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August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
- 1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
- 1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
- 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
- 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
- 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
- 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
- 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
- 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
- 1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- 1786 – Shays's Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
- 1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- 1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
- 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
- 1895 – Rugby league is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
- 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1903 – The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
- 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
- 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 1914 – Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
- 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
- 1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
- 1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1941 – Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
- 1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
- 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1946 – USS Nevada is decommissioned.
- 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
- 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
- 1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
- 1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
- 1979 – Jeffrey R. MacDonald is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.
- 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
- 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
- 2004 – Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers' championship (and 7th overall) at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix by finishing second to Kimi Räikkönen to beat the 47-year-old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
- 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
- 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.
Births
- 1434 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (d. 1472)
- 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1683)
- 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1701)
- 1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author (d. 1803)
- 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1767)
- 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. 1797)
- 1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)
- 1756 – Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician (d. 1845)
- 1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer (d. 1850)
- 1777 – Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (d. 1853)
- 1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (d. 1867)
- 1792 – Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author (d. 1875)
- 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English priest, theologian, and author (d. 1872)
- 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author (d. 1894)
- 1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
- 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist, founded the ASPCA (d. 1888)
- 1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (d. 1907)
- 1843 – David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)
- 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English anthologist and poet (d. 1929)
- 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
- 1862 – Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- 1871 – Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (d. 1950)
- 1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator (d. 1962)
- 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)
- 1876 – Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
- 1880 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (d. 1998)
- 1883 – Muriel George, English actress and singer (d. 1965)
- 1887 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)
- 1888 – Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)
- 1891 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (d. 1955)
- 1898 – Preston Sturges, American director and producer (d. 1959)
- 1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (d. 1941)
- 1910 – Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (d. 2002)
- 1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor and director (d. 1994)
- 1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer
- 1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-English actress and singer (d. 1982)
- 1915 – Endel Laas, Estonian scientist and academic (d. 2009)
- 1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist and author (d. 1985)
- 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008)
- 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor, stuntman, director, and producer (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
- 1920 – Herb Simpson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
- 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
- 1922 – John Edward Williams, American author and educator (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, English businessman (d. 2006)
- 1924 – María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress
- 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
- 1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
- 1926 – Betty Lynn, American actress
- 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Charles Gray, English actor and singer (d. 2000)
- 1928 – Herbert Meier, Swiss author and translator
- 1928 – Dick O'Neill, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
- 1931 – Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, English banker and businessman
- 1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (d. 2001)
- 1931 – Lise Payette, Canadian journalist and politician
- 1932 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (d. 1996)
- 1933 – Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (d. 2014)
- 1933 – Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
- 1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (d. 2014)
- 1935 – William Friedkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1935 – László Garai, Hungarian psychologist and scholar
- 1936 – John McCain, American captain and politician
- 1937 – Carol Doda, American stripper and actress (d. 2015)
- 1937 – James Florio, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey
- 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor and producer
- 1938 – Angela Huth, English journalist and author
- 1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer and manager
- 1938 – Robert Rubin, American lawyer and politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter
- 1939 – Joel Schumacher, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1940 – James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1940 – Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler and martial artist (d. 2015)
