August 20 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on August 20 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 29 Mordad 1405.

Occasions on this day in 2026

international
World Mosquito Day
countries
Day of Restoration of Independence (Estonia)

This day in the calendar

Famous people born on August 20

Events (62)

14 (2012 years ago) Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile.
636 (1390 years ago) Battle of the Yarmuk: Marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia, Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid defeat the Byzantine Empire and take control of the Levant.
917 (1109 years ago) Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
1057 (969 years ago) An army under Isaac I Komnenos defeat forces loyal to rival emperor Michael VI Bringas in the battle of Hades.
1083 (943 years ago) The first King of Hungary, Stephen I, and his son, Prince Emeric, are canonized, a date now celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1119 (907 years ago) King Henry I of England defeats king Louis VI of France in the battle of Brémule.
1191 (835 years ago) Believing Saladin had reneged on ransom promises, Richard I of England initiates the massacre at Ayyadieh, beheading 2,700 captive Muslim soldiers and another 300 women and children seized at the Fall of Acre.
1308 (718 years ago) At the conclusion of the interrogation of the leaders of the Knights Templar, the three papal investigators, Cardinals Bérenger Frédol, Etienne de Suisy and Landolfo Brancacci, write the "Chinon Parchment", in which they affirm that the accused Templars had confessed, done penance, and were absolved of heresy.
1467 (559 years ago) The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
1519 (507 years ago) On the third day of battle, philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
1648 (378 years ago) The Battle of Lens is the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years' War, contributing to the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in October that year.
1672 (354 years ago) Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by a mob in The Hague.
1707 (319 years ago) The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
1710 (316 years ago) War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
1775 (251 years ago) The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1794 (232 years ago) Northwest Indian War: United States troops force the United Indian Nations, a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Lenape, Wyandot, Miami, Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi warriors, into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1852 (174 years ago) Steamboat Atlantic sinks on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
1858 (168 years ago) Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1864 (162 years ago) Bakumatsu: Kinmon incident: The Chōshū Domain attempts to expel the Satsuma and Aizu Domains from Japan's imperial court.
1866 (160 years ago) President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1882 (144 years ago) Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
1905 (121 years ago) Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others establish the Tongmenghui, a Republican, anti-Qing revolutionary organisation, in Tokyo, Japan.
1910 (116 years ago) Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
1920 (106 years ago) The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
1920 (106 years ago) The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio.
1926 (100 years ago) Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1940 (86 years ago) In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Eighth Route Army launches the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a successful campaign to disrupt Japanese war infrastructure and logistics in occupied northern China.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
1948 (78 years ago) Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
1949 (77 years ago) Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People's Republic.
1955 (71 years ago) Battle of Philippeville: In Algeria, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 (66 years ago) Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
1962 (64 years ago) The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
1968 (58 years ago) Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
1975 (51 years ago) Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1975 (51 years ago) ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people.
1977 (49 years ago) Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1986 (40 years ago) In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots and kills 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 (38 years ago) "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park.
1988 (38 years ago) Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 (38 years ago) The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
1989 (37 years ago) The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
1991 (35 years ago) Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 (35 years ago) Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
1992 (34 years ago) In India, Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) is included in the scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of the Indian Government.
1995 (31 years ago) The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India.
1997 (29 years ago) Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 (28 years ago) The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 (28 years ago) U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2002 (24 years ago) A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2006 (20 years ago) Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
2007 (19 years ago) China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
2008 (18 years ago) Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
2011 (15 years ago) First Air Flight 6560 crashes 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Resolute Bay runway, killing 12 of the 15 aboard.
