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August 6 in history

217 sourced entries recorded on August 6, from 258 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 686Battle of Khazir in Mosul: Alid forces of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi defeat those of the Umayyad Caliphate.source
  • 750Marwan II is caught and killed at Faiyum by supporters of the Abbasid caliph As-Saffah. Almost the entire Umayyad Dynasty is assassinated; Prince Abd al-Rahman I escapes to Al-Andalus. The Abbasids assume control of the Islamic world and establish their first capital at Kufa.source
  • 761Battle of Eildon: King Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria faces a rebellion, under a rival claimant to the throne named Oswine, brother of the murdered King Oswulf of Northumbria. Oswine is killed after a three-day battle against the forces of Æthelwald in Scotland.source
  • 1027Robert the Magnificent becomes duke of Normandy after the death of his brother Richard III.source
  • 1096August 2–6 – The People's Crusade reorganize their forces and gather supplies. Alexios I advises Peter the Hermit to wait for reinforcements but he ignores the advice. The People's army (some 30,000 men) is transported across the Bosporus – by the Byzantine fleet to Civetot (modern Turkey).source
  • 1223The coronation of King Louis VIII of France takes place at the Reims Cathedral.source
  • 1253King Henry III leads an expedition to Gascony, to repel a rumoured invasion from Castile. Meanwhile, Simon de Montfort returns from Gascony where he allies himself with the barons who oppose Henry.source
  • 1272King Stephen V of Hungary falls ill and is taken to Csepel Island. He dies and is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Ladislaus IV ("the Cuman"), who is being held captive in the fortress of Koprivnica in northern Croatia. His mother, Queen Elizabeth, becomes regent during the minority of her son (until 1277).source
  • 1284August 5–6 – Battle of Meloria: A Genoese fleet (some 90 galleys) led by Admiral Oberto Doria defeats the Pisan ships in the Ligurian Sea. This marks the decline of the maritime power of Pisa in the Mediterranean.source
  • 1291A combined Genoese-Sevillian fleet led by Admiral Benedetto Zaccaria wins a victory over 27 Marinid galleys at Alcácer Seguir –12 galleys are taken and the rest put to flight. The following day, Benedetto drags the captured vessels along the coast in view of Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr, Marinid ruler of Morocco, who, "defeated and dishonored", withdraws his fleet to Fez.source
  • 1332Battle of Wester Kinghorn sees victory for forces supporting Edward Balliolsource
  • 1364Ignatius Saba I becomes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Tur Abdin.source
  • 1385English invasion of Scotland (1385): After setting off from Berwick-upon-Tweed, the English Army invades Scotland. The English soldiers quickly run out of food, since to supply lines have been created and the residents of the border towns in Scotland have fled, taking their food with them.source
  • 1385Edmund of Langley is elevated to become the first Duke of York in England.source
  • 1390Louis II of Anjou arrives in Naples to rule the Kingdom of Naples (as Luigi II d'Angio) after being appointed by the Antipope John XXIII in France, but King Ladislaus continues to be recognized by supporters of Pope Boniface IX.source
  • 1395Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, issues an ordinance prohibiting the cultivation of the Gamay grape on any lands under his jurisdiction, in favor of the increased production of pinot noir wine.source
  • 1399Prince of Yan (Zhu Di) of China starts a rebellion, the Jingnan campaign in Beijing against his nephew, the Emperor Zhu Yunwen, after two of Zhu Di's officials are arrested for "subversive activity".source
  • 1400Writing from Newcastle upon Tyne to Scotland's King Robert III, England's King Henry IV sends a demand that King Robert meet him "on Monday the 23rd of this present month of August, at Edinburgh, where, for this reason and for the peace of tranquility of the realms of England and Scotland, we intend to be," for Robert "to perform the obligation which you owe us" as "overlords of Scotland and of its kings in all temporal matters pertaining to them..." King Henry warns that "considering the effusion of Christian blood and other dangers and losses which may occur if you do not comply with our wishes, you will be present to render us homage and take the oath of fealty."source
  • 1409The Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War breaks out between the Teutonic Knights and the allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.source
  • 1414Joanna II becomes the reigning Queen of Naples upon the death of her brother, King Ladislaus.source
  • 1444A Portuguese fleet of caravels, led by Lançarote de Freitas, lands 235 slaves at Algarve, Portugal.source
  • 1471Eleven days after the death of Pope Paul II, the papal conclave begins in Rome with 18 of the 25 cardinals present. On the initial vote, with 12 needed to win, Basilios Bessarion of Greece gets six, and Guillaume d'Estouteville of France and Niccolò Fortiguerra of Italy receive three each.source
