August 3: On This Day

Events, births, deaths, holidays and observances for August 3.

Events 51

8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
908 – Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
1057 – Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.
1342 – The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1347 – The city of Calais surrenders after a protracted siege to the English following the English defeat of a French relief fleet in the battle of Crotoy. It will remain in English hands for more than 200 years.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
1645 – Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1692 – British-Dutch forces under William III defending the city of Brussels fight an inconclusive battle at Steenkerque against a French army under the duke of Luxembourg, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.
1778 – The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
1795 – Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1829 – The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.
1859 – The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
1889 – An Anglo-Egyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army in the battle of Toski.
1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
1958 – The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
1997 – Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, becoming the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2007 – Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
2014 – The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
2018 – Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
2019 – Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
2023 – Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.

Births 219

1442 – Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (died 1499)
1486 – Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan (died 1512)
1491 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, German noblewoman (died 1543)
1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (died 1546)
1622 – Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, German field marshal (died 1698)
1692 – John Henley, English minister and poet (died 1759)
1724 – Alvise Foscari, Venetian admiral (died 1790)
1766 – Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author (died 1844)
1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia (died 1840)
1803 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (died 1865)
1808 – Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (died 1893)
1811 – Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (died 1861)
1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (died 1895)
1823 – Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish-American revolutionary and military leader, territorial governor of Montana (died 1867)
1823 – Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish clarinetist, composer, and musicologist (died 1894)
1832 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director (died 1914)
1837 – Julien Reverchon, French botanist (died 1905)
1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (died 1929)
1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (died 1926)
1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (died 1919)
1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 1935)
1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist (died 1922)
1867 – Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1947)
1871 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (died 1929)
1872 – Haakon VII of Norway (died 1957)
1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright (died 1964)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)
1887 – August Wesley, Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (died ?)
1890 – Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club (died 1974)
1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1951)
1895 – Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician (died 1942)
1896 – Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (died 1997)
1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (died 1979)
1900 – Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (died 1945)
1900 – John T. Scopes, American educator (died 1970)
1901 – John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician (died 1995)
1901 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (died 1981)
1902 – Regina Jonas, German rabbi (died 1944)
1902 – David Buttolph, American film composer (died 1983)
1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)
1904 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983)
1904 – Clifford D. Simak, American journalist and author (died 1988)
1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal (died 2004)
1907 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer (died 1988)
1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (died 1996)
1907 – Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and President of China (died 1998)
1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and educator (died 1971)
1911 – Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor and producer (died 1990)
1912 – Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)
1913 – Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)
1916 – Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1970)
1916 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1978)
1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1995)
1918 – James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (died 2014)
1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (died 1999)
1918 – Larry Haines, American actor (died 2008)
1918 – Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter (died 1979)
1920 – Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer (died 2019)
1920 – Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (died 2012)
1920 – P. D. James, English author (died 2014)
1920 – Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player and composer (died 1971)
1920 – Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (died 2013)
1921 – Richard Adler, American composer and producer (died 2012)
1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (died 2008)
1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (died 1972)
1922 – John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2013)
1923 – Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)
1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (died 2012)
1924 – Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter (disappeared 1974)
1924 – Leon Uris, American soldier and author (died 2003)
1925 – Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
1925 – Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (died 2017)
1926 – Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (died 2013)
1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer and actor (died 2023)
1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (died 2004)
1926 – Gordon Scott, American actor (died 2007)
1926 – Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian actor (died 1980)
1928 – Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)
1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor (died 2012)
1930 – James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (died 2009)
1934 – Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (died 1989)
1934 – Michael Chapman, English bassoon player (died 2005)
1934 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (died 2002)
1935 – John Erman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2021)
