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==Events==
*[[30 BC]] - [[Augustus|Octavian]] (later known as Augustus) enters [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], bringing it under the control of the [[Roman Republic]].
*[[527]] - [[Justinian I]] becomes the sole ruler of the [[Byzantine Empire]].
*[[607]] - [[Ono no Imoko]] is dispatched as envoy to the [[Sui Dynasty|Sui]] court in [[China]] (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[July 3]], [[607]]).
*[[902]] - [[Taormina]], the last [[Byzantine]] stronghold in [[Sicily]], is captured by the [[Aghlabid]] army.
*[[1203]] - [[Isaac II Angelus]], restored [[Eastern Roman Emperor]], declares his son [[Alexius IV Angelus]] co-[[emperor]] after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran [[Fourth Crusade]].
*[[1291]] - The [[Switzerland|Swiss Confederation]] is formed with the signature of the [[Federal Charter]].
*[[1461]] - [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]] is crowned king of [[England]].
*[[1492]] - [[Ferdinand V of Spain|Ferdinand]] and [[Isabella of Castile|Isabella]] drive the [[Jew]]s out of [[Spain]].
*[[1498]] - [[Christopher Columbus]] becomes the first [[European ethnic groups|European]] to visit [[Venezuela]].
*[[1619]] - First [[African]] [[slavery|slaves]] arrive in [[Jamestown, Virginia]].
*[[1664]] - The [[Ottoman Empire]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664)|Battle of Saint Gotthard]] by an [[Habsburg Monarchy|Austrian]] army led by [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]], resulting in the [[Peace of Vasvár]].
*[[1774]] - The element [[oxygen]] is discovered for the third (and last) time.
*[[1798]] - [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: [[Battle of the Nile|Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay)]] - Battle begins when a [[Royal Navy|British]] fleet engages the [[French Navy|French Revolutionary Navy]] fleet in an unusual night action.
*[[1800]] - The [[Act of Union 1800]] is passed in which merges the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and the [[Kingdom of Ireland]] into the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]].
*[[1820]] - [[London]]'s [[Regent's Canal]] opens.
*[[1828]] - [[Bolton and Leigh Railway]] opens to freight traffic.
*[[1831]] - A new [[London Bridge]] opens.
*[[1832]] - The [[Black Hawk War]] ends.
*[[1834]] - [[Slavery]] is abolished in the [[British Empire]] as the [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833]] comes into force.
*[[1838]] - Non-labourer slaves in most of the [[British Empire]] are emancipated.
*[[1840]] - Labourer slaves in most of the [[British Empire]] are emancipated.
*[[1842]] - [[Lombard Street Riot]] erupts
*[[1876]] - [[Colorado]] is admitted as the 38th [[U.S. state]].
*[[1894]] - The [[Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)|First Sino-Japanese War]] erupts between [[Japan]] and [[China]] over [[Korea]].
*[[1902]] - The [[United States]] buys the rights to the [[Panama Canal]] from [[France]].
*[[1907]] - [[Brownsea Island Scout camp|First Scout camp]] opens on [[Brownsea Island]].
*[[1914]] - [[Germany]] declares war on [[Russia]] at the opening of [[World War I]]. The [[Swiss Army]] mobilises because of [[World War I]]
*[[1927]] - The [[Nanchang Uprising]] marks the first significant battle in the [[Chinese Civil War]] between the [[Kuomintang]] and [[Communist Party of China]]. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the [[People's Liberation Army]].
*[[1936]] - [[Olympic Games]]: [[Summer Olympic Games]] - The [[1936 Summer Olympics|Games of the XI Olympiad]] open in [[Berlin]].
*[[1937]] - [[Tito]] reads the resolution "[[Manifesto]] of constitutional [[congress]] of KPH" to the constitutive [[congress]] of KPH ([[Croatian Communist Party]]) in woods near [[Samobor]].
*[[1941]] - The first [[Jeep]] is produced.
*[[1944]] - [[Anne Frank]] makes the last entry in her [[diary]].
* 1944 - [[Warsaw Uprising]] against the [[Nazism|Nazi]] occupation breaks out in [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]].
*[[1948]] - The [[U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] is founded.
*[[1957]] - The [[United States]] and [[Canada]] form the [[North American Air Defense Command]] ([[North American Aerospace Defense Command|NORAD]]).
