The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 ("Joe 1"). Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.source
  • 1950August 22 – August 30 - Rail workers strike shuts down much of the Canadian economysource
  • 1951A law is passed making health insurance mandatory for employees and civil servants.source
  • 1952Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.source
  • 1960Hurricane Donna kills 50 people in Florida and New England, United States.source
  • 1961A French military aircraft clips a cable of the aerial tramway connecting Pointe Helbronner and the Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps. Three cars of the tramway fall, killing five people, but the remaining 63 cable car passengers are rescued and the pilot lands his plane safely.source
  • 1964The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.source
  • 1966the Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It is their last performance as a live touring band.source
  • 1967A heavy torrential rain and mudslide occur in Murakami, Shibata and Oguni area, part of Niigata Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan confirmed report, 142 person lost to lives.source
  • 1968August 22–30 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests: Police clash with anti-Vietnam War protesters in Chicago outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. president and Edmund Muskie for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the Youth International Party.source
  • 1968Natural Rubber Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur.source
  • 1968Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for 9 years.source
  • 1969A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.source
  • 1969TWA Flight 840 hijacking: A PFLP terrorist cell led by Leila Khaled hijacks TWA Flight 840 on its way from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, diverting the Boeing 707 to Damascus. Two Israeli passengers are held captive for 98 days in a Syrian prison and released eventually in a prisoner exchange deal that took place on 7 December 1969. According to several unverified media reports, the hijackers main aim was to kidnap the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yitzhak Rabin, whom the hijacking planner mistakenly believed would be on this flight.source
  • 1976A boat capsized in Davao River, leaving 19 persons missing and presumed dead.source
  • 1976The first Women in Print Conference is held in Omaha, Nebraska. Over 130 women from 80 feminist organizations and collectives attend the gathering, which was associated with the women in print movement.source
  • 1977August 29 – September 4:Hurricane Anitasource
  • 19811981 Vienna synagogue attack: Palestinian terrorists killed two people and wounded 30 attending a Bar Mitzvah in Vienna.source
  • 1983August 23–29: Hurricane Barry.source
  • 1984Tiago José Rodrigues Cardoso - Born in Guimarães.source
  • 1985The José María Córdova International Airport opens in Rionegro, Antioquia, near Medellín.source
  • 1991Lebanon hostage crisis: Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon on a French warship into exile.source
  • 1992In Rostock, Germany, tens of thousands rally to protest neo-Nazi attacks on refugees and immigrants begun on August 22.source
  • 1995Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.source
  • 1996A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes into a mountain as it approaches the airport at Spitsbergen, Norway, killing all 141 people on board.source
  • 1996U.S. president Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.source
  • 1997Netflix, Inc. is founded as a DVD-by-mail rental service.source
  • 1998The rebels are reported to have evacuated the port city of Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Angolan troops are reported to have arrived supporting Kabila without fighting in the city.source
  • 2002August 26–September 4 – Earth Summit 2002 takes places in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at discussing sustainable development by the United Nations.source
  • 2002August 22–September 4 – Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, makes landfall, killing at least 236 people.source
  • 2003A grenade launcher was fired at Bulgarian troops supporting the United States in Iraq in the second holiest Shiite city of Karbala, but there were no casualties.source
  • 2003Imam Ali mosque bombing: A bomb kills at least 125 people, including Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, at a Shia mosque in Najaf, Iraq.source
  • 2004The IOC officially stripped Adrián Annus of his Hammer Throw gold for the doping scandalsource
  • 2005Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage, killing over a thousand people and causing an estimated $108 billion in damage.source
  • 2005August 29 – September 4 – 2005 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Ho Chi Minh City.source
  • 2008The Ethiopian government grants clearance on NGOs to expand operation in Somali Region.source
  • 2013The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK military attacks on Syria.source
  • 2013Britain sends six Typhoon fighter jets to the country in order to guard against potential retaliation by the Assad regime in the event of air strikes against Syria.source
  • 2017August 25–30 – Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.source
  • 2021August 24–September 5 – The 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in Tokyo, Japan. They were originally scheduled for 25 August–6 September 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.source
  • 2021Hurricane Ida strikes New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, after having caused devastation in Venezuela.source
  • 2024August 28 – September 8 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics are held in Paris, France.source

Births

  • 127Zheng Xuan, Chinese politician, philosopher (died 200)source
  • 979Otto (or Eudes), French nobleman (died 1045)source
  • 1116Philip of France, king of France (died 1131)source
  • 1321John of Artois, Count of Eu, French nobleman (died 1387)source
  • 1347John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (died 1375)source
  • 1514García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (died 1577)source
  • 1534Nicholas Pieck, Dutch Franciscan friar and martyr (died 1572)source
  • 1565Agostino Ciampelli, Italian painter (died 1630)source
  • 1597Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (died 1645)source
  • 1600John Stawell, English Member of Parliament and governor of Taunton (died 1662)source
  • 1619Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (died 1683)source
  • 1628John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (died 1701)source
  • 1632John Locke, English philosopher (died 1704)source
  • 1632John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)source
  • 1669John Anstis, English herald (died 1744)source
  • 1691Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (died 1781)source
  • 1725Charles Townshend, English politician (died 1767)source
  • 1737John Hunter, second governor of New South Wales (died 1821)source
  • 1756Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal, statesman (died 1845)source
  • 1779Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (died 1867)source
  • 1780Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (died 1859)source
  • 1780Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (died 1867)source
  • 1809Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, writer (died 1894)source
  • 1810Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (died 1884)source
  • 1862Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1928)source
  • 1876Kim Ku, Korean politician (died 1949)source
  • 1915Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (died 1982)source
  • 1920Charlie Parker, African-American saxophonist, composer (died 1955)source
  • 1936John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) (died 2018)source
  • 1958Michael Jackson, African-American singer-songwriter and dancer (died 2009)source
  • 1973Thomas Tuchel, German football managersource

