August 1
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August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 54)
- 126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1520 – Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
- 1579 – Lupe Velez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
- 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, rabbi and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (d. 1676)
- 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
- 1744 – Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
- 1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
- 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
- 1799 – Sophie de Segur, French writer (d. 1874)
- 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
- 1817 – Richard Dadd, English painter (d. 1886)
- 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
- 1819 – Augustus Gregory, Australian explorer (d. 1905)
- 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organiser (d. 1930)
- 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician (d. 1926)
- 1858 – Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
- 1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of France (d. 1937)
- 1879 – Augusto Samuel Boyd, 19th President of Panama (d. 1957)
- 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
- 1893 – Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1907 – Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
- 1910 – Gerda Taro, German photographer (d. 1937)
- 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Arthur Hill, actor (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Pat McDonald, actress (d. 1990)
- 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
- 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
- 1930 – Lionel Bart, English songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1931 – Tom Wilson, cartoonist
- 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American folk singer
- 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- 1932 – Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher
- 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
- 1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
- 1941 – Jordi Savall, Catalan musicologist
- 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
- 1942 – Andre Gagnon, French-Canadian pianist and composer
- 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
- 1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater
- 1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
- 1946 – Dick Covey, American astronaut
- 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1950 – Jim Carroll, poet, actor
- 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach
- 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer
- 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
- 1956 – Tom Leykis, radio personality
- 1959 – Joe Elliott, musician (Def Leppard)
- 1960 – Chuck D, rapper (Public Enemy)
- 1960 – Richard Roeper, newspaper columnist and film critic
- 1963 – Coolio, American rapper
- 1965 – Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
- 1970 – David James, English footballer
- 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
- 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
- 1976 – Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer
- 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
- 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
- 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
- 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Taylor Fry, actress
- 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
- 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American footballer
- 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
- 1989 – Tiffany, South Korean singer
Deaths [change]
- 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
- 371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop
- 527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
- 1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian Franciscan monk and explorer (b. 1185)
- 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
- 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
- 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
- 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
- 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580 – Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Belgian cartographer (b. 1527)
- 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist and entomologist (b. 1735)
- 1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1853)
- 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1866 – John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
- 1869 – Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch adventurer, explorer and photographer (b. 1835)
- 1903 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (b. 1852)
- 1911 – Konrad Duden, German teacher and philologist (b. 1829)
- 1913 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (b. 1871)
- 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
- 1917 – Enric Prat de la Riba, Catalan politician (b. 1870)
- 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
- 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
- 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet flying ace (b. 1921)
- 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
- 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian film actor (b. 1883)
- 1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
- 1966 – Charles Whitman, American gunman (b. 1941)
- 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German chemist, won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
- 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
- 1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
- 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
- 1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
- 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician, surgeon and aid worker (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Anglo-Indian 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 American physicist, 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 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
Events [change]
- 527 – Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
- 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed.
- 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
- 1461 – Edward IV is crowned king of England.
- 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
- 1619 – First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain dies, without any surviving children. George of Hanover succeeds her.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: In the Battle of Minden, Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia defeat a force from France and Saxony.
- 1774 – The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
- 1776 – Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1790 – The first US census is completed, establishing the population of the United States at the time as 4 million.
- 1798 – Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
- 1800 – The Act of Union of 1800 is signed, by which the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland are to merge.
- 1820 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
- 1831 – London Bridge opens.
- 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
- 1838 – Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
- 1855 – First successful climb of the Dufourspitze in Switzerland.
- 1864 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
- 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1891 – Switzerland celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
- 1894 – The 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 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
- 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening 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 – The Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics open.
- 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 Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1945 – Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
- 1946 – The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
- 1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
- 1952 – Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes President of Iceland.
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France
- 1960 – Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
- 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1961 – Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
- 1965 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
- 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, 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 – Coronation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
- 1968 – Kristjan Eldjarn becomes President of Iceland.
- 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
- 1971 – George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
- 1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts discover rocks which could date back to the origin of the Moon.
- 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The UN Security Council authorises the UN Peacekeeping Force to create the Green Line splitting the island in two.
- 1976 – Racing driver Niki Lauda is left in a critical condition after a crash in the German Grand Prix. He survives the crash.
- 1980 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes President of Iceland.
- 1981 – First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
- 1994 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
- 1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes President of Iceland.
- 1996 – Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
- 2000 – Moshe Katsav becomes President of Israel.
- 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 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2005 – German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
- 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. His half-brother, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, succeeds him.
- 2005 – Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.
- 2007 – The I-35 Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during evening rush hour.
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, dies at the age of 76.
- 2009 – A shooting attack at a Gay and Lesbian association in Tel-Aviv, Israel, kills 2 people.