*[[1960]] - [[Dahomey]] (later renamed [[Benin]]) declares independence from [[France]].
* 1960 - [[Communist party|Communist]] [[Party of Independence and Work]] is banned in [[Senegal]].
* 1960 - [[Islamabad]] declared as the [[federal capital]] of the [[Government of Pakistan]].
*[[1964]] - The [[Belgian Congo]] is renamed the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Republic of the Congo]].
*[[1965]] - [[Princess]] [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Beatrix]] of the [[Netherlands]] announces her engagement to [[Claus von Amsberg]].
*[[1966]] - [[Charles Whitman]] kills 15 people at [[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]] before being killed by the police.
* 1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official [[People's Republic of China]] policy at the beginning of the [[Cultural Revolution]].
*[[1967]] - [[Israel]] annexes [[East Jerusalem]].
*[[1968]] - The coronation is held of [[Hassanal Bolkiah]], the 29th [[Sultan of Brunei]].
*[[1975]] - [[Helsinki Accords|CSCE Final Act]] creates the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe|Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe]].
*[[1977]] - Former [[U2 spy plane|Lockheed U-2]] pilot [[Francis Gary Powers]] crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles
*[[1980]] - [[Buttevant Rail Disaster]] kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].
*[[1981]] - [[MTV]] begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "[[Video Killed The Radio Star]]" by the [[Buggles]].
*[[1988]] - [[Rush Limbaugh]] begins his national radio show.
*[[1993]] - The [[Great Flood of 1993]] comes to a peak. The [[Mississippi River]] crested at [[St. Louis]], hitting a record 49.58 feet above flood stage. The [[Missouri River]] would peak the next day ([[August 2]]) in [[St. Charles, Missouri]] at a record 39.6 feet above flood stage.
*[[1996]] - Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
*[[2001]] - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority [[Albanian language]] in the [[Republic of Macedonia]].
* 2001 - [[Bulgaria]], [[Cyprus]], [[Latvia]], [[Malta]], [[Slovenia]] and [[Slovakia]] join the [[European Environment Agency]].
* 2001 - [[Alabama Supreme Court]] [[Chief Justice]] [[Roy Moore]] has a [[Ten Commandments]] monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a [[Glassroth v. Moore|lawsuit]] to have it removed and his own removal from office.
*[[2004]] - A [[Paraguay supermarket fire|supermarket fire]] kills 396 people and injures 500 in [[Asunción]], [[Paraguay]].
*[[2007]] - The [[I-35W Mississippi River Bridge]] spanning the [[Mississippi River]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], collapses during the evening [[rush hour]].

==Births==
*[[10 BC]] - [[Claudius]], [[Roman Emperor]] (d. [[54]])
*[[126]] - [[Pertinax]], [[Roman Emperor]] (d. [[193]])
*[[1313]] - [[Emperor Kogon]] of Japan (d. [[1364]])
*[[1377]] - [[Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan]] (d. [[1433]])
*[[1545]] - [[Andrew Melville]], Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. [[1622]])
*[[1555]] - [[Edward Kelley]], English spirit medium (d. [[1597]])
*[[1579]] - [[Luís Vélez de Guevara]], Spanish writer (d. [[1644]])
*[[1626]] - [[Sabbatai Zevi]], Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish [[Sabbatean]] movement (d. [[1676]])
*[[1630]] - [[Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh]], English statesman (d. [[1673]])
*[[1713]] - [[Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (d. [[1780]])
*[[1714]] - [[Richard Wilson (painter)|Richard Wilson]], Welsh painter (d. [[1782]])
*[[1738]] - [[Jacques François Dugommier]], French general (d. [[1794]])
*[[1744]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], French scientist (d. [[1829]])
*[[1770]] - [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]], American explorer (d. [[1838]])
*[[1779]] - [[Francis Scott Key]], American lawyer and lyricist (d. [[1843]])
