August 19
August 19 this yearin various calendars Akan Kwawukuo Armenian 30 Nawasardi 1476 Aztec Atemoztli 1, 1 Ātl Babylonian 5 Abu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Beteng, Jaya, Pon, Was, Buda of Medangkungan, Kala, Tulus, Sri Bengali 4 Bhadro , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Wood Ox ・Chariot Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 7 , Day 7Liqiu , 4 days until Chushu )Common Era 19 August 2026 CE Coptic 13 Mesori , AM 1742Egyptian 5 Tybi , 2775 NE Ethiopian 13 Naḥasē, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade I, Duodi de Fructidor de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 19 August , AD 2026 Hebrew 6 Elul , AM 5786 Hindu Svātī ・Śukla Bhādrapada , 1948 SE Saptamī , Śukla pakṣa of Śrāvaṇa , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,806 Icelandic Miðvikudagur, 25 Heyannir 2026 Islamic 5 Rabi' al-awwal , AH 1448tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W34-3 Japanese 7 Fumizuki , Reiwa 8Risshū , 4 days until Shosho ) Julian 6 August , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461272 Korean 7 Wonsungidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.15.9 2 Mol , 1 Muluc Roman ante diem VIII Idus Augustas , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 28 Mordad , SH 1405 Tibetan 7 gro bzhin, me pho rta
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Day of the year
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 134 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
295 BC – The first temple to Venus , the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War .43 BC – In the wake of the murder of Julius Caesar , his nephew and heir, Octavian , uses the threat of military force to compel the Roman Senate to elect him Consul .797 – Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI is seized by supporters of his mother Irene , deposed and blinded.947 – Abu Yazid , a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.1153 – After a six-month siege, Baldwin III of Jerusalem captures Ascalon , obtaining a vast amount of plunder and securing the southern border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem .1274 – Coronation of Edward I of England.1458 – Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Cambro-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe .1561 – Mary, Queen of Scots , aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France .1604 – Eighty Years War : a besieging Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange forces the Spanish garrison of Sluis to capitulate.1659 – Parliamentarian forces under John Lambert defeat Royalist forces under George Booth in the battle of Winnington Bridge , ending Booth's Uprising .1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War : Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling , destroying 116 to 160 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire ".1691 – An Imperial army under Ludwig of Baden defeats the Ottomans in the battle of Slankamen .1692 – Salem witch trials : In Salem, province of Massachusetts Bay , Martha Carrier , George Jacobs Sr. , John Proctor , John Willard , and clergyman George Burroughs are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.1725 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren , BWV 137a cantata setting the unchanged text of Neander's hymn .1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan : The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion , known as "the 45".1745 – Ottoman–Persian War : In the Battle of Kars , the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah .
1759 – Battle of Lagos : Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état , in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.1782 – American Revolutionary War : Battle of Blue Licks : The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown .1787 – Sultan Abdul Hamid I declares war against the Russian Empire in an effort to regain territories lost in previous conflicts, starting the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 .1812 – War of 1812 : American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia , Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate .1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre 's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".1848 – California Gold Rush : The New York Herald East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred .1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn , fifth highest summit in the Alps.1862 – Dakota War : During an uprising in Minnesota , Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm , killing white settlers along the way.1903 – The Transfiguration Uprising breaks out in East Thrace , resulting in the establishment of the Strandzha Commune .1909 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing . William Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.1920 – The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka 1927 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union .1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio .1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler 's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer .
1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber .1941 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement , rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter.1942 – World War II : Operation Jubilee (The Dieppe Raid): The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe , France and fails.1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris : Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.1945 – August Revolution : Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.1953 – Cold War : The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .1955 – In the Northeast United States , severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane , claims 200 lives.1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage .1960 – Sputnik program : Korabl-Sputnik 2 dogs Belka and Strelka , 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite , is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics .1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture .1978 – In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 300 deaths.1980 – Saudia Flight 163 , a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident : In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.
1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident : United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra .1981 – Silvio Santos launches a new Brazilian television channel in São Paulo , Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão .
1987 – Hungerford massacre : In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic , part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall .
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union : The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine .1991 – Crown Heights riot in New York City begins.
