01/08/0527 - Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium
01/08/0649 - Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
01/08/0860 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II
01/08/0902 - Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
01/08/1021 - Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
01/08/1086 - English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier
01/08/1177 - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III
01/08/1203 - Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
01/08/1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
01/08/1404 - Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
01/08/1485 - Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
01/08/1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
01/08/1588 - English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
01/08/1589 - Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
01/08/1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
01/08/1626 - Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
01/08/1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
01/08/1664 - Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu
01/08/1690 - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
01/08/1711 - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
01/08/1714 - Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
01/08/1716 - Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
01/08/1716 - 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
01/08/1732 - Foundation laid for Bank of England
01/08/1759 - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
01/08/1774 - Priestly discovers oxygen
01/08/1780 - Sweden declares neutrality
01/08/1781 - English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
01/08/1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
01/08/1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
01/08/1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
01/08/1793 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
01/08/1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
01/08/1798 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
01/08/1812 - Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
01/08/1814 - Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
01/08/1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
01/08/1834 - Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
01/08/1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
01/08/1838 - Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
01/08/1842 - Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
01/08/1852 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
01/08/1855 - Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
01/08/1861 - Brazil recognizes Confederacy
01/08/1863 - Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign
01/08/1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
01/08/1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA
01/08/1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
01/08/1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
01/08/1873 - SF's 1st cable car begins service
01/08/1876 - Colorado becomes 38th state
01/08/1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
01/08/1883 - A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for ś10,000 (forgery)
01/08/1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
01/08/1883 - Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
01/08/1886 - Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
01/08/1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
01/08/1893 - Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat
01/08/1896 - George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
01/08/1901 - Burial within SF City limits prohibited
01/08/1902 - Building begins on Dutch public housing
01/08/1902 - Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
01/08/1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
01/08/1906 - Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
01/08/1907 - Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
01/08/1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
01/08/1909 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
01/08/1911 - Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
01/08/1914 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
01/08/1914 - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
01/08/1914 - France and Germany mobilize
01/08/1914 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
01/08/1916 - Hawaii National Park forms
01/08/1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
01/08/1918 - British troops enter Vladivostok
01/08/1918 - Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
01/08/1919 - Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
01/08/1919 - Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
01/08/1920 - Papendrecht soccer team forms
01/08/1920 - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
01/08/1922 - Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
01/08/1925 - Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies
01/08/1926 - Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus
01/08/1926 - Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
01/08/1927 - Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
01/08/1928 - Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
01/08/1933 - NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
01/08/1933 - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
01/08/1933 - Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
01/08/1933 - Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
01/08/1936 - Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
01/08/1936 - Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
01/08/1941 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
01/08/1941 - NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
01/08/1942 - Race riots in Harlem, New York
01/08/1942 - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
01/08/1942 - Deurne soccer team forms
01/08/1943 - Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
01/08/1943 - Race riot in Harlem NYC
01/08/1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383