  • 1473King James III of Cyprus becomes the de jure monarch of Cyprus from the moment he is born, 27 days after the death of his father, King James II, although the rule of Cyprus is carried out by his mother, Catherine, Queen regent. King James III lives for only one year and 20 days before dying on August 26, 1474.source
  • 1487French–Breton War: King Charles VIII of France ends the siege of Nantes after seven weeks.source
  • 1487King Charles VIII ends the siege of Nantes after seven weeks as part of the French–Breton War.source
  • 1506Battle of Kletsk: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate.source
  • 1538Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.source
  • 1543The Siege of Nice by the Ottoman Empire and French forces (under the Franco-Ottoman alliance), led by Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, begins. At the time, the city is under the control of the Duchy of Savoy and is defended by the Savoyards, assisted by the Habsburg armies of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. The siege lasts for 16 days.source
  • 1564In India Akbar, ruler of the Mughal Empire, defeats the rebellious governor of Malwa, Abdullah Khan Uzbeg. The defeat comes the day after the Imperial Army's arrival at Indore, now in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.source
  • 1565Sark, in the Channel Islands, is granted as a fief by Elizabeth I of England to Hellier de Carteret, Seigneur of Saint Ouen.source
  • 1566The siege of Szigetvár is begun by Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. This is the Ottoman Empire at its greatest extent.source
  • 1579In the Spanish-controlled Netherlands, the representatives of the Union of Utrecht declare that they will no longer respect the authority of King Philip of Spain.source
  • 1585(11th day of the 7th month of Tenshō 13) Invasion of Shikoku: In Japan, Chōsokabe Motochika surrenders the island of Shikoku to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after a 26 day siege of the Ichinomiya Castle by 40,000 men.source
  • 1623Thirty Years' War: Pursued by the army of the Catholic League (German) led by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, the army of the Protestant Electoral Palatinate led by Christian the Younger of Brunswick attempts to flee to the Dutch Republic. Tilly's army catches Brunswick five miles from the border. In the resulting Battle of Stadtlohn, Christian's army is destroyed. This brings the Palatinate campaign to an end.source
  • 16231623 papal conclave: Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) succeeds Pope Gregory XV, as the 235th pope.source
  • 1625Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed as stadtholder of Groningen.source
  • 1633William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1633William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1661Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of The Hague, whereby the Dutch Republic's South American colony of Nieuw-Holland is sold to Portugal for the equivalent of roughly 63,000 kg of gold, and incorporated into Brazil. The territory includes much of what will later become the Brazilian states of Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte. Among the major Dutch settlements lost are Mauritsstad (Recife), Fort Schoonenborch (Fortaleza), Nieuw-Amsterdam (Natal), and Frederikstadt (João Pessoa).source
  • 1682The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and makes plans to attack Vienna.source
  • 1694The coronation of Sultan Husayn of the Safavid dynasty as the Shah of Persia takes place in Isfahan, eight days after the death of his father Suleiman I.source
  • 1729Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh established as the "Hospital for the Sick Poor" or "Physicians' Hospital" in Edinburgh.source
  • 1734The armies of Spain and France, led by the Duke of Parma (and future King Charles III of Spain) storm the city of Gaeta in Naples, ending a four-month siege (War of the Polish Succession).source
  • 1745August 6 (July 26 Old Style) – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place in Surrey, England.source
  • 1753Russian scientist Georg Richmann becomes the first person to be electrocuted by his own equipment after he uses an insulated, but improperly grounded, lightning rod in an attempt to gather data on a thunderstorm. Richmann also becomes the first victim of ball lightning during his scientific experiment, in an attempt to replicate the experiments of American Benjamin Franklin.source
  • 1754The British North American Province of Georgia is created. Originally established in 1732 as a place for impoverished English citizens and debt prison parolees to make a new life, is given its first royal government. Administered for 22 years by the Board of Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, chaired by philanthropist James Oglethorpe, the colony is transferred by the Trustees to the British crown's Board of Trade and Plantations. King George II, for whom the colony was named, follows the Board's recommendation by proclaiming Georgia a royal province, and appointing Royal Navy Captain John Reynolds as the first Royal Governor. Reynolds arrives in Savannah on October 29 to take office.source