1999 – In Belgrade , Yugoslavia , tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević .2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash : A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny , killing 118 soldiers.2003 – A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing : A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem , planned by Hamas , kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
2004 – Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq .2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad , Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait .2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar .2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break .Births
Pre-1600
232 – Marcus Aurelius Probus , Roman emperor (died 282)1342 – Catherine of Bohemia , duchess of Austria (died 1395)1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana , Spanish poet and politician (died 1458)1570 – Salamone Rossi , Italian violinist and composer (probable; (died 1630)1583 – Daišan , Chinese prince and statesman (died 1648)1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (died 1649)1596 – Elizabeth Stuart , queen of Bohemia (died 1662)1609 – Jan Fyt , Flemish painter (died 1661)1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (died 1674)1631 – John Dryden , English poet, literary critic and playwright (died 1700)1646 – John Flamsteed , English astronomer and academic (died 1719)1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka , Czech architect (died 1766)1686 – Eustace Budgell , English journalist and politician (died 1737)1689 (baptized) – Samuel Richardson , English author and publisher (died 1761)1700 – Bajirao I , 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire . (died 1740)1711 – Edward Boscawen , English admiral and politician (died 1761)1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec , French soldier and diplomat (died 1781)1743 – Madame du Barry , French mistress of Louis XV (died 1793)1777 – Francis I , king of the Two Sicilies (died 1830)1815 – Harriette Newell Woods Baker , American editor and children's book writer (died 1893)1819 – Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt , Luxembourger-Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1894)1830 – Julius Lothar Meyer , German chemist (died 1895)1835 – Tom Wills , Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football (died 1880)1843 – C. I. Scofield , American minister and theologian (died 1921)1846 – Luis Martín , Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1906)1848 – Gustave Caillebotte , French painter and engineer (died 1894)1849 – Joaquim Nabuco , Brazilian politician and diplomat (died 1910)1858 – Ellen Willmott , English horticulturalist (died 1934)1870 – Bernard Baruch , American businessman and philanthropist (died 1965)1871 – Orville Wright , American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (died 1948)1873 – Fred Stone , American actor and producer (died 1959)1878 – Manuel L. Quezon , Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (died 1944)1881 – George Enescu , Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1955)1883 – Coco Chanel , French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company (died 1971)1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas , Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (died 1965)
1885 – Grace Hutchins , American labor reformer and researcher (died 1969)1887 – S. Satyamurti , Indian lawyer and politician (died 1943)1895 – C. Suntharalingam , Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician (died 1985)1899 – Colleen Moore , American actress (died 1988)1900 – Gontran de Poncins , French author and adventurer (died 1962)1900 – Gilbert Ryle , English philosopher, author, and academic (died 1976)
1900 – Dorothy Burr Thompson , American archaeologist and art historian (died 2001) 1902 – Ogden Nash , American poet (died 1971)1903 – James Gould Cozzens , American novelist and short story writer (died 1978)1906 – Philo Farnsworth , American inventor, invented the Fusor , key figure in the invention of television (died 1971)1907 – Hazari Prasad Dwivedi , Indian historian, author, and scholar (died 1979)1909 – Ronald King , New Zealand rugby player (died 1988)1910 – Saint Alphonsa , first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (died 1946)1911 – Anna Terruwe , Dutch psychiatrist and author (died 2004)1912 – Herb Narvo , Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (died 1958)1913 – John Argyris , Greek engineer and academic (died 2004)1914 – Lajos Baróti , Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2005)1914 – Fumio Hayasaka , Japanese composer (died 1955)
1914 – Rose Heilbron , British barrister and judge (died 2005)
1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr. , American journalist and screenwriter (died 2000)1915 – Peter Kemp , British soldier, mercenary , and writer (died 1993)