1935 – Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 1997)
1935 – Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2019)
1936 – Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host (died 2013)
1936 – Edward Petherbridge, English actor
1937 – Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
1937 – Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television host (died 2016)
1939 – Jimmie Nicol, English drummer
1939 – Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer (died 2013)
1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player
1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor and producer
1940 – James Tyler, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2010)
1941 – Juanita Helms, American politician (died 2009)
1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer
1941 – Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
1943 – Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician and academic
1943 – Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden
1943 – Steven Millhauser, American novelist and short story writer
1944 – Morris Berman, American historian and social critic
1944 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (died 1973)
1945 – Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist
1946 – Robert Ayling, English businessman
1946 – Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1946 – John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1947 – Ralph Wright, English footballer (died 2020)
1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France
1949 – Philip Casnoff, American actor and director
1949 – B. B. Dickerson, American bass player and songwriter (died 2021)
1949 – Sue Slipman, English politician
1950 – Linda Howard, American author
1950 – John Landis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 – Jo Marie Payton, American actress and singer
1950 – Ernesto Samper, Colombian economist and politician, 29th President of Colombia
1951 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – Jay North, American actor (died 2025)
1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer and manager
1953 – Ian Bairnson, Scottish guitarist, songwriter and saxophonist (died 2023)
1953 – Marlene Dumas, South African painter
1954 – Michael Arthur, English physician and academic
1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer and manager
1956 – Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)
1956 – Dave Cloud, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)
1956 – Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
1956 – Ian Crichton, Canadian guitarist
1957 – Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer and manager
1957 – Kate Wilkinson, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 11th New Zealand Minister of Conservation
1958 – Lindsey Hilsum, English journalist and author
1958 – Ana Kokkinos, Australian director and screenwriter
1959 – Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer
1959 – Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster
1959 – John C. McGinley, American actor and producer
1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1960 – Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach
1960 – Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
1961 – Molly Hagan, American actress
1961 – Nick Harvey, English politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
1961 – Lee Rocker, American bassist
1963 – Tasmin Archer, English pop singer
1963 – Frano Botica, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1963 – James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – David Knox, Australian rugby player
1963 – Ed Roland, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Isaiah Washington, American actor and producer
1964 – Lucky Dube, South African singer and keyboard player (died 2007)
1964 – Ralph Knibbs, British rugby union player
1964 – Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach
1964 – Kevin Sumlin, American football player and coach
1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand
1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Gizz Butt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Eric Esch, American wrestler, boxer, and mixed martial artist
1966 – Robert Laimer, Austrian politician
1967 – Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Skin, English singer and guitarist
1968 – Rod Beck, American baseball player (died 2007)
1969 – Doug Overton, American basketball player and coach
1970 – Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
1970 – Gina G, Australian singer-songwriter
1970 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
1971 – Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (died 2007)
1971 – DJ Spinderella, American DJ, rapper, producer, and actress
1972 – Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player and politician
1973 – Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
1973 – Michael Ealy, American actor
1975 – Wael Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
1975 – Argyro Strataki, Greek heptathlete
1976 – Troy Glaus, American baseball player
1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
1977 – Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist and footballer
1978 – Joi Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress
1978 – Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
1978 – Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer
1979 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
1980 – Nadia Ali, Libyan-American singer-songwriter
1980 – Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Hannah Simone, Canadian television host and actress
1981 – Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer
1981 – Pablo Ibáñez, Spanish footballer
1982 – Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
1982 – Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
1983 – Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player
1984 – Yasin Avcı, Turkish footballer
1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
1984 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
1985 – Georgina Haig, Australian actress
1985 – Brent Kutzle, American bass player and producer
1985 – Ats Purje, Estonian footballer
1985 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player and boxer
1986 – Charlotte Casiraghi, Monégasque journalist, co-founded Ever Manifesto
1986 – Darya Domracheva, Belarusian biathlete
1987 – Kim Hyung-jun, South Korean singer and dancer
1989 – Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (died 2015)
1989 – Tyrod Taylor, American football player
1989 – Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer
1990 – Jourdan Dunn, English model
1990 – Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer
1992 – Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner
1992 – Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner
1992 – Karlie Kloss, American fashion model
1994 – Kwon Alexander, American football player
1994 – Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality (died 2010)
1994 – Younghoe Koo, South Korean-born American football player
1995 – Zac Gallen, American baseball player
1995 – Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
1996 – Alec Bohm, American baseball player
1996 – Bokondji Imama, Canadian ice hockey player
1996 – Derwin James, American football player
1997 – Luis Robert Jr., Cuban baseball player
1999 – Zach Wilson, American football player
1999 – Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer
1999 – Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