  • 1757August 3–9 – French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the surviving men, women and children.source
  • 1759Björn Halldórsson, a priest based in Sauðlauksdalur receives seed potatoes from Copenhagen. This is believed to be the first potato crop in Iceland.source
  • 1761The Parlement of Paris votes to close all colleges, associations and seminaries associated with the Jesuit Order, following a long campaign by Louis-Adrien Le Paige.source
  • 1763August 5–6 – Battle of Bushy Run (Pontiac's War) in Pennsylvania: 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders) fight on the winning British side prior to disbandment. 78th Fraser Highlanders are also disbanded.source
  • 1763the post of Historiographer Royal for Scotland is revived for Rev. William Robertson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh.source
  • 1773Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland where on 14 August he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides. On 12 September they are entertained at Kingsburgh, Skye, by Allan and Flora MacDonald.source
  • 1774Ann Lee and the Shakers arrive in America and settle in New York.source
  • 1777American Revolutionary War – Battle of Oriskany: Loyalists gain a tactical victory over Patriots; Iroquois fight on both sides.source
  • 1791The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (Prussia) is finished.source
  • 1806Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire after 844 years.source
  • 1806The new Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, arrives.source
  • 1810The city of Santa Cruz de Mompox, in modern-day Colombia, declares independence from the Spanish Empire.source
  • 1819Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.source
  • 1822August 5–13 – A sequence of earthquakes occurs in the northern part of the Ottoman Empire, causing severe damage from Gaziantep to Antakya in modern Turkey and from Aleppo to Khan Sheikhun in modern Syria. At least 20,000 people are killed.source
  • 1824Peruvian War of Independence: Battle of Junín – Pro-independence forces defeat the Spanish in the highlands of the Junín region.source
  • 1825Bolivia gains its independence from Spain as a republic, at the instigation of Simón Bolívar.source
  • 1825War of Independence: The Bolivian Declaration of Independence, in which Bolivia officially declares independence from the Spanish Empire, is approved by the General Assembly of Deputies of the Province of Upper Peru.source
  • 1826The 17 year old composer Felix Mendelssohn completes the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.source
  • 1838The Polytechnic Institution, predecessor of the University of Westminster and Britain's first polytechnic, opens in Regent Street, London.source
  • 1844First Franco-Moroccan War begins.source
  • 1845Edvard Liljedahl, politician and Minister (died 1924)source
  • 1848HMS Daedalus reports a sighting of a sea serpent.source
  • 1855Bloody Monday: Protestant mobs attack Irish and German Catholics on an election day in Louisville, Kentucky, causing 22 deaths.source
  • 1861Lagos Treaty of Cession between the British Empire and Dosunmu, Oba of Lagos, by which the latter, under threat of military bombardment, cedes Lagos Island to Britain, whilst retaining his title and powers, subject to English law, and allowing the British Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron to have a base there to prevent the slave trade.source
  • 1861Coinage Offences Act, codifying the law on counterfeiting of coins.source
  • 1861Criminal Law Consolidation Acts (drafted by Charles Sprengel Greaves) granted Royal Assent, generally coming into effect on 1 November. The death penalty is limited to murder, embezzlement, piracy, high treason and to acts of arson perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots; the age of consent is codified as twelve. The Home Secretary takes over the power to reprieve or commute sentences from the judiciary and Privy Council.source
  • 1862Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.source
  • 1866The colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia are united, bearing the Mainland's name as the Colony of British Columbia, with the Island capital, Victoria, as the seat of government of the united colony.source
  • 1875Hibernian F.C. is founded by Irishmen in Edinburgh, Scotland.source
  • 1876The first issue of Arabic language newspaper Al-Ahram is published by Saleem and Beshara Takla in Alexandria, Muhammad Ali dynasty (modern-day Egypt).source
  • 1883The United States of Stellaland is established when the Republics of Stellaland and Goshen unite.source
  • 1889The Savoy Hotel in London opens.source
  • 1890At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair.source
  • 1893The Corinth Canal is completed in Greece.source
  • 1901Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail from Britain on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.source