2012 (14 years ago) A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
2014 (12 years ago) Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
2016 (10 years ago) Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
2020 (6 years ago) Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

Births (226)

1377 (649 years ago) Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxiania (died 1447)
1517 (509 years ago) Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal and art collector (died 1586)
1561 (465 years ago) Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer (died 1633)
1625 (401 years ago) Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (died 1709)
1632 (394 years ago) Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and academic (died 1704)
1659 (367 years ago) Henry Every, English pirate (died 1696)
1710 (316 years ago) Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (died 1761)
1719 (307 years ago) Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (died 1783)
1720 (306 years ago) Bernard de Bury, French harpsichord player and composer (died 1785)
1778 (248 years ago) Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean general and politician, 2nd Supreme Director of Chile (died 1842)
1779 (247 years ago) Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (died 1848)
1785 (241 years ago) Oliver Hazard Perry, American Naval hero (died 1819)
1799 (227 years ago) James Prinsep, English orientalist and scholar (died 1840)
1833 (193 years ago) Benjamin Harrison, American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States (died 1901)
1845 (181 years ago) Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (died 1916)
1847 (179 years ago) Andrew Greenwood, English cricketer (died 1889)
1847 (179 years ago) Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (died 1912)
1856 (170 years ago) Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (died 1909)
1857 (169 years ago) George Griffith, British writer (died 1906)
1860 (166 years ago) Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (died 1934)
1865 (161 years ago) Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer and lawyer (died 1911)
1868 (158 years ago) Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (died 1954)
1873 (153 years ago) Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (died 1950)
1881 (145 years ago) Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author (died 1959)
1881 (145 years ago) Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1943)
1884 (142 years ago) Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (died 1976)
1885 (141 years ago) Dino Campana, Italian poet and author (died 1932)
1886 (140 years ago) Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian (died 1965)
1887 (139 years ago) Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar (died 1959)
1888 (138 years ago) Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam (died 1980)
1890 (136 years ago) H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist (died 1937)
1896 (130 years ago) Gostha Pal, Indian footballer (died 1976)
1897 (129 years ago) Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (died 1970)
1898 (128 years ago) Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, writer (died 1968)
1898 (128 years ago) Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian, journalist, author, and playwright (died 1973)
1900 (126 years ago) Freddie Moore, American jazz drummer, washboarder, and singer (died 1992)
1901 (125 years ago) Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
1905 (121 years ago) Jean Gebser, German linguist, poet, and philosopher (died 1973)
1905 (121 years ago) Mikio Naruse, Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1969)
1905 (121 years ago) Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombonist (died 1964)
1906 (120 years ago) Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player (died 1981)
1908 (118 years ago) Al López, American baseball player and manager (died 2005)
1909 (117 years ago) André Morell, English actor (died 1978)
1909 (117 years ago) Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (died 1978)
1910 (116 years ago) Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch (died 1961)
1913 (113 years ago) Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
1915 (111 years ago) Ivo Rojnica, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (died 2007)
1916 (110 years ago) Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player and chemist (died 1984)
1917 (109 years ago) Terry Sanford, 65th governor of North Carolina (died 1998)
1918 (108 years ago) Jacqueline Susann, American actress and author (died 1974)
1919 (107 years ago) Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer (died 2021)
1919 (107 years ago) Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer, educator and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)
1920 (106 years ago) H. R. Van Dongen, American illustrator (died 2010)
1921 (105 years ago) Keith Froome, Australian rugby league player (died 1978)
1921 (105 years ago) Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (died 1985)
1923 (103 years ago) Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (died 1964)