Deaths 111

908 – Burchard, duke of Thuringia
908 – Egino, duke of Thuringia
908 – Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg
925 – Cao, Chinese empress dowager
979 – Thietmar, margrave of Meissen
1003 – At-Ta'i, Abbasid caliph (born 929)
1355 – Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, English nobleman
1460 – James II, king of Scotland (born 1430)
1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1530 – Francesco Ferruccio, Italian captain (born 1489)
1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (born 1484)
1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (born 1509)
1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish commander and diplomat (born 1540)
1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (born 1556)
1712 – Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (born 1654)
1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (born 1641)
1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (born 1648)
1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (born 1691)
1773 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (born 1700)
1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (born 1715)
1792 – Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman (born 1732)
1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)
1805 – Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (born 1724)
1835 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1767)
1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (born 1763)
1857 – Eugène Sue, French author and politician (born 1804)
1866 – Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (born 1804)
1867 – August Böckh, German historian and scholar (born 1785)
1877 – William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (born 1793)
1894 – George Inness, American painter (born 1825)
1913 – William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (born 1844)
1916 – Roger Casement, executed Irish poet and activist (born 1864)
1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (born 1849)
1920 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (born 1883)
1922 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (born 1851)
1924 – Joseph Conrad, British novelist (born 1857)
1925 – William Bruce, Australian cricketer (born 1864)
1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)
1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (born 1857)
1936 – Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)
1942 – Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
1943 – Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)
1949 – Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (born 1869)
1954 – Colette, French novelist and journalist (born 1873)
1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (born 1931)
1959 – Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (born 1887)
1961 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (born 1884)
1963 – Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)
1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)
1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1925)
1968 – Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)
1969 – Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)
1972 – Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (born 1913)
1973 – Richard Marshall, American general (born 1895)
1974 – Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (born 1888)
1975 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)
1977 – Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (born 1913)
1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (born 1892)
1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
1979 – Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (born 1907)
1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (born 1930)
1992 – Wang Hongwen, Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)
1995 – Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (born 1918)
1995 – Edward Whittemore, American soldier and author (born 1933)
1996 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (born 1939)
1997 – Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and journalist (born 1934)
1999 – Rod Ansell, Australian hunter (born 1953)
1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian and author (born 1921)
2000 – Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)
2001 – Christopher Hewett, English actor and director (born 1922)
2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1954)
2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (born 1908)
2005 – Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet (born 1920)
2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1945)
2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress (born 1915)
2007 – John Gardner, English author (born 1926)
2007 – Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)
2008 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster (born 1939)
2008 – Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
2009 – Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
2010 – Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
2011 – William Sleator, American author (born 1945)
2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (born 1945)
2012 – Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)
2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)
2012 – Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)
2012 – John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)
2012 – George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)
2013 – John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)
2013 – Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)
2013 – Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)
2014 – Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)
2014 – Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)
2014 – Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)
2014 – Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)
2014 – Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)
2015 – Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)
2015 – Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)
2015 – Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)
2015 – Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
2015 – Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)
2015 – Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)
2020 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)
2022 – Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)
2023 – Mark Margolis, American actor (born 1939)
2023 – Bram Moolenaar, Dutch software engineer (born 1961)
2024 – Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian dancer (born 1940)
2025 – Loni Anderson, American actress (born 1945)

Holidays and observances 16

Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
Christian feast day: Blessed Augustin Kažotić George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church) Lydia of Thyatira Myrrhbearers (Lutheran Church) Nicodemus Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic) Stephen (Discovery of the relic) Waltheof of Melrose August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Blessed Augustin Kažotić
George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church)
Lydia of Thyatira
Myrrhbearers (Lutheran Church)
Nicodemus
Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
Stephen (Discovery of the relic)
Waltheof of Melrose
August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Flag Day (Venezuela)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960. Arbor Day (Niger)
Arbor Day (Niger)
National Guard Day (Venezuela)