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Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 100 of 183 for 1 August in all years
01/08/0126 - Publius ,Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD)
01/08/0848 - "Frantisek Kmoch, composer
01/08/1322 - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian
01/08/1495 - Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect
01/08/1520 - Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)
01/08/1642 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) [or Feb 25, 1643]
01/08/1659 - Antoine Mouque, composer
01/08/1685 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer
01/08/1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)
01/08/1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter
01/08/1744 - Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist
01/08/1753 - Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
01/08/1755 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer
01/08/1766 - Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer
01/08/1766 - Jeffrey Wyatville, architect
01/08/1770 - William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition
01/08/1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
01/08/1786 - Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister
01/08/1814 - Maxcy Gregg, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
01/08/1815 - Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
01/08/1818 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
01/08/1819 - Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
01/08/1824 - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
01/08/1840 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer
01/08/1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), died in 1926
01/08/1847 - Guido Papini, violinist/composer
01/08/1858 - Hans Rott, composer
01/08/1858 - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
01/08/1861 - Sam Jones, cricketer (Australian batsman of 1880's)
01/08/1862 - Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
01/08/1863 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)
01/08/1867 - William Orlamond, Denmark, actor (Flesh and Devil, Wind)
01/08/1871 - Oskar Fried, composer
01/08/1877 - Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
01/08/1877 - Jan van den Tempel, Dutch MP (SDAP)
01/08/1881 - Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer
01/08/1881 - Rose Macaulay, writer
01/08/1882 - Vaclav Klicka, composer
01/08/1886 - Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder (System Keesing)
01/08/1888 - Vito Frazzi, composer
01/08/1889 - John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
01/08/1890 - George II, king of Greece
01/08/1892 - Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian (Temps Inquiets)
01/08/1895 - Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University)
01/08/1898 - Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey)
01/08/1899 - William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71)
01/08/1900 - Otto Nothling, cricketer (Test for Australia 1928, 52 runs aver 26)
01/08/1901 - Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club M‚diterran‚e)
01/08/1902 - Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor
01/08/1902 - Hendrik J Kruls, Neth, general/chief military authority (1944-46)
01/08/1903 - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist
01/08/1906 - William Hayter, diplomat
01/08/1908 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer
01/08/1909 - Nigel Henderson, admiral
01/08/1910 - William Hayter, diplomat
01/08/1910 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests)
01/08/1911 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician
01/08/1911 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
01/08/1912 - Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist
01/08/1912 - Henry Jones, Phila Pa, actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy)
01/08/1912 - Masaya Hanai, businessamn
01/08/1913 - Nigel Henderson, admiral
01/08/1913 - Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie and Johnny)
01/08/1914 - Jack Delano, composer
01/08/1915 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
01/08/1916 - Viscount Hanworth, barrister
01/08/1917 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
01/08/1918 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
01/08/1919 - Stanley Middleton, novelist
01/08/1920 - Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright
01/08/1920 - Maria Cole, Boston MA
01/08/1920 - Sammy Lee, Fresno Calif, platform diver (Oly-2 gold/bronze-1948, 52)
01/08/1920 - Viscount Hanworth, barrister
01/08/1921 - Vic Marshall, chemist
01/08/1921 - Jack Kramer, Las Vegas, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1947, US Open-1946)
01/08/1921 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
01/08/1922 - Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)
01/08/1922 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
01/08/1922 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
01/08/1923 - Yoshinao Nakada, composer
01/08/1923 - Stanley Middleton, novelist
01/08/1923 - Paul Lambert, El Paso Tx, actor (Tom-Executive Suite)
01/08/1923 - Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director
01/08/1924 - Frank Worrell, cricketer (one of the three W's, inspiring WI captain)
01/08/1924 - Jeffrey Segal, actor/playwright (Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces)
01/08/1924 - Yvonne DeCarlo, actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters)
01/08/1925 - Jack Kramer, actor (Kings of the Court)
01/08/1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer
01/08/1926 - Burton Stein, historian
01/08/1926 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
01/08/1926 - Karl Kohn, composer
01/08/1927 - Andr‚ Cools, Belgium, minister of Budget/vice-premier
01/08/1927 - Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director
01/08/1930 - Lionel Bart, [Begleiter], English composer (Oliver!)
01/08/1930 - Karoly Grosz, politician
01/08/1930 - Julie Bovasso, Brooklyn NY, actress (Willie and Phil, Just Me and You)
01/08/1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
01/08/1931 - Trevor Goddard, cricketer (S African opening batsman and opening bowler)
01/08/1931 - Sean O Riada, composer