1926 (100 years ago) Frank Rosolino, American jazz trombonist (died 1978)
1927 (99 years ago) Yootha Joyce, English actress (died 1980)
1927 (99 years ago) Fred Kavli, Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded The Kavli Foundation (died 2013)
1929 (97 years ago) Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)
1930 (96 years ago) Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (died 2013)
1930 (96 years ago) Peter Randall, English sergeant and recipient of the George Cross (died 2007)
1931 (95 years ago) Don King, American boxing promoter
1932 (94 years ago) Anthony Ainley, English actor (died 2004)
1932 (94 years ago) Vasily Aksyonov, Russian physician, author, and academic (died 2009)
1933 (93 years ago) Ted Donaldson, American actor (died 2023)
1933 (93 years ago) George J. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician
1935 (91 years ago) Ron Paul, American captain, physician, and politician
1936 (90 years ago) Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 (89 years ago) Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (died 2018)[citation needed]
1937 (89 years ago) Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
1938 (88 years ago) Jean-Loup Chrétien, French military officer and astronaut
1939 (87 years ago) Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (died 2004)
1940 (86 years ago) Rubén Hinojosa, American businessman and politician
1941 (85 years ago) Dame Anne Evans, English soprano and actress
1941 (85 years ago) Slobodan Milošević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Serbia (died 2006)
1942 (84 years ago) Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (died 2008)
1943 (83 years ago) Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 (82 years ago) Rajiv Gandhi, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1991)
1944 (82 years ago) José Wilker, Brazilian actor and director (died 2014)
1946 (80 years ago) Mufaddal Saifuddin, 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Fatimid Caliphate
1946 (80 years ago) Henryk Broder, Polish-German journalist and author
1946 (80 years ago) Connie Chung, American journalist
1946 (80 years ago) Laurent Fabius, French politician, 158th Prime Minister of France
1946 (80 years ago) Ralf Hütter, German singer and keyboard player
1946 (80 years ago) N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
1947 (79 years ago) Larry Kudlow, American conservative news analyst, economist, and journalist
1947 (79 years ago) Alan Lee, English painter and illustrator
1947 (79 years ago) James Pankow, American musician
1947 (79 years ago) Ray Wise, American actor
1948 (78 years ago) John Noble, Australian actor and director
1948 (78 years ago) Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
1949 (77 years ago) Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)
1949 (77 years ago) Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1986)
1951 (75 years ago) Greg Bear, American author (died 2022)
1952 (74 years ago) Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
1952 (74 years ago) John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 (73 years ago) Peter Horton, American actor and director
1954 (72 years ago) Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach
1954 (72 years ago) Al Roker, American news anchor, television personality, and author
1955 (71 years ago) Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
1956 (70 years ago) Joan Allen, American actress
1956 (70 years ago) Alvin Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer
1957 (69 years ago) Simon Donaldson, English mathematician and academic
1957 (69 years ago) Cindy Nicholas, Canadian swimmer (died 2016)
1958 (68 years ago) Patricia Rozema, Canadian director and screenwriter
1958 (68 years ago) David O. Russell, American director and screenwriter
1960 (66 years ago) Dom Duff, Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
1960 (66 years ago) Sally Yates, American lawyer and former Acting Attorney General
1962 (64 years ago) James Marsters, American actor
1963 (63 years ago) Uwe Bialon, German footballer and manager
1964 (62 years ago) Azarias Ruberwa, Congolese lawyer and politician, Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1965 (61 years ago) KRS-One, American rapper and producer
1966 (60 years ago) Miguel Albaladejo, Spanish director and screenwriter
1966 (60 years ago) Colin Cunningham, American actor
1966 (60 years ago) Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2004)
1966 (60 years ago) Enrico Letta, Italian lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Italy
1966 (60 years ago) Liu Chunyan, Chinese host and voice actress
1968 (58 years ago) Abdelatif Benazzi, Moroccan-French rugby player
1968 (58 years ago) Sandy Brondello, Australian basketball player and coach
1968 (58 years ago) Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (died 2014)
1969 (57 years ago) Billy Gardell, American comedian, actor, and producer
1969 (57 years ago) Santeri Kinnunen, Finnish actor
1970 (56 years ago) Els Callens, Belgian tennis player and sportscaster
1970 (56 years ago) Fred Durst, American singer-songwriter
1971 (55 years ago) Nenad Bjelica, Croatian footballer and manager
1971 (55 years ago) Ke Huy Quan, Vietnamese-American actor
