August 3 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on August 3 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 12 Mordad 1405.

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Events (51)

8 (2018 years ago) Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
435 (1591 years ago) Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 (1145 years ago) Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
908 (1118 years ago) Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
1031 (995 years ago) Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
1057 (969 years ago) Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.
1342 (684 years ago) The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1347 (679 years ago) The city of Calais surrenders after a protracted siege to the English following the English defeat of a French relief fleet in the battle of Crotoy. It will remain in English hands for more than 200 years.
1492 (534 years ago) Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1527 (499 years ago) The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 (425 years ago) Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
1645 (381 years ago) Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1678 (348 years ago) Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1692 (334 years ago) British-Dutch forces under William III defending the city of Brussels fight an inconclusive battle at Steenkerque against a French army under the duke of Luxembourg, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.
1778 (248 years ago) The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
1795 (231 years ago) Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
1811 (215 years ago) First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1829 (197 years ago) The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
1852 (174 years ago) Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.
1859 (167 years ago) The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
1889 (137 years ago) An Anglo-Egyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army in the battle of Toski.
1900 (126 years ago) The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1903 (123 years ago) Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1907 (119 years ago) Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
1921 (105 years ago) Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1936 (90 years ago) Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936 (90 years ago) A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1946 (80 years ago) Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1948 (78 years ago) Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 (77 years ago) The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
1958 (68 years ago) The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
1959 (67 years ago) Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1960 (66 years ago) Niger gains independence from France.
1972 (54 years ago) The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 (51 years ago) A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1977 (49 years ago) Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1981 (45 years ago) Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1997 (29 years ago) Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
1997 (29 years ago) Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, becoming the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.
2004 (22 years ago) The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
2005 (21 years ago) President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2007 (19 years ago) Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
2010 (16 years ago) Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
2014 (12 years ago) A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
2014 (12 years ago) The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
2018 (8 years ago) Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
2019 (7 years ago) Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
2019 (7 years ago) Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
2023 (3 years ago) Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.

Births (219)

1442 (584 years ago) Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (died 1499)
1486 (540 years ago) Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan (died 1512)
1491 (535 years ago) Maria of Jülich-Berg, German noblewoman (died 1543)
1509 (517 years ago) Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (died 1546)
1622 (404 years ago) Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, German field marshal (died 1698)
1692 (334 years ago) John Henley, English minister and poet (died 1759)
1724 (302 years ago) Alvise Foscari, Venetian admiral (died 1790)
1766 (260 years ago) Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author (died 1844)
1770 (256 years ago) Frederick William III of Prussia,
1803 (223 years ago) Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (died 1865)
1808 (218 years ago) Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (died 1893)
1811 (215 years ago) Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (died 1861)
1817 (209 years ago) Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (died 1895)
1823 (203 years ago) Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish-American revolutionary and military leader, territorial governor of Montana (died 1867)
1823 (203 years ago) Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish clarinetist, composer, and musicologist (died 1894)
1832 (194 years ago) Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director (died 1914)
1837 (189 years ago) Julien Reverchon, French botanist (died 1905)
1840 (186 years ago) John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (died 1929)
1850 (176 years ago) Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (died 1926)
1856 (170 years ago) Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (died 1919)
1860 (166 years ago) William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 1935)
1863 (163 years ago) Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist (died 1922)
1867 (159 years ago) Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)
1871 (155 years ago) Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (died 1929)
1872 (154 years ago) Haakon VII of Norway,
1886 (140 years ago) Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright (died 1964)
1887 (139 years ago) Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)
1887 (139 years ago) August Wesley, Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (died ?)[citation needed]
1890 (136 years ago) Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club (died 1974)
1894 (132 years ago) Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1951)
1895 (131 years ago) Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician (died 1942)
1896 (130 years ago) Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (died 1997)
1899 (127 years ago) Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (died 1979)
1900 (126 years ago) Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (died 1945)
1900 (126 years ago) John T. Scopes, American educator (died 1970)