1916 – Dennis Poore , English racing driver and businessman (died 1987)1919 – Malcolm Forbes , American publisher and politician (died 1990)1921 – Gene Roddenberry , American screenwriter and producer (died 1991)1922 – Jack Holland , Australian rugby league player (died 1994)1923 – Edgar F. Codd , English computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (died 2003)1924 – Willard Boyle , Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)1924 – William Marshall , American actor, director, and opera singer (died 2003)
1925 – Claude Gauvreau , Canadian poet and playwright (died 1971)1926 – Angus Scrimm , American actor and author (died 2016)1928 – Shiv Prasaad Singh , Indian Hindi writer (died 1998)1929 – Ion N. Petrovici , Romanian-German neurologist and academic (died 2021)1930 – Frank McCourt , American author and educator (died 2009)1931 – Bill Shoemaker , American jockey and author (died 2003)1932 – Thomas P. Salmon , American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont 1932 – Banharn Silpa-archa , Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996) (died 2016)
1933 – Bettina Cirone , American model and photographer (died 2026)1933 – David Hopwood , English microbiologist and geneticist
1933 – Debra Paget , American actress
1935 – Bobby Richardson , American baseball player and coach1937 – Richard Ingrams , English journalist, founded The Oldie 1938 – Diana Muldaur , American actress1938 – Nelly Vuksic , Argentine conductor and musician
1939 – Alan Baker , British mathematician known for his work on transcendental number theory (died 2018)1939 – Ginger Baker , English drummer and songwriter (died 2019)
1940 – Roger Cook , English songwriter, singer, and producer1940 – Johnny Nash , American singer-songwriter (died 2020)
1940 – Jill St. John , American model and actress
1941 – John Cootes , Australian rugby league player, priest, and businessman1941 – Mihalis Papagiannakis , Greek educator and politician (died 2009)
1942 – Fred Thompson , American actor, lawyer, and politician (died 2015)1943 – Sid Going , New Zealand rugby player (died 2024)1943 – Billy J. Kramer , English pop singer
1944 – Jack Canfield , American author1944 – Stew Johnson , American basketball player
1944 – Bodil Malmsten , Swedish author and poet (died 2016)
1944 – Eddy Raven , American country music singer-songwriter
1944 – Charles Wang , Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Computer Associates International (died 2018)
1945 – Dennis Eichhorn , American author and illustrator (died 2015)1945 – Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington , English politician
1945 – Ian Gillan , English singer-songwriter
1946 – Charles Bolden , American general and astronaut1946 – Bill Clinton , American lawyer and politician, 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas , 42nd President of the United States
1946 – Dawn Steel , American film producer (died 1997)
1947 – Gerald McRaney , American actor1947 – Anuška Ferligoj , Slovenian mathematician
1948 – Jim Carter , English actor1948 – Tipper Gore , American activist and author, former Second Lady of the United States
1948 – Christy O'Connor Jnr , Irish golfer and architect (died 2016)
1949 – Michael Nazir-Ali , Pakistani-English bishop1950 – Jennie Bond , English journalist and author1950 – Sudha Murty , Indian author and teacher, head of Infosys Foundation
1951 – John Deacon , English bass player and songwriter1951 – Gustavo Santaolalla , Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952 – Jonathan Frakes , American actor and director1952 – Gabriela Grillo , German equestrian (died 2024)
1952 – Jimmy Watson , Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Luis Muñoz , Costa Rican jazz percussionist and bandleader1954 – Oscar Larrauri , Argentinian racing driver1955 – Mary-Anne Fahey , Australian actress1955 – Peter Gallagher , American actor
1955 – Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal , Dominica -born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
1956 – Adam Arkin , American actor, director, and producer1956 – José Rubén Zamora , Guatemalan journalist
1957 – Paul-Jan Bakker , Dutch cricketer1957 – Gary Chapman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Martin Donovan , American actor and director
1957 – Cesare Prandelli , Italian footballer and manager
1957 – Christine Soetewey , Belgian high jumper
1957 – Gerda Verburg , Dutch trade union leader and politician, Dutch Minister of Agriculture
1958 – Anthony Muñoz , American football player and sportscaster1958 – Brendan Nelson , Australian physician and politician, 47th Minister for Defence for Australia
1958 – Rick Snyder , American politician and businessman, 48th Governor of Michigan
1958 – Darryl Sutter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959 – Chris Mortimer , Australian rugby league player1959 – Ivan Neville , American singer-songwriter
