August 15th

EVENTS

778 – Battle of Roncevaux Pass: Roland, commander of the rearguard ofCharlemagne’s army is defeated by the Basques
927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
1040 – King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth (not murdered in his sleep as per Shakespeare’s play). The latter does succeed him as King.
1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1248 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1308 – Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
1457 – Earliest dated book, “Mainz Psalter,” completed
1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 – Panama City founded
1534 – Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1537 – Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
1540 – Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
1548 – Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
King of Scotland Macbeth

1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
1599 – Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O’Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1620 – Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1635 – 1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1653 – -16] Dutch ship “Sperwer” stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
1658 – France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Confederation of the Rhine
1668 – Confederation of the Rhine disbands
1684 – Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1741 – French troops attack the Rhine
1748 – United Lutheran Church the American colonies organized
1760 – Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
1785 – French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1795 – Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
1824 – Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)
1832 – Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
1843 – National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1843 – Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens
1848 – M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1858 – Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1861 – Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO
1863 – Submarine “HL Hunley” arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1864 – Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1865 – Battle of Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 – 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1870 – Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
1876 – US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1886 – Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
1891 – San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
British Prime Minister William Gladstone

1892 – 4th & last British government of William Gladstone forms
1893 – US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1899 – Louisville’s Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
1900 – Russian troops advance further unto Manchuria
1900 – In China, the Empress and some of her family, the court, and retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to put down the Boxer Rebellion
1901 – Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
1901 – Great Britain issues a proclamation calling on the Boers to surrender by 15 September or face banishment and confiscation of their property
1903 – New Zealand’s All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia’s Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney; New Zealand win 22-3
1905 – Phila A’s Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
1906 – 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1906 – Kind Edward VII of Britain visits Emperor Wilhelm in Germany to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations’ naval forces
1911 – Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1912 – Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
1914 – 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1914 – Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
French President Charles de Gaulle

1914 – German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914 – Japan joins side of allies
1914 – Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 – The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads
1914 – US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, in a letter to J P Morgan, declares that loans to any of the belligerents go against US neutrality
1915 – Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1918 – 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1920 – With the strategic help of the French, Polish troops defeat the Russian/Soviets at the Battle of Warsaw (Vistula)
Politician William Jennings Bryan

1923 – Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1923 – Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1925 – Norway annexes Spitsbergen
1925 – White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
1931 – Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1931 – Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
1931 – Spakenburg soccer team forms
1939 – First night game at baseball’s Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
1939 – 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
1939 – “The Wizard of Oz”, premieres at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, starring Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Frank Morgan (Wizard), Billie Burke (Glinda), and Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch)
Actress Margaret Hamilton

1940 – 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazis)
1940 – Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircraft damaged
1941 – Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1942 – 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
1943 – Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1944 – Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
1944 – German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
1944 – Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944 – Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
1944 – US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans
1944 – US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1945 – A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
1945 – US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1945 – Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1945 – World War II: Korean Liberation Day.

Kissing the War Goodbye on VJ Day 

1945 – Victory over Japan Day, the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII is announced in Japan (due to time zones 14th Aug in the Americas)
1947 – India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950
1948 – 3rd US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1948 – Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1949 – WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 – 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles

1950 – Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 – Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950 – Constitution of India goes into effect
1950 – Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1950 – Sukarno proclaims the unitary Republic of Indonesia and becomes its 1st President
1950 – Rotterdam harbor strike begins
1950 – Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1952 – 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
1952 – 9″ of rain fall creates a 20′ wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1954 – Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
1954 – WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
1955 – WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
1955 – Hurricane Connie dissipates after killing 43 in NC, SC, Virginia & Maryland
1st President of Indonesia Sukarno

1957 – David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1957 – USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1958 – 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
1958 – Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1960 – CFL’s Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
1960 – Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
1960 – Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1960 – Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0
1960 – UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1961 – Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan.
1962 – Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
1962 – Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1963 – Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1964 – Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
MLB shortstop Ernie Banks

1964 – Mayor Daley declares “Ernie Banks Day” in Chicago
1964 – Phillies triple-play NY Mets
1964 – Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
1964 – Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27′ 3½”
1965 – 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
1965 – Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
1965 – Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1965 – Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1966 – Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1967 – Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1967 – UK’s Marine Offences Bill making pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
LPGA Golfer Mary Mills

1968 – Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
1968 – Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu visits Prague
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