1971 (55 years ago) Steve Stone, English footballer and coach
1971 (55 years ago) David Walliams, English comedian, actor, and author
1972 (54 years ago) Derrick Alston, American basketball player
1972 (54 years ago) Scott Quinnell, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster
1972 (54 years ago) Anna Umemiya, Japanese model and actress
1973 (53 years ago) Alban Bushi, Albanian footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Alexandre Finazzi, Brazilian footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Scott Goodman, Australian swimmer
1973 (53 years ago) Cameron Mather, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1974 (52 years ago) Amy Adams, American actress
1974 (52 years ago) Misha Collins, American actor
1974 (52 years ago) Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer and coach
1974 (52 years ago) Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist and conductor
1975 (51 years ago) Marcin Adamski, Polish footballer and manager
1975 (51 years ago) Marko Martin, Estonian pianist and educator
1976 (50 years ago) Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
1976 (50 years ago) Cornel Frăsineanu, Romanian footballer
1976 (50 years ago) Tony Grant, Irish footballer
1976 (50 years ago) Kristen Miller, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1976 (50 years ago) Fabio Ulloa, Honduran footballer
1977 (49 years ago) Paolo Bianco, Italian footballer
1977 (49 years ago) Wayne Brown, English footballer
1977 (49 years ago) Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player, coach, and physician
1977 (49 years ago) Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 (49 years ago) Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourgish footballer
1977 (49 years ago) Aaron Hamill, Australian footballer and coach
1977 (49 years ago) Ívar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 (49 years ago) James Ormond, English cricketer
1977 (49 years ago) Josh Pearce, American baseball player
1977 (49 years ago) Aaron Taylor, American baseball player
1978 (48 years ago) Alberto Martín, Spanish tennis player
1978 (48 years ago) Emir Mkademi, Tunisian footballer
1978 (48 years ago) Chris Schroder, American baseball player
1979 (47 years ago) Sarah Borwell, English tennis player
1979 (47 years ago) Jamie Cullum, English singer-songwriter and pianist
1979 (47 years ago) Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1981 (45 years ago) Ben Barnes, English actor
1981 (45 years ago) Brett Finch, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1981 (45 years ago) Artur Kotenko, Estonian footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Craig Ochs, American football player
1981 (45 years ago) Byron Saxton, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster
1982 (44 years ago) Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Aleksandr Amisulashvili, Georgian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Monty Dumond, South African rugby player
1982 (44 years ago) Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Mijaín López, Cuban wrestler
1982 (44 years ago) Meghan Ory, Canadian actress
1982 (44 years ago) Richard Petiot, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 (44 years ago) Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 (44 years ago) Enyelbert Soto, Venezuelan-Japanese baseball player
1983 (43 years ago) Paulo André Cren Benini, Brazilian footballer
1983 (43 years ago) Andrew Garfield, American-English actor
1983 (43 years ago) Héctor Landazuri, Colombian footballer
1983 (43 years ago) Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Aílton José Almeida, Brazilian footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Pavel Eismann, Czech footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Laura Georges, French footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Ingrid Lukas, Estonian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist
1985 (41 years ago) Brant Daugherty, American actor
1985 (41 years ago) Thomas Domingo, French rugby player
1985 (41 years ago) Joe Vitale, American ice hockey player
1985 (41 years ago) Stephen Ward, Irish footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Andrew Surman, South African-English footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Stefan Aigner, German footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Gunther, Austrian wrestler
1987 (39 years ago) Vedran Janjetović, Croatian-Australian footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Sido Jombati, Portuguese footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Egon Kaur, Estonian race car driver
1988 (38 years ago) Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player
1988 (38 years ago) Sarah R, Lotfi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1988 (38 years ago) José Zamora, Spanish footballer
1989 (37 years ago) Kirko Bangz, American rapper and producer
1989 (37 years ago) Silas Kiplagat, Kenyan runner
1989 (37 years ago) Slavcho Shokolarov, Bulgarian footballer
1989 (37 years ago) Judd Trump, English snooker player
1989 (37 years ago) Dean Winnard, English footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Macauley Chrisantus, Nigerian footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Culoe De Song, South African music producer and DJ
