August 1: On This Day

Events, births, deaths, holidays and observances for August 1.

Events 69

30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, and brings the city under the control of the Roman Republic. (date is O.S.)
AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
AD 314 – The first synod of Arles is opened by bishop Marinus of Arles.
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
1203 – Alexios IV Angelos is crowned Byzantine co-emperor after his father Isaac II Angelos is pressured to do so by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1571 – The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta.
1620 – Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1714 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
1834 – Construction begins on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1849 – Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo.
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1863 – At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of Emperor Alexander II, full rights are promised to the Finnish language by a language regulation in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
1894 – The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other after a week of fighting over Korea, formally inaugurating the First Sino-Japanese War.
1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1914 – World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1914 – World War I: The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1915 – Patrick Pearse gives his famous speech "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" at O'Donovan Rossa's funeral in Dublin.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
1936 – The Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1943 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave, also known as "Black Sunday", is a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1950 – Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1965 – Frank Herbert's novel, Dune, is published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 – The coronation of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, is held.
1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1975 – The final act of the CSCE meeting is signed in Helsinki, Finland.
1976 – Trinidad and Tobago officially became a republic.
1976 – Niki Lauda has a severe accident that almost claims his life at the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – A train crash kills 18 people and injures over 170 more in County Cork, Ireland.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
1988 – A British soldier is killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
1990 – A plane crash in the Karabakh Range kills 46 people.
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
1998 – Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, is officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe. Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-declared government until Somalia recovered.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 424 people and injures 360 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
2008 – The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions die on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
2017 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
2023 – Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023.