- 1941 – Robin Leach, English-American journalist and television host
- 1942 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
- 1942 – Gottfried John, German actor (d. 2014)
- 1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)
- 1943 – Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1943 – Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 – Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Procol Harum)
- 1945 – Wyomia Tyus, American runner
- 1945 – Harry S. Morgan, German porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2011)
- 1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper
- 1946 – Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic
- 1946 – Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus
- 1946 – Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
- 1947 – George Costigan, British actor and screenwriter
- 1947 – Temple Grandin, American ethologist, academic, and author
- 1947 – James Hunt, English race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1993)
- 1949 – Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor
- 1950 – Michael, American bishop
- 1950 – Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
- 1950 – Frank Henenlotter, American director and screenwriter
- 1950 – Dave Reichert, American soldier and politician
- 1951 – Geoff Whitehorn, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (IF, Crawler, and Procol Harum)
- 1952 – Karen Hesse, American author and poet
- 1952 – Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Radiators)
- 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
- 1953 – David Boaz American businessman and author
- 1953 – Doña Croll, Jamaican-English actress
- 1953 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
- 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American journalist, author, and academic
- 1955 – Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1955 – Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
- 1955 – Jack Lew, American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
- 1956 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers) (d. 1993)
- 1956 – Mark Morris, American dancer and choreographer
- 1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1956 – Steve Yarbrough, American novelist and short story writer
- 1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey and sportscaster
- 1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (d. 2009)
- 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress, singer, and producer
- 1959 – Ramón Díaz, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1959 – Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
- 1959 – Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian actor and producer
- 1959 – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fairground Attraction)
- 1959 – Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
- 1959 – Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician
- 1960 – Todd English, American chef and author
- 1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Planet X, CAB, Ring of Fire, and Seven the Hardway)
- 1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
- 1961 – Rodney McCray, American basketball player
- 1962 – Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster
- 1962 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
- 1962 – Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer
- 1962 – Lycia Naff, American actress, dancer, and journalist
- 1962 – Simon Thurley, English historian and academic
- 1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer-songwriter (Cocteau Twins)
- 1964 – Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
- 1965 – Jeremy Applegate, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1965 – Will Perdue, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1965 – Dina Spybey, American actress
- 1966 – Jörn Großkopf, German footballer and manager
- 1967 – Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
- 1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Teruaki Ogawa, Japanese actor
- 1969 – Lucero, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
- 1969 – Joe Swail, Irish snooker player
- 1971 – Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
- 1971 – Alex Griffin, English bass player (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
- 1971 – Carla Gugino, American actress and producer
- 1972 – Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1972 – Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor
- 1973 – Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist (Anathema)
- 1973 – Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
- 1973 – Adam Sessler, American television host and producer
- 1973 – Abdo Hakim, Lebanese actor and voice actor.
- 1974 – Kumi Tanioka, Japanese keyboard player and composer
- 1975 – Dante Basco, American actor and producer
- 1975 – Juan Diego Botto, Argentinian-Spanish actor
- 1975 – Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matchbox 20 and The New Left)
- 1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
- 1976 – Phil Harvey, English businessman
- 1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
- 1976 – Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
- 1976 – Pablo Mastroeni, Argentinian-American soccer player and manager
- 1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager
- 1977 – Cayetano, Greek DJ and producer
- 1977 – Devean George, American basketball player
- 1977 – John Hensley, American actor
- 1977 – John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
- 1977 – Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
- 1977 – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian and radio host
- 1977 – Aaron Rowand, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1977 – Jo Weil, German actor and singer
- 1978 – Volkan Arslan, German-Turkish footballer
- 1978 – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
- 1979 – Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
- 1979 – Kristjan Rahnu, Estonian decathlete
- 1979 – Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
- 1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player (Simple Plan and Reset)
- 1980 – William Levy, Cuban-American model and actor
- 1980 – Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
- 1980 – Chris Simms, American football player
- 1980 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- 1980 – David West, American basketball player
- 1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
- 1981 – Dennis Oh, American-South Korean model and actor
- 1981 – Jay Ryan, New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
- 1982 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)
- 1982 – Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
- 1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
- 1983 – Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1984 – Alexander Hug, German rugby player
- 1985 – Achilles Liarmakopoulos, Greek trombonist (Canadian Brass)
- 1985 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
- 1985 – Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