  • 1906Joseph Ward is sworn in as prime minister, taking over from acting prime minister William Hall-Jones.source
  • 1913Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 mi 30 ch.source
  • 1914Currency and Bank Notes Act gives wartime powers of banknote issue to HM Treasury; the first notes, with the signature of John Bradbury, are issued on 7 August. The sovereign rapidly vanishes from circulation.source
  • 1915Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.source
  • 1917September 8: Battle of Mărășești. The largest battle to take part on the Romanian front during World War I.source
  • 1920July 30–August 8 – The 1st World Scout Jamboree is held at Olympia, London.source
  • 1921Inter-Allied General Committee publishes the plan for the transfer of Burgenland from Hungary to Austria in 3 stages (A, B and C Zone).source
  • 1926American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England.source
  • 1927Toronto Union Station is officially opened, by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales.source
  • 1932Carl Gustaf Ekman resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden and is replaced by his Minister of Finance Felix Hamrin.source
  • 1932In Germany, the world's first Autobahn is opened by Konrad Adenauer (Bundesautobahn 555).source
  • 1932The first Venice Film Festival is held.source
  • 1936An underground explosion at Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery in South Yorkshire kills 58.source
  • 1941Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to have an appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a coma, dying 37 years later, still comatose.source
  • 1941Six-year-old Elaine Esposito undergoes an appendectomy and lapses into a coma that lasts for a record-breaking 37 years until her death in 1978.source
  • 1942August 3–15 – WWII: Operation Pedestal – A British convoy of 14 merchant ships with a massive escort of two battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 7 cruisers, 32 destroyers and smaller ships commanded by Admiral Edward Neville Syfret, sets sail to Malta under relentless attacks by day and night from enemy submarines, aircraft and Axis surface forces. The 55,000 tons of food and fuel (particularly from oil tanker SS Ohio) delivered by this convoy saves Malta from surrender and allows Malta-based aircraft and submarines to resume their attacks against Rommel's supply lines, although over 500 British sea- and airmen are killed and many ships (including carrier HMS Eagle (1918)) are lost.source
  • 1942The 1942 Guatemala earthquake was felt in El Salvador.source
  • 1942The 1942 Guatemala earthquake occurred.source
  • 1944Holocaust: Łódź, the last remaining Jewish ghetto in Poland, is liquidated and 60,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz.source
  • 1945WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima – United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops a uranium-235 atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy", on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time, resulting in between 90,000 and 146,000 deaths.source
  • 1946on the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Captain Bob Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb, arrives at Shannon Airport, completing his first flight as a civil aviation pilot.source
  • 1953Israeli Air Force Mosquito FB.6, disappears in flight over the Mediterranean: two crew are missing.source
  • 1957Lee Kuan Yew and five other right-wing PAP CEC members does not recognize the results of the 4th Party Conference and refused to resume office.source
  • 1958The Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, which outlawed the Communist Party of Chile and banned 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed.source
  • 1958Australian athlete Herb Elliott clips almost 3 seconds off the world record for the mile run at Santry Stadium, Dublin, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.source
  • 1959Huw T. Edwards leaves the Labour Party for Plaid Cymru in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley.source
  • 1960In the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (later the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Albert Kalonji declares the independence of the Autonomous State of South Kasai.source
  • 1961Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.source
  • 1965U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that have been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.source
  • 1966The Salazar Bridge (later the 25 de Abril Bridge) opens in Lisbon, Portugal.source
  • 1966Braniff International Airways Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, United States, killing all 42 of those on board.source
  • 1967A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]".source
  • 1970Pahang state government declared and officially verified that the said Mat Siam was truly the legendary Pahang warrior, Mat Kilau, the son of Tok Gajah. However, on 10 August, he died due to old age.source
