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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1079-08-08 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1605-08-08 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
1646-08-08 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
1673-08-08 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1693-08-08 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
1694-08-08 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
1720-08-08 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
1814-08-08 - Esther Morris, first U. S. woman judge (d. 1902)
1839-08-08 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)
1866-08-08 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1875-08-08 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
1879-08-08 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1880-08-08 - Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
1881-08-08 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
1881-08-08 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1884-08-08 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
1891-08-08 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
1892-08-08 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1896-08-08 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
1901-08-08 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902-08-08 - Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1904-08-08 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
1905-08-08 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
1907-08-08 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
1908-08-08 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1980)
1910-08-08 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
1911-08-08 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
1915-08-08 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
1919-08-08 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
1920-08-08 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
1920-08-08 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1921-08-08 - William Asher, American film producer
1921-08-08 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist
1921-08-08 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
1921-08-08 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist
1921-08-08 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
1922-08-08 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
1922-08-08 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
1925-08-08 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
1927-08-08 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
1928-08-08 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
1929-08-08 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
1929-08-08 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
1931-08-08 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
1932-08-08 - Mel Tillis, American singer
1935-08-08 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
1935-08-08 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
1936-08-08 - Keith Barron, English actor
1936-08-08 - Frank Howard, baseball player
1937-08-08 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1938-08-08 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
1939-08-08 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
1940-08-08 - Dennis Tito, first space tourist
1944-08-08 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
1947-08-08 - Ken Dryden, Canadian hockey player and parliamentarian
1947-08-08 - José Cruz, baseball player
1949-08-08 - Keith Carradine, American actor
1951-08-08 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1951-08-08 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1952-08-08 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
1952-08-08 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
1953-08-08 - Don Most, American actor
1953-08-08 - Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
1955-08-08 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
1956-08-08 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
1958-08-08 - Deborah Norville, American television host
1960-08-08 - Ulrich Maly, Mayor of Nuremberg
1961-08-08 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
1961-08-08 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
1962-08-08 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
1963-08-08 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
1963-08-08 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian hockey official and executive
1964-08-08 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
1966-08-08 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
1966-08-08 - John Hudek, baseball player
1967-08-08 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
1969-08-08 - Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
1970-08-08 - Trev Alberts, former American football player
1972-08-08 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1973-08-08 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
1974-08-08 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer
1974-08-08 - Scott D'Amore, professional wrestler and manager
1976-08-08 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
1976-08-08 - Drew Lachey, American singer
1976-08-08 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
1977-08-08 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
1977-08-08 - Rocky Thompson, hockey player
1978-08-08 - Louis Saha, French footballer
1978-08-08 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
1979-08-08 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
1980-08-08 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
1980-08-08 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
1981-08-08 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
1981-08-08 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
1981-08-08 - Meagan Good, American actress
1981-08-08 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
1985-08-08 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican soccer player
1986-08-08 - Peyton List, American actress
1988-08-08 - Princess Beatrice of York
1989-08-08 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
Bizarre
2006-08-08 - Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor Porch Day
2007-08-08 - Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor Porch Day
Deaths
2025-08-08 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
1445-08-08 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1553-08-08 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1555-08-08 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1588-08-08 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1604-08-08 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1631-08-08 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
1684-08-08 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1759-08-08 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
1827-08-08 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1828-08-08 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1879-08-08 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887-08-08 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1898-08-08 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
1902-08-08 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
1911-08-08 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1933-08-08 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
1940-08-08 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
1944-08-08 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
1944-08-08 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1947-08-08 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
1965-08-08 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
1972-08-08 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1975-08-08 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1977-08-08 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
1985-08-08 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
1987-08-08 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
1991-08-08 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
1992-08-08 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death. (b. 1899)
1996-08-08 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
2004-08-08 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
2005-08-08 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
2005-08-08 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
2005-08-08 - Gene Mauch, American athlete (b. 1925)
2005-08-08 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
2005-08-08 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
2037-08-08 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
2025-08-08 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
1977-08-08 - Roland, Frankish commander
2040-08-08 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
Events
1973-08-08 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew goes on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.
1973-08-08 - Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1974-08-08 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
1976-08-08 - Boston, by the rock band Boston is released. It will become the #1 best-selling debut album in history.
1986-08-08 - Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcement of establishing political movement MQM.
1988-08-08 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Myanmar.
1988-08-08 - The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games
1989-08-08 - Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1991-08-08 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
1991-08-08 - John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released.
2000-08-08 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
1220-08-08 - Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1509-08-08 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1576-08-08 - The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
1585-08-08 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.
1588-08-08 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605-08-08 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647-08-08 - The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - British Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1786-08-08 - Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1810-08-08 - Eminent Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib married Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh; and moved to Delhi.
1839-08-08 - Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
1844-08-08 - The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is created as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church).
1863-08-08 - American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1870-08-08 - The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876-08-08 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1908-08-08 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.
1911-08-08 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1911-08-08 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1918-08-08 - World War I: Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.
1929-08-08 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1938-08-08 - The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
1942-08-08 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed.
1942-08-08 - Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
1945-08-08 - World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
1945-08-08 - The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join.
1946-08-08 - First flight of the Convair B-36.
1947-08-08 - Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
1949-08-08 - Bhutan becomes independent
1962-08-08 - Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977.
1963-08-08 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
1966-08-08 - The Beatles landmark album Revolver is released in the United States.
1967-08-08 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
1968-08-08 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
1972-08-08 - Richard Nixon accepts the nomination as candidate for the presidency.
2037-08-08 - Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople - A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with ⅔ of his army.
1977-08-08 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.
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