August 7
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August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 317 – Constantius II, Roman Emperor (d. 361)
- 594 - Empress Kogyoku of Japan (d. 661)
- 1400 – Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474) (some sources give August 5, 1397 birthdate)
- 1533 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
- 1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
- 1574 - Robert Dudley, English writer (d. 1649)
- 1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
- 1742 - Nathanael Greene, American revolutionary general (d. 1786)
- 1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
- 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
- 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
- 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
- 1783 - John Heathcoat, English inventor (d. 1861)
- 1804 - Johan Nicolai Madvig, Danish classical philologist and politician (d. 1886)
- 1819 - Ion Emanuel Florescu, Romanian general and politician (d. 1893)
- 1862 – Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
- 1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
- 1868 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
- 1870 - Gustav Krupp, German industrialist and war criminal (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
- 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
- 1883 - Joachim Ringelnatz, German author and painter (d. 1934)
- 1896 - Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan politician (d. 1980)
- 1903 – Louis Leakey, British-Kenyan archaeologist (d. 1972)
- 1904 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (d. 1971)
- 1906 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (d. 1998)
- 1907 - Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Nicholas Ray, American film director and writer (d. 1979)
- 1912 – Vo Chi Cong, President of Vietnam (d. 2011)
- 1916 – Kermit Love, American puppeteer (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy Cardinal (d. 2010)
- 1927 - George Busbee, American politician, Governor of the State of Georgia (d. 2004)
- 1929 - Don Larsen, American baseball player
- 1932 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
- 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, British actor (d. 2011)
- 1933 - Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and coach
- 1933 - Elinor Ostrom, American economist (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1942 – Sigfried Held, German footballer
- 1942 – B.J. Thomas, American singer
- 1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
- 1943 – Alain Corneau, French film director (d. 2010)
- 1944 - Robert Mueller, American FBI director
- 1948 - Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
- 1949 - Tim Renwick, British musician
- 1949 - Walid Junblatt, Lebanese political leader
- 1950 - Dave Wottle, American athlete
- 1955 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
- 1957 - Caroline Aaron, American actress
- 1958 – Bruce Dickinson, British singer (Iron Maiden)
- 1958 – Alberto Salazar, American runner
- 1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama)
- 1960 – David Duchovny, American actor
- 1961 - Yelena Davydova, Soviet-Russian gymnast
- 1962 - Alain Robert, French daredevil
- 1966 – Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
- 1969 – Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and coach
- 1971 – Rachel York, American actress and singer
- 1973 - Kevin Muscat, Australian footballer
- 1973 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand disc jockey and television presenter
- 1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
- 1978 - Mark McCammon, Barbadian footballer
- 1982 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1982 – Marco Melandri, Italian cyclist
- 1982 - Abbie Cornish, American actress
- 1986 – Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
- 1986 – Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
- 1986 – Nancy Sumari, Tanzanian beauty queen
- 1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
Deaths [change]
- 461 – Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
- 479 - Emperor Yuryaku of Japan
- 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
- 1635 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
- 1661 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
- 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
- 1821 - Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1768)
- 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
- 1848 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
- 1855 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
- 1893 - Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (b. 1854)
- 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (born 1841)
- 1938 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
- 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer and poet (b. 1861)
- 1948 - Charles Bryant, American actor and film director (b. 1879)
- 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American radio and film comedian, and actor (born 1892)
- 1969 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (b. 1905)
- 1972 – Asposia Manos, wife of King Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
- 1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
- 1989 - Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944)
- 1995 – Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
- 1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2004 – Red Adair, American oil well firefighter (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
- 2007 - Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1929)
- 2008 - Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer (b. 1957)
- 2010 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Hugh Carey, former Governor of New York (b. 1919)
- 2011 - Mark Hatfield, former Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born spy (b. 1912)
Events [change]
- 322 BC - Battle of Crammon between Athens and Macedon.
- 461 - Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in northwestern Italy.
- 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
- 1789 – The United States War Department is established.
- 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
- 1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monoghaela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
- 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
- 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to make a transcontinental car journey, reaching San Francisco, California after setting off from New York City on June 9.
- 1927 – Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 7,000 km (4,300 mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1953 – Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803 (this is disputed by some).
- 1959 – Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
- 1964 – Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
- 1964 - Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the oldest tree in the world, is cut down.
- 1965 – Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam and undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
- 1971 - Apollo 15 returns to Earth after a mission to the Moon.
- 1972 - Idi Amin gives all Asian people in Uganda to leave within 90 days.
- 1974 – French tight-rope walker Philippe Petit crosses from one tower to the other at New York's World Trade Center.
- 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
- 1978 – United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
- 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mori, and Chiaki Mukai are chosen as Japan's first astronauts.
- 1987 – American swimmer Lynne Cox crosses the so-called 'Ice Curtain' between Alaska (US), and the Soviet Union's far east.
- 1989 – US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
- 1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.
- 1997 – Fine Air Flight 101, a cargo flight from Miami to Santo Domingo crashes onto NW 72nd Ave near Miami International Airport, killing five people.
- 1998 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.
- 2000 - US Presidential candidate Al Gore chooses Joseph Liebermann as his running mate.
- 2002 - Alvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
- 2007 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
- 2008 – The Republic of Georgia carries out a military offensive in South Ossetia.
- 2009 – Typhoon Morakot devastates Taiwan.
- 2010 - Juan Manuel Santos becomes President of Colombia.
Observances [change]
- Republic Day (Ivory Coast)
- Youth Day (Kiribati)