* 1779 - [[Lorenz Oken]], German naturalist (d. [[1851]])
*[[1815]] - [[Richard Henry Dana, Jr.]], American lawyer, politician, and author (d. [[1882]])
*[[1818]] - [[Maria Mitchell]], American astronomer (d. [[1889]])
*[[1819]] - [[Herman Melville]], American writer (d. [[1891]])
*[[1837]] - [[Mother Jones]], American labor organizer (d. [[1930]])
*[[1843]] - [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], son of [[Abraham Lincoln]]; [[United States Secretary of War]] (d. [[1926]])
*[[1856]] - [[George Coulthard]], Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. [[1883]])
*[[1858]] - [[Hans Rott]], Austrian composer (d. [[1884]])
* 1858 - [[Gaston Doumergue]], French President (d. 1937)
*[[1861]] - [[Sammy Jones]], Former Australian cricketer (d. [[1951]])
*[[1871]] - [[John Lester]], American [[cricket]]er (d. [[1969]])
*[[1885]] - [[George de Hevesy]], Hungarian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1966]])
*[[1881]] - [[Otto Toeplitz]], German mathematician (d. [[1940]])
*[[1889]] - [[Walter Gerlach]], German physicist (d. [[1979]])
*[[1891]] - [[Karl Kobelt]], Swiss politician (d. [[1968]])
*[[1893]] - King [[Alexander I of Greece]] (d. [[1920]])
*[[1894]] - [[Ottavio Bottecchia]], Italian cyclist (d. [[1927]])
*[[1900]] - [[Otto Nothling]], Former Australain cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. [[1965]])
*[[1901]] - [[Francisco Guilledo|Pancho Villa]], Filipino world boxing champion (d. [[1925]])
*[[1910]] - [[James Henry Govier]], British artist (d. [[1974]])
* 1910 - [[Walter Scharf]], American composer (d. [[2003]])
* 1910 - [[Mohammad Nissar]], Indian cricketer (d. [[1963]])
*[[1911]] - [[Jackie Ormes]], American cartoonist (d. [[1985]])
*[[1912]] - [[Henry Jones (actor)|Henry Jones]], American actor (d. [[1999]])
*[[1914]] - [[J. Lee Thompson]], British film director (d. [[2002]])
*[[1916]] - [[Anne Hébert]], French Canadian author and poet (d. [[2000]])
*[[1921]] - [[Jack Kramer (tennis player)|Jack Kramer]], American tennis player
*[[1922]] - [[Pat McDonald]], Australian actress (d. [[1990]])
*[[1924]] - [[Georges Charpak]], Ukrainian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]]
* 1924 - [[Marcia Mae Jones]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
* 1924 - [[Frank Worrell]], Former West Indian cricketer
*[[1925]] - [[Ernst Jandl]], Austrian writer (d. [[2000]])
*[[1926]] - [[Theo Adam]], German bass-baritone
*[[1927]] - [[Raymond Leppard]], English conductor
*[[1929]] - [[Ann Calvello]], Roller Derby Queen (d. [[2006]])
*[[1930]] - [[Pierre Bourdieu]], French sociologist (d. [[2002]])
* 1930 - [[Lionel Bart]], English song-writer (d. [[1999]])
* 1930 - [[Julie Bovasso]], American actor and writer (d. [[1991]])
*[[1931]] - [[Trevor Goddard]], Former South African cricketer
*[[1932]] - [[Meir Kahane]], American founder of the [[Jewish Defense League]] (d. [[1990]])
* 1932 - [[Meena Kumari]], Indian film actress (d. [[1972]])
*[[1933]] - [[Dom DeLuise]], American actor and comedian
* 1933 - [[Jesse Corti]], Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
* 1933 - [[Masaichi Kaneda]], Japanese baseball player
* 1933 - [[Dušan Třeštík]], Czech historian (d. [[2007]])
*[[1934]] - [[John Beck]], Former New Zealand cricketer (d. [[2000]])
*[[1935]] - [[Geoff Pullar]], Former England cricketer
*[[1936]] - [[Yves Saint-Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]], French fashion designer (d. [[2008]])
*[[1937]] - [[Al D'Amato]], [[United States Congressional Delegations from New York|United States Senator from New York]]
*[[1940]] - [[Mervyn Kitchen]], Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
*[[1941]] - [[Étienne Roda-Gil]], French songwriter and screenwriter (d. [[2004]])
*[[1942]] - [[Jerry Garcia]], American musician (The [[Grateful Dead]]) (d. [[1995]])
* 1942 - [[André Gagnon]], French Canadian pianist and composer
* 1942 - [[Giancarlo Giannini]], Italian actor
*[[1945]] - [[Douglas D. Osheroff]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]]
