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What happend on 14. August in History
In our data base we found 334 events happened on 14. August:
• 582: Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor (b. 535) [category: Deaths]
• 1040: Duncan I of Scotland (b. 1001) [category: Deaths]
• 1167: Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop (b. 1120) [category: Deaths]
• 1183: Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei). [category: Events]
• 1204: Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese 2nd shogun of Kamakura Dynasty (b. 1182) [category: Deaths]
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• 1297: Emperor Hanazono of Japan (d. 1348) [category: Births]
• 1385: Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I. [category: Events]
• 1390: John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364) [category: Deaths]
• 1415: Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta. [category: Events]
• 1430: Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404) [category: Deaths]
• 1433: John I of Portugal (b. 1357) [category: Deaths]
• 1464: Pope Pius II (b. 1405) [category: Deaths]
• 1473: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541) [category: Births]
• 1479: Catherine of York (d. 1527) [category: Births]
• 1573: Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548) [category: Deaths]
• 1575: Robert Hayman, English-Canadian poet (d. 1629) [category: Births]
• 1586: William Hutchinson, English-American judge (d. 1642) [category: Births]
• 1592: Imjin War: Battle of Hansan Island Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hansan Island. [category: Events]
• 1598: Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal. [category: Events]
• 1599: Méric Casaubon, English scholar (d. 1671) [category: Births]
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• 1625: François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (d. 1695) [category: Births]
• 1642: Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723) [category: Births]
• 1653: Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (d. 1688) [category: Births]
• 1688: Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740) [category: Births]
• 1691: Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier (b. 1630) [category: Deaths]
• 1704: Roland Laporte, French religious leader (b. 1675) [category: Deaths]
• 1714: Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789) [category: Births]
• 1727: Louise Élisabeth of France (d. 1759) [category: Births]
• 1727: Princess Henriette of France (d. 1752) [category: Births]
• 1727: William Croft, English composer (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1738: Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1740: Pope Pius VII (d. 1823) [category: Births]
• 1758: Carle Vernet, French painter (d. 1835) [category: Births]
• 1774: Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1777: Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851) [category: Births]
• 1784: Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1816: The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. [category: Events]
• 1817: Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874) [category: Births]
• 1840: Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1842: American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma. [category: Events]
• 1847: Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1848: Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress. [category: Events]
• 1851: Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887) [category: Births]
• 1851: Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1856: Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787) [category: Deaths]
• 1857: Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1860: André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1863: Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1865: Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1866: Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1867: Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1867: John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1870: David Farragut, American navy officer (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1871: Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1874: Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Alexander I of Serbia (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1880: Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. [category: Events]
• 1881: Edward Siegler, American gymnast (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1881: Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1882: Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1885: Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. [category: Events]
• 1887: Marija Leiko, Latvian actress (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1888: An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England. [category: Events]
• 1891: Sarah Childress Polk, American wife of James K. Polk, 12th First Lady of the United States (b. 1803) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1893: Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1893: France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. [category: Events]
• 1895: Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1896: Theodor Luts, Estonian film director and cinematographer (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1897: Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar. [category: Events]
• 1900: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China. [category: Events]
• 1901: Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1901: The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. [category: Events]
• 1905: Simeon Solomon, English painter (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1909: William Stanley, American inventor and engineer (b. 1829) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1910: Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1911: Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor (d.2006) [category: Births]
• 1911: United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death. [category: Events]
• 1912: Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1912: U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier. [category: Events]
• 1913: Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1915: B. A. Santamaria, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1916: Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1916: Wellington Mara, American businessman (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1916: Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I [category: Events]
• 1921: Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia). [category: Events]
• 1923: Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem, Greek Patriarch (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1924: Georges Prêtre, French conductor [category: Births]
• 1924: Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor [category: Births]
• 1924: Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1924: Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1925: Russell Baker, American writer [category: Births]
• 1926: Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1926: Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1926: Lina Wertmüller, Italian writer and director [category: Births]
• 1926: René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1926: John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Klabund, German writer and poet (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1929: Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1930: Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1932: Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1933: Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1933: Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2). [category: Events]
• 1935: John Brodie, American football player [category: Births]
• 1935: Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. [category: Events]
• 1936: Trevor Bannister, English actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1936: Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1937: Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases. [category: Events]
• 1938: Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Galen Hall, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1941: Connie Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1941: David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR) [category: Births]
• 1941: Lynne Cheney, American politician, founded American Council of Trustees and Alumni [category: Births]
• 1941: Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. [category: Events]
• 1942: Jackie Oliver, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1942: Lionel Morton, English singer, guitarist, and television host (The Four Pennies) [category: Births]
• 1943: Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Lore Berger, Swiss writer (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Steve Martin, American actor, singer, writer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1945: Wim Wenders, German director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1945: Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time). [category: Events]
• 1946: Antonio Fargas, American actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station) [category: Births]
• 1946: Susan Saint James, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish Racing driver, 1984 European Touring Car Champion (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1947: Bruce Nash, American television producer [category: Births]
• 1947: Danielle Steel, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1947: Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese illustrator [category: Births]
• 1947: Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1947: Maddy Prior, English singer (Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters, and The Carnival Band) [category: Births]
• 1947: Peter Christian, English actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. [category: Events]
• 1948: Terry Adams, American pianist and composer (NRBQ) [category: Births]
• 1949: Bob Backlund, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1949: Morten Olsen, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1950: Gary Larson, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1951: Carl Lumbly, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Norbert Hofmann, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1951: Peter Blegvad, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and illustrator (Slapp Happy and The Lodge) [category: Births]