1990 (36 years ago) Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Bradley Klahn, American tennis player
1990 (36 years ago) Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1991 (35 years ago) Marko Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
1991 (35 years ago) Jyrki Jokipakka, Finnish hockey player
1991 (35 years ago) Cory Joseph, Canadian basketball player
1992 (34 years ago) Carolina Horta, Brazilian beach volleyball player
1992 (34 years ago) Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
1992 (34 years ago) Alex Newell, American actor and singer
1992 (34 years ago) Deniss Rakels, Latvian footballer
1992 (34 years ago) Callum Skinner, Scottish track cyclist
1993 (33 years ago) Tonisha Rock-Yaw, Barbadian netball player
1994 (32 years ago) Mitchell Trubisky, American football player
1995 (31 years ago) Liana Liberato, American actress
1996 (30 years ago) Bunty Afoa, New Zealand rugby league player
1997 (29 years ago) Kaho Minagawa, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
1997 (29 years ago) Daniel Vladař, Czech ice hockey player
1998 (28 years ago) Lieke Klaver, Dutch track and field athlete
2003 (23 years ago) Prince Gabriel of Belgium,

Deaths (110)

2 (2024 years ago) Lucius Caesar, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (born 12 BC)
14 (2012 years ago) Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (born 12 BC)
535 (1491 years ago) Mochta, Irish missionary and saint
651 (1375 years ago) Oswine of Deira,
768 (1258 years ago) Eadberht of Northumbria,
917 (1109 years ago) Constantine Lips, Byzantine admiral
984 (1042 years ago) Pope John XIV,
1153 (873 years ago) Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian and saint (born 1090)
1158 (868 years ago) Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney and Saint
1297 (729 years ago) William Fraser, bishop and Guardian of Scotland
1348 (678 years ago) Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (born 1319)
1384 (642 years ago) Geert Groote, Dutch preacher, founded the Brethren of the Common Life (born 1340)
1386 (640 years ago) Bo Jonsson, royal marshal of Sweden
1471 (555 years ago) Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (born 1413)
1528 (498 years ago) Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (born 1473)
1572 (454 years ago) Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish navigator and politician, 1st Governor-General of the Philippines (born 1502)
1580 (446 years ago) Jerónimo Osório, Portuguese historian and author (born 1506)
1611 (415 years ago) Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish priest and composer (born 1548)
1639 (387 years ago) Martin Opitz, German poet and hymnwriter (born 1597)
1648 (378 years ago) Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English soldier and diplomat (born 1583)
1651 (375 years ago) Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Polish nobleman (born 1612)
1672 (354 years ago) Cornelis de Witt, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1623)
1672 (354 years ago) Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician (born 1625)
1680 (346 years ago) William Bedloe, English spy (born 1650)
1701 (325 years ago) Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright and politician (born 1639)
1707 (319 years ago) Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (born 1627)
1773 (253 years ago) Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian and author (born 1701)
1785 (241 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (born 1714)
1823 (203 years ago) Pope Pius VII,
1825 (201 years ago) William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (born 1753)
1835 (191 years ago) Agnes Bulmer, English merchant and poet (born 1775)
1854 (172 years ago) Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (born 1801)
1859 (167 years ago) Juan Bautista Ceballos, former president of Mexico (born 1811)
1882 (144 years ago) James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (born 1820)
1887 (139 years ago) Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (born 1860)
1893 (133 years ago) Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1827)
1897 (129 years ago) Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (born 1827)
1912 (114 years ago) William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (born 1829)
1914 (112 years ago) Pope Pius X,
1915 (111 years ago) Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
1917 (109 years ago) Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1835)
1919 (107 years ago) Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (born 1869)
1930 (96 years ago) Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1851)
1936 (90 years ago) Edward Weston, English-American chemist (born 1850)
1939 (87 years ago) Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (born 1845)
1942 (84 years ago) István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (born 1904)
1943 (83 years ago) William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (born 1858)
1949 (77 years ago) Ragnhild Kaarbø, Norwegian painter (born 1889)
1951 (75 years ago) İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (born 1882)
