August 21
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August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1165 – King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
- 1535 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
- 1567 – Francis de Sales, French mystic and church teacher (d. 1622)
- 1643 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
- 1660 – Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
- 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
- 1765 – King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
- 1773 – Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese farmer and poet (d. 1853)
- 1789 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
- 1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
- 1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
- 1805 – August Bournonville, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1879)
- 1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
- 1821 – Andrew Kim Taegon, South Korean priest (d. 1846)
- 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
- 1845 – William Healey Dall, American naturalist, palaeontologist and explorer (d. 1927)
- 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria (d. 1889)
- 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
- 1878 – Richard Girulaitis, German football manager (d. 1963)
- 1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (d. 2007)
- 1893 – Lili Boulanger, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1904 – Count Basie, American musician, bandleader and composer (d. 1984)
- 1906 – Friz Freleng, American animator (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian physicist (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Leonid Hurwicz, Polish-born American economist (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for Winnie the Pooh stories (d. 1996)
- 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American Mormon Church leader
- 1930 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, member of the British royal family (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Frank Perry, American movie director (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994)
- 1933 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
- 1934 – John L. Hall, American physicist
- 1936 – Radish Tordia, Georgian painter
- 1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
- 1937 – Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
- 1937 – Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador
- 1938 – Nicolas Ardito Barletta Vallarino, former President of Panama
- 1938 – Steve Cowper, former Governor of Alaska
- 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer
- 1939 – Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana
- 1939 – James Burton, American guitarist
- 1944 – Perry Christie, Prime Minister of the Bahamas
- 1945 – Patty McCormack, American actress
- 1945 – Basil Poledouris, American movie score composer (d. 2006)
- 1946 – Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
- 1950 – Arthur Bremer, American criminal
- 1951 – Karekin II, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church
- 1952 – Glenn Hughes, British musician
- 1952 – Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (d. 2002)
- 1954 – Archie Griffin, American football player
- 1954 – Chip Coffey, American psychic, medium and television personality
- 1956 – Kim Cattrall, British-born actress
- 1956 – Jon Tester, United States senator
- 1963 – King Mohammed VI of Morocco
- 1967 – Serj Tankian, Armenian-American singer (System of a Down)
- 1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
- 1968 – Antonio Benarrivo, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese footballer
- 1973 – Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Sergey Brin, Russian-born co-founder of Google
- 1973 – Nikolai Valuev, Russian boxer
- 1976 – Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
- 1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball player
- 1979 – Kelis, American singer
- 1983 – Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Josh Harrington, American BMX rider
- 1983 – Chantelle Houghton, British television personality
- 1983 – Brody Jenner, American actor
- 1985 – Nicolas Almagro, Spanish tennis player
- 1986 – Wout Brama, Dutch footballer
- 1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
- 1988 – Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
- 1989 – Judd Trump, British snooker player
- 1989 – Robert Knox, British actor (d. 2008)
- 1989 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer
- 1990 – Jared Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 – Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor
- 1996 – Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress
Deaths [change]
- 1157 – Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile (b. 1104)
- 1271 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
- 1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
- 1614 – Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (b. 1560)
- 1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
- 1796 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
- 1814 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
- 1838 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German poet and botanist (b. 1781)
- 1854 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
- 1870 – Ma Xinyi, Chinese Viceroy of Liangjing and statesman (b. 1821)
- 1910 – Gustave Moynier, Swiss jurist (b. 1826)
- 1926 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1862)
- 1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
- 1935 – Pavlos Kountouriotis, Greek politician (b. 1855)
- 1940 – Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (b. 1879)
- 1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (b. 1857)
- 1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
- 1947 – Theodore C. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1877)
- 1957 – Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian oceanographer and professor (b. 1888)
- 1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (b. 1893)
- 1978 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
- 1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
- 1981 – Michael Devine, Irish hunger striker (b. 1954)
- 1982 – Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
- 1988 – Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Daniel Lusilo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
- 2000 – Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Martin Dillon, American opera singer (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
- 2010 – Christoph Schlingensief, German director (b. 1960)
Events [change]
- 1192 – Minamoto Yoritomo becomes de facto ruler of Japan.
- 1680 – Pueblo Native Americans capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
- 1689 – The Battle of Dunkeld takes place in Scotland.
- 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- 1772 – Half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden is ended when King Gustav III adopts a new constitution.
- 1810 – The Swedish parliament elects Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as crown prince.
- 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship Eliza Frances.
- 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate troops.
- 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the US is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The Battle of Concon takes place.
- 1911 – In the night to August 22, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris. It is recovered two years later.
- 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- 1940 – Former Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico City, one day after being wounded with an ice-ax.
- 1942 – World War II Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack from Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of Tenaru.
- 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is put on top of Mount Elbrus, the highest point in the Caucasus mountains.
- 1944 – World War II: The Dumbarton Oaks conference begins, on the way to creating the UN.
- 1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategic town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
- 1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States.
- 1961 – Motown releases what would become its first Number One hit, Please, Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes.
- 1968 – The Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia is brutally crushed by Warsaw Pact forces.
- 1971 – A bomb explodes at a Liberal Party campaign rally in Manila, Philippines, injuring several anti-Ferdinand Marcos candidates.
- 1982 – Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1983 – Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is murdered at Manila International Airport, on his return from exile.
- 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from the volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people, within a 20 km range, as they slept.
- 1991 – Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 – The August Coup, a coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, fails.
- 1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- 2001 – NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the Republic of Macedonia.
- 2001 – The International Red Cross announces that Tajikistan is being struck by a famine, and calls for aid to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
- 2007 – Hurricane Dean makes landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico, as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 2010 – Australia's 2010 General Election is the closest in years with little to separate Julia Gillard of the Australian Labor Party and Tony Abbott of the Conservative Liberal Party of Australia. Through the support of independent MPs, Julia Gillard is allowed to stay on as Prime Minister of Australia.
Observances [change]
- Admission Day (Hawaii)
- Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
- Youth Day (Morocco)