Swami Satchidananda addressing the opening ceremony at Woodstock

1969 – Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur’s Dairy Farm)
1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1971 – Bahrain gains independence from Britain
1971 – Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
1971 – KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
37th US President Richard Nixon

1971 – US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1971 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1971 – The Social Democratic and Labour Party announce a campaign of civil disobedience in response to the introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland
1973 – Black September kills 3 and wounds 55 in Athens
1973 – David Storey’s “Cromwell” premieres in London
1973 – USSR performs nuclear test
1974 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 – Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974 – Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1974 – South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1975 – Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
1975 – Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1975 – Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1976 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 – England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust
1977 – Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1978 – US House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
1979 – Andrew Young resigns as US ambassador to the United Nations
Actor Martin Sheen

1979 – “Apocalypse Now”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, is released
1981 – Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
1981 – Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
1982 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 – Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1983 – Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
1985 – PW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban, South Africa, dissapointing many by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country’s apartheid system
1985 – First Iraqi air raid on Iran’s main oil export terminal, Kharg Island
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1986 – President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1987 – US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
1987 – At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
1988 – “Ain’t Misbehavin'” opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1988 – At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1988 – NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1989 – Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989 – Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1989 – US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1989 – In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
1990 – 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1990 – Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
MLB First Baseman Mark McGwire

1990 – Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1990 – At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa
1991 – 750,000 attend Paul Simon’s free concert in Central Park
1991 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 – Colombo ’92 closes in Genoa Italy
1993 – “Goodbye Girl” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
1993 – 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
1993 – Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
1993 – NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus’ lung collapes for 2nd time
1993 – Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
1993 – Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
1994 – South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1994 – Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

1995 – Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
1997 – Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
1997 – Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
1997 – LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda’s #2
1998 – Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, killed 29 people and injured about 220
1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
1999 – 81st PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a 277 at Medinah Country Club
2004 – Bay of Plenty defeat Auckland 33-26 in Rugby Union to win NZ’s Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield’s 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges
2004 – 86th PGA Championship: Vijay Singh shoots a 280 at Whistling Straits
2005 – 87th PGA Championship: Phil Mickelson shoots a 276 at Baltusrol Golf Club
2006 – Der Spiegel, Spiegel Online, publishes documents confirming German writer Günter Grass membership of the Waffen-SS in WWII
2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
Writer and playwright Günter Grass

2008 – Lee Berger and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, discover the two-million-year-old fossils of a new species of human ancestor (Australopithecus sediba) at Malapa Cave, South Africa
2009 – Portugal leaves recession after three consecutive quarters of negative growth having its GDP recover by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2009
2010 – 92nd PGA Championship: Martin Kaymer shoots a 277 at Whistling Straits
2012 – Seattle Mariners’ Felix Hernandez becomes 23rd pitcher to throw a perfect game (1-0 vs Tampa Bay)
2013 – 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut

BIRTHDAYS

1171 – King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
1195 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
1432 – Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
1575 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
1613 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
1619 – Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate
1688 – Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1702 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher
1717 – Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810)
1725 – Ferdinando Bertoni, composer
1727 – Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
1736 – Johann Christoph Kellner, composer
1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
1741 – Thomas Norris, composer
1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15), (d. 1821)
1771 – Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1776 – Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
1776 – Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (1769)