  • 1970A Pakistan International Airlines F27 enters a steep dive and crashes about three minutes after a night takeoff from Rawalpindi in poor weather. All four crew members and 26 passengers are killed.source
  • 1971A total lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed, visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and is the 38th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 128.source
  • 1975According to Japanese government official confirmed report, a heavy massive rain, following debris flow hit in Mount Iwaki in Nakatsugaru District (present day of Hirosaki), Aomori Prefecture, kill 21 persons with injure 31 persons.source
  • 1976Former United Kingdom Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.source
  • 1976A significant flood of the Orinoco River inundates the northern region of Ciudad Bolívar, reaching a height of 18.04 meters above sea level. This marks the third highest flood level recorded in the river's history, a record that would later be surpassed in 2018.source
  • 1979Bauhaus releases their debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead", considered to be the first gothic rock release.source
  • 1980July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.source
  • 1981August 3–6. Negotiations between the government and Solidarity in Warsaw. Food supply situation, economic reform and trade unions bills are discussed. The negotiations end in a fiasco; the government accuses Solidarity of terminating the talks.source
  • 1984Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam is abducted by a terrorist cell composed of Israeli-Arabs. He is later murdered. His attackers are arrested and (in 1986) sentenced to life.source
  • 1986Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.source
  • 1986A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 mm of rain in a day on Sydney.source
  • 1986Metroid is released by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System.source
  • 1990Gulf War: With United Nations Security Council Resolution 661 the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.source
  • 1991Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist working at CERN, announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The first website, "info.cern.ch", is created.source
  • 1996NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms; further tests are inconclusive.source
  • 1997August 3–11 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the Comoros – Anjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.source
  • 1997Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.source
  • 2000The 2000 ABC-PBA All-Star Game is the All-Star game was held on August 6, 2000, at the Philsports Arena in Pasig.source
  • 2004FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to Angola.source
  • 2006The Dechatu River floods, killing over 200 people.source
  • 2007The Lebanese government claim that the police have killed Abu Hureira, the second in command of Fatah al-Islam.source
  • 2008President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état.source
  • 2009The Presidents of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame, pledge to boost economic and security ties after a rare meeting.source
  • 2012Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.source
  • 2019Ivory Coast and Ghana set a base price of US $2,600 per ton for 2020-21 cocoa prices.source
  • 2022August 5 – August 7 – Israel launches airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, killing Islamic Jihad military leader Tayseer Jabari. Both parties agree to a ceasefire after three days of skirmish.source
  • 2022July 28–August 8 – The 2022 Commonwealth Games is held in Birmingham, England.source
  • 2022July 29 – August 8: Guyana at the 2022 Commonwealth Gamessource
  • 2023Demnate bus crash. A minibus carrying 24 passengers overturned on a bend and plunged off a ravine at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, killing everyone on board.source
  • 2024The skeletal remains of 14 individuals believed to be from Senegal and Mauritania are found on an abandoned boat off the coast of Río San Juan.source
  • 2025The statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Square in Port of Spain is removed amid criticism over its symbolism of colonialism.source

Births

  • 1158Al-Nasir li-Din Allah, Abbasid caliph (died 1225)source
  • 1180Go-Toba, emperor of Japan (died 1239)source
  • 1504Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)source
  • 1572Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman Emir of Chouf (died 1635)source
  • 1605Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (died 1675)source
  • 1609Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1675)source
  • 1619Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (died 1677)source
  • 1638Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (died 1715)source
  • 1644Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV (died 1710)source
  • 1651François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, France (died 1715)source
  • 1651Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Swedish Field Marshal (died 1722)source
