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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
1604-08-03 - John Eliot, English missionary (d. 1690)
1692-08-03 - John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
1770-08-03 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1801-08-03 - Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865)
1808-08-03 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
1811-08-03 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
1817-08-03 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
1832-08-03 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
1856-08-03 - Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1860-08-03 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1867-08-03 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
1872-08-03 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
1887-08-03 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
1894-08-03 - Harry Heilmann, baseball player (d. 1951)
1895-08-03 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
1899-08-03 - Louis Chiron, race car driver (d. 1979)
1900-08-03 - Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)
1900-08-03 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)
1901-08-03 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981)
1903-08-03 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian Politician (d. 2000)
1904-08-03 - Clifford D. Simak, American author (d. 1988)
1905-08-03 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (d. 1983)
1905-08-03 - Franz Cardinal König, Austrian Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)
1916-08-03 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
1918-08-03 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
1920-08-03 - P. D. James, English novelist
1920-08-03 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic
1923-08-03 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity
1924-08-03 - Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
1925-08-03 - Marv Levy, American football coach
1926-08-03 - Tony Bennett, American singer
1926-08-03 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004)
1927-08-03 - Gordon Scott, American actor
1934-08-03 - Haystacks Calhoun, wrestler (d. 1989)
1934-08-03 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political leader (d. 2002)
1935-08-03 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
1936-08-03 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor
1937-08-03 - Steven Berkoff, British actor
1937-08-03 - Diane Wakoski, American poet
1938-08-03 - Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter
1939-08-03 - Jimmy Nicol, British musican
1939-08-03 - Egil Krogh, American lawyer and Watergate figure
1940-08-03 - Lance Alworth, American football player
1940-08-03 - Martin Sheen, American actor
1941-08-03 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
1941-08-03 - Martha Stewart, American media personality
1945-08-03 - Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer
1946-08-03 - Jack Straw, British politician
1948-08-03 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
1950-08-03 - John Landis, American film director
1951-08-03 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player
1951-08-03 - Jay North, American actor
1952-08-03 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
1952-08-03 - Frank Schaeffer, American author
1957-08-03 - Mani Shankar, Indian film maker
1959-08-03 - John C. McGinley, American actor
1959-08-03 - Martin Atkins, English drummer
1959-08-03 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Nobel laureate
1961-08-03 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
1961-08-03 - Molly Hagan, American actress
1963-08-03 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
1963-08-03 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)
1964-08-03 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician
1966-08-03 - Eric "Butterbean" Esch, American boxer
1970-08-03 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese game developer
1971-08-03 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
1972-08-03 - Sandis Ozolinsh, Latvian hockey player
1976-08-03 - Troy Glaus, American baseball player
1977-08-03 - Tom Brady, American football player
1978-08-03 - Mariusz Jop, Polish football player
1979-08-03 - Kris Jenkins, American football player
1979-08-03 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model/actress
1980-08-03 - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
1984-08-03 - Jon Foster, American actor
1986-08-03 - Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1509-08-03 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)
Bizarre
2006-08-03 - National Watermelon Day
2007-08-03 - National Watermelon Day
Deaths
2030-08-03 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
1997-08-03 - King Edward the Martyr of England
1181-08-03 - Pope Alexander III (b. 1105?)
1460-08-03 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527-08-03 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1546-08-03 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546-08-03 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604-08-03 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1621-08-03 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
1667-08-03 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
1712-08-03 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1720-08-03 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721-08-03 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761-08-03 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1773-08-03 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
1780-08-03 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
1792-08-03 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1797-08-03 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
1805-08-03 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
1839-08-03 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857-08-03 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867-08-03 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877-08-03 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
1879-08-03 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1916-08-03 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
1917-08-03 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1924-08-03 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
1929-08-03 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929-08-03 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1942-08-03 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)
1954-08-03 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
1964-08-03 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
1966-08-03 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
1973-08-03 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1977-08-03 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
1977-08-03 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)
1979-08-03 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1983-08-03 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
1993-08-03 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916)
1995-08-03 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)
1995-08-03 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
1998-08-03 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
2001-08-03 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
2002-08-03 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
2003-08-03 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
2004-08-03 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
2005-08-03 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
2005-08-03 - Steven Vincent, American journalist (b. 1955)
2006-08-03 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
2006-08-03 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German opera singer (b. 1915)
Declared
2007-08-03 - Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day.
Events
1992-08-03 - Trpimir II succeedes to the Croatian throne
2053-08-03 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
2023-08-03 - Gordian I and his son Gordian III are proclaimed Roman emperors.
2008-08-03 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
1492-08-03 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492-08-03 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1527-08-03 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1635-08-03 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families
1645-08-03 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim) - A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz, Freiherr von
1678-08-03 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
1783-08-03 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1860-08-03 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1900-08-03 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1914-08-03 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1916-08-03 - World War I: Battle of Romani - Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai.
1923-08-03 - The deceased Warren G. Harding succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
1934-08-03 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
1936-08-03 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.
1940-08-03 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland.
1946-08-03 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
1948-08-03 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1958-08-03 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1960-08-03 - Niger gains independence from France.
1972-08-03 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975-08-03 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1977-08-03 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1981-08-03 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.
1981-08-03 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launches the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
1996-08-03 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.
1997-08-03 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
2001-08-03 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2004-08-03 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2005-08-03 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
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