* 1945 - [[Sandi Griffiths]], American singer, ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]''
*[[1946]] - [[Fiona Stanley]], Australian [[epidemiologist]]
* 1946 - [[Boz Burrell]], British musician ([[King Crimson]], [[Bad Company]]) (d. [[2006]])
*[[1947]] - [[Chris Barnard (footballer)|Chris L. Barnard]], Welsh footballer
* 1947 - [[Dennis Zine]], Los Angeles City Councilman
*[[1949]] - [[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]], [[President of Kyrgyzstan]]
*[[1950]] - [[Jim Carroll]], American poet and actor
*[[1951]] - [[Tommy Bolin]], American musician ([[Deep Purple]]) (d. [[1976]])
* 1951 - [[Pete Mackanin]], American baseball player
*[[1952]] - [[Zoran Đinđić]], [[Prime Minister of Serbia]] (d. [[2003]])
* 1952 - [[Yajurvindra Singh]], Former Indian cricketer
*[[1953]] - [[Robert Cray]], American singer
* 1953 - [[Howard Kurtz]], American journalist
*[[1955]] - [[Trevor Berbick]], Jamaican boxer (d. [[2006]])
* 1955 - [[Arun Lal]], Former Indian cricketer
*[[1956]] - [[Tom Leykis]], American radio personality
*[[1957]] - [[Taylor Negron]], American actor
*[[1958]] - [[Adrian Dunbar]], Northern Irish actor
* 1958 - [[Rob Buck]], American musician ([[10,000 Maniacs]]) (d. [[2000]])
* 1958 - [[Tor Håkon Holte]], Norwegian cross country skier
* 1958 - [[Kiki Vandeweghe]], American basketball player
* 1958 - [[Michael Penn]], American singer and songwriter
*[[1959]] - [[Joe Elliott]], English musician ([[Def Leppard]])
* 1959 - [[Yoshihide Otomo|Otomo Yoshihide]], Japanese musician
*[[1960]] - [[Chuck D]], American activist and rapper ([[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]])
* 1960 - [[Richard Roeper]], American columnist and film critic
*[[1961]] - [[Mike Watkinson]], Former England cricketer
*[[1962]] - [[Robert Clift]], British field hockey player
* 1962 - [[Jacob Matlala]], South African boxer
*[[1963]] - [[Coolio]], American rapper
* 1963 - [[Demián Bichir]], Mexican actor
* 1963 - [[John Carroll Lynch]], American actor
* 1963 - [[Dean Wareham]], New Zealand musician ([[Galaxie 500]], [[Luna (band)|Luna]], [[Dean and Britta]])
*[[1964]] - [[Adam Duritz]], American musician ([[Counting Crows]])
*[[1965]] - [[Sam Mendes]], British stage and film director
*[[1966]] - [[James St. James]], American author and nightlife personality
* 1966 - [[Ganesh Mylvaganam]], Former United Arab Emirates cricketer
*[[1967]] - [[Gregg Jefferies]], American baseball player
*[[1968]] - [[Dan Donegan]], American musician ([[Disturbed]])
* 1968 - [[Stacey Augmon]], American basketball player
*[[1969]] - [[Kevin Jarvis]], American baseball player
* 1969 - [[David Wain]], American actor
* 1969 - [[Graham Thorpe]], Former England cricketer
*[[1970]] - [[David James (footballer)|David James]], English footballer
*[[1971]] - [[Stuart Wade]], English actor
*[[1972]] - [[Devon Hughes]], American professional wrestler
* 1972 - [[Nicke Royale]], Swedish musician ([[The Hellacopters]])
* 1972 - [[Tanya Reid]], Canadian actress
* 1972 - [[Maqsood Rana]], Former Pakistani cricketer
*[[1973]] - [[Gregg Berhalter]], American footballer
* 1973 - [[Tempestt Bledsoe]], American actress
* 1973 - [[Veerle Dejaeghere]], Belgian athlete
* 1973 - [[Eduardo Noriega (Spanish actor)|Eduardo Noriega]], Spanish actor
* 1973 - [[Les Hill]],Australian Actor
*[[1974]] - [[Beckie Scott]], Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
*[[1976]] - [[Kevin Joseph]], American baseball player
* 1976 - [[Nwankwo Kanu]], Nigerian footballer
* 1976 - [[Hasan Şaş]], Turkish footballer
* 1976 - [[Søren Jochumsen]], Danish footballer
*[[1977]] - [[Marc Denis]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1977 - [[Damien Saez]], French musician, songwriter, and author
*[[1978]] - [[Dhani Harrison]], English musician
* 1978 - [[Edgerrin James]], American football player
* 1978 - [[Andy Blignaut]], Former Zimbabwean cricketer
*[[1979]] - [[Junior Agogo]], Ghanaian footballer
*[[1979]] - [[Jason Momoa]], American actor
* 1979 - [[Honeysuckle Weeks]], English actress
