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2008-08-31
Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
2012-08-31 - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
1569-08-31 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
1663-08-31 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721-08-31 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1811-08-31 - Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872)
1821-08-31 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (d. 1894)
1822-08-31 - Galusha A. Grow, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1907)
1834-08-31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1843-08-31 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1870-08-31 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
1871-08-31 - James E. Ferguson, Texan governor (d. 1944)
1878-08-31 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879-08-31 - Alma Mahler, wife of Mahler, Gropius and Werfel (d. 1964)
1880-08-31 - Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1885-08-31 - DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1896-08-31 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897-08-31 - Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1903-08-31 - Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1907-08-31 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1908-08-31 - William Saroyan, American novelist (d. 1981)
1913-08-31 - Sir Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer
1914-08-31 - Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916-08-31 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist
1918-08-31 - Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
1919-08-31 - Amrita Preetam, Indian poetess and author (d. 2005)
1924-08-31 - Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1928-08-31 - James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1931-08-31 - Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1931-08-31 - Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player
1935-08-31 - Frank Robinson, baseball player and manager
1935-08-31 - Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1937-08-31 - Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937-08-31 - Bobby Parker, American blues musician/guitarist
1938-08-31 - Martin Bell, British journalist
1939-08-31 - Jerry Allison, American drummer (The Crickets)
1944-08-31 - Roger Dean, British artist
1945-08-31 - Van Morrison, Irish musician
1945-08-31 - Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1948-08-31 - Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1948-08-31 - Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1949-08-31 - Richard Gere, American actor
1949-08-31 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1953-08-31 - György Károly, Hungarian author
1954-08-31 - Caroline Cossey, English model
1955-08-31 - Edwin Moses, American athlete
1956-08-31 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957-08-31 - Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's)
1957-08-31 - Glenn Tilbrook, British musician (Squeeze)
1960-08-31 - Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hizballah
1960-08-31 - Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1962-08-31 - Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963-08-31 - Sonny Silooy, Dutch football player
1963-08-31 - Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1968-08-31 - Todd Carty, British actor
1968-08-31 - Hideo Nomo, baseball pitcher
1970-08-31 - Deborah Gibson, American singer
1970-08-31 - Rania, Queen of Jordan; wife of Abdullah II
1972-08-31 - Chris Tucker, American actor
1973-08-31 - Scott Niedermayer, hockey player
1975-08-31 - Daniel Harding, British conductor
1976-08-31 - Travis Christopher, American artist
1977-08-31 - Jeff Hardy, professional wrestler
1977-08-31 - Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977-08-31 - Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978-08-31 - Phina Oruche, British actress
1979-08-31 - Clay Hensley, professional baseball player
1979-08-31 - Mickie James, American professonal wrestler
1980-08-31 - Joe Budden, American rapper
1981-08-31 - Joe Swanberg, American filmmaker
1981-08-31 - 40 Cal, American rapper
1982-08-31 - Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1982-08-31 - Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1982-08-31 - Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982-08-31 - Jose Reina, Spanish footballer
1982-08-31 - Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1983-08-31 - Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
Bizarre
2006-08-31 - National Trail Mix Day
2007-08-31 - National Trail Mix Day
Deaths
1056-08-31 - Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)
1234-08-31 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372-08-31 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422-08-31 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1645-08-31 - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654-08-31 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688-08-31 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1730-08-31 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?)
1741-08-31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772-08-31 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1782-08-31 - George Croghan, American colonist
1795-08-31 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
1799-08-31 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1814-08-31 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1867-08-31 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1888-08-31 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920-08-31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1941-08-31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1952-08-31 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1963-08-31 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967-08-31 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1969-08-31 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973-08-31 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
1974-08-31 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1974-08-31 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
1978-08-31 - John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979-08-31 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1985-08-31 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1986-08-31 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986-08-31 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1997-08-31 - Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
1997-08-31 - Dodi Fayed, Egyptian-born film producer (b. 1955)
2002-08-31 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002-08-31 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
2004-08-31 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005-08-31 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005-08-31 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006-08-31 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian soccer player (b. 1983)
Events
1056-08-31 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1864-08-31 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876-08-31 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886-08-31 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888-08-31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.
1895-08-31 - John Brallier is paid US$10 plus expenses to play football for the Latrobe, Pennsylvania YMCA, making him the first professional football player.
1897-08-31 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907-08-31 - England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.
1914-08-31 - Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915-08-31 - Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915-08-31 - Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.
1920-08-31 - Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920-08-31 - First news radio program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.
1939-08-31 - Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
1942-08-31 - in Ternopil, western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organise the first deportation of Jews from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in
1943-08-31 - The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1945-08-31 - The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1948-08-31 - Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1957-08-31 - The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1962-08-31 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1963-08-31 - Walter Cronkite began his stint as anchor of the "CBS Evening News."
1965-08-31 - The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1978-08-31 - William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980-08-31 - The Solidarity trade union is formed in Poland.
1986-08-31 - An Aeroméxico Douglas DC-9 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986-08-31 - The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 398.
1991-08-31 - Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992-08-31 - Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo .
1994-08-31 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997-08-31 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.
1998-08-31 - North Korea reportedly launchs Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999-08-31 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
2005-08-31 - A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006-08-31 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
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