Day of the year
August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 125 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay .1619 – Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor .1640 – Second Bishop's War : King Charles I 's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn .1648 – Second English Civil War : The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur .1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn : Enceladus .1810 – Napoleonic Wars : The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port .1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent , making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions .[ 1] 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American 1849 – Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire : After a month-long siege, Venice , which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco , surrenders to Austria.1850 – Richard Wagner ’s Lohengrin Staatskapelle Weimar .[ 2] 1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.1861 – American Civil War : Union forces attack Cape Hatteras , North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.1862 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run , also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll .1879 – Anglo-Zulu War : Cetshwayo , last king of the Zulus , is captured by the British .1898 – Caleb Bradham 's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola ".
1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines . It is the first American private school in the country.1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup , seeking wide-ranging reforms.1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague .1914 – World War I : The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight .1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania .1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten suffragists , members of the Silent Sentinels , are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States .1921 – Russian Civil War : The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine .1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union .1936 – Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses , who are interned in concentration camps .[ 3] 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.1943 – Denmark in World War II : German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.1944 – World War II : Marseille and Toulon are liberated.1946 – The Workers' Party of North Korea , predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea , is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang , North Korea .[ 4] 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement .1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom : Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream [ 5] 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.1968 – Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching ".[ 6] 1973 – Norrmalmstorg robbery : Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson , defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis . The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome [ 7] 1988 – Ramstein air show disaster : Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.1990 – Gulf War : Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province .1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet , killing 29 people.
1993 – NASA 's Galileo flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida . Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon , in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.1993 – Singaporean presidential election : Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore . Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.[ 8] [ 9]
1993 – The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia .[ 10]
1993 – A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.[ 11]
1996 – Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger , antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle , Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention .[ 12] 1998 – Pakistan 's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah " the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate .1998 – Second Congo War : Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa .
1999 – The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir [ 13] 2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI ", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery , a scavenger hunt , and a homemade explosive device .[ 14] 2009 – NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128 .[ 15] 2016 – The first experimental mission of ISRO 's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota .[ 16] 2017 – China–India border standoff : China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam , putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.[ 17] 2022 – 2022 Phoenix shooting : A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona , resulting in the deaths of 3 people, including the perpetrator.[ 18]
Births
Pre-1600