1961 (65 years ago) Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
1963 (63 years ago) Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (born 1879)
1965 (61 years ago) Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (born 1939)
1971 (55 years ago) Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (born 1951)
1976 (50 years ago) Vera Lutz, British economist (born 1912)
1979 (47 years ago) Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (born 1922)
1980 (46 years ago) Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (born 1938)
1981 (45 years ago) Michael Devine, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1954)
1982 (44 years ago) Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (born 1929)
1985 (41 years ago) Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist and academic (born 1904)
1985 (41 years ago) Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, German admiral (born 1897)
1986 (40 years ago) Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1923)
1987 (39 years ago) Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian–Polish basketball player and coach (born 1909)
1993 (33 years ago) Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (born 1912)
1995 (31 years ago) Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (born 1927)
1996 (30 years ago) Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (born 1950)
1997 (29 years ago) Norris Bradbury, American soldier, physicist, and academic (born 1909)
1997 (29 years ago) Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (born 1922)
1998 (28 years ago) Vũ Văn Mẫu, 10th and final Prime Minister of South Vietnam (born 1914)
2001 (25 years ago) Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (born 1915)
2001 (25 years ago) Kim Stanley, American actress (born 1925)
2005 (21 years ago) Thomas Herrion, American football player (born 1981)
2005 (21 years ago) Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer and songwriter (born 1970)
2006 (20 years ago) Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1977)
2006 (20 years ago) Joe Rosenthal, American photographer and journalist (born 1911)
2006 (20 years ago) S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (born 1938)
2007 (19 years ago) Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (born 1920)
2008 (18 years ago) Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1927)
2008 (18 years ago) Hua Guofeng, Chinese politician, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1921)
2008 (18 years ago) Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American lawyer and politician (born 1949)
2008 (18 years ago) Gene Upshaw, American football player (born 1945)
2009 (17 years ago) Larry Knechtel, American keyboardist and bass player (born 1940)
2009 (17 years ago) Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (born 1932)
2010 (16 years ago) Đặng Phong, Vietnamese economist and historian (born 1937)
2011 (15 years ago) Ram Sharan Sharma, Indian historian and academic (born 1919)
2012 (14 years ago) Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedian (born 1917)
2012 (14 years ago) Daryl Hine, Canadian-American poet and academic (born 1936)
2012 (14 years ago) Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916)
2012 (14 years ago) Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist (born 1967)
2012 (14 years ago) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (born 1955)
2013 (13 years ago) Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (born 1936)
2013 (13 years ago) Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist (born 1945)
2013 (13 years ago) Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
2013 (13 years ago) Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (born 1918)
2013 (13 years ago) Ted Post, American director and screenwriter (born 1918)
2014 (12 years ago) Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (born 1983)
2014 (12 years ago) Lois Mai Chan, Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (born 1934)
2014 (12 years ago) Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and academic (born 1946)
2014 (12 years ago) B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (born 1918)
2014 (12 years ago) Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (born 1924)
2014 (12 years ago) Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter and educator (born 1925)
2014 (12 years ago) Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (born 1927)
2015 (11 years ago) Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (born 1922)
2015 (11 years ago) Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (born 1941)
2017 (9 years ago) Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (born 1926)
2018 (8 years ago) Uri Avnery, Israeli writer, politician and peace activist (born 1923)
2018 (8 years ago) Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model (born 1978)
2020 (6 years ago) Chi Chi DeVayne, American Drag Queen (born 1985)
2021 (5 years ago) Igor Vovkovinskiy, Ukrainian-American law student and actor, American tallest person (born 1982)
2022 (4 years ago) Darya Dugina, Russian journalist (born 1992)
2024 (2 years ago) Al Attles, American basketball player and coach (born 1936)