1782 – Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
1785 – Thomas De Quincey, England, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
1787 – Alexander Aliabiev, composer
1788 – Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
1794 – Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
1803 – James Douglas, father of British Columbia
1813 – Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891)
1822 – Wilhelm Rust, composer
1823 – Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 – Eduard de Hartog, composer
1839 – Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1845 – Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1851 – [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
1856 – J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1857 – Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
1860 – Florence Harding [DeWolfe], US 1st lady (1921-23), born in Marion, Ohio (d. 1924)
1860 – Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)
1863 – Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
1865 – Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
1865 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (d. 1926)
1872 – Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
1872 – Rubin Goldmark, composer
1874 – Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast), born in London, England
1876 – Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
1878 – Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American classic film & stage actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1881 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1883 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)
1885 – Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
1885 – Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)
1885 – Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
1886 – Bill Whitty, cricketer (Australian left-arm bowler 1909-12)
1888 – Albert Spalding, composer
1890 – Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
1890 – Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006)
1890 – Elvin M. Jellinek, New York City, American Physiologist and pioneer in the study of alcoholism
1892 – Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer
1892 – Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
1893 – Alexander Vasil’yevich Gauk, composer
1893 – Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
1893 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1896 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985)
1897 – Marion Eugene Bauer, composer
1898 – Lillian Carter, Pres Carter’s (1977-1981) mom
1898 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
1900 – Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), born in NYC, New York
1901 – Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
1901 – Byron Arnold, composer
1901 – Hans Lorbeer, writer
1901 – Sulho Ranta, composer
1901 – Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
1902 – Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead)
1904 – Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
1906 – Finn Videro, composer
1907 – Paul Vincze, medallist
1909 – Raymond O’Malley, teacher
1910 – Hugo Winterhalter, composer
1910 – Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
1910 – Signe Hasso, actress (QB VII, Taxi 13, Black Bird, Crisis)
1912 – Julia Child, Pasadena California, chef (French Chef)
1912 – Wendy Hiller, England, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
1912 – Wijnanda M C “Nan” Aberson, friend of Gerard Reve Sr
1914 – Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer
1915 – Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese/Dutch folklorist
1915 – Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg)
1915 – Signe Hasso, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Johnny Angel, Double Life)
1916 – Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer
1917 – Jack Lynch, Irish politician, fourth Taoiseach (d. 1999)
1917 – Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman catholic priest (d. 1980)
1918 – Florian Zabach, American musician and TV personality (Hot Canary, Club Embassy), born in Chicago, Illinois
1918 – Fay Honey Knopp, activist
1918 – Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, composer
1919 – Huntz Hall, actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game), born in NYC, New York
1919 – Benedict Kiely, Irish author
1922 – Lukas Foss, [Fuchs], composer (Prairie), born in Berlin, Germany
1923 – Rose Marie, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show), born in NYC, New York
Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly (1924)

1924 – Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
1924 – Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (A Man for All Seasons, Doctor Zhivago)
1925 – Billy Pinkney, Sumter NC, rock bassist/vocalist (Drifters)
1925 – Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section)
1925 – Mike Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], actor (Mannix), born in Fresno, California
1925 – Oscar Peterson, Montreal Quebec, Canadian jazz pianist and composer
1925 – Gertrude Shope, Johannesburg, South Africa, leader of the ANC Women’s League
1926 – Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
1926 – Lewis T Preston, banker
1926 – Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhn, composer
1926 – Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician
1927 – Eddie Leadbeater, cricketer (England leg-spinner with an avg of 109)
Jazz Musician Oscar Peterson (1925)

1928 – Nicolas Roeg, cinematographer/director (Aria, Eureka), born in London, England
1930 – Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter
1931 – Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor’s Wife)
1931 – Mario Kuri-Aldana, composer
1932 – Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon’s Egg, Starquake)
1933 – Bobby Helms, rock vocalist (Jingle Bell Rock)
1933 – Floyd Ashton, US singer (Tams-What Child of Fool)
1933 – Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
1934 – Reg Scarlett, WI cricket off-spinner (3 Tests 1960)
1934 – Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
1934 – Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)
1935 – Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
1935 – Jim Dale, Rothwell England, Broadway actor (Barnum, My One & Only)
1935 – Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist (National Urban League)
1937 – Ronnie G Flippo, (Rep-D-NY, 1977- )
1938 – Maxine Waters, (Rep-D-California)
1938 – Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice
1938 – Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
1939 – H Onno C R Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
1939 – Herman van Keeken, Dutch singer (Daddy don’t run so fast)
1940 – Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist
1940 – Rita Shane, American soprano
1941 – Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
1941 – Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1942 – Peter York, Cleve, rock drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
1942 – Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)
1943 – Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
1943 – Eni F H Faleomavaega, (Rep-D-American Samoa)
1943 – María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician
1944 – Frederick Knight, US singer (I’ve been lonely so long)
1944 – Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight)
1944 – Tom Murphy, American politician
1944 – Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer
1945 – Charlemagne Palestine, composer
1945 – Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland Radiers), NFLPA leader
1945 – Thomas C Sawyer, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1945 – Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
1946 – Jimmy Webb, Elk City Oklahoma, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
1946 – Kathryn Jean Whitmire, (4 time Mayor-Houston), born in Houston, Texas
1946 – Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter
1947 – Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman
1947 – Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1947 – Manley Lanier “Sonny” Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
1947 – Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
1948 – Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer
1948 – George Ryton, British engineer
1949 – Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
1949 – Carlien Brouwer, translator/missing since Jan 6, 1994
1949 – Kate Taylor, rocker
1949 – Beverly Lynn Burns, Americna pilot, first woman captain in the world on the Boeing 747
1949 – Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
1950 – Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, England, Princess/olympic equestrian
1950 – Tess Harper, Mammoth Sp AR, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
1950 – Thomas Aldrich, country drummer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950 – Billy Griffin [William], US singer (Miracles-Love Machine)
1950 – Tom Kelly, American baseball manager
1951 – Bobby Caldwell, rocker, born in NYC, New York
1951 – John Childs, cricketer (England left-arm spinner, two Tests v WI 1988)
1951 – Daba Diawara, Malian politician
1951 – Ann Biderman, American film and television writer
1952 – Ger Hoeymakers, Dutch rock guitarist (Franc Boeijen Group)
1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet
Author Stieg Larsson(1954)