1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn , Dutch linguist and scholar (d. 1653)1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)1691 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Holy Roman Empress (d. 1750)1714 – Anthony Ulrich , duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)1728 – John Stark , American general (d. 1822)[ 19] 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni , Italian composer (d. 1818)1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton , American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot , French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)1814 – Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish author (d. 1873)1816 – Charles Sladen , English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)1822 – Graham Berry , English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (d. 1904)1827 – Catherine Mikhailovna , Russian grand duchess (d. 1894)1833 – Edward Burne-Jones , English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (d. 1898)1837 – Francis von Hohenstein , duke of Teck (d. 1900)1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim , Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (d. 1900)1853 – Vladimir Shukhov , Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)1859 – Matilda Howell , American archer (d. 1938)1859 – Vittorio Sella , Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
1867 – Umberto Giordano , Italian composer and academic (d. 1948)1878 – George Whipple , American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)1884 – Peter Fraser , Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)1885 – Vance Palmer , Australian author, playwright, and critic (d. 1959)1887 – August Kippasto , Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (d. 1973)1887 – István Kühár , Slovenian priest and politician (d. 1922)
1888 – Evadne Price , Australian actress, astrologer, and author (d. 1985)1891 – Benno Schotz , Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (d. 1984)1894 – Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor and director (d. 1981)1896 – Firaq Gorakhpuri , Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 1982)1898 – Charlie Grimm , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 1983)1899 – Charles Boyer , French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)1899 – Andrei Platonov , Russian author and poet (d. 1951)
1899 – James Wong Howe , Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976)
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim , Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)1904 – Secondo Campini , Italian-American engineer (d. 1980)1904 – Leho Laurine , Estonian chess player (d. 1998)
1905 – Cyril Walters , Welsh-English cricketer (d. 1992)1906 – John Betjeman , English poet and academic (d. 1984)1908 – Roger Tory Peterson , American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)1910 – Morris Graves , American painter and academic (d. 2001)1910 – Tjalling Koopmans , Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns , Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2002)1913 – Robertson Davies , Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1995)1913 – Jack Dreyfus , American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (d. 2009)
1913 – Lindsay Hassett , Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1913 – Robert Irving , English conductor and director (d. 1991)
1913 – Terence Reese , English bridge player and author (d. 1996)
1913 – Richard Tucker , American tenor and actor (d. 1975)
1915 – Max Robertson , Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (d. 2009)1915 – Tasha Tudor , American author and illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 – Hélène Baillargeon , Canadian singer and actress (d. 1997)1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (d. 1962)
1916 – Jack Vance , American author (d. 2013)
1917 – Jack Kirby , American author and illustrator (d. 1994)[ 20] 1918 – L. B. Cole , American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995)1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield , English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)1921 – John Herbert Chapman , Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez , Spanish actor, director, and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 – Nancy Kulp , American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada , the first female President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
1924 – Janet Frame , New Zealand author and poet (d. 2004)[ 20] 1924 – Tony MacGibbon , New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)
1924 – Peggy Ryan , American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 – Zalman Schachter-Shalomi , Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014)
1925 – Billy Grammer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)1925 – Donald O'Connor , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
1925 – Philip Purser , English author and critic (d. 2022)
1928 – F. William Free , American businessman (d. 2003)1928 – Vilayat Khan , Indian sitar player and composer (d. 2004)
1929 – István Kertész , Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)1929 – Roxie Roker , American actress (d. 1995)
1930 – Windsor Davies , British actor (d. 2019)1930 – Ben Gazzara , American actor (d. 2012)
1931 – Tito Capobianco , Argentinian director and producer (d. 2018)1931 – Cristina Deutekom , Dutch soprano and actress (d. 2014)
1931 – Ola L. Mize , American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014)
1931 – John Shirley-Quirk , English actor, singer, and educator (d. 2014)
1931 – Roger Williams , English hepatologist and academic (d. 2020)