1901 (125 years ago) John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician (died 1995)
1901 (125 years ago) Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (died 1981)
1902 (124 years ago) Regina Jonas, German rabbi (died 1944)
1902 (124 years ago) David Buttolph, American film composer (died 1983)
1903 (123 years ago) Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)
1904 (122 years ago) Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983)
1904 (122 years ago) Clifford D. Simak, American journalist and author (died 1988)
1905 (121 years ago) Franz König, Austrian cardinal (died 2004)
1907 (119 years ago) Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer (died 1988)
1907 (119 years ago) Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (died 1996)
1907 (119 years ago) Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and President of China (died 1998)
1909 (117 years ago) Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and educator (died 1971)
1911 (115 years ago) Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor and producer (died 1990)
1912 (114 years ago) Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)
1913 (113 years ago) Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)
1916 (110 years ago) Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1970)
1916 (110 years ago) José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1978)
1917 (109 years ago) Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1995)
1918 (108 years ago) James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (died 2014)
1918 (108 years ago) Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (died 1999)
1918 (108 years ago) Larry Haines, American actor (died 2008)
1918 (108 years ago) Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)
1920 (106 years ago) Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer (died 2019)
1920 (106 years ago) Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (died 2012)
1920 (106 years ago) P. D. James, English author (died 2014)
1920 (106 years ago) Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player and composer (died 1971)
1920 (106 years ago) Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (died 2013)
1921 (105 years ago) Richard Adler, American composer and producer (died 2012)
1921 (105 years ago) Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (died 2008)
1921 (105 years ago) Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (died 1972)
1922 (104 years ago) John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2013)
1923 (103 years ago) Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)
1923 (103 years ago) Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria,
1924 (102 years ago) Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)
1924 (102 years ago) Leon Uris, American soldier and author (died 2003)
1925 (101 years ago) Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
1925 (101 years ago) Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (died 2017)
1926 (100 years ago) Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (died 2013)
1926 (100 years ago) Tony Bennett, American singer and actor (died 2023)
1926 (100 years ago) Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (died 2004)
1926 (100 years ago) Gordon Scott, American actor (died 2007)
1926 (100 years ago) Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian actor (died 1980)
1928 (98 years ago) Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)
1928 (98 years ago) Henning Moritzen, Danish actor (died 2012)
1930 (96 years ago) James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
1933 (93 years ago) Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (died 2009)
1934 (92 years ago) Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (died 1989)
1934 (92 years ago) Michael Chapman, English bassoon player (died 2005)
1934 (92 years ago) Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (died 2002)
1935 (91 years ago) John Erman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2021)
1935 (91 years ago) Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 1997)
1935 (91 years ago) Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2019)
1936 (90 years ago) Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host (died 2013)
1936 (90 years ago) Edward Petherbridge, English actor
1937 (89 years ago) Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
1937 (89 years ago) Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
1937 (89 years ago) Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
1938 (88 years ago) Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television host (died 2016)
1939 (87 years ago) Jimmie Nicol, English drummer
1939 (87 years ago) Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer (died 2013)
1940 (86 years ago) Lance Alworth, American football player
1940 (86 years ago) Martin Sheen, American actor and producer
1940 (86 years ago) James Tyler, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2010)
1941 (85 years ago) Juanita Helms, American politician (died 2009)
1941 (85 years ago) Beverly Lee, American singer
1941 (85 years ago) Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
1943 (83 years ago) Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician and academic
1943 (83 years ago) Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden
1943 (83 years ago) Steven Millhauser, American novelist and short story writer
1944 (82 years ago) Morris Berman, American historian and social critic
1944 (82 years ago) Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (died 1973)
1945 (81 years ago) Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist
1946 (80 years ago) Robert Ayling, English businessman
1946 (80 years ago) Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1946 (80 years ago) John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1947 (79 years ago) Ralph Wright, English footballer (died 2020)
1948 (78 years ago) Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France
1949 (77 years ago) Philip Casnoff, American actor and director
1949 (77 years ago) B. B. Dickerson, American bass player and songwriter (died 2021)
1949 (77 years ago) Sue Slipman, English politician
1950 (76 years ago) Linda Howard, American author
1950 (76 years ago) John Landis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 (76 years ago) Jo Marie Payton, American actress and singer
1950 (76 years ago) Ernesto Samper, Colombian economist and politician, 29th President of Colombia
1951 (75 years ago) Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 (75 years ago) Jay North, American actor (died 2025)
1952 (74 years ago) Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer and manager
1953 (73 years ago) Ian Bairnson, Scottish guitarist, songwriter and saxophonist (died 2023)
1953 (73 years ago) Marlene Dumas, South African painter
1954 (72 years ago) Michael Arthur, English physician and academic
1954 (72 years ago) Gary Peters, English footballer and manager
1956 (70 years ago) Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 (70 years ago) Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)
1956 (70 years ago) Dave Cloud, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)
1956 (70 years ago) Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