*[[1980]] - [[Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini|Mancini]], Brazilian footballer
*[[1981]] - [[Stephen Hunt (Irish footballer)|Stephen Hunt]], Irish footballer
* 1981 - [[Ashley Parker Angel]], North American singer and actor
*[[1982]] - [[Ai Tominaga]], Japanese model and actress
*[[1984]] - [[Valery Ortiz]], Puerto Rican actress
*[[1984]] - [[Bastian Schweinsteiger]], German footballer
*[[1986]] - [[Andrew Taylor (footballer born 1986)|Andrew Taylor]], English footballer
* 1986 - [[Anton Stralman]], Swedish ice hockey player
* 1986 - [[Elena Vesnina]], Russian tennis player
*[[1987]] - [[Sébastien Pocognoli]], Belgian footballer
*[[1998]] - [[Khamani Griffin]], American actor
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==Deaths==
*[[371]] - [[St Eusebius of Vercelli]], Italian bishop (b. c. [[283]])
*[[527]] - [[Byzantine Emperor|Emperor]] [[Justin I]] (b. c. [[450s|450]])
*[[1137]] - King [[Louis VI of France]] (b. [[1081]])
*[[1227]] - [[Shimazu Tadahisa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1179]])
*[[1402]] - [[Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York]], son of [[Edward III of England]] (b. [[1341]])
*[[1457]] - [[Lorenzo Valla]], Italian humanist (bc. [[1406]])
*[[1464]] - [[Cosimo de' Medici]], ruler of Florence (b. [[1386]])
*[[1541]] - [[Simon Grynaeus]], German theologian (b. [[1493]])
*[[1546]] - [[Peter Faber]], French [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] theologian (b. [[1506]])
*[[1557]] - [[Olaus Magnus]], Swedish writer (b. [[1490]])
*[[1580]] - [[Albrecht Giese]], German politician and diplomat (b. [[1524]])
*[[1589]] - [[Jacques Clément]], French assassin of [[Henry III of France]] (b. [[1567]])
*[[1675]] - [[Weetamoo]], sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the [[Wampanoag]] [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indians]] her death winding up the end of [[King Philip's War]]
*[[1714]] - Queen [[Anne of Great Britain]] (b. [[1665]])
*[[1787]] - [[Alphonsus Liguori]], Italian founder of the [[Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer|Redemptionist]] order (b. [[1696]])
*[[1796]] - [[Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet|Robert Pigot]], British army officer (b. [[1720]])
*[[1798]] - [[François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers]], French admiral (killed in battle) (b. [[1753]])
*[[1812]] - [[Yakov Kulnev]], Russian general (killed in battle) (b. [[1763]])
*[[1851]] - [[William Joseph Behr]], German writer (b. [[1775]])
*[[1866]] - [[John Ross (Cherokee chief)|John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe)]], Principal Chief of the [[Cherokee|Cherokee Nation]] (b. [[1790]])
*[[1903]] - [[Calamity Jane]], American frontierswoman (b. [[1853]])
*[[1917]] - [[Frank Little (U.S. Trade Unionist)|Frank Little]], American labor organizer (lynched) (b. [[1879]])
*[[1918]] - [[John Riley Banister]], American cowboy and [[Texas Ranger Division|Texas Ranger]] (b. [[1854]])
*[[1920]] - [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], Indian nationalist leader (b. [[1856]])
*[[1929]] - [[Syd Gregory]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1870]])
*[[1964]] - [[Johnny Burnette]], American singer (b. [[1934]])
*[[1966]] - [[Charles Whitman]], American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. [[1941]])
*[[1967]] - [[Richard Kuhn]], Austrian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1900]])
*[[1970]] - [[Frances Farmer]], American actress (b. [[1913]])
* 1970 - [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]], German physician and physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1883]])
*[[1973]] - [[Gian Francesco Malipiero]], Italian composer (b. [[1882]])
* 1973 - [[Walter Ulbricht]], German communist statesman (b. [[1893]])
*[[1974]] - [[Ildebrando Antoniutti]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1898]])
*[[1977]] - [[Gary Powers]], American spy plane pilot (b. [[1929]])