Births 220

10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (died 54)
126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (died 193)
845 – Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese scholar and politician (died 903)
992 – Hyeonjong of Goryeo, Korean king (died 1031)
1068 – Emperor Taizu of Jin, Chinese emperor (died 1123)
1313 – Kōgon, Japanese emperor (died 1364)
1377 – Go-Komatsu, Japanese emperor (died 1433)
1385 – John Fitzalan, 6th Earl of Arundel (died 1421)
1410 – John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (died 1475)
1492 – Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (died 1566)
1520 – Sigismund II, Polish king (died 1572)
1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (died 1622)
1552 – Isabella Feltria della Rovere, Italian noblewoman (died 1619)
1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (died 1597)
1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (died 1644)
1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi and theorist (died 1676)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (died 1673)
1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (died 1734)
1713 – Charles I, German duke and prince (died 1780)
1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter and academic (died 1782)
1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (died 1794)
1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (died 1829)
1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (died 1838)
1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (died 1843)
1779 – Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (died 1851)
1809 – William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer (died 1836)
1815 – Richard Henry Dana Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1882)
1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (died 1889)
1819 – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1891)
1831 – Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer and educator (died 1918)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (died 1926)
1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (died 1883)
1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French lawyer and politician, 13th President of France (died 1937)
1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (died 1884)
1860 – Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (died 1918)
1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (died 1951)
1865 – Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (died 1917)
1866 – Louis Lapicque, French neuroscientist known for the integrate-and-fire model of the nervous system (died 1952)
1870 – Ilya Ivanov, Soviet biologist who specialized in the field of artificial insemination (died 1932)
1871 – John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (died 1969)
1877 – George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (died 1968)
1878 – Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1961)
1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (died 1940)
1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (died 1979)
1889 – John Friend Mahoney, American physician who pioneered the treatment of syphilis with penicillin (died 1957)
1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1968)
1893 – Alexander of Greece (died 1920)
1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (died 1927)
1898 – Morris Stoloff, American composer and musical director (died 1980)
1899 – Raymond Mays, English race car driver and businessman (died 1980)
1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (died 1965)
1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (died 1925)
1903 – Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (died 1995)
1905 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993)
1907 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (died 1977)
1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter and illustrator (died 1974)
1910 – Raymond A. Palmer, American author and magazine editor (died 1977)
1910 – Walter Scharf, American pianist and composer (died 2003)
1910 – Gerda Taro, German war photographer (died 1937)
1911 – Jackie Ormes, American journalist and cartoonist (died 1985)
1912 – David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (died 1979)
1912 – Gego, German-Venezuelan sculptor and academic (died 1994)
1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (died 1999)
1914 – Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (died 1997)
1914 – Alan Moore, Australian painter and educator (died 2015)
1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (died 2014)
1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (died 2000)
1918 – T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist (died 2013)
1919 – Stanley Middleton, English author (died 2009)
1920 – Henrietta Lacks, African-American tobacco farmer whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, extensively used in medical research (died 1951)
1920 – Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (died 1992)
1920 – James Mourilyan Tanner, British paediatric endocrinologist (died 2010)
1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (died 2009)
1921 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (died 1990)
1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (died 2006)
1924 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (died 2015)
1924 – Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (died 2010)
1924 – Frank Havens, American canoeist (died 2018)
1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (died 2007)
1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (died 1967)
1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet and author (died 2000)
1926 – George Habash, Palestinian politician, founder of the PFLP (died 2008)
1926 – George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (died 2013)
1926 – Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personality (died 2018)
1927 – María Teresa López Boegeholz, Chilean oceanographer (died 2006)
1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (died 2013)
1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
1929 – Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (died 2018)
1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1979)
1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (died 2006)
1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (died 1999)
1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (died 2002)
1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress and writer (died 1991)
1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (died 2011)
1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1996)
1930 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (died 2014)
1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer (died 2016)
1932 – Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (died 1990)
1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 2009)
1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player and manager (died 2019)
1933 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (died 1972)
1933 – Teri Shields, American actress, producer, and agent (died 2012)
1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian and author (died 2007)
1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (died 2000)
1934 – Derek Birdsall, English graphic designer (died 2024)
1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (died 2014)
1936 – Brian M. Fagan, British archaeologist and writer (died 2025)
1936 – W. D. Hamilton, British biologist, psychologist, and academic (died 2000)
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (died 2008)
1936 – Laurie Taylor, English sociologist, radio host, and academic
1937 – Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician
1939 – Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (died 2015)
1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
1939 – Stephen Sykes, English bishop and theologian (died 2014)
1939 – Robert James Waller, American author and photographer (died 2017)
1940 – Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iranian writer and actor
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded Cendant
1941 – Ron Brown, American politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1996)
1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (died 2004)
1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)
1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (died 1998)
1945 – Jens Juul Holst, Danish physician and physiologist known for discovering GLP-1
1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and guitarist (died 2006)
1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist and academic
1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
1947 – Chantal Montellier, French comics creator and artist
1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player (died 2019)
1948 – David Gemmell, English journalist and author (died 2006)
1949 – Bettina Arndt, Australian writer and commentator
1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
1949 – Jim Carroll, American poet, author, and musician (died 2009)
1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)
1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (died 2003)
1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
1954 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (died 2006)
1954 – James Gleick, American journalist and author
1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
1956 – Doug Burgum, American businessman and politician
1957 – Anne-Marie Hutchinson, British lawyer (died 2020)
1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
1960 – Chuck D, American rapper and songwriter
1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (died 2013)
1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor and producer
1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (died 2022)
1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer and manager
1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist (died 2024)
1970 – David James, English footballer and manager
1970 – Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer and coach
1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player and coach
1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
1974 – Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (died 2014)
1974 – Tyron Henderson, South African cricketer
1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach
1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
1975 – Vhrsti, Czech author and illustrator
1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer and manager
1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (died 2019)
1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor, director, and producer
1979 – Grant Wooden, Australian rugby league player
1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Romain Barras, French decathlete
1981 – Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player and coach
1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
1986 – Marissa Paternoster, American artist, singer and guitarist
1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1987 – Karen Carney, English women's footballer
1987 – Taapsee Pannu, Indian actress
1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1988 – Travis Boak, Australian footballer
1988 – Nemanja Matić, Serbian footballer
1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
1989 – Tiffany Young, Korean American singer, songwriter, and actress
1990 – Aledmys Díaz, Cuban baseball player
1991 – Piotr Malarczyk, Polish footballer
1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
1992 – Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress
1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
1993 – Saleh Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
1995 – Madison Cawthorn, American politician
1996 – Katie Boulter, British tennis player
2000 – Kim Chaewon, South Korean singer
2001 – Scottie Barnes, American basketball player
2001 – Park Si-eun, South Korean actress
2001 – Ben Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
2002 – Alejandro Francés, Spanish footballer
2003 – Joseph Sua'ali'i, Australian-Samoan rugby league player