1960 – Morten Andersen , Danish-American football player1960 – Ron Darling , American baseball player and commentator
1961 – Jonathan Coe , English author and academic1963 – John Stamos , American actor1965 – Kevin Dillon , American actor1965 – Kyra Sedgwick , American actress and producer
1965 – James Tomkins , Australian rower
1966 – Lee Ann Womack , American singer-songwriter1967 – Satya Nadella , Indian-American business executive, chairman and CEO of Microsoft 1969 – Douglas Allen Tunstall Jr. , American professional wrestler and politician
1969 – Nate Dogg , American rapper (died 2011)1969 – Matthew Perry , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2023)
1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami , Japanese baseball player and coach
1969 – Clay Walker , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Fat Joe , American rapper1971 – Mary Joe Fernández , Dominican-American tennis player and coach1971 – João Vieira Pinto , Portuguese footballer
1972 – Roberto Abbondanzieri , Argentinian footballer and manager1972 – Chihiro Yonekura , Japanese singer-songwriter
1973 – Marco Materazzi , Italian footballer and manager1973 – Roy Rogers , American basketball player and coach
1973 – Tasma Walton , Australian actress
1975 – Tracie Thoms , American actress1976 – Régine Chassagne , Canadian singer-songwriter1977 – Iban Mayo , Spanish cyclist1978 – Jakub Dvorský , Czech game designer1978 – Thomas Jones , American football player
1979 – Oumar Kondé , Swiss footballer1980 – Darius Campbell , Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2022)1980 – Craig Frawley , Australian rugby league player
1980 – Jun Jin , South Korean singer
1980 – Paul Parry , Welsh footballer
1981 – Nick Kennedy , English rugby player1981 – Taylor Pyatt , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Erika Christensen , American actress1982 – Melissa Fumero , American actress
1982 – Kevin Rans , Belgian pole vaulter
1982 – Stipe Miocic , American professional mixed martial artist
1982 – Steve Ott , Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Missy Higgins , Australian singer-songwriter1983 – Tammin Sursok , South African-Australian actress and singer
1984 – Simon Bird , English actor and screenwriter1984 – Alessandro Matri , Italian footballer
1984 – Ryan Taylor , English footballer
1985 – Lindsey Jacobellis , American snowboarder1986 – Sotiris Balafas , Greek footballer1986 – Saori Kimura , Japanese volleyball player
1986 – Christina Perri , American singer and songwriter
1987 – Patrick Chung , Jamaican-American football player1987 – Manny Jacinto , Canadian actor
1987 – Nick Driebergen , Dutch swimmer
1987 – Nico Hülkenberg , German racing driver
1988 – Kirk Cousins , American football player1988 – Veronica Roth , American author
1989 – Romeo Miller , American basketball player, rapper, actor1991 – Salem Al-Dawsari , Saudi Arabian footballer1992 – David Rittich , Czech ice hockey player1993 – Pio Seci , Fijian rugby league player1994 – Nafissatou Thiam , Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete1994 – Fernando Gaviria , Colombian cyclist
1996 – Jung Ye-rin , South Korean singer and actress1996 – Lachlan Lewis , Australian rugby league player
1999 – Ethan Cutkosky , American actor and musician1999 – Thomas Flegler , Australian rugby league player
1999 – Florentino Luís , Portuguese footballer
2000 – Keegan Murray , American basketball player2001 – Awak Kuier , Finnish basketball player2004 – Chae Hyun-woo , South Korean football player2004 – Nguyễn Đình Bắc , Vietnamese football player Deaths
Pre-1600
607 BC – Duke Ling of Jin , Chinese monarchAD 14 – Augustus , Roman emperor (born 63 BC)780 – Credan , English abbot and saint947 – Abu Yazid , Kharijite rebel leader (born 873)998 – Fujiwara no Sukemasa , Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher (born 944)1072 – Hawise, Duchess of Brittany (born 1037)1085 – Al-Juwayni , Muslim scholar and imam (born 1028)1186 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (born 1158)1245 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (born 1195)1284 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (born 1273)1297 – Louis of Toulouse , French bishop and saint (born 1274)1457 – Andrea del Castagno , Italian painter (born 1421)1470 – Richard Olivier de Longueil , French cardinal (born 1406)1493 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)1506 – King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)1541 – Vincenzo Cappello , Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1469)1580 – Andrea Palladio , Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (born 1508)1646 – Alexander Henderson , Scottish theologian and academic (born 1583)1654 – Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller , Bohemian rabbi (born 1579)1662 – Blaise Pascal , French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1623)1680 – Jean Eudes , French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (born 1601)1691 – Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha , Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1637)1702 – Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent , English politician (born 1645)1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann , German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (born 1687)1808 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman , Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (born 1721)1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre , French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)1883 – Jeremiah S. Black , American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (born 1810)1889 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French author, poet, and playwright (born 1838)1895 – John Wesley Hardin , American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (born 1853)1900 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay , Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1833)1914 – Franz Xavier Wernz , German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1844)1915 – Tevfik Fikret , Turkish poet and educator (born 1867)1923 – Vilfredo Pareto , Italian sociologist and economist (born 1845)1928 – Stefanos Skouloudis , Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1838)1929 – Sergei Diaghilev , Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (born 1872)1932 – Louis Anquetin , French painter (born 1861)1936 – Federico García Lorca , Spanish poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)1942 – Harald Kaarmann , Estonian footballer (born 1901)1942 – Heinrich Rauchinger , Kraków-born painter (born 1858)
1944 – Henry Wood , English conductor (born 1869)1945 – Tomás Burgos , Chilean philanthropist (born 1875)1950 – Giovanni Giorgi , Italian physicist and engineer (born 1871)1954 – Alcide De Gasperi , Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1881)1957 – David Bomberg , English soldier and painter (born 1890)1967 – Hugo Gernsback , Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (born 1884)1967 – Isaac Deutscher , Polish-English journalist and historian (born 1907)
1968 – George Gamow , Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (born 1904)1970 – Paweł Jasienica , Polish soldier and historian (born 1909)1975 – Mark Donohue , American race car driver and engineer (born 1937)1976 – Alastair Sim , Scottish-English actor (born 1900)1976 – Ken Wadsworth , New Zealand cricketer (born 1946)
1977 – Aleksander Kreek , Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1914)1977 – Groucho Marx , American comedian and actor (born 1890)
1980 – Otto Frank , German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (born 1889)1981 – Jessie Matthews , English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1907)1982 – August Neo , Estonian wrestler (born 1908)1986 – Hermione Baddeley , English actress (born 1906)1986 – Viv Thicknesse , Australian rugby player (born 1910)
1993 – Utpal Dutt , Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (born 1929)1994 – Linus Pauling , American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)1995 – Pierre Schaeffer , French composer and musicologist (born 1910)2000 – Bineshwar Brahma , Indian poet, author, and educator (born 1948)2001 – Donald Woods , South African journalist and activist (born 1933)2003 – Carlos Roberto Reina , Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (born 1926)2003 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello , Brazilian diplomat (born 1948)
2005 – Mo Mowlam , English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1949)2008 – Levy Mwanawasa , Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (born 1948)2009 – Don Hewitt , American television producer, created 60 Minutes 2011 – Raúl Ruiz , Chilean director and producer (born 1941)2012 – Donal Henahan , American journalist and critic (born 1921)2012 – Ivar Iversen , Norwegian canoe racer (born 1914)
2012 – Tony Scott , English-American director and producer (born 1944)
2013 – Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , Saudi Arabian prince (born 1923)2013 – Abdul Rahim Hatif , Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (born 1926)[ citation needed ]
2013 – Donna Hightower , American singer-songwriter (born 1926)
2014 – Samih al-Qasim , Palestinian poet and journalist (born 1939)2014 – Simin Behbahani , Iranian poet and activist (born 1927)
2014 – Candida Lycett Green , Anglo-Irish journalist and author (born 1942)
2015 – Sanat Mehta , Indian activist and politician (born 1935)2017 – Brian Aldiss , British novelist (born 1925)2017 – Dick Gregory , American comedian, author and activist (born 1932)
2019 – Lars Larsen , Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (born 1948)2021 – Sonny Chiba , Japanese actor (born 1939)2022 – Tekla Juniewicz , Polish supercentenarian (born 1906)2023 – Václav Patejdl , Slovak musician (born 1954)2024 – Maria Branyas , American-Spanish supercentenarian (born 1907)