1932 – Yakir Aharonov , Israeli academic and educator1932 – Andy Bathgate , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
1933 – Philip French , English journalist, critic, and producer (d. 2015)[ 21] 1933 – Patrick Kalilombe , Malawian bishop and theologian (d. 2012)
1935 – Melvin Charney , Canadian sculptor and architect (d. 2012)1935 – Gilles Rocheleau , Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1998)
1935 – Sonny Shroyer , American actor[ 22]
1936 – Don Denkinger , American baseball player and umpire (d. 2023)1936 – Warren M. Washington , American atmospheric scientist
1938 – Marla Adams , American actress (d. 2024)[ 22] 1938 – Maurizio Costanzo , Italian journalist and academic (d. 2023)
1938 – Bengt Fahlström , Swedish journalist (d. 2017)
1938 – Marcello Gandini , Italian automotive designer (d. 2024)[ 23]
1938 – Paul Martin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
1939 – John Kingman , English mathematician and academic1940 – William Cohen , American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense 1940 – Ken Jenkins , American actor[ 22]
1940 – Roger Pingeon , French cyclist (d. 2017)
1941 – Michael Craig-Martin , Irish painter and illustrator1941 – Toomas Leius , Estonian tennis player and coach
1941 – John Stanley Marshall , English drummer (d. 2023)
1941 – Paul Plishka , American opera singer
1942 – Wendy Davies , Welsh historian and academic1942 – Jorge Urosa , Venezuelan cardinal (d. 2021)
1943 – Jihad Al-Atrash , Lebanese actor and voice actor1943 – Surayud Chulanont , Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
1943 – Robert Greenwald , American director and producer
1943 – Shuja Khanzada , Pakistani colonel and politician (d. 2015)
1943 – Lou Piniella , American baseball player and manager[ 20]
1943 – David Soul , American actor and singer (d. 2024)[ 22]
1944 – Marianne Heemskerk , Dutch swimmer1945 – Bob Segarini , American-Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2023)1947 – Emlyn Hughes , English footballer (d. 2004)1947 – Debra Mooney , American actress[ 22]
1947 – Liza Wang , Hong Kong actress and singer
1948 – Vonda N. McIntyre , American author (d. 2019)1948 – Murray Parker , New Zealand cricketer and educator
1948 – Heather Reisman , Canadian publisher and businesswoman
1948 – Danny Seraphine , American drummer and producer
1948 – Elizabeth Wilmshurst , English academic and jurist
1949 – Hugh Cornwell , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1949 – Svetislav Pešić , Serbian basketball player and coach
1950 – Ron Guidry , American baseball player and coach1950 – Tony Husband , English cartoonist (d. 2023)
1951 – Colin McAdam , Scottish footballer (d. 2013)1951 – Wayne Osmond , American singer-songwriter and actor[ 22]
1951 – Keiichi Suzuki , Japanese singer-songwriter
1952 – Jacques Chagnon , Canadian educator and politician1952 – Rita Dove , American poet and essayist
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking , German businessman
1953 – Ditmar Jakobs , German footballer1953 – Tõnu Kaljuste , Estonian conductor and journalist
1954 – Katharine Abraham , American feminist economist1954 – George M. Church , American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
1954 – John Dorahy , Australian rugby player and coach
1954 – Ravi Kanbur , Indian-English economist and academic
1956 – Luis Guzmán , Puerto Rican-American actor and producer[ 20] 1956 – John Long , American basketball player[ 24]
1956 – Steve Whiteman , American singer-songwriter
1957 – Greg Clark , English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 1957 – Ivo Josipović , Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
1957 – Daniel Stern , American actor and director[ 22]
1957 – Ai Weiwei , Chinese sculptor and activist
1958 – Scott Hamilton , American figure skater[ 20] 1959 – Brian Thompson , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1960 – Emma Samms , English actress[ 22] 1961 – Kim Appleby , English singer-songwriter and actress1961 – Cliff Benson , American football player
1961 – Jennifer Coolidge , American actress[ 22]
1961 – Ian Pont , English cricketer and coach
1961 – Deepak Tijori , Indian actor and director
1962 – Paul Allen , English footballer1962 – Craig Anton , American actor and screenwriter
1962 – David Fincher , American director and producer
1963 – Maria Gheorghiu , Romanian folk singer-songwriter1963 – Regina Jacobs , American runner
1964 – Lee Janzen , American golfer1964 – Kaj Leo Johannesen , Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1965 – Dan Crowley , Australian rugby player1965 – Sonia Kruger , Australian television host and actress
1965 – Satoshi Tajiri , Japanese video game developer; created Pokémon
1965 – Amanda Tapping , British-Canadian actress and director[ 22]
1965 – Shania Twain , Canadian singer-songwriter[ 22]
1966 – Priya Dutt , Indian social worker and politician1967 – Jamie Osborne , English jockey and trainer1968 – Billy Boyd , Scottish actor and singer[ 22] 1969 – Jack Black , American actor and comedian[ 22] 1969 – Mary McCartney , English photographer and activist
1969 – Jason Priestley , Canadian actor, director, and producer[ 22]
1969 – Sheryl Sandberg , American business executive[ 20]
1969 – Pierre Turgeon , Canadian-American ice hockey player
1970 – Melina Aslanidou , German-Greek singer-songwriter1970 – Rick Recht , American singer-songwriter
1971 – Shane Andrews , American baseball player1971 – Todd Eldredge , American figure skater and coach[ 20]