1954 – Stieg Larsson [Karl Stig-Erland Larsson], Skelleftehamn, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
1955 – Kenneth Carr, Clearwater Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 – Larry Mathews, Burbank California, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1956 – Gordon Bruks, England, Dr/cosmonaut
1956 – Vinny Denunzio, rocker
1956 – Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer
1957 – Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
1958 – Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist
1958 – Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian
1959 – Scott D Altman, Lincoln Ill, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1960 – Maureen “Peanut” Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
1960 – Ron van de Berg, soccer player (Sparta)
1960 – Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
1961 – Joan Delk, LPGA golfer (1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th), born in Tampa, Florida
1961 – Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
1961 – Ed Gillespie, American White House counsel to George W. Bush
1961 – Gary Kubiak, American football coach
1962 – Bubby Brister, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1962 – Igor Dorokhin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1962 – Tom Colicchio, American chef
1963 – Greg Adams, Nelson, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 – Jack Russell, superb England cricket wicket-keeper (36 Tests 1988-94)
1963 – Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women’s foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1963 – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director (Birdman, Babel), born in Mexico City
1964 – Debi Mazar, Queens NY, actress (Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law)
1964 – Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates
1965 – Rob Thomas, American writer
1966 – Fred Strickland, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 – Leo Goeas, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1966 – Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1967 – Mike James, Ft Walton FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1967 – Moulay Brahim Boutaib, Morocco, 10k runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 – Neil Wilkinson, Selkirk, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1967 – Peter Hermann American actor
1968 – Luciana Bemvenuti, Porto Alegre Brazil, golfer (1994 Jamie Farr-36th)
1968 – Vassili Pankov, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 – Debra Messing, American actress
1969 – Eric Bieniemy, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1969 – James Black, Regina, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1969 – Mark Heese, Toronto Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 – Pavel Kamentsev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1969 – Yancey Thigpen, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 – Cris Judd, American actor/choreographer
1970 – Dawn Ponte, Kent RI, dance skater (& Frey-1995 Eastern Jr champ)
1970 – Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
1970 – Maddie Corman, American actress
1970 – Ben Silverman, American TV executive
1971 – Perry Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1971 – Priscilla Taylor, playmate (Mar, 1996), born in Miami, Florida
Actor Ben Affleck (1972)

1972 – Ben Affleck, Berkeley California, actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor)
1972 – Freddie Solomon, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 – Jason Maniecki, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 – Ken Walter, punter (Carolina Panthers)
1972 – Mikey Graham, Irish singer (Boyzone), born in Dublin, Ireland
1972 – Chris Morrissey, American film director/actor
1972 – Matthew Wood, American actor and sound editor
1973 – Marcus Jones, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 – Ramon Morel, Villa Gonzalez Dom Rep, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1974 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
1975 – Bert Berry, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1975 – Jurgen Dirkx, soccer player (PSV)
1975 – Bertrand Berry, American football player
1975 – Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer
1976 – Boudewijn Send, soccer player (PSV)
1976 – Ger Unterluggauer, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1977 – Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1977 – Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
1977 – Nicole Paggi, American actress
1978 – Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot)
1978 – Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer
1978 – Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
1978 – Kerri Walsh, American beach volleyball player
1979 – Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver
1980 – Nathalie Press, English actress
1981 – Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
1981 – Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress
1981 – Oliver Perez, American baseball player
1982 – Casey Burgener, American weightlifter
1989 – Belinda [Belinda Peregrín Schüll], Mexican singer, songwriter and actress, born in Madrid, Spain
1989 – Tiffanie Anderson, American singer, dancer
1989 – Joe Jonas, American singer (Jonas Brothers)
Actress Jennifer Lawrence(1990)