- 1985 – Héctor Sanabria, Argentinian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1986 – Joem Bascon, Filipino actor
- 1985 – Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
- 1986 – Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator, created Attack on Titan
- 1986 – Phakin Khamwilaisak, Thai actor and singer
- 1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Elliot Benyon, English footballer
- 1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
- 1989 – Aleksandr Bebikh, Russian footballer
- 1989 – Karol Castillo, Peruvian model, Miss Perú Universo 2008 (d. 2013)
- 1990 – Nicole Gale Anderson, American actress
- 1990 – Rizzini Alexis Gomez, Filipino model (d. 2015)
- 1990 – Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer
- 1990 – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
- 1990 – Julia Vlassov, American figure skater
- 1991 – Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
- 1991 – Anikó Kovacsics, Hungarian handball player
- 1991 – Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
- 1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Banda do Mar)
- 1992 – Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
- 1993 – Lucas Cruikshank, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1993 – Liam Payne, English singer, songwriter, producer (One Direction)
- 1994 – Courtney Stodden, American model and singer
- 1995 – Aria Clemente, Filipino actress and singer
Deaths
- 886 – Basil I, Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
- 979 – Abu Taghlib, Hamdanid ruler
- 1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1123 – Eystein I of Norway (b. 1088)
- 1315 – Peter Tempesta (b. 1261)
- 1315 – Charles of Taranto (b. 1296)
- 1395 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (b. 1349)
- 1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
- 1526 – Louis II of Hungary (b. 1506)
- 1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
- 1533 – Atahualpa, Sovereign emperor (b. 1497)
- 1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese commander (b. 1516)
- 1543 – Maria of Jülich-Berg (b. 1491)
- 1657 – John Lilburne, English activist (b. 1614)
- 1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
- 1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
- 1769 – Edmond Hoyle, English author and educator (b. 1672)
- 1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
- 1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
- 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
- 1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
- 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1846)
- 1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
- 1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
- 1891 – Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
- 1892 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
- 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
- 1917 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
- 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
- 1931 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
- 1935 – Astrid of Sweden (b. 1905)
- 1944 – Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
- 1945 – Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright (b. 1880)
- 1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
- 1946 – John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
- 1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
- 1951 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
- 1952 – Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
- 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
- 1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
- 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
- 1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish educator and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, flute player, and philosopher (b. 1899)
- 1976 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress and singer (b. 1923)
- 1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
- 1979 – Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890)
- 1981 – Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
- 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-English actress and singer (b. 1915)
- 1982 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
- 1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1984 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (b. 1890)
- 1985 – Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress and singer (b. 1918)
- 1987 – Archie Campbell, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor and singer (b. 1924)
- 1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer and painter (b. 1909)
- 1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)
- 1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman (b. 1924)
- 1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
- 1992 – Teddy Turner, English actor (b. 1917)
- 1995 – Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 2000 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
- 2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
- 2000 – Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (b. 1952)
- 2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Lance Macklin, English race car driver (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi politician (b. 1939)
- 2003 – Michel Constantin, French actor (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Patrick Procktor, English painter and academic (b. 1936)
- 2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
- 2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Richard Jewell, American police officer (b. 1962)
- 2007 – Pierre Messmer, French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
- 2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
- 2008 – Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist and theorist (b. 1939)
- 2011 – David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Junpei Takiguchi, Japanese voice actor (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Ruth Goldbloom, Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English historian and author (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Anne McKnight, American soprano (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969)
- 2013 – Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Darren Manzella, American sergeant and activist (b. 1977)
- 2013 – Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Cliff Morgan, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931)
- 2014 – David Bala, Singaporean comedian and actor (b. 1947)
- 2014 – Brasse Brännström, Swedish actor and screenwriter (b. 1945)
- 2014 – Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975)
- 2014 – Ryūko Seihō, Japanese sumo wrestler and actor (b. 1941)
- 2014 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
- 2015 – Wayne Dyer, American author and educator (b. 1940)
- 2015 – Kyle Jean-Baptiste, American actor and singer (b. 1993)
- 2015 – Graham Leggat, Scottish-Canadian footballer and manager (b. 1934)
- 2015 – Ron Searle, English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1919)
Holidays and observances
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