  • 1697Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor from 1742 to 1745 (died 1745)source
  • 1710Frances Jones, colonist (died 1785)source
  • 1766William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (died 1828)source
  • 1768Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (died 1813)source
  • 1775Daniel O'Connell, Ireland's predominant political leader (died 1847)source
  • 1789Friedrich List, German journalist (died 1846)source
  • 1809Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet (died 1892)source
  • 1828Andrew Taylor Still, American father of osteopathy (died 1917)source
  • 1844Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)source
  • 1861Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (died 1948)source
  • 1881Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biomedical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1955)source
  • 1911Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and co-owner of Desilu Productions (died 1989)source
  • 1917Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)source
  • 1927Arturo Armando Molina, politiciansource
  • 1928Andy Warhol, American artist (died 1987)source
  • 1965Dato' Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo – Menteri Besar of Selangor (2000–2008)source
  • 1992Tara Moore, tennis playersource

Deaths

  • 258Sixtus II, bishop of Romesource
  • 523Pope Hormisdas dies at Rome after a tenure of 9 years and 17 days, in which he has been instrumental in ending the Acacian Schism. He is succeeded by John I as the 53rd pope.source
  • 523Pope Hormisdas (born 450)source
  • 750Marwan II, ruling Umayyad caliph (born 688)source
  • 856Fujiwara no Nagara, Japanese statesman (born 802)source
  • 1027Richard III, duke of Normandy (House of Normandy)source
  • 1118Al-Mustazhir, Abbasid caliph (born 1078)source
  • 1162Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona (born 1114)source
  • 1195Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (born 1129)source
  • 1221Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order, canonized (born 1170)source
  • 1254Hugh of Northwold, English abbot and bishopsource
  • 1272Stephen V, king of Hungary (born 1239)source
  • 1384Francesco I of Lesbossource
  • 1393John de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (born 1365)source
  • 1412Margherita of Durazzo, Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (born 1347)source
  • 1414King Ladislaus of Naples (born 1377)source
  • 1458Pope Callixtus III dies after a reign of slightly more than three years.source
  • 1458Pope Callixtus III (born 1378)source
  • 1520Kunigunde of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (born 1465)source
  • 1530Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (born 1458)source
  • 1553Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born 1478)source
  • 1584Russian conquest of Siberia: Russian General Yermak Timofeyevich, who had been dispatched by Ivan the Terrible in 1582 to conquer the Khanate of Sibir, is killed along with all but one member of his invading force in an ambush commanded by Kuchum Khan, the ruler of Siberia.source
  • 1588Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578-1588) (born 1554)source
  • 1623Anne Hathaway, wife of English dramatist William Shakespeare (born 1555)source
  • 1628Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg, Germany (born 1573)source
  • 1637Ben Jonson, English writer (born 1572)source
  • 1637Ben Jonson, writer (born 1572)source
  • 1657Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian Cossack Hetman (born c. 1595)source
  • 1660Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (born 1599)source
  • 1724Samson Wertheimer, European rabbi (born 1658)source
  • 1746Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1699)source
  • 1746Christian VI dies in Hirschholm Palace, Copenhagen, with Frederick V taking over as Monarch.source
  • 1753Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (born 1711)source
  • 1754Georg Wilhelm Richmann, physicist. (born 1711)source
  • 1830David Walker, African-American abolitionist (born 1796)source
  • 1832Thomas Kendall, Missionary and Pākehā Māorisource
  • 1850Hōne Heke, Maori chief and war leader (born c. 1807)source
  • 1856Robert Lucas de Pearsall, English composer; setting of "In dulce jubilo" (born 1795)source
  • 1875Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador (born 1821)source
  • 1875Gabriel García Moreno, president, assassinationsource
  • 1899Near Stratford, Connecticut, 36 people are killed when a trolley falls off of a trestle and lands upside down in a pond 40 feet below.source
  • 1925Grigory Kotovsky, Soviet military and political activist, commander of the Red Army and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union (born 1881)source
  • 1931Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz trumpeter (born 1903)source
  • 1954Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets, dies of asphyxiation following an epileptic seizure. She is the first of the Canadian five to perish; three live into the 21st century.source