1990 – Jennifer Lawrence, Louisville, Kentucky, American actress (Winter’s Bone, Silver Linings Playbook )

WEDDINGS

1958 – Singer Buddy Holly weds receptionist Maria Santiago
1985 – Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
1992 – Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
2004 – Fashion designer and socialite Nicky Hilton (21) weds businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) at The Vegas Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 – Charmed actress Alyssa Milano (39) weds CAA agent David Bugliari in Bernardsville, New Jersey
2009 – Actor Joseph Fiennes (39) weds model María Dolores Diéguez in Tuscany, Italy

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

69 – Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
423 – Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
778 – Roland, Frankish commander
1038 – Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
1040 – King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle at ca. 39 years
1057 – Macbeth, King of Scots, slain by son of King Duncan
1118 – Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
1196 – Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)
1369 – Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
1464 – Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58
1528 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1552 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1576 – Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
1600 – Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
1615 – Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
King of Scotland Macbeth(1057)

1619 – Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Kraków, dies
1621 – John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
1666 – Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
1725 – Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77
1728 – Marin Marais, composer, dies at 72
1729 – Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
1798 – Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50
1799 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1807 – Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
1848 – Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88
1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1853 – Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
1864 – Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
1880 – Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848)
1901 – Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
1907 – Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
1909 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
1914 – Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
1915 – Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
1917 – Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
1918 – Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64
1925 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
1935 – Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75
1935 – Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
Humorist Will Rogers(1935)

1935 – Will Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
1936 – Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
1936 – Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
1945 – Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
1951 – Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1956 – Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1958 – William L C “Big Bill” Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American ragtime singer and guitarist (b. 1901)
1962 – Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
1963 – John Powell, composer, dies at 80
1966 – Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64
1966 – Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
1966 – Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
1967 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68
1968 – Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84
1969 – Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97
1970 – Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66
1971 – Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
1972 – Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89
1974 – Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82
1974 – Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered
1975 – Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53
1975 – Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. 1913)
1976 – Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84
1978 – Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80
1982 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1983 – Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42
1983 – Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88
1985 – Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
1988 – Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1988 – Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1989 – F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies
1990 – Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66
1990 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
1991 – Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
1992 – Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
1992 – Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
1992 – Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
1992 – Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
1992 – Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
1993 – Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
1994 – Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80
1994 – Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
1994 – Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
1995 – Erbie Bowser, pianist, dies at 77
1995 – Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86
1995 – Ismay Thomas, teacher, dies at 74
1996 – Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
1996 – Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93
1996 – Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82
1999 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
2001 – Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
2003 – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
2004 – Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
2004 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
2004 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2006 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
2006 – Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player
2006 – Doug White, American news anchor
2006 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch international footballer
2007 – Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (b. 1944)
2007 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
2007 – Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
2007 – Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
2008 – Jerry Wexler, music producer and coiner of the term “Rhythm & Blues”
2008 – James Orthwein, American businessman
2008 – Leroy Sievers, American journalist
2008 – Vic Toweel, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion
2011 – Rick Rypien, Canadian hockey player (b. 1984)
2012 – Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, American author, dies at 87
2014 – Licia Albanese, Italian-born American operatic soprano, dies at 105
2014 – Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player, dies at 81

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1969 The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, New York

• American Revolution

• 1780 “Swamp Fox” routs loyalists while Gates’ men fall ill

• Automotive

• 1899 Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company

• Civil War

• 1861 Anderson is named commander of Department of the Kentucky

• Cold War

• 1964 Khrushchev announces he is ready to begin arms talks

• Crime

• 2006 Wife of slain minister released from jail

• Disaster

• 1983 Hurricane Alicia pounds Texas coast

• General Interest

• 1057 Malcolm slays Macbeth
• 1914 Panama Canal open to traffic
• 1947 India and Pakistan win independence
• 1961 Berlin Wall built

• Hollywood

• 1979 Apocalypse Now released

• Literary

• 1887 Edna Ferber, author of Show Boat, is born

• Old West

• 1812 Indian captive William Wells is killed

• Presidential

• 1930 Hoover looks to combat drought and economic depression

• Sports

• 1859 Charles Comiskey born

• Vietnam War

• 1968 Heavy fighting erupts in and around the DMZ
• 1969 Woodstock begins in upstate New York
• 1970 Regional Forces victorious
• 1971 North Vietnamese capture Vietnamese marine base

• World War I

• 1914 Japan gives ultimatum to Germany

• World War II

• 1945 The Japanese emperor speaks