1971 – Janet Evans , American swimmer[ 20]
1971 – Daniel Goddard , Australian-American actor[ 22]
1971 – Raúl Márquez , Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
1972 – Ravindu Shah , Kenyan cricketer1972 – Jay Witasick , American baseball player and coach
1973 – J. August Richards , American actor[ 22] 1974 – Johan Andersson , Swedish game designer and programmer1974 – Takahito Eguchi , Japanese pianist and composer
1974 – Carsten Jancker , German footballer and manager
1975 – Jamie Cureton , English footballer1975 – Gareth Farrelly , Irish footballer and manager
1975 – Hamish McLachlan , Australian television personality
1975 – Royce Willis , New Zealand rugby player
1976 – Federico Magallanes , Uruguayan footballer1978 – Karine Turcotte , Canadian weightlifter[ 25] 1979 – Shaila Dúrcal , Spanish singer-songwriter1979 – Robert Hoyzer , German footballer and referee
1979 – Kristen Hughes , Australian netball player
1979 – Markus Pröll , German footballer
1979 – Ruth Riley , American basketball player
1980 – Antony Hämäläinen , Finnish singer-songwriter1980 – Debra Lafave , American sex offender and former teacher[ 26]
1980 – Ryan Madson , American baseball player[ 27]
1980 – Jaakko Ojaniemi , Finnish decathlete
1980 – Carly Pope , Canadian actress and producer[ 22]
1980 – Jonathan Reynolds , English lawyer and politician
1981 – Kezia Dugdale , Scottish politician
1981 – Daniel Gygax , Swiss footballer
1981 – Raphael Matos , Brazilian race car driver
1981 – Jake Owen , American singer-songwriter and guitarist[ 22]
1981 – Ahmed Talbi , Moroccan footballer
1981 – Agata Wróbel , Polish weightlifter
1982 – Anderson Silva de França , Brazilian footballer1982 – Kevin McNaughton , Scottish footballer
1982 – Thiago Motta , Brazilian-Italian footballer
1982 – Carlos Quentin , American baseball player[ 28]
1982 – LeAnn Rimes , American singer-songwriter and actress[ 22]
1983 – Lasith Malinga , Sri Lankan cricketer1983 – Luke McAlister , New Zealand rugby player[ 29]
1983 – Lilli Schwarzkopf , German heptathlete[ 30]
1984 – Will Harris , American baseball player[ 31] 1985 – Kjetil Jansrud , Norwegian skier[ 32] 1986 – Jeff Green , American basketball player1986 – Armie Hammer , American actor[ 22]
1986 – Tommy Hanson , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1986 – Simon Mannering , New Zealand rugby league player
1986 – Gilad Shalit , Israeli soldier and hostage[ 20]
1986 – Florence Welch , English singer-songwriter[ 22]
1987 – Caleb Moore , American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)1988 – Shalita Grant , American actress[ 22] 1988 – Rosie MacLennan , Canadian trampoline gymnast[ 33]
1989 – César Azpilicueta , Spanish footballer1989 – Valtteri Bottas , Finnish race car driver
1989 – Jo Kwon , South Korean singer and dancer
1989 – Cassadee Pope , American singer-songwriter[ 22]
1990 – Katie Findlay , Canadian actor[ 22] 1990 – Bojan Krkić , Spanish footballer
1991 – Felicio Brown Forbes , German footballer1991 – Samuel Larsen , American actor and singer[ 22]
1991 – Kyle Massey , American actor[ 22]
1991 – Andreja Pejić , Bosnian model [ 34]
1992 – Bismack Biyombo , Congolese basketball player1992 – Max Collins , American-Filipino actress and model
1992 – Gabriela Drăgoi , Romanian gymnast[ 35]
1993 – Jakub Sokolík , Czech footballer1994 – Manon Arcangioli , French tennis player[ 36] 1994 – Ons Jabeur , Tunisian tennis player[ 37]
1998 – Weston McKennie , American soccer player[ 38] 2001 – Kamilla Rakhimova , Russian tennis player[ 39] [ 40] 2003 – Quvenzhané Wallis , American actress[ 41]
Deaths
Pre-1600
388 – Magnus Maximus , Roman emperor (b. 335)430 – Augustine of Hippo , Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (b. 354)476 – Orestes , Roman general and politician632 – Fatimah , daughter of Muhammad (b. 605)683 – Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I , ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (b. 615)770 – Kōken , emperor of Japan (b. 718)876 – Louis the German , Frankish king (b. 804)919 – He Gui , Chinese general (b. 858)1055 – Xing Zong , Chinese emperor (b. 1016)1149 – Mu'in ad-Din Unur , Turkish ruler and regent1231 – Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark 1341 – Levon IV , king of Armenia (b. 1309)1406 – John de Sutton V , Baron Sutton of Dudley (b. 1380)1481 – Afonso V , king of Portugal (b. 1432)1540 – Federico II Gonzaga , duke of Mantua (b. 1500)
1609 – Francis Vere , English governor and general1645 – Hugo Grotius , Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (b. 1583)1646 – Johannes Banfi Hunyades , English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (b. 1576)1648 – George Lisle , English general (b. 1610)1648 – Charles Lucas , English general (b. 1613)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna , Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)1665 – Elisabetta Sirani , Italian painter (b. 1638)1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1602)1735 – Edwin Stead , English landowner and cricketer (b. 1701)1757 – David Hartley , English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1705)1761 – Melchor de Navarrete , Spanish colonial governor of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739–1742); of Spanish Florida (1749–1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754–1758) (b. 1693)[ 42] 1784 – Junípero Serra , Spanish priest and missionary (b. 1713)1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine , French general (b. 1740)1805 – Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , American fur trader, founded Chicago (b. 1750)1820 – Andrew Ellicott , American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)1832 – Edward Dando , English thief[ 43] 1839 – William Smith , English geologist and engineer (b. 1769)1888 – Julius Krohn , Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)1891 – Robert Caldwell , English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)1900 – Henry Sidgwick , English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted , American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (b. 1822)1919 – Adolf Schmal , Austrian fencer and cyclist (b. 1872)1934 – Edgeworth David , Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)1937 – George Prendergast , Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)1943 – Georg Hellat , Estonian architect (b. 1870)1943 – Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1955 – Emmett Till , African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (b. 1941)1959 – Bohuslav Martinů , Czech-American composer and educator (b. 1890)1965 – Giulio Racah , Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)1968 – Dimitris Pikionis , Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)1971 – Reuvein Margolies , Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)1972 – Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)1975 – Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)1976 – Anissa Jones , American actress (b. 1958)1978 – Bruce Catton , American historian and journalist (b. 1899)1978 – Robert Shaw , English actor (b. 1927)
1981 – Béla Guttmann , Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1899)[ 44] 1982 – Geoff Chubb , South African cricketer (b. 1911)1984 – Muhammad Naguib , Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)1985 – Ruth Gordon , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1896)1986 – Russell Lee , American photographer and journalist (b. 1903)1987 – John Huston , Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)1988 – Jean Marchand , Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1918)1988 – Max Shulman , American author and screenwriter (b. 1919)
1989 – John Steptoe , American author and illustrator (b. 1950)1990 – Willy Vandersteen , Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1913)1991 – Alekos Sakellarios , Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1913)1993 – William Stafford , American poet and academic (b. 1914)1995 – Earl W. Bascom , American rodeo performer and painter (b. 1906)1995 – Michael Ende , German scientist and author (b. 1929)
2005 – Jacques Dufilho , French actor (b. 1914)2005 – Esther Szekeres , Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
2005 – George Szekeres , Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
2006 – Heino Lipp , Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1922)2006 – Benoît Sauvageau , Canadian educator and politician (b. 1963)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2007 – Arthur Jones , American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (b. 1926)2007 – Hilly Kristal , American businessman, founded CBGB (b. 1932)
2007 – Paul MacCready , American engineer and businessman, founded AeroVironment (b. 1925)
2007 – Francisco Umbral , Spanish journalist and author (b. 1935)
2007 – Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese-American actress (b. 1929)
2008 – Phil Hill , American race car driver (b. 1927)2009 – Adam Goldstein , American drummer, DJ, and producer (b. 1973)2009 – Richard Egan , US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC , Engineer (b. 1936)
2010 – William P. Foster , American bandleader and educator (b. 1919)2011 – Bernie Gallacher , English footballer (b. 1967)2012 – Rhodes Boyson , English educator and politician (b. 1925)2012 – Shulamith Firestone , Canadian-American activist and author (b. 1945)
2012 – Dick McBride , American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
2012 – Saul Merin , Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1933)
2012 – Ramón Sota , Spanish golfer (b. 1938)
2013 – John Bellany , Scottish painter and academic (b. 1942)[ 45] 2013 – Lorella Cedroni , Italian political scientist and philosopher (b. 1961)
2013 – Edmund B. Fitzgerald , American businessman (b. 1926)
2013 – Frank Pulli , American baseball player and umpire (b. 1935)
2013 – Barry Stobart , English footballer (b. 1938)
2013 – Rafael Díaz Ycaza , Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1925)
2014 – Glenn Cornick , English bass guitarist (b. 1947)2014 – Hal Finney , American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956)
2014 – John Anthony Walker , American soldier and spy (b. 1937)
2015 – Al Arbour , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)2015 – Mark Krasniqi , Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920)
2015 – Nelson Shanks , American painter and educator (b. 1937)
2016 – Juan Gabriel , Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950)2016 – Mr. Fuji , American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
2017 – Mireille Darc , French actress and model (b. 1938)2020 – Chadwick Boseman , American actor and playwright (b. 1976)[ 46] 2024 – Obi Ndefo , American actor (b. 1972)[ 47] 2024 – Steve Silberman , American writer and journalist (b. 1957)[ 48]
Holidays and observances
References
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