• 1951: Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Replacements) [category: Births]
• 1951: William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Alex van Warmerdam, Dutch screenwriter, director, and actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Debbie Meyer, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1953: Cliff Johnson, American game designer [category: Births]
• 1953: James Horner, American composer [category: Births]
• 1954: Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1954: Stanley A. McChrystal, American general [category: Births]
• 1954: Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Herbert Putnam, American lawyer, publisher, and librarian (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Andy King, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1956: Jackée Harry, American actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Johnny Lever, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Rusty Wallace, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1956: Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1957: Peter Costello, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Bobby Eaton, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1958: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Frank Brickowski, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Magic Johnson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Marcia Gay Harden, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. [category: Events]
• 1960: Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano [category: Births]
• 1960: Fred Roberts, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1960: Sarah Brightman, English soprano, songwriter, and actress [category: Births]
• 1960: Sharon Bryant, American singer (Atlantic Starr) [category: Births]
• 1961: Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1961: Susan Olsen, American actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Mark Gubicza, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1962: Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer [category: Births]
• 1964: Neal Anderson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1964: Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (The Rock and Roll Trio) (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Brannon Braga, American screenwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1965: Emmanuelle Béart, French actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Mark Collins, English guitarist and songwriter (The Charlatans and The Waltones) [category: Births]
• 1965: Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Halle Berry, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Karl Petter Løken, Norwegian footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Dirk Rehbein, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Erik Gandini, Italian-Swedish director [category: Births]
• 1967: Bob Anderson, English race car driver (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. [category: Events]
• 1968: Adrian Lester, English actor, director, and writer [category: Births]
• 1968: Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1968: Catherine Bell, American actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Darren Clarke, Irish golfer [category: Births]
• 1968: Medy van der Laan, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1968: Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1969: DJ Uncle Al, American rapper and DJ (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1969: Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1969: Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1970: Kevin Cadogan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Third Eye Blind) [category: Births]
• 1971: Mark Loretta, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer [category: Births]
• 1971: Raoul Bova, Italian actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain. [category: Events]
• 1972: Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist, photographer, and model [category: Births]
• 1972: Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Haiti [category: Births]
• 1972: Yoo Jae-Seok, South Korean comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156. [category: Events]
• 1973: Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer [category: Births]
• 1973: Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1973: The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect. [category: Events]
• 1974: Ana Matronic, American singer-songwriter (Scissor Sisters) [category: Births]
• 1974: Christopher Gorham, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Chucky Atkins, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Martin Bulloch, Scottish drummer (Mogwai) [category: Births]
• 1974: The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing. [category: Events]
• 1975: Mike Vrabel, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. [category: Events]
• 1976: Alex Albrecht, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Fabrizio Donato, Italian jumper [category: Births]
• 1976: Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1976: Steve Braun, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Ed Harcourt, English singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1977: Elisavet Mystakidou, Greek martial artist [category: Births]
• 1977: Juan Pierre, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Kate Ritchie, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Nicolas Bentley, English writer (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter [category: Births]
• 1979: Yōichirō Morikawa, Japanese director [category: Births]
• 1980: Estrella Morente, Spanish singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Roy Williams, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. [category: Events]
• 1981: Earl Barron, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Julius Jones, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian wrestler [category: Births]
• 1981: Matthew Etherington, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Ray William Johnson, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1981: Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana, Vipassana meditation master (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Patrick Magee, Irish actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Juan Oviedo, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Spencer Pratt, American television personality [category: Births]
• 1984: Clay Buchholz, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1984: Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Kunzang Choden, Bhutanese target shooter [category: Births]
• 1984: Nick Grimshaw, English television and radio host [category: Births]
• 1984: Nicolette van Dam, Dutch actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1984: J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Christian Gentner, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Digão, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1985: Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Cameron Jerome, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Terin Humphrey, American gymnast [category: Births]
• 1987: Cate Harrington, English porn actress [category: Births]
• 1987: James Buckley, English actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Sinem Kobal, Turkish actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Tim Tebow, American football player [category: Births]
• 1987: All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid. [category: Events]
• 1988: Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer [category: Births]
• 1988: Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Robert Calvert, South African singer-songwriter and poet (Hawkwind) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Snakestretchers) (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Florian Abel, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Heather Starlet, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1989: Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1991: Alberto Crespo, Argentine race car driver (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Cassi Thomson, Australian-American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1994: Elias Canetti, English-Austrian novelist (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured. [category: Events]
• 1996: Solomos Solomou, Greek refugee (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. [category: Events]
• 1999: Garrett Ryan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1999: Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer graphics researcher (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Earl Anthony, American bowler (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada. [category: Events]
• 2004: Czesław Miłosz, Polishn writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English politician (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board. Observations from Greek fighter aircraft indicate a decompression problem. [category: Events]
• 2006: Adriaan de Groot, Dutch chess player and psychologist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing. [category: Events]
• 2007: Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people. [category: Events]
• 2008: Percy Irausquin, Aruban-Dutch fashion designer (b. 1969) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Rallis Kopsidis, Greek writer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Tahar Ouettar, Algerian novelist (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore. [category: Events]
• 2011: Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Charles Maynard, Bahamian politician (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, American designer (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ron Palillo, American actor (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rosemary Rice, American actress and singer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Zhou Kehua, Chinese criminal and murderer (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• _: August 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947. (Pakistan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Maximilian Kolbe [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pramuka Day (Indonesia) [category: Holidays and observances]