01/08/1931 - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, rocker
01/08/1931 - Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England)
01/08/1931 - Lucien E Blackwell, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
01/08/1933 - Dom DeLuise, Bkln NY, comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso)
01/08/1933 - Erwin Nypels, Dutch economist/minister of Housing (D66)
01/08/1933 - Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office
01/08/1934 - Lionel Bart, composer
01/08/1934 - J E F "John" Beck, cricketer (lefty bat in 8 Tests for NZ 1953-56)
01/08/1935 - Geoff Pullar, cricketer (England opening batsman late 50's early 60's)
01/08/1936 - Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
01/08/1936 - Yves Saint-Laurent, Oran Algeria, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)
01/08/1937 - Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary (Welsh Office)
01/08/1937 - Alfonse M D'Amato, Brooklyn NY, (Sen-R-NY 1981- )
01/08/1939 - Stephen Sykes, Bishop of Ely
01/08/1940 - Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983)
01/08/1940 - Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
01/08/1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
01/08/1941 - Ronald Harmon Brown, chairman (Democratic Party)
01/08/1942 - Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
01/08/1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, La Spezia Italy, actor (Seduction of Mimi)
01/08/1943 - Andy Roxburgh, manager soccer team (Scotland)
01/08/1943 - Dennis Paxton, rocker (Dave Clark Five-Glad All Over)
01/08/1943 - Stephen Sykes, Bishop (Ely)
01/08/1944 - Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, 38, TM-2)
01/08/1944 - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
01/08/1944 - Elske Terveld, Dutch undersecretary Social Affairs (PvdA)
01/08/1946 - Frederick C Boucher, (Rep-D-Virginia, 1983- )
01/08/1946 - J Guillermo, ex-husband of princess Christina of Netherlands
01/08/1946 - Richard O Covey, Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astro (STS 51I, 26, 38, 61)
01/08/1946 - Tom Loeffler, (Rep-R-TX, 1979- )
01/08/1947 - Ricky Coonce, LA Calif, rock drummer (Grass Roots)
01/08/1947 - Rick Anderson, rock bassist (Tubes)
01/08/1947 - Andy Roxburgh, soccer manager (Scotland)
01/08/1948 - Robert Spink, British MP
01/08/1949 - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV director/film-maker
01/08/1949 - Primous, III Fountain, composer
01/08/1950 - Doug Tract, Bronx NY, radio DJ (Greaseman)
01/08/1951 - David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
01/08/1951 - Robin Heifetz, composer
01/08/1952 - Yajurvindra Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman late 70's)
01/08/1952 - Robert Spink, British MP
01/08/1952 - Nancy Lopez, professional golfer
01/08/1952 - C L Whittington, WLAF defensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
01/08/1952 - Brian Patrick Clarke, Gettysburg Pa, actor (Merle-Eight is Enough)
01/08/1953 - Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy)
01/08/1955 - Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman mid-80's)
01/08/1955 - David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
01/08/1957 - Laura Johnson, Burbank Calif, actress (Falcon Crest)
01/08/1957 - Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball (445'10")
01/08/1958 - Taylor Negron, LA Calif, actor (Silvio-Detective School)
01/08/1959 - Joe Elliot, heavy metal vocalist (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
01/08/1960 - Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy)
01/08/1960 - Marta Ch varri Figueroa, Madrid Spain, The Marquesa de Cubas
01/08/1961 - Mike Watkinson, cricketer (England off-spinner all-rounder v WI 1995)
01/08/1961 - Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Sceonds, I Want to Live)
01/08/1961 - Danny Blind, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/Ajax)
01/08/1961 - Bradford John Faxon Jr, Oceanport NJ, PGA golfer (1986 Provident)
01/08/1961 - Bart Conner, US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
01/08/1961 - Andrew Nicholson, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
01/08/1962 - Traci Phillips, Honolulu Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
01/08/1962 - Joetta Clark, East Orange NJ, 800m runner (Olympic-1992)
01/08/1962 - Gertjan Verbeek, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
01/08/1963 - Coolio, rapper (Gangsta Paradise)
01/08/1963 - Koichi Wakata, Omiya Saitama Japan, astronaut (STS 72, sk: 92)
01/08/1964 - Rob Camilletti, Cher's boyfriend
01/08/1964 - Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
01/08/1964 - Andrew Wilson, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-16-92, 96)
01/08/1966 - Darryl Hall, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
01/08/1966 - Ganesh Mylvaganam, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup)
01/08/1966 - Horacia de la Pena, Argentina, tennis star
01/08/1966 - Pat Carter, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
01/08/1967 - Lori Endicott, KC MO, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
01/08/1967 - Gregg Jefferies, Burlingame CA, infielder (NY Mets, Royals, Phillies)
01/08/1968 - Rob Carpenter, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
01/08/1968 - Stacey Augmon, Pasadena, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers, Hawks)
01/08/1969 - Graham Thorpe, cricketer (England LHB Century on Test debut 1993)
01/08/1969 - Kevin Jarvis, Lexington KY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
01/08/1970 - Quentin Coryatt, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
01/08/1971 - Fred Lester (Atlanta Falcons)
01/08/1971 - Julia Chilicki, Somers CT, rower (Olympics-96)
01/08/1971 - Lisa Flood, Scarborough Ontario, 100m Breaststroker (Olympics-96)
01/08/1971 - Shae Sloan, Huntsville TX, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
01/08/1972 - Matt Dyson, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
01/08/1972 - Martin Damm, Czech Republic, tennis star
01/08/1972 - Karen Dalton, Mt View Calif, diver (Olympics-96)
01/08/1973 - Ben Johnson, cricketer (promising South Australian opening batsman)
01/08/1973 - Gregg Berhalter, Englewood NJ, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