Deaths 109

30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (born 83 BC)
527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (born 450)
690s – Jonatus, abbot and saint
946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (born 859)
946 – Lady Xu Xinyue, Chinese royal concubine (born 902)
953 – Yingtian, Chinese Khitan empress (born 879)
984 – Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester
1098 – Adhemar of Le Puy, French bishop, crusader, and papal legate
1137 – Louis VI, king of France (born 1081)
1146 – Vsevolod II of Kiev, Russian prince
1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian archbishop and explorer (born 1180)
1299 – Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (born 1240)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian author and educator (born 1406)
1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1386)
1494 – Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael (born c. 1435)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (born 1493)
1543 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1488)
1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (born 1506)
1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (born 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (born 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (born 1567)
1603 – Matthew Browne, English politician (born 1563)
1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (born 1696)
1797 – Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (born 1754)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (born 1753)
1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (born 1732)
1808 – Lady Diana Beauclerk, English painter and illustrator (born 1734)
1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (born 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (born 1775)
1863 – Jind Kaur Majarani (Regent) of the Sikh Empire (born 1817)
1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (born 1790)
1868 – Peter Julian Eymard, French priest, saint, and founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (born 1811)
1869 – Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (born 1815)
1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (born 1853)
1905 – Henrik Sjöberg, Swedish gymnast and medical student (born 1875)
1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (born 1852)
1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (born 1843)
1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (born 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (born 1856)
1921 – T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (born 1876)
1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (born 1856)
1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (born 1870)
1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (born 1862)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet lieutenant and pilot (born 1921)
1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (born 1878)
1957 – Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (born 1877)
1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (born 1921)
1963 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (born 1908)
1966 – Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (born 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (born 1913)
1970 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (born 1901)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (born 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (born 1893)
1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (born 1898)
1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (born 1929)
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (born 1944)
1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (born 1919)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1923)
1981 – Kevin Lynch, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike
1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1933)
1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (born 1937)
1990 – Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (born 1897)
1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (born 1929)
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (born 1927)
2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (born 1974)
2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress and screenwriter (born 1962)
2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist, editor, and author (born 1913)
2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (born 1928)
2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist and educator (born 1918)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (born 1920)
2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (born 1923)
2006 – Bob Thaves, American illustrator (born 1924)
2006 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (born 1949)
2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (born 1932)
2008 – Gertan Klauber, Czech-born English actor (born 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1916)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican-American activist (born 1919)
2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (born 1910)
2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer and agent (born 1953)
2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer and musicologist (born 1921)
2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (born 1924)
2013 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (born 1922)
2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (born 1932)
2013 – Babe Martin, American baseball player (born 1920)
2013 – Toby Saks, American cellist and educator (born 1942)
2013 – Wilford White, American football player (born 1928)
2014 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (born 1973)
2014 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian author (born 1974)
2014 – Charles T. Payne, American soldier (born 1925)
2014 – Mike Smith, English radio and television host (born 1955)
2015 – Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1968)
2015 – Cilla Black, English singer and actress (born 1943)
2015 – Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (born 1921)
2015 – Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (born 1939)
2015 – Hong Yuanshuo, Chinese footballer and manager (born 1948)
2016 – Queen Anne of Romania (born 1923)
2020 – Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (born 1934)
2020 – Rickey Dixon, American professional football player (born 1966)
2020 – Rodney H. Pardey, American poker player (born 1945)
2021 – Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (born 1930)
2021 – Jerry Ziesmer, American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor (born 1939)
2024 – Joyce Brabner, American writer and artist (born 1952)

Holidays and observances 32

Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
Armed Forces Day (China) or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect which abolished chattel slavery in the British Empire: Emancipation Day is a public holiday in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
Emancipation Day is a public holiday in Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
Christian feast day: Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church) Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori Æthelwold of Winchester Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder Eusebius of Vercelli Exuperius of Bayeux Felix of Girona Peter Apostle in Chains Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy) The Holy Maccabees August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori
Æthelwold of Winchester
Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder
Eusebius of Vercelli
Exuperius of Bayeux
Felix of Girona
Peter Apostle in Chains
Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
The Holy Maccabees
August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Minden Day (United Kingdom)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
Parents' Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Statehood Day (Colorado)
Swiss National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year): Lughnasadh in the Northern hemisphere, Imbolc in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans) Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans) Pachamama Raymi (Quechuan in Ecuador and Peru)
Lughnasadh in the Northern hemisphere, Imbolc in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans)
Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)
Pachamama Raymi (Quechuan in Ecuador and Peru)
Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
World Scout Scarf Day
Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)