1956 (70 years ago) Ian Crichton, Canadian guitarist
1957 (69 years ago) Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer and manager
1957 (69 years ago) Kate Wilkinson, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 11th New Zealand Minister of Conservation
1958 (68 years ago) Lindsey Hilsum, English journalist and author
1958 (68 years ago) Ana Kokkinos, Australian director and screenwriter
1959 (67 years ago) Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer
1959 (67 years ago) Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster
1959 (67 years ago) John C. McGinley, American actor and producer
1959 (67 years ago) Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1960 (66 years ago) Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
1961 (65 years ago) Molly Hagan, American actress
1961 (65 years ago) Nick Harvey, English politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
1961 (65 years ago) Lee Rocker, American bassist
1963 (63 years ago) Tasmin Archer, English pop singer
1963 (63 years ago) Frano Botica, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1963 (63 years ago) James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 (63 years ago) David Knox, Australian rugby player
1963 (63 years ago) Ed Roland, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1963 (63 years ago) Lisa Ann Walter, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1963 (63 years ago) Isaiah Washington, American actor and producer
1964 (62 years ago) Lucky Dube, South African singer and keyboard player (died 2007)
1964 (62 years ago) Ralph Knibbs, British rugby union player
1964 (62 years ago) Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach
1964 (62 years ago) Kevin Sumlin, American football player and coach
1964 (62 years ago) Abhisit Vejjajiva, English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand
1966 (60 years ago) Brent Butt, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1966 (60 years ago) Gizz Butt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 (60 years ago) Eric Esch, American wrestler, boxer, and mixed martial artist
1966 (60 years ago) Robert Laimer, Austrian politician
1967 (59 years ago) Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 (59 years ago) Skin, English singer and guitarist
1968 (58 years ago) Rod Beck, American baseball player (died 2007)
1969 (57 years ago) Doug Overton, American basketball player and coach
1970 (56 years ago) Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
1970 (56 years ago) Gina G, Australian singer-songwriter
1970 (56 years ago) Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
1971 (55 years ago) Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (died 2007)
1971 (55 years ago) DJ Spinderella, American DJ, rapper, producer, and actress
1972 (54 years ago) Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player and politician
1973 (53 years ago) Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Michael Ealy, American actor
1975 (51 years ago) Wael Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
1975 (51 years ago) Argyro Strataki, Greek heptathlete
1976 (50 years ago) Troy Glaus, American baseball player
1977 (49 years ago) Tom Brady, American football player
1977 (49 years ago) Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist and footballer
1978 (48 years ago) Joi Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress
1978 (48 years ago) Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
1978 (48 years ago) Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer
1979 (47 years ago) Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
1980 (46 years ago) Nadia Ali, Libyan-American singer-songwriter
1980 (46 years ago) Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 (46 years ago) Hannah Simone, Canadian television host and actress
1981 (45 years ago) Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer
1981 (45 years ago) Pablo Ibáñez, Spanish footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
1982 (44 years ago) Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
1983 (43 years ago) Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player
1984 (42 years ago) Yasin Avcı, Turkish footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
1985 (41 years ago) Georgina Haig, Australian actress
1985 (41 years ago) Brent Kutzle, American bass player and producer
1985 (41 years ago) Ats Purje, Estonian footballer
1985 (41 years ago) Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player and boxer
1986 (40 years ago) Charlotte Casiraghi, Monégasque journalist, co-founded Ever Manifesto
1986 (40 years ago) Darya Domracheva, Belarusian biathlete
1987 (39 years ago) Kim Hyung-jun, South Korean singer and dancer
1989 (37 years ago) Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (died 2015)
1989 (37 years ago) Tyrod Taylor, American football player
1989 (37 years ago) Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Jourdan Dunn, English model
1990 (36 years ago) Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer
1992 (34 years ago) Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner
1992 (34 years ago) Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner
1992 (34 years ago) Karlie Kloss, American fashion model
1994 (32 years ago) Kwon Alexander, American football player
1994 (32 years ago) Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)
1994 (32 years ago) Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player
1995 (31 years ago) Zac Gallen, American baseball player
1995 (31 years ago) Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
1996 (30 years ago) Alec Bohm, American baseball player
1996 (30 years ago) Bokondji Imama, Canadian ice hockey player
1996 (30 years ago) Derwin James, American football player
1997 (29 years ago) Luis Robert Jr., Cuban baseball player
1999 (27 years ago) Zach Wilson, American football player
1999 (27 years ago) Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer
1999 (27 years ago) Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

Deaths (111)

908 (1118 years ago) Burchard, duke of Thuringia
908 (1118 years ago) Egino, duke of Thuringia
908 (1118 years ago) Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg
925 (1101 years ago) Cao, Chinese empress dowager
979 (1047 years ago) Thietmar, margrave of Meissen
1003 (1023 years ago) At-Ta'i, Abbasid caliph (born 929)
1355 (671 years ago) Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, English nobleman
1460 (566 years ago) James II, king of Scotland (born 1430)
1527 (499 years ago) Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1530 (496 years ago) Francesco Ferruccio, Italian captain (born 1489)
1546 (480 years ago) Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (born 1484)
1546 (480 years ago) Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (born 1509)
1604 (422 years ago) Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish commander and diplomat (born 1540)
1621 (405 years ago) Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (born 1556)
1712 (314 years ago) Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (born 1654)
1720 (306 years ago) Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (born 1641)
1721 (305 years ago) Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (born 1648)
1761 (265 years ago) Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (born 1691)
1773 (253 years ago) Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (born 1700)
1780 (246 years ago) Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (born 1715)
1792 (234 years ago) Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman (born 1732)
1797 (229 years ago) Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)
1805 (221 years ago) Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (born 1724)
1835 (191 years ago) Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1767)
1839 (187 years ago) Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (born 1763)
1857 (169 years ago) Eugène Sue, French author and politician (born 1804)
1866 (160 years ago) Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (born 1804)
1867 (159 years ago) August Böckh, German historian and scholar (born 1785)
1877 (149 years ago) William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
1879 (147 years ago) Joseph Severn, English painter (born 1793)
1894 (132 years ago) George Inness, American painter (born 1825)
1913 (113 years ago) William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (born 1844)
1916 (110 years ago) Roger Casement, executed Irish poet and activist (born 1864)
1917 (109 years ago) Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (born 1849)
1920 (106 years ago) Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (born 1883)
1922 (104 years ago) Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (born 1851)
1924 (102 years ago) Joseph Conrad, British novelist (born 1857)
1925 (101 years ago) William Bruce, Australian cricketer (born 1864)
1929 (97 years ago) Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)
1929 (97 years ago) Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (born 1857)
1936 (90 years ago) Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)
1942 (84 years ago) Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
1943 (83 years ago) Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)
1949 (77 years ago) Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (born 1869)
1954 (72 years ago) Colette, French novelist and journalist (born 1873)
1958 (68 years ago) Peter Collins, English race car driver (born 1931)
1959 (67 years ago) Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (born 1887)
1961 (65 years ago) Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (born 1884)
1963 (63 years ago) Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)
1964 (62 years ago) Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)
1966 (60 years ago) Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1925)
1968 (58 years ago) Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)
1969 (57 years ago) Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)
1972 (54 years ago) Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (born 1913)
1973 (53 years ago) Richard Marshall, American general (born 1895)
1974 (52 years ago) Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (born 1888)
1975 (51 years ago) Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)
1977 (49 years ago) Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (born 1913)
1977 (49 years ago) Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (born 1892)
1979 (47 years ago) Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
1979 (47 years ago) Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (born 1907)
1983 (43 years ago) Carolyn Jones, American actress (born 1930)
1992 (34 years ago) Wang Hongwen, Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)
1995 (31 years ago) Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (born 1918)
1995 (31 years ago) Edward Whittemore, American soldier and author (born 1933)
1996 (30 years ago) Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (born 1939)
1997 (29 years ago) Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
1998 (28 years ago) Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and journalist (born 1934)
1999 (27 years ago) Rod Ansell, Australian hunter (born 1953)
1999 (27 years ago) Byron Farwell, American historian and author (born 1921)
2000 (26 years ago) Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)
2001 (25 years ago) Christopher Hewett, English actor and director (born 1922)
2003 (23 years ago) Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1954)
2004 (22 years ago) Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (born 1908)
2005 (21 years ago) Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet (born 1920)
2006 (20 years ago) Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1945)
2006 (20 years ago) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress (born 1915)
2007 (19 years ago) John Gardner, English author (born 1926)
2007 (19 years ago) Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)
2008 (18 years ago) Skip Caray, American sportscaster (born 1939)
2008 (18 years ago) Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
2008 (18 years ago) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
2009 (17 years ago) Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
2010 (16 years ago) Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
2011 (15 years ago) William Sleator, American author (born 1945)
2011 (15 years ago) Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (born 1945)
2012 (14 years ago) Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)
2012 (14 years ago) Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)
2012 (14 years ago) Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)
2012 (14 years ago) John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)
2012 (14 years ago) George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)
2013 (13 years ago) John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)
2013 (13 years ago) Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)
2013 (13 years ago) Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)
2014 (12 years ago) Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)
2014 (12 years ago) Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)
2014 (12 years ago) Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)
2014 (12 years ago) Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)
2014 (12 years ago) Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)
2015 (11 years ago) Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)
2015 (11 years ago) Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)
2015 (11 years ago) Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)
2015 (11 years ago) Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
2015 (11 years ago) Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)
2015 (11 years ago) Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)
2020 (6 years ago) John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)
2022 (4 years ago) Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)
2023 (3 years ago) Mark Margolis, American actor (born 1939)
2023 (3 years ago) Bram Moolenaar, Dutch software engineer (born 1961)
2024 (2 years ago) Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian dancer (born 1940)
2025 (a year ago) Loni Anderson, American actress (born 1945)