Deaths

  • 886Basil I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (born 811)source
  • 886Emperor Basil I the Macedonian dies from a fever, contracted after a hunting accident. He is succeeded by the 19-year-old Leo VI, officially Basil's son, but reputedly a son of former emperor Michael III, as sole ruler (basileus) of the Byzantine Empire. After his coronation Leo reburies the remains of his reputed father Michael, with great ceremony in the imperial mausoleum, within the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.source
  • 892Theodora of Thessaloniki, Byzantine nun and saint (born 812)source
  • 939Li Chunyan, empress of Min (Ten Kingdoms)source
  • 956Fu (the Elder), Chinese empress consortsource
  • 979Abu Taghlib, Hamdanid emirsource
  • 1021Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Japanese nobleman (born 948)source
  • 1047Ælfwine, bishop of Winchestersource
  • 1123King Eystein I (Magnusson) dies during a feast at Hustad after a 20-year reign, leaving his brother Sigurd the Crusader to rule over Norway.source
  • 1123Eystein I (Magnusson), king of Norwaysource
  • 1135Caliph Al-Mustarshid is assassinated at Baghdad after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Al-Rashid Billah as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate (until 1138).source
  • 1135Al-Mustarshid, Abbasid caliph (born 1092)source
  • 1159Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (born 1110s)source
  • 1208Dietrich von Kittlitz, bishop of Meissensource
  • 1287Thomas de Clare, Norman nobleman (born 1245)source
  • 1298Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar, daughter of Edward I (born 1269)source
  • 1300Guido Cavalcanti, poet (born 1250)source
  • 1315Charles of Taranto, Italian nobleman (House of Anjou) (born 1296) — Killed in the Battle of Montecatinisource
  • 1395Duke Albert III of Austria (born 1349)source
  • 1442Duke John V of Brittany (born 1389)source
  • 1442John V, Duke of Brittany (born 1389)source
  • 1482Queen Yun, Korean Queen (born 1455)source
  • 1484Giovanni Battista Cybo, Bishop of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, is elected to succeed the late Pope Sixtus IV (who died on August 12) as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and takes the regnal name of Pope Innocent VIII as, the 213th pope.source
  • 1499Alesso Baldovinetti, Florentine painter (born 1427)source
  • 1523Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (born 1488)source
  • 1526King Louis II of Hungary (in battle) (born 1506)source
  • 1528The Siege of Naples, at the time a part of the Holy Roman Empire, fails four months after it was launched by troops from France, led by Odet de Foix, who had died of illness on August 15. The Imperial, Spanish and Genoese armies pursue their French attackers, who were attempting to retreat to the nearby city of Aversa, and eliminate the survivors.source
  • 1542Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)source
  • 1543Maria of Jülich-Berg, German duchess, Spouse of John III, Duke of Cleves (born 1491)source
  • 1554Norman Leslie (soldier), veteran of the siege of St Andrews Castle.source
  • 1604Hamida Banu Begum, wife of the Mughal emperor Humayun (born 1527)source
  • 1625John Fletcher, English writer (born 1579)source
  • 1657John Lilburne, English dissenter (born c. 1614)source
  • 1675Joachim Irgens von Westervickm businessman and landowner (born 1611 in Germany)source
  • 1749Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor, polymath (born 1684)source
  • 1769Edmond Hoyle, English game expert (born 1672)source
  • 1799Pope Pius VI (born 1717)source
  • 1853Charles James Napier, British army general and colonial administrator (born 1782)source
  • 1871Marcos Maturana (born 1802)source
  • 1877Brigham Young, American Mormon leader (born 1801)source
  • 1929The 1929 Palestine riots: 18–20 Jews are killed in Safed by Palestinian Arabs.source
  • 1933August Kirsimägi, writer (born 1905)source
  • 1975Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (born 1882)source
  • 1976Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet. (born 1899)source
  • 1982Ingrid Bergman, 67, Swedish actress and autobiographer, breast cancer which had spread to her spine, collapsing her twelfth vertebra; her right lung no longer functioned, and only a small part of her left lung had not collapsedsource
  • 1983Two U.S. Marines are killed by mortar blast in Beirut, marking the first U.S. combat fatalities of the Multinational Force in Lebanon.source
  • 1990Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi, Iraqi Shia cleric. (b.1897)source
  • 2005At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas from Louisiana to Alabama, and travels up the entire state of Mississippi (flooding coast 31 ft), affecting most of eastern North America. Katrina becomes the costliest hurricane in U.S. history with $108 billion in damages. The New Orleans Saints football team will play their entire 2005 season on the road due to the effects of the hurricane.source
  • 2007Ten people are trapped alive in a collapsed apartment building in Baku, Azerbaijan with at least twelve people having died.source