01/08/1973 - Mario Bennett, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns)
01/08/1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa Huxtable-Cosby Show)
01/08/1974 - Kerwin Waldroup, DL (Detroit Lions)
01/08/1975 - Mandy Leigh, Greensburg Penn, actress (Bloodscent)
01/08/1976 - David Nemirovsky, Toronto, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
01/08/1976 - Eryn Bulmer, Edmonton Alberta, diver (Olympics-96)
01/08/1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, soccer player (Ajax)
01/08/1978 - Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child
01/08/1990 - Landry Allbright, actress (Bridget Forrester-Bold and Beautiful)
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Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 79 of 79 for 1 August in all years
01/08/0527 - Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies
01/08/1137 - Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)
01/08/1190 - Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
01/08/1457 - Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50
01/08/1589 - Jacques Cl‚ment, French monk (Henri III), dies
01/08/1628 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37
01/08/1667 - Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48
01/08/1714 - Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49
01/08/1743 - Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46
01/08/1787 - Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90
01/08/1805 - Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51
01/08/1813 - Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60
01/08/1821 - Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68
01/08/1834 - Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
01/08/1837 - Walter Geikie, painter, dies
01/08/1846 - Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83
01/08/1857 - Charles Turner, engraver, dies
01/08/1882 - Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43
01/08/1883 - Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
01/08/1884 - Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
01/08/1902 - Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
01/08/1911 - Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
01/08/1916 - Claude Newberry, S Afr cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies
01/08/1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies
01/08/1922 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72
01/08/1925 - John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61
01/08/1926 - Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies
01/08/1929 - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies
01/08/1932 - Arnold Fothergill, cricketer (8 wickets in 2 Tests for Eng 1889), dies
01/08/1934 - Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79
01/08/1943 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
01/08/1944 - Manuel Luis Quez˘n y Molina, pres of Philippines (1935-42), dies at 65
01/08/1946 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
01/08/1954 - Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
01/08/1957 - Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59]
01/08/1962 - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
01/08/1963 - Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies
01/08/1964 - Johnny Burnette, rocker, drowns at 30
01/08/1965 - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77
01/08/1966 - Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at U of Texas, shot by cops
01/08/1966 - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies
01/08/1970 - Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55
01/08/1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91
01/08/1973 - Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80
01/08/1975 - Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68
01/08/1977 - Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47
01/08/1979 - Joseph Kot„lla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71
01/08/1980 - Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
01/08/1981 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer, dies at 49
01/08/1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58
01/08/1983 - Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62
01/08/1985 - Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
01/08/1986 - Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
01/08/1987 - Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92
01/08/1987 - Benson Fong, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart), dies at 70
01/08/1988 - Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86
01/08/1988 - John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80
01/08/1988 - Trindad Silva, actor (Hill St Blues), dies at 38 in an auto accident
01/08/1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52
01/08/1990 - Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
01/08/1991 - Stuart Wilson, actor (Lethal Weapon 3), dies at 87
01/08/1992 - Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orch), dies of cancer at 72
01/08/1992 - Kenny Sacha, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), dies of AIDS at 39
01/08/1992 - Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
01/08/1993 - Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
01/08/1993 - Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
01/08/1993 - Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
01/08/1993 - Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
01/08/1993 - Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
01/08/1994 - Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
01/08/1994 - George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85
01/08/1995 - Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
01/08/1995 - Robert L "Bob" Talley, pianist, dies at 75
01/08/1996 - John Lanigan, tenor, dies at 75
01/08/1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Pres (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
01/08/1996 - Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58
01/08/1996 - Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
01/08/1997 - Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
01/08/1997 - Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82
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