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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1835-08-02 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
1865-08-02 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
1868-08-02 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1871-08-02 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
1875-08-02 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1878-08-02 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian wrestler (d. 1968)
1882-08-02 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
1890-08-02 - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
1892-08-02 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
1896-08-02 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
1897-08-02 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1899-08-02 - Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
1900-08-02 - Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
1905-08-02 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
1905-08-02 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
1907-08-02 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
1910-08-02 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
1912-08-02 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
1914-08-02 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
1915-08-02 - Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
1924-08-02 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
1924-08-02 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
1925-08-02 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
1925-08-02 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
1930-08-02 - Vali Myers (artist), Australian painter (d. 2003)
1931-08-02 - Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
1932-08-02 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
1932-08-02 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
1934-08-02 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
1935-08-02 - Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
1937-08-02 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)
1939-08-02 - Wes Craven, American film director
1941-08-02 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
1942-08-02 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1943-08-02 - Max Wright, American actor
1943-08-02 - Tom Burgmeier, American baseballer
1944-08-02 - Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
1945-08-02 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress
1945-08-02 - Alex Jesaulenko, Australian footballer
1947-08-02 - Massiel, Spanish singer
1948-08-02 - Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
1948-08-02 - Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
1949-08-02 - James Fallows, American journalist
1950-08-02 - Lance Ito, American judge
1951-08-02 - Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter
1953-08-02 - Butch Patrick, American actor
1954-08-02 - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1955-08-02 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
1956-08-02 - Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
1957-08-02 - Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
1959-08-02 - Victoria Jackson, American comedian
1959-08-02 - Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
1960-08-02 - Neal Morse, American singer and musician (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
1961-08-02 - Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
1964-08-02 - Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
1966-08-02 - Tim Wakefield, baseball player
1967-08-02 - Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
1969-08-02 - Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
1969-08-02 - Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
1970-08-02 - Tony Amonte, American hockey player
1970-08-02 - Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter
1971-08-02 - Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
1972-08-02 - Jacinda Barrett, Real World castmember; Australian actress
1972-08-02 - Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
1974-08-02 - Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
1974-08-02 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
1975-08-02 - Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player
1975-08-02 - Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
1977-08-02 - Edward Furlong, American actor
1982-08-02 - Grady Sizemore, baseball player
1982-08-02 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
1985-08-02 - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
1986-08-02 - Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
1987-08-02 - Lane Belone, American patriot
1988-08-02 - Brittany Hargest, singer (Jump5)
1992-08-02 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
1533-08-02 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
1672-08-02 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
1674-08-02 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
1696-08-02 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1703-08-02 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
1754-08-02 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born architect and city planner (d. 1825)
1788-08-02 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1815-08-02 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
1834-08-02 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
Bizarre
2006-08-02 - National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
2007-08-02 - National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
Deaths
1970-08-02 - Pope Sisinnius
1985-08-02 - Kenneth I of Scotland
1100-08-02 - King William II of England
1222-08-02 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
1511-08-02 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
1589-08-02 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
1611-08-02 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1696-08-02 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
1769-08-02 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
1776-08-02 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
1788-08-02 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727)
1815-08-02 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (murdered) (b. 1763)
1823-08-02 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
1849-08-02 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1859-08-02 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1876-08-02 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
1889-08-02 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
1890-08-02 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
1903-08-02 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
1920-08-02 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
1921-08-02 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
1922-08-02 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
1923-08-02 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
1934-08-02 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
1936-08-02 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
1939-08-02 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosacrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1945-08-02 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
1976-08-02 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
1978-08-02 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
1979-08-02 - Thurman Munson, baseball player (b. 1947)
1986-08-02 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
1988-08-02 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
1988-08-02 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
1990-08-02 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1997-08-02 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
1998-08-02 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
2003-08-02 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
2003-08-02 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
2003-08-02 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
2004-08-02 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
2006-08-02 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
Declared
2007-08-02 - Day of Airborne Forces in Russia.
2007-08-02 - This Day In History: History Channel
Events
1610-08-02 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776-08-02 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
1790-08-02 - The first US Census is conducted.
1798-08-02 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an English victory
1869-08-02 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870-08-02 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1903-08-02 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Macedonians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
1916-08-02 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918-08-02 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1931-08-02 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.
1934-08-02 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1937-08-02 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939-08-02 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943-08-02 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy saves all but two of his crew.
1945-08-02 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1964-08-02 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS C. Turner Joy.
1967-08-02 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
1980-08-02 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985-08-02 - A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1990-08-02 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces.
1999-08-02 - The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, was released.
2004-08-02 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany.
2005-08-02 - Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport outside Toronto, Canada, destroying the plane but resulting in no loss of life.
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