*[[1980]] - [[Patrick Depailler]], French Formula 1 driver (b. [[1944]])
* 1980 - [[Strother Martin]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
*[[1981]] - [[Paddy Chayefsky]], American writer (b. [[1923]])
*[[1989]] - [[John Ogdon]], English pianist (b. [[1937]])
*[[1990]] - [[Norbert Elias]], German sociologist (b. [[1897]])
* 1990 - [[Graham Young]], British serial killer (b. [[1947]])
*[[1996]] - [[Frida Boccara]], French singer (b. [[1940]])
* 1996 - [[Tadeus Reichstein]], Polish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1897]])
* 1996 - [[Lucille Teasdale-Corti]], Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. [[1929]])
*[[1997]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (b. [[1915]])
*[[1998]] - [[Eva Bartok]], Hungarian-born actress (b. [[1927]])
*[[1999]] - [[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]], Indian-born writer (b. [[1897]])
*[[2001]] - [[Korey Stringer]], American football player (b. [[1974]])
*[[2003]] - [[Guy Thys]], Belgian football coach (b. [[1922]])
* 2003 - [[Marie Trintignant]], French actress (b. [[1962]])
*[[2004]] - [[Philip Hauge Abelson|Philip Abelson]] American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1913]])
*[[2005]] - [[Al Aronowitz]], American music journalist (b. [[1928]])
* 2005 - King [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia]] (b. [[1923]])
* 2005 - [[Constant Nieuwenhuys]], Dutch painter (b. [[1920]])
* 2005 - [[Wim Boost|Wibo]], Dutch cartoonist (b. [[1918]])
*[[2006]] - [[Jason Rhoades]], American installation artist (b. [[1965]])
* 2006 - [[Bob Thaves]], American cartoonist (b. [[1924]])
* 2006 - [[Iris Marion Young]], American feminist and political scientist (b. [[1949]])
*[[2007]] - [[Tommy Makem]], Irish folk singer (b. [[1932]])
*[[2008]] - [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]], Indian politician (b. [[1916]])
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==Holidays and observances==
*[[Angola]] - [[Armed Forces Day]].
*[[Barbados]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] - [[Emancipation Day]].
*[[Benin]] - [[National Day]].
*[[People's Republic of China]] - Anniversary of the Founding of the [[People's Liberation Army]].
*[[Democratic Republic of Congo]] - Parent's Day
*[[Jamaica]] - Emancipation Day
*[[Nicaragua]] - [[Holiday|Fiesta Day]].
*[[Rastafari movement]] - Celebration of the liberation of [[Haile Selassie]] from [[slavery]].
*[[Switzerland]] - [[Swiss National Day|National Day]].
*[[Bahá'í Faith]] - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the [[Bahá'í calendar]].
*[[Lughnasadh]] - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of [[Autumn]] in [[Ireland]].
*[[Lammas]] - [[Neopagan]] festival of [[Lammas]].
*[[Lebanon]] - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh).
*[[Yorkshire]], [[England]] - [[Yorkshire Day]].
* World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the [[Brownsea Island]] Camp in [[1907]], where [[Robert Baden-Powell]] began [[scouting]].
*[[United States]] - [[Colorado]] statehood day
*[[United Kingdom]] - National Farming and Agriculture Day
[[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox Christianity]]
*[[Abgar V of Edessa]]
*[[Procession of the Cross]].
[[Roman Catholicism]]
*[[Saint Alphonso Maria de' Liguori]], bishop, [[Doctor of the Church]] (died 1787)
* Saint [[Æthelwold of Winchester]], [[bishop of Winchester]], confessor
*[[Eusebius of Vercelli|Saint Eusebius]], [[bishop of Vercelli]], martyr Geneva, Lausanne, France; Paris
*[[Exuperius of Bayeux|Saint Exuperius]], [[bishop of Bayeux]] northern France; Paris
*[[Felix of Girona|Saint Felix]], martyr at [[Girona|Gerona]] [[southern France]]
*[[Saint Peter Julian Eymard]] (Pierre-Julien Eymard, died 1868)

==External links==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/1 BBC: On This Day]
* {{NYT On this day|month=08|day=01}}
* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Aug&day=